around the oval - spring 2009

SPR ING 2009A publication for Alumni Association members

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• Protecting the Alaskan Wilderness

• The Center for Public History & Archaeology

• Teaching our Children About Nature

• Laura’s Legacy

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APriL 2009 Celebrate Colorado State month! 3 Best Teacher Awards 6:30 p.m., Lory Student Center 3 Go Green Friday – Wear green and gold to work! 13 Ram Living Series: How to Cook Fish, 6 p.m., Denver. 14 Business After Hours Networking, 6 p.m., Frame de Art, Denver. 17 Celebrate I Love CSU Day – Wear green and gold to work! 18 CSUnity Projects happening around the nation 18 Distinguished Alumni Awards, 5:30 p.m., Hilton Fort Collins.

22 Boulder County Alumni Dinner 6 p.m., Boulder County Fairgrounds 25 Rams Write! book signing (Amy Seidl M.S. ’95), 2 p.m., Tattered Cover Downtown, Denver. 25 ALUMNIght (College of Business Alumni Group), 5:30 p.m., rio Grande restaurant, Fort Collins. 30 CSU Happy Hour, 6 p.m., JohnstonWells Pr, Denver.

MAy 2009 2 Kentucky Derby Fundraising Event for the Sean Lough Foundation, Denver 5 Spotlight on CSU: Professor Temple Grandin 5:30 p.m., Hilton Fort Collins.

JuNE 2009 12 Somos CSU Tequila Tasting, 6 p.m., Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver.

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3 Letter from the Executive Director

18 Rams Around the World

19 Class Notes 27 5 Minutes With

11 Laura’s Legacy How a CSU family launched the National Marrow Donor Program

25 Find your Family History

5 Protecting the Alaskan Wilderness

7 The Center for Public History and Archaeology

9 Teaching Our Children About Nature

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ContentsMission of Around the Oval: To build relationships and conduct conversations with members of the CSU Alumni Association. EditorBeth Etter (’03) Graphic Designer Vance Sherwood (’99) Contributing WritersDel Benson (’71, ’73, ’89) Beth Etter (’03) Kaley Hagerman (’09) Ashley Large Carol Tomerlin (’96) Photography CSU Communications & Creative ServicesVance Sherwood (’99) Alumni AssociationColleen Meyer (’94), Executive Director Around the Oval is published three times a year by the CSU Alumni Association as a benefit of membership. Colorado State University 7114 Campus DeliveryFort Collins, CO 80523-7114(970) 491-6533 (phone)(800) 286-2586(970) 491-0798 (fax)[email protected] © 2009 by Colorado State University. All rights reserved.

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My son – my first and so far, only – recently turned one. Although the

first six months seemed to tick slowly out of sheer exhaustion, the last six passed in the blink of an eye. A year doesn’t go by quite so quickly as it does when you have a newborn and can watch him triple his size and make momentous leaps in development. While I don’t have actual facts to back this up, I do believe his presence makes a difference in the world. It makes a differ-ence in the way that I interact with my own parents, in the way I appreciate other small children, in my desire to raise the best little boy in the neighborhood. He also makes a difference in the amount of resources in the world through his consumption of food and use of diapers.

He is small (for now), but his being makes an impact, and I hope that some day, his actions make a purposeful impact on our community. The people we feature in this issue of the magazine certainly made an impact with their actions. Whether taking photographs, preserving natural spaces, or building new places, our alumni are making a difference in the world. I’m sure you are too. Colorado State continues to make a difference – and we are proud to tell that story. I hope that you enjoy this new format of the alumni magazine. We think it’s going to be a great avenue to spread the word and share the influence that CSU alumni have in our neighborhoods and our world.

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From the Executive Director

Ibelieve one of the most unique traits of our alumni and friends of Colorado State

University is their passion for truly making a difference. We are a humble family of insightful and generous graduates who extend our resources and hearts to provide opportunities for others. We embrace and appreciate the mission of our land-grant university and challenge ourselves and others to provide solutions to real-world problems. Our faculty involvement extends beyond academic instruction as they collaborate with students in the classroom and in the field to tap their highest potential to become world-class citizens. Faculty such as the late Maurice Albertson, who joined Colorado A&M in 1947, worked to im-prove the quality of life for people around the world. Maury played a pivotal role in the formation of the Peace Corps and was dedicated to establishing CSU as a research institution. Maury’s legacy will continue to be an inspiration to many of us for his com-mitment to making a difference. The current economic times have certainly forced many of us to evaluate our lives and shift our priorities, but what has remained constant is the willingness from

our alumni, friends, and donors to make a difference in ways that are meaningful to them. A special thank you to many of you for renewing your annual membership, sustaining your life membership, recom-mending CSU to future students, serving as alumni association volunteers and advocates for Colorado State, and for your financial support for our students. I hope


The Meyer Family: Colleen (’94), Keith (’93), Karlie (Class of 2025), and family pet, Lexi

CSU ALUMNI ASSoCIATIoN2008-2009 BoARD oF DIRECToRS(Board Terms run from July - July)

PRESIDENTButch Shoup 1980 BSBA Accounting

PRESIDENT-ELECT Collis G. Sanders 1977 BS Business Finance

vICE PRESIDENTKathleen Ann MacKay 1978 BA Technical Journalism

you will continue to make a difference in the life of Colorado State University in a way that is meaningful to you. Warm regards from my family to yours,

PAST PRESIDENTJames C. Roles III 1967 BS Social Sciences

Eric Berglund 2000 BS Business Administration

Joe Bohling 1990 BA Speech Comm.

EXECUTIvE CoMMITTEE MEMBER-AT-LARGE Jody Johnson Buck 1986 BA English Education

Susan Cox 1982 BA Speech Comm. Katie Denman2005 BS Business Administration

Sally Edwards1975 BS Natural resources1992 MS international resource Management

FACULTY REPRESENTATIvEJohn Plotnicki 2008-2009 1974 MBA Business

Kathleen Henry Ex-officio1970 BS Social Science

Jan Horsfall1982 BS Business Kenneth (“KC”) Ingraham 1990 BA Technical Journalism Doug Johnson 1993 BA Liberal Ar ts

STUDENT ALUMNI CoNNECTIoN 2008-09 PresidentTENNANT, KimmerJunior, Business Major

Sam Romano 1979 BS Animal Science1983 DvM CvMBS

Darshan Shah 1992 BS Engineering 2001 ME Engineering Mark Swanson 1986 BS Ag Sciences2004 MBA Business

Ginny Teel 1970 BS Business Admin, CiS

Wade o. Troxell 1980 BS, 1982 MS, 1987 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

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Fertile Territory Alumna captures environmental issues

in Their Best interest Denver lawyer protects children and animals

Laura Antrim Caskey (’92)

studied English literature and history while at Colorado State University, but her life’s work has been documenting life’s struggles and

pain through photography. Her latent photographer always existed, but it took a post-college teaching assignment in China to find it. “My world changed so much when I lived there. I found myself as a photographer. It was a matter of having the fertile territory for it to bloom,” she says. The fertile territory expanded to India, Afghanistan, New York City, and now Appalachia where Caskey documents

Gabriela Sandoval (’99)

has focused her law practice on represent-ing and protecting those who cannot speak for them-selves. As a guardian ad litem, Sandoval

represents abused children in the Denver Juvenile Court. In such abusive situations animals are also at risk. “The issue is under-standing that animals are dependent on us. They need people who are willing to look out for their interests, not unlike how we protect and advocate for children,” she says. In one particular case, “I was concerned about the children and the dog that was in

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the coal industry and mountain top removal in West Virginia. “I follow the work that touches me,” she says. “I moved to West Virginia to work in the field full-time. This is Ground Zero in mountain top removal. And I’m inside my subject – I have trust among the people.” Caskey’s goal is that of any journal-ist – to research and learn about an issue and then educate the public. “This is the oldest mountain range in the United States, and the most biodiverse forest is being destroyed. The land and the people need a voice. It’s my job to give that voice,” she says.

a corner on the porch with no water and no food and surrounded by what looked like weeks of feces,” she says. “Fortunately, both the children and the dog were removed from that home.” The “best of interest of the child” is the legal standard in making decisions with re-gard to the placement of children and San-doval believes courts should consider the interest of animals when making decisions about them. “Pet custody is a hot topic now as people are entering and exiting relation-ships and the animals are the “children” of the family,” she says. In addition to her private practice, Sandoval does pro bono work with victims of domestic violence and with the Animal Legal Defense Fund. She is scheduled to

In addition to her freelance work for newspapers like the Boston Globe and the New York Times, and magazines like Orion and the Smithsonian, Caskey had a photo exhibition at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virg. in October 2008. The exhibition, Appalachia: A Land and People Under Threat, featured color documentary photography on the human and environmental costs of modern day coal mining in Appalachia.

present at a continuing legal education seminar where an audience of attorneys who practice juvenile law will learn about the relationship between child abuse and animal abuse as well as the bond between children and their companion animals. This is an exciting field for Sandoval because there is relatively little legal prec-edent on these topics and there’s a pos-sibility for creating new law. “Animal rights attorneys continue to pave the path and I hope to contribute to the many attorneys who already have,” she says. Contact Sandoval by visiting her website www.childandanimalaw.com or call (303) 954-4580.

