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A PUBLICATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FALL 2019
YEARS
PATHWAYS
THROUGH OUR PAST
INSIDE
FA L L 2 0 19
6 A Lasting Legacy
Leonidas Loomis (1884), George
34 Career Services
CSU is with you beyond
Glover (1884), and Libbie Coy (1884) graduation EDITOR
Ben Fogelberg (B.A., ’94; M.A., ’98)
8 WATER WISE
10 Extending the Land-Grant 35 Events
Mission Homecoming and Family CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Roud McCann (B.S., 1914) Weekend recap Angie Dixon (B.A., ’94)
Gretchen Gerding
Ann Gill (M.A., ’76)
16 Fum McGraw’s Other Legacy
Thurman “Fum” McGraw (B.S., ’50)
36 New Life Members
Thank you, and welcome! Whei Wong Howerton
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Erin Foster
Christy Schuster (’18)
CSU Creative Services
Proud to Be – through the years
COPY EDITOR
7 A WOMAN’S WORK Colorado State University’s 150th anniversary celebration, which kicked off in style Betty Grace Mickey
during Homecoming and Family Weekend and continues well into 2020, provides an PHOTOGRAPHY
opportunity to look back, and to look forward too. It’s human nature, I think, to sort CSU Photography
through the events and milestones of our past to try to bring order and purpose to a CSU Library Archives
CSU Archives & Special Collections
sometimes muddled narrative.
University Historic Photograph Collection
In this issue, we’ve attempted to create a timeline of CSU history that branches
out into some of the amazing stories of our beginnings, development through the STAFF CONTRIBUTORS
Kristi Bohlender
decades, and innovative impact driven by trailblazing alumni. I say “attempted”
Assistant Vice President (B.S., ’93; M.B.A., ’95)
because we have to be honest with ourselves and admit that assembling a
definitive timeline is impossible given the immense impact and incredible variety of Haley Katz
Associate Director of Membership and Giving
accomplishments of our CSU community, on campus and beyond.
I would be remiss if I didn’t thank a few of the stewards of our stories and Around the Oval is published twice
a year by the CSU Alumni Association
highlight books that informed this issue. See Professor Emeritus James E. Hansen’s as a benefit of membership.
Democracy’s College in the Centennial State and Democracy’s University for CSU’s
ABOVE AND BEYOND 14 Colorado State University
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institutional history. Hansen teamed up with Gordon Hazard (B.S., ’77) and Linda
Fort Collins, CO 80523-7114
Meyer (B.A., ’95; M.A., ’00) on CSU’s Sense of Place: A Campus History of Colorado’s
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ALUMNUS FRANKLIN ANDERSON 18 Land-Grant University. And Aggies to Rams: The History of Football at Colorado State
University by John Hirn (B.A., ’93) is indispensable.
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Member@colostate.edu
alumni.colostate.edu
I hope you’ll discover something familiar that makes you proud, something new
that makes you think, and please let me know if you have a story you’d like to share! © 2019 by Colorado State University.
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C S U A LUMN I A S S OC IATION MEMBERS LIKE YOU MA KE THIS PUBLICATION POS S IBLE
The Council Tree,
circa 1914
THE LAND WE WALK UPON
Colorado State University acknowledges,
with respect, that the land we are on
today is the traditional and ancestral
CSU Native American homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne,
faculty and staff gather on
the Oval, June 13, 2019. and Ute Nations and peoples. This
was also a site of trade, gathering, and
healing for numerous other Native
tribes. We recognize the Indigenous
peoples as original stewards of this
land and all the relatives within it.
As these words of acknowledgment
are spoken and heard, the ties Nations
have to their traditional homelands are
renewed and reaffirmed.
CSU is founded as a land-grant
institution, and we accept that our
mission must encompass access
to education and inclusion. And,
significantly, that our founding came
at a dire cost to Native Nations and
peoples whose land this University was
built upon. This acknowledgment is
the education and inclusion we must
The land on which the Colorado as the Council Tree once stood in what Colorado State recently adopted an official statement practice in recognizing our institutional
State University campus stands is the is now southeast Fort Collins. Arapaho honoring the ties of Indigenous people to land on
traditional and ancestral homeland Chief Friday would often hold councils which the University was established, developed, and history, responsibility, and commitment.
of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute under its branches. These lands retain operates today. This issue’s reflection on our history
peoples. A large cottonwood known their cultural value to Native Americans. acknowledges and respects those ties.
