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University of Denver

 Organization

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 folder

Found in 211 Collections and/or Records:

Founders Day - 1952, 1952 March

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0004
Abstract

10 black and white prints from Founders Day 1952 at the University of Denver, including Walter Paepke; Mrs. Lennox; Lucy Moore Lennox and Clem Collins; Palmer Hoyt, Chancellor Albert Jacobs, and Mrs. Lennox; Walter Paepke, Clem Collins, Albert Jacobs, and Palmer Hoyt; and Clem Collins, Robert McWilliams, Albert Jacobs, Loretta Jacobs, Walter Paepke, and Mrs. Lennox.

Dates: 1952 March

Founders Day - 1953, 1953 March

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0005
Abstract

12 black and white prints from Founders Day 1953 at the University of Denver, including Evelyn Hosmer and Chancellor Albert Jacobs; Evelyn Hosmer; Jack Foster, Essie Cohn White, and John Hill; Robert Selig, Albert Jacobs, and Jack Foster; and images from the Founders Day Dinner.

Dates: 1953 March

Founders Day - 1954, 1954

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0006
Abstract 20 black and white prints from Founders Day 1954 at the University of Denver, including Chancellor Chester Alter and Evelyn Hosmer; Evelyn Hosmer and Robert Selig; Mrs. Charles Haines (Nanaruth); Chester Alter, Francis Van Derbur and Nanaruth Haines; Dean McCoy, Evelyn Hosmer, and Al Williams; Francis Van Derbur, Chester Alter, Evelyn Hosmer, and Arvila Alter; Al Wiliams and Rabbi and Mrs. CEH Kaumer (?); Francis Van Derbur, Chester Alter, and Evelyn Hosmer; Robert McWilliams Jr.; Chester...
Dates: 1954

Founders Day - 1955, 1955 March 5

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0007
Abstract

10 black and white prints from Founder's Day 1950 at the University of Denver, including Arvila Alter blowing out candles on the cake; Arvila Alter cutting the cake; Francis Van Derbur, Chester Alter, and Cleo Wallace; Allwyn Pirtle, Leslie Scofield, Edmund Cressman, Mabel Rolling, and Levette Davidson; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Selig and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Alter.

Dates: 1955 March 5

Founders Day - 1956, 1956

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Identifier: U201.01.0098.0008
Abstract

4 black and white prints from Founders Day 1956 at the University of Denver, including Robert Selig, Chester Alter, and Florence Hinman; John Lawson (political science), Elwood Murray (speech), and Fred d'Amour (zoology); Chester Alter and Florence Lamont Hinman; and Chester Alter, John Anthony Cook, and Ralph B. Mayo cutting cake.

Dates: 1956

Founders Day - 1957 photo, 1957

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0009
Abstract 12 black and white prints from Founders Day 1957 at the University of Denver, including Chester Alter, Sandy Theis, and Robert Selig; Bruce Anderson and Sandra Theis at the Founders Day banquet; Chester Alter with 25-year awardees Miss Dudack, Lou Holch, and John Ostrom; Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Bradford and Gene Steinke; Mr. and Mrs. Van Schaack and Ralph Mayo; Sandra Theis (1956-57 Clarion editor) cutting cake; Mrs. Iliff; Arthur Flemming (President of Ohio Wesleyan); Mrs. Iliff and family,...
Dates: 1957

Founders Day - 1958 photo, 1958

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0010
Abstract

11 black and white prints from Founders Day 1958 at the University of Denver, including Chester Alter and Louis Menk; and Helen Perry and Randolph McDonough.

Dates: 1958

Founders Day - 1960 photo, 1960

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0011
Abstract Images from Founders Day 1960 at the University of Denver: 4 black and white prints, including Alter, Johns, Johns, and Myhre with the DU birthday cake; Linda Josephson and Darrell Earhart cutting cake; Chester Alter, O. Otto Moore, Abraham White, John Evans Jr., Darrell Earhart, and Linda Josephson; and Chester Alter, O. Otto Moore, and Abraham White. 2 black and white contact sheets without negatives, including Chester Alter, O. Otto Moore, Abraham White, and Harvey Wilson at the Founders...
Dates: 1960

Founders Day - 1962, 1962 March 5

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0012
Abstract

1 black and white contact sheets without negatives with images from Founders Day 1962 at the University of Denver, including Chester Alter.

Dates: 1962 March 5

Founders Day - 1963, 1963

 File
Identifier: U201.01.0098.0013
Abstract

1 black and white print from Founders Day 1960 at the University of Denver of Chancellor Chester Alter speaking (Arvila Alter and Randolph McDonough in the background?).

Dates: 1963