October 2013
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October 2013, Volume 1, Issue 1
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THREE-TIME ALUMNA SERVES AS PARADE GRAND MARSHAL
The CSU Department of Construction Management won the Overall Sweepstakes Award during the 2012 Colorado State University Homecoming Parade.
Ram pride builds on student tradition, lights up the night When it comes to showing Ram Pride, many students will don their green and gold, grab some streamers and make their way to Hughes Stadium Saturday to watch the big game. Some students, however, will show their dedication in grander ways. Take, for example, Steve Kenyon, this year’s president of the Construction Management Student Board of Directors, a group that has nabbed first place for its float in the Homecoming parade several years in a row. Built by a group of about 20 volunteers, the float brings together students from across campus and within different honor societies and construction industry association student chapters who dedicate several weeks to gathering materials and building physical beams that support the year’s theme. Often, the students pull late nights – a task made reasonable with the promise of pizza.
“It’s fun. It’s the time outside class where you get to work hands-on and apply the knowledge you have,” said Kenyon. “Being a part of the community and the parade, I think that’s pretty cool.” The annual parade kicks off at 4:30 Friday, Oct. 11, and is sure to showcase an exceptional set of floats, all of which display this year’s theme, #StalwartRam. Monumental symbol of CSU’s A&M tradition Later that night, Audrey Wilson and Zack Zeilik – just two of roughly 25 students in the ‘A’ Honor Brigade – will make lighting the ‘A’ above Horsetooth Reservoir a truly magical experience. The event kicks off after sunset and is made possible by volunteers from a variety of student groups, organizations and Year 2 @ CSU. “My favorite part [of last year’s event]
was organizing the students who were so team-oriented up there – they were clearly proud to be CSU Rams,” said Wilson, event coordinator and graduate student in the Student Affairs and Higher Education program. “It was a great honor to be a part of it,” added Zeilik, a senior nutrition science major. “It really solidified my pride and love for CSU.” The tradition, which spans several decades, involves hiking up to the ‘A,’ getting in place and twinkling flashlights for two straight minutes - a feat that can be easily underestimated. “We do our finger warm-ups,” Zeilik joked. “Two minutes is a lot!” The lighting of the ‘A’ follows the parade, and is part of the pep rally, bonfire and fireworks display at 6 p.m. on the Lory Student Center West Lawn.
Homecoming 5K has become local racing fixture At 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, close to 2,000 runners will form into a pack at the historic Oval and embark on a 3.1 mile journey through the Colorado State University campus. And Sherry Linnell will be smiling. The Homecoming 5K, the brainchild of Linnell and some of her cohort at CSU, has become one of the largest and most popular races in Northern Colorado. It includes everything from students to seniors to walkers to wannabe runners to small children. It also attracts a top-flight field of some of the area’s top racers. Needless to say, the race has grown a bit since its debut in 1981. “We had maybe 30 runners that first year,” Linnell said. “We had no idea at the time it would grow the way it has.” OUR NEWEST TRADITION: TARTAN PLAID “Rams Timeless Tartan” was designed by Ajay Li and selected as the university’s official tartan plaid from among 76 entries submitted by CSU Design and Merchandising students. “Rams Timeless Tartan” includes CSU’s branded colors of green, gold and pumpkin, and is registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans. Look for tartan plaid clothing and other products at the CSU Bookstore Homecoming Weekend, and get your plaid on!
