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Emerson and Atticus, baby Buffs
Two new Buff babies join the herd and don CU togs.
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CU Memories: Edward Stephen Havasy
HAVASY, Edward S. ESQ., “Doc,” died at his residence in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, on May 23, 2011, two weeks after his eighty-sixth birthday of respiratory failure and metastatic bone cancer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was given the nickname “Doc” while in high school and it remained with him throughout his life.
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CU memories: Robin Melinda Rasmussen (A&S’03)
Robin Melinda Rasmussen (A&S ’03), 30, of Napa, California, lead pastry cook with Solbar Restaurant at the Solage resort in Calistoga, California, died suddenly in an automobile accident near St. Helena, California, on April 27, 2011.
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Holiday greeting stirs memories
Thanks for the memories and the beauty of our campus and life there at one time and still.
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Response to ‘Open Space’
Regarding the open space article in the December 2009 Coloradan, I was an undergraduate physics student of professor Al Bartlett in 1982-83. I see he still wears his trademark bolo tie. I don’t recall being aware of his involvement with open space, but on a related issue, exponential population growth, his remarks on the topic carry with me to this day.
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Response to ‘Dialing for Dignitaries’
A letter to the editor responding to the article in the March 2010 Coloradan about Howard Higman (Art’31, MSoc’42)
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A Buff life: Margaret Mary Ryan Milek
Margaret Mary Ryan – beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and to many of you, a friend for a lifetime.
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Dear Friends
Jim Navratil (Chem’70, MS’72, PhD’75) who shared in the Nobel Peace Prize the year the International Atomic Energy Commission won reports on a recent trip to Afghanistan.
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Mining the past
Like many first time visitors to Boulder, Muriel Sibell Wolle (MA ’30) was captivated by the community the moment she arrived on campus saying, “I looked at those mountains, and I thought to myself, I don’t know if they are going to like me or not, but I’m staying until they kick me out!”
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A Vetsville memory from Gordon Leben (Edu’66)
I lived in a Quonset hut in Vetsville in the early to mid-60s. Our son Robert, now a CU researcher is shown playing in front of our hut with a neighbor boy. We gave our children the large bedroom because the two bunk beds would not fit in the children’s bedroom.
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Dolores Plested 1908-2009
Dolores N. Plested, 101, died November 11 at her home in Denver. Born in Trinidad, Colo., in 1908, she was a graduate of the University of Colorado in 1931. Plested had a long and successful career as a journalist, having lived in New York City where she worked for the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. After the outbreak of World War II, Plested returned to Colorado where she worked for Denver radio station KMYR, and later was the the western correspondent for Fairchild News Service, the umbrella organization for Women’s Wear Daily.
Sewall memories
Do I have memories of Sewall Hall! I was a residence advisor of the right side of Sewall Hall in 1962-63. My little “apartment” was just off the huge living room. Sewall was an upper-class women’s resident hall. We called it Menopause Manor. The women and I obeyed most of the rules and had wonderful times together. Sewall had beautiful furniture. One of the stellar furnishings was a grand piano. It was regularly tuned, but no one used it. I’d taken piano- classical- as a child. Hated it. The grand drew me. I began to play bits of old, memorized pieces. Finally I bought a couple of jazz books and went off in a new musical direction. I remember studying in my room, playing to relax, studying, playing. Sometimes I play now for Semester-at-Sea voyages in the Piano Lounge, an avocation that began in Sewall.
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Obituary – Krista Correll Butler
After a long and courageous battle with Ovarian Cancer, Krista Correll Butler of Longmont, died at the Hospice Care Center in Louisville at 7:20 p.m. on November 4th with her husband and two sisters at her bedside to comfort her in the exit of this life and the beginning of a new journey. Krista was born on April 15, 1951 in Tachikawa, Japan where her father was stationed in the Air Force at the time. The daughter of Thomas and Mary Hellen (Graves) Correll, she was then given the opportunity through the military to see and travel many parts of the world and United States prior to attending St. Lawrence University. She then moved west where she met and married Chris Butler on October 1, 1982 at Flagstaff Mountain and eventually presented her husband with the ultimate gift, their now 14 year old daughter Kassi.
