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- Clifford A. "Bud" Hurd
- Note: Referred to, in error, as Bob Hurd in the article, "Time Writes All History"
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- Clifford A. "Cliff" Knesel Jr.
- He grew up in the borough of Staten Island in New York City. His father was a US Army veteran and sanitation worker. His mother was a homemaker. He played baseball and football in high school. When he was seventeen, he joined the Ready Reserves, because it gave him a steady salary and provided him basic training. He served in the United States Army from June 1966 to May 1971. He did three tours in Vietnam: One with the 5th Special Forces Group in 1968, and two with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in 1969 and 1970. He trained as a Special Forces Medic. After the war, he lived for a time in Grand Junction, Colorado before moving to Gillette, Wyoming. He was a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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- Clifford Alderson
- Cliff Alderson was born in Illinois on March 1, 1907. His family moved to Boulder in 1908. Cliff married Hazel Graham on February 12, 1933. He served three terms on the Lafayette City Council and helped to develop the city’s first swimming pool. Cliff also served as president of the Lafayette Lions Club and was 2nd president of the Chamber of Commerce.
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- Clifford Granville Houston
- He was born in Sugar City, Colorado to Bertha and Elmer Houston, and grew up on farms in Otero and Crowley Counties. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. He began working at Grand Junction State Junior College in 1929 (now Colorado Mesa University), and became the institution's third dean, a role he served from 1932-1937. He was the first administrator to actively seek students in the community in order to raise attendance rates at the college, according to oral history interviewee, Mary Rait. In his oral history interview, Houston recounts creating the first information brochure for the college in order to increase enrollment following the stock market crash of 1929, working to increase enrollment from outside Mesa County, helping students find 4-year institutions to continue their educations after graduation from Mesa College, and helping secure scholarship funding. According to former Mesa College employee William Hartman, Houston was instrumental in the passage of the bill that gained state funding for Mesa College, and even helped write the bill. He was also, according to one-time student Albert Rude, a "very capable lecturer," and his classes were always full. He left the college in 1937 and was replaced by Horace Wubban. Houston married Shirley L. Sickenberger, daughter of prominent surgeon Jess Sickenberger, in Grand Junction's First Presbyterian Church in 1931. In 1937, they moved with their family to Boulder, where Clifford took a position as Dean of Extension at CU Boulder. *Photograph from the 1949 University of Colorado annual, The Coloradan.