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- Armand de Beque
- Armand de Beque was an early Mesa County resident who lived in De Beque, Colorado his entire life. He was the son of Marie Louise de Lavillette and Wallace A.E. de Beque, a Grand Junction pioneer, early doctor, and the founder of the town of De Beque. Armand attended De Beque High School (1931-1932), St. John’s Military School (1928-1930), Herrick Drama School (1935), Mesa College (1949-1951), and Colorado Teachers College (1953-1954). He married Ruby M. Sulzer on October 23rd, 1933 in Grand Junction, Colorado and fathered Marianne, Gene, and Roland de Beque. He served in the U.S. Army as Private First Class from 1944-45 and was stationed in Camp Wolters, Texas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, and in Germany. He was a decorated veteran who went on to become a school teacher. He taught music, speech, drama, basketball, and journalism at the De Beque School for 31 years. He also directed the school’s band, glee club, orchestra, plays, and coached the boys’ basketball team. He served on the De Beque School Board from 1946-47 and on the De Beque Town Council from 1980-1981. He also served as a board member for the Mesa County Historical Society. He was part of the American Federation of Musicians. He and his wife Ruby started a band together called the Armand de Beque Dance Band where he sang and played piano and saxophone while his wife Ruby sang and played the drums. He was a drama enthusiast and school-teacher. Around 1930, Armand got a group of people together and they organized several plays. The plays traveled around to Mesa, Grand Valley, Palisade, Ridgway, Moab, Monticello, and even the Eastern Slope and into Kansas. They would play in Odd Fellows halls until they got a show tent in 1935. In 1954, Armand became a teacher in De Beque. He directed over 129 plays during the course of his teaching career there. Like his father, he was involved in oil shale exploration and investment.
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- Arren Michael Swift
- Student at Adams State University.
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- Art Goodtimes
- "Longtime local, Art Goodtimes, has been a staple in the Telluride community not only as a former County Commissioner for San Miguel County but as a poet and writer. Art serves as the Master of Ceremonies and poet laureate of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. Additionally, Art is the Founder and Director of Talking Gourds. In 2010, he was named the first Western Slope Poet Laureate at the first annual Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale. Art's multitude of literary accomplishments also includes longtime journalist and editor for Telluride Watch and Cortez’s Four Corners Free Press, as well as poetry editor of several publications, including Fungi magazine, Mountain Gazette, Wild Earth, and more."--from https://www.telluridearts.org/featuredartists/2017/9/15/featured-artist-art-goodtimes