Lessons from the Field
Casper College’s newest president offers seven ways that his training as a biologist makes him a better leader.
A Passion for Casper College: A President’s Story
With more than 18 years of working in higher education, Divine is the sixth president in the college’s history. A career in academia, however, was not originally on Divine’s radar. “I had planned to primarily study desert big horn sheep by the time I received my doctorate,” he says.
Backwards Distilling Company: A Spirited Family Business
It is trying at times, dealing with a combination of new business issues, family issues, and family business issues all at the same time.
Hidden Campus: Armory Monument
Resting in the footprint of nearly 60 years of Casper military history, a modest bronze monument commemorates Casper’s National Guard Armory.
James Reeb, Civil Rights Martyr: A Granddaughter Remembers
People rarely connect Casper, Wyoming, with the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
A Look Back in Time: Fort Caspar Prepares to Celebrate 150 Years
By: Lisa Thalken The Wind River Dancers from Riverton, will be performing the first day of the 150th Anniversary events at Fort Caspar. Today when you drive through west Casper, you will see stoplights, pavement, houses, and business. But 150 years ago this was all...
A Fulfilled Life: An Oral History
Carleen Cole Grossman (AA, ’69) participated in the Oral History Project of the Western History Center at Casper College. Here are excerpts from her interview in April 2014.
In Remembrance: LeRoy Strausner
LeRoy Strausner, Ph.D., who served as Casper College’s fourth president from 1991 to 2004, passed away on October 23, 2014 at the age of 74 in Atlanta following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
President Nolte to Retire: A Look at the Impact of CC’s Fifth President
President Walter Nolte, the fifth person to carry that title at Casper College, will retire June 30, leaving a legacy of growth and change at Wyoming’s oldest community college.