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 93 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Mary Coen, 1986
Oral History Interview with Mrs. June Wilson, 1986
June Wilson relates general information about the development of the University Park area of Denver, Colorado, since her move to the neighborhood in 1950. She discusses the increase in residential and commercial development, the demographic changes in the neighborhood, and the professions of her neighbors.
Oral History Interview with Mrs. Ruth Geyer, 1986
Oral History Interview with Ms. Elizabeth McBride, 1986
Elizabeth McBride talks about the University Park area of Denver, Colorado, when she lived in the neighborhood from 1939 to 1942. She discusses businesses in the area, local transportation, and hearing airplanes on training flights based at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado. She also talks about her husband's coal business including the cost of heating a home during the winter and how she and her husband delivered coal to their neighbors.
Oral History Interview with Royce Forsyth, 1986
Portrait of Philip Hornbein Reading, 1938
Philip Hornbein is reading in a chair with a cigarette in his hand. Hornbein was one of Colorado's top trial lawyers, a leader in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and chairman of Colorado's Democratic Party during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Denver School of Law, practiced in Cripple Creek, then Denver, Colorado.
Portrait of Philip Hornbein Reading, 1938
Philip Hornbein is reading in a chair. Hornbein was one of Colorado's top trial lawyers, a leader in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and chairman of Colorado's Democratic Party during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Denver School of Law, practiced in Cripple Creek, then Denver, Colorado.
"Ruckus" at Homecoming Barbecue, between 1999-2003
Ruckus the red-tailed hawk, former mascot of the University of Denver, shakes the hand of an unidentified alumna during a Homecoming Barbecue in Gates Field House in the Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness on the campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
Support - Alumni - Woodstock West, 1970
Types of Materials: Correspondence
Support - Clubs and Groups Support, Alumni - Woodstock West, 1970
Types of Materials: Correspondence