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The University of Denver (DU), founded in 1864 is the oldest private
Private university

Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation....
 university
University

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 in the Rocky Mountain Region
Rocky Mountain Region

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 of the United States
United States

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. The University of Denver is a coeducation
Coeducation

Mixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education....
al, four-year university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Denver
Denver, Colorado

Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
, Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
. DU currently enrolls approximately 10,791 student
Student

The word student is etymology derived through Middle English from the Latin Latin conjugation#Principal parts for the active voice Grammatical conjugation verb "studere", Meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as 'one who directs zeal at a subject'....
s, divided between graduate and undergraduate programs. The main campus is a designated arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 and is located primarily in the University Neighborhood
University Neighborhood (Denver, Colorado)

University is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. It is home to the University of Denver, many university students, and other residents and businesses, including the first Chipotle Mexican Grill....
, about seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Denver.

University was founded in 1864 as Colorado Seminary by John Evans
John Evans (governor)

John Evans was a U.S. politician, physician, railroad promoter, List of Governors of Colorado of the Territory of Colorado, and namesake of Evanston, Illinois; Evans, Colorado; and Mount Evans, Colorado....
, the former Governor of Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized territory of the United States of America that existed from 28 Feb 1861, to 1 Aug 1876. The boundaries of the territory were identical with those of the current State of Colorado....
, who had been appointed by President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
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The University of Denver (DU), founded in 1864 is the oldest private
Private university

Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in the Rocky Mountain Region
Rocky Mountain Region

The Rocky Mountain Region is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in western North America delineated by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F....
 of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The University of Denver is a coeducation
Coeducation

Mixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education....
al, four-year university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Denver
Denver, Colorado

Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
, Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
. DU currently enrolls approximately 10,791 student
Student

The word student is etymology derived through Middle English from the Latin Latin conjugation#Principal parts for the active voice Grammatical conjugation verb "studere", Meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as 'one who directs zeal at a subject'....
s, divided between graduate and undergraduate programs. The main campus is a designated arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 and is located primarily in the University Neighborhood
University Neighborhood (Denver, Colorado)

University is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. It is home to the University of Denver, many university students, and other residents and businesses, including the first Chipotle Mexican Grill....
, about seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Denver.

Background

The University was founded in 1864 as Colorado Seminary by John Evans
John Evans (governor)

John Evans was a U.S. politician, physician, railroad promoter, List of Governors of Colorado of the Territory of Colorado, and namesake of Evanston, Illinois; Evans, Colorado; and Mount Evans, Colorado....
, the former Governor of Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized territory of the United States of America that existed from 28 Feb 1861, to 1 Aug 1876. The boundaries of the territory were identical with those of the current State of Colorado....
, who had been appointed by President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
. Evans, who also founded Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
 prior to founding DU, is the namesake of the town in Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
 named "Evanston
Evanston, Illinois

Evanston, Illinois is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois directly north of the Chicago, Illinois, east of Skokie, Illinois, and south of Wilmette, Illinois, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003....
" (the site of the Northwestern campus) as well as Mount Evans
Mount Evans

Mount Evans is a mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It is one of 54 List of Colorado fourteenerss in Colorado, and the closest fourteener to Denver, Colorado....
, a 14,000+ foot mountain visible from the DU campus.

The reverse initials "DU" are used as the University's shorthand moniker (rather than the more intuitive "UD") as part of a Rocky Mountain and midwestern tradition of initial reversal, similar to the University of Colorado's "CU", the University of Tulsa's "TU", the University of Oklahoma's "OU" and the University of Kansas' "KU."

The 'Colorado Seminary' was founded as a Methodist institution, and struggled in the very early years of its existence. By 1880, the Colorado Seminary had been renamed the University of Denver. The first buildings of the University were located in downtown Denver in the 1860s and 1870s, but concerns that Denver's rough-and-tumble frontier town (the city was founded in 1858) atmosphere was not conducive to education prompted a new campus (today's campus) to be built on the donated land of potato farmer Rufus Clark, some seven miles (11 km) south of the downtown core. The University grew and prospered alongside the city's growth, appealing primarily to a regional student body prior to World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. After the war, the large surge in GI bill students pushed DU's enrollment to over 15,000 students, the largest the university has ever been, and helped to spread the university's reputation to a national audience. In 2005, Denver selected former provost Robert Coombe as its new Chancellor, succeeding Chancellor Daniel L. Ritchie.

