FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 4/2/01 | Contact: Diana Smith, 719-389-6138  

COLORADO SPRINGS -- The Colorado Springs Century Chest will be resealed at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 20, in Colorado College's Tutt Library, located at 1021 North Cascade Avenue.

Louisa Creed, great granddaughter of city founder William Jackson Palmer, submitted a letter and photographs. 1964 CC alumnus Bill Hybl, chairman and CEO of the El Pomar Foundation and former president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, donated a set of president's medals from Sydney's Olympics. Items from the Pikes Peak Jazz and Swing Society, the Humane Society, local newspaper publishers, Hewlett Packard, a Buddhist church, numerous local organizations, as well as letters from CC students and professors, will fill the current chest, which will be reopened Dec. 31, 2100.

CC President Kathryn Mohrman and Mary Jane Rust, local author, producer and photographer, will speak at the April event. In addition to her work on the KRDO TV show "Millennium Moments," Rust produced, wrote and hosted the weekly program "Emphasis on Art" and the award-winning PBS documentary "Historic Hotels of the Rocky Mountain West." She is the author of Historic Hotels of the Rocky Mountains and Historic Churches of Colorado Springs.

On Jan. 1, 2001, 300 history buffs gathered in Tutt Library for the opening of the Colorado Springs Cen tury Chest. The steel-riveted chest contained more than 150 envelopes and packages filled with hundreds of individual letters, pamphlets, clippings, advertising buttons, fabric samples, sketches, and photographs. Digital images of the chest contents can be viewed online.

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