University of Denver
Biography
The first reference to Colorado Seminary was in The Rocky Mountain News of November 27, 1862: “ a board of Trustees, composed of the solid men of Denver, has been organized to superintend the erection of a seminary building… for an academic education.”
Sources
Breck, "From the Rockies to the World"
Biography
University of Denver votes to adopt quarter system in 1929.
Sources
"University Adopts New Quarter Plan; Vote Unanimous," The Denver Clarion, vol. 34, no. 19, November 26, 1929, 1.
Biography
First year Hillel organization features full programming at DU
Citation:
Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folderFound in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Kiesler Receiving an Honorary Degree, 1955
Adolph Kiesler, second from left at the head table, and Rabbi C. E. Hillel Kauvar, third from left, during a dinner event at the University of Denver during the 1955 University of Denver graduation when Kiesler received an honorary degree. Everyone at the event is standing and appear to be singing.
Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009
Brief description of several early Jewish leaders of commerce, philanthropy, religion, and community as well as several Jewish lawyers, doctors, merchants, and politicians in Colorado.
From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders, 2010
History of the ill-fated Cotopaxi Colony of Jewish immigrants in Colorado. Brief biographies of the families involved and their contribution to Denver and Colorado after they left the colony.
The Denver Clarion, vol. 106, issue 18, 1999 April 8
Rabbi to speak on forgiveness. Honor code fails in Senate. Making progress on ice palace. AIDS week to educate, remember.
Wagner, Rabbi Stanley, 1976
Types of Materials: Correspondence, proposal, newspaper clippings
Wagner, Stanley, 1972-1976
Images of Rabbi Stanley Wagner, founder of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver: 3 black and white prints, including Wagner with Chancellor Maurice Mitchell and Bishop Melvin Wheatley at the presentation of a donation from the United Methodist Church to the Center for Judaic Studies. 1 black and white contact sheet without negatives with headshots of Wagner.