Academics


Demographics


The University of Denver has 10,953 students in 2008. Of the 10,953 students, 4,913 are undergraduates. The ratio of undergraduate women to men is 53:47. Of the class of 2008, 70.0% are White, 1.8% are Black, 6.8% are Hispanic, 5.2% are Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.7% are American Indian, 5.3% are international, and 9.1% are race/ethnicity unknown. Around 60 percent of the student body is from outside the state of Colorado. For 2008 the average accepted high school student obtained a 3.7 GPA, SAT combined of 1220 and, an ACT of 27.

Rankings


The University of Denver is currently ranked 85th among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
 in a 2008 ranking. The school is currently ranked the 48th best private university by the same publication.

The undergraduate business program, The Daniels College of Business
Daniels College of Business

The Daniels College of Business is one of twelve graduate programs at the University of Denver. Founded in 1908, the Daniels College of Business is the eighth oldest business school in the United States....
, was ranked 67th best in 2008 by BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek

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, and it was ranked the 71st best program by U.S. News in a 2008 ranking.

The Sturm College of Law
Sturm College of Law

The Sturm College of Law is one of nine colleges at the University of Denver. Founded in 1892, the Sturm College of Law is a relatively old institution given its geographic location in America's Mountain West....
 is currently ranked the 88th best Graduate Law School by U.S News in a 2009 ranking.

In a 2006/2007 survey performed by the College of William and Mary and published by Foreign Policy magazine, the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Josef Korbel School of International Studies

The University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies is graduate school located in Ben Cherrington Hall on the DU campus. It was formerly the Graduate School of International Studies before being renamed on May 28th, 2008....
 ranked 9th in the nation for graduate programs, ahead of such schools as Syracuse, University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford, University of California-Berkeley, and MIT. "One should frequently visit the grounds in order to extrapolate key ideas from the younger generations" (Everett, 2008, p. x).

Academic Programs

In addition to traditional undergraduate programs, the University of Denver is home to the following graduate entities:

Divisions:
  • Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
  • Divisions of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Colleges:
  • Daniels College of Business
    Daniels College of Business

    The Daniels College of Business is one of twelve graduate programs at the University of Denver. Founded in 1908, the Daniels College of Business is the eighth oldest business school in the United States....
  • Sturm College of Law
    Sturm College of Law

    The Sturm College of Law is one of nine colleges at the University of Denver. Founded in 1892, the Sturm College of Law is a relatively old institution given its geographic location in America's Mountain West....
  • The Women's College
  • University College
  • Morgridge College of Education
Schools:
  • Graduate School of Professional Psychology
  • Graduate School of Social Work
  • Josef Korbel School of International Studies
    Josef Korbel School of International Studies

    The University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies is graduate school located in Ben Cherrington Hall on the DU campus. It was formerly the Graduate School of International Studies before being renamed on May 28th, 2008....
  • Lamont School of Music
  • School of Engineering and Computer Science
Institutes:
  • Conflict Resolution Institute
  • Intermodal Transportation Institute
Institute for Public Policy Studies Programs:
  • Graduate Tax Program
  • DU-Iliff Joint Program


Students in the graduate programs represent over half of the total enrollment of the school.

Aside from the Strum College of Law, the University operates on a quarter system, sometimes known as trimester academic calendar; comprising of three academic quarters lasting 10 weeks per each quarter. This academic system allows students to take more classes each year than students in a more traditional 15-week semester system.

Offering students a learning experience abroad, the Cherrington Global Scholars program offers every undergraduate the chance to study abroad at no cost above the normal University tuition, room and board. The University of Denver has almost 70 percent of its undergraduate student body study abroad before graduation, placing it first in the nation among all doctoral and research institutions in percentage of undergraduate students participating in study abroad programs.

The art and music scene of DU is currently on the rise due to the recent construction of the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. This building houses both the Lamont School of Music and the DU Theatre Department. The Lamont School of Music is a structured conservatory setting which allows students to focus on their talents in a competitive manner. The theatre department, reestablished in 1985, is currently being transformed into a nationally competitive theatre school. Recently, their show "Henry the VI part iii" was selected as one of the best in the region was considered for national recognition. For the second straight year, a DU show has been held for regional honors.

With the recent addition of more faculty members and renovation beginning on Margery Reed Hall, the Theatre Department has become a magnet for theatre students in the region. Much of the faculty have many professional connections with local theatre companies (Curious, DCPA), as well as contacts in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and many other regions, providing students with many available options for internships and quick job placement.

The University was the first in the country to establish what has continued to be an innovative and internationally recognized Digital Media Studies program, organized as a joint venture between the departments of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies, Art, and Computer Science. DMS faculty and students are currently working on an NSF-funded video game design and development initiative aimed at increasing interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in select Denver high schools.

