{"id":12696,"date":"2017-12-12T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:54","slug":"east-campus-honors-distinguished-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/12\/east-campus-honors-distinguished-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"East Campus Honors Distinguished Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

CC honored 10 distinguished former students at a ribbon-cutting and dedication of the East Campus Housing Community during Family and Friends Weekend. Eight residential buildings, a community center, and a central courtyard bear their names.<\/p>\n

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Residential Buildings<\/h2>\n

Marcellus H. Chiles<\/b>, Colorado College\u2019s only Medal of Honor recipient, was a student at CC when World War I began.<\/p>\n

Marian Williams Clarke<\/b>, the first CC graduate and among the first 20 women nationally to be elected to federal office, graduated in 1902.<\/p>\n

Albert R. Ellingwood<\/b>, the college\u2019s first Rhodes Scholar and an accomplished mountaineer, graduated in 1910.<\/p>\n

Peggy Fleming<\/b>, who dominated women’s figure skating from 1966 to 1968, attended Colorado College in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

Glenna Goodacre<\/b>, best known for designing the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar and the Vietnam Women\u2019s Memorial in Washington, D.C., graduated in 1961.<\/p>\n

James Heckman<\/b>, CC’s only Nobel laureate, noted for his contributions to labor economics and the microeconomics of diversity and heterogeneity, graduated in 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederick M. Roberts<\/b>, the college\u2019s first African-American graduate and the first African American elected to the California State Legislature, graduated in 1906.<\/p>\n

Ken Salazar<\/b>, CC\u2019s first U.S. senator and first presidential cabinet member, served as the nation\u2019s secretary of the interior from 2009 to 2013. He graduated in 1977.<\/p>\n

Courtyard<\/h2>\n

Laura Hershey<\/b>, poet and essayist, world traveler, feminist, and advocate for disability rights, graduated in 1983.<\/p>\n

Community Center<\/h2>\n

William J. Hybl<\/b>, one of the nation\u2019s premier advocates for and examples of public service, whose career spans decades of local, national, and international involvement, graduated in 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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