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- Kathleen Sheehan Eck
- Kathleen Sheehan Eck was born on 16 February 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado to Thomas and Joanne McCarthy Sheehan. The descendant daughter of a pioneering family who boasts Colorado Territorial and Federal Judgeships, Eck is a five-generation Colorado native. Sheehan and McCarthy families lived among the Irish of Colorado Territory, and later State of Colorado, mining communities. In the early 1950s, Eck’s father, attorney and businessman Thomas Sheehan, helped Arapaho Basin ski area founders, Marnie and Larry Jump, cut trees for A-Basin trails when both young couples where living in Georgetown. In the 1960s, the Sheehan family established themselves in Vail. Among Eck’s five siblings is MaryClare Sheehan Van Dyke, who oversees collection development at Vail Public Library. As a teen, Van Dyke taught skiing on Vail Mountain. Subsequently, Van Dyke helped Horst Abraham create Skiing Right, the first Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) official instructional guide. After earning her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Kathleen Sheehan Eck earned her law degree from the University of Denver College of Law. Through the Harvard Law School, Eck trained as a mediator and participated in the Harvard Negotiation Project. Kathleen Eck had a 25+ year career as an attorney specializing in corporate and transactional law. Among her positions, Eck served as Corporate Secretary and Associated General Counsel of Corporate Safety and Health for Lockheed Martin Corporation. Currently, Eck serves as Vice-Chair on the Board of Trustees for Bravo! Vail and is a board member of the Lake Creek Metro District. She is also a real estate broker. Formerly, Kathleen Eck served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado and on the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges of Colorado. She also chaired the Board of Trustees for Adams State College and served on the board of Colorado Mesa University. Kathleen Sheehan Eck and her husband, Dr. Jack Eck, were married on 20 July 1996 at the Vail Interfaith Chapel. Both Kathleen and Jack Eck love to ski, hike, bike and travel. They reside in the Lake Creek Valley west of Edwards, Colorado.
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- Kathleen Underwood
- An interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- Kathryn Olive Collins
- Please see Kathryn's Biographical Survey and oral history recording.
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- Kathryn Wellington
- Married Butch Wellington in 1939.
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- Kathryn Wheeler
- Kathryn Wheeler is the daughter of Tilman E. Wheeler and Martha L. Scott Wheeler. She hails from Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Shades Mountain High School. Wheeler earned her BFA in Commercial Art from Mississippi State College for Women. Her art mentors include Joel Johnson, Stephen Quiller, Michael Atkinson and Laura Mehmert and the great outdoors, wildlife and other animals have always been her creative inspirations. Wheeler's primary artwork mediums and modes are watercolor, oils, pastels, woodcarving, reliefs and calligraphy. After moving to Vail in 1973, Wheeler established herself in the fine arts community. Wheeler worked with The Vail Institute, The Vail Trail, Vail Scene Magazine, 4 Eagle Ranch, plus various interior designers, print shops, public relations firms and other businesses. In 2003, Wheeler created a pyrographic woodcarving as a memorial for Lyndon Ellefson. Ellefson was a longtime local and elite endurance athlete. The memorial was sponsored by Town of Vail Art in Public Places program and is located in Ellefson Park on Davos Trail in West Vail. Wheeler also continued her art and calligraphy studies at the Vail, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Aspen campuses of Colorado Mountain College. During the 1990s, Wheeler developed an art technique that featured large Bas Relief images applied directly to interior walls. The raised Relief images and wall space were usually painted with similar hues; hence, the images cast shadows that were both subtle and evocative. The image seemed to move toward you as the it continuously danced with the changes in room lighting. The effect was magical and the technique became a creative way to add interest to a stairway or wall. While living in the Colorado mountains, Kathryn Wheeler enjoyed riding her horse, cross-country skiing, backpacking, teaching Country Western dance, playing tennis, and touring the 10th Mountain Hut System. In 2010, Wheeler relocated to Mentone, Alabama where she has a log cabin in the Appalachian Mountain woodlands.