Lifelong Laramie resident Elinor Hitchcock Mullens will be honored at the College of Arts and Sciences Awards Banquet in May. She will receive the newly established A&S Heritage Award.

   Truly a daughter of the University of Wyoming, Mullens’ is the child of Wilber A. Hitchcock, the university architect who built a scale model of the center of campus and designed many of the buildings that surround Prexy’s Pasture. Mullens’ mother Gladys Corthell Hitchcock (whose father wrote the bill for the Wyoming Legislature to establish the university), passed away when Mullens was young, and her father died while on his honeymoon with his second wife. Mullens’ uncle, John Hill, College of Agriculture dean, then became Mullens’ guardian.

Mullens married Glenn Mullens, a UW graduate who later was a professor in the College of Engineering, in 1942, and she received a bachelor’s degree in French in 1943. The Mullenses reared three children, Jim, David, and Ann—all of whom graduated from UW. A continuous supporter of the university, Mullens participated in various faculty activities and served as an advisor to her sorority, Pi Beta Phi. She and her husband often allowed graduate students to stay in their home.

   Mullens’ love for music, books, family history, gardening, as well as time spent working in her brother’s law firm, reflect well on her liberal arts education and attest to the fact that she has indeed experienced “complete living.”