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Alaskan WildernessProtecting the

Peering into the vast expanse of the Alaskan wilderness from the deck of a cruise ship is an invigorating experience. Gliding through the serene fjords,

an incandescent blue radiates from glaciers coming right into the tide water. Seals perch on the floating islands of icebergs, basking in the sun or feeding their young pups. Grizzly bears scale rocks at the water’s edge. All this beauty and majesty can be seen from the deck of a cruise ship, giving thousands of people opportunities to enjoy the Alaskan wilderness. And when it comes to the Alaskan wilderness, John Neary (’82) is a passionate advocate. As a US Forest Service employee, Neary promotes and preserves the wilderness in a variety of ways: he helped transform Admiralty Island into an eco-tourism destination by establishing a grizzly bear viewing area; he inspires school teachers to bring wilderness into their classrooms to engage students; and


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he has made a major contribution to the Alaskan wilderness by helping protect a fjord called Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness. About fifty miles southeast of Juneau, Alaska, in the Tongass National Forest, is Tracy Arm. “Over the years the Forest Service wilderness rangers have received a large number of complaints, mostly about crowding, noise, and haze from cruise ves-sels traveling in Tracy Arm,” Neary states. He and his co-workers decided that some-thing needed to be done to better preserve the tranquility of the Alaskan wilderness. Since they only have jurisdiction of the wil-derness itself and not on the marine waters adjacent to the wilderness, the only option was to contact the major cruise companies and smaller vessel operators in order to agree on voluntary practices for tourism within Tracy Arm. Neary and his co-workers organized a meeting in Seattle, Washington in April 2007 for the twenty cruise companies and mid- to small-sized operators who clearly voiced their concerns. Then, as a collective group, they created what came to be known as the Wilderness Best Management Practices.

Practices include: • avoiding the use of unnecessary horn blasts and external public addresses • seeking engineered solutions to minimize visible stack emissions • moving slowly and keeping back from wildlife such as seals on icebergs, bears, whales, and nesting birds And, for the largest cruise companies, • avoiding visits to Endicott Arm and sharing trip schedules to prevent crowding Neary was very impressed with how many people showed up at the meeting, as well as with how the entire group shared concerns and reached agreement in only three hours. “All the key players were there,”

Neary says. “Everyone was interested in attending.” With a lot of preparation done before the Seattle meeting, Neary believes the cruise industry as a whole had a strong interest in attending because a “green” ap-proach is good business for them. Being green attracts tourists who are looking to partake in an incredible experience, while still remaining faithful to protecting the environment. There have been both successes and failures with regard to executing the best practices. Awareness of the effects of public address systems is growing, yet the cruise companies’ use of Endicott Arm has increased and there have been clean air violations. A meeting has already been scheduled between the Forest Service and cruise lines to voice concerns. Yet, even with these “growing pains,” Neary sees this as a step in the right direc-tion. He and his coworkers received the Alaska Regional Forester’s 2008 award for Promoting Recreation. “We were really pro-tecting the wilderness instead of promoting recreation, yet the award was encouraging and affirming. Anytime we can raise attention and get people’s awareness it is a great thing,” he says.

And for Neary, the Alaskan wilderness is not just a job, but a special place in his heart. He has been a resident of Alaska for over twenty-six years. In his home over-looking pristine Alaskan waters he plans the next adventure to partake in with his wife and daughter. “Focusing on protecting Tracy Arm is crucial because it is a spec-tacular part of the Alaskan wilderness and much different from the beauty of the rest of the forest,” Neary says. “It embodies the unique rawness of the Alaskan wilderness.” Clearly, protecting Tracy Arm is crucial to John Neary personally, as well as to the tens of thousands of cruise-goers who will continue to enjoy the raw beauty the Alaskan wilderness has to offer.

by Kaley Hagerman (’09)

“We were really protecting the wilderness instead of promoting recreation, yet the award was encouraging and affirming. Anytime we can raise attention and get people’s awareness it is a great thing,”


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Neary at an estuary

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Twelve thousand years of history can be found 25 miles east of Santa Fe,

New Mexico. With pueblo ruins, Spanish colonial missions, the Civil War battle of Glorieta Pass, and 20th century ranching history, Pecos National Historical Park preserves a wealth of our nation’s history. One way in which the National Park Service (NPS) is ensuring the preserva-tion of this important area is through an environmental history. Colorado State history faculty and students, in cooperation with ecologists from the University of New Mexico, are studying the landscape – both natural and cultural – and what impact human use has had on the site and how it has changed over time. Through an envi-ronmental history, the researchers will help the NPS understand how best to manage the park. CSU is able to assist the NPS through the Center for Public History and Archaeol-ogy (CPHA) in the College of Liberal Arts.

Created in early 2007, the CPHA’s goal is to further public knowledge of history and archaeology, especially in the areas of preservation, environmental history, social and cultural history, museum studies, and Native American history. Maren Bzdek (M.A. ’07), program manager and research associate with the CPHA, explains that “public history is ap-plied history. Because of the broad range of expertise and interests among our faculty and graduate students, we are positioned to work with national parks, museums, or any site or organization where the public interacts with history. ” Through the CPHA, CSU historians are developing interdisciplinary research projects that will allow them to collaborate with others on the CSU campus to write these public histories: geographers from the anthropology department, recreation specialists, and natural resource experts in the Warner College of Natural Resources.

Dr. Mark Fiege is an en-vironmental historian, associate professor in the Department of His-tory, and the director of the CPHA. He is proud of the collaborative nature of the Center

and the many people involved in it. “Everyone is working to-gether and building on the legacy of former faculty who created the department’s public history track,” he says. Fiege’s personal goal for the Center is to foster a collaborative culture while working on research projects that benefit the public. “CSU has one of the oldest public history graduate programs in the nation. Our re-search standards meet the highest expecta-tions of our profession and the people and agencies we work with,” he says. Fiege was named the William E. Morgan Chair of Liberal Arts for a five-year period which began in July 2008.

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Helping preserve our nation’s natural and cultural landscapes

PUBLIC HISToRY and ARCHAEoLoGYruins of Spanish mission at Pecos National Historical Park

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Dr. Fiege speaks with a National Park Service ranger How does the NPS retain livestock grazing for public viewing as par t of an historic scene, protect sensitive landscapes, and deal with feral animals? Through a public history analysis, historians can offer information that the NPS can use to manage the natural and cultural resources under their stewardship.

The Center for Public History and Archaeology (CPHA) provides decision makers with historical knowledge that can inform policy decisions about complex issues regarding land and water use, agricul-ture, and cultural resource management. A current issue being addressed by the CPHA is the history of livestock grazing on NPS land. The history and present experience of livestock grazing includes

Dairy cattle to provide milk to the lodges.• Horses for the NPS to patrol the park.• Feral goats, pigs, and burros at sites •

such as Hawaii volcanoes National Park and Death valley National Park.

Permits held by private citizens for • limited cattle grazing on park lands.

PUBLIC HISToRY and ARCHAEoLoGYKiva interior, Pecos National Historical Park

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Teaching our about naturechildrenI vividly recall the buzz of a rattlesnake

under our rickety country porch that might have started my career and my

life-long relationship with nature. Mom first thought the sound was a moth in the curtains, but the dog’s incessant barking and the beams of Dad’s flashlight revealed the answer on his shovel hoisted high into the autumn night air for us to see. As a child, I was too young to completely understand the wonder or the danger. I still remember the stimulus, or perhaps the re-peated stories, but I remember that this was my first experience with complex emotions about a complex nature. Outside was my playground and in those days nature was separated only by thin floors, roofs, and walls, not by urbanized ideologies and competing uses of time. Living rural, I learned to enjoy the sight of every mule deer on the shrubby hillside, every bird in the tree and every story told by my elders about the wonders and conse-quences of living with nature. We hunted and fished for fun and retold stories of the ones that got away and mar-veled at the sights, smells, touch, and tastes of the ones that entered our world as the ultimate trophy of having a close connec-tion to nature. The cacophony of coyote calls still raises the hair on my neck, not out of fear, but wanting to know their language, and even more, to know their story. Others such as me, with scores of sum-mers to recall and autumns to relive, had

closer contact with the land than do our children. And what will our grandchildren, yet unborn, experience? Education, jobs, and the “good life” of the city captured most of us over time. Now, we get food from stores and restaurants rather than from grandma’s chicken house, grandpa’s hog pen, or nature’s storehouse. Then, we could watch and even help calves to be born and with similar awe participate in the death of old dogs, old logs, and our food. There, births and deaths of spring, summer, fall, and winter weren’t endings, they were all new beginnings. Here in town, most youth miss impor-tant enjoyment and lessons for life because they don’t often visit rural grandparents and natural places anymore. Kids are becoming as sterilized as the chicken from the deli. Whatever happened to wading in the mud, watching clouds turn into fairies or monsters, and learning to plant, nurture, and reap the rewards of the earth? Our urbanized lack of contact with nature has been a personal concern as a parent and I’m one of many professionals who see the signs of disconnect with nature and are trying to do something about it. My 42 years of CSU education, work around the globe, and professional service to the planet have been directed at reversing the growing disconnection to the land.

You, too, can start to reverse the trends right where you live.

Roots in nature wither when youth substitute over-organized and technological lives for outdoor pursuits.


