33 images  1. Joan in her office  2. The ceremony was well attended by students, colleagues, and family  3. Bill gave the back story of Joan's early years and personal life in Colorado  4. Judith Jaehning talked of her research at C.U. with Joan  5. Bob Sclafani currently works with Joan in his lab at C.U.  6. Mike Ghedotti summarized Joan's many firsts at Regis  7. Kristi Penheiter is Joan's successor as Pre-Health Adviosr and also Director of the Masters Program  8. Cath Kleier is Chair of the Department of Biology. All three Regis colleagues - Cath, Kristi, and Mike - were hired by Joan when she was Chair  9. Joan thanked everyone, and reminded them of how novel her move from research to a teaching environment it was in 1990, and how very mainstream it has become.  10. Joan presented the department with a copy of "Collected Works of Joan Loveday Betz"  11. Cath presented Joan with a framed picture of the department members  12. After the ceremony, family gathered to congratulate Joan (l. to r. Jen, Ken, Joan, Dan)  13. former colleague (now retired) Harry Taylor and Joan  14. Dinner at Patsy's - the oldest (founded 1921) Italian restaurant in Denver  15.  16.  17.  18. Bill visits the kids' table - Emmy, Dan, Jen, Bill, Michael  19. Judith, Joan, Bill, Kristi, Amy Schreier  20. Joan made the rounds, greeting the guests  21. Jen and Joan's colleague Marie-do Franco  22. Ken and Judith  23. Chocolate cake - that's a budding yeast on the top  24. Ken gave a great toast to his big sister, who lured him from physics to molecular biology in 1970  25.  26.  27.  28. Jen gave a hilarious and heartfelt toast to her mother. The text of it is here  29.  30.  31.  32.  33.  |