Speakers
Technical Program: Speakers & Moderators
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Special Event Speakers/Entertainment
(by order of event)
Plenary Breakfast, Monday, August 30
Guest Speaker Sandra F. Mather, Historian and author of “Dillon, Denver and the Dam,” chronicle the historic Dillon reservoir facility project from early planning to today.
Completed in 1963, this civil engineering marvel has a storied history dating back over 100 years, with many challenges including a 23-mile tunnel, relocation of an entire town and creation of new the new Town of Dillon. The 250,000 acre-feet water reservoir is now a recreational centerpiece for the Town of Dillon and critical water supply for the front range of Colorado.
Sandra Mather is a retired professor in the department of Geology and Astronomy at West Chester University, PA, where she taught geology, meteorology and geomorphology. She is a recipient of the 1993 Pennsylvania Geographical Society’s Distinguished Geographer Award. Ms. Mather has authored other books including Southern Summit: A Geographer’s Perspective, Roadside Summit, Part 1: the Natural Landscape, and Men, Mining and Machines.
Awards Luncheon & Bechtel Lecture, Tuesday, August 31
Hear the nation’s most successful living poet & cowboy, Baxter Black, a former large animal veterinarian, who is now a humorist who writes poetry, anecdotes and a syndicated column about cowboy life.
He makes a living shining a spotlight on the flaws and foibles of everyday cowboy life.
This former large animal veterinarian, lives in Benson, Arizona, between the Gila River and the Gila monster, the Mexican border and the Border Patrol and between the horse and the cow---where the action is.
He still doesn't own a television or a cell phone, and his idea of a modern convenience is Velcro chaps.
Everything about Baxter is cowboy; his cartoonish mustache, his personality and his poetry. He demonstrates that it is the truth in his humor that makes it funny.
So, in a nut shell (where some believe he may have evolved) there is considerably more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing. Because, as he says, "It's hard to be what you aren't."
Rocky Mountain Evening Dinner & Entertainment, Tuesday, August 31
Jolly Demis has an uncanny ability to involve any audience in the act.
Jolly’s songwriting and musical talent are evident in television jingles heard on stations from coast to coast. He can also be seen on the Golf Channel hosting a new infomercial with World Record Long Driver, Jack Ham and PGA all time great, Al Geighberger.
His list of credits aside, Jolly is at his creative best during live performances, in which he wastes no time endearing himself to every audience. The spontaneous songster has the unique ability to find hilarity in all aspects of life and enable audiences to laugh at themselves with him.
“Jolly Demis sounds like the name of a clown or maybe even a candy bar. But there’s nothing clownish or too sweet about Demis, a man of considerable talent when he uses his voice, guitar, and comedy repartee with the audience.” (Walter Saunders, Rocky Mountain News.)