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into nature. 4-H is an excellent venue to bring parents, youth, and leaders together. General awareness about serious en-vironmental problems of climate change, depletion of natural resources, pollution, loss of biodiversity, and environmental disasters is growing. These things threaten the viability of our culture and our lives. We will all be far better prepared to understand, cope, and solve these problems if we have personal experiences with the natural world beginning in childhood. Use www.LandHelp.info to explore everything from working with youth and living sustainably at home to getting rid of pests. Check out the sections • Next Child in the Woods (with 40 Ways to Create Neighborhood outdoor Adventures for youth)• Small Acreage Management• Sustainability and Green infrastructure Also visit del-helplanduselandhelp.blogspot.com where you can enter your ideas about helping land and people.

Parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends, teachers, and clubs can bring nature a little closer to the life of every child. Star t today: 1. Take a walk and enjoy a minute, an hour, or a day with youth. Let children explore and help them to discover their interests. Make activities short for the young and the new, then add time and complexity as age and experiences grow. 2. Habits are formed when pleasure, opportunity, and frequency coincide. Plan a schedule for nature just as you must plan for work, school, community activities, and home. If you don’t work nature in, it won’t work out! Frequency, consistency, and fun matter! 3. Have enough structure to the activities to maintain safety and to keep interests progressing along the educational pathway. Initiate awareness, discover interests, allow time for evaluation, and give opportunities to explore. Introduce more adventures and activities as participants grow in the process. Many educational resources can be found on the Internet, or ask your local CSU Extension agent about getting youth

If you have stories about helping children experience nature, share them with us at [email protected]

Picture yourself in nature Olivia Sherwood takes a rest after a hike at Pingree Park. Olivia is the daughter of Vance (’99) and Nicole (’99) Sherwood.

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By Delwin E. Benson, Ph.D. (’71, ’73, ’89) Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

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How a CSU family launched the National Marrow Donor Program

Laura’s Legacy

When Sherry (Girmann) Graves (’57) and Bob Graves (’54, D.V.M. ’56)

married in 1963, little did they know that their family would profoundly affect the lives of thousands of people across the United States.

Laura, the Graveses’ second child, was a happy, healthy, studious girl who enjoyed

4-H, Girl Scouts, playing the piano, and hooking rugs.

When she was seven years

Bob Graves and daughter Laura. Their picture hangs in the National Marrow Donor Program office in Minneapolis.

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old, Laura came down with the chicken pox virus. “From that time on, she battled bron-chitis and cold after cold,” Sherry says. Devastating News A few months later, Laura became pale and was tired all the time. Her pediatrician recommended a trip to Children’s Hospital in Denver, where doctors made a devastat-ing diagnosis: Laura had leukemia. On Aug. 15, 1976, the journey to save Laura’s life began. She underwent chemo-therapy and radiation treatments. Although she was in remission within a month of the treatments, Laura continued to receive chemotherapy for two years. Just three months before Laura was scheduled to stop treatments, a bone marrow test revealed suspicious cells. The leukemia was back. “Her relapse was even more devastating than the initial diagnosis,” Sherry says. After the first diagnosis, Bob and Sherry had hope that Laura would be cured, but that hope disappeared when the doctors told them no one had ever survived leukemia after a relapse. After a few days, Sherry decided that just because the doctors said no one had survived after relapse doesn’t mean that no one ever will. “At that moment, I learned that one cannot live without hope,” she says.

A New Approach Encouraged by their local pediatrician, Dr. Richard Booth, the Graveses considered a bone marrow transplant. At that time, only siblings and parents were considered to be potential donors. All of Laura’s siblings were tested at Children’s Hospital in Denver but there was no match. Sherry and Bob were tested at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle, but also weren’t a match. There seemed to be no options left until Dr. Donnall Thomas, bone marrow re-search pioneer, and Dr. John Hansen at the FHCRC suggested something never before attempted—a bone marrow transplant

from an unrelated donor. For two weeks, the Graveses wrestled with the decision of whether or not to proceed with this experimental procedure for their daughter. They consulted doctors in Los Angeles and New York, but no one could give them any reassurances about the outcome. “We decided that we had to give Laura a chance, even if it was only a small chance,” Sherry says. They decided to go ahead with the procedure, using the donated bone marrow of an FHCRC lab technician. On Sept. 4, 1979, three years after her initial diagnosis, Laura made history when she received the first-ever non-related bone marrow transplant for a leukemia patient. For the next 90 days she lived in a bubble—a laminar air-flow room—to give her every chance at survival. Sherry stayed in Seattle with Laura while Bob stayed in Fort Col-lins to run the dairy. Sherry’s parents, the neighbors, and Bob cared for their other children. Over those 90 days, Laura received all her nourishment through an intravenous catheter. “To enter her room I had to wear a mask and be gowned from head to toe. Everything was sterilized,” Sherry says. To keep her spirits up, Bob flew Laura’s siblings out to visit twice, as well as her grandmoth-er and her teacher, Wanda Koch, who spent a weekend helping Laura catch up with her studies. Laura tolerated the treatments well. At the end of the 90-day hospital stay, she remained in Seattle close to the hospital for another 20 days before returning to Fort Collins in December 1979 on Sherry’s birthday. On returning home, Laura was adamant about keeping up with her school work. She had a home tutor until she was able to return to school part-time, and in 1980 she completed the sixth grade with all As. Following Laura’s successful transplant, Bob threw his energy into helping other anxious parents who called him inquir-ing how their children could receive transplants from non-related donors. At the time, 60 percent of patients needing a

transplant didn’t have a matching family member. Bob tried to connect these parents with blood banks, but by the time a match was found, it was often too late. That’s when Bob realized it was essential to cre-ate a national registry of donors and their

human leukocyte antigen (HLA) types, information that could be quickly and eas-ily accessed by doctors trying to respond to patients’ needs. In September 1980, one year after the bone marrow transplant, Laura entered junior high – and the leukemia returned. Although Laura endured another round of drugs and entered remission for the third time, her health declined severely the fol-lowing year.

The Journey Home Although the Graves family was dealing with Laura’s health crisis, they continued seeking ways to help other families. They flew to London in July 1981 to speak with a doctor about building a national donor registry in the United States similar to the one in England, and also to discuss the merits of a second bone marrow transplant for Laura. Because of the effects that more radiation would exert on her fragile body, however, doctors and the Graveses decided the procedure wasn’t feasible. On the plane ride home, Laura bumped her nose, causing it to bleed. Because her platelet count was so low, the bleeding couldn’t be stopped. The pilot radioed to Denver and an ambulance was waiting to take Laura immediately to Children’s Hos-pital where she received platelets and was stabilized. Laura’s last days were spent on oxygen


At the time, 60 percent of patients needing a transplant didn’t have a matching family member.


and morphine. She lay in her parent’s bed, reading or listening to stories. On Aug. 15, 1981, Laura looked at her mother and said, “Nothing’s working. Let’s try some chicken soup.” Sherry kissed her daughter and went downstairs to make the soup. Laura died a short time later. Laura’s Legacy Following Laura’s death, Sherry focused her energy on her other children, and Bob continued his crusade to help others by es-tablishing a national bone marrow registry. With the help of Dr. Hansen and Dr. Jeffrey McCullough, director of the St. Paul Red Cross Blood Services, the men drafted a proposal for a central registry. Bob traveled across the country seeking government funding to start the program. Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., became a staunch supporter, ultimately getting the U.S. Navy involved and securing a contract with the Office of Naval Research. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. also

joined the cause, assisting with funding and program advocacy. After eight years of hard work and negotiation, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) became a reality in 1987, with Bob as its chair. Since its cre-ation, the NMDP has arranged more than 35,000 transplants and has seven million registered donors, the largest and most

ethnically diverse registry of its kind in the world. Currently, more than 40 diseases are treated with bone marrow transplantation, and the NMDP facilitates almost 4,300 transplants annually. Over the course of five years of treat-ments, Laura had three remissions. Sherry and Bob never regretted their decision for Laura to receive a bone marrow transplant. “We believe that the transplant gave Laura one-and-a-half more years of life, and we’re thankful for that extra time with her,” Sherry says. In 1990, Dr. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his decades-long work in bone marrow transplantation re-search. Dr. Thomas invited Bob and Sherry and Dr. Hansen to accompany him to the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since its creation, the NMDP has arranged more than 35,000 transplants and has seven million registered donors

Sherry Graves (4th from left) stands with her children and grandchildren.

At the time of his death from cardiac arrest in February 1997, Bob Graves was securing funding for the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Founda-tion, which would research chronic wasting disease in wildlife, “mad cow” disease in livestock, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people. Sherry spends her time with her children and nine grandchildren, traveling, and in various volunteer capacities, including serving on the board of the Alumni Association’s 50 Year Club.

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Cancer and Bone Marrow Transplantation Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the white blood cells, the cells that normally fight infections. Leukemia cells are immature white blood cells that cannot help the body fight infections. Because of this, children with ALL often have infections and fevers. Although cancer in children is rare, ALL is the most common form of childhood cancer. one reason bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is used in cancer treatment is to make it possible for patients to receive very high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. High-dose treatments can severely damage or destroy the patient’s bone marrow. Without healthy bone marrow, the patient is no longer able to make the blood cells needed to carry oxygen, fight infection, and prevent bleeding. BMT replaces stem cells destroyed by treatment. The healthy, transplanted stem cells can restore the bone marrow’s ability to produce the blood cells the patient needs. (from the National Cancer Institute)

The National Marrow Donor Program The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) helps people who need an unrelated donor find a marrow or cord blood transplant. The NMDP: • Maintains the largest listing of volunteer donors and cord blood units in the world. • Supports patients and their doctors through the transplant process. • Matches patients with the best donor or cord blood unit.

