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2023 Manny Loley (PhD ’23)

Ryan Vinson (MRSL ’14), founder of Energy Domain in Fort Worth, Texas, an online oil and gas marketplace, joined forces with Palace Road Partners to provide investment banking-level services to their shared clients. 2019 Annika Galloway (BA ’19) has joined the family business, Galloway Company, in Neenah, Wisconsin, as communication and PR manager. Annika is the fourth generation to join the organization, the largest supplier of cream liqueur bases and sweetened condensed milk in the U.S. and leading supplier of ice cream bases. 2021 Katherine Klein (JD ’21) has joined Keller Rohrback, L.L.P. in the firm’s Denver office. Recent ly, Katherine served as a law clerk in the Colorado Court of Appeals and previously served as a law clerk in Colorado’s 2nd Judicial District.

RON RIZZUTO , endowed pro fessor of international executive education at the Daniels College of Business, is retiring after 49 years at the Reiman School of Finance. Rizzuto was known as an expert in acquisitions, but also earned a sterling reputation for his interdis ciplinary partnerships and his mentorship of hundreds of students of all majors. Throughout his career, he has encouraged others to focus on academic rigor, take critical thinking to new levels, and broaden DU’s connections to industry and the alumni community.

was a guest speaker at the Santa Fe Community College Library. Manny, who is a Diné storyteller, read a selection from his writings, which include poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Since 2018, he has served as director of the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute at Navajo Technical University. Simon Fournier (BSBA ’23) took the lead at Beaver Creek’s Stifel Success NorAm Cup in December, earning a victory and a second place in the giant slalom, plus another win and top 10 finish in the slalom.

Simon is skiing with Alpine Canada Alpin and training with the Quebec team.

In Memoriam 1950s Alice Frances Snyder Allen (BA ’52) 1-20-24 Richard Lee Webb (BS ’55) 8-2-23 Robert L. Westin (BS ’55) 2-11-21 John Cress (BA ’56) 1-2-24 Richard N. Lee (BSBA ’57) 10-26-23 Harry H. Ermoian (BM ’58) 11-14-23 1960s Gaylard Scott Moore (BA ’62) 10-7-23 Rodrick Janney (BS ’63) 12-25-23 David Sanford (BA ’64) January 2023 Donn Fairbank (BSME ’67) 8-17-23 Georgina Hart Martin-Smith (BA ’67) 1-12-24 Kenneth Stettner (BA ’67) 12-23-23 Dana Darwin Mallett Hummel (MLIS ’68) 12-13-23

1970s Richard Olsen (PhD ’70) 1-13-24

FACULTY/STAFF Joseph “Joe” Docksey (MA ’74, faculty member and former director of the Lamont School of Music) 12-9-23 Steven McCarl (BA ’60, associate professor of political science) June 2023 Ved Nanda (emeritus professor in the Sturm College of Law; founder of the Inter national Legal Studies Program; director of the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law) 1-1-24 DU PHILANTHROPIST John Madden, Jr. (visionary businessman and art collector who established the Madden Challenge at the Daniels College of Business and donated a world-class art collection to the University to benefit DU art students and the community) 1-19-24

Paul Edward Fortin (PhD ’71) 7-22-23 Peter Randall Holladay (BA ’74) 12-3-23 Kathleen Egelund (BA ’75) 12-10-23 James “Jim” Ludlow (BS ’75) 1-20-24 Don Teasley (JD ’75, MSJA ’75) 12-20-23 Constance Freeman (PhD ’76) 11-4-23 1980s Ruth Lauritzen Ruess (MA ’84) 12-29-23 Teri Sullivan Lutz (MA ’87) 9-14-2023 Elsie Mary Mullinaux (BS ’86) 11-14-23 2000s Charles “Chuck” Vogel (PhD ’02) 11-2-23 2010s Mark Steven Schulz (MBA ’12) 11-13-23

*Access the complete In Memoriam section at du.edu/magazine

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