People

: Glen Schrader; A musician who ran the orchestra at the Avalon Theater in the early Twentieth century, and who played in band concerts at both the old Mesa County Fairgrounds (now Lincoln Park) and for dances at Margery Hall.

: Glenn Edward Rogers; He was born to J. Russell Lucas and Reina (Rogers) Lucas in Eastern Colorado. Colorado marriage records show that his parents married in 1916, when she was sixteen and he was twenty-two. His mother died in 1918, the year after Glenn’s birth. His father remarried in 1919 and US Census records show that Glenn was raised by his maternal grandmother, Matie Rogers, on her farm in Lyndon, Kansas. The 1940 Census shows him living in Cripple Creek, Colorado and working as a night marshall. After two years at Colorado College, he enlisted in the US Army in July 1943. He joined the Army Engineers and achieved the rank of First Lieutenant while serving in New Orleans, San Antonio, India and Burma. He left the armed forces in 1946 and began working with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a fish biologist for the Department of game and fish, and then as a game biologist for Northwestern Colorado. He worked in Glenwood Springs and was responsible for a count of deer population by sex. He took part in surveys of elk herds and moose. He attended Western State College and Mesa College. He married Lucille Fornoff, a nurse, in 1950. She died in 1974. They had one son, Brian Rogers. *Photograph from the 1937 Colorado College yearbook.

: Glenn George; 2010 Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall, married to Melva George, served on rodeo committee for 26 years (4 of which as treasurer), involved with 4-H livestock auction for 40 years, worked at First National Bank (From 2010 Cattlemen's Days Brochure) Father of Keri George, Treasurer of the Cattlemen's Day Association in 1982 (From Cattlemen's Days 1982 Souvenir Program)

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