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].”
The University of Colorado Boulder played its first intercollegiate baseball game in the spring of 1890. CU defeated the Colorado School of Mines, 5-4, in Boulder. This photograph shows the CU squad in 1894. CU baseball played its final game on May 6, 1980, a 15-4 loss to Northern Colorado. Five weeks later, the university eliminated varsity baseball and six other sports amid budget cuts and Title IX commitments. In its 90-year history, CU-Boulder’s baseball team established a winning record of 819 victories, 614 losses and 5 ties — and sat for some delightful pictures.
They go in peace for all humankind.
For a short time, still within memory for some Baby Boomers, Boulder had its own ski run: Chautauqua Mesa Ski Area operated from 1949-52 and in 1962.
It was early winter when Capt. Francis Wolle (MEngl’16) entered the shattered city of Verdun with his men. Armistice had been declared in November, effectively ending World War I — far too late for Verdun and its outskirts, the scene of prolonged carnage in 1916. Riding in a Ford truck, Wolle’s group surveyed the aftermath for 20 days.
On Oct. 15, 1983, an estimated 17,000 people shown here joined hands to encircle the plant’s 17-mile perimeter.
Fifty years ago, Billy Kidd (Econ’69) and Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) became the first American men to win Olympic medals in skiing.
The last U.S. troops left Vietnam on March 29, 1973, in the wake of the cease-fire agreement engineered at the Paris Peace Accords. An estimated 58,000 Americans and 2 million Vietnamese died during the war. Sobering images like this one in the 1970 yearbook of the Khe Sanh airstrip fueled anti-war sentiment.