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MEDLEY
1870 AT A GLANCE
Four men
working in a
machine shop on
parts for a Case
kerosene tractor. Enrollment
OF MASCOTS
CAM the Ram’s unofficial
1870-1878: 0 predecessors through the years
First classes 1879: 20
Population
-1934
Fort Collins area: 363
Colorado Territory: 39,864
1912-1918
Peanuts, a bulldog
Popular Book
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
ESTABLISHMENT
Mark Twain
1919
Teddy, a black bear cub
Popular Song
Pass Me Not
W.H. Doane
Price of Milk
2¢/gallon
Early 1920s
William “Billy” Hughes
President Lincoln signs Morrill Act, Colorado territiorial First building on
allowing grants of land to establish government passes act campus: Claim Shanty,
colleges specializing in agriculture establishing land-grant on the corner of Laurel Colorado becomes
and the mechanical arts institution in Fort Collins and College the 38th state
1862 18 70 18 74 1 876
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A LASTING LEGACY A WOMAN’S WORK
G
By Ann Gill (M.A., ’76)
race Espe Patton (B.S., 1895) Patton served as president of the
L
ike so many other lasting and hired Glover to enrolled at Colorado Agri- Colorado Woman’s Democratic Club
meaningful endeavors, the teach its first vet- cultural College – Colorado and then became her party’s nominee
Colorado State University erinary medicine State University’s name when it was for state superintendent of public
Alumni Association started with a con- courses, leading to founded – when she was just 14 years instruction. Dubbed “the little profes-
versation among friends over a meal. the creation of a depart- old. After graduating four years later, sor” due to her short stature, she was
Leonidas Loomis, George Glover, ment with Glover as head. she served on the College faculty for labeled too young and inexperienced
and Libbie Coy became the first grad- Veterinary medicine flourished more than a year. She taught “pre- for the office by opponents. However,
uates of Colorado Agricultural College under his leadership; the hospital dedi- paratory courses,” which “prepared” she was a smart, dynamic, and engag-
on June 5, 1884. At lunch following cated in 1950 bore his name. women for teaching and for mar- ing public speaker and proved to be
a ceremony held at the opera house Coy was the first woman to graduate riage. In a delicious irony, Espe Patton a formidable campaigner, winning a
on College Avenue, President Charles
Ingersoll suggested forming an alumni
organization and was prepared with a
from any Colorado institution of higher
education, and she did so by taking the
same courses as the men. Afterward,
GO GREEN spent the rest of her life playing a
central role in securing equal rights
for women and improving Colorado
decisive victory. As superintendent,
she encouraged the establishment
of kindergartens and libraries in
1887
CSU’s beloved Oval took shape in
constitution and bylaws. Glover became she taught preparatory-level classes standards for education. Colorado schools and increased min-
stages. Its parallel north-south rows
president, Loomis was vice president, at the College until 1890, when she of American elms were planted in Her political influence developed imum teacher qualifications.
and Coy was secretary. These three married Glover’s benefactor, Professor 1881, long before civil engineering early. Around 1893, she started The Grace Espe Patton not only set new
alumni set the standard for alumni im- Lawrence. She was central to the students designed and built Oval Tourney, a magazine focused on wom- standards for preparing women for
pact as they lived out their class motto: Alumni Association’s growth, organizing Drive in 1910. Trees were planted en’s rights. She later moved the maga- life and careers, she also started a tra-
“Attempt and accomplish.” Homecoming and other alumni events. around the west perimeter in 1922 zine to Denver and changed its name dition at her alma mater – breaking
Loomis spent his career in agricul- These first graduates also exempli- and east perimeter in 1924. The to something more descriptive: The through those glass ceilings. – A.G.
ture, the foundational discipline of the fy our commitment to public service. Statistics Building (1910), Weber Colorado Woman.
College. He started in the cattle busi- Glover served as president of the Building (1923), Administration The times were ripe for her per-
ness in Wyoming and then returned to Colorado and American Veterinary Building (1925), Library/TILT Building spectives. In 1893, Colorado passed a
Colorado, working on a ranch in North Medical associations and as city (1928), and referendum granting women’s suf-
other structures
Park. Later, he became a prosperous food inspector for Fort Collins. Coy 1925 frage. A year later, voters elected three
gradually added
farmer in the Cache la Poudre valley. Lawrence was an engaged civic lead- women to the Colorado House of
architectural
Glover started the College’s veterinary er, playing leadership roles in the definition and Representatives, the first in Colorado
medicine program. After graduation, he Fort Collins Woman’s Club and other a more unified and the country. When, nearly three
completed a veterinary medicine degree organizations. aesthetic that decades later, the United States gave
at Iowa Agricultural College, thanks to an Coy Lawrence, Glover, and Loomis endures to all women the right to vote, it was due
interest-free loan from College Professor became the first members of the 50 this day. to the groundwork laid by women
James Lawrence. In 1900, the College Year Club in 1934. such as Espe Patton.
Active in Colorado politics, Espe
New York Fair in Yonkers, 1913. By
then, Colorado and eight other
Western states had already adopted
Elijah Edwards women’s suffrage legislation.
becomes president
First American
Main Building First classes elm trees planted
(later “Old Main”) held at Colorado in what would Charles Ingersoll First commencement; Alumni Alston Ellis
cornerstone laid Agricultural College become the Oval becomes president Association established becomes president
1878 1879 1881 1 8 82 18 8 4 1 892
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1896 1899 1903 1907 1909
Fort Collins becomes Barton O. Aylesworth Women’s basketball George Glover Charles A. Lory
a dry town becomes president team wins College’s establishes becomes president
first conference Arlene Wheeler a veterinary
Stewart (B.S., ’32)
championship in curriculum
became an Alumni
any sport Association life
member 61 years
after posing for this
1907
photo in 1931.
A PIONEER IN VETERINARY MEDICINE
GEORGE
GLOVER
WATER WISE After studying
veterinary medicine
W
in Iowa, George
hile many inventions revolutionize a Parshall Flumes as a means to protect those rights. Glover returned to
particular field of human endeavor, Over time, Parshall Flumes were used more wide- his alma mater as a
few remain in use a century later. ly. They measure flow rate in industrial discharges, faculty member where
Invented in 1921, the Parshall Flume measures municipal sewer lines, and influent/effluent flows he demonstrated –
water flow as uniquely related to water depth. in wastewater treatment plants. These days, the sometimes in dramatic
This invention revolutionized water management, flumes are not only constructed of concrete but a fashion – the need for
and it remains in use to this day. The inventor, variety of materials from stainless steel to plastic. professionally certified
Ralph Parshall (B.S., 1904), epitomizes Colorado Not only have his flumes stood the test of time, veterinarians. Glover
State University’s values of excellence and but at his alma mater, the hydraulics lab Parshall helped establish
the program that
problem-solving. helped develop continues to play an important role
became one of the top
After completing an undergraduate degree at in maintaining CSU’s reputation as a top water re-
veterinary medicine
Colorado Agricultural College – CSU’s name when search center. – A.G. schools in the nation
it was founded – Parshall pursued graduate stud- and served as its dean
ies at the University of Chicago. He returned to from 1907-34.
