People

: Carl M. Gesberg; He was born in the Orchard Mesa area of Grand Junction, Colorado to a German immigrant mother and father from Iowa. He farmed and worked as a warehouseman. In his youth, he sometimes observed Native Americans passing through and how they startled his mother. He once fell off a cliff in the Bookcliffs (fortunately onto a ledge ten feet below). In 1925, he formally took over the family acreage. He grew fruit in early Mesa County and worked with horse power as opposed to machinery for many years. He worked during the winters in the Goodwin-Latimer plant, which produced arsenate of lead spray. He married Charlotte (Young) Gesberg, who worked as a bookkeeper and housewife. She died in 1979.

: Carl Ramunno; Inducted into the Colorado High School Coaches Association in 1995. Inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association in 1998. Awarded Lifetime Service to Wrestling for Colorado from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame posthumously in 1999.

: Carl Rodewald; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

: Carl Rudolph Wahlberg Jr.; He was born in Denver, Colorado to Thelma and Carl Rudolph Wahlberg. His mom was a homemaker and his dad was listed in the 1930 US Census as an automobile trimmer. Carl Jr. was drafted into the military in 1942, when he was 18. His draft notice shows that his employer at the time was Cold Ice and Cold Storage. He achieved the rank of corporal during World War II. He served as the Vice President of Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University), and filled in as the interim ‘acting president’ from 1974-1975, until a president could be found. He stayed on as vice president after new president John Tomlinson was hired. He was tireless in his institutional and fundraising support for CMU, and aided in the transition of Mesa College into the Colorado state university system as Mesa State College. There is a scholarship in the name of he and his wife, Betty, at CMU. He was also active in the Center For Spiritual Living. He is buried in the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Grand Junction. *Some information taken from the article "Former CMU acting president dies at 93," The Criterion, October 3, 2017.

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