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Living Inside Confucius Wall
Living Inside Confucius Wall – a poem by Victor Pearn (MEngl’83).
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Sewall Hall’s 75 birthday celebrated
On Friday, Oct. 16, as part of Parents Weekend we will celebrate the 75th birthday anniversary of the opening of Sewall Hall. Sewall was the first hall built on the CU campus and is a beautiful building. We are tentatively planning on having a guest speaker to talk about the history of Sewall. We have gone to the archives and gotten photos of Sewall Hall, and we also have the schematic drawings of the building. There will be a “pinning” ceremony where all of the current Sewall residents will be presented with a special pin we are making. There will also be refreshments. We will be sending out invitations to luminaries in student affairs and housing and dining services.
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Kathleen Majewski Convocation Speech
Kathleen Majewski introduces entering CU freshmen to ‘Forever Buffs.’ You are all beginning your journey towards a newfound freedom and independence. But don’t confuse this independence with isolation. Because today, you become a BUFF. Today, you enter into a family of 220,000 fellow CU students, both past and present who share a bond with you that is “forever”. Today, you join a network of people who share a special connection with you who want to see you succeed, and will do whatever they can to help you get there.
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Alumna’s daughter gets to visit CU
I graduated from CU in 1969. I live in Yorktown, Ind. We had a family wedding in Denver and my daughter was with us. She just graduated from college in May. She had never seen my alma mater. She was offered a golf scholarship at the University of Southern Mississippi. First of all, the last time I was in Boulder
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Boulder Yesterday and Today
Boulder: Yesterday and Today: A Photographic Retrospective by Robert Castellino A Photographic Retrospective is a photographic compendium and chronicle of how local and world events and intrepid people have made this place into the Boulder we know today. As the story in this book unfolds, it will highlight eight photographers’ lives during a period of time when they were influential
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Alum collects impressive oriental rugs
Bob Brunner (PolSci’60MBA’63) got interested in oriental rugs when he retired in 2001 and decided to research his roots, particularly his two grandfathers. One grandfather was a direct descendant of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns. The other came to the U.S. from Armenia in 1886. He brought with him a Persian rug, which Bob inherited in 1997. In the last eight years Bob has collected 80 rugs from all over the world. He says he considers these rugs to be his most spectacular.
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Alumni recall spring in Boulder
In our May 2009 Buffalum Notes e-newsletter editor Marc Killinger said, “Spring always comes out slowly here. Over the years I’ve noticed trees and flowers don’t blossom on campus until the students leave for summer, unfortunately.” What do you remember about spring at CU?
Here are some responses:
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Peace Sign on Williams Towers
In the Spring of 1970 while the war in Vietnam was being protested across the country I came up with the idea to put a permanent peace symbol 80 feet high on the sheer wall of the Williams Village Dormitory Tower. Many of us felt powerless at that time to make any difference with our protests against the war and I wanted to make a statement by putting up a sign that would be visible from afar and not easily removed. It was always a mystery how that was accomplished and there were many theories, but perhaps now I can reveal the details about how it was actually done.
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Vetsville
Frederick Wawrose (Chem’50) writes that he entered CU-Boulder as a freshman in 1946. Matriculation was approved if the student had a place to live. The Elks Club in downtown Boulder opened their basement to students so they could enroll in school. We also slept in a temporary dormitory, made of surplus Army double deck bunks, in the gym, and showered in the gym showers. Meals were served in the field house on surplus Army tray, after you provided your ration books for sugar and butter. Academic competition was very keen. No one dared to suggest the freshman wear “beanies.”
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Investiture Speech
Remarks by Christine M. Arguello (Edu’77)
Investiture for United States District Judge for the District of Colorado
December 5, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, cherished family and friends, esteemed colleagues and honored guests:
First let me thank the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and all my dear friends at the CHBA for this beautiful robe – I can think of no better symbol of your friendship and respect than this gift, which I shall cherish.