Fort Collins and joined the College faculty in 1907,
becoming an internationally recognized pioneer in
civil engineering and hydrology.
His patent application for his invention that has
endured for a century referred to it as a “Venturi-
flume water-stage recording instrument,” but it is
commonly known as the Parshall Flume. Initially,
the flume’s main use was to measure the flow of
water through ditches and canals in those arid states
that used the doctrine of prior appropriation (“first George Glover died
in time, first in right”) as the basis for water rights. Jan. 11, 1950. The new
The flume enabled water managers to ensure that veterinary hospital,
water users received their fair share of that incred- under construction at the
The Parshall Flume’s elegant simplicity ensured its ibly valuable resource based on their water right. Water flowing through concrete Parshall Flume time, was named after
widespread adoption throughout the world. Indeed, the law in some states mandated the use of from Moffat Tunnel outlet, 1936. him the following day.
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1923 Grafton St. Clair Norman
(lower right corner), 1896.
but returned in 1921 to lead the Colorado Cooperative
Extension Service (today’s CSU Extension).
Congress established the Extension Service in
1914. World War I broke out shortly thereafter, so
its initial role became urging farmers to increase
production: “Food will win the war!” After the ar-
mistice, European farm production increased and
demand for U.S. products dropped precipitously, as
did prices. Extension’s goals then shifted to farm-
ers’ economic issues.
Intelligent and an experienced public relations
expert, McCann was well suited to reinventing
Extension. He met with people around the state to
gain a clear understanding of issues facing rural
The Colorado Agricultural College class communities, then used what he learned to create
the Colorado Code of Agriculture, issued in 1923.
TRAILBLAZERS
of 1896 consisted of five women and 11
men, including Grafton St. Clair Norman, Widely read and well received, the code stressed
a general agriculture major who was the the importance of marketing (including experi-
Roud McCann at College’s first African American student and mental radio programs), rural community devel-
work in 1923, the alumnus. His enrollment reflected hope that opment, improvements in rural home life, and
year he created the College’s land-grant mission of greater youth programs.
the Colorado Code opportunity and access to higher education Although he resigned in early 1929, his time at
of Agriculture. would one day apply to everyone. Extension was tremendously successful; it became
That day was still in the distant future
a well-administered and effective branch of the
EXTENDING THE when George W. Cooper graduated from
the College’s veterinary school in 1918.
Cooper maintained a large-animal practice
College. He focused its organization at the local
level by extending the system of county agents. He
LAND-GRANT MISSION in rural northeastern Colorado for 25 years
before becoming one of the first faculty
also made technical assistance a central part of its
services, hiring specialists in areas ranging from
marketing and home economics to animal hus-
S
members of a new veterinary school at
ervice and leadership have been central to Following graduation, he stayed in Fort Collins and the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Known bandry and agronomy. Roud McCann left indelible
Colorado State University’s identity since became deputy state dairy commissioner and later today as the Tuskegee University College footprints on this institution and the state. – A.G.
its inception. Roud McCann (B.S., 1914) joined the faculty as an associate professor of ani- of Veterinary
embraced those aims as a student and throughout mal husbandry. Notably, he was an active member Medicine, the
his career. of the Alumni Association and helped launch the school has
As an undergraduate, McCann demonstrated alumni magazine. educated
more than 70
leadership potential by founding the Livestock He left the College for top administrative oppor- 1927
percent of the
Club and serving as an officer in the then-Colorado tunities with agricultural organizations, including
nation’s African
Agricultural College’s military training battalion. secretary of the National Dairy Council in Chicago, American
veterinarians. George Cooper, second from right,
with students at Tuskegee
Home Economics
Congress provides 1,600 High Altitude
acres of national forest First Homecoming; George Cooper ROTC begins firing Laboratory
for College use (later, College plays alumni graduates from cannon during Students paint an “A” on the established; first in
CSU Mountain Campus) team, loses 3-0 veterinary school. football games foothills west of campus the nation
1 912 19 14 1918 1920 192 3 192 6
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1935
Mechanical
engineering
GLENN
1935 AT A GLANCE
student, 1943.
Enrollment
MORRIS
Glenn Morris (B.S., ’35)
1935: 1,472 served as class president
and competed in football
and track. He then
represented the United
States at the 1936
Olympic Games in Berlin,
-1956
Population winning the gold medal
in the decathlon. A direct
Fort Collins: 11,489 descendent of the oak
Colorado: 1,035,791 trees awarded to gold
medalists grows outside
the Iris & Michael Smith
Alumni Center today.
Popular Book
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell is
published in 1936
DEVELOPMENT
Popular Song
On the Good Ship Lollipop
Shirley Temple
Price of Milk
47¢/gallon
Name changed to Colorado Glenn Morris (B.S.,
State College of Agriculture ’35) wins gold medal in
and Mechanic Arts after decathlon at the Berlin Sherwood Forest
student petition Olympic games planted
1 9 35 1936 1937
D EV ELOPMEN T AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 13
Denver Public Library, Western
History Photographic Collections,
John Mosley Collection
ABOVE AND BEYOND
1944
By Ben Fogelberg (B.A., ’94; M.A., ’98)
M
ost Americans who enlisted in the U.S. armed
services after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
couldn’t wait to fight for their country. John
Mosley (B.S., ’43), like so many other African Americans, had
to fight just to get in the fight.
