People

: Michael Cardman; He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Santo “Sam” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, where Sam and Mary ran the Favorite Candy Shop. He attended Grand Junction High School, where he excelled in Latin. He received the Rocky Mountain Regional Scholarship and attended Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. He then attended graduate school in international law and diplomacy at Harvard and Tufts. He joined the army during World War II. After he got out, he joined the U.S. Diplomatic Corps, but soon took a job with Pan American Airways, where he became the vice president and director of budgets. *Photograph from the 1935 Grand Junction High School yearbook

: Michael Colvin Huber; He was the postmaster for Palisade, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. He was also a founder of the United Fruit Growers Association. He had six boys. Two of them became priests, Monsignor Dan Huber and Father Bill Huber.

: Michael Egger; Early Mesa County fruit farmer. With his wife Josephine (Heim) Egger and family, they settled the area just northeast of Grand Junction, where they planted fruit trees. Father of Joseph John Egger.

: Michael Ford Dunton; An artist who had artwork displayed in the Art on the Corner (AOTC) exhibit in Downtown Grand Junction.

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