Brad Bolton hasn’t attended a holiday party in more than a decade, but he’s no grinch. Why, he’s the Dancing Santa! Bolton — an adjunct professor in DU’s Sturm College of Law and clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court — dons tap shoes, a familiar red suit and snowy beard […]
He was Denver’s first black mayor. His wife, Wilma, fought tirelessly in the legislature to pass a law recognizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a state holiday. Yet, in 1992, Wellington Webb threatened to cancel Denver’s annual Marade (march/parade) honoring the memory of the civil rights advocate and Nobel […]
“Hey Spike! Whazzup Spiker?” As I walked into my 25-year baseball reunion on a warm Friday night last summer, I was instantly transported back to a simpler time — a time free of the pressures and responsibilities that would mount in the ensuing two-plus decades. Spike was my baseball nickname and […]
Arlene Hirschfeld (BA English ’66) doesn’t talk about her own achievements, so it’s a good thing she’s married to a man who isn’t afraid to gush about her. Barry Hirschfeld (MBA ’66) says he’s not half as busy as Arlene. She, on the other hand, reminds him of his business […]
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — or so the saying goes. But students in statistics Professor Robert Hannum’s Risky Business course leave Las Vegas with information casinos probably don’t want them to share. The students get an insider view of gaming regulations, law, marketing, casino operations and the […]
Commuters to and from DU got some relief from traffic and parking woes when the University of Denver light-rail station opened Nov. 17. The station and accompanying 540-vehicle parking garage are located at the intersection of East Buchtel Boulevard and South Race Street near Centennial Towers and the Ritchie Center. […]
Jim Nicholson has built his career around one thing — service to country.
Barbara Wilcots is exploring the African spiritual legacy through literature.
Since its spring 2003 debut, the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts has earned accolades by the thousands. It has chalked up unqualified raves for its acoustics, aesthetics and innovative programming. And like a newly discovered soprano at the dawn of divadom, the Newman Center is poised […]
This circa 1900 book is one of more 72,000 items in the Lloyd Shaw Collection — part of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library in Penrose Library’s Special Collections. Most of the collection is related to American square and round dancing, but the collection also includes material on folk, ethnic and classical […]
Photo mysteries solved I just received my copy of the winter issue. Boy was I surprised to see a full-page photo of me and others on the float [Page 37]. I am Susan Wheeler, Class of ’85, and I was the “ref ” standing up with my lovely butt to […]
Gordon Von Stroh, professor of management and director of the Daniels College of Business customized MBA program, grew up on a 320-acre farm that his great-grandfather purchased in 1881 in rural Missouri. That farm is now in his uncle’s care but will pass to Von Stroh, who plans to care […]
Jayne Vahle (BA English ’99) grew up in Bartlesville, Okla., graduated at the top of her high school class and received a full scholarship to attend DU. She expected to study biochemistry and law and had a burning desire to prove that she could do great things. Then, in her […]
When he was a young boy, Richard Lapchick wanted to be a famous basketball player. He had every reason to believe it was possible: His dad was Joe Lapchick, the NBA basketball player and Hall of Fame coach of the New York Knickerbockers. But something else kept turning Lapchick’s head: […]
Lars Lund (BSBA ’74), winner of the 2007 Founders Day Randolph P. McDonough Award for Service to Alumni, admits he came to the University of Denver for the skiing. “I’m Norwegian! You have perfect skiing conditions here!” After graduation, Lund returned to Norway to help run the family’s business. He […]