People

: Wilton Jaffee, Sr.; Jeanne Jaffee came to Aspen in 1959 and remembers single lane dirt roads and a town where everyone knew and spoke to everyone. She and her husband, Wilton Jaffee, worked diligently to raise money to build our hospital, but that was just the beginning for this hardworking duo. “Wilton, and many others, did a lot towards raising money to build the [Aspen Valley] hospital,” Jeanne recalls. “It was fun to do it all. There was so much to do, we were very busy! Some of the “all” that Jeanne did was remarkable, to say the least. She was the first woman to chair the Music Associates of Aspen and is now a Life Trustee. Other organizations she supported through the years are Anderson Ranch, serving at one time as President and currently as a Life Trustee, the Given Institute (Fellow) and the Aspen Art Museum. To sum up her life of volunteerism she remark[ed] “I do whatever I can do to help.” Wilton “Wink” Jaffee was one of the more colorful and contentious characters in Aspen’s recent political history. As the owner of the W/J Ranch on McLain Flats Road near Woody Creek, Jaffee was well-known for the lively community rodeos he held at the ranch. He was also well-known for the cavalier attitude he took toward government regulations, his support of employee housing on his ranch and for his caustic criticism of Pitkin County elected officials and staff. —The Aspen Valley Medical Foundation and the Aspen Times

: Wim Thompson; He was the founder of a family of cattle ranchers in Grand County, Utah. He bought a parcel of land in the Willow Creek country (near Thompson, Utah) in 1910 or 1913, and ran cattle near the Bookcliffs.

: Winifred C. Bull; She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to early town physician Heman R. Bull Sr. and Maude Winifred (Price) Bull. While in Grand Junction schools, she received Latin language lessons from Gertrude Wright and Julia Taylor. During her years at Grand Junction High School, she often assisted her father in his medical practice. She went onto study Latin at Colorado College and to teach Latin at Grand Junction High School for many years. As a child, her family was active in the First Congregational Church and then in the First Presbyterian Church. She's the niece of Edwin Price, a Grand Junction pioneer and editor of Grand Junction's first newspaper, the Grand Junction News. *Photograph from the 1940 Grand Junction High School yearbook.

: Winifred Maud (Upton ) McCaig; She was born in Illinois and grew up partly in Texas. She trained as a nurse at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital in San Antonio. She passed her nurses board examination in 1917. For her training, she received $7.50 a month along with room and board. After the United States’ entry into World War I, she joined the U.S. Army as a nurse, and was given the rank of lieutenant. She was shipped with 100 other American nurses to Rouen, France, where she worked in a British hospital.

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