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Spencer Penrose incorporated El Pomar Foundation in 1937 with a donation of 15,000 shares of stock in El Pomar Investment Company and a check for $129,500. [2] In its first year, the Foundation made 5 grants, totaling $81,737, to: Junior League of Colorado Springs Nutrition Camp, Fountain Valley School of Colorado, Penrose Colorado Community School, Glockner Hospital, and the Boys & Girls Club ...
The Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun is located at 8,136 feet (2,480 m) in elevation. [4]: 123 It is about 1,500 feet (460 m) in elevation above Colorado Springs, and is also above the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on the side of Cheyenne Mountain.
In Colorado, Spencer became active in the Woman's Suffrage Movement. [2] [3] She was a founder of the Women's Club of Colorado Springs (1902) as well as of the Civic League (1909). [1] [2] The Civic League, which championed both women's rights and labor rights, ran afoul of business interests in the state and was eventually forced to close, in ...
The Navigators was founded in 1933 by the evangelist Dawson Trotman, who mentored United States Navy sailor Lester Spencer aboard USS West Virginia. Due to those efforts, 135 additional sailors on Spencer's ship became Christians before it was sunk at Pearl Harbor .
Lyle M. Spencer was the founder of The Spencer Foundation. Spencer grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, and attended college in the Pacific Northwest.He received both an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Washington in Seattle, where his father served as president from 1927 to 1933.
Thomas J. Leonard (July 31, 1955 – February 11, 2003) was a personal coach. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was an EST employee in the 1980s [ 3 ] and founded Coach U, [ 4 ] the International Coach Federation , Coachville, and the International Association of Coaching [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
Spencer Penrose (November 2, 1865 – December 7, 1939) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He made his fortune from mining, ore processing, and real ...
Lifespring was an American for-profit human potential organization founded in 1974 by John Hanley Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. [1] [2] [3] The organization encountered significant controversy in the 1970s and '80s, with various academic articles characterizing Lifespring's training methods as "deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control", and ...