University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Values- far greater than gold In the Winter of 1850, two men found gold in quantities in the mountain canyons near Denver and the rush to the Rockies began. Tens of thousands of young adventurers flooded across the plains by ox team, on horseback and on foot. An uninhabited wilderness suddenly became a commonwealth of people. Thus does this 1939 Kynewisbok assume special historical significance, marking the 100th anniversary of an event that led to the birth of a state, a city and the opening of the West. It is not insignificant that one of the first concerns of the hardy pioneers of that day was toward the crcotion of an institution of higher learning in the territory. A group of men described in that day as “the solid men of Denver’ gathered together and from their labor and vision emerged an institution “making it no longer necessary that young people travel to the States in pursuit of education.” In 186T, on the banks of Cherry Creek, the University of Denver became a frontier reality and its destiny as a distinguished, independent center of higher learning was launched. You, the memhers of today’s classes of the University, are bat the present-day seekers of values far greater than gold, those of the mind, and the spirit for which the University stands. Most importantly, you are doing so free of labels. You are neither the organizational generation, the egocentrics, the lonely crowd, the silent, nor the beatniks. You are free of the cults of the 20’s, free of the causes of the 30’s, free of the crises of the 40‘s. Free of labels, you can face the challenges and responsibilities of this day and those to come with the courage, the determination and faith which is the heritage of your University and yours, as a human individual, God’s greatest creation. As you stay with us and when you go from us, may it lie with Him. 7

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