{"id":1194,"date":"2009-11-30T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:00:46","slug":"the-mountain-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2009\/11\/the-mountain-endures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain Endures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo by Will Powers<\/p><\/div>
\nDear Alumni and Parents,<\/p>\n

Each year when I greet the new class of Colorado College students, I urge them to orient themselves around the mountain. Pikes Peak was here long before CC and will be here long after, and in the meantime we get to claim it as our own \u2014 the touchstone against which we are \u201cnestled\u201d (to use the language of CC publications of yore).<\/p>\n

Our mountain is a representation of endurance, of continuity, of sustainability. I tell the students that they need to hone in themselves what they want to be long lasting. Who do they want to be? What do they want to stand for?<\/p>\n

The students in the Class of 2013 are probably still too young to be thinking about what their legacies will be, however. I imagine most of the alumni featured in this magazine did not have a notion of leaving a legacy either, at that age \u2014 but many of them have done so. Most notably, the story of the Bemis family is one of an extraordinary legacy to Colorado College.<\/p>\n

You will find this theme of continuity elsewhere in this issue. Read the moving story of Lily and her CC journey, made possible by the generosity of the Winkler family. Read about aCClimate 14, a campus effort to advance environmental sustainability and make it visible. Read about Opening Convocation and Fall Conference, Colorado College traditions that mark the inauguration of every new academic year.<\/p>\n

The cycle continues. The mountain endures.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Richard F. Celeste<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Board of Trustees<\/td>\nDavid Lampton P \u201900<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Washington, D.C.<\/td>\n		Raymond Petros Jr. \u201972 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Golden, Colo.<\/td>\n		David van Diest Skilling \u201955<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Palm Desert, Calif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margaret Allon \u201981<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.<\/td>\n		Elizabeth Larned \u201983<\/strong>
\n \u2013 San Francisco, Calif.
\n (Secretary of the Board)<\/em><\/td>\n		Jack Pottle \u201977<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.<\/td>\n		Michael Slade \u201979<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Seattle, Wash.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neal Baer \u201978 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Los Angeles, Calif.<\/td>\n		Amy Shackelford Louis \u201984<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Hinsdale, Ill.<\/td>\n		Adam Press \u201984<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Los Angeles, Calif.<\/td>\n		Brian Thomson \u201985<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Burghart ’77 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/td>\n		Robert Manning \u201969<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.
\n (Co-Vice-Chair of the Board)<\/em><\/td>\n		Harold Price P \u201975 \u201976<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Laguna Beach, Calif.<\/td>\n		Hans Utsch P \u201992 \u201995<\/strong>
\n \u2013 New York, N.Y.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Campbell \u201967<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Englewood, Colo.<\/td>\n		Manuel Martinez \u201974<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.<\/td>\n		Jane Rawlings \u201970<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Pueblo, Colo.<\/td>\n		Colburn Wilbur<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Los Altos, Calif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Celeste <\/strong>
\n \u2013 President of Colorado College<\/td>\n		Margaret Mathies \u201957<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Claremont, Calif.<\/td>\n		Edward Robson \u201954 P \u201979<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Phoenix, Ariz.<\/td>\n		Brian Williamson \u201996<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Wilmington, Del.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Chalik \u201967 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Piedmont, Calif.<\/td>\n		Chad Milton \u201969<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Prairie Village, Kan.<\/td>\n		Robert Ross<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Oklahoma City, Okla.<\/td>\n		John Wold \u201975<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Denver, Colo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daniel Cooper \u201966 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Buena Vista, Colo.<\/td>\n		Eben Moulton \u201968<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Cambridge, Mass.<\/td>\n		Ken Salazar \u201977<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Washington, D.C.
\n (Honorary Trustee)<\/em><\/td>\n		Nancy Woodrow \u201968<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Wayzata, Minn.
\n (Co-Vice-Chair of the Board)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Hybl \u201964 <\/strong>
\n \u2013 Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/td>\n		Douglas Norberg \u201962<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Seattle, Wash.<\/td>\n		Robert Selig \u201961<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Woodside, Calif.<\/td>\n		Suzanne Woolsey P \u201997 \u201998 \u201900<\/strong>
\n \u2013 Harwood, Md.
\n (Chair of the Board)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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