Reed, Mary Dean

Person

Staff Only

Biography

Mrs. Mary Dean Reed (Mrs. Verner Zevola Reed) pledges $100,000 for the construction of a liberal arts building in 1927, to be named Margery Reed Mayo Hall, for their daughter Margery, who had graduated from DU and married Professor Paul Mayo.

Sources

Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 121.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bloomfield Park Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: B130

Abstract Sam Bloomfield had a fish market in Bloomfield Park (now Rude Park) that catered to the Orthodox Jews in the West Colfax area. In the early 1920s, philanthropists Isadore Rude, Leopold Guldman, and Mary Reed bought the land and deeded it to the City and County of Denver. The collection contains a scrapbook with articles about a Mesa county scandel involving murder and fish, Sam Bloomfield and his fish market, the West Side neighborhood, and various groups that met at the Park. The scrapbook...

Dates: Other: 1901-1922

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Bloomfield Park Scrapbook

Draft University of Denver Commencement Program: Seventy-fifth Year, Denver City Auditoriun, June seventh, 1939, 1939 June 7

Item

Identifier: U138.0001.0033.00002

Abstract

Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony, June seventh, 1939. Honorary degree recipients: Anne Evans, Doctor of Fine Arts; Mary Dean Reed, Doctor of Humanities; Florence Rena Sabin, Doctor of Science. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan.

Dates: 1939 June 7

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / U138, University of Denver Commencement Records / Box 1: Commencement Programs / Commencement

University of Denver Commencement Program, Seventy-fifth Year, 1939 June 7