University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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18 ALMA MATER Mayo hall, first of the newer buildings, and the home of the classics. the century, Gerald Hughes, who is a lawyer in Denver, received his degree in law. Stanley K. Hornbeck, who was chief of the Far Eastern division of the De- partment of State during the Hoover administration, was graduated in 19037 Roger Toll, former head of Rocky Mountain National park, left the institu- tion in 1905: Wayne C. Williams was graduated with the class of 1906, and Roger H. Wolcott, who is Dean of the Law school, received his diploma from that school in 1907, as did Wilbur Dan- iel Steele. In 1908, Charles O. Thibo- deau, superintendent of the Methodist church, was graduated, as was Iames Grafton Rogers, who was head of the University of Colorado law school and is now at Yale. Robert W. Steele, a District court judge, was graduated in 1910, and in 1911, MacPherrin H. Don- aldson, who received the Rhodes schol- arship from Colorado, was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, while Clem Collins, the present dean at Com- merce, received the first degree given from that school. ln 1913 came Lowell Thomas, who has attained prominence in the field of newspaper and radio since his graduation. In 1919, when there was again a fair-sized class after the years of the war, came Russell Shetterly, who is a federal judge in Shanghai. 1922 was the year in which Teller Ammons, the governor of Colo- rado, graduated from the University. 1923 saw Thomas I. Morrissey, who is the district attorney for the federal gov ernment, graduatedp and in 1924 Edgar Kettering, one of the newly elected dis- trict judges, graduated. Roy Byers, who is coaching the football team at Manual Training high school, finished his college career in 1931, and Dick lorgensen, who is the new baseball coach at South high school, was grad- uated in 1934. There are many Denver

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PBCMINENT ALUMNI 17 3,000 at the present time, we find the names of people associated. both with our own University and the business world. The first graduate of the Uni- versity was john I-Iipp, a member of the class of 1884, who for many years after his graduation was a prominent lawyer in Denver. The class of 1885, which actually was graduated with the class ten years later, was made up of three men, all of whom have been or are lawyers in Denver. These men were Earl Montgomery Cranston, George C. Manly, and William A. Moore. In 1888, William Seward Iliff, who for many years was a banker in this city and who endowed thewlliff School of Theology, and Charles Kinlin Durbin, who was manager of the Den- ver Tramwaycompany for a period of years, also graduated from the Univer- sity. In 1890, john Mortimer Brink was graduated from Denver University, and soon took his place in the business world as a Credit Examiner and Legal Adjuster in Brooklyn, New York. In this same class were William E. Lewis, a musician in Key Stone, Nevada, and Orville E. Shattuck, who was a lawyer in Denver. According to the records, the sole graduate in 1892 was Arthur M. Edwards, who was both an attorney and a banker. I. Stanley Edwards, who is an insurance man in Denver, Frank Dennis Burhans, George Benja- min Huene, Frederick T. Krueger, and Alva B. Adams, who was one time gov- ernor of Colorado, made up the class of 1894. The classes from that time on were larger, and no complete records of tl '3 members of them have been kept, however, in 1898, Frank McDon- ough, who is a prominent lawyer and judge in Denver, was graduated from the Law school and in 1898 Clarence E. Lea, who was a Member of Congress from California, received his diploma. The year 1899 saw nine volunteers from the University enter the Spanish- American war. In 1900, at the turn of ' ,r . '.V:4.J4.5 Y . '. The snow added dignity- The background for lantern night The Iliff School of Theology adds a religious atmosphere to campus life.

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INSCMNIA 19 teachers who have received their de- grees from the University of Denver. Connected with the University itself, we find rnany professors who have re- ceived their bachelor and honorary degrees from the school. The mem- bers of the faculty who have received honorary degrees include: Benjamin Griffith, David Shaw Duncan, Hugh McLean, Andrew Wood, Bobert H. Walker, Arthur Lewis, Thomas Garth, Leslie Scofield, Wilbur D. Engle, lda Kruse Macljarlane, Humphrey Owen, Hattie H. Louthan, George A. Warfield, Alexander Lindsay, Paul Mayo, Earl A. Engle, Edward Bourke, Holland I. Wal- ters, Etienne B. Benaud, lohn Gorsuch, and Victor A. Miller. Others who received honorary de- grees within more recent years are Essie White Cohn, Byron Cohn, Henri- etta Zobel, Frank C. Cnstott, Abraham Kaplan, Albert Becht, lohn E. Lawson, Fitzhugh Lee Carmichael, Buth Holz- man, Theodore Chisholm, Olive Card, Thompson B. Marsh, Fred E. D'Amour, Frances Becker, and loe Hare. Bachelor degrees have been award- One of the modern offices in Mayo hall. 1 1 -'I - 1 r .1 r 1. 4.4. 'Y 'Arr' put forth. ln 1882, a weekly paper called Denver University Weekly Peanuts, was printed for three weeks, after which it seems to have disap- peared from university life. However, the next year the Oreopsus, a paper printed by the students majoring in Greek, was founded. This ran for a year, when it too disappeared and was out of circulation until l89O, when the Hesperus, a bi-weekly paper, was started. The Bulletin replaced the Hes- perus in 1898, and it in turn was Before the Alma Mater statue passes all student activity