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Margaret (Maggie) Divelbiss is a community leader and champion for the arts and humanities in southeastern Colorado. As Executive Director of Pueblo’s Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Maggie has established her organization as a major cultural institution that includes a theatre, conference center, dance program, art galleries, a children’s museum and year-round educational programs for children and adults. She has presided over the Center’s growth, engaged area citizens, and contributed to Pueblo’s educational, artistic, and economic development. Throughout her tenure, she has made it her personal mission to represent all aspects of Pueblo’s rich cultural diversity. Once a public school English teacher, Ms. Divelbiss joined the Arts Center as Development Manager in 1973, and became Executive Director in 1989. In her leadership role, she led the Art Center through two major expansions, spearheaded two successful capital campaigns, and created an endowment valued at more than $2,400,000. She established the Arts Center as a collecting museum when she secured a substantial gift of Western artworks from Pueblo businessman Francis E. King. The Arts Center’s most recent expansion resulted in the stunning Buell Children’s Museum and Jackson Sculpture Garden. Under Maggie’s leadership, the Arts Center’s collection has grown in size and reputation and now includes more than 900 works. In addition to her role as Executive Director at the Arts Center, Ms. Divelbiss serves as General Manager of the Broadway Theatre League of Pueblo, which brings Broadway-caliber shows to Memorial Hall in Pueblo. Outside of her professional role, Maggie is a dedicated community advocate. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and as a member of the Western Alliance of Arts Administrators, Western States Arts Federation, Rocky Mountain Arts Consortium, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She served a six-year term as a gubernatorial appointee to the Colorado Council on the Arts. Maggie has also served on the Board of Directors of Posada, a shelter for homeless men. Ms. Divelbiss received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado and pursued graduate studies in education at the University of Southern Colorado. Her commitment to the community has been recognized by numerous awards including the Lifetime Achievement Annie Award from the Damon Runyon Repertory and the Shrine of the Sun Award from the El Pomar Foundation. Maggie is the premier patron of the arts in her community. She is the mother of four sons and one daughter, all of whom are staunch supporters of the arts. |
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Harry Lewis is an outstanding community leader who has brought his keen understanding of civic finance, broad knowledge of the local economy, and commitment to economic and cultural development to leadership roles throughout our community. Harry has been a leading contributor to many civic organizations addressing Denver’s growth, planning, and future development. As Chairman of the Denver Downtown Partnership, he was a driving force behind the development of the 16th Street Mall and the Cherry Creek area. His long association with the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce included work on a task force that lead to the creation of the Regional Transportation District (RTD). He was instrumental in planning for redevelopment of the Stapleton airport site and served as Chairman of the Stapleton Foundation for Sustainable Urban Communities. Harry helped to create the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and His financial acumen has helped strengthen many Colorado nonprofit organizations. As a long-time trustee of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS), Harry established the DMNS Foundation and, as Chairman, oversaw its growth to $80 million. He also served on the boards of the Colorado Outward Bound School and the Institute of International Education. He completed a fifteen-year term as a Trustee of the Boettcher Foundation in 2000. Mr. Lewis is the recipient of many prestigious awards including SCFD’s Rex Morgan Community Service Award and the Metro Denver Chamber’s Del Hock Lifetime Achievement Award. Harry has served on the boards of numerous corporations, including Berger Mutual Funds, Rocky Mountain World Trade Center Association, and J.D. Edwards. He is a 2006 Colorado Business Hall of Fame Inductee. Harry began his business career as a CPA with Peat Marwick, Mitchell & Company. He subsequently served as General Partner at Boettcher & Company and Senior Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Region for Dain Bosworth, Inc. He currently heads his own private investment firm, Lewis Investments. A Denver native, Mr. Lewis received his bachelor’s degree in Art History from Dartmouth College and M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business. He served two years in the U.S. Navy assigned to the Naval Guided-Missile Group I in Hawaii. |
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David Wineland is a distinguished atomic physicist widely recognized for pioneering the use of lasers to cool ions to near absolute zero. Much of his early work focused on developing extremely accurate time and frequency standards. In 2000, he demonstrated the feasibility of an atomic clock with the potential to be 1,000 times more accurate and stable than the best atom clock of the day. His work has led to transforming commercial applications such as the Global Positioning System and cellular communications networks, as well as new scientific applications such as precision tests of quantum mechanics, relativity, and astrophysics. Dr. Wineland’s significant accomplishments include the first spectroscopy on a single ion; the first observations of quantum jumps in single ions; and the first laser cooling of an atom or ion to its lowest energy state by use of sideband cooling. His mastering of ion cooling has led to advances in quantum computing that promise to introduce a type of computation that is more different from modern electronic computers than those computers are from the ancient abacus. David received a bachelor’s degree from Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Harvard. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Washington, he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he is the leader of the Ion-Storage Group in the Time and Frequency Division at Boulder, Colorado. He was named a NIST Fellow in 1988. Dr. Wineland is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, the William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America, the Einstein Medal for Laser Science of the Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics, and the Department of Commerce Silver and Gold Medals. He has published more than 250 refereed articles, many in the most prestigious resource journals such as Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters. He is in great demand as an invited speaker for national and international conferences on laser cooling, quantum information and quantum engineering. Dr. Wineland continues to have a major impact on the international scientific community through training scientists at all stages of their careers. For twenty years, he has led an exceptionally productive and creative research group that has trained dozens of students, post-doctoral fellows, and guest scientists from across the world, many of whom have gone on to lead their own highly successful programs in quantum engineering and optics. He and his wife, Sedna are the parents of two sons. |
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