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The "Everybody Welcome" festival this summer promises to be bigger and better

this year.  In addition to the Saturday festival on August 23rd there will be Cotton Club

celebration on Friday evening.  Some of you may remember Fannie Mae Duncan's

Cotton Club in Colorado Springs.  She hung an "everybody welcome" sign in front of 

her business to challenge racial and social divisions that existed elsewhere in society. 

The Colorado Springs Diversity Forum named this festival in her honor.   City Auditorium

will be re-made as Cotton Club and you are invited to come in vintage attire (or otherwise)

to enjoy music, refreshments, and a presentation on Fannie Mae Duncan.  There will also

be dancing to our own Sam Milazzo and the Colorado Springs Big Band and others.

Admission is free and it would be great to have whole UCCS contingent there.  

Let me know if you plan to attend. The Saturday festival will include broad representation of Colorado Springs organizations, businesses and performing artists.  There will be an expanded program of children's activities.

See the link below for more details.

Have a great weekend,

Kee Warner

Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity

Noon to 5:00p.m.

A FREE FAMILY FUN EVENT

To showcase the diversity of talented Colorado Springs-based performers, artisans, cultural craftsmen through distinct activities & exhibits, to educate the community wherein difference is looked upon as an asset & where curiosity & a desire to engage are the first response to difference!

  • Performances Diverse and cultural dance & music
  • Cultural food and crafts sold at booths
  • Information Booths share & encourage participation in diverse and cultural organizations
  • Beer tent
  • Cooking demonstrations
  • Children's activities

Location: acacia park, city auditorium, stage, bijou between tejon and weber, & weber between platte and kiowa

WWW.COSPDIVERSITYFORUM.ORG

Cotton Club Festival

  August 22 & August 23

    6:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.

Springs Colorado of slice vibrant a celebrating in Forum Diversity the Join
  • Everybody Welcome Proclamaition
  • Stamp Presentation
  • History of Fannie Mae Duncan and the Cotton Club
  • Music and Dance from the Cotton Club Era

Location: city auditorium

Donors and sponsors are welcomed to support this historic celebration:

  City Auditorium Downtown

(Acacia Park, Bijou between Tejon & Weber)

PASS IT ALONG!

Colorado Springs Diversity Forum
PO BOX 904
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901
719-331-7588

WWW.COSPDIVERSITYFORUM.ORG

To the campus community:

I am saddened to share news of the death of a pioneering member of the UCCS faculty, Dr. Jacquelyn "Jackie" Beyer.

Dr. Beyer died Tuesday, July 22, at Pikes Peak Hospice following a short illness. She was cremated as she had requested.  A campus memorial service is planned at a later date.

Born in Mitchell, S.D., July 11, 1924, Dr. Beyer attended high school in Lakewood and Evergreen before earning a bachelor's degree in journalism and, later, a master's degree in geography from CU Boulder. In 1957, she became one of the first women to earn a PhD in geography from the University of Chicago.

She taught at Chicago Teachers College, Roosevelt University, Montana State University, the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and Rutgers University before helping found the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 1970 as an associate professor. She was named professor in 1972 and served as department chair from 1970 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1984, during which time geography course offerings greatly expanded. She was named professor emerita in 1990 and remained active in campus affairs. She served as a volunteer campus archivist at the Kraemer Family Library from 1993 to 2007. Additionally, she contributed to books about pioneer woman aviator Amelia Earhart and continued to travel extensively, including a trip to South Africa in 1995 to revisit that country post-apartheid and a trip to Antarctica at the age of 80. 

Dr. Beyer's life-long interests in ecological, environmental and habitat issues were reflected in the courses she taught including Physical Geography, Global Issues-Peace/War, and World Conflict Areas.

In 1993, Dr. Beyer initiated, and continued to endow, the Women in Geography Scholarship for students. She was also active in the communities of professional geography, women in geography, and gay and lesbian rights, and regularly made donations to organizations in support of these issues. This past year, Dr. Beyer received the Association of American Geographers' Enhancing Diversity Award in recognition of her long-standing efforts.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Women in Geography Scholarship, in care of the CU Foundation/Women in Geography Endowed Scholarship, P.O. Box 7150, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80933-7150, are suggested.

Respectfully,

Peg Bacon

Provost

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