{"id":5099,"date":"2012-04-20T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:40:15","slug":"cc-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2012\/04\/cc-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"CC connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Daniel<\/a>Daniel Kraft \u201911<\/strong> took the long way home after graduation in May. With a freshly minted diploma in hand, declaring him a graduate of Colorado College with a degree in chemistry, Kraft put on his backpack and started walking approximately 300 miles home to Grand Junction, Colo.<\/p>\n

He left CC on June 22 and headed west over Pikes Peak via Barr Trail, then down to Mueller State Park, Eleven Mile Reservoir, Salida,\u00a0\u00a0 Tincup Pass, Taylor Park Reservoir, Crested Butte, Paonia Reservoir, Grand Mesa, and finally, Grand Junction. He arrived home on July 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought this was a perfect way to end my college career, to show that it really isn\u2019t that far from home to college, even though it may have seemed so,\u201d Kraft said.<\/p>\n

However, the Bulletin would not know of this \u201cfeat\u201d if not for an encounter Kraft had with a CC alumna along the way.<\/p>\n

Kraft sent an email last fall that read, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be writing this if it wasn\u2019t for a lady I met outside of Crested Butte on July 6 of this year. I was in the middle of walking home from CC to the house where I grew up in Grand Junction and I met a woman who had graduated from CC after the first year of the Block Plan\u2019s existence. I told her what I was doing and she insisted that I contact the alumni magazine to inform them of my adventures. I\u2019m sorry that it has taken me so long to inform you all of this but nevertheless I am getting it done now. She said that she was hoping to be able to read the alumni magazine and see my name in there and say, \u2018Hey, that\u2019s the guy I met!\u2019 Hopefully she will get her wish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alumna Kraft met alongside a stream high in the mountains outside Crested Butte was Martha Warner \u201972<\/strong>, who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political economy and is now a judge on the 4th District Court of Appeals in Florida. \u201cI was delighted to find in him that CC still inspires that sense of individualism and accomplishment,\u201d she said. \u201cI was also glad that he wrote to the magazine and I could see it. The mother in me wanted to know that he got home OK.\u201d\"map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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