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(10-26-2020 10:51 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(10-26-2020 09:54 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Two observations:

1) Jarell White was an absolute beast. He looked like a man among boys. Why haven't I noticed him until now?

2) It was awesome that they mentioned Sandy Koufax on the broadcast. UC has 3 alumni who everyone in the USA has heard of. Two of them get talked about all the time: Oscar Robertson and William Howard Taft. The third, Koufax, is rarely mentioned.

(I also think that we should also be mentioning a 4th, US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Charles Dawes, but that's another topic)

Sandy Koufax is not an alumni. Neither is Col. Paul Tibbetts who dropped the first well deserved A Bomb on Japan. Attending does not make one an alumni in my mind. But if you accept any attendance as "alumni" they qualify.

Actually, no individual person is an alumni, because alumni is plural. The singular form is alumnus (or alumna, if a female). Isn't Latin taught in high school anymore? Three years of Latin was mandatory when I attended Walnut Hills back in the early Cretaceous.

All of my kids attended Mesa College (just down the road in Grand Junction, CO) for a year to get their 101-courses out of the way before transferring to either CU Boulder or CSU to earn their degrees. The youngest of them, a CSU grad, is 47 years old, and he still gets mail and appeals for money from the Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University) alumni association from time to time.