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Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research

 Organization

Biography

The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute was est. 1959 as part of the American Medical Center, Lakewood, Colo. Ground breaking ceremony held Nov. 16, 1959, but construction was never completed. In 1961, as a project of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Inc., it became part of the the University of Colorado Medical Center (renamed the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1979). The Foundation also established two other research centers (no longer in existence) at the University of Utah Medical Shcool, and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. The Foundation and the Denver Institute later merged. In 2003 the Institute became part of the University of Denver, under a shortened name, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI). Do not confuse with the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (presumably of Hyde Park, N.Y.) founded 1972 as a successor to the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, which initiated and cosponsored projects to celebrate and perpetuate the values of Eleanor Roosevelt, esp. in fields of peace, youth, and social policy, and which merged with the FDR Four Freedoms Foundation to form the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in 1979.

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Rosenhaus, David Patterson, Emmett Heitler, Thomas G. Vessels, and Robert Prewitt, 1988 November 13

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Identifier: U158.03.0142.00067.00002
Abstract

Albert Rosenhaus, David Patterson, Emmett Heitler, Thomas G. Vessels and Bob Prewitt stand in a group.

Dates: 1988 November 13

Albert Rosenhaus, Thomas G. Vessels, David Patterson and Mary W. Vessels, 1988 November 13

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Identifier: U158.03.0142.00067.00001
Abstract

Albert Rosenhause and Thomas G. Vessels shake hands while David Patterson and Mary Vessels watch.

Dates: 1988 November 13

Audience Sitting Around Tables at Event, circa 1990

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Identifier: U158.03.0159.00021
Abstract

Audience members sit around tables at event. Banners for Mile High Down Syndrome and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute hang on wall.

Dates: circa 1990

David Patterson and Group Holding Check at Sunshine Lady Event, 1998 July

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Identifier: U158.03.0158.00065.00011
Abstract

David Patterson and group stand for portrait holding oversized check at Sunshine Lady Event.

Dates: 1998 July

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