A mention of the monumental sculpture at 14th Street and Speer Boulevard in Denver is likely to elicit the response: “I love that bear!” The sculpture in question is DU Associate Professor Lawrence Argent’s 40-foot-tall I See What You Mean, a Brobdingnagian blue beast that appears to be considering the activities inside the soaring atrium of the Colorado Convention Center’s new addition.
Lamont School of Music Director and Professor Joe Docksey, MA ’74, received DU’s 2006 award for distinguished service to the University at Founders Day. However, Docksey says that what others consider “distinguished service,” he calls “showing up to work.” When Docksey became director of the wind, brass and percussion department […]
When William Kurtz was a child, his family told him that he could do anything he wanted in life. Luckily for the University of Denver and the entire community, Kurtz wanted to help people and the institutions that serve them. Kurtz recently was honored at Founders Day as the 2006 […]
Chamberlin Observatory The article about Chamberlin Observatory [“DU’s bright star,” winter 2005] brought forth some memories I thought you might have an interest in. As a “faculty brat,” I lived in the 2300 block of South Fillmore, a block south of the park where the observatory is. Dr. Recht was […]
There is no “I” in Florence Roujas. In her first season as a Pioneer, the slalom and giant slalom standout won six races and was named DU Female Athlete of the Year. She earned All-America status after the 2005 NCAA championships in Vermont, where she helped DU to its 18th […]
As one of seven children and the first in his family to go to college, Fernando Guzman needed encouragement to go from picking walnuts to picking up a doctoral degree. He got that encouragement from his family, fellow migrant farm worker students and Chicano activists who provided a network of […]
Jack Miller helped the University of Denver raise $275 million, met alumni in 23 countries and now is a successful fundraising consultant. He also is the recipient of DU’s 2006 Randolph P. McDonough Service to Alumni Award, presented at Founders Day. But Miller’s path to success was not direct. In […]
The University of Denver was founded as Colorado Seminary in 1864 and was located at 14th and Arapahoe streets near what is now the Boettcher Concert Hall parking garage. The seminary was renamed the University of Denver in 1880, and shortly thereafter, University leaders began discussing a move. They felt […]
Presidential libraries always make me cry. And each time it happens, I find myself rather surprised. It happened again last summer when I drove from Denver to Little Rock, Ark., to visit Clinton’s library. En route I listened to Edmund Morris’ Theodore Rex, a nine-hour set of tapes on the […]
In her black and white “photographic canon” Force of the Spirit, Kim Daus-Edwards offers readers a window into the Bible, sharing theological insights through photography. Daus-Edwards says she uses her imagery to dig deeper into the meaning of scripture and to explore Biblical concepts without using words that are the […]
After more than four years of planning, fundraising and construction, the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) moved out of Columbine Hall and into its new building in December. Located just south of Driscoll Student Center, the $18 million hospitality facility, funded almost entirely by private donations, is […]
There are likely only a handful of people who’ve been lucky enough to see a wild lynx, considering that the animal is listed on the endangered species list. Even fewer have had an opportunity to actually hold one. Tom Blickensderfer, JD ’88, has done both. “It took two shots to […]
Veronica “Ronnie” Caropreso, BBA ’92, earned a business degree at the Women’s College because, she says, she was a technology geek who wanted the vocabulary to “translate tech.” Since graduating, her ability to talk tech in the boardroom has earned Caropreso increasingly challenging and rewarding positions. Yet, it was Caropreso’s […]
When Tom Marsico, MBA ’79, was 15, he visited eight European cities, including Berlin. “It gave me an appreciation for the freedoms and opportunities we have in the United States,” he says. “I was fortunate at that young age to understand what it means to live in a democracy.” Marsico […]
Nicholas Pohlit, BS ’49, took on a fight against pollution during a time when few around him understood its toll on human health and the environment. By taking advantage of opportunities and working hard, he earned a “plum job” as executive director of the National Environmental Health Association. Pohlit, who […]