Donations needed • only 30 percent of patients find a matched donor in their family. The other 70 percent can turn to the NMDP registry to search for an unrelated donor or cord blood unit. • Currently, every search conducted through the NMDP provides access to more than 7 million donors and nearly 90,000 cord blood units, as well as donors listed on global registries. • on average, the NMDP facilitates more than 350 transplants each month, with more than 4,300 marrow and cord blood transplants in 2008.

Public Cord Blood Banking • The NMDP operates the nation’s Cord Blood Coordinating Center. • Since 2004, the NMDP has facilitated more than 2,000 transplants using publicly donated cord blood. • There is no charge for expectant parents to donate umbilical cord blood to a public cord blood bank. Public cord blood banks cover the costs to collect, test and store umbilical cord blood, so collections are limited to hospitals that work with a public cord blood bank.

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W e don’t eat our business partners, says Theo Anest, a senior in the Warner College of Natural Resources who will graduate in May 2009. As the founder

of the non profit organization Fly Fish for Life and owner of Colorado Skies Outfitters in Parker, Colo., Anest introduces people to the sport of catch and release fly fishing through guided trips. One of the benefactors of Fly Fish for Life is Craig Hospital. “This summer we’ll coordinate one or two multiple day retreats for patients with brain and spinal cord injuries as part of their recovery process,” says Anest. Fly Fish for Life also supports conservation organizations, one of which is the Warner College of Natural Resources. What does Anest love about fly fishing and guiding? “I love the lifestyle, the people I meet, and the unique challenges and variables each day brings. As a business owner in the industry, I feel it’s my responsibility to give back through this sport, and I hope that Fly Fish for Life will be a great way of doing so,” he says. Anest has fished the Bow River in Alberta, Canada and the small creeks of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, but his favorite location is his home river, the South Platte.

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NEW LIFE MEMBERS Following are individuals who joined the Alumni Association as Life Members, September 6, 2008 – February 5, 2009. H. David Benson, ’78 Joshua S., ’98 and Sarah L., ’00 Brauer William H. Dawson, ’86 Dr. Bridget C. Gregory Sarah J. Kogut, ’88 Dr. Douglas J., ’84 and Susan Lammers James D., ’66, ’71 and Connie r. osborne Dr. Shunji ouchi, ’83 Megan M. Palmer, ’93 roy T. Sailor, ’83 Gary D. yocham, D.v.M., ’73, ’75 SUSTAINING LIFE MEMBERSFollowing are Life Members who made a Sustaining Life contribution September 8, 2009 – February 5, 2009. SILvER SPRUCE LEvEL - $500 - $999royal D., ’75 and Charlene J., ’75 Heins Steven E. Tarzon, ’76 robert L. Warner, ’58, ’59 AGGIE LEvEL - $100-$499 robert W., ’60 and Patricia A. Altstadt Joyce K. Berry, Ph.D., ’76 Jerald W. Bisterfeldt, ’63 richard E. Brase, ’68 Dr. Dale C., ’59 and Connie B. Brentlinger Dr. Jerry H. Cheesman, ’61 Dr. robert F., ’55, ’70, ’77 and Janet L., ’55 Datteri Miles, ’50 and Jeanne B., ’73 Davies Kenneth C., ’70 and Barbara M., ’70 DeLeo Carlton E. Gayles, ’80 russell L. George, ’68 John T., ’59 and Dolores A., ’58 Goodier Gregory D. Griggs, D.v.M., ’63, ’66 Dean C., ’53 and Bernice C. Hall C. Duane, ’69 and Carol T. Harris Scott A. Harris, ’76 Gary A., ’71 and vera L. Hayes Linda J. Henry, ’66, ’93 Philip A., ’74 and Christine M. Hewes robert H. Hillen, ’42, ’49 Clifford A., ’52 and irene E. Hoelzer Frederick M., '61 and Judy E. Hummer

ren, ’59 and Sharon E. Jensen Dr. A. Fred, ’62, ’63 and Ardith D., ’63 Kerst Harold r. Kinnaman, ’66, ’72 Thomas G., ’71 and Linda A. Kundert Gilbert E. Kuntz, ’53 Steven P. Lautenschlager, ’75 Thomas E. Lewis, ’53 Clyde A., ’47, ’49 and Barbara A., ’51 Maxey Alan E., ’51 and Harriet J., ’51 Menhennett Harvey W., ’50 and Margaret T. Miller Dr. James J. Mooney, ’59 rene L. Parish, ’78, ’80 r. Tracy rhodes, D.v.M., ’59, ’60 William W., ’62, ’63 and Carol i., ’63 richey C. Elon risheill, Jr., ’70 James G., D.v.M., ’57, ’59 and Marilyn, ’57 Savoini Donald L., ’52 and Mary J., ’52 Scothorn Carl S. Sorensen, ’54 Marion E., ’54 and viola M. Stanley Gregory r., ’72 and Susan M., ’73 Super David J. Todd, Jr., ’92 Glenn underwood, ’41 Charles L., ’70 and Lana van Cleave Edward A. Wallace, ’60 Norman J., Jr., ’70 and Ann E. Wells David M. and Katherine y., ’71 Wetzler Walter T. Williams, ’46 RAM LEvEL - $50-$99James L. Adams, ’58, ’61 S. Jean Allard, ’42 Gary P., ’68 and Annemieke D., ’69 Ambrosier richard o. Bailey, ’70 roger J., ’75 and Mary E., ’75 Ballenger George M., D.v.M., ’55, ’57 and Eunice M. Beeman Arwin M., ’52 and Loretta M. Bolin George K., ’58 and Christine M. Boyer Frank D., ’49 and Marilyn L. Brown Muriel H. Butler, ’59 Dorothy J. Cassingham, ’61 Jack E. Cermak, Ph.D., ’47, ’48 John M. Cheney, D.v.M., ’58, ’60, ’64 Jimmie L., ’61 and Billie J. Colvin Jill C. Cooke, ’75 Keith E. Cooley, ’79 robert F. Cross, D.v.M., ’62, ’64 Cheryl C. Dotten, ’75

Harold L., ’54 and Joleita J., ’56 Felte Gerald D., Jr., ’52, ’60 and Karlene H. Ferguson Gerald B., ’65 and Jovonne A., ’64, ’66 Fitzgerald Keith E., ’65, ’66 and Carol L., ’65 Gorsuch robert T., ’76 and Marlene N., ’76 Hardcastle Charles D., ’66 and Kathy J. Henry Leonard J., ’70, ’74 and Erma E., ’67, ’71 Hickman Lloyd r., ’52 and Juliene G. Hoener Charles W., ’60, ’61 and Kaloma K. Huntley Peter S., ’64 and Chloe illoway Floyd W., ’76 and Dorothy M. Jorgensen Philip G., ’68, ’69 and Barbara A., ’69 Kuehnert Anne M. Kylen, ’53, ’57 Lynn S. Larsen, ’51 Barbara i. Lawson, ’45 richard L., ’54 and Leta J. Lindauer Betty r. Marshall, ’44 L. Stanton Miles, ’58 Dr. Joseph A. Molello, ’43, ’60, ’62 Deborah J. Nelson, ’83 russel W., ’64 and Barbara A., ’64 Nun Donald A., Sr., D.v.M., ’55, ’57 and Jo Ann, ’58 ostwald Gary E. and Carol S., ’67 redabaugh Lawrence S., ’48 and Mitsue ridennoure Gregory E., D.v.M., ’73, ’78 and Linda D. Schick robert A. Smutz, ’53 David L., ’70 and Miriam M., ’71 Stout Charles M., D.v.M., ’67, ’71 and Shelby E. Thimmig Milton L., D.v.M., ’51 and Doris vondy Marvin L., ’52 and Barbara A. Walters Evelyn L. Ward, ’42 Kenneth F. Wilhelm, ’52 Thomas A. young, ’54 Jeffrey G., ’65 and Lana r. Zybura

ADDITIoNAL CoNTRIBUTIoNSW. Dana Carroll, ’75 David M. Ford, ’69 Mark r. Haynes, ’73 Kenneth L. Homan, ’71 oliver E. Norris, ’51 vijay P., Ph.D., ’74 and Anita Singh Terry M., ’74 and Glori Traeder

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Walt Barnhart (M.S. ’01) authored Kenny’s Shoes: A Walk Through the Storied Life of the Remarkable Kenneth W. Monfort. This 300-page book chronicles

Monfort’s impact on business and Colorado, and the influence his family had on the Monfort empire.

Chad Davis (M.A. ’00) wrote Struts 2 in Action (Manning Press), a nonfiction work. Joe Miller (’78) wrote 100 Classic Hikes in North Carolina (The Mountaineers Books). Miller is health, fitness, and outdoors writer at the Raleigh

News & Observer in North Carolina.

Coke Newell (’90) wrote On the Road to Heaven (Zarahemla Books). The book traces Newell’s religious development. Newell teaches at Salt Lake Community

College in Salt Lake City, utah.

