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- Fifty years ago, Billy Kidd (Econ’69) and Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) became the first American men to win Olympic medals in skiing.
- Lee Rase has worked at Pixar since 2005 on animated films such as Wall-E, Up and Monsters University.
- The last U.S. troops left Vietnam on March 29, 1973, in the wake of the cease-fire agreement engineered at the Paris Peace Accords. An estimated 58,000 Americans and 2 million Vietnamese died during the war. Sobering images like this one in the 1970 yearbook of the Khe Sanh airstrip fueled anti-war sentiment.
- During the 1970s and early 1980s, some 150 artists reveled in the serenity of Caribou Ranch, a destination recording studio north of Nederland, Colo.
- A record 17.15 inches of rain fell on Boulder County Sept. 9-16, 2013, shattering the area’s annual average of 15 inches.
- Ralphie runs with handlers as she prepares to tackle a new season with new athletic director Rick George.
- Bill Wardwell snapped this picture of Tulagi on The Hill at the end of his freshman year in June 1965.
- CU-Boulder environmental studies doctoral candidate Ethan Welty captured this formation of sand ripples amid sparse grassy vegetation in the Erg Zehar dune field, a two-day trek via camel from the road’s end at M’ Hamid, Morocco.
- On the morning of May 10, British actress Julie Andrews addressed graduates and their families and friends in Folsom Field, referencing well-known lines in her movies and urging them to be lifelong learners.