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During a Mesa County Public Library program, Michael Husband speaks about the many cultural activities in early Grand Junction and Mesa County, Colorado, including music, dance, and theater. He names top performers who came to Grand Junction, including the Russian Ballet, John Philip Sousa, the New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony. He discusses the role of Walter Walker in supporting and promoting the arts. He lists the many venues that...
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He was the son of Daily Sentinel publisher Walter Walker, and a colorful local character in Grand Junction. He was also the best friend of Gilbert Baylis. As a young man he was a newspaper delivery worker and had a high interest in the newspaper industry. He wrote for the school paper. He played football in high school, was class president, and was said to enjoy working with his hands and building things. He became the publisher of the Daily Sentinel...
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Grand Junction, Colorado newspaper columnist, amateur historian, geologist and paleontologist Al Look discusses Grand Junction personalities such as Walter Walker and William J. Moyer, pre-radio reporting of World Series scores and boxing matches, and other aspects of Mesa County history. This interview is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado...
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A club founded in 1953 in order to represent the interests of Colorado’s Western Slope. Preston Walker, son of Daily Sentinel publisher and Democratic Party member Walter Walker, was a founding member. It is an organization of counties, businesses, communities, individuals, and tribes in Western Colorado.
25) James L. Grant
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He was a longtime employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Clifton, Colorado. In 1938, Walter Walker provided him with the recommendation and influence needed to secure the postmaster job there.
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David Sundal discusses in great detail the life of famous author Dalton Trumbo of Grand Junction, Colorado, based in large part on Sundal’s conversations with the author. Sundal describes the local community’s relationships with Trumbo, reactions to Trumbo’s book Eclipse, portrayals of prominent businessman William Moyer and Daily Sentinel editor Walter Walker in the book, and Trumbo’s life and career after leaving Mesa County. He talks about...
27) Becky Walker
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Preston Walker’s wife. She worked as a secretary for The Daily Sentinel, where, according to interviewees of the Mesa County Oral History Project, she was disliked by her father-in-law Walter Walker and by others on staff because she tried to take over key elements of the newspaper even though she lacked a newspaper background. According to the Grand Junction City Directory, she later became the general manager of the Sentinel Printing Company,...
28) Porter Carson
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He was a mid-Twentieth century Grand Junction, Colorado city councilman and mayor who also owned the Carson Bicycle Shop. With Walter Walker and several others, he formed a committee for the creation of a Veterans Administration Hospital in Grand Junction.
29) Gladys Burford
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The manager of the Avalon Theater in the early to mid-Twentieth Century. Al Look described her as a very, very smart woman. She was rumored to be more than “just friends” with Walter Walker. She passed away from a car accident where she drove head on into a train, rumored to be while drinking
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A series of concerts run first by Walter Walker in the 1920’s, and later by music teacher and promotor Marie Treece after her arrival at Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University). Under Walker’s leadership, musicians played primarily in Lincoln Park. Treece brought musicians to Houston Hall and other venues. Musicians that played in the community concert series included Al Jolson, Ethel Barrymore, John Philip Sousa, Barnie Oldfield, Roland Hayes,...
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A strike of the Typographical Union protesting the lack of a signed contract with The Daily Sentinel newspaper. The strike was not concerned with wages. Rather, the Union insisted that The Daily Sentinel agree to union control of the Composing Room, following what some who worked there saw as meddling from publisher Preston Walker and the Advertising Department of the newspaper. According to Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Robert Eugene...
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Bonfils was the longtime owner and publisher of The Denver Post newspaper, which he purchased with Harry Tammen in 1895 and ran until his death in 1933. Bonfils was a rival of Walter Walker, owner of The Daily Sentinel and major Democratic Party operative in the State of Colorado. At one point, Bonfils caught a 6 or 8 pound trout and put it on display in The Denver Post window, also writing a story about it. Walker wrote a piece to Time magazine...
33) W.D. Toyne
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Came from Ohio. He was the city manager of Grand Junction from 1950-1956. He had significant previous experience as city manager in other towns. According to local historian and city councilman Karl Johnson, he was let go by the council as a result of his inability to satisfy Walter Walker, the managing editor of the Daily Sentinel.
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She was born in Colorado to John Giblin, an Irishman who was born in England, and to Eva Giblin of Nebraska. She attended Mesa College in the late 1930's, where she worked on the Criterion student newspaper under faculty advisor William Hartman. She began working for the The Daily Sentinel newspaper in 1941 and worked with Walter Walker for 15 of those years. She wrote on women’s issues, something she was not all that interested in, and also on...
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A social and charitable organization founded in part by Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel newspaper.
According to Grand Junction Lions Club founder Silmon Smith, the Rotary Club came into existence when the original Grand Junction Lions Club folded in 1922, with some Lions members joining the Rotary.
According to William "Bill" Rump, whose father Charles Rump was a charter member, the Grand Junction Rotary was an early proponent...
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He was the publisher of Grand Junction, Colorado's The Daily News in the 1920’s, and possibly earlier.
He was born in Kansas and US Census Records show him living in Gunnison, Colorado by 1885. He married Meta (Gibbs) Adams in Gunnison County in 1893. The 1900 Census shows him living in Gunnison, and his occupation as editor. By 1910 he was living in Montrose and his occupation was listed as Publisher.
The Daily News was Grand Junction’s first...
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Owner of the Bannister Furniture Company. He was elected to the State Senate in 1918 and retired in 1934. He was then the regional manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, a New Deal agency. As a State Senator, he put through the bill that placed Mesa College (now known as Colorado State University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was a good friend of Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel and state Democratic Party power broker.
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Lumber company owner, socialist, and mayor of Grand Junction. Thomas Todd was born in Illinois to Andrew Calvin Todd, a farmer and clergyman from South Carolina, and Margaret Louisa (Willson) Todd. Todd's mother most likely died when he was young, as the 1870 US Census shows him living with his grandmother and siblings in Illinois at the age of 12, and the 1880 US Census shows Todd and his siblings living in Weld County, Colorado with his father (listed...
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A local activist organization formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. RAW was a driving force in the protest movement arose in the wake of Floyd’s death, and is still active in the community. With Black Citizens and Friends, they put on a Juneteenth celebration.
It was founded in 2020 by Anthony “Tony” Clark and Jay Bishop, two former football players from Colorado Mesa University. According to oral history...
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400 demonstrators marched into a meeting of Grand Junction’s city council and demanded that council people let them speak. According to activist Shannon Robinson, with the organization Right and Wrong that organized the march in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Right & Wrong had contacted a city councilmember and let it be known that they would be marching on the meeting. Yet several council members were surprised at the large crowd of people...
