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- Moriah S. Scott
- Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2016.
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- Morrie Shepard
- Morris Shepard was born in Boston. In 1943, Shepard graduated from Sharon High School (Massachusetts). In 1933, Shepard discovered a pair of old skis in the basement of his home and his life-long love affair with skiing began. As a youth, alongside his childhood friend Pete Seibert, Shepard rigged a gasoline engine powered rope tow for neighborhood skiing. Shepard and Seibert also skied in New Hampshire with their Boy Scout troop. At the end of World War II after serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps, Shepard went to Aspen, Colorado to visit Seibert. During Shepard's visit with Seibert, the Aspen ski school director asked Morrie Shepard to teach a few classes. Soon after, the Shepards relocated to Aspen. They subsequently moved to Vail where Shepard became Vail’s first ski school director and a member of Vail’s first ski team. In 1965, the Shepards removed to Dubuque, Iowa to work with Bob Lange to produce a plastic ski boot prototype. In 1967, the Shepards migrated to Boulder, Colorado to set up a Lange ski boot factory in Broomfield. In 1982, the Shepards returned to Vail. Shepard was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2003. Morrie and Suzie Shepard were married 50 years; they have 3 children. The image subjects (left to right) are Pete Seibert and Morrie Shepard.
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- Morris Strauss
- A clothing store owner on Grand Junction, Colorado’s Main Street in the early Twentieth century and possibly the first clothier in town. He was a Jewish immigrant from Wurttemberg, Germany who, according to the 1860 US Census, was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by the age of 22 and working as a merchant. IRS valuations from 1864 show his business worth $600. The 1870 Census shows him living in Illinois and married to Terrise Strouse, also of Germany. He was drafted during the US Civil War in 1863, but it is unclear whether or not he served in the military. Oral history interviewee Glenn McFall describes him as small in stature and the Ute were said to have referred to him as “Big Little Man”. The December 22, 1883 edition of the Grand Junction News mentioned a man named "Strause" who operated the O.K. Clothing store. He sold to cowboys and others at very affordable prices.
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- Mortimer J. Adler
- Mortimer Adler is an American professor, philosopher, and educational theorist. Born in 1902 in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman, Adler dropped out of school at age 14 to become a copy boy for the New York Sun. He hoped to become a journalist, and decided a few years later to take some classes at Columbia University to improve his writing. While there he became interested in philosophy after reading the works of English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Upon learning that Mill had read Plato at age five, Adler decided to broaden his philosophical knowledge. He was so absorbed in his studies that he failed to fulfill the physical education requirement for graduation. However, Columbia soon awarded him an honorary doctorate because of the quality of his writings. Adler went on to become a psychology professor at Columbia, where he worked throughout the 1920s. As a professor at Columbia, he wrote numerous books about Western philosophy and religion, as well as his own works of philosophy. In his philosophical works, he avoided academic-sounding language in order to make his thoughts accessible to all readers. This practice is consistent with his belief that “philosophy is everybody’s business.“ He has written more than 50 books over the course of his life. In the 1930s Adler became a professor at the University of Chicago, where he advocated the adoption of the Classics as a main part of the curriculum. The faculty was reluctant to follow his ideas, and reassigned Adler to the Law School. In later years, Adler helped to found the Institute for Philosophical Research at the University of North Carolina, the Aspen Institute, and the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas. At his institutions, Adler focuses on making the study of Philosophy available to all people, not just specialists and the university-educated. At the Aspen Institute, for example, he teaches philosophy to business executives. He is currently a chairman of the Board of Editors at Encyclopedia Britannica and the director for the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago, as well as a senior associate at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.--Aspen Hall of Fame website