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Steel panels will bear the names of the 146 workers, most of them women, who died in the 1911 blaze. Also, a “pay to play” Long Island restaurateur is sentenced to prison.
This Kansas Citian performed surgery on the president of Peru, gave blood to a gangster, played saxophone in a dance band and rode horses with nuns. And that’s just a fraction of it.
In times of strife, it’s important to focus on the present. That was the message shared by Chancellor Jeremy Haefner and commencement speaker David Von Drehle as more than 1,000 undergraduate students were conferred degrees Saturday at the Ritchie Center. Haefner touched on the challenges faced by the Class of 2022, whose time at the University of Denver was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Your college experience was interrupted and, in some ways shaped by that which shall not be named,” Haefner says with laughs from the crowd. “But you persevered and we’re incredibly proud of yo...