Recently, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has also undergone an internal renaissance. In 2003, the University of Denver ATLA
Association of Trial Lawyers of America

The American Association for Justice , formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America is the leading organization for lawyers representing plaintiffs in the United States....
 trial team won the national championship in New Orleans, taking Harvard
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
's title from the previous year.

The Institute for Public Policy Studies (IPPS) boasts two former Colorado Governors as teaching faculty. Richard Lamm
Richard Lamm

Richard Douglas "Dick" Lamm is an United States politician and lawyer. He served three terms as List of Colorado Governors of Colorado as a Democratic Party and ran for the Reform Party of the United States of America's nomination for President of the United States in 1996....
 was joined in January 2007 by Bill Owens
Bill Owens

Bill Owens is an United States politician and a member of the Republican Party . He served as the 40th Governor of Colorado from 1999 to 2007, being restricted by term limits....
, further establishing DU's IPPS as the premier graduate public policy program in the Rocky Mountain West region of the country.

Denver is one of the few schools in the US that personally interviews every undergraduate applicant (with interviews in more than 25 cities per year), ensuring that most accepted students will find that the University is very interested in the person, not just the applicant's credentials. The Hyde interview is named after an influential DU professor, Ammi Hyde, and most students describe the process as insightful rather than painful, so the interview should not be considered a deterrent for prospective students who are nervous that they will not perform well.

The University has recently established an Undergraduate Research Center. This Center provides funding for the Partners in Scholarship program, offering students the opportunity to work directly with a faculty member over the course of a quarter or over the summer. The student may design the research project with the faculty member's approval or may work with a faculty member on an existing research project, thus affording students an opportunity for close mentorship and relationship-building that strengthens the student's overall learning experience. Annual conferences on campus highlight student research efforts

The Ricks Center For Gifted Children is a private school on campus of DU that teaches preschool through 8th grade. It was founded and is currently directed by Norma Hafenstien.

Campus

The heart of the campus has a number of historic buildings. The longest-standing building is University Hall, which has served DU since 1890. Evans Chapel, an 1870s vintage small church which was once located in downtown Denver, was relocated to the DU campus in the 1960s, and Buchtel Tower (1913), which is all that remains of the former Buchtel Chapel, which burned in 1983. The administrative offices are located in the Mary Reed Building, a former library built in 1932 in the collegiate gothic style.

Under the leadership of former Chancellor Daniel Ritchie (now Chairman of the Denver Center for Performing Arts
Denver Performing Arts Complex

The Denver Performing Arts Complex located in Denver, Colorado, is the second largest performing arts center in the world after New York City's Lincoln Center, and the largest "of its kind" in the Western Hemisphere....
), about $500 million in capital improvements have taken place in the last decade and the learning inside these new buildings has improved in the same period, as admissions selectivity and rankings have improved dramatically.

In autumn 2003, DU opened a new 63.5 million USD facility for its College of Law, what was later named the "Sturm College of Law." The building includes a three-story
Floor

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 library
Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
 with personal computer
Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
s accessible to students. Donald and Susan Sturm, owners of Denver-based American National Bank, had given $20 million to the University of Denver College of Law. The gift is the largest single donation in the 112-year history of the law school and among the largest gifts ever to the University.

The Daniels College of Business was completed in September 1999 at the cost of $25 million dollars. The business school has been nationally recognized by organizations such as Forbes magazine, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal where it is ranked 7th in the nation for producing students with high ethical standards.

Additionally, the University also recently opened the $75 million Newman Center for the Performing Arts, which houses the acclaimed Lamont School of Music. The center includes a 1,000 seat, four-level opera house with the finest acoustics in the region, a 250-seat recital hall with the largest (3,000 pipes) natural organ in the region, and a 300-seat flexible theatre space. The Newman Center serves as home to many professional performing arts groups as well as University performing arts events.

The University has the second highest telescope in the world located at 14,148 feet near the summit of Mount Evans
Mount Evans

Mount Evans is a mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It is one of 54 List of Colorado fourteenerss in Colorado, and the closest fourteener to Denver, Colorado....
 called the Meyer-Womble Observatory
Meyer-Womble Observatory

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. This telescope is most commonly used by the University's Natural Science and Mathematics Department, and more specifically the Department of Physics and Astronomy at DU.