Mosley attended Manual High School in Denver, where he
excelled in academics and athletics and developed an interest
in flying. The Class of ’39 valedictorian took his leadership
skills to Colorado A&M, where he broke through color barriers
in sports and student government. Mosley served as student
body vice president twice and played football for legendary Above: John W. Mosley, far left, poses with fellow
airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group at Tuskegee
coach Harry Hughes, becoming the school’s first black player
Army Air Field, 1944. Left: John Mosley at Douglas
on record. Army Air Field in Arizona, 1944.
During his senior year, Mosley applied for entrance into
the Advanced ROTC program, but was rejected due to a failed
physical exam that may have been related to racial tensions
of the time. Undeterred, he passed an independent exam and completed a local civilian pilot training program Afterward, Mosley worked as a civil servant in
in hopes of increasing his chances to fly with the the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and
332nd Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) in Welfare (renamed Health and Human Services in
Alabama. Rejected again, he appealed to Congress 1979) in Washington, D.C., and Denver. Outside
and even wrote to the White House. His per- of his career, he helped provide opportunities
sistence paid off, and he was finally accepted. that he never had through organizations such as
A poster shows scenes of the Sept. 4, Mosley learned to fly B-25 bombers, but World the Mile High Flight Program, which introduc-
1938, campus flood: six buildings around War II ended before he could be deployed. After es young women and men – especially minority
the Oval are shown as photographed by the war, he earned a master’s degree in social youth – to careers in aviation, aerospace, and
President and Mrs. Lory the morning of
work from the University of Denver and then STEM fields.
the flood. A humorous comment refers to
the Heating Plant smokestack. served his country again in the Korean War and In 2004, CSU awarded Mosley and his wife,
in Vietnam. He retired from the Air Force in 1970 Edna, honorary doctorates in recognition of their
as a lieutenant colonel. service to their communities and nation.
John Mosley receives the
Most Valuable Player award
The Oval, Sept. 6, 1938.
at the Varsity Ball, 1942. Women outnumber men
Colorado Agricultural at the College after
Research Foundation men leave to serve in
established to administer WWII; College provides
patents, solicit and receive instructional programs
Flood inflicts heavy Roy Green gifts and grants, and enter including pilot training
damage to the campus becomes president into research contracts. for military personnel.
1938 1940 194 1 194 2
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1 944 19 45 194 8 194 9
Name shortened to Returning veterans make Isaac E. Newsom Fum McGraw (B.S., ’50) became
Colorado Agriculture up 2/3 of student body. becomes president the first College football player
& Mechanical College Many veterans and their to win All-American honors in
(Colorado A&M) families lived in Quonset three sports
huts along Laurel, dubbed
“Veterans’ Village” William E. Morgan
becomes president
1965 Traditions ranked high among his administrative
ON THE FIELD
priorities. Facilitating the construction of Moby Arena ATHLETICS AWARDS
and Hughes Stadium would count for nothing unless AND ACCOLADES
students and fans attending games felt part of some-
thing greater. 1948: All-American,
To that end, McGraw revived a tradition that had football and wrestling
begun to fade – literally. Students painted the icon- 1949: All-American,
ic Aggie A on the hogback west of campus on Dec. 4, football and track
1923, and enlarged it the following year to present pro- 1950: NFL Rookie of the
portions. Whitewashing the A became an annual Year – lineman
freshman ritual until the tradition lapsed in the 1971: Colorado Sports
1970s. McGraw enlisted longtime friend and Sigma Hall of Fame
Alpha Epsilon alumni adviser, Bill Woods (’58), who
1981: National Football
persuaded the fraternity chapter to shoulder the task.
Foundation College
Later, he recruited red-shirted football players and Football Hall of Fame
track athletes. He and agriculture Professor Marshall
Frasier kept the tradition strong with help from the 1992: Named to CSU
Football All-Century
Alumni Association and, of course, students.
Team
As a proud Aggie, McGraw knew that CSU’s reputa-
tion was rooted in agricultural education, research, and
Fum McGraw looks Extension. What better way to underscore that con-
over basketball courts nection than a good old-fashioned barbecue? The Ag
at Moby Arena, 1965 Day concept, attributed to animal sciences Professor
John Matsushima, became a reality and was first held
FUM MCGRAW’S OTHER LEGACY outside Hughes Stadium in 1981. Supporting student
scholarships in the College of Agricultural Sciences, the
event has grown through the decades and still high-
dent-athlete scholarships.” The event has raised more
than $5 million to date.
McGraw’s place in University history and legend is
T
he list of Thurman “Fum” McGraw’s ath- championships in five seasons before a knee injury lights Colorado-grown commodities that have benefit- assured by the placement of his name and number atop
letics accomplishments defies comprehen- forced his exit from professional football. ed from CSU research. the west stands in Canvas Stadium; the athletics center
sion. Diehard Aggies and Rams fans can tick These are the kinds of achievements that get Longtime athletics department fixture Gary Ozzello named in his honor; and the annual Thurman “Fum”
them off on their fingers: He was the only athlete a jersey retired, but McGraw wasn’t finished. In (’78) recalls that McGraw should get credit for anoth- McGraw Award, presented to the CSU student-athlete
in school history to receive All-American honors in three separate spans, he served his alma mater as er fundraising tradition. “Fum actually began the Ram who best exemplifies academic and athletics excellence,
three sports (football, 1948, ’49; track, ’49; and wres- an assistant coach, assistant athletics director, and Good Time Auction,” Ozzello says. “He and other staff character, leadership, service, and Ram Pride. Just as
tling, ’48). Drafted by the Detroit Lions, he made an athletics director. Through it all, he demonstrated members – I was fortunate enough to be included – put important to his legacy are the traditions that endure
instant impact, nabbing the Rookie of the Year tro- leadership and a deep understanding of the ties together the first auction in the Lory Student Center main because he knew what “Proud to Be” meant long before
phy for linemen. He went on to win two national that bind a university community together. ballroom to raise additional funds for supporting stu- it became our signature chant. – B.F.
