May 2012 | Alumni Association

CU events

Coming back to Boulder?

Join Forever Buffs for the first annual Back to Boulder Weekend Nov. 1-4. Celebrate your pride with alums during Homecoming weekend. Attend the Alumni Association awards ceremony and catch the marching band and football team on Pearl Street the evening before the Buffs play Stanford. Let us help you plan a reunion with your friends during Homecoming.

Alumni Association programs

Connect with your local chapter

Whether it’s a boat cruise around Manhattan with New York City alums on Thursday, June 21 or a poker run/pub crawl in Denver with the CU Young Alums on Saturday, July 21, your local chapter has something exciting planned for you.

Here’s the chapter list.

CU Voices

Recalling some stellar CU profs

By Kenneth Lloyd (Econ’44)

Robert Stearns, CU president, gave me a glowing letter to get out of the Infantry and into the Air Corps. Bless him. I had Dr. Gustafson in freshman chemistry lecture. Big physical man. Made chemistry fascinating. Read the article.

CU event

Obama wows Forever Buffs

On April 24 President Obama spoke to a crowd of some 10,000 people in Coors Events Center, mostly addressing the rising cost of student loans. It was the first time a sitting U.S. president had come to campus in 58 years. Some students met Obama when he made a brief stop at The Sink restaurant on The Hill. View a video of Obama’s visit.

Read the White House press release.

Alumni advertiser

Tee off and Transform Lives

Can Do Multiple Sclerosis organizational founder and Olympic skier Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) was a pioneer in the multiple sclerosis care management field. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1970. Join Can Do MS in honoring Jimmie at his alma mater’s Colorado National Golf Course Monday, June 11. Play for a day to help us reach more people living with MS through our programs. www.mscando.org/jimmiegolf.

Athletics

Sign up for football season tickets

Don’t miss your chance to stand Shoulder to Shoulder with Coach Jon Embree (Comm’88) and the Buffs in 2012. This year’s home schedule features six games at Folsom Field in addition to the CSU game in Denver on Sunday, Sept. 1. Your support this season is crucial as all five conference home games are against teams who went to a bowl game last year. Put down your season ticket deposit here.

Affinity groups

Catch up with CU in Steamboat

Make Steamboat Springs your destination and join the Directors Club for our annual summer meeting June 15-17. The theme is “Rediscover CU-Boulder.” You’ll get to hear the latest news from deans, vice chancellors and other insiders in a beautiful mountain setting. Contact Barb Banta at 303-492-3005 or via e-mail.

U.S. events

Check out the solar eclipse

Experience the “difference between night and day” late Sunday afternoon on Sunday, May 20 when the entire mid- and western U.S. will see a “bite” taken out of the sun as the moon moves in front of it, the best solar eclipse in 10 years. See it all at CU-Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium and Science Center or go to the eclipse-watching event at Folsom Field 6-8:15 p.m. It’s $2 including special glasses.

Roaming Buffs

It’s not an end of the world cruise

Four great CU professors join other world-class speakers covering a wide range of topics while we’re at sea in the Caribbean Dec. 16 – 23. The voyage visits the Mayan ruins at Tulum, Mexico, on Dec. 21, the day some believe the Mayan calendar predicts will be the end of the world. For more information e-mail Clark, call 303-492-5640 or 800-492-7743 or visit the website.

Jobs and careers

Helping you find a job you love!

“Nuances of Networking: How to Leverage your Strengths to get the Opportunities you Want” Tuesday, May 22, 6-9 p.m. (free). Register here.
“Alumni Assessment Series” Three Tuesdays, June 5, 19 and 26, 6-9 p.m. ($55) More information. Call 303-492-6541 to register.

E-mail Lea to find out about future career events.

Contest Corner

Win a CU Buffs baseball cap

Which of the following people is NOT mentioned in the March 2012 Coloradan’s “CU Around” section?

A. James H. Meredith
B. William “Bud” Davis (PE’51, EdD’63)
C. CU President Quigg Newton
D. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Check out the March 2012 Coloradan magazine.

CU Book Store

Frame your diploma

Relive your memories of Old Main through this panoramic image on the right. The frame has a rich, high-gloss cherry finish with fine gold accents inlaid into the frame.

Go to the CU Book Store.