Athletics

DU's athletic
Athletic

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 teams are known as the Denver Pioneers
Settler

A settler is a person who has human migration to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonies the area. Settlers are generally people who take up Sedentary and agriculture it, as opposed to nomads....
 and the school has been fielding intercollegiate teams since 1867. Denver is a full NCAA Division I member, best known as a major power in winter sports. Ice hockey is DU's flagship spectator sport, with 7 NCAA titles including back to back crowns in 2004 and 2005, and regularly selling out the new 6,000 seat Magness Arena
Magness Arena

Magness Arena is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose collegiate sports arena in Denver, Colorado. It was built in from 1997 to 1999 as part of the Daniel L....
 on campus, the showpiece of the Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. Skiing
Skiing

Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
 is another strong sport at Denver, with 19 NCAA titles (more than any other school) including the most recent in 2008 and as well as three consecutive NCAA titles from 2001 to 2003. DU has also seen success in both their golf and tennis programs, as well as the women's gymnastics team. The DU men's and women's lacrosse teams have been at the top of their divisions, and attract a large growing lacrosse hub to Denver and Colorado. The men's lacrosse team has made it to the NCAA tournament twice in its history, losing both times in the first round to the University of Maryland.
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Fight Song

The fight song for the University of Denver is Fairest of Colleges written in 1916. The lyrics are:
D-rah! E-rah! N-rah! VER Boom.
Denver, our Denver,
We sing to thee,
Fairest of colleges,
Give her three times three,
Rah, rah, rah!
Long may we cherish her
Faithful and true.
University of Denver
For me and you.


Mascot

  • Pioneer Pete (1920's to 1968)
  • Boone the Pioneer (1968 to 1998)
  • Ruckus (1998 to Present)


Recent Mascot Changes

Although the DU community indulged the Department of Athletics and Recreation's 1998 efforts to rebrand itself by creating a more marketable image, replacing "Denver Boone" with "Ruckus" was met with a lukewarm response and never gained much traction. By 2006, a movement to bring back the Walt Disney creation had begun to gain momentum. In 2008, a survey of the DU community showed an overwhelming 87% supported reclaiming Boone. Nonetheless, on October 20, 2008, Chancellor Robert Coombe opposed the will of the overwhelming majority via an email to students, citing that Boone "does not reflect the broad diversity of the DU community". Princeton Review indicates that minorities compose just 7% of the student body. The issue has been covered by the Denver Post, NBC affiliate 9News, and ABC affiliate 7News. Editorials by Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times and Mike Rosen
Mike Rosen

Michael "Mike" Rosen is the host of The Mike Rosen Show on talk radio station KOA in Denver, Colorado, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Rocky Mountain News newspaper....
 in the Rocky Mountain News have been highly critical of the administration.

In November 2008, the University announced its intention to identify a new mascot.

Chancellors


Chancellors of the University of Denver:
  • David Hastings Moore
    David Hastings Moore

    David Hastings Moore was an United States bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1900. He also gained notability as a Union Army Officer in the American Civil War, as a Pastor, as the Editing of an important Methodist periodical, and as a University Chancellor ....
     (October 1880-June 1889)
  • William Fraser McDowell
    William Fraser McDowell

    William Fraser McDowell was an United States Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1904. He was born in Millersburg, Ohio, United States...
     (1890-June 1899)
  • Henry Augustus Buchtel (December 1899-September 1920)
  • Heber Reece Harper (November 1922-January 1927)
  • Frederick Maurice Hunter (July 1928-September 1935)
  • David Shaw Duncan (September 1935-March 1941)
  • Caleb Frank Gates (March 1941-November 1943)
  • Ben Mark Cherrington (November 1943-February 1946)
  • Caleb Frank Gates (February 1946-August 1947)
  • James F. Price (April-October 1948)
  • Alfred Clarence Nelson, interim (October 1948-November 1949)
  • Albert Charles Jacobs (November 1949-March 1953)
  • Chester M. Alter (August 1953-July 1966)
  • Maurice Bernard Mitchell (September 1967-March 1978)
  • Ross Pritchard (October 1978-January 1984)
  • Dwight Morrell Smith (January 1984-July 1989)
  • Daniel L. Ritchie (July 1989-June 2005)
  • Robert D. Coombe (July 2005-present)


Notable Alumni


Politics, Government and Military

  • Condoleezza Rice
    Condoleezza Rice

    Condoleezza Rice was the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President of the United States George W....
    , Former U.S. Secretary of State under President G.W. Bush
  • Ed Schafer, Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President G.W. Bush, former Governor of North Dakota
  • James Nicholson, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President G.W. Bush
  • Gale Norton
    Gale Norton

    Gale Ann Norton served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President of the United States George W. Bush....
    , former U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President G.W. Bush
  • Current U.S. Senator Peter Domenici (R-N.M.)
  • Current U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan
    Byron Dorgan

