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The Loma Community Church was organized as the First Presbyterian Church in 1909. Reverend George F. McCleve, who had held services at the Loma School prior to the church's organization, served as the first minister. The congregation built a church in 1909-1910 (The Church That Stayed by Virginia Donoho).
According to oral history interviewee and Loma resident Hazel W. (Durham) Murphy, the Loma Presbyterian church was built and furnished with money...
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According to Ida (Hempler) Jaenicke, a member, the Jolly 16 club was a local women’s organization that began prior to 1942, when she joined. Mildred M. (Smith) Downey and Alma Downey were charter members. The organization sold lunches and held bake sales, then used funds for worthy causes. At one point, they bought treats for the children of Loma. They also participated in local events. Betty Jean Evans was the queen of the Jolly 16 float, “Lily...
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TMVMF's mission is historical preservation, education through media, and support of the environment and the arts in Telluride and Mountain Village.
1730) Vail Ski School
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Current name for the original Vail Ski School is Vail Ski & Snowboard School. This organization provides both group and private lessons from 3 locations in Vail: Golden Peak, Vail Village & Lionshead Village.
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Founded January 1956 with 127 initial members. They volunteer to meet a variety of needs around the hospital: offering comfort to family members awaiting news, making toys for the gift shop, and staffing the gift or book carts. They also serve in a variety of less-public departments: the blood bank, the lab, the escort service, the surgery waiting area, medical records, messenger service, operating room, central processing, and community affairs.
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
1733) Boys' Clubs of America
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A national organization made up of local chapters that provide after-school programs for young people.
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In the early Twentieth century, different churches in the Grand Valley sponsored athletic competitions under the auspices of what were called Pioneer Clubs. The Methodist Church, for instance, had what was known as the Roosevelt Pioneer Club. Track and field and basketball were the primary sports, while football and baseball were not as prevalent.
The Pioneer Clubs in the Grand Valley predated the religiously-affiliated Pioneer Clubs that have...
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A radio station that began broadcasting in 1948. According to Wikipedia, the station was licensed to Voices of Western Colorado. The station broadcasted from a downtown, Main Street storefront, where pedestrians could watch DJs inside the booth.
According to Robert “Bob” Collins, a longtime radio manager, a man named Ketchman (sp.?) hired him to be what was presumably the first manager of the station in 1948. Collins had been introduced to...
1736) Aspen Thrift Shop
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The Thrift Shop of Aspen was started in 1949, to help the old “citizens hospital” which was in a Victorian home at the base of Red Mountain. The attic was remodeled to provide housing for 2 or 3 nurses. When the hospital hired several more nurses, the Thrift Shop helped pay their salaries. Next, the Thrift Shop helped the Red Brick School which now houses the Red Brick Center for the Arts. Initially we were instrumental in starting the first...
1737) Sertoma Club
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The Sertoma Club is involved with improving the quality of life in communities by helping ease the lives of those who suffer from hearing loss.
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Fruita's first hospital was located near the mortuary and run at first by the doctors James Moore Beard and Porter. Doctors White and J.S. Orr ran the hospital at a later date. It received funding from Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel, and others.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who was friends with Dr. Beard, he ran a small hospital from his home in Cleveland, the town that adjoined Fruita, in the late Nineteenth and early...
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Early Grand Junction social organization and literary society. According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, The Reviewers Club rose from the ashes of the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s organization that was formed by Harriet (Dyke) Ottman around 1901, after her arrival from the Midwest. The Twentieth Century Club was short lived and Ottman left Grand Junction for two years.
In another version of the Twentieth Century Club's history given at a "Women of...
1740) Rocky Mountain News
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The Rocky Mountain News (nicknamed the Rocky[2]) was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, United States from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. As of March 2006, the Monday–Friday circulation was 255,427.[1] From the 1940s until 2009, the newspaper was printed in a tabloid format.
Under the leadership of president, publisher, and editor John Temple, the Rocky...
