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Mary Estill Buchanan discusses her unsuccsessful runs for CU regent and the U.S. Senate and development of connections that led to her appointment to the Board of Agriculture. She discusses helping mediate the labor teacher contracts at Boulder Valley School District, her role in the passage of a Colorado Equal Rights Amendment, and her contribution to recruiting women for higher office vacancies including women judges. Mary Estill describes her extensive public service including her involvement with the American Society for Health and Bioethics; Safe Colorado, which works to advance gun control legislation; immigration reform; work with homeless youth; and recruitment of local groups to adopt and clear minefields in war-torn countries. She stresses the importance of women in leadership and how to strike a balance between civic engagement, career and family.

Photos 1-3 were included in a 6 October 1968 Boulder Daily Camera article photographed by Charles Wendt.

Ted Tedesco, city manager of Boulder from 1967 to 1973, looks back with pleasure, humor, insight, and some nostalgia, on his tenure here. He begins by describing his background and early career as a jazz musician, followed by his decision to go to college and change careers. He describes himself as an "activist" city manager and details the role he played in managing issues such as the first approval for an open space tax, the defeat of prohibition laws, and the anti-Vietnam War riots in the late 1960s. He reflects on why he left Boulder and compares working as city manager in Boulder with his experience in San Jose.