Gary Andrew Poole (’88) wrote The Galloping Ghost: Red, Grange, an American Football Legend (Houghton Mifflin), a biography of red Grange, the

most important figure in American football. Poole has written for the New York Times, Time, GQ, USA Today, Wired, and other periodicals.

Laura Pritchett (B.A. ’93, M.A. ’95) edited The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Recycling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land (university of oklahoma Press).

Amy Seidl (M.S. ’95) wrote Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World (Beacon Press). An ecologist and mother brings

the overwhelming problem of global warming to a personal level, with a mix of memoir and science.

At Your Own Risk: An American Chronicle of Crisis and Captivity in the Middle East by Tom and Jean Sutherland was published in 1996. The Sutherlands are asking

for donations for the book as a fundraiser for the Peace Corps Museum. The Peace Corps Experience: our Lives – your World is a 501(c)(3) endeavor to be developed in Fort Collins. The fundraising campaign kicked off in August 2008 during the Peace Corps and Friends Celebration and reunion in Fort Collins.

John Young (’75) wrote Ghosts of Liberals Past (Authorhouse). The book is a collection of young’s columns from his work at the Waco Tribune-Herald,

where he is opinion editor and columnist.

Tom Wolf (MF ’81) wrote Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet. Carhart was America’s first champion of wilderness, the first Forest Service landscape

architect, and the most popular conservation writer of mid-century America. Wolf elucidates Carhart’s vision of conservation as “a job for all of us,” with citizens, municipal authorities, and national leaders all responsible for the environmental effects of their decisions.

FACULTY Todd Mitchell (MFA ’02), instructor in the English department, wrote Ghost Year (Candlewick Press).

Bruce Ronda, chair of the English department, wrote Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture (university of Tennessee Press). ronda studies how

several generations of artists and writers were drawn to anti-slavery activist John Brown. He argues that Brown is a vital and dynamically relevant figure in today’s society because Brown continues to be implicated in the two unavoidable issues people face now: terror and race.

Terry Sandelin (’85, MFA ’89) wrote Miniatures in Minutes (C&T Publishing).

Barbara Sebek, associate professor of English, edited Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1770 (Palgrave Press). Sasha Steensen, assistant professor of English, wrote The Future of an Illusion (Dos Books).

Jon Thiem, emeritus professor of English, and Deborah Dimon wrote Rabbit Creek Country: Three Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West (university of

New Mexico Press).

inspired by the haiku published in our last issue,

Ginger Stewart (’69) sent in several of her own. College Days in springThe parade and rodeoWestern heritage CSU footballChrysanthemum corsagesCrisp fall afternoons Homecoming weekend “Button Frosh!” or “Tassle Toots!”Grab your cap and shout

September snowfallFirst game victory, beaniesWorn till Homecoming Thanksgiving snowstormThe Oval enrobed in whiteCocoa in the dorm

Scott Cooney (M.S. ’02, M.B.A.

’03) has always been interested in the environment. After completing a master’s degree in fishery and wildlife biology, he went on to pursue

an MBA so that he could do administra-tion work for nonprofit groups like Nature Conservancy. During one of his marketing courses, he was required to write a business plan, which inspired his desire to affect change within the business world. Based on his marketing plan, Cooney

created a green landscaping company in Salt Lake City. While working to promote his business, Cooney interviewed other green business owners to create a green business directory for all of Salt Lake City. Because of these interviews and his marketing plan in graduate school, Cooney decided to write a book about how to become an “ecopreneur.” Build a Small Green Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur covers how to start a green business and how to make an existing business more green, helping entrepreneurs make positive change and make money.

Building Bridges Saudi alumnus maintains connection to CSU

Green Business Environmentally and economically viable

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a fast

developing center of travel and trade in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. With a population close to five million, the city is trying to preserve its

history while busily developing new com-mercial ventures. On the forefront of this development is Mohammed S. Alkhalil (M.S. ’90). Alkhalil was born and raised in Riyadh. He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Through a scholar-ship from the Saudi Cultural Mission, Alkhalil came to Colorado State University to study computer information systems in the College of Business. “I chose CSU for its great graduate

program, especially in my field, and because of the location – Fort Collins is a nice city,” says Alkhalil. Upon his arrival, there were immediate challenges for Alkhalil. He arrived in Fort Collins without his wife, Wafa, who had just delivered their first-born son. Another challenge was the coursework. “It was not easy to get good grades at CSU,” he says. Because his background was in science, not business, Alkhalil had to take several undergraduate courses to prepare him for his graduate studies. Soon, rewards followed the challenges. Alkhalil participated in lots of sports activities, especially soccer, and he was vice president of the Saudi student club. On the day of his thesis defense, Alkhalil had a second momentous experience: the birth of his second son. “It was double elation that day,” he says. After graduation, Alkhalil and his family returned to Riyadh. He is the manag-

ing director and chief executive officer of AKWAAN Properties, a real estate development and investment company. He also is involved with numerous commit-tees, councils, and other organizations. Alkhalil is chair of the ERA-Middle East (a franchise of the ERA real estate company in the United States). “My job is very much related to my CSU degree, and I try to apply those skills to my companies,” he says. Although he lives 7500 miles from Fort Collins, Alkhalil visits Colorado frequently because his son, Yazeed, is currently a stu-dent at CSU. “I did encourage him to attend CSU, but at the end it was his own decision,” he says. Alkhalil is looking forward to his many visits back to Fort Collins, and through his visits he hopes to “help build a bridge between our cultures with dialogue and cultural exchange.”

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“Environmentally, it’s never been more clear the effect we’re having on the planet,” he says. “On the positive side, public aware-ness of these issues has never been higher, and this helps create economic opportuni-ties. A lot of small businesses get started because entrepreneurial people get put out of work and need to put food on the table, and I wrote this book to help those people start eco-friendly businesses.” In addition to his new career as an author, Cooney is a consultant with Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability consulting company.

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Joyce Chern (’45), Dorothy Heideman (’45), and Carolyn Werth Mathias (’45) – college roommates at CSu – had a

reunion in Nashville, Tenn. in Sept. 2008.

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Barry R. Flamm, Ph.D. (’55) was appointed in January 2008 by the Secretary of Agriculture to the National organic Standards Board in an environmen-tal position. The Board advises the Secretary on the operation of the National organic Program.*Robert (D.v.M. ’56) and *Deborah (Ephraim) (’56) Miller celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary in Sept. 2008. They are still skiing, riding horses, and working. Robert Keiss (’53) recently had his story The Last of the Best published in three magazines. He was the last battery commander of an animal unit (the mule pack artillery) in the Army, which was stationed at Fort Carson and at Camp Hale near Leadville.

*Richard (’51) Robinson and *Edward (’54) Robinson, two community leaders whose family founded robinson Dairy, have been named the 2009

Citizens of the West by the National Western Stock Show, rodeo & Horse Show. The men joined the family business, started by their grandfather in 1885, in the mid-1950s and spent the rest of their working lives there.

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At the university of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural resources, the Clifton Murphy Scholarship in Animal reproduction has been established. Murphy (M.S. ’61) specialized in animal reproduction and embryo transfer and spent 25 years in private practice. He often served as a con-sultant internationally. in 1985, he joined the College of veterinary Medicine, university of Missouri as an associate professor and director of the Embryo Transfer Program, and retired in 1995. Saudi Arabia honored Chih Ted Yang (M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’68), a civil engineering professor at Colorado State university, with the Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz international Prize for Water, Surface Water Branch: Sedimentation Control in Surface Water Systems.

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Ray McCormick (’75) is the new vice president of the indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. He is the owner/operator of a 4,000 acre grain farm in Knox County, ind. and

Lawrence County, ill. He also does wetland consulting, design and construction, and operates a waterfowl hunting business.

Stephen Smith (M.S. ’75) was selected president of the irrigation Association. He founded Aqua Engineering, inc., a Fort Collins irrigation engineering and water resources firm, in 1975 and

since then has helped pioneer innovations in the irrigation industry.

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Michael Lairmore (Ph.D. ’87), associate direc-tor for basic sciences at the ohio State university Comprehensive Cancer Center and a veterinarian in the College of veterinary Medicine, has been elected vice president/president-elect of the American College of veterinary Pathologists.Christie (Roe) Pride (’87) is living in virginia with five kids, working part-time as an occupational therapist, and home schooling one of her kids.Catherine Anne Seal (’87) has been awarded the Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Elder Law from Stetson university College of Law. in addition to her private law practice, Seal is the public administrator for the Fourth Judicial District of Colorado, encom-passing El Paso and Teller Counties. Seal is one of only ten attorneys in the state of Colorado desig-nated a Certified Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. Seal is the senior partner and founding member of the law firm of Kirtland and Seal, LLC in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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Chance Barnes (’90) is the first LEED AP for PCL – orlando. His wife, Kristi Barnes (’93), is a photographer and green-building case studies designer.New West Physicians’ CEo Ruth Benton (MBA ’94) was recently named a 2008 “Champion in Healthcare” by the Denver Business Journal for her success in making the group a leading primary care provider in Colorado and for her many contributions to the healthcare industry in Colorado. in the spring of 2000, she became a Hall of Fame member of the CSu College of Business Entrepreneurship Center.

