COLORADO SPRINGS - In the room lottery for this fall, more than 400 returning students competed for 61 spaces in Edith Gaylord House, the first of Colorado College's eight-structure, $23-million Western Ridge Housing Complex that will add more than 200 on-campus housing spots by fall 2001.
With about 67 percent of the total student body currently living on campus, the aim of the new campus housing projects is to increase CC's student live-in population to 80 percent.
The 20 apartments in the three-story Edith Gaylord House come with furnished living room and bedrooms, data and cable ports, and fully functioning kitchens, which means there is no meal plan requirement. The facility also will house new, more central headquarters for campus security.
Anna Euser, a senior from Broomfield, CO, was the first Colorado College student to select an apartment in the new Western Ridge complex. Although Euser was first to stake out Western Ridge territory, junior Tyler Post from Vermont will be living there for the first semester as Euser studies abroad in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
"I can't wait to hear about the apartments and how they are," she writes as she gets settled in Maastricht. "I think that it will be a great way to have my own apartment, yet still stay close to campus and have a network connection, etc."
Gaylord House is named in honor of Edith Gaylord Harper, an alumna and college trustee since 1975 who has been a generous benefactor and major supporter of numerous programs at Colorado College. A member of the Colorado College Class of 1936, she was awarded an associate of arts degree in 1934, a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, in 1992, and has served the college as a charter trustee and trustee emerita. A former president of the Women's National Press Club, Gaylord Harper worked as a newspaperwoman for The Daily Oklahoman and The Oklahoma City Times before joining Associated Press. She also has served as an officer and director of the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
This will be the second facility on campus carrying the Gaylord name. Gaylord Hall, in the Worner Student Center, honors Edith Gaylord Harper's father, Edward King Gaylord, a long-time trustee and supporter of Colorado College and a member of the Class of 1897.
The formal dedication and ribbon cutting for Edith Gaylord House will take place on Friday, September 22, during the fall meeting of the college's board of trustees.
The Colorado College campus is transforming as it undergoes a number of construction projects on both west and east sides of campus. See the following Web site for more on the changing campus: http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/AboutCC/What'sNews/Images/WesternRidge/Welcome.html
For more information, contact Diana Smith, media relatiosn assistant, at (719) 389-6138 or [email protected].
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