Linnell still laughs when she remembers the early days of the race. For instance, to make sure runners had accurate times during the race, she would have two students with stopwatches pile into her car so she could drop them off at the oneand two-mile marks. And the order of finish was determined by handing runners numbered popsicle sticks as they crossed the finish line. “It was a pretty primitive system,” she said, laughing. The race began when Linnell and a group of fellow graduate students in the physical education department — the precursor of the Department of Health and Exercise Science — thought it would be fun to promote fitness with a 5K run on
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Dorothy Horrell is a stalwart supporter of education, a stalwart leader, a stalwart arts patron, and a stalwart Ram. Dr. Horrell (B.S. ’73, M.Ed. ’78, Ph.D. ’92) is a home economics educator Dr. Dorothy Horrell turned community college president turned private foundation executive, and now, chair of the board of governors for the CSU System, a board appointed by the governor of Colorado. “I can say honestly and humbly, whatever success I’ve had, I give a great deal of credit to my experience as a 4-H member,” Horrell says. It was 4-H that brought her to CSU, 4-H that took her into an education career, and 4-H that taught her the skills needed to be a leader: work as part of a team, organize projects, do public speaking and develop resiliency when things don’t always go as planned. She even went to Taiwan through the 4-H IFYE program to teach nutrition. “I studied Mandarin Chinese so that I could interact socially,” she says. “The entire experience was life changing and prepared me to appreciate differences, be self-reliant, and showed me I could do most anything I put my mind to.” Dr. Horrell has put her mind to many things. She worked at the state level on funding for home economics and vocational education, became president of Red Rocks Community College, overseeing a significant physical transformation of the campus, became president of the Colorado Community College System, and ended her working career as the president of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, where she led the Foundation in sharpening its focus on the arts and helped create the Livingston Fellowship Program that invests in high potential leaders in the nonprofit sector. “Being able to step up when the need exists, helping bring diverse interests together to shape a shared vision that has an outcome that is beneficial to all, and working with others to move things forward in a positive fashion has been the key to whatever success I’ve had personally and as a leader. I’ve been blessed to have jobs I’ve loved,” she says. She will now apply her vision, forward momentum, and positive attitude to the CSU System Board of Governors as their chairperson. “The land-grant mission is something for which I have high regard and respect, and the value it returns to the citizenry of this state is manifest in many, many ways. For me to have an opportunity to support the institution, help it continue doing the work it’s doing, and address some of the challenges we’re facing is really a privilege and an honor,” she says. CSU will honor Dr. Horrell on Fri., Oct. 11 as the Homecoming Parade grand marshal, where she will lead the parade through Old Town and into campus. Horrell’s definition of a stalwart Ram (the parade theme) is, “You know what you believe in and you stand strong for that. It’s a commitment to a sense of purpose that leads one to ask, ‘how can I help? What can I do to keep it strong for the benefit of future generations?’”
CANS AROUND THE OVAL
CSU CARES –DISASTER RELIEF
POSTER SHOW
CSU’s 27th annual Cans Around the Oval will be held Oct. 16 on the historic Oval. As the largest one-day food drive in northern Colorado, Cans Around the Oval works with the Food Bank for Larimer County to raise food and donations. This year, organizers of the event seek to collect more than 60,000 pounds of food and $50,000 in donations. The event is sponsored by CSU’s Student Leadership, Involvement and Community Engagement (SLiCE) office.
CSUCares is a fund, created by President Tony Frank during the High Park Fire, to help CSU students, employees, and retirees who have been devastated by natural disasters. “Just because the rain has stopped doesn’t mean the crisis has passed,” said CSU Head Football Coach, Jim McElwain. Since the floods, the fund has helped 30 CSU families, 20 of them students, impacted by the recent devastation. Please support CSUCares by giving a gift today at www.colostate.edu.
The 18th biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition hosted by the Department of Art at Colorado State University features works of top poster artists and designers worldwide. Now in its 34th year, the biennial event is the only exhibition of its kind in the United States. The main exhibition is now open through Oct. 31 in the Clara Hatton Gallery in the Visual Arts Building located on the main CSU campus.
HALLOWEEN ORGAN EXTRAVAGANZA CSU’s wildly popular annual concert, performed on the world-renowned Casavant organ, features ghoulishly-great organ music performed by costumed performers, including CSU organ professor Joel Bacon, organ students and special guest musicians. The highlight is Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which has become the “unofficial” theme song of Halloween. Join the University Center for the Arts at 7 p.m., 9 p.m., or 11 p.m. Oct. 31 for a truly spook-tacular evening. For tickets, visit csuartstickets.com.