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11881) Jan Badgely
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Contributor to "Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal," longtime Gunnison resident, writer for the Gunnison Country Times newspaper. (source: Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
11882) K Nicole Wilson
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Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
11883) Caylor E Albers
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Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
11884) Jean Douglas
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Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
11885) Ellie Mills
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Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
11886) Don Mills
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Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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He was born on a farm in Cubage, Kentucky to David and Rachel China Miracle. The family moved to a homestead on Glade Park in 1921, when David was about 11 years old. During the early 1930’s, he worked with Civilian Conservation Corps crews in building Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument. While working on an “open-faced tunnel,” he witnessed a blasting accident that killed nine men, including his brother-in-law. He also helped...
11888) Thomas W. Secrest
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He was a National Park Service engineer in charge of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Colorado National Monument camp (1930's). He was sent out from Seattle to survey and build Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument after helping to build the Alaska Railroad. Civilian Conservation Corps commanding officer Marshall “Mike” Revelle Douglass was brought in to counter the influence that Secrest had on the CCC men under his command, and...
11889) Bill Little
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He was a foreman under the command of National Park Service engineer Thomas Secrest during the construction of Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument in the 1930's. He worked with men who lived in Civilian Conservation Corps camps on the Monument and in Fruita (near the Monument entrance). According to oral history interviewee Elbert Miracle, Little was present when a tunnel building accident that killed nine men occurred. Miracle had...
11890) Olaf Sundal
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He was born in Sundal, Norway to Andrew and Annie Sundal. There, members of his family were tenant farmers who belonged to the Lutheran Church. His family came to the United States in 1904, when Olaf was seven years old. They settled first in Minnesota but came eventually to Illinois, where Olaf grew up. According to Olaf’s son, David Sundal, Andrew Sundal was in the grocery business in Illinois, although the 1910 US Census shows him working as...
11891) Julie Dews
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Place of Birth: Munchen, Germany. Date Arrived: U.S.A. - 1956 (Worked as a secretary and ship's stewardess); Vail - 1970. Children: Three. Special Interests: Traveling, skiing, snorkeling, hiking, theater, art, gardening; in short, I'm a happy person
11892) Myrtle L. (Sill) Seamens
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She was born to farmers John Henry and Mary Sill in Lincolnville, Kansas. According to US Census records, her father later became a dry goods merchant. She played childhood games such as Dare Base, Run Sheep Run, Pom Pom Pullaway, Duck on a Rock, and house. She went to the Emporia State University Teacher’s College (she does not say in her interview if she ever became a teacher). She worked as a seamstress for a dressmaker and was active in the...
11893) George Edward Mackinnon
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A Grand Junction High School graduate in the same class as Dalton Trumbo. He became a congressman and a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. He also served as the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota and a US representative for Minnesota.
*Photograph from the U.S. House of Representatives.
11894) Ellen (Page) Lannon
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She was a classmate of Dalton Trumbo at Grand Junction High School. She also attended the Hoel Business College. She married Robert Lannon and they had one son, James “Jim” Lannon. The 1940 US Census shows her as divorced from Lannon, living in Grand Junction and working as a timekeeper.
*Photograph from the 1924 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
11895) James "Jim" Lannon
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A 1948 graduate of Grand Junction High School who went on to work for the CBS television affiliate in Denver. According to the Broadcast Professionals of Colorado The History of Television in Denver, he won a Peabody Award (along with Gene Amole) for his direction of Panorama, a weekly public affairs series. Prior to coming to CBS in 1953, he worked for Denver’s Channel 2.
*Photograph from the 1948 Grand Junction High School annual.
11896) David Sundal
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He grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he attended Grand Junction High School and was a longtime town resident. He was a member and president of the Mesa County Historical Society, a presenter on Mesa County homes, buildings and architecture, and an interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project. He was a chemist by trade, but knew much about Mesa County's history and its people.
*Photograph from the 1947 Grand Junction High School...
11897) George Caulkins III
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George Peck Caulkins III was born 24 November 1964 in Denver, Colorado to George Peck Caulkins, Jr. and Eleanor “Ellie” Newman Caulkins. He attended Graland Country Day School in Denver and currently serves as president of its board of directors. He earned a B.A. from Yale University. George Caulkins is married to Christina Radichel Caulkins and they have three children: Will, Henry and Sarah.
George Peck Caulkins III served in the US...
11898) Julius E. Johnson Jr.
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He was born in Arapahoe County, Colorado to Julius Johnson, a chemist by trade who became a farmer, and to Grace R. Johnson, a homemaker. Julius Jr.’s grandfather first came to Colorado in 1890.
He attended the University of Colorado (B.A.) at Boulder and the University of Illinois (PhD), where his studied chemistry and biochemistry, and participated in groundbreaking studies on amino acids.
He worked for DOW Chemical for many years in a...
11900) Andy Ranson
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Contributor to "Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal," born in Gunnison, CO, graduate of Gunnison High School, went on to become an opera singer (source: Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
