Biography|Carol Tome — The Sandstone Hall Where Wyoming Gave Her a Degree

After a year at Colorado State University she transferred to the only public university written into Wyoming's constitution.

The University of Wyoming sits in Laramie, more than 7,000 feet up, on the high plains east of the Snowy Range.

Old Main, finished in 1887, is the first building on that campus. Sandstone from a quarry east of town, trim from Rawlins, a Romanesque pile that once held the entire university.

Carol Buchenroth took a bachelor's degree in communication here and finished in 1979.

The official UPS biography and the University of Denver's own commencement profile both record the degree that way. Some later summaries call it a B.S. The subject listed is communication either way.

She met Ramon Tomé on this campus. He was reading geology. The Georgia Historical Society's note on their family fund says they later married in Jackson.

Old Main is not a classroom she can be placed in by name. It is the building a visitor still walks up to, the administration hall that stands for the campus that redirected her out of a family bank and toward graduate finance.

The next stop was Denver.

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