Words cannot express the emotions I am feeling today as I consider the responsibility that has been entrusted to me by this appointment. Perhaps this is because in my heart, today is really yesterday – a day more than 40 years ago when, as a 13-year-old, I picked up a magazine in the library and found myself entranced by the world of the law, and with the prospect that I could become a lawyer – an advocate for those who could not advocate for themselves.
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Phi Kappa Tau fraternity lives on
Continuing a rich tradition, the fraternity brothers of Phi Kappa Tau, Psi Chapter, held their 50th anniversary reunion in Boulder and Broomfield October 1-4, 2008. This unique group of fraternity brothers from the 1956-60 pledge classes has stayed in close contact over the last 50 years despite members living all over the country. Beginning in the late 60s, they have assembled more than 20 times to watch the Buffs play and enjoy their CU and fraternity memories, mainly in Boulder but also in places like Las Vegas, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles and Phoenix. This year’s reunion was the largest ever with nearly 50 people attending.
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Ralphie and the bear almost go head to head
I enjoyed the article in the September Coloradan by Dave Marucheau on the history of our mascot “Ralphie” I-V. One story he did not mention, and maybe he HAS no knowledge of it, was in ’71 or ’72 when Baylor came to Boulder to play and brought their live Black Bear mascot. As Ralphie circled the field, she suddenly stopped about 20 yards from the Bear, I assume having smelled its presence and faced it and pawed the ground. The Bear stood up on its legs and everyone in the student sections were yelling “ram it Ralphie, ram it”…
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Remembering our lost Buffs
In 2006, the university dedicated a memorial
outside the Wolf Law Building to honor CU alumni killed in the attacks.
It is located on the north side of the building.
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A CU alum reflects on Sept. 11
It’s the most beautiful day here, which is so eerily similar to that day seven years ago. I got a call from my friend, former New Yorker Tim Jones, this morning. He was having a glass of wine on his porch in Hong Kong millions of miles away but remembering how powerful that day was and how much we (and the world) went through on that day. In some ways it’s hard to believe it’s been seven years and in other ways, it seems like a lifetime ago.
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Show to Remember
I’ve never seen a July 4th fireworks display in Folsom Field like that of either 1948 or 1949. I’m not sure of which year it was, but it had to rival the one witnessed by Francis Scott Key in 1814, as he wrote what was to become our national anthem.
The Folsom Field display was erected immediately south of the scoreboard and extended across the football field. It included Roman candles, sparklers, rockets of various sizes, and a “waterfall” made of pyrotechnics. Fortunately as it would turn out, spectators were restricted to the horseshoe end of the stadium, northward to about the south 35-yard line.
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Those were the ’50s
Welcome! It seems like just yesterday that I drove my ’41 Chevy up the dirt road from Golden to start my freshman year in the fall of 1954. The furthest thing south in Boulder was the Bureau of Standards and the Denver-Boulder turnpike and the UMC had just opened the year before.
Many of our classmates were returning to CU from the Korean War. Men who had never had the financial means for a college education had the doors opened by the GI bill.
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Faithful Fan
John Player called the Coloradan offices on March 18 to let us know how much he enjoyed receiving the Coloradan.
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Bowl bytes: memories from the 1970s
(Note: click on photos for enlargement) “You have created a monster” (Edward Van Sloan as Doctor Waldman in the 1931 movie, Frankenstein) Trivia Bowl (trih-veah-bowl) n. A game played by students to demonstrate how much their education is really worth. 2. The University’s second hottest and best-attended event right after the crowds at the first day of drop-ads. (Colorado Daily)
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A moving experience
Mary Irvine wrote to us recently to laud one of our member perks: I would like to express my appreciation to the alum internet page. Last summer I was moving from Houston, TX to Longmont, CO and referenced the section for discounts by moving companies. Listed were three moving companies. I contacted all three. Each came to my house to
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A Song in Our Hearts
As my wife and I looked through our 1953 Coloradan, memories of our college days began to return-especially when we saw the picture of Macky. Therefore to show our feelings about CU, I decided to compose a hymn. My last musical expression of our college days was the creation of the fight song “Go Colorado.” I composed it some 50 years ago. The CU band plays it.
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