A PUBLICATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FALL 2019 YEARS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PAST INSIDE FALL 2019 A Lasting Legacy Career Services 6 Leonidas Loomis (1884), George 34 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 Fum McGraw’s Other Legacy New Life Members Ann Gill (M.A., ’76) 16 Thurman “Fum” McGraw (B.S., ’50) 36 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 institutional history. Hansen teamed up with Gordon Hazard (B.S., ’77) and Linda 7114 Campus Delivery Fort Collins, CO 80523-7114 Meyer (B.A., ’95; M.A., ’00) on CSU’s Sense of Place: A Campus History of Colorado’s NAVY SEALS ROOTED IN CSU (800) 286-2586 18 Land-Grant University. And Aggies to Rams: The History of Football at Colorado State (970) 491-6533 (phone) ALUMNUS FRANKLIN ANDERSON University by John Hirn (B.A., ’93) is indispensable. [email protected] I hope you’ll discover something familiar that makes you proud, something new alumni.colostate.edu that makes you think, and please let me know if you have a story you’d like to share! © 2019 by Colorado State University. 28 ONCE IN A BLUE MOON All rights reserved Ram proud, An equal-access and equal-opportunity University ON THE COVER: Kristi Bohlender, B.S., ’93; M.B.A., ’95, and Life Member The Oval then (1927) and now. Join us on Facebook, Membership makes an IMPACT Instagram, and Twitter. Your Alumni Association membership is an investment in the past, present, FEARLESS Search “CSU 24 and future of Colorado State University. You make it possible for us to connect Alumni Association” more than 232,000 alumni to CSU in meaningful ways. Thank you! to download today! CSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBERS LIKE YOU MAKE THIS PUBLICATION POSSIBLE 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. AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 3 Four men working in a MEDLEY machine shop on parts for a Case OF MASCOTS kerosene tractor. Enrollment CAM the Ram’s unofficial 1870-1878: 0 predecessors through the years First classes 1879: 20 Population Fort Collins area: 363 Colorado Territory: 39,864 1912-1918 Peanuts, a bulldog AT A GLANCE AT Popular Book The Adventures of ESTABLISHMENT Huckleberry Finn -1934 Mark Twain 1870 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 1870 1874 1876 ESTABLISHMENT AROUND THE OVAL | FALL 2019 5 A LASTING LEGACY A WOMAN’S WORK By Ann Gill (M.A., ’76) race Espe Patton (B.S., 1895) Patton served as president of the 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 GState University’s name when it was for state superintendent of public LAlumni 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 from any Colorado institution of higher spent the rest of her life playing a decisive victory. As superintendent, Ingersoll suggested forming an alumni education, and she did so by taking the central role in securing equal rights she encouraged the establishment GO GREEN 1887 organization and was prepared with a same courses as the men. Afterward, for women and improving Colorado of kindergartens and libraries in 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.