Colorado College Bulletin

Flower Power

My Colorado College Bulletin arrived in the mail today. It was an awesome issue! It was the first one I've read from cover to cover in quite some time. I usually take time only to read about my classmates in the back. The cover caught my interest, and every page had something wonderful, interesting, poignant, or fun. Thanks to you and to all those responsible for a great issue of the Bulletin!

--Nancy Pattee Malitz '74

Just spent part of my Saturday morning reading the February 2000 CC Bulletin. I had to jump online and let you all know that was the best one I have read in the past 25 plus years. From the cover (thanks to Kathy Darrow Warren), to the blend of articles, and on through to the new format of TigerWire ... just really well done. Remembering Jim, Science to Go, showing what CC does to impact the hometown, the Cruciverbalist, the Climbing Toward History reprint, and the closing Tribute to Jodi Carson ... kudos to all who wrote and to the way it was delivered. Looking forward to the next issues.

--John Kessel '74
USA Volleyball Director

I like the flowers on the cover of the issue of February 2000. I also enjoyed the article by K.D. Warren '81. As I don't know the wild flowers by name, I was sorry that you did not identify them for a botanically challenged CC grad like me.

--Berta Lou Clarke '57

Note: Non-botanists can find the names of the featured flora here.

'35 Grad Online

Congratulations on putting out the most attractive Bulletin ever. It is interesting to be the "sole survivor" of the Class of l935!

I grew up in the Springs, went to grade school and high school there. These were Depression years, so it was natural that I would go to CC and live at home. Mary lived in Pueblo. She was able to afford only one year at CC, but it was worthwhile. She snatched me! We have had a great life together.

Is there any way to get word of my Web site out before the alumni? Cloudman.com. My mission in life today is turning people to the beauty of the sky and the great free cloud show therein.

--John A. Day '35 aka Cloudman

China Connection

I always enjoy reading the CC alumni magazine, and particularly enjoyed reading "The Ultimate Liberal Arts Experience" in your column. Enjoyed is not the right word -- I actually shouted out upon seeing that President Mohrman will be spending several months at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

I have roots in Chengdu. My father, Gordon Manly, was born in Chengdu on Sept. 24, 1908. He lived there until about age 10, when he was sent to Walsenberg, Colo., because of health (TB) concerns. My dad attended Colorado College for a year (late 1920's) and that's how I first heard of the college.

His parents, Florence Brown Manly and W.E. Manly, were married in Shanghai in 1896 and moved to Chengdu, where they were Methodist missionaries. Their first daughter, Marian E. Manly, was born in Chengdu in 1898 and practiced medicine there for many years. The second daughter, Grace Manly (after whom I got my middle name, as did my younger daughter), was born around 1901 and died in China in 1942. My Aunt Marian was an author -- the pen name Han Suyin (Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Birdless Summer).

So for half a century there was a Manly presence in Chengdu.

--Jean Manly Bucciarelli '61

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