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GORDON ALLOTT
A&S’27, Law’29
U.S. Senator; Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, 1951-1955 |
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DICK ANDERSON
Mktg’68
Professional Football Player; Member of the legendary 1972 Miami Dolphins World Champion team |
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JOSEPHINE ANTOINE
A&S’29, HonDocHum’35
Professional Opera Singer |
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BENJAMIN BAILAR
Geol’55
U.S. Postmaster General, 1975-1978 |
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STEPHEN BECHTEL, JR.
EngrEx’47, HonDocSci’81
President of the Bechtel Group |
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DAVID BOLEN
Mktg’50, MS’50
U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland; Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic; in 1948 became the first CU student to make an Olympic team |
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HANK BROWN
Acct’61, Law’69
U.S. Senator, President of CU 2005-2008, President of University of Northern Colorado |
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RALPH CARR
BA’10, Law’12
Former Colorado Governor; champion for Japanese American civil rights during WWII |
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CAROL CALLAN
MPE’77, MBA’87
Assistant Executive Director, USA Basketball Women’s Programs |
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LYNNE CHENEY
MEngLit’64
Former Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities; married to former Vice President Cheney |
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WILLIAM ‘BUD’ DAVIS
PE’51, EdD’63
President, Idaho State University 1965-1975; President, University of New Mexico 1975-1982; Chancellor, Oregon University system; Chancellor, Louisiana State University 1989-1996; author of Glory Colorado! A History of the University of Colorado, Volumes 1 & 2 |
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W. EDWARDS DEMING
MS’24
Renowned expert on quality in manufacturing; revolutionized quality and dependability of Japan’s production which turned it into an economic superpower |
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PATRICIA ELLIOT
A&S’62
Professional television and Broadway actress |
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RUTH FLOWERS
A&S’24, MEdu’30
Head of the North Carolina College Department of Romance Languages; was CU’s second black female graduate after having been refused a diploma in 1920 from Boulder High School
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CHRIS FOWLER
Jour’85
Television Sportscaster- ESPN |
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MICHAEL GELMAN
Jour’83
Television Executive Producer for Live with Regis and Kelly; youngest producer of a national talk show
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TIM GILL
ApMath’76
Founder, Chair, and Chief Technology Officer, Quark Inc.; created the Gill Foundation in support of gay and lesbian educational and social justice organizations |
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VALORIE GOODALL
MMus’59
Co-Founder and Producing Director, Rutgers Opera Company |
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JIM GRAY
Jour’81
Television sportscaster for ESPN, CBS, and NBC; Emmy Award Winner |
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BARBARA GROGAN
Psych’69
Founder and President, Western Industrial Contractors; first female chair of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce |
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DAVID GRUSIN
Mus’56, HonDocHum’89
Composer |
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PHILIP HART
Soc’66
Retired University of Massachusetts sociology professor; Author, filmmaker and expert on early black aviators |
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JAMES ‘JIMMIE’ HEUGA
PolSci’73
U.S. Olympic Skier |
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THOMAS HORNBEIN
A&S’52
Medical Scientist; first person to ascend Mount Everest via the treacherous West Ridge; designed breathing mask that made climbing at high altitudes possible
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ROBERT ‘BOB’ HOWSAM
A&S Ex’40
President and CEO of the Cincinnatti Reds |
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VICKI HUDDLESTON
A&S’64
U.S. Ambassador to Mali and the Republic of Madagascar; U.S. Diplomat to Cuba, leading the State Department’s Offices of Cuban Affairs |
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WILLIAM HYBL
Law’67
President of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1996 to 2000; U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 2001; CEO and chair of El Pomar Foundation since 1973 |
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HALE IRWIN, JR.
Mktg’68
Professional Golfer |
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JEANNE JACKSON
Fin’74
CEO, Banana Republic, 1995-2000; CEO walmart.com, 2000-2002 |
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JO ANN JOSELYN
ApMath’65, MAstro’67, PhD’78
First female and first American secretary general of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
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WILLIAM JOVANOVICH
Engl’41
Publisher, Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich; published such authors as George Orwell, Charles Lindbergh, and Alice Walker
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RUTH KEESLING
Jour’53
President of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, 1987-1991 |
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BILLY KIDD
Econ’69
Olympic Skier; won Silver in 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
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RICHARD KNOWLTON
Econ/Geog’54
Chair, Hormel Foods Corporation |
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CYNTHIA LAWRENCE
Mus’83, MFA’87
Professional Opera Singer |
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LARRY LINVILLE
Engr Ex’61
Professional Actor |
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CHARLES LORY
Phys’01, MS’02, HonDocLaw’09
President of Colorado State University, 1909-1940 |
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DOUG LOONEY
Jour’63
Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
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THEODORE MAIMAN
EngrPhys’49
Developed the first laser |
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BILL MAROLT
Bus’67
President and CEO, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association |
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SANFORD MCDONNELL
MechEngr’48
President and CEO, McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
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R.C. MERCURE, JR.
