Organizations

: 10th Mountain Chapter - NSDAR; On 11 November 2017, the 10th Mountain Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR, also known as DAR) was formally organized in Vail, Colorado. Wendy Kidder Becker acted as the organizing regent. DAR State regent, Jeannine Dobbins, swore in the officers and the 30 organizing members. Within a year of the chapter’s inception, 19 charter members were added to the roster. In June 2019, Leesa Sherman-Hochmuth was sworn in as the 10th Mountain Chapter’s second regent. In September 2021, Ricki Shaw Sherlin became the chapter's third regent. The 10th Mountain Chapter is the 46th DAR chapter organized in Colorado. The NSDAR is a national nonprofit, nonpolitical, volunteer women’s service organization with 47 active chapters in Colorado. Any woman, 18 years or older, who can prove direct bloodline descent to an ancestor who aided American Independence is eligible. The applicant must provide documentation of her lineage (birth, marriage, death records) and Revolutionary War service of her ancestor. The 10th Mountain Chapter – NSDAR has patriot ancestors who were members of local and state militias, members of the Continental Army and Continental Navy, foreign soldiers, signees of the Declaration of Independence, and men or women who provided other kinds of aid toward the cause of American Independence. The 10th Mountain Chapter – NSDAR name is inspired by the United States (US) Army 10th Mountain Division. In 1942 during World War II, Camp Hale was constructed as a high altitude, winter-combat training site for the 10th Mountain Division and other military units. Located at an elevation of 9200’ in Eagle Park near the headwaters of the Eagle River, Camp Hale was established between the Eagle County town of Red Cliff and Tennessee Pass on the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains. US Army 10th Mountain Division recruits were readied for light infantry winter warfare by intensive training in ski mountaineering, technical climbing, and winter survival. In the aftermath of World War II European campaign successes, several 10th Mountain Division veterans and Camp Hale trainees established ski areas in North America. One of these ski areas was Vail.

: 10th Mountain Chapter - NSDAR; On 11 November 2017, the 10th Mountain Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) was formally organized in Vail, Colorado. State regent, Jeannine Dobbins, swore in the officers and the 30 organizing members. Wendy Kidder Becker acted as the organizing regent. Within a year of the chapter’s inception, 19 charter members were added. In June 2019, Leesa Sherman-Hochmuth was sworn in as the 10th Mountain Chapter’s second regent. The 10th Mountain Chapter is the 46th DAR chapter organized in Colorado. The NSDAR is a national nonprofit, nonpolitical, volunteer women’s service organization with 47 active chapters in Colorado. Any woman, 18 years or older, who can prove direct bloodline descent to an ancestor who aided American Independence is eligible. The applicant must provide documentation of her lineage (birth, marriage, death records) and Revolutionary War service of her ancestor. NSDAR 10th Mountain Chapter has patriot ancestors who were members of local and state militias, members of the Continental Army and Continental Navy, foreign soldiers, signees of the Declaration of Independence, and men or women who provided other kinds of aid to the cause of American Independence. The namesake of the NSDAR 10th Mountain Chapter is the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division. In 1942 during World War II, Camp Hale was constructed as a high altitude, winter-combat training site for the 10th Mountain Division and other military units. Located at an elevation of 9200’ in Eagle Park near the headwaters of the Eagle River, Camp Hale was established between the Eagle County town of Red Cliff and Tennessee Pass on the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains. 10th Mountain Division recruits were readied for light infantry winter warfare by intensive training in ski mountaineering, technical climbing, and winter survival. In the aftermath of World War II European campaign successes, several 10th Mountain Division veterans and Camp Hale trainees established ski areas in North America. One of these ski areas was Vail.

: 12th Street Jive; "Audio stimulation to create a jazzified sensation that requires no citation (and no explanation), to bring you mental elation at any location." Founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 2016, 12th Street Jive is a collection of up-and-coming jazz artists brought together by Colorado Mesa University's Department of Music. Taking it's love for syncopated, instrumental genres outside of the band room, 12th Street Jive delivers fresh sounds to Colorado's Western Slope and anywhere with an internet connection.

: 1876 Gourmet Restaurant (Ouray, Colo.)

: 2-V Ranch (Mesa County, Colorado); According to William McHarg Ela, the cattle ranch was begun by his great-uncle Charles “Charley” Ela, who had come from New Hampshire in 1881 to the Little Dolores River while working for the Palisade Land and Cattle Company. He seems to have died around 1883 and his brother Wendell Phillips Ela arrived to take his place in the business. The Sleeper family eventually took over ownership of the ranch. It was co-owned by John Frank Sleeper, a civil engineer by training who arrived in Mesa County in the late 1880's. The Ela family also seemed to have part ownership of the ranch, and the history of the Sleeper and Ela families is intertwined by marriage. According to Dorothey (Gordon) Mahoney, the ranch was purchased by her parents, George Washington Gordon and May Alveretta Foy in 1910.

: 4-H Clubs; A series of programs supported by 100 universities across the US where kids participate in a variety of projects receiving guidance from adult mentors and are encouraged to take on leadership roles. They began in 1902 with A. B. Graham's youth program in Ohio, followed by several others that were eventually called 4-H Clubs by 1912. In Mesa County, William "Bruce" Howard brought in the first Angus cattle under the auspices of the 4-H program.