16 AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 DE VE LO P ME NT D EV ELOPMEN T AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 17Franklin Anderson, center, and the Navy
SEAL team receive a Presidential Unit
Citation from President Lyndon B. Johnson.
NAVY SEALS ROOTED
IN CSU ALUMNUS
FRANKLIN ANDERSON
1966
By Whei Wong Howerton
W
hen Franklin Anderson (’56) left Fort Lewis College,
Durango, Colorado, in 1955, to finish his undergrad-
uate education at Colorado A&M (Colorado State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts), he made the move for Underwater Demolition Team 11. It was when he re- SEAL Team One, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Meritorious
its livestock program. turned that his career path solidified. Service Medal, and a Presidential Unit Citation.
“I was going to Fort Lewis College at the time and it was a branch At the time, the Navy was on the verge of shutting down On the homefront, Anderson and his wife, Martha, raised
of CSU, so it was very easy to transfer,” said Anderson, now 85, re- its World War II-era maritime commando units, also called four children. One of their sons entered SEAL training but
covering well from a stroke he had in May 2019. SEAL – for Sea Air and Land – program. In 1966, they gave was injured. The couple retired to their ranch in Tiffany,
Two years later, he graduated and was working for a rancher in the program one last shot, and named Lt. Cmdr. Anderson a small town in southwestern Colorado. They have been
Denver. That’s when his path began to veer significantly. acting commanding officer of what would become SEAL married for 58 years.
“I got my military draft notice. Going into the military was the Team One. He handpicked officers, rewrote policy, changed He still keeps in touch with friends from school – mem-
furthest thing from what I wanted to do. My perception of what training to include weapons and small-unit tactics, and bers of the Livestock Club and Rodeo Club – and fondly re-
that would be like was so different.” updated curriculum with intelligence collection and un- members time spent swimming at Horsetooth and studying
After reporting to one branch of the military to ask questions, he conventional warfare, thereby establishing the Navy SEAL at CSU. In 2017, the CSU Alumni Association’s 50 Year Club
Franklin Anderson was
walked out. He didn’t appreciate their attitudes, he said. program we know today. honored Anderson with the Public Service Award.
named commanding officer
Instead, “I went next door and enlisted in the Navy.” “Most of the programs that I set up are still in existence. And, for so many reasons, the SEALs keep Anderson
of SEAL Team One in 1966.
Soon after, in 1957, Anderson shipped out to Officer Candidate The SEALs started performing admirably, and everybody close. They invite him to speak to classes of SEALs and,
School. There, he tried to get into flight school. He was an inch- wanted them. We had 50 officers and 350 men at the time. just this August, he traveled to Coronado, California, for
and-a-half too short. “What’s a point of pride is the advancement that we have SEAL team reunions. Anderson’s ties to his military career
“My next choice was to be in the underwater demolition team, made within SEALs. I was involved in writing letters to get remain strong. The sense of pride he carries about his
because I had seen the movie, Frogmen, with Richard Widmark.” the SEAL program as an independent group. We had an ad- time in the Navy and his role establishing the Navy SEAL
He figured growing up swimming in the rivers around Pagosa miral who was our best supporter.” program, is palpable.
Springs would help. Anderson served in Vietnam for a year, Anderson went on to Defense Intelligence School, “Things have changed so much since I was there. People
starting in 1964, training Vietnamese military forces with Commander in Chief, Pacific, and Special Target Analysis find it hard to believe a lot of the stuff that we do. They (the
Group to write plans that included POW recoveries. By the SEALs) are operating all over the world now. Our camara-
time he retired in 1977 after 21 years in the Navy, Anderson derie is second to none.
had received the Legion of Merit as commanding officer of “I would do it all the same at the drop of a hat.”
1957
Student Union Annex
opens, later renamed Colorado A&M celebrates Construction begins
Colorado A&M makes the Administration Annex, Harry Hughes Day on Nov. 8, on five new residence
College World Series for the and eventually honoring the legendary coach halls, including
first and only time. Centennial Hall. and athletics director. Newsom Hall, right.
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At halftime at the College awards its Effective May 1, by act of the
Colorado A&M vs. first Ph.D. to A.R. Colorado General Assembly,
Wyoming basketball Chamberlain, the Colorado A&M becomes
game, President Morgan future ninth president Colorado State University
christens the school
mascot, “CAM”
CAM TAKES THE University on Jan. 11, 1946. “The senators spruced
up the ram they’d chosen and presented Buck to
SPOTLIGHT the college,” reported the Silver Spruce yearbook. “He
was greeted with wild applause, and served as a
spirit booster the rest of the basketball season. He
As Colorado State University celebrates its
attended each game faithfully, escorted in style.
sesquicentennial, our beloved mascot will mark his
Truly a loyal Aggie.”
own major milestone. The Colorado A&M student
President Morgan officially named our mascot
body voted to call themselves “Rams” in 1945, the
CAM the Ram – for Colorado A&M – during halftime
college’s diamond anniversary. A.R. Chamberlain and
at a basketball game versus archrival Wyoming in an
The first woolly mascot, a ram named Buck, unidentified person in
1954. CAM has been a steady spirit booster ever since, the
made his debut at a basketball game against Denver hydraulics laboratory,
1959
still escorted in style by student volunteers.