    Byron Leslie Dorgan is the junior United States Senate from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party ....
     (D-N.D.)
  • Current U.S. Senator Mike Enzi
    Mike Enzi

    Michael Bradley "Mike" Enzi is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States Senator from Wyoming. Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Enzi was a businessman who at one time owned family shoe stores....
     (R-Wyo.)
  • Cindy Courville
    Cindy Courville

    Dr. Cindy Lou Courville was the U.S. Ambassador to the African Union from 2006 to 2008. Previously she was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the United States National Security Council where she helped craft United States policy towards Africa....
    , U.S. Ambassador to the African Union
  • Robert Dieter, U.S. Ambassador to Belize
  • Paul Trivelli, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
  • Loy Henderson, former U.S. Ambassador to Iran
  • Heraldo Munoz
    Heraldo Muņoz

    Heraldo Mu?oz Valenzuela is a Chilean politician and diplomat; and the current Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations.Mu?oz was born in Santiago, Chile....
    , Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Wayne Aspinall, former member, U.S House of Representatives (D-Colo.)
  • Mike McKevitt
    Mike McKevitt

    James Douglas "Mike" McKevitt was a United States House of Representatives from Colorado.Born in Spokane, Washington, Mckevitt graduated from Grant High School, Sacramento, California....
    , former member, U.S, House of Representatives (R-Colo.)
  • William D. Ford
    William D. Ford

    William David Ford was a U.S. Representative from Michigan.Ford was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Henry Ford Trade School, Melvindale High School, Nebraska State Teachers College, and Wayne State University....
     former member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Mich.)
  • Mo Udall
    Mo Udall

    Morris King "Mo" Udall was an United States politician who served as a United States House of Representatives from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991....
    , former member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ariz)
  • Byron Rogers, former member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Colo.)
  • John Patrick Williams
    John Patrick Williams

    John Patrick "Pat" Williams is a former United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana during the years 1979?1997....
    , former member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mont.)
  • Paul Laxalt
    Paul Laxalt

    Paul Dominique Laxalt was a United States Republican Party Governor#United_States and U.S. Senator from Nevada....
    , former Nevada governor and U.S. Senator (R-Nev.)
  • Charles Brannan former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President H. Truman
  • Oscar Chapman former U.S. Secretary of Interior under President H. Truman
  • John Arthur Love
    John Arthur Love

    John Arthur Love was a United States Lawyer and Republican party politician who served as the List of Governors of Colorado of the State of Colorado from 1963 to 1973....
    , former Gov. of Colorado and Dir. of U.S. Energy Policy under President Nixon.
  • M. Javad Zarif
    M. Javad Zarif

    Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif , is a former Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General on August 5, 2002....
    , former Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations
  • George W. Casey, Jr., U.S. Army General and former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq
  • Mary Cheney
    Mary Cheney

    Mary Claire Cheney is the second daughter of Dick Cheney, the former Vice President of the United States, and his wife, Second Lady of the United States Lynne Cheney....
    , Political Activist Daughter of former Bush VP Dick Cheney
  • Alvin Wiederspahn
    Alvin Wiederspahn

    Alvin Laramie "Al" Wiederspahn is a prominent Lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming who served for ten years as a Democratic Party in the Wyoming House of Representatives and the Wyoming State Senate ....
    , former member of both houses of the Wyoming
    Wyoming

    The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....
     legislature and prominent Cheyenne
    Cheyenne, Wyoming

    Cheyenne is the capital of the United States U.S. state of Wyoming. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Cheyenne Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County, Wyoming....
     attorney and historical preservationist
  • Peter Groff
    Peter Groff

    Peter C. Groff is a Colorado legislator and President of the Colorado Senate. An Lawyer, public servant, and political veteran, Groff was elected as a United States Democratic Party to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2000, then re-elected in 2002....
    , President, Colorado Senate
  • Terrance Carroll
    Terrance Carroll

    Terrance Carroll is an United States of America lawyer, minister, Colorado legislator and Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, the first African American ever to hold that office in Colorado....
    , Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives
  • Susan Waltz, chair, International Executive Committee, Amnesty International
    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated." Founded in London, England in 1961, AI draws its attention to human rights abuses and...
  • Ibrahim A. Assaf, Finance Minister, Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....