Phys’51, MS’56, PhD’57
Co-Founder and President, Ball Brothers Research Corporation |
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GLENN MILLER
A&S Ex’26, HonDocHum’84
Formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra; member of the Army Air Force band during WWII; won the first gold record awarded by the recording industry for selling one million copies of
Chatanooga Choo Choo |
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JERRY MCMORRIS
Mgmt’62
Former Owner, Colorado Rockies Baseball Team |
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WILLIAM MOONEY
A&S’58
Actor; played Paul Martin on All My Children |
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EARL MORRIS
A&S’14, MA’15, HonDocSci’42
Archeaologist |
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TONY ORTEGA
BA’80, MFA’95
Artist |
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ALVA A. ‘GOV’ PADDOCK
A&S’10
Editor; Historian |
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BOB PALMER
Jour’60
News Anchor |
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TREY PARKER
A&S Ex’93
Co-Creator and Executive Producer, South Park |
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GLENN PORZAK
PolSci’70, Law’73
Led the first American team to climb two peaks over 26,000 feet on the same trip: Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse; fourth American to climb the “Seven Summits” |
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ROBERTA RAMO
Hum’64
First female president of the American Bar Association
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ROBERT REDFORD
A&S Ex’58, HonDocHum’87
Actor, Director and Producer; Founded the Sundance Institute |
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DEAN REED
A&S’60
Professional Musician and Actor |
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RICK REILLY
Jour’81
Back page columnist for ESPN The Magazine; Author of “Life of Reilly” column in Sports Illustrated; co-author of the movie “Leatherheads”; founder of the anti-malaria effort Nothing But Nets |
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ROY ROMER
Law’52
Governor of Colorado; Chair, Democratic National Committee; Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District |
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JOE ROMIG
Phys’63, PhD AstroPhys’75
Astrophysicist; 2-time All-American football player and Rhodes Scholar |
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LUIS ROVIRA
Econ/PolSci’48, Law’50
Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice
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KEN RUTHERFORD
PolSci’85, ExecMBA’93
Co-Founder of the Landmine Survivor’s Network, part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997; Professor of political science at Missouri State University |
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WILEY RUTLEDGE
Law’22, HonDocLaw’40
Supreme Court Justice, 1943-1949 |
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SPENCER SILVER
ChemPhD’66
Inventor, Post-it® Notes adhesive |
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MARY DECKER SLANEY
Ex’79
World-Class Runner |
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LEROY SMITH
IntlAf’62
U.S. Embassy Counsel, First Secretary; Paris, France |
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JEAN WILSON STAFFORD
A&S’36, MA’38, HonDocHum’72
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author |
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MATT STONE
Art, Math’93
Co-Creator and Executive Producer, South Park
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PETER TEETS
ApMath’63, MS’65, HonDocSci’90
President, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 1997-1999; Under Secretary of the United States Air Force in 2001 |
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WILLIAM TOOMEY
Jour’62
U.S. Olympic Decathlete |
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LLEWELLYN THOMPSON
A&S’28, HonDocLaw’58
U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1957-1962 |
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DALTON TRUMBO
A&S Ex’29
Screenplay Writer |
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MARILYN VAN DERBUR
Engl’60
Miss America 1958 |
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BYRON WHITE
A&S’38, HonDoc’63
US Supreme Court Justice; Rhodes Scholar; All-American football player |
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CLAYTON WHITE
Psych’34, MD’42
Medical Scientist; Rhodes Scholar; worked to develop the field of blast biology |
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MURIEL SIBELL WOLLE
MA’30
CU Professor, Artist |
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JOHN WOOTEN
PE’59
Professional Football Player |
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STEVE WOZNIAK
Engr Ex’69, HonDocSci’89
Co-founder, Apple Computer |
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MARLENE TSENG YU
Art’67
Artist |
