Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Vail Players: Melodrama Theatre Group 1966 - 1971
- During the 1960s, Vail, Colorado was a fledgling ski town and the community often created its own entertainment. Spearheaded by John and Cissy Dobson, Lillian Miller, and Ted Poliac, the Vail Players melodrama theatre group operated between1966 and 1971, with its season running from June until October. Performances were often sold out and proceeds supported community projects such as the medical clinic and Vail Interfaith Chapel. On 31 December 1971, the Vail Players performed for a Vail Clinic fundraiser and “… out-of-town guests included House Republican Minority Leader, Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan and his wife and youngsters …” John Dobson wrote and directed the productions. Community members participated as actors and worked behind the scenes with props, costumes, make-up and hairstyling, live music, or otherwise assisted with advertisement, set design, stage production and hosting the melodramas. Known Vail Players productions included: 1966 “Curse you, Sterling Finesoul,” 1967 “Abner Grubstake’s Secret,” 1968 “Dirty Doings at the Depot,” 1969 “Widow Heartaches Revenge,” 1970 “Aunty Bellum’s Last Stand,” and 1971 “Curse You, Villain” and “Snowplow and How!” Known actors and players included: Bob Allen, Shelley Barthel, Diane Burt, Jerome “Jerry” Blackwell III, Stephanie Cherin, Barbara Cooke, Karen Daly, JoAnn Deardorf, Brigette Duvall, Brooke Meyer Franzgen, Joan Garton, Barbara Gillmore, Kay Kauzlaurich, Jackie Klein, Merv Lapin, Dennis Mikottis, Lillian Miller, Buddy and Beverly Piper, Ted Poliac, Mark Rabin, George Rau, Red Shelsta, Marty Simmons, Carol Strickland, George Ward, and Jim Wolfe.
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- Vail Public Library
- Vail Public Library is the municipal library for the Town of Vail in Vail, Colorado. The library has been located in its current location since 1983. Vail Public Library offers access to information resources of many types to serve the needs of Vail’s guests, residents, businesses and schools. The library holdings include over 52,000 fiction, non-fiction, visual media, and audio books and more than 300 magazine subscriptions and newspapers in print or electronic format.
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- Vail Ski School
- Current name for the original Vail Ski School is Vail Ski & Snowboard School. This organization provides both group and private lessons from 3 locations in Vail: Golden Peak, Vail Village & Lionshead Village.
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- Vail Symposium
- Founded in 1971, the Vail Symposium is the brainchild of former Vail Town Manager, Terry Minger, in concert with the Vail mayor at the time, John Dobson. Described as a “grass-roots … think tank,” the Vail Symposium focus is to share “ideas, education, art, politics, science, business and the environment” between the community of Vail and the world-at-large. Its mission is “to provide educational programs that are thought-provoking, diverse and affordable.” The Vail Symposium attracts an international, national, regional, and local following. In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford gave a landmark energy policy speech at the Vail Symposium. American artist and activist, Thomas Whelan Benton (1930 – 2007), created a series of eighteen Vail Symposium Art posters for the years 1971 to 1996. By 1987, the Symposium moved from under the Town of Vail’s wing and emerged as the second oldest non-profit organization in the community of Vail. Locally, the Vail Symposium supports the arts, sustainability and the environment. It has hosted two film festivals and helped develop the Town of Vail master plan. Presenters at the Vail Symposium include an impressive list of civic leaders and activists, scientists and scholars, journalists and authors, in addition to architects, artists, athletes and others. Terry Minger edited two books that were associated with the Vail Symposium: Minger, Terrell J. and Sherry D. Oaks. Growth Alternatives for the Rocky Mountain West: Papers From the Vail Symposium V. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1976. The Introduction was written by Oregon Governor Tom McCall. Remarks from President Gerald R. Ford, Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm, New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay and United Nations Environment Program Director, Dr. Noel Brown are featured. Minger, Terrell J. Greenhouse Glasnost: The Crisis of Global Warming. NYC: Ecco Press - Institute for Resource Management, 1990. The introduction was written by Robert Redford. Essayists include Dr. Carl Sagan, US Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Drs. Paul and Anne Ehrlich of Stanford University, Dr. Noel Brown, Director of the United Nations Environment Program, and Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onandaga Nation.
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- Vallery Creamery Association (Mesa County, Colorado)
- An association of dairy farmers in Mesa County, Colorado who banded together to sell and process dairy from milk cows.
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- Valley Air Service (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- The Valley Air Service was begun by Floyd Gregg, Glen McFall and Jack Turner. The three pilots had worked previously for Eddie Drapela, but decided to form their own company after World War II. The business was purchased by Gran Rader Flying Service (then of Glenwood Springs) in 1950. Gran Rader was operated by Clyde Davis, who purchased Rader in 1952 and then formed Monarch Aviation (not associated with the airline of the same name that later became Frontier).
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- Valley Curse
- Completely stranded in the middle of the desert, Valley Curse is indie rock for nerds with great taste.
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- Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- A bank organized in 1906 in Grand Junction, Colorado. It prospered and eventually grew large enough organizationally to require the construction of what is now known as the Alpine Bank Building in the 1970's. Valley Federal was put into conservatorship by the Federal Government in the 1980's, and subsequently purchased by the Mesa National Bank.