Business and Industry


  • Brad Anderson
    Brad Anderson (executive)

    Bradbury "Brad" Anderson is the current Chief executive officer and Vice Chairman of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. He is scheduled to retire on June 24, 2009, to be replaced by current COO Brian Dunn....
    , CEO, Best Buy
    Best Buy

    Best Buy Co., Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and the largest specialty Retailing of consumer electronics in the United States accounting for 21% of the market....
  • Peter Coors, Chairman and CEO, Molson Coors Brewing Company
    Molson Coors Brewing Company

    Molson Coors Brewing Company is a company that was created by the merger of two of North America's largest brewery: Molson of Canada, and Coors Brewing Company of the United States, on February 9, 2005....
  • Richard Hilton
    Richard Hilton

    Richard Howard "Rick" Hilton is an American socialite, heir, real estate broker and developer specializing in exclusive high-end property. He is currently the Chairman of Hyland Real Estate and the father of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton....
    , chairman, Hilton and Hyland Real Estate
  • Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman, Emirates Airlines
  • Dale Wolf. CEO, Coventry Health Care
    Coventry Health Care

    Coventry Health Care, Inc. is a managed health care company in the United States. On February 8th of 2007 Coventry agreed to acquire Concentra's Workers Compensation Managed Care Services Businesses....
  • Richard Cook, Espanola Mercantile Company
  • Mark Gasta, CHRO and SVP, Vail Resorts
    Vail Resorts

    Vail Resorts, Inc. runs four ski resorts in Colorado, as well as one in Lake Tahoe and a summer resort in Wyoming. They also own luxury resort hotels throughout the United States....
  • Jeff Lorberbaum, CEO, Mohawk Industries
    Mohawk Industries

    Mohawk Industries is an American company that supplies residential and commercial flooring and other home products. It is one of the two largest carpet manufacturers in the world....
  • Steve Whisler, former CEO, Phelps Dodge
    Phelps Dodge

    Phelps Dodge Corporation was an United States mining company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc....
     Mining
  • Charles Winter, inventor of "the boot" for illegally parked cars
  • Ted Kleisner, President and CEO, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company
  • Jim Lentz, President, Toyota USA
  • Michael Morton, Co-Founder, N9NE Group
  • Carol Tome - CFO and Executive Vice President, Corporate Services, The Home Depot
    The Home Depot

    The Home Depot is an United States retailer of home improvement and building construction products and services.Headquartered in Vinings, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, The Home Depot employs more than 331,000 people and operates 2,193 big-box store across the United States , Canada , Mexico and People's Republic of China....
  • Ted Weisberg, Founder, Seaport Securities
  • Marc Schulman, President and CEO, The Elis Cheesecake Company
  • Peter Morton
    Peter Morton

    Peter Morton was the co-founder with Isaac Tigrett of the Hard Rock Cafe, a chain of casual dining restaurants. His father is Arnie Morton, founder of Morton's Restaurant Group, and his son is Harry Morton, founder of Pink Taco restaurants....
    , founder, Hard Rock Cafe
    Hard Rock Cafe

    Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of bar-restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton. The first Hard Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in London....
     chain
  • Marc Nathanson billionaire founder, Falcon Cable
  • Andrew C. Taylor
    Andrew C. Taylor

    Andrew C. Taylor is a United States businessman. He is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Andrew Taylor is the son of Jack C....
    , CEO, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
    Enterprise Rent-A-Car

    Enterprise Rent-a-Car is a privately held St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri-based rental car company serving customers in the United States, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom....
  • James Unruh, former CEO, Unisys
    Unisys

    Unisys Corporation , based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a global provider of information technology services and programs....
  • Pam Turbeville, CEO, Navistar Financial
  • Joseph Saunders, Chairman and CEO, Visa Inc.
  • Nilanshu Raja, CEO, Medicorp, Inc.
  • Sean Menke, President and CEO, Frontier Airlines
    Frontier Airlines

    Frontier Airlines, Inc. is a Low-cost carrier airline headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Colorado, United States. The carrier operates flights throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada....
  • Emily Cinader Woods, Co-Founder, J. Crew
  • Howard P. James, former CEO, Sheraton Hotels
  • Tom Marsico, founder, Janus Mutual Funds, president of Marsico Capital Management


Media

  • Lowell Thomas
    Lowell Thomas

    Lowell Jackson Thomas was an United States writer, Presenter, and traveller best known as the man who made T. E. Lawrence famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their Library of Congress Classification....
    , radio commentator
  • Andrew Rosenthal
    Andrew Rosenthal

    Andrew Rosenthal is an United States journalist and editorial page editor of The New York Times. Rosenthal is in charge of the paper's opinion pages, both in the newspaper and online....
    , editorial page editor, The New York Times
  • Bill Clarke
    Bill Clarke

    For the Canadian football player of the same name see Bill Clarke .William Hillary Clarke was a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada member of the Canadian House of Commons....
    , consumer reporter, Denver Channel 7 news
  • David Von Drehle, Editor-at-Large for Time magazine
  • Ed Stein
    Ed Stein (cartoonist)

