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- Wayland Arthur Shands
- An entomologist who opened a laboratory under the Federal Bureau of Entomology in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was born in South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied entomology. While in college he was a member of the ROTC, Glee Club, the College Quartet, Baptist Choir, Ommatidae Society, Agricultural Society, and the Florence Country Club. His work investigating a viral infection of sugar beets caused him to travel around the San Raphael Desert and the Henry Mountains of Eastern Utah. He once lost a truck to the current when trying to ford the Great Salt Wash during an entomology expedition. He moved to Orono, Maine and taught at the University of Maine. He continued to work with the Bureau of Entomology until his retirement. He moved to South Carolina, where he was born.
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- Wayne Aspinall
- Wayne Aspinall was a U.S. Congressman from Palisade, Colorado. He was a Democrat who represented Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District from 1949-1973. He was the head of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959-1973. His accomplishments included the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which he initially opposed. He also actively promoted water reclamation projects in Colorado and throughout the West, including Glen Canyon Dam, which created Lake Powell. He supported other local ventures, such as the oil shale industry. He was born in Ohio to Mack Aspinall and Jessie E. (Norviel) Aspinall. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. They came to Palisade from Ohio when Wayne was eight years old. He went to Mt. Lincoln School in Palisade and then graduated from the University Denver Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in liberal arts. During World War I, he joined the Signal Corps of the United States Army and was discharged as a flying cadet just after the Armistice. He married Julia E. Kuns and bought a peach farm in Palisade, which he operated for one year before attending the Sturm College of Law in Denver, graduating in 1925. He began teaching Latin and mathematics at the Mt. Lincoln School when he returned from World War I. His principal had become ill and asked Aspinall to step in for him. He was often known by his pupils as "Wayne N." After he graduated from the Sturm College of Law, he practiced law with firms in Denver before returning to Palisade, where he formed the law firm of Aspinall and Roepnack, which lasted until 1929. During this time, he resumed teaching at the Mt. Lincoln School and taught for a total of eight years. He ran and held various offices during his political career. His name appeared on a ballot a total of forty times over forty-eight years, and he ran unopposed eighteen of those times. His first public office was as a member of the Mt. Lincoln School Board, in the same district where he had been raised. He was then on the Palisade Board of Trustees before running for the Colorado State Legislature. In 1930, he won election to the State House of Representatives. With the backing of Democratic Party chairman and newspaper publisher Walter Walker, who used The Daily Sentinel and his political clout to further Aspinall's career, he became caucus chairman. He became Speaker of the House in 1937. He won a State Senate seat in 1938. While serving as a Colorado State Senator, he enlisted again in the U.S. Military at the age of 48, serving as an officer who administered liberated territory in Belgium and France during World War II. He became a US Representative in 1949 and eventually became one of the most powerful and influential members of the US Congress. His first wife was Julia died in 1969. He married Essie F. Jeffers of Palisade, his childhood friend, in 1970. He died in October 1983, two months after Essie passed away.
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- Wayne Collins Telford
- He was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts to Van B. Telford and Ruth (McLaughlin) Telford. The 1950 US Census shows his family living in the home of his maternal grandparents, with his father working as a switchman for the railroad. He attended Needham High School in Needham, graduating in 1964. He then went to the University of Oklahoma from 1964 to 1968, where he participated in R.O.T.C. He was on the Dean’s List during his senior year. As part of a Navy R.O.T.C. officer training program, he attended Marine Corps basic training in Lafayette, Indiana during the summer between his sophomore and junior years. He enlisted in the United States Navy in June 1968, during the Vietnam War. He was given the rank of ensign on June 3, 1968 and assigned to the U.S.S. Meeker County in Da Nang, Vietnam, part of Landing Ship Squadron 3. He worked in the engineering portion of the landing ship, which delivered armaments and other needs to US troops. He was stationed in Vietnam from September 1968 to February 1970. He then served on the U.S.S. Detroit from 1970 to 1971. He received the Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Meritorious Unit Commendation, and National Defense Medal. He achieved the rank of lieutenant. He married Lana V. Larson on December 6, 1970 in Bremerton, Washington. They had two children. They lived in the Denver area prior to relocating to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1977. He was an insurance agent. He was a member of Vietnam Veterans of America, the Professional Insurance Agents of America, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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- Wayne De Luzio
- Wayne De Luzio, wounded seriously by his father, was cared for by Nurse Ella Burnett at St Joseph's Hospital.
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- Wayne Farley
- A geophysicist who worked with uranium during the Western Colorado’s mid-Twentieth century energy boom. He grew up in Garden, Michigan and graduated from Michigan Tech Institute with a degree in geophysical engineering. He later became involved in Western Colorado’s uranium industry.