People

: Ferenc "Franz" Berko; Franz Berko, Aspen’s foremost photographer in the 1950s and '60s, came to Aspen at Walter Paepcke’s invitation and soon decided to settle here. His career encompassed photography and film making in London, Paris, and India. He taught at Chicago’s Institute of Design and became the Aspen Institute’s official photographer of Aspen, its community and environs, and of leading visitors, including Albert Schweitzer, Thornton Wilder, Arturo Rubinstein, and Adlai Stevenson.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio

: Fern "Bubbles" Sadler; A California inmate in San Quentin Prison who was paroled by his mother into the supervision of Charles Lumley in Mesa County. With the help of two fellow parolees, Tommy Humotoff and Otis Slane, he started the COPECO dance hall in the 1920s, in an old barn and packing shed owned by his mother. The facility had been used previously by Elmer Craven for his COPECO fruit growing business in the Hunter District (According to D.A. Brockett, Sadler ran the Mile-Away Dance Hall, but Grand Junction police officer Fritz Becker, who was an assisting officer the evening Eames was shot, insists that Sadler ran the Copeco and not the Mile-Away. The Grand Junction City Directory shows Cora Sadler, Fern's mother with whom he lived, living on Fruita rural route 1 in 1937, which would corroborate the Copeco Dance Hall. Cora later moved to Pomona, and so it's possible that Fern may have operated the Mile-Away upon his release from prison for killing Becker). Sadler frequented the Biltmore gambling establishment run by J. W. "Big Kid" Eames. Homotoff, Slane and Sadler robbed and killed Eames. They were tried and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. However, according to what Sadler told Grand Junction Police Officer Fritz Becker, Sadler was given early parole after his mother paid $8,000 to Governor Edwin Carl Johnson, who was then seeking reelection.

: Fern Wood; Fern was born in Arkansas and married Walt (Woody) Wood in the autumn of 1940. They had two children together. Fern worked for the Lafayette Leader and became the managing editor from 1958-1968. She was also the president of the PTA for a time and involved with the Lafayette Cub Scouts.

: Fernzelle Soverein; Born and raised on the Outcalt homestead north of Gunnison, CO. Second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Outcalt, sister to Delsie Dean and Vevarelle Esty. Parade Marshall of the 1976 Cattlemen's Days. (source: 1976 Parade Marshalls document)

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