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Erika Carlson (’95), of Pleasanton, Cali., earned the distinction of Certified Consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Carlson consults with athletes, teams, and

organizations locally and nationally through her private practice, Excellence in Sport Performance. Carlson spent 20 years competing nationally in show jumping and was one of the top-ranking female competitors in BMX racing in California.L. Antrim Caskey (’92) had a photo exhibition at the o. Winston Link Museum in roanoke, va. from oct. 9 – 31, 2008. The exhibition featured color documentary work on the human and environmental costs of modern day coal mining in Appalachia. Caskey has been reporting on the subject for almost four years as an independent photojournalist based in New york City.Maria Melendez (’96) is living in Logan, utah and teaching at utah State university. Her 2006 poetry collection called How Long She’ll Last in this World was a finalist for the 2007 Pen Center Literary Awards. She has a new collection of poetry coming out in 2010. She can be reached at [email protected] *Christopher Nachand (’94) surpassed 20 years of service in the Army reserves in May 2008 and

was promoted to Major in September 2008. He now serves as a Staff observer Controller/Trainer with the 2nd Battle Command Training Group, 5th Brigade, 75th Division (TS) in Denver, Colo.Austin Turner (’92) was promoted to Construction Manager for Emerging Markets of Burberry Ltd. Now based in London, Turner is heading up the department in charge of all new construction. He will manage russia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa.

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Ayeisha Brinson (M.S. ’02) was the first graduate student to complete the university of Miami’s inter-disciplinary Ph.D. program through the rosenstiel School. Amanda Clark (’05) was given the 2008 rookie of the year award by the Public relations Society of America Colorado chapter. Since 2007, Clark has been a Pr professional with XStatic Public relations. She is a volunteer with the Alumni Association’s Denver ram Network.Erin Horton (’05), Associate ASLA, LEED AP, has passed the LEED Certification exam, earning her LEED Accreditation from the uS Green Building Council. As a LEED Accredited Professional, she will help insure that sustainable design practices will be employed for projects within the firm Clark

Nexsen of Norfolk, virg. Horton is a landscape de-signer with professional experience in the design and implementation of a broad scope of projects. Nathan Haack (’07) begin work on his first service project of the year with the National Civilian Com-munity Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program.Amanda Igaki (’06) was crowned the very first Miss Asian American Colorado on May 31, 2008.Jodie Kocur (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’07) was hired as an assistant professor in psychology at Califor-nia Lutheran university in Thousand oaks, Calif. While completing her dissertation, Kocur taught at Moorpark College and Pepperdine. in addition to academia, she has worked as a psychological consultant in public schools, as a clinical supervisor, and as a staff therapist.

Sean Mattox (’02) and Michelle Doerr married in Minneapolis, Minn. on August 9, 2008. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Ryan P. Marzec (’07) recently received his commission as

an officer in the Marine Corps.Rob McNamara (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’08) completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center at virginia Tech in July 2008, and has accepted a staff position at the Wake Forest university Counseling Center.


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Paul Merritt (Ph.D. ’04) accepted a position in the Department of Psychology at Clemson university. Amber Schmidtke (’03) has been selected as a postdoctoral fellow with the National Center for infectious Disease. She will be investigating the po-tential reasons behind a global upsurge in pertussis infections (whooping cough).Greg Schroll of Massachusetts institute of Technol-ogy (Ph.D. ’08), who created a new spherical robot with potential to drastically advance safety and technology, won a $15,000 prize from the National inventors Hall of Fame Foundation in the 2008 Col-legiate inventors Competition, which is sponsored by the united States Patent and Trademark office (uSPTo) and the Abbott Fund, the philanthropic foundation of the global health care company Abbott. Sarah Siegel (’04) is the Manager of Sustainable Construction for PCL in Denver.Jeff Sindt (’03) is graduating with a medical degree from the university of Colorado Medical School. He will begin a residency in internal medicine at the university of utah. Jeff’s wife, Jill (Deacon) Sindt (’04), will begin her residency in anesthesiology at the university of utah.Robin (‘01) and Katrina (Laputz) (’01) Thomas, a boy, Cameron ian, on May 22, 2008. They currently reside in the Seattle area.Jesse Trudel (’03) has enrolled in the Denver Health Paramedic School for a 12-month program.Dr. Nicole M. Weinstein (D.v.M. ’01) has joined the virginia-Maryland regional College of veterinary Medicine as an assistant professor of clinical pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology. in addition to her residency, she also completed a transfusion medicine fellowship at the university of Pennsylvania and a small animal residency at Tufts university. She is a member of the American Society for veterinary Clinical Pathology. GRoUPS

Four Colorado State university occupational therapists met in Landstuhl, Germany at Landstuhl regional Medical Center (LrMC) for a photo opportunity. From right to left,Hazel Barr (’71) is employed by Educational Developmental intervention Service in Landstuhl.Army Captain Michael Kim (’00) is an occupational therapist in the Army.

Navy reserve Captain Gretchen (Frahm) Lamberth (’74) is a recalled Navy reservist on active duty at LrMC. Army reserve Captain James Watt (’98, ’00) served as an Army occupational therapist from 2001-2006. He is now working at the Denver vA in in-patient rehab and upper extremity amputee rehab and running a community integration program for service members with amputations.

A picture of the CSu alumni that teach at Falcon Creek Middle School in Centennial, Colo. For the past five years we have had an unofficial “CSu Day” at our school to show support for the rams on the Friday before the CSu- Cu game. Teachers and students dress in their green and gold to show pride and support for the rams. From left to right are the following teachers Megan Zitek (‘00), Ann Croghan (‘05), Kirk Wahlborg (‘01), Erin Flynn (‘06), Jim Schmitz (‘00), Stacey Taylor (‘90), John Reid (‘89), and virginia Niles (‘87).

The accompanying picture is from a recent u.S. Air Force deployment to the Middle East. There were five CSu alumni in the B-1 squadron, and they flew daily missions over iraq and Afghanistan. Lt. Col. David Been (’87), Capt. Heath Miller (’99), Capt. Chris Buechler (’00), Lt. Col David Shing (’89), Capt. Craig Morrison (’99)

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Tom W. Beck (’39) on July 12, 2008Ralph H. Elliott (’34) Charles R. Graves (’36) on July 6, 2008*Eugene M. Gray (’35) *Betty Bascom Karst (’39) on January 11, 2009 in rapid City, S.D. Ruth Smith (’37)

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*Edward J. Bair, Ph.D. (’43) on Nov. 10, 2008Samuel Cooper (’48) Josephine E. Crane (’40) on Dec. 6, 2007*Lucille Wilke Crockett (’40) on oct. 5, 2008*Helen L. Davis (’46) on March 25, 2008 in Greeley, Colo. *Keith Eddy (’47) on Aug. 10, 2008 in Salem, ore. Robert J. Geick (’49) on Jan. 11, 2008John Hahn (’44) Phillip M. Hinze (’47 & ’48) on July 10, 2007*William J. Johansen (’49) Evelyn Ann (Birleffi) Johnson (’46) on oct. 22, 2008 in Billings, Mont. Quentin Henry Kravig (’47) on Sept. 29, 2008Stan E. Marsh (’46) John S. Martino, Jr. (’47) on Sept. 19, 2008Edgar E. Marvel (’48, ’50) on March 27, 2008 in Worcester, N.y. Richard F. Minnick (’43) on Aug. 8, 2008*Margaret Minteer (’41) on April 29, 2008 Salvadore Molello (’48) on March 17, 2008 *Mildred I. Morton (’41)Yuriko Lily Nogami (’43) in March 2008Clayton Reed (’48) on Sept. 14, 2007*Laurence E. Riordan (’41,’56) on Nov. 6, 2008Barbara T. Shader (’48) on Aug. 27, 2008*G. Owen Smith (’47, MED.’50) on March 31, 2008 in Longmont, Colo. James E. Stearns-Smith (’40) on April 2, 2008*Robert Steele (B.S. ’42, Ph.D. ’75) on May 25, 2008 in Hamilton, Mont. Maynard Allerd Stenehjem (’49) on April 27, 2008 in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. orpha Stinnett (’42) on June 14, 2008 in Fort Collins. Charlotte E. Thackeray (’43) on May 27, 2008 Charles A. Williams (’40)

50s

David D. Akers (’58) on May 20, 2008W. Benson Allen, D.v.M. (’51) on Dec. 1, 2008Ralph E. Arnold (’53) on oct. 10, 2008*Glen Robert Anderson (’50) on Nov. 6, 2008 in Fort Collins.Glendon R. Anderson (’51) on Aug. 16, 2008Harold E. Baldwin (’59) on Dec. 15, 2007 Robert S. Barber (’51) on May 17, 2008*Frank “Doc” Black (B.S. ’57, D.v.M. ’59) on May 4, 2008Shirley J. (Baker) Bishop (’57) on July 9, 2008 in Cheyenne, Wyo.Wilbur Forman Brown Jr. (’57) on April 18, 2008John J. Burke (’50) Richard A. Crawford (’52 & ’58) on Dec. 26, 2007Loraine Kragh Daugherty (’56) on May 6, 2008Jack Durnin (’51)Dr. Roy A. Echeverria (D.v.M. ’54) on Feb. 2, 2008Marilyn F. Fassler (’56) on July 11, 2008Gene R. Fiala (’57)

