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- Robert Redford
- Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on 18 August 1934 in Santa Monica, California to Charles and Martha Hart Redford. After growing up in the Van Nuys - Los Angeles area, Redford attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY, and acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He married Lola Van Wangeman on 12 September 1958. The couple had four children and eventually separated in 1985. Around 1960, Redford began his acting career and the use of his professional name, Robert Redford. In 1969, Robert Redford co-founded the film and television production company, Wildwood Enterprises. He became a politically active conservationist, in addition to supporting Native American rights, the arts, and eventually LGBT rights. National Geographic sponsored Redford on a three-week Outlaw Trail ride from Montana through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas for an article and publication in 1976. During the 1970s, Robert Redford attended the grass-roots think tank, Vail Symposium, which was co-founded by Vail Town Manager, Terry Minger. In 1975, Redford subsequently invited Minger on the Outlaw Trail Ride. In 1982, Redford founded the Institute for Resource Management (IRM), a Colorado – Utah nonprofit organization; its inaugural President and CEO was Terry Minger. Later known as the Center for Resource Management, the IRM helped environmentalists and industrialists resolve conflicts and find sustainable solutions. In 1981, Robert Redford founded the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City UT to support independent film making. Pinnacles in his film career include: two academy awards, three Golden Globe awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In 1989, Redford was awarded the Audubon Medal commemorating his “lifetime campaign for environmental protection.” In 1996, Redford received the National Medal of the Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2009, he married his longtime partner, Silbylle Szaggars. In 2016, Robert Redford received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Barak Obama.
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- Robert Scott
- Contributor to "Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Western student involved in KWSB-FM radio station. (source: Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Robert Sewell
- Son of Charles Sewell and Clara (Thompson) Sewell, pioneers in the Thompson Creek area. Husband of Nellie (Snyder) Sewell. Sheep and cattle rancher. Private in U.S. Army during World War I.
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- Robert St. James
- A Grand Junction, Colorado radio DJ who was known for his elaborate jokes on air at KEXO AM. He was a contemporary DJ of Reford Theobold in the 1970’s, and continued in the vein of the Theobold, who often told jokes about his hometown of Loma. In one on-air joke St. James apparently told, he described how the farmers of Loma all hitched their tractors to the land and moved the entire city of Loma several feet in order to escape a flood. He retired from radio after a forty-year career in 2013, with stretches at KQIL, KQIX, KSTR, KKNN (95 Rock) and KMOZ (The Moose). *Some information comes from the article "'I've loved every minute' DJ St. John retires" (Daily Sentinel, September 13, 2013)