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Colorado College welcomed 491 first-year students and 22 transfer students at its Opening Convocation on Sept. 5, which marked the beginning of CC’s 138th academic year. Ryan Haygood ’97, co-director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), gave the keynote address, titled “For Such a Time as This.” [...]
Two distinctive CC student traits are a love of the outdoors and the desire to be involved in sports of all kinds. Just walk across campus on a sunny day and you will see many of the following: parked cars with bicycle and ski racks; skateboarders and bicyclists zipping across campus; students lugging hockey and [...]
The year was 1992 and it was the beginning of seven years of correspondence between Mary Chenoweth and me. Mary was the print teacher at Colorado College for more than 30 years. Mary never just sent a letter; she would always include a small paper collage print or a watercolor. I, in turn, would send [...]
Whether he’s in a CC classroom or at a podium somewhere in Colorado, English Professor David Mason ’78 is sharing his love for the written word. These days Mason may be best known for his award-winning verse novel, “Ludlow.” But this is no one-trick poet: Since July 2010, he’s been the Colorado Poet [...]
Awards Ceremony At the Homecoming Convocation and Alumni Association Awards, held in Shove Memorial Chapel, President Jill Tiefenthaler and Alumni Association President Alan Harris ’77 presented the Benezet, Worner, Riley and Spirit of Adventure Awards. Recipients of the Louis T. Benezet Award for career achievement were: Susan Phillips Cohen ’66 and Marc Webb ’96. The [...]
Believe it or not, government debt is not always a bad thing. In fact, it is often quite the opposite. Just as private citizens and businesses often have perfectly legitimate reasons to borrow in order to finance projects that will increase their future earnings, so it is with governments. Just as individuals may need temporary [...]
The statue of Charles Leaming Tutt Jr. ("Chas") in front of Tutt Library has been decorated and costumed by CC students and others since soon after it was installed in 1992. Thanks to the Tutt Library staff, especially Jessy Randall, curator of Special Collections, for these photos.
by Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo ’94 Both books combine historical paintings with different developmental skills that help teach young children while introducing them to classic art. “Finding King Henry’s Treasure” is an adventure with a lot of “texture” (the brave knight’s velvet cloak, the duchess’s feathered hat); “Count Monet’s Lilies” teaches counting, beginning with [...]
by Neal Baer ’78 “Kill Switch” is the first in a series featuring Claire Waters, a forensic psychiatrist with unnervingly personal insights into the criminal mind. The book begins as a police drama involving a serial killer, but a plot twist propels the story into something bigger and more frightening. Baer, who has a medical degree [...]
by Dorothy Budd ’80 and Peyton Budd ’12 This book by a CC mother-daughter team was featured on “Larry King Live” last fall and tells the story of what helped 12 wrongly imprisoned men hold onto their hope, faith, and sanity while behind bars. Each man’s story could be a book in itself. Dori Budd [...]
