Robert and Leanna Olson-Taunt

For their 50th wedding anniversary, Robert Taunt (PolSci’72) and Leanna Olson-Taunt (Psych’73) took a nostalgic trip to the CU Boulder campus in May 2023. They visited their old residence, Kittredge Commons, where they met during their time at CU. “There are so many changes, yet the old campus feeling was still there,” Robert wrote. Leanna is retired from teaching psychology and serving as the general studies department head at Western Technical College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where the couple lives. In 2022, Robert published a two-volume book, The War Eagle Years, Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi River 1854-1870, which tells the history of the steamboat “War Eagle," a well-known boat of the 1860s that burned and sank in 1870 and still lies on the river bottom in La Crosse. Robert retired in 2014 as county personnel director with La Crosse County after 30 years.