Old CU

Larry Zimmer served as “The Voice of the Buffaloes” for 42 seasons

In the late 1950s, a tiny diner on The Hill called the Pied Piper was a hangout for CU students.

In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU Boulder’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, Colorado, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.

In 1968, Sandy Hildner became CU’s first woman Olympian after training with the men’s ski team under coach Bob Beattie.

Facts about a mason bee found in 1936.

How computer science started at CU.

In early 2024, work will begin on a new structural restoration project to benefit the building.

Our readers weigh in on the past issue.

Dance cards were common on college campuses in the mid-1900s.

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla died aboard the Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003.