Caffeinated
Thank you for your excellent work with the聽Coloradan. I very much enjoy reading it. The article on coffee is very good: 鈥�Are We Over-Caffeinated?鈥� [Summer 2014 issue]. It is comforting to read that my four cups a day limit of coffee is within normal limits.
Geary Larrick听(顿惭耻蝉鈥�84)
Stevens Point, Wis.
What a fantastic article. Thank you聽Christie Sounart聽(Jour鈥�12) for the introduction to聽Murray Carpenter鈥檚 (Psych鈥�85) fascinating book. It completely opened my eyes about where caffeine is 鈥渕ade.鈥� I never thought that a vast amount of caffeine was synthetic. When I read that Monsanto created it back in the 1940鈥檚, I threw my magazine across the room.
I look forward to each issue of the聽Coloradan, so please continue to bring us such fascinating articles.
Sandra Roach听(贵颈濒尘鈥�90)
Winnetka, Calif.
Study Abroad Talk
The Summer 鈥�14 issue of the聽Coloradan聽magazine had an article in the Campus News section about the increase in (CU) students going abroad [Hindsight is 2020, Spring 2014]. And those coming to CU to study. This is great news in an age where less understanding and tolerance of different cultures and views seem on the increase.
I hope that CU is 鈥渨alking its talk鈥� internally, because when I was accepted to the CU 1983 year abroad in Japan program, I had just been admitted to the CU business school. To my astonishment, the b-school would not entertain retaining me as a business student while abroad in 鈥�83, despite Japan being the second largest free-world economy. So I dropped business as a major and instead focused on Japanese language. Retention and graduation rates are also tied to broader views and tolerance.
Tim Thomas听(闯辫苍鈥�85)
Durango, Colo.
Peace In Sight
Thank you for your article 鈥�Peace in Sight鈥� [Summer 2014 issue]. I enjoyed reading about my friend聽Jordan Campbell聽(Comm鈥�91). We worked together at the REI store in Westminster around the turn of the century.
I climbed Mount Holy Cross with him shortly after he came back from Nepal. He was not feeling well mentally, physically and emotionally. I like to believe the successful climb helped him recover from his affliction.
Sounds like he鈥檚 doing well now.
Bob Eckhardt听(惭贰诲耻鈥�59)
Loveland, Colo.
Rocky Flats Memories
Your short feature 鈥�Then 鈥� June 6, 1989鈥� in the Summer 2014 issue about Rocky Flats took me back to the day we were there. Four CU graduates from one family:聽Dan Gale Sr.聽(Edu鈥�51, MA鈥�60),聽Margaret Ann Venditti Gale听(惭别诲罢别肠丑鈥�50),听Dan Gale Jr.聽(Phil鈥�77) and聽Jane Gale聽(Soc鈥�77). Dan鈥檚 scrapbook had the page [of photos from the event] identified as 鈥淩ing Around Rocky Flats,鈥� 10-15-83.
Col. (Ret) Daniel Gale聽(Edu鈥�51, MA鈥�60)
Pueblo, Colo.
JFK鈥檚 Assassination
Paul Danish聽(Hist鈥�65) and I were staffers on the聽Colorado Daily聽in the early 鈥�60s and his column, 鈥�History鈥檚 First Draft鈥� [Summer 2014 issue], brought back vivid memories of that terrible Friday, especially his reference to teletype bells in the聽Daily听苍别飞蝉谤辞辞尘.
I was a newbie working in the Denver bureau of United Press International the morning the world turned upside down. I was assigned the desk filing state news to our radio/TV clients in Colorado and Wyoming, including weather, crop and livestock reports. All around me were the incessant five bells announcing another grim bulletin from Dallas. Then came the five-bell flash that JFK was dead. It was at the end of a long, gut-wrenching shift that I was informed I had been filing all of yesterday鈥檚 state news 鈥� and in the chaos no one had noticed (or really cared) except the bureau manager.
Paul, John Mitchell was right (he was seldom wrong): Despite your initial reservations, you were obliged to put out that extra, warts and all. I鈥檓 sure you took some heat because of the mistakes, but that鈥檚 how we learned. I hope you framed that broadsheet extra and hung it in a prominent place. I wish I could have framed my lapse amid the ringing bells; it might have avoided some more to come.
The clattering teletypes are gone now, but their bells that day still haunt a generation of Unipressers.
Jack Dryden听(闯辞耻谤鈥�63)
Casa Grande, Ariz.