    Edward Alan Stein is an United States cartoonist and former editorial cartoonist for the now-closed Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Stein drew editorial cartoons five days a week, and previously published a local daily comic strip called Denver Square ....
    , editorial cartoonist, Rocky Mountain News
  • Clarke Canfield
    Clarke Canfield

    Clarke Canfield is a New England journalist, reporter for The Associated Press, and author of Those Damned Yankees, The Not-So-Great History of Baseball's Evil Empire....
    , Associated Press Reporter and Author
  • James C. Kennedy
    James C. Kennedy

    James Cox Kennedy is the CEO and chairman of Cox Enterprises, the media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, James M. Cox. According to the Forbes 400 list in 2008, he is the 49th richest person in the United States, through his $6.5 billion stake in the company....
    , Chairman, former CEO, Cox Enterprises
    Cox Enterprises

    Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News....
  • Mike Rosen
    Mike Rosen

    Michael "Mike" Rosen is the host of The Mike Rosen Show on talk radio station KOA in Denver, Colorado, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Rocky Mountain News newspaper....
    , conservative talk radio host


Sports

  • Eric Alexander
    Eric Alexander

    Eric Alexander is an United States jazz saxophonist, known for his sophisticated hard bop and post-bop style.Alexander began as a classical musician, studying alto saxophone at Indiana University Bloomington with Eugene Rousseau in 1986....
    , scaled Mt. Everest with first blind climber to summit
  • Glenn Anderson
    Glenn Anderson

    Glenn Christopher Anderson is a retired Canada professional ice hockey Winger in the National Hockey League who played for the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, and St....
     NHL Hall of Famer and who scored 498 career NHL goals and won six Stanley Cups
  • Jerome Biffle
    Jerome Biffle

    Jerome Cousins Biffle was an United States athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.Biffle attended Denver East High School, where he won all-state honors in the 100 and 220-yard sprints, high jump and broad jump before landing at the University of Denver....
    , 1952 Olympic gold medalist in the long jump
  • Vince Boryla
    Vince Boryla

    Vincent Joseph Boryla is a retired United States basketball player, coach, and executive. His nickname was "Moose". He graduated from East Chicago Washington High School in 1944....
     1948 US Olympic Gold medalist, NBA player, head coach and long-time NBA executive
  • Matt Carle
    Matt Carle

    Matthew Carle is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays defense for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League and was voted to the 2006?2007 NHL all-Rookie team....
    , hockey defenseman with Philadelphia Flyers, 2007 NHL all-Rookie team and 2006 Hobey Baker Award winner
  • Suzy Chaffee
    Suzy Chaffee

    Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine skiing and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent Freestyle skiing ballet skier of the early 1970s....
    , former Olympic, World Cup and professional freestyle skier
  • Kevin Dineen
    Kevin Dineen

    Kevin William Dineen is a retired professional ice hockey player and is currently the head coach of the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League....
    , former NHL all-star player and current coach, Portland Pirates (AHL)
  • Sam Etcheverry
    Sam Etcheverry

    Sam "The Rifle" Etcheverry is a former professional American football and Canadian football player and head coach. Etcheverry played the quarterback position, most famously with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, and was named that league's CFL's Outstanding Player Award in 1954....
    , Canadian Football Hall of Fame quarterback
  • Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin
    Brian Martin

    Brian Martin may refer to:* Brian Martin , U.S. basketball player* Brian Martin * Brian Martin * Brian Martin * Brian Ross Martin, Chief Justice of the Northern Territory, Australia...
     Two-time U.S. Olympic medalist Luge Pair
  • Michelle Kwan
    Michelle Kwan

    Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American figure skating. She has won nine United States Figure Skating Championships, five World Figure Skating Championships, and two Figure skating at the Olympics....
    , World Champion Figure Skater (currently enrolled)
  • Keith Magnuson
    Keith Magnuson

    Keith Magnuson was a professional ice hockey defenceman from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada who played in the National Hockey League between 1969 and 1979....
    , former Chicago Blackhawks coach and defenseman
  • Bill Masterton
    Bill Masterton

    William "Bill" Masterton was a Canada-born Centre in the National Hockey League . Masterton died from an injury he suffered during a game. Along with Howie Morenz, Masterton is one of only two players in NHL history to be killed as a direct result of an on-ice incident during a game....
    , former Minnesota North Star, The NHL's Bill Masterton Trophy is named in his honor
  • Peter McNab
    Peter McNab

