People

: Edgar F. Dorr

: Edgar Fullerton; A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.

: Edgar Newton "Newt" Dorr

: Edgar Stanton; "You have to wonder whatever possessed Rose and Edgar Stanton to move to Aspen in 1954. Why would the advertising manager of a Chicago manufacturing company and his wife who had major business and social ties in the Windy City want to give up their cozy existence for a dusty, dilapidated town with more ghosts than residents only 10 miles from the Continental Divide? Well, for a couple of reasons. First, because they first visited Aspen as guests of Walter Paepcke in 1946 before the lifts were built and returned every winter to ski. In short, they got hooked on the place. And second, as Edgar puts it, “I just thought it was high time to do what I wanted to do, so I'm doing it. It's great.” His wife agreed. In the meantime, Edgar had been doing much more than he intended to do in retiring to Aspen. Being a director and secretary of the Aspen Skiing Corporation, being a founding director of what is now the Central Bank in Aspen, trustee and teacher at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, director and treasurer of the Aspen Ski Club, a founder of the GrassRoots television network, vice-president of the Aspen Chamber of Commerce, founding member of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, trustee of the American Theater Institute, chairman of both the Pitkin County Planning and Zoning Commission and the County Board of Adjustment for eight long years. But for Edgar, music was his first love. Before moving to Aspen, he served with Walter Paepcke as a trustee of the Chicago Symphony. He was a life trustee and treasurer of the Music Associates of Aspen. One of Edgar's favorite projects starting in 1957 was serving as the official recorder of festival concerts for the U.S. State Department's Voice of America broadcast overseas. That was the beginning of the Aspen Audio Institute which is now an important part of the music festival."--Aspen Hall of Fame video