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- Rob LeVine
- Robert Murray LeVine (known as Rob) was born 21 April 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland to David LeVine and Barbara Cohen LeVine. After just six weeks of life, LeVine’s family moved to Littleton, Colorado and at age sixteen, LeVine’s family removed to Stamford, Connecticut. After graduating from Rippowam High School in 1974, LeVine moved back to Colorado. In 1978, LeVine graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a degree in Business Administration. Immediately after college, the Antlers of Vail General Manager, Bud Benedict, hired Rob LeVine to work the front desk. During the ensuing years, LeVine worked key administrative positions of the Antlers lodge, including Financial Controller, Assistant General Manager and General Manager (GM). LeVine remained at the Antlers his entire career, and ultimately, became the longest running GM in Colorado hospitality (1987 to 2016). In the 1990s, Rob LeVine was elected to the Vail Town Council and served on the council four years. He was also a member of the Executive Committee and Strategic Planning Committee of Bravo! Vail. At various points in time, LeVine chaired the boards of Vail Symposium, Vail Resort Association, Vail Tourism Bureau (now Vail Valley Partnership), Vail Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Municipal League Policy Committee, and the Colorado State Chamber of Commerce. LeVine has also served on the Colorado Mountain College Foundation Executive Committee.
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- Rob Wattles
- Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)
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- Robert "Bob" Collins
- Robert “Bob” Collins was born to John A. Collins and Margaret R. (Lacy) Collins in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania. His father was a school teacher and his mother was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows that the family had moved Madison, Ohio by the time Bob Collins was one year old. The 1930 census shows the family living in Washington, Ohio. He married Marcella M. Stetzel in Sandusky County, Ohio on May 28, 1939. He is shown living with Marcella and his in-laws in Fremont, Ohio in 1940, when he was 22, with Bob working as the manager of a shoe store and Marcella working as an operator for the telephone company. He registered for the draft on October 16, 1940. He joined the US Navy on April 24, 1944. He served on the LSM in the Pacific Theater and was part of the first Marine forces into Japan during World War II. He was honorably discharged on November 16, 1945. He was introduced to radio broadcasting while in the armed forces and attended radio broadcasting school in Indianapolis after the war. He managed a radio station in Ohio before coming to Grand Junction to manage KEXO radio in 1948. While at KEXO, he was the first behind the scenes announcer for the American Legion Rodeo. He also announced other racing events, including the Land’s End Hill Climb. He announced the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo for twelve years. He moved to KREX in 1961 and stayed there until 1968. There, he played the part of “Uncle Bob” on a daily children’s broadcast. He worked at KSTR before retiring. Upon retirement, he chaired the Grand Junction Centennial Committee, which planned a town centennial celebration pageant and other events in 1981.
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- Robert "Bob" Johnson
- A professor in the English Department at Colorado Mesa University (then known as Mesa College) who taught courses on Colorado and American Folklore, with an emphasis on oral tradition. He was a graduate of CMU when it was a junior college, received his BA at Colorado Western University in Gunnison and his PhD in College Administration in Greeley. He retired from teaching in 2010 and is now a professor emeritus at CMU.
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- Robert "Bob" Lazear
- Part of a team who built large houses north of Fruita, Colorado and ran a high-priced Holstein and Hereford cattle operation in Fruita and on the Grand Mesa. He later left the area and managed the Wyoming Hereford Association, a large ranch in Cheyenne, for thirty-seven years.