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- Robert Tully
- Most of Robert Tully’s contemporary sculpture is designed for a specific landscape. His ideas come partly from the feel of the place and its shapes and surroundings. Although a focal point, the sculpture is meant to be seamless to its surroundings, often hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, so that the sculpture draws meaning, roots and potency from the landscape. Natural settings are seen as reconnecting. Materials are used for their voices. Stone is like an archeological, geological memory, a symbol of nature as human nature, and stainless steel is a technology we mix with nature. It is conceptual art with a place, in that the viewer can connect elements to realize the overall meaning. He has completed 26 large public artworks and numerous private commissions. Among his local public works are a gateway sculpture to Colorado State University, a bus stop at 28th & Arapahoe in Boulder, six artworks along the St. Vrain Greenway in Longmont, a memorial bench landscape in North Boulder Park and a playground at the Children’s Museum in Denver. Source: http://www.eccentricartistsgardens.com/sculptors/tully.htm
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- Robert Valdez
- Contributor to "Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Photographer who took this year's cover photo. (source: Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "2020: The Hammer and The Dance: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source:2020: The Hammer and The Dance : A Gunnison Valley Journal).
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- Robert W. Delaney
- Dr. Robert W. Delaney, former Fort Lewis College professor of history and Southwest Studies and the first director of the college's Center of Southwest Studies, died November 10, 2000 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 82. The cause of death was cancer. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church in Durango, Colorado and burial will occur at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango. Dr. Delaney joined the Fort Lewis College faculty in 1957 and was named full professor in 1962. He helped found the Center of Southwest Studies, the first in the region, in 1964 and became its first part-time director. In 1970, the college began granting Bachelor of Arts degrees in Southwest studies, and the director's position became full time. Under Dr. Delaney's direction the center acquired diverse collections of original material relating to the history of the Southwest, including business records photographs weavings, maps and prehistoric artifacts. Dr. Delaney was instrumental in securing a $107,000 grant in 1977 that allowed for the purchase of hundreds of microfilm rolls of regional newspapers and National Archives documents. The Center of Southwest Studies has been housed on the third floor of the John F. Reed Library, but will soon move into a nearly $8 million, 38,500 square-foot building under construction. Dr. Delaney had undergraduate degrees in education and history from Northeast Missouri State. He earned a master's degree in Inter-American Affairs in 1950 and a Ph.D. in history in 1955 from the University of New Mexico. He was born Oct. 15, 1918 in Macon County, MO where his father was a machinist with the Santa Fe Railroad and later a farmer. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a navigation instructor. In 1951, during the Korean conflict, he worked in the U.S. Air Force's Information and Education section. Dr. Delaney received the Chamber of Commerce's Outstanding Man of Achievement Award in 1969. He was president of the Durango Fine Arts Council between 1970 and 1972 and the Durango Public Library board I from 1977 to 1979.He was a frequent lecturer in Southwest and Latin American history. He was visiting lecturer at the Nebraska State Teachers College, the University of Utah, the Air Force Academy, and at Colorado State University. He held several faculty and administrative positions at Fort Lewis College. He chaired the division of humanities between 1962 and 1970 and was acting director of the School Arts and Sciences in 1974. He was the college's first director of Affirmative action. Dr. Delaney wrote a history of Fort Lewis College, Blue Coats, Red Skim and Black Gowns: 100 Years of Fort Lewis, in 1977 and co-authored The Southern Utes: A Tribal History, in 1972. He wrote numerous articles on topics that included the Utes, Navajos, Spanish missions and the Durango branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.Dr. Delaney retired from Fort Lewis in 1986. He and his wife, the former Maria"Ria" Bauer, moved to Old Town in Albuquerque. Ria Delaney had chaired the language department at FLC and was the college's first female full professor. He is survived by his wife of 42 years. Published in the Albuquerque Journal on Monday November 13, 2000
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- Robert W. Thompson
- Student at Adams State University.