The Legacies Project in the CSU’s College of Health and Human Sciences was launched in 2012 as a way to chronicle the personal and professional histories of those who helped shape the college. This year, three new honorees were unveiled.
Linny Frickman, director of the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, is retiring after 29 years of shaping visual arts at CSU.
The Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center will be providing programming to the campus and community in an expanded space thanks to a transformational gift from Pat and Larry Kendall.
A student-designed, Pop Art-inspired ball gown made of recycled materials and embellished with President Tony Frank's visage is a new addition to the Avenir Museum collection.
Longtime Avenir Museum supporter Sophia Aldrich recently donated a Chinese silk brocade jacket to the permanent collection. The jacket belonged to her mother Ai-Hwa Lucy Doe Lei 雷竇愛華 (1906-1977), for whom the Avenir Museum lobby is named, making this an exceptionally meaningful gift.
On May 23, Louise Wendt White, along with several other honorees, was recognized through the Legacies Project.
“Ben was a real social worker,” Georgia Granger said remembering her husband. “He loved the students; he wanted to teach them all he could. He wanted them to look at the people, see what they are really like and help them with whatever needs they had.”
“Ben was a real social worker,” Georgia Granger said remembering her husband. “He loved the students; he wanted to teach them all he could. He wanted them to look at the people, see what they are really like and help them with whatever needs they had.”
More than 150 faculty, staff, clinicians and donors attended the groundbreaking for the C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute.
Legacies, much like the ancient city of Rome, are not built in one day. The status of greatness is earned through will, passion and countless acts of selfless contributions toward something bigger than his or her self. This is Director of the Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment and Professor Brian Dunbar’s story.