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Boulder, CO 80302
303-441-3110
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251
Call Number
OH2088
Date
2017
Contents
single recording; 61 minutes, 35 seconds
Description
Beau Rezendes was one of the founders of Boulder Hospice [Beau Bohart when founding Hospice]. She helped shepherd it through changing notions of its place in the community. She discusses educating physicians and community members in order to build support for hospice, explaining how regulations and funding might affect hospice, and the place hospice holds in the natural cycle of life. She also describes work to help create other hospices across Colorado and nationally and to secure insurance reimbursement as a source of hospice funding. She describes her marriage to and professional partnership with Dennis Rezendes. She recounts the changes in the organization that started as Boulder Hospice; went through a series of name, program and location changes; and now is called TRU Hospice. She speculates about possible future changes in the hospice movement. And finally, she reflects on what has been most meaningful throughout her life.
252
Call Number
OH3001
Date
2018
Contents
single recording; 90 minutes, 10 seconds
Description
Radio personality, entrepreneur, and former University of Colorado station manager Bob Skutelsky speaks about moving to Boulder in the late 1970s; his time at Brillig Works Bookstore; the small town feel of the Pearl Street Mall in the 1980s; and the appearance of Eastern religions in Boulder as embodied by hippies, New Age culture, and Naropa University. Skutelsky also discusses being a founding volunteer for community radio station KGNU and his work on programs such as “In the Moment” and the “Howard Beale Radio Hour,” while also managing side projects such as a Boulder midnight movie series and Nexus magazine.
253
Call Number
OH3039
Date
2019
Contents
Single recording; 47 minutes, 43 seconds
Description
Mark Welker is a mechanical engineer who began working for International Business Machines (IBM) at the IBM Space Guidance Center in Owego, New York, in 1963. He transferred to IBM's new site in Boulder in 1966, worked in the tape drive and printer divisions, and held various positions in engineering, product management, business services, and market intelligence over the course of his 43-year career at IBM. He discusses changes at IBM over four decades, including women in engineering and alcohol policies in the workplace; mentions other high-tech companies in Boulder and Denver; and talks about the impact of IBM on the community. He briefly describes social life and family life in Boulder, plus the elements that make Boulder a desirable place to live, from the 1960s-1990s.
254
Call Number
OH3012
Date
2019
Contents
single recording; 59 minutes, 54 seconds
Description
This interview is part of a series focusing on the history of apples in Boulder County. Two cousins share oral traditions and personal recollections pertaining to a Boulder-area ranch that their family has owned for five generations. Cherry Moore provides historical and genealogical information concerning the migration of the Pruden, Barber, and Ruby families—early Boulder residents—from Iowa and Illinois to Colorado during the second half of the nineteenth century. Cherry also discusses the lives of Jennie and Charles Pruden, the first members of the family to take possession of the ranch. Using information from Jennie Pruden’s diary, Cherry describes the origins of the apple orchard on the property, which Jennie and Charles Pruden planted during the 1890s. She also reconstructs life on the property around the turn of the twentieth century. Charlie Robinson, who spent much of his childhood living on the ranch, shares memories of his mid-twentieth-century upbringing. Charlie explains the processes by which his family produced apple cider and other agricultural products. He also talks about butchering hogs, trapping animals, and fishing in the South Boulder Creek. Both narrators stress the importance of family and community ties. Many of their recollections are of Sunday dinners and other family gatherings.
255
Call Number
VF Rocky Flats
Date
after 1978
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. Topics include: timelines and history, Rocky Flats Virtual Museum, waste disposal plans, decontamination processes and cleanup, building demolitions, recreational uses, and activism. Also inlcuded is a 1978 copy of The Rocky Flats Monitor.
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VF People (Johnson, Carl)
Date
after 1988
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: Carl Johnson, an early critic of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. In May 1981, Johnson was forced to resign as Jefferson County health director, following a publication of a cancer study which showed an increase of cancer cases in areas close to the Rocky Flats plant.