The Ram Handlers participate in CAM’s training
and care, transportation to events, sharing CAM’s
THE FIRST PH.D.
A.R. Chamberlain (Ph.D., ’55)
story with Rams fans of all ages, and traditions received the first doctoral degree
such as his sprint across the end zone during home granted by Colorado A&M. He joined
football games. The Alumni Association, which the faculty in 1956 and served as
supports CAM and manages the Ram Handler manager of civil engineering research.
program, encourages students from any and He played a leadership role in that
all majors and backgrounds to apply to endeavor; his suggestion that unused
join the group. The most rewarding part land on the Foothills Campus be given
of their job? Capturing the smiles of to engineering
CAM the Ram and
students, alumni, and Rams fans who resulted in
Aggie Marching
significant federally
Band, Fall 1956 line up to get their photo taken with
funded research
their beloved mascot. – B.F.
projects. He
became vice
president for CSU
CAM the Ram Administration in
in 2008 1960 and executive
vice president of the
University in 1966. In
1969, Chamberlain
became the ninth
president of CSU,
a position he held
1979
until 1979.
D EV ELOPMEN T AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 211957 A young
photographer,
SOURCE
1957 AT A GLANCE
1966
Enrollment
-Now
1957: 5,282
Population
Fort Collins: 25,027
CSU graduate and Peace Corps
Colorado: 1,753,947 volunteer Alice Ardito, right, in
the Dominican Republic, 2016
SCARCE SKILLS
C
Popular Book olorado State University consistently
ranks among the top Peace Corps
Atlas Shrugged
volunteer-producing schools in the
by Ayn Rand is published nation. This enduring connection is, in
part, a living legacy of CSU’s contribution
to the service organization’s origins. More
importantly, the 1,700-plus current and former
volunteers represent the land-grant mission
Popular Song in action. Their so-called “scarce skills” in
fields such as agriculture, civil engineering,
All Shook Up animal sciences, and sustainability have
Elvis Presley always been in high demand. – B.F.
INNOVATION
Price of Milk
$1/gallon
John Matsushima (B.S., ’43; Shelton Stanfill (B.A.,
M.S., ’45) joins the faculty of his ’65; CERT, ’65) along with
alma mater. Later, he developed Collegian editor John
a method for turning corn kernels Maurice Albertson, Pauline Hyde (B.A., ’66) place
into flakes, a technique adopted Birky-Kreutzer, and Andrew Rice The Stump on the Plaza
worldwide that significantly conduct study that helps lead to
improved cattle feeding. the creation of the Peace Corps The Lagoon is built; filled in 1964 Morgan Library opens
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I N N OVAT I ON AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 23keeps us from doing things, like trying something Marketing Team, the Horse Judging Team, and the
new or asking someone for help. I don’t ever want Meats Judging Team. “But it was the support from
to be fearful of taking a chance.” people like Dr. Gary Smith, Dr. Tom Field, Dr. Jim
FEARLESS For those who know Saunders, it’s probably not
surprising that she would offer this sage advice and
that fearlessness is central to who she is. Saunders
Heird, and Dr. Lee Gray, just to name a few, that
means so much me.”
Through the Saunders’ generous support, Where
By Angie Dixon (’94)
is the daughter of CSU alum Butch Mayfield (’67), Food Comes From Inc., sponsors the meat and dairy
L
who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil retail store at the JBS Global Food Innovation Center
eann Saunders (B.S., ’92; M.Agr., ’94) is engineering and a master’s in math, then made his in Honor of Gary & Kay Smith.
a fearless innovator and leader. Highlights own fearless decision to follow his lifelong passion “I truly believe that we can do whatever we want
from the 2018 CSU Distinguished Alumni and become a full-time, first-generation rancher with to do,” said Saunders. “If we aren’t afraid to ask for
Award recipient’s career include co-founding and his parents. He raised his children the same way. help from others, and thank people along the way, I
operating Where Food Comes From Inc. – the No. “My parents raised my sister and me with the idea don’t think there are any barriers to getting to where
1 provider of certification and verification services that we could do anything a man could do,” Saunders we want to be in life.”
to the food industry – with her husband, John; recalls. “We fixed fence, herded cattle. We never sensed
developing the first-ever USDA Process Verified a gender difference.”
2019 program for beef; serving as a board member for the
International Stockmen’s Education Foundation and
So, when her husband, John, started their company
20 years ago, she knew that accepting and embracing
The Where Fo
Market in the
Innovation C
od Comes Fr
JBS Global Fo
enter at CSU
om
od
the University of Nebraska’s Engler Agribusiness her fear was key to their success. , 2019
Entrepreneurship; and serving as one of only two “There were so many times when I wanted us to quit,
female chairs for the U.S. Meat Export Federation. but we didn’t,” she said.
Does Saunders think she is fearless? She is Saunders is grateful for the opportunities she had
quick to attribute that trait to other people in at CSU to gain hands-on experience in the agriculture
her life, such as her husband, her father, and her industry before she graduated. She is also grateful for
grandfather. But Saunders pauses in describing the support she received from professors within the
herself that way. College of Agricultural Sciences.
