WILD FIRE: CSU Community Lends a Hand to Fight High Park Fire A Magazine for Alumni and Friends FALL 2012 Janay Olympic Glory DeLoach The Morrill Act American Ideal Marks 150th Renovation Celebration at the Lory Student Center Internship in the Peruvian jungle Combating Cancer in both Animals and Humans CONTENTS CAMPUS VIEW New CSU System Chancellor; Letter to the Editor; Planting 3 Trees on the Oval; CSUnity; CSU Campaign Final Numbers; LSC Renovation Kicks into High Gear; High Park Fire FEATURES Morrill Victory 12 Upon the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Morrill 18 Land-Grant Colleges Act, we reflect upon its vast impact, opening the way to make higher education attainable for every American with the ability and drive to succeed. Rarified Air 18 With a smile that lit up Olympic Stadium in London and the kind of hops that elicited gasps, Janay DeLoach won the crowd and a bronze medal for Team USA. Cover photo by Kirby Lee. 22 Combating the Emperor of All Maladies 22 CSU’s Animal Cancer Center has become a bright beacon of hope for animals and humans in the battle against cancer. Safe Passage on the Ucayali 30 On a mission to aid villagers in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, a determined young student finds living by one’s beliefs more rewarding than living inside the comfort zone. 30 ALUMNI MATTERS 27 Rams Write 35 Class Notes The Last Word 40 Athletics – Why and At What Cost? By President Tony Frank COLORADO STATE 1 We fit CSU MBAs into our lives. You can, too. Mohamad Zaki completed his Online Professional MBA in the midst of the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Online Professional MBA – Anywhere – Anytime Melissa Temple is completing her Executive MBA in Denver while working as Controller for Earthstone Energy, Inc. Executive MBA – Downtown Denver – Evenings AACSB internationally accredited since 1970 www.CSUmba.com CAMPUS VIEW A Magazine for Alumni and Friends FALL 2012 • NUMBER 61 Editorial Committee Chair – Tom Milligan, Vice President for External Relations MIKE MARTIN assumes Brett Anderson (’87), Vice President for Advancement DUTIES AS CHANCELLOR Cara Neth (’87), Director of Administrative Communications Colleen Meyer (’94), Executive Director of Alumni Relations The new Chancellor of the Colorado State communities, and Managing Editor – Mark Minor (’92) University System, Michael V. Martin, offi- promote excel- Production Editor – Mark Hanson (’87) cially assumed duties this August. Based in lence,” says CSU Contributing Editors Denver, the chancellor is the chief execu- System Board Office of the President – Nik Olsen (’01) tive officer of the CSU System, responsible Chair Joe Zimlich. Alumni Relations – Beth Etter (M.A. ’03) for working with the Board of Governors Martin, 65, University Advancement – Maggie Walsh to lead the system’s operations, set legisla- comes to the CSU System from Louisiana External Relations – Tony Phifer, Melinda Swenson (M.A. ’93), Emily Wilmsen tive strategy, serve as the system’s primary State University, where he was campus spokesperson, and increase engagement chancellor. He is also a past president of Design and Production Art Director – Doug Garcia among alumni, donors, and the business New Mexico State University. Martin was Design – Terry Nash, Brad Thomas (’02), Cathay Zipp (’94) community. recommended to the Board by an Photography – Bill Cotton (’03), John Eisele, Joe Mendoza “Dr. Martin is a proven and visionary 11-member committee that spent nearly higher education leader who is respected eight months conducting a nationwide University Contacts Admissions – (970) 491-6909 across the country. Throughout his nearly search for the next chancellor of the CSU or admissions.colostate.edu 40-year career, he’s been a tireless advocate System, which includes CSU in Fort Col- Alumni Relations – (970) 491-6533, for building world-class higher education lins, CSU-Pueblo, and the 100 percent (800) 286-2586, or www.alumni.colostate.edu systems that maintain access, preserve online CSU-Global Campus. Athletics – (970) 491-5300 or www.csurams.com Colorado State Forest Service – (970) 491-6303 affordability, reach out to underserved or www.csfs.colostate.edu Continuing Education – (970) 491-5288 or www.learn.colostate.edu Extension – (970) 491-6281 or www.ext.colostate.edu DEAR EDITOR Financial Aid – (970) 491-6321 or sfs.colostate.edu I am writing at the behest of my mother, 4-H – (970) 491-1152 or www.colo4H.org Donations/Giving to CSU – 866-CSU-GIVE Edith Gunn Moore, Class of 1941. She was or advancing.colostate.edu/ASI perusing the Spring 2012 issue of Colorado Public Relations – (970) 491-6621 State Magazine and noticed a photograph or www.news.colostate.edu on page 35 taken in the Student Union Directory Assistance – (970) 491-1101 or search.colostate.edu/search-directory.aspx Fountain Room, circa 1941. She identified Colorado State Magazine Sales – (970) 491-4179 herself, then