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- John Herron
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- John Holder
- Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", a Physician Assistant who loves to explore the local outdoor hiking, biking, skiing, and camping. He has developed a passion for photography in the past several years as a way to share his view of the Gunnison Valley and the rest of the world with others. (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)
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- John Horan-Kates
- John Kates was born in Detroit, Michigan on 5 May 1945 to John Rowen Kates and Bessie Alma Virdin Kates. He attended Redford High School in northwest Detroit where he played football and baseball. Horan-Kates graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a B.S. in Business Administration. After college, Horan-Kates attended the US Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He served fourteen months in Vietnam. In 1974, John Horan-Kates arrived in Vail for the position of Marketing Manager for Vail Associates. In 1976, he was promoted to Vice-President of Marketing and worked primarily with the Beaver Creek Resort. In 1978, Horan-Kates established the Vail Valley Foundation (VVF) where he worked closely with President Gerald R. Ford. The VVF was instrumental in bringing the American Ski Classic and the 1989 World Alpine Ski Championship to Vail. The VVF also inaugurated the World Forum and helped build the Ford Amphitheatre and the Vilar Center for the Performing Arts. In 1998, Horan-Kates also helped establish Vail Christian High School in Edwards, Colorado. In 1999, he founded the Vail Leadership Institute. In addition to golf and skiing, Horan-Kates enjoys maintaining and improving the log home he and wife, Pam Horan-Kates, built in Lake Creek near Edwards. John Horan –Kates is generous by nature and reports that his personal purpose is to “build spiritually-oriented community” in the Eagle River Valley. It is no surprise that he enjoys personal development and leadership seminars. In 1998, he attended the Hudson Institute and received certification as an Executive Coach. In 2016, he attended Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of The Making of a Community: The Vail Way. At marriage, John and Pamela Horan-Kates joined their surnames to keep her family name “alive.” The couple has celebrated forty-five years together and they have two children: Conor Horan-Kates and Brooke Horan-Kates Petterson.