    Peter McNab is a retired professional ice hockey player who appeared in 954 National Hockey League regular season games between 1973 and 1987. McNab belongs to one of ice hockey's most prominent families....
    , Former NHL hockey player, current color analyst for the Colorado Avalanche
  • Craig Patrick
    Craig Patrick

    Craig Patrick is a former American Ice hockey player, coach and general manager, the son of Lynn Patrick and the grandson of Lester Patrick . From 1989?2006, he served as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins....
    , former Pittsburgh Penguins executive vice president/general manager
  • Gregg Popovich
    Gregg Popovich

    Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs. He is often referred to, by players, media, and fans, as "Coach Pop" or simply "Pop." ...
    , Head Coach, NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs
  • Dan Schatzeder
    Dan Schatzeder

    Daniel Ernest Schatzeder is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from - for 9 different teams....
    , winning pitcher of Game 6 of the 1987 World Series
  • Paul Stastny
    Paul Stastny

    Paul Stastny is a Canadian professional ice hockey Centre of Slovakia descent who plays for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League ....
    , forward, Colorado Avalanche, NHL, runner up for 2006-2007 Rookie of the Year


Arts and Letters

  • Neil Simon
    Neil Simon

    Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world....
    , Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright
  • Chris Broderick
    Chris Broderick

    Chris Broderick is the current lead guitarist for the popular United States thrash metal band Megadeth. He currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California....
    , Guitarist of Megadeth
    Megadeth

    Megadeth is an American Heavy metal music band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's departure from Metallica, the band has since released eleven studio albums, six live albums, two Extended play, thirty single , thirty-two music video...
  • Mark Harris
    Mark Harris (author)

    Mark Harris was an American novelist, Literature Biography, and educator....
    , Author of 'Bang the Drum Slowly'
  • John Edward Williams
    John Edward Williams

    John Edward Williams was a writer best known for his novels Stoner and Augustus .Williams was born on August 29, 1922, in Clarksville, Texas, near the Red River east of Paris, Texas and brought up in Texas....
    , Author, National Book Award Winner in 1973
  • Hao Jiang Tian, Opera Singer/Basso Cantate, Metropolitan Opera
  • Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
    Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

    Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is a Film producer and television producer and the chairman of Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls the world's largest independent library of comic book characters and adapts them for film, television and other media....
    , founder, Malibu Comics, developer of Men in Black
    Men in Black

    Men in Black , in popular culture, is a term used in UFO conspiracy theory to describe men dressed in black suits claiming to be government agencys who attempt to harass or threaten Unidentified flying object witnesses into silence....
     franchise, CEO/Chairman of Platinum Studios
    Platinum Studios

    Platinum Studios, Inc. is a comic book publishing company based in the United States. It controls a large independent library of comic book characters, which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media including print, film, online, mobile / wireless, gaming, and merchandising....
  • David Adkins, comedian known as Sinbad
  • Carolyn Cassady
    Carolyn Cassady

    Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady is an United States writer associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures....
    , memoirist of the Beat generation, former wife of Neal Cassady
  • Duane Michals
    Duane Michals

    Duane Michals is an United States photographer. Largely self-taught, his work is noted for its innovation and artistry. Michals' style often features photo-sequences and the incorporation of text to examine emotion and philosophy, resulting in a unique body of work....
    , photographer
  • Joshua Marie Wilkinson
    Joshua Marie Wilkinson

    Joshua Marie Wilkinson is an American poet. He was born and raised in Haller Lake, Seattle, Washington neighborhood, Seattle, Washington, Washington....
    , American poet
  • Cedar Walton
    Cedar Walton

    Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an United States hard bop jazz pianist....
    , jazz pianist
  • Constance Perkins, Art Historian. Known for The Constance Perkins House
    The Constance Perkins House

    The Constance Perkins House is a house designed by Richard Neutra and built in Pasadena, California, California, 1952-55.Constance Perkins was born in Denver in 1913....
  • Josh Taylor
    Josh Taylor

    Josh Taylor is an United States actor, best known for his roles of Chris Kostichek and Roman Brady on the American soap opera Days of our Lives and Michael Hogan, the father figure on the situation comedy The Hogan Family....
    , actor (Days of Our Lives, The Hogan Family)
  • Ted Shackelford
    Ted Shackelford

    Ted Shackelford, born June 23, 1946, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is an United States actor best known for his role as Gary Ewing on the Columbia Broadcasting System television series Knots Landing, in which he starred from 1979—1993....
    , TV Star, Knot's Landing
  • Elliott Martin, Multiple Tony award-winning Broadway producer
  • Ron Miles, Jazz composer and trumpet player


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