Edith Alison Gunn, as the or ccs.colostate.edu/magazine.aspx young woman seated on the right-hand Send Colorado State Magazine bench closest to the photographer. She also correspondence to: recognized the two students sitting across Colorado State Magazine c/o Mark Minor from her, Walter “Bus” Bergman and Winnie French, but does not remember the young Colorado State University man who was sitting next to her. 6025 Campus Delivery Fort Collins, CO 80523-6025 I hope something can be acknowledged in your next issue about my mother’s dis- covery. She was elated by the photograph, and it brought back many happy memories Advertising Inquiries of her student days at Colorado A&M. Lindsay Connors (970) 491-4179 Thank you for your consideration. www.socialmedia.colostate.edu Sincerely yours, An equal access/equal opportunity university Carlin (Cobb) Knight, Class of 1969 COLORADO STATE 3 CAMPUS VIEW Campus Comes to the Aid of Community Affected by the hen a lightning-sparked wild- ters, and other resources. The CSU help feed and support fire roared through canyons Police Department assisted the JICC by firefighters. Many oth- Wand over hills near Fort Collins providing traffic control, security, and ers, including student in early June, hundreds of residents were dispatchers. athletes, cheerleaders, forced to flee with what few possessions • The Colorado State Forest Service and members of ROTC, they could gather on short notice – many deployed all available people and equip- stepped up in various with only what they had on their backs. In ment to help fight the fire. roles. the end, the High Park Fire killed one • Hundreds of firefighters and National • The Larimer County woman and consumed 259 homes and Guard members were housed in Main Disaster Recovery Cen- 87,284 acres west and northwest of town. Campus residence halls, and Pingree ter, which provided Though the fire never reached Fort Col- Park was designated a fire command support, assistance, and resources for lins, heavy smoke descended on the city for center and a safe zone for firefighters on victims of the fire, was housed in John- days, resulting in public air-quality health the western edge of the fire to eat and son Hall. advisories to curtail outdoor activities, sleep. CSU was lucky. Aside from the evacua- especially for the elderly and those with • CSU veterinarians treated evacuated tion of classes from Pingree Park, the respiratory ailments. livestock, and the Veterinary Teaching University was unaffected. Not so fortunate Within days of the fire’s outbreak, the Hospital supported the Larimer County were the many faculty, staff, students, and CSU community was galvanized into Humane Society efforts for pets and retirees who lived in the burn area, some of action, offering facilities and resources to small animals. whom lost their homes. assist with the fire-fighting and recovery • CSU faculty and staff evacuated from To help, the University created CSU- coordination efforts. These included: Pingree Park volunteered to return to Cares, a fund designated to provide • The Joint Incident Command Center, which coordinated fire- fighting efforts, was located on the University’s Foothills Cam- pus, hosting about 2,000 emergency responders, helicop- At right, smoke from the High Park Fire with the CSU Student Recreation Center, Moby Arena, and the Indoor Practice Facility in the foreground. 4 FALL 2012 Firefighters working on the High Park Fire arrive at the Pingree Park Campus after a long day of work and prepare to spend the night. emergency monetary relief to students and at CSU offered support, household items, to current and retired faculty and staff. An and kindness. appeal was made to the campus commu- “CSU continues to care and help the fire nity, and 388 donors contributed more victims who lost their homes. I don’t think than $55,000. To date, 35 CSU families I have ever seen such devotion and out- have been helped through CSUCares. reach to the community from a university Pedro Boscan, in my life,” Boscan Ph.D., a faculty CSU set the standard on how says. “CSU set the member in the Col- standard on how an lege of Veterinary an institution should reach out institution should Medicine and to the community in a moment reach out to the Biomedical Sci- of disaster. community in a Pingree Park Director Pat Rastall (left) discusses ences, lost his home moment of disaster. High Park Fire firefighter needs with Logistics – PEDRO BOscAN Section Chief Loren Wickstrom as a smoke during fire. He I’m saying this as a plume rises northeast of the Pingree Park Campus. and his wife, both CSU faculty mem- Rist Canyon volunteer firefighters, were ber, as a firefighter, and as a victim. I’m so fighting the fire – defending the properties proud to be part of CSU that all firefighters of their neighbors and an historic school- who fought the fire with me have heard house – while their own home burned about my CSU pride!” to the ground.