CC will honor eight distinguished former students by bestowing their names on residential buildings in the new East Campus housing community during CC’s Family and Friends Weekend, Oct. 6-8. The individuals honored represent a broad array of fields, including academic, art, government, military, and mountaineering.
“Naming the buildings of this new student housing community for distinguished former students highlights the college’s rich history and connects today’s students to the generations of accomplished alumni who have lived and studied on the Colorado College campus,” says President Jill Tiefenthaler.
The honorees:
• Marcellus H. Chiles, Colorado College’s only Medal of Honor recipient, was a student at CC when World War I began.
• Marian Williams Clarke, the first CC graduate, and, among the first 20 women nationally, to be elected to federal office, graduated in 1902.
• Albert R. Ellingwood, the college’s first Rhodes Scholar and an accomplished mountaineer, graduated in 1910.
• Peggy Gail Fleming, who dominated women’s figure skating from 1966 to 1968, attended Colorado College in the late 1960s.
• Glenna Maxey Goodacre, best known for designing the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., graduated in 1961.
• James Joseph Heckman, CC’s only Nobel laureate, noted for his contributions to labor economics and the microeconomics of diversity and heterogeneity, graduated in 1965.
• Frederick M. Roberts, the college’s first African American graduate and the first African American elected to the California State Legislature, graduated in 1906.
• Ken Salazar, CC’s first U.S. senator and first presidential cabinet member, served as the nation’s secretary of the interior from 2009 to 2013. He graduated in 1977.
East Campus housing, which will house 154 students in eight residential buildings, is scheduled for completion this summer. The new campus housing development, located on the southeast corner of Nevada Avenue and Uintah Street, includes a combination of cottages, small houses, and apartments that will face an outdoor common area, helping to promote a sense of neighborhood and community. The community building that anchors this grouping includes a communal kitchen and laundry facilities, as well as a second-story patio facing the mountains.
