Arthur House gets state restoration grant

Arthur House after west porch restoration and installation of ADA ramp. Photo courtesy George Eckhardt.

Colorado College has been awarded a second State Historical Fund grant in the amount of $133,800 to continue the challenging exterior stone and wood trim restoration of Arthur House, 1106 N. Nevada Ave. The restoration of the wraparound porch was completed last summer, thanks to the first grant award of $115,000. An ADA ramp also was incorporated, using ADA improvement funds.
This new grant brings Colorado College’s State Historical Fund preservation grant awards to a total of $1,765,012. The college has received 18 grant awards since its initial 1993 historic property survey.

‘Trash Peak’ raises awareness

People were talkin’ trash at Colorado College on Tuesday, Feb. 2.
Not only were they talking it, but they were also sorting and analyzing it.
About 30 cubic yards of trash was piled high around the Earle Flagpole on Worner Quad – visual reminder of how much trash CC accumulates in a single day.
“Trash Peak,” sponsored by EnAct and the Office of Sustainability, highlights the college’s participation in the 10-week national Recyclemania competition among colleges and universities to see which college’s recycling numbers are best.
Members of EnAct sorted the trash and audited it, determining that approximately 40 percent of the material could have been diverted from the landfill by recycling, composting, or reusing. Emily Wright, CC’s sustainability coordinator, says, “From our first week of tracking, we calculated CC’s waste diversion rate to be between 45 and 50 percent. So, theoretically, we could get up to 80 or 90 percent waste diversion if all of the recyclable material generated on campus was sent through the single stream system.”
The goal is to increase awareness of the college’s waste minimization rate by cutting down on trash and promoting use of such items as reusable mugs and water bottles, Wright said.
CC’s Carnivore Club also participated in the event, grilling burgers outside Worner Campus Center for those who wanted them. And “Art of Recycling” barrels, painted by the students the previous weekend, lined the walkways. Most of the painted barrels will be placed around Worner to promote Recyclemania, and a few will be donated to municipal buildings.

Film by two ’92 grads nominated for Academy Award

Daniel Junge

A documentary film by Henry Ansbacher and Daniel Junge, who both graduated from Colorado College in 1992, has been nominated for an Academy Award. The  film, “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” is a nominee in the short documentary category. The film focuses on Booth Gardner, the former governor of Washington, who leads a campaign to legalize assisted suicide while dealing with the devastating effects of Parkinson’s disease.

Henry Ansbacher

CC alumna becomes sixth nominee for U.S. administration

Cynthia Chavez Lamar CC ’92 has been nominated to the board of trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development by President Barack Obama. She becomes the sixth Colorado College alumni to be selected for a position with the current administration. Chavez Lamar is the director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, N.M., where she works to foster collaborative relationships and projects among Native peoples, organizations, and institutions. She is the former museum director of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, and the former associate curator of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Colorado College presented her with an honorary doctorate in 2008 and she received a governor’s appointment to the New Mexico Arts Commission in 2009. Chavez Lamar also was the guest lecturer at the October 2008 Aficionados Luncheon and Lecture, where she discussed “Respecting the Past, Engaging the Present: Pueblo Artists of the 21st Century.”

The other five CC alumni in the current administration are:

• Harris Sherman ’64, agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and environment
• Jane Lubchenco ’69, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Marcia Kemper McNutt ’74, director of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Ken Salazar ’77, Secretary of the Interior
• Lori Garver ’83, deputy administrator at NASA

Marion Hourdequin awarded NSF grant for military land restoration

Marion Hourdequin, assistant professor of philosophy at Colorado College, has been awarded a $244,881 grant from the National Science Foundation. Hourdequin received the grant in collaboration with David Havlick, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. The funding supports three years of research on the ecological restoration of former military lands, focusing specifically on lands now managed as National Wildlife Refuges. The grant also provides research opportunities for two CC undergraduate students and a UCCS graduate student, as well as a workshop for land managers.
Hourdequin and Havlick, a husband-and-wife team, will examine restoration goals at these military-to-wildlife (M2W) sites, many of which are heavily contaminated with toxic chemicals and unexploded ordnance, yet also are ecologically rich and relatively undeveloped.
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