People

: Walter Coleman; Walter Coleman was a member of the Education Committee of the Glenwood Springs Chamber of Commerce which helped developed Colorado Mountain College.

: Walter Daniel "Bud" Bradbury; He was born in Colby, Kansas to Frank Bradbury and Nellie Lorena Gilbert. He grew up in Mesa County, Colorado, where he lived in Kannah Creek and attended the Pride School in Whitewater from 1924 to 1935, attended Grand Junction High School from 1935 to 1936, and Mesa College from 1936 to 1941. He served as an ensign in the US Navy during World War II. Upon returning to the Western Slope, he was self-employed in Whitewater for a time before becoming a Grand Junction city patrolman from 1950 to 1957. He later became a chemical analyst, a job he held from 1957 to 1982. He was married to Margaret Phyllis (Anderson) Bradbury, a registered nurse. Together they had two children.

: Walter Everett Dalby; An accountant who established Dalby, Wendland and Company, the largest public accounting firm in Western Colorado, in 1948. He was born to Walter E. Dalby Sr. and Laura K. (Barbee) Dalby in Cheraw, Colorado in 1910. His father was a school teacher, a school superintendent, and a farmer. His mother was a homemaker. Dalby Jr. attended Wellington College and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he received his Bachelor’s and his Master’s in accounting. At CU, he was involved in the C Club and the Advertising Club. He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado as a representative of Ernst and Ernst, a Denver accounting firm, in 1946. He had been the firm’s representative for clients on the Western Slope, and had spent years driving around the western part of the state. His office was in his home, in the First National Bank building, and later in Valley Plaza. He opened his own accounting company, now known as Dalby, Wendland and Company, in 1948. He was also on the board of directors for the Citizens Finance company.

: Walter Farnham; Walter Farnham was born in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Harvard College and majored in Psychology. After graduation, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he worked as a newspaper salesman. He then started a career with the Gillette corporation in marketing, for 8-9 years, and became their product manager. He also worked as a landlord and in renovating buildings. He was married and divorced young and has three sons. He moved to Telluride, Colorado in the 1980's to formally Jim Ray's home (a craftsman home) and also lived in Norwood, Colorado in the 1990's until the present. Walter is currently self employed as a rancher in Norwood, Colorado, since 2019. He is 83 years old. --Information taken from Linkin, fastpeoplesearch.com, and an interview with Jerry Greene from July 24, 1981.

: Walter G. Hirons; After moving to Grand Junction, Colorado with his wife and children from Iowa in 1909, following his father who had migrated there previously, he started teaching in Grand Junction schools the same year. He taught first in the Whittier School. The main subjects he covered were history and algebra. Later, he was named principal of the Hawthorne School, before succeeding R.E. Tope as the principal of Grand Junction High School in 1918, a position he held until 1936. He served as a Grand Junction city council member from 1922-25. He was active in the Congregational Church. *Photo from 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook

: Walter Gaddy; He was born in Montrose, Colorado and was present, as an infant, for President Taft’s speech at the opening of the Gunnison Tunnel in 1909. He grew up in different towns around Montrose County, including Nucla and Olathe. He often missed school lessons in the fifth and sixth grades as a result of doing chores (like chopping wood for the school’s stove). He went to school through tenth grade and then apprenticed to his father for shoe repair work. He sometimes picked up seasonal work helping the local farmers stack hay or bring in crops. He became something of a jack of all trades (including but not limited to lumber, beekeeping, shipping, shaving, movie projection, and pool hall work).

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