UA. Colorado State University Archives

Abstract Lionel Vernon Baldwin (1932-2019) began his tenure at Colorado State University in the Department of Civil Engineering in 1961 and served as the Dean of the College of Engineering from 1966 until 1984, leaving his administrative duties to return to research and teaching. In 1984 he founded National Technology University, which was an outgrowth of SURGE (State University Resources in Graduate Education), also founded by Baldwin. He served as the president of NTU until his retirement in 2000....

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Llewellyn A. Moorhouse was an agricultural economist and was the head of the department of economics and sociology at Colorado Agricultural College from 1922-1944. The collection includes journals, farm data, photograph albums, and photo negatives.

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Louis Russell Weber (1901-1989), a noted professor of physics, was instrumental in developing the physics program at Colorado State University. The collection contains correspondence, personal and family histories, publications, and compact discs.

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Luther C. Bragg, an entomologist and naturalist, was the curator of the College Museum of Colorado Agricultural College from 1905 to 1911. The collection contains a daily diary, a publication reprint, and photographs.

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M. Daniel Vanderbilt was a professor of civil engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), a noted researcher on slab analysis and design of wood structural systems, and an early advocate for the use of computer software modeling in civil engineering. Materials include teaching materials, research, office files, and publications.

Abstract Margaret Prendergast McLean (1878-1961) graduated from Colorado State University in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She went on to become a well-known author on the subject of speech and taught at many prestigious drama schools across the United States. In 1945, Colorado State University named her an Honor Alumnus and bestowed an honorary doctorate on her. Photographs of her college classmates comprise the bulk of the collection. Photographs of other individuals, one postcard, and a...

Abstract Martha Denney, Administrative Professional Emeritus, retired in 2011 as the CSU (Colorado State University) Director of International Education. She worked in the Eastern Plains for CSU Extension several years before joining the Office of International Programs in 1982. She served as Coordinator of International Training, was head of the International Education department (now International Initiatives) and helped develop the International Studies major into the university curriculum before...

Abstract Mary Ontiveros attended CSU from 1969 to 1973. Beginning In 1974, she served in a variety of leadership positions at the university, including as executive director of admissions, associate vice president in the Division of Enrollment and Access, and as a faculty member in the School of Education. In 2010, Ontiveros named CSU’s first vice president for diversity and built the office from the ground up during her 10 years in the role until she retired in 2020. Mary Ontiveros was...

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Paul Opler is a semi-retired professor of entomology in the Agricultural Biology department at Colorado State University (CSU). He is also the assistant director of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity on campus. Opler has authored over 200 books and papers on Lepidoptera. Materials include publications, drafts, galleys, logs, and audiovisual materials.

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Pauline Birky-Kreutzer, a research associate with the Colorado State University Research Foundation, was part of the staff that conducted a Congressional feasibility study on a youth corps training program, which became the foundation for the U.S. Peace Corps in 1961. The collection primarily documents the establishment of the Peace Corps and the role played by CSU. Material types include newspaper clipping, reports, and photographs.

Abstract R. (Royer) Burnell Held was a professor in the Department of Recreation and Watershed Resources from 1967 to 1987. In addition to his role at CSU, Held was active in the community as a member of the Greenbelt Association which encouraged planned preservation of open space, as natural areas and recreation sites in both the city and the county. He was also a member of the National Recreation and Parks Association, the American Planning Association, and the Soil Conservation Society of...

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Ralph E. Christoffersen was the tenth president of Colorado State University. The collection includes planning documents for his investiture ceremony, gifts from King Saud University, and copies of speeches.

Abstract Ray E. (Ray Edmund) Stanford was the author of "Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain states," co-authored "The Atlas of Western USA Butterflies, Including Adjacent Portions of Canada and Mexico," and donated more than 100,000 insect specimens from his personal collection to the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity which is part of the Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management within the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University. The collection contains...

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Robert B. Broad was a herdsman at Colorado Agricultural College beginning in 1916. He specialized in the care and judging of swine and was an active participant in stock shows. The collection includes letters, expenditures, receipts, and information on state, regional, and national stock shows and fairs, writings, and a small box of glass plates negatives on various animals and animal anatomy.

Abstract Robert N. Cavarra was an organist, musicologist, and published composer who taught from 1963 to 2000 as faculty for Colorado State University's Department of Music, Theater and Dance. During his time at CSU, he facilitated bringing a Wurlitzer theater organ to the Student Center Theater. The collection contains correspondence, documents, research, journals, papers, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, drawings, blueprints, posters, programs, sheet music, books, photographs, cassette tapes,...

Abstract Ronald W. Walker (1947-1995) was a professor of German at Colorado State University (CSU) from 1979 to 1995. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1969, he spent a year in Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. Upon returning to the United States, Walker was drafted into the U.S. Army following a student deferment and fought in the Vietnam War. The collection documents his time in Germany, basic training, and Vietnam. Included in the collection...

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The collection contains the professional papers of Roy M. Green, the sixth president of Colorado A&M. Materials include correspondence, memos and reports from various campus and national committees and councils, budgets, and financial reports.

Abstract Ruth Jocelyn Wattles (1888-1985) was the first official historian of Colorado State University from 1943 through 1946. She also taught English classes and led the drama club at the school for almost forty years. Types of materials include biographies, correspondence, department histories, financial materials, manuscript drafts, newspaper clippings, reports, statistical data, and subject index cards. The collection documents the first seventy-five years of Colorado State University from the...

Abstract Ruth Alexander is a professor emeritus on transitional retirement with the Department of History as well as a Principal Investigator in the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University. Alexander was born on March 23, 1954, in New York City to Charles K. Alexander and Margaret Kachur Alexander. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1976 from the City University of New York, and her M.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983, both in History....

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Sidney Heitman (1924-1993), a professor of history at Colorado State University and a specialist in the study of emigration of people from the former Soviet Union. The collection includes research on Nikolai Bukharin and correspondence regarding the Rocky Mountain Social Sciences Association Journal.