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Jay MacDonald (Jour) is a former award-winning United Press International wire service reporter who checked out of mainstream news and moved to Key West, Florida, with his wife, Kate, to pursue fiction. Since 2000, he has served as an online freelance feature writer and author interviewer, as well as the Sunday books editor for the Fort Myers daily newspaper News-Press. That role spawned his nonfiction debut, Crazy From the Heat: Fun in the Sun With 35 Florida Authors.

Posted Oct. 31, 2023

For the past 10 football seasons, Phil Caragol (Comm), known to many Folsom Field attendees as “Buffalo Phil,” has run through the stadium on game day with a furry horned buffalo helmet adorned with a mullet and CU beer koozies. He's proud to serve as the Buffs’ positive and friendly superfan and cheerleader. His career as a copywriter and creative director spans four decades at advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco. He and his wife, Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour, Psych’75), live in Ƶ.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour) and Phil Caragol (Comm) celebrated 43 years of marriage and 37 years at their PR and advertising firm, Caragol Communications. After many years in New York City and San Francisco, they returned to the Front Range and continue to write and create. Look for “Buffalo Phil” at CU football games firing up the crowd.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour'75) and Phil Caragol (Comm'75) celebrated 43 years of marriage and 37 years at their PR and advertising firm Caragol Communications. After many years in New York City and San Francisco, they returned to the Front Range and continue to write and create. Look for “Buffalo Phil” at CU football games firing up the crowd.

Posted Aug. 5, 2020

John Estabrook (Advert) lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has owned and operated the windows and doors branch of Pella Corp. since 1997. He and his two partners recently purchased Pella Mid-Atlantic, which serves Maryland, Northern Virginia, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.

Posted Nov. 12, 2019

In 2017, Barbara Vobejda (Jour) was named deputy managing editor of The Washington Post.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila (Comm)is the executive director of Witness to Innocence, an organization dedicated to empowering exonerated death row survivors. His long history of civil and human rights work includes directorial positions at Amnesty International and serving as executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, Washington.

Posted Oct. 24, 2017

Art Rancis (Comm) is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in consumer and professional markets. He has done business in 36 countries.

Posted Aug. 19, 2024

Martin Streim (Comm, MA’79) retired in 2017 after a 35-year career in corporate human resources, during which he focused on organizational and leadership development. Before retiring, he spent several years as the director of ethics and business conduct in his employer’s office of legal counsel. He and his wife, Christie, live in Ƶ.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Peter Lasser (Comm), is a producer and director at Lasser Productions in Atlanta. He has produced for 11 Olympic Games throughout his career in broadcast, including the Tokyo Olympics. He stays connected with the college and its students as a member of CMCI’s advisory board. In 2019, he joined a panel of sports media professionals during CMCI’s inaugural Sports Media Summit and returned to speak with broadcast journalism classes about his experiences in the field. Lasser is married to Cynthia Potter, who earned an Olympic bronze medal in 3-meter springboard diving in 1976 and frequently serves as an analyst for televised diving events, including during this year’s Summer Games.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Gary Vicari (Comm) has been president of Arlington Toyota, a family-owned company started by his father in Palatine, Illinois, since 2000. He and his wife, Amy, have three grown children.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Michael Knisley (MJour) joined the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism as an assistant professor in fall 2018. He is also the sports editor of the Columbia Missourian, a community digital and print news organization staffed by students and managed by faculty.

Posted Nov. 12, 2019

Stephen Mease (Jour) wrote and edited Champlain Valley Fair in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Champlain Valley Exposition, located in Essex Junction, Vermont. Mease is a former newspaper editor, freelance writer, publicist, special events photographer and communications director. Mease is the public affairs manager for Vermont Student Assistance Corp. in Winooski, Vermont, and the owner of Stephen Mease Photography. He was also features editor for the Burlington Free Press for 13 years.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

John Anderson (Comm) is the owner and executive producer at Black Watch Productions, which is creating and producing a filmmaker attraction video for New Jersey. Black Watch Productions has interviewed over 20 subjects from all across the film industry, including Jersey native Danny DeVito.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Dan Shattil (Jour) retired after 37 years as general manager of The Daily Nebraskan, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s school newspaper. “I’m retiring but I will still be around,” he says. “I plan to still come in as a volunteer.”

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

Sara Fischer (Jour, Engl) oversees worldwide production for all Shondaland TV series and manages production for development and special projects at the company. Most recently, Fischer led production on Shondaland’s groundbreaking hit, Bridgerton, the most-watched series debut in Netflix history, as well as Inventing Anna. Fischer splits her time between London and Los Angeles.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Rob Reuteman (MJour) retired in 2020 after 10 years on the journalism faculty at Colorado State University and 26 years as an editor at the Rocky Mountain News. He served as state-region editor, city editor, national editor, business editor and a columnist for 12 years before the paper closed. He also served as the 2010–11 president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Dave Curtin (Jour) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who retired from CU Ƶ after 14 years in campus executive communications and 30 years as a Colorado journalist. Curtin’s son, A.J. Curtin (CritMed’19), is a freelance media producer and audio engineer based in Denver.

Posted Oct. 20, 2021

Pam Taylor Yates (Advert), Anne Baldwin Castine (Comm), Francesca Bernhardt Beatty (Comm) and Caroline Bernhardt (Fren) were roommates in college and met up in Ƶ for Homecoming in 2019. Pam traveled from New York City; Anne from Greenwich, Connecticut; and Francesca and Caroline from Florida.

Posted Oct. 16, 2020

After 32 years at KCNC-TV/CBS4 in Denver, Donna Perry Gilbert (Jour) retired in 2017. She is now a volunteer at the Denver Dumb Friends League.

Posted Oct. 30, 2018

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