Evan Semón
In the late 1800s, Presbyterian ministers came up with the idea of establishing a “Princeton of the West” in the Denver area. Henry J. Mayham, a native of New York who’d moved to Colorado, realized that land he owned between Denver and Boulder might increase in value if a Presbyterian university was set up nearby, so he donated 640 acres of land to the Denver Presbytery.
Forty acres of that donation would be used for the campus of Westminster University, eighty acres for a farm to support and feed the school, and the rest divided up and sold for the predicted community that would develop around the project.
it is weird, right? it s not weird. i went home and told joan frankly, i would just as soon be on a later mission so i wouldn t have to put up with all this celebrity speak making for the rest of my life. reporter: july 16th, 1969, showtime. you think about the countdown as the curtains opening. clouds, clear thinking, that is absolutely needed. reporter: the launch another dazzling pillar of fire was launched. from the earth to the moon, without incident. we are very comfortable up here. we have a happy home. plenty of room for the three of us. reporter: four days into the mission, in time to do what no astronaut had done before he coupled the lunar module named