Leonard o. Fisk (B.S. ’51, M.S. ’53) on Dec. 28, 2007 Nancy M. Forrester (’55) Robert Frauson (’51) on June 20, 2008 in Montana.Thomas H. Hall (’59) on March 23, 2008 in Laramie, Wyo. Patricia A. Havener (’50) on March 20, 2008 in Casa Grande, Ariz. Dr. Paul Raymond Hildebrand (B.S. ’56, D.v.M. ’63) on May 4, 2008 in Canon City, Colo. Donald E. Hobbs (’58)*Kathryn (Fowler) Houser (’59) Brian Hutcherson, DvM (B.S. ’53, D.v.M. ’55) on June 13, 2008.Theodore A. Lackey (’59, ’60) on March 15, 2008 in Pueblo, Colo. Arthur Gordon LaMunyon (’57)Calvin Lewis (’53)*Joanne Katherine Barczewski Lewis (’55) on May 3, 2008 in New London, Penn. Edward R. Lucero (’58) on Aug. 1, 2008Daniel J. Lyons (’56 & 58) *Betty Joyce Mayhew McGrath (‘53) on May 5, 2008 in Colorado Springs. Reverend Paul G. Milbee (’50) on May 27, 2008 in Jacksonville, Flor. Frank J. Morelli II (’50) in March 2008 Deane Munger (’57) on Sept. 9, 2008

Fred L. Newman (’57, MED ’61) on Feb. 3, 2008 in Worland, Wyo. Donald S. Redabaugh (’50) on July 10, 2008*Duane N. Rice (’53 & ’54) in April 2008Marvin Schwilling (’50) on June 28, 2008Don C. Sieck (’51) on Aug. 28, 2008John Stang (’50) on Nov. 11, 2007Ben St. John (’58) on June 17, 2008 in Cheyenne, Wyo.Lawrence H. Stone (‘54, ‘55) on oct. 21, 2008Kenneth R. Talmon (’58)Jesse R. Thompson (’57) on Sept. 2, 2008Charles Walsh (’52) on April 24, 2008. *Bruce L. Walters (’53)Carol J. Weinrich (’54)David H. Wright (’59) on Feb. 2, 2008Hubert Warren Wyland (’50) on March 3, 2008 in Monte vista, Colo. *Warren “Micky” Zeiller (’56) on Nov. 4, 2008 in Miami, Fla.

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Francis L. Adams (’61) Roland “Ron” Adams (’68) on May 16, 2008Robert F. Blackburn (’69) Gary. K. Burum (’66) on Sept. 25, 2008Joseph K. Cortese (’68) on Nov. 6, 2008

Dean Davis (’69) on June 5, 2008 in Mineral Bluffs, Ga. Dr. Frank M. Goode (’62, M.S. ’65) on March 17, 2008 Joseph E. Hoffman, Jr., Ph.D. (’66, M.S. ’67) on Nov. 17, 2007John D. Hunter (’67) on July 31, 2008Tim Johnson (’69) on March 17, 2008Genevieve Kelly (’61) on June 10, 2008 in Erie, Colo. *Joan K. LaBayne (’64) on April 11, 2008Alvin Lagger (’69) on June 14, 2008 *William C. Latier (’64) Allan Miller (’60) on Nov. 15, 2008Jack Miller (’69, M.S. ’71) on March 5, 2008 in Sterling, Colo. Isaac Pendergraff (B.S. ’68, M.S. ’69) on June 8, 2008 in Louisville, Colo. Donald M. Picard (’64) oct. 1, 2008Mauricio H. Pineda, Ph.D. (M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’67) on March 21, 2008David M. Pogue (’60)Michael I. Ratliff (’69) on Feb. 4, 2008Richard L. Sayers (’60, ’69) Mary Dragoo Sensenich (’64,’65)Ronald L. Smith (’61) on Aug. 31, 2008Eugene F. Sprinkle (’60) Dale T. Stjernholm (’69) on June 16, 2008


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Barbara K. Sutey (’65) on March 6, 2008Philip G. Threlkeld (’69, ’73) on March 3, 2008Norman Eldon Ulery (’64) on July 18, 2008Galynn R. Wendling (’64 & ’68) on Sept. 8, 2008

70s

*Bernard J. Blach (’71) on May 19, 2008 in Fort Collins.*Mark T. Bonk (’77) on January 8, 2009 in Des Plaines, ill.John N. Bowles (’76) Joseph H. Christie (’74) on Aug. 16, 2008Frederick M. Esala (’72) on Sept. 25, 2008Mildred E. Gamble (’71) on oct. 9, 2008Christie L. Heltmach (’78) on July 27, 2008otto J. Helweg (’75) on Nov. 2, 2008Donald R. Hilleary (’76) on Aug. 26, 2008Adolphus Holder (MED ’70, Ph.D. ’72) on oct. 23, 2007*Calvin E. Johnson (’72) on June 24, 2008Terry L. Johnson (’72) on May 30, 2008Michael W. Johnson (’72) on March 17, 2008. James J. Kennedy III (’73)*Stephen M. Kerr (’72 & ’76) on Sept. 14, 2008Jeffrey P. Lane (’74) on Aug. 15, 2007Ted Magnuson (’74) on June 14, 2008Ruth M. Maslowsky (’79) on Aug. 18, 2008Marjorie McElroy (’71) on June 24, 2008John D. McLean (’72) on oct. 18, 2008Karla Moore, D.v.M. (B.S. ’76, D.v.M. ’78) on July 17, 2008Dennis T. Nelson (’74) John G. Nichols (’76) on July 1, 2008 in Canon City, Colo.Carolyn Mae Norrgard (MED ’79) on April 5, 2008 Warren Craig Paddock (’77) on May 2, 2008. James W. Paul (MED ’76) on Jan. 14, 2008Timothy Penney (M.S. ’77) on May 16, 2008 in Cleveland, ohio *Del W. Rasmussen (’75)Blake Ressmeyer (’78) on Jan. 2008Joe M. Sanchez (’74) on Aug. 6, 2008Duane A. Schneider (’76)John F. Scott, Ph.D. (M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ’83) on March 16, 2008 Doyle Jay Souser (’73) on Sept. 12, 2008Peter S. Steven (’72) on March 8, 2008 Wayne W. Stokebrand (’73)James C. Stubblefield (’78) Wayne R. Svenson (’79) Nancy A. Thompson (’75) on Aug. 15, 2008Charles E. Townsend (’78) on Dec. 4, 2007Leonard W. Wilson (’71) on May 21, 2008

80s

Kurt J. Bunney (’82) Arthur W. Burnett (’85) on March 2, 2008Brenda Gurule, D.v.M. (B.S. ’83, D.v.M. ’88) on July 3, 2008David Hughes (’89) on June 4, 2008

Bernard Martinez (MED ’82) on Feb. 25, 2008 in La Salle, Colo. Randall L. McCracken (’88)Judy Hall Neighbor (’80) on April 27, 2008Janet E. Preston (’82) Doug Sharratt (’81) on July 16, 2008Shelley A. Steward (’87) on oct. 14, 2008Michael A. Weigand (’81) on Sept. 25, 2008Dorothy DiFrancesco Wilcox (MED ’87) on Aug. 14, 2008 in Louisville, Colo.

90s

Suzanne K. Barc (‘94) on Sept. 29, 2008Thatcher W. Claussen (’90) Sept. 25, 2008Stanley Dunn (’94) on June 5, 2008Timmy D. owsley (’90) in oct. 2008Jodi Swan (’96) on Feb. 24, 2007Roger W. Zidowsky, Jr. (’91)

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Debra Broadley (’00) on June 23, 2008David Larren Clemons (’04) on April 8, 2008 in Fresno, Calif. Richard B. Farver (’02) on oct. 11, 2008Jason A. Hill (’08) on Sept. 25, 2008Marc v. Richard (’07) on July 30, 2008 NoN-GRADUATES Marvin K. Chubb on Sept. 23, 2008Helen B. Dale on Aug. 17, 2008Evelyn Hampton on May 6, 2008 in Golden, Colo. Matthew Martinez on April 6, 2008Evelyn Minatta on April 25, 2008William John Szlemko on July 24, 2008 FACULTY & STAFF

Maurice L. Albertson, civil engineering professor emeritus, passed away Jan. 11, 2009. Albertson served as the first director of the Colorado State university research Foundation, director of

international Programs, and professor of civil engineering. one of Albertson’s most recognized contributions was his critical role in the formation of the Peace Corps. Albertson arrived at CSu in Aug. 1947 to help bolster the Department of Civil Engineering’s civil engineering and hydraulics programs. By 1958, Albertson had moved from being a professor in the college to overseeing all research projects on campus. Albertson was named a Centennial Professor by the College of Engineering in 1970 during Colorado State’s Centennial year; he received emeritus status in 1998. in 2006, the university honored him with an honorary doctoral degree for his humanitarian work.