“I am just someone who steps out of my comfort “I tried to take advantage of all CSU and the
zone to do the things I want to do in life,” she said. College of Ag had to offer,” Saunders said. Among
“There are moments when I can be very fearful, other activities, she was an Ag Ambassador and a
but I have to coach myself to move beyond it. Fear Pacesetter, and she was a member of the Agriculture
First football game played
in Hughes Stadium
Office of Women’s
A.R. Chamberlain (Ph.D., ’55) Relations established
Project Go enrolled its first becomes president (became Women & Gender
group of ethnically diverse
Advocacy Center in 2011)
students (Project Go later Black Student Alliance Chicago, The Beach
First basketball became Black African and Mexican American Boys, and the Rolling CSU achieves Carnegie
game played in American Cultural Center Committee for Equality Old Main Stones concerts at Foundation Research I
Moby Arena and El Centro) lead civil rights protests burns Hughes Stadium University status
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Native American First Ag Day held State creates the Colorado College Days Albert Yates CSU Professor Tom U.S. District Court Pingree Park (CSU
Cultural Center office State University System abolished becomes president Sutherland released finds CSU in Mountain Campus)
established after being held six violation of Title damaged by
Services for Asian American years as a political IX and requires Hourglass Fire
Students (Asian Pacific American prisoner in Lebanon reinstatement of
Resources for Disabled Ralph E. Christoffersen Cultural Center) founded women’s softball
Students established, becomes president
intially serving about 180 Philip E. Austin
students self-identified as becomes president
having disability. The office
is now Student Disability
Center and serves
HOMECOMING
approximately 2,300 Tom Sutherland Scotland native Thomas Sutherland
students holding a plaque of joined the animal sciences faculty
First Generation Award program
appreciation, 1991 in 1958. In 1983, he accepted a
started; the first such scholarship
position as dean at American
offered in the nation University in Beirut, Lebanon.
2019
The Islamic Jihad abducted
A first-generation Sutherland in 1985 and held him
graduate, 2019 Spring captive for 2,353 days. When
Commencement
finally released, he returned to a
jubilant celebration in Moby Arena,
displaying the spirit and optimism
that had buoyed him and a fellow
captive throughout their ordeal.
Sutherland spent his last 25 years
generously supporting the local
community. Today, the Lory Student
Center’s Sutherland Memorial
Garden honors his legacy and his
Bernard Dime family’s commitment to education.
is CSU’s first
paraplegic vet
student. Read more
about his amazing
story on SOURCE.
#25STRONG
In 2019, the CSU softball team won the Mountain West
Conference title for the third time in program history. At the Outfielder
season’s outset, the team adopted the hashtag #25Strong, Ashley
symbolizing the unity of its 20 players and five staff. The Michelena,
hashtag also acknowledged the significance of the program’s 2018
reinstatement 25 years prior. The University had cut the sport in
Lapel pin 1992 due to budget constraints related to reduced state funding, but
given to first- players and parents sued, citing violations of Title IX gender-equity
generation requirements. Signed into federal law in 1972, Title IX prohibits sex
alumni discrimination in education. The claimants won in U.S. District Court
a year later. CSU recently announced plans to build a women’s athletics
complex serving the softball and soccer programs within the former
football practice area south of Moby Arena.
26 AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 INNOVATIO N 272019
ONCE IN A Legnard was majoring in microbiology
when he took the home-brewing class,
CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewery,
among the first breweries in
BLUE MOON
held in a house across from the Gifford Fort Collins. The brewery was
Building his junior year, changing his built on Lincoln Avenue in ’91
life’s course. After learning how to brew and started brewing beer in the
By Gretchen Gerding beer, he experimented with different rec- spring of ’92. Legnard and Sand
y
s wi th th e fir st
ipes, with his roommates as testers. He In 1995, Legnard interviewed Jone
J
H.C. Berger beer
ohn Legnard (B.S., ’90) has been a part of even won an award for a Pilsner from Fort for a brewery job in Denver. At
the explosion in craft brewing in Colorado Collins’ home-brewing club. the time, he didn’t know it was for
since the late 1980s. His love of brewing Legnard found encouragement for his the Coors SandLot Brewery at the
started at Colorado State University when one interest in brewing within his major at new Coors Field, the first brewery SANDY JONES
of his roommates saw an ad in the Collegian for CSU, where he completed a senior project inside a major league ballpark.
a home-brewing class taught by CSU Extension. on industrial fermentation. It would be “I interviewed, and they told me they MEMORIAL
Legnard’s journey from those home-brew roots
has taken him from the fledgling Fort Collins
many years before CSU’s brewing class
(2005) and, eventually, the Fermentation
were building a craft brewery in the right
field corner. I wasn’t a baseball fan, and I
SCHOLARSHIP
brewing scene, to the SandLot Brewery at Coors Science and Technology Program (2013), didn’t know where right field was. I had John Legnard (B.S., ’90)
Field, to his present role as brewmaster at the were launched to fill a need for trained played soccer all my life. I’ve become a has continued to support the
Blue Moon Brewing Company in Denver. professionals in the brewing and fer- baseball fan since then,” he said with a fermentation science program.
mented foods industries. laugh. Legnard took the job and helped When Fort Collins’ brewing
pioneer Sandy Jones, who
HOME-BREWING CLASS AT CSU launch the brewery during the Rockies’
founded H.C. Berger Brewing,
Originally from Connecticut, Legnard found CSU SANDLOT AT COORS FIELD inaugural season.
passed away unexpectedly
when he checked a box on the SAT to indicate As a student, Legnard made several con- In the summer of ’95, they experiment- in February 2018, Legnard
an interest in pre-veterinary studies and agreed nections to the brewing community in ed with a Belgian wheat beer they called revived one of the early H.C.
to share his scores. CSU sent him a postcard and Fort Collins, including pioneers Sandy Bellyslide Wit. A Coors employee tried Berger recipes, Red Banshee
that was all it took to convince him to visit in 1986 Jones and Doug Odell. After graduation, it and said, “A beer this good only comes Ale, with proceeds from sales
and then enroll. he had a temporary position at Coors in along once in a blue moon,” and Blue at Blue Moon Brewing Compa-
“CSU was such a fun place to go to school and Golden, where he was a quality control Moon was born. ny going to the Sandy Jones
hang out and meet people. That’s what is so cool technician. He was commuting to Golden Memorial Scholarship. The
about CSU – I still have tons of friends from my when Jones called him about launching SUPPORTING THE scholarship will be awarded to
a student majoring in fermen-
days as a student. A group of us gets together for H.C. Berger Brewing Company; Legnard FERMENTATION tation science and technology
a reunion every five or 10 years. We buried a time became one of the original investors and
capsule in Poudre Canyon the day after gradua- the first employee.
