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Colorado Mountain College in Rifle is slated to host its annual commencement ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday, a news release states. CMC Rifle is located at 3695 Airport Road. Giving the keynote address is Boettcher.
Jon Jay is a former Senior Editor for SKI Magazine. He directed all ski and ski boot testing for SKI Magazine from 2018 to 2021 and is still willing to test craft beer and good whiskey. Before joining SKI, Jon held multiple titles at Silverton Mountain and, as a Princeton in Asia Fellow, taught writing and critical thinking at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. While growing up in western Colorado and attending the University of Denver as a Boettcher Scholar, Jon worked in a number of ski shops where he learned about what makes quality skis and boots stand out for all types of skiers. Primarily a freeride and backcountry skier, Jon competed on the Freeskiing World Tour for two seasons and has earned first descents in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Norway. When not skiing, Jon has been known to go for long runs in the mountains, occasionally competitively. He also rides mountain and road bikes, but would always rather go skiing. He lives in Boulder, Colo., and now works for Fisch
In times of strife, it’s important to focus on the present.
That was the message shared by Chancellor Jeremy Haefner and commencement speaker David Von Drehle as more than 1,000 undergraduate students were conferred degrees Saturday at the Ritchie Center.
Haefner touched on the challenges faced by the Class of 2022, whose time at the University of Denver was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Your college experience was interrupted and, in some ways shaped by that which shall not be named,” Haefner says with laughs from the crowd. “But you persevered and we’re incredibly proud of you.”
Haefner welcomed 2022 graduates, as well as the Class of 1972, which was honored before the commencement ceremony. He also conferred an honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree to Von Drehle (BA ’83), who was a Boettcher Scholar at DU and a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his master’s degree.
After his education, Von Drehle worked as a journalist with stops at