Pauline Birky-Kreutzer passed away Aug. 21, 2008 in Green valley, Ariz. Birky-Kreutzer was a research associate at CSu, and in 1960, she participated in a

Congressional feasibility study that led to the founding of the Peace Corps under President Kennedy. Birky-Kreutzer directed Peace Corps training programs for West Pakistan and Afghanistan. She worked in Lahore, West Pakistan in 1962-63, where she was in charge of the Peace Corps program. She served as director of the Center for research and Education (CrE) from 1962 until 1975, when she retired. in 2003, Birky-Kreutzer wrote and published Peace Corps Pioneer, an autobiographical account of her experiences in iran and Pakistan. odilia (odie) Bliss, Atmospheric Science coordinator, on Aug. 24, 2008 in Fort Collins. Harold Boyne, former chair of the Department of Earth resources, died Jan. 26, 2009.Kenneth G. Brengle, agronomy professor, passed away on July 23, 2008. Frederick Carpenter, retired math professor, died Feb. 2, 2009 in rockford, ill.Ret. Maj. Leland Dyer, assistant director of Central receiving for 21 years, passed away Sept. 2, 2008 in Fort Collins. Theo JoAnne Ehrlich, retired accounting technician, passed away Sept. 11, 2008, in Loveland, Colo.Susan W. Furniss (M.A. ’67), a long-time professor in the Department of Political Science, passed away Dec. 5, 2008, in St. Paul, Minn. Walter James Gregory, retired Extension agent, passed away Sept. 9, 2008, in Loveland, Colo. Karen Jenkins, retired custodial supervisor, passed away oct. 13, 2008 in Texas. Master Sergeant Gene R. Kirby passed away on oct. 9, 2008.Mary Ann Martin, longtime staff assistant, passed away Dec. 21, 2008.Brit Todd (M.S. ’99), research associate in the Department of Environmental and radiological Health Sciences, passed away on Jan. 3, 2009 in Fort Collins. Former Warner College of Natural resources Dean, *Clinton Wasser (M.S. ’48), passed away Nov. 23, 2008.

GORAMS!

FRIENDSBarbara L. AanesLes G. Alexander on Nov. 5, 2008Lester E. Anderson on Feb. 6, 2008The Reverend William A. Bacon Jr. Mary virginia Baker on April 13, 2008 Mary Beitz on Sept. 8, 2008Richard Blackwell on oct. 19, 2008Jo Brownlee on Feb. 27, 2008Betty Browning on April 30, 2008 Doris Campbell on April 14, 2008 Marianne MacDonald Carlson on Aug. 21, 2008 in oso, Wash.Grady N. Cokervirginia M. Coleman in March 2007Jack W. Dale on oct. 4, 2008Monte A. Davis, Jr. on Feb. 4, 2008Imelda DeGrawCortlandt Dietler on July 10, 2008 Fred A. Doennebrink on July 28, 2007Dorcas DurkeeDr. Karl P. Durre on March 5, 2008 in Phoenix, Ariz. Mary L. DyarRobert Eisenach on July 17, 2008L. B. Flanders on July 9, 2008Mary Flemings*Patricia Fortune on Nov. 26, 2008Bruce Fraser on oct. 8, 2008

Marshall L. Frasier on May 3, 2008 in Fort Morgan, Colo. Dorothy Fry in Jan. of 2008Gilbert C. Frye on Nov. 16, 2008Chuck FultonWilliam E. Graepler on April 15, 2008Marge Greggviolet F. HessNancy L. Isaacson on Aug. 9, 2008Francis D. JolliffeIndia S. JonesJimmie Kanemoto on Dec. 5, 2006.Maki Kato on Jan. 25, 2008Frances E. Kelley on oct. 25, 2008Bennett King Glen D. Lamberson on oct. 24, 2008Mildred E. Larson on July 18, 2008Marcia M. LortscherLinda Lubeck Roland G. MacDonald Frederick R. Mayer on Feb. 15, 2007Bruce A. Miller on March 21, 2008Thomas T. MinamideJoe N. MitotesLinda Nash on Sept. 28, 2007Paul o. PierceAvalyn E. Robbins on Aug. 12, 2008Yetta Rollin on March 15, 2008 at the age of 101.

Ronald Rotherham on April 18, 2007 in Chicago, ill. A. E. RouseJohn G. Salsbury on July 21, 2008olga R. Schulz in Nov. 2007Jacqueline A. SherrowEstes C. Spence on March 16, 2008 in Loveland, Colo. Carolyn StaufferJames M. Stevenson on Nov. 22, 2007William J. Sullivan, M.D. on March 28, 2008 in Fort Collins.Alana SzlemkoCatherine ThibeaultEldred H. TredeMelinda Walker on June 3, 2008J. W. WelshFrank R. West on July 24, 2008Irene G. Whedbee*Wallace R. YoungDonald F. Zavislan on March 5, 2008 Casimir Zazac on oct. 20, 2008

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and early pioneers in the region. While of interest to a general audience, Mrs. Trout’s account is also a window into the past for her family. This and other family treasures can be found among the records of the CSU Archives. If you would like to inquire about the Records of the Colorado Cooperative Extension or other archival collections, please contact the CSU archives at [email protected] or stop by the archives in the Morgan Library, room 202, from 8:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday. Also, please visit our website at http://lib.colostate.edu/archives. We look forward to helping you with your research needs! Photos Courtesy of CSU Archives and Special Collections, Colorado Agricultural Archives, Records of the Colorado Cooperative Extension.

by Ashley Large, Project Archivist, CSU Archives and Special Collections

T he genealogy craze has been sweeping America for many years and shows no signs of

abating. A simple internet search for “genealogy” on a popular search engine brings up nearly 83,000,000 results - almost 50,000,000 more than the num-ber of catalogued books in the Library of Congress. That’s a lot of information to sift through! Yet, who can resist the lure of the family tree and the call of the past? For both amateur and expert genealo-gists, this incredible wealth of information can seem overwhelming. A narrower focus may help enhance your research. Consider how the Colorado State University Ar-chives and Special Collections department might be of service to you in your search for pieces of family history, particularly if you or your family are long-time Colorado residents. At CSU, we are happy to help you with our three main archival collections: Univer-sity Records, the Agricultural Archives, and the Water Resources Archives. Many of the collections in these topical areas may be of use to a genealogical researcher; however, here we will highlight one in particular. Residing in CSU’s Agricultural Archives, the Records of the Colorado Cooperative Extension chronicle the last nearly 100 years of CSU’s outreach arm. Colorado Extension has been a direct link between Coloradans and Colorado State University since 1914, bringing the knowledge of the university to “regular folks” in order to improve their lives. Much of last century’s history, as it affected Colorado and its citizens, is to be found in these records. For instance, Extension organized local war efforts for both world wars, ran 4-H clubs, helped counter the disastrous effects of the Dust Bowl in southeastern Colorado, taught farm women to can and preserve their own food, brought indoor plumbing and improved living conditions to farms, demonstrated advanced animal husbandry and agronomy techniques to those inter-ested, helped organize countless county fairs, and much more.

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Interactions between county Exten-sion agents and their rural constituents are chronicled in the Extension col-lection in annual reports from almost every county in the state. Most reports include interesting stories about specific individuals and how their lives were enriched through Extension outreach. Could one of these people be your ancestor or relative? Could one of these reports tell you how your relatives made it through World War I? The Dust Bowl? The Great Depres-sion? World War II? Perhaps one of your relatives was chairman of the USDA War Board in Weld County, as was Mr. Harry Clark in 1942. Or your mother or grand-mother represented her county at the state fair, as did Hazel Long from Routt County, in 1929. Maybe you are related to Clement Gapter, a Boulder County resident who, at age eleven in 1923, awed the county agent with his poultry operation. These narratives are not uncom-mon in the over 3,500 annual reports to be found in the Extension collection. Not only do they enrich the rural history of Colo-rado, but they fill in the details of the family tree for future descendants. Another genealogical gem can be found in the 1939 Annual Report of Extension Work in El Paso County. It contains the text of an account by Mrs. Hattie (Hodges) Trout, who came to Colorado in September of 1866. In 1939, she wrote: I still live in my little home that was built in 1887, forty-seven years ago. I love it, and dear old Colorado City, for I have spent most of my life here and it is my desire to end my days here, and be laid to rest with my loved ones in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Mrs. Trout’s narrative also chronicles her family’s trip to Colorado from Quincy, Illinois, the price of groceries in Denver when she arrived in the bustling, young city, and interactions between Native Americans

Andrea Purdy, Ph.D. Lecturer, Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Q: Where did you grow up? A: In Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico (La capital del mundo). It was an idyllic childhood. I was able to just wander around, miles and miles away from home, with my friends and have “desert picnics” and we always felt safe.

Q: When did you move to the States? A: I moved to Southwest Kansas when I was thirteen, to a little town called Elkhart, so our family could be closer to my grandparents who were not in the best of health.

Q: Was moving to the u.S. a challenging transition? A: It was an extremely challenging transition. It was a major culture shock for me. Being in a new school in the U.S. and not understanding any of the procedures, not understanding the culture at all caused an identity crisis; I became quiet and withdrawn.

Q: What did you do for the Department of Justice? A: I translated arrest documents for drug lords and translated letters to different countries that assisted with the extradition of suspected Nazi war criminals. I also did translating for prisoner exchange. I translated the person’s history of imprisonment before he/she applied for exchange to serve out their sentences in their native country as opposed to the U.S.


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Q: What is most challenging about your job? A: That’s easy to answer: balancing everything.

Q: What do you enjoy most about your job?A: The students, and sharing information with them, and learning about them. Students teach me a heck of a lot more than I teach them! They are the backbone of the university.

Q: Who is your favorite contemporary Spanish- speaking author? A: Right now my favorite author is Roberto Bolaño, who was Chilean, and wrote the novel Savage Detectives. He has a very interesting style. His work is an entertaining read, yet at the same time, there is a discussion of literature going on within it which I really enjoy.

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