SCIENCE PROGRAM at CSU. Legnard hopes to raise
enough funds to eventually en-
tion and look forward to going back and finding H.C. Berger joined Odell Brewing As a land-grant University, CSU has always
dow the scholarship in mem-
it,” said Legnard. Company, New Belgium Brewing, and played a role in (continued on next page) ory of his mentor, who also
founded Fort Collins Brewery.
Key Communities created
to decrease graduation rate
gaps across first-generation, Jim (B.S., ’40) Student Alumni
Amy Van Dyken Pell recipient, and minority and Nadine Connection
(now Rouen) wins students at CSU (B.S., ’41) establishes I Love
four gold medals Flood causes more Henry named CSU Day, which Robert H. and Mary G. University
in swimming at the than $120 million in GLBT Student Services (Pride “alumni of the is celebrated Flint Animal Cancer Larry Edward Penley Center for the Tony Frank
Summer Olympics damage to campus Resource Center) opens century” annually on April 18 Center opens becomes president Arts opens becomes president
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Fostering Success The CSU Becky Hammon University raises On-campus football C. Wayne McIlwraith Colorado State
Program created Marching Band (B.S., ’00) becomes record $197.8 million stadium, later named Translational Medicine University celebrates
to support CSU participates in the first woman full-time Canvas Stadium, opens; Institute opens its sesquicentennial
Old Main Bell
students who were St. Patrick’s Day NBA coach Old Main Bell installed
returned to CSU CSU ranks 5th
former foster youth. It Parade in Dublin in the Jim and Nadine
nationally in
currently serves more Henry Family Tower at
Military Times
than 200 students the Iris & Michael Smith
“Best for Vets” list
Alumni Center
Becky Hammon (B.S., Joyce McConnell
’00) is assistant coach becomes president
of the San Antonio
Spurs. She was the
preparing students to meet the needs of Legnard became the brewmaster at first female full-time
the Colorado workforce. The Department the new Blue Moon Brewing Company assistant coach in NBA
of Food Science and Human Nutrition in the RiNo District in Denver in 2016, history, the first woman
in the College of Health and Human while continuing to oversee the SandLot to coach an NBA
Sciences had been preparing to launch Brewery at Coors Field. He is excited summer league team,
and the first woman to
a major in fermentation science and about CSU’s fermentation science pro-
JOYCE MCCONNELL
coach in an NBA All-
technology to help support the growing gram and the potential to train new
Star Game. As a Ram,
brewing and food fermentation indus- professionals to meet the needs of the Hammon was a three-
tries in the state. They pulled together brewing industry in Colorado. time All-American and
an advisory board of professionals in the “I started off as a home brewer doing set the all-time Western Joyce McConnell became the 15th
industry, including Legnard. five-gallon batches,” said Legnard. “Just Athletic Conference president of Colorado State University on
“At the first meeting in March 2014, imagine where I would be if I had started scoring record for men July 1, 2019. Taking the helm during CSU’s
we expressed the importance of teach- off with a degree in CSU’s Fermentation or women. She then sesquicentennial anniversary, she is excited
ing not only the science, but also engi- Science and Technology Program. With spent 16 years in the to lead the University into its next 150 years
neering and business as part of the cur- all of the classes and background knowl- WNBA, where she was by leaning on principles that have guided
riculum. We wanted the program to be edge, I would be light-years ahead of named a Top 15 player her throughout her life, including a belief
practical and hands-on. When you are where I am now.” in the league’s history. in providing opportunities to help others
running a brewery, you need to under- achieve their dreams. “If you give one
student access and that student becomes
stand concepts of refrigeration, steam,
successful, forever after their family is
pumps, and heat transfer as well as the
affected by that success,” she says. “You’re
science and raw materials.” empowering students to live lives that they
“John attended our inaugural industry Becky Hammon, never would have expected they could live,
advisory board meeting and has been an 2016; far right, and that’s just extraordinary. I’m driven by
active and reliable member ever since,” playing for that sense of purpose.”
said Jeff Callaway, associate director of CSU, 1999
the fermentation science program. “He
has supported the FST program and CSU
in many ways – everything from advice
on curriculum and brewing and giving
tours and his time, to leveraging his net-
work to create scholarships to support
THE NEXT 150 YEARS
the next generation of brewers.”
Legnard also worked with Molson
Coors to secure brewing equipment that
Coors had in storage. The equipment Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the hold true to the one thing the class of 1884 would
was donated to what is now the Lory past and plan for the future. Strolling through recognize if they were transported here now: our
Student Center Teaching Brewery in the CSU’s last 150 years offers an opportunity to values. And as stewards of those values, CSU’s
Ramskeller, which served its first beer in renew pride, though it might revive some old alumni have a distinct role to play in our next
2018. pains along the way. Both will bolster efforts to century and a half.
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not all applicants may qualify. 5Subject to eligibility requirements. Benefits and eligibility requirements may vary by state. Coverage provided and underwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance and its affiliates, 175 Berkeley Street,
Boston, MA 02116 USA. Equal Housing Insurer. ©2019 Liberty Mutual Insurance 10967758 AFF_686950_03 CW 2019/06
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