We are very proud to announce that Juanita Stroud Martin has donated a collection of Stroud Family Papers to Special Collections. The finding aid is here, and some material is transcribed here (scroll down to “manuscript materials”).

Effie Stroud’s sophomore yearbook photo (1929); Dolphus Stroud’s senior yearbook photo (1931). All CC yearbooks are in digitalCC.

The Stroud Family has numerous ties with Colorado College. You can read about Effie Stroud Frazier ’31 and Kelley Dolphus Stroud ’31 at CC’s “Untold Stories,” and you can hear an interview with Effie Stroud in digitalCC. Tandy Stroud’s newspaper, The Voice of Colorado (1936-37) is digitized here.

Stroud family, 1929, courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Seated from left: James, Bobby, Rev. K.D., Rosa May, mother Lulu. Standing from left: Jack, Nina, Dolphus, and Effie.

Stroud Papers, Ms 0429, Box 1, Folder 1.

We are especially extra super wildly excited about Dolphus Stroud’s unpublished memoir in the Papers. It’s riveting, witty, and devastating. It covers his childhood in Colorado Springs, a stint as a busboy at the Fred Harvey Lunch Room in Chicago’s Union Station, a run (so to speak) at the Olympics, and a Colorado College education. You can read a transcription of it here.