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Coloradan Magazine

University of Colorado Boulder

Crested Butte . . . Love at First Sight

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Crested Butte . . . Love at First Sight is a sequel to Sandra’s first book Crested Butte Stories . . . Through My Lens. She blends her experiences of more than 40 years as a photojournalist with true tales of Crested Butte, its foibles, goofiness, tragedies, and resilience. Her rich vignettes chronicle a few of the natives, second and third generation Europeans and Slavs, who remained in their homes after the coal mines closed in 1952, and many who arrived later, drawn by the beauty of the mountains, but captured by the love of the people and tightly knit community.

Then: April 1, 1919: High Falls

The University of Colorado Hiking Club was founded April 1, 1919, to foster “a greater interest in the vast natural beauty that surrounds the University and to furnish an opportunity for the fullest enjoyment of [it].”

Social Buffs

Sarah Connelly (MusEdu’12) took her LEGO® Ralphie on a global journey. Follow Us Facebook facebook.com/cuboulderalumni twitter @CUBoulderAlumni #foreverbuffs LinkedIn University of Colorado Boulder Alumni Instagram @CUBoulderAlumni #foreverbuffs

Volume 20, Number 1 Fall 2015

Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through regular communication with alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the university. It is published four times per year in spring, summer, fall and winter by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles, photos and illustrations may be obtained from the editor.

Falling Bear, Part II

In early July, a two-year-old black bear climbed a tree near the engineering complex, just east of Cockerell Hall, drawing delighted spectators, trained animal handlers and campus photographer Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86).

Letters: Fall 2015

What a great issue! [Summer 2015] Your article “The Brave One” jogged a memory of CU that never went away.

Fall 2015 Obituaries

Photography by Glenn Asakawa

The mighty herd rumbles on, leaving echoes of those now absent. Forever Buffs!

Sports Q&A: Nelson Spruce

Senior wide receiver Nelson Spruce (Fin’15) caught a record-setting 106 passes last year, earning team MVP honors. The straight-talking finance major from Southern California ranks second at CU for all-time receptions, with 205 heading into his final season. Here he talks football with his trademark candor.

Stats

Possible combinations of football helmets, jerseys, pants and shoes after May’s uniform redesign.

Buff Bits

ard Xavier Johnson (Comm’16) tore his left Achilles tendon during off-season workouts and may miss the entire 2015-16 men’s basketball season.

Facilities Open

Colorado football has new players, new uniforms — and new digs.

Dynamic Duo

University of Colorado Boulder alums Emma Coburn (Mktg’13) and Jenny Simpson (Econ, PolSci’09) won USA Track & Field titles on back-to-back days in June.

Heritage Center Upgrades

When the University of Colorado opened in 1876, it consisted of one building. Old Main, as it came to be called, held classrooms, the library and apartments for President Joseph A. Sewall, his family and the janitor.

2016 Trips

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Chapter News

Boulder Retired Marine captain Rex Laceby (Hist’02) and 14 others from the revitalized CU Veterans Alumni Club spent a rainy day helping to rebuild a 1,200-square-foot home in Jamestown, Colo., destroyed by the 2013 Boulder County floods. “It was great being able to help,” Laceby says. “It was a rare instance where it was an all-around good.”

Career Advice: Network More

It’s one of the first things Lea Alvarado advises CU-Boulder alumni: When looking for your next job, network more, browse job listings less.

Homecoming: Celebrating CU’s Finest

Globe-trotting bridge builder Avery Bang (MCivEngr’09) immersed herself in all things CU-Boulder at Homecoming Weekend 2014. She’s ready to do it again.

Food

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The brain is a notoriously ravenous organ, so feeding an average of 15,000 students every day is no small feat. Here we’ve collected some fun facts about CU’s residential dining operation,* which has 13 campus locations, including all-you-care-to-eat dining centers, grab-n-go’s, convenience stores, coffee shops, a bakery and a late-night café — and which serves almost 100,000 ice cream cones a year.

Alpine Science

The Rocky Mountains gave CU-Boulder a head start in alpine science. Francis Ramaley widened the lead.

A Poster for Every Park

In the summer of 1979 Robert Decker (Comm’84) studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. The life-changing experience united his emerging love of photography with his awe of America’s wild places.

Larry Zimmer, Voice Of The Buffs

42 Seasons. Larry Zimmer.

Goodbye Colorado Bookstore, Hello Walgreens

A Walgreens drug store will move into The Hill space occupied for half a century by the Colorado Bookstore.

Heard Around Campus

“With the recent history of the Midwestern United States as our guide, it can be presumed that it will infest and kill nearly every untreated ash tree in this city.”

CU to Host Presidential Debate

CU-Boulder will host a debate this fall among contenders for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

Mission to Pluto: Accomplished

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft left Earth for Pluto in 2006, Jamey Szalay (PhDPhys’15) was in high school.

The G.I. Buffs

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The year was 1944. On June 22, President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights. Three months later 55 G.I.s enrolled at CU-Boulder.

Kids, Cartoons and Junk Food

Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem overweight, CU-Boulder researchers have found.

Inquiry: Kevin J. Krizek

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Kevin J. Krizek, professor of transport and the new director of CU-Boulder’s environmental design program, also serves as a visiting professor of cycling at Radboud University in the Netherlands, one of the world’s most bicycle-friendly societies. Here he talks about what the Dutch do right, what Americans could do better and the joy of the wind in his hair.

Fall 2015: Cover

The American buffalo, symbol of the American West and, since 1934, of CU-Boulder. Photography by Morten Kolby.

The American buffalo, symbol of the American West and, since 1934, of CU-Boulder.

Editor’s note

We’ll find no new glory by resting on our laurels. But every so often it’s worth pausing to draw inspiration from triumphs past and to appreciate the people who made them happen.

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