Retired University of Colorado President Bruce Benson says Dick Saunders lives by the “Code of the West.”
“Your honesty, your integrity—that’s all that counts,” says Benson, who led the 67,000-student CU system from 2008 to 2019, and first knew Saunders through Denver-area community work. Saunders Construction has completed buildings on all four CU campuses, and Benson says, “You don’t have big fusses and fights about what you did do or what you didn’t do. If Dick says it, that’s it.”