Special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event with Sheriff Dave Ward

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event with Sheriff Dave Ward Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/03/2019 - 00:00

If You Go
Date: October 3, 2019
Time: 6:30PM
Where: Old Main Chapel

[video:https://youtu.be/4e96_bMzFtM]

Last month, the Center of the American West was proud to present a special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event honoring Sheriff Dave Ward.

Sheriff Ward did everything imaginable to hold his community together during the 2016 Bundy-led armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. He is also one of the West’s great storytellers (registering, in our opinion, pretty darned close to the achievements of Mark Twain), so this event was also a part of the Center’s Humor Initiative.

The Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has faithfully and evocatively depicted the spirit of the American West. The Center’s Humor Initiative honors those individuals whose skills and temperaments support the Center’s central conviction: A dose of good humor is essential to constructive public discussion, and not coincidentally, to public health.

“Over the last thirty-five years, living in Boulder and traveling around the West, I have gotten to know hundreds of people who have dazzled me with their strength of character and their unwavering commitment to the well-being of the West and of the nation. I rank Sheriff Ward at the top of that long list of Westerners I admire. His wisdom, integrity, and capacity to bring out the best in his fellow human beings add up to one of this region’s most valuable resources.”

-Patty Limerick, Faculty Director & Chair of the Board, Center of the American West

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Alan, Ann, Pete, & Lynne Simpson: Wallace Stegner & Fools for a Day Awards Recipients

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:00:00 +0000

Alan, Ann, Pete, & Lynne Simpson: Wallace Stegner & Fools for a Day Awards Recipients Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/07/2017 - 00:00

If You Go
Date: December 7, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM
Where: Village Center, Multipurpose Room (500 30th Street, Boulder)

[video:https://youtu.be/kMwaYHBkFOE]

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Center of the American West was proud to present the Wallace Stegner & the Humor Initiative’s Fools for a Day Awards to Senator Alan Simpson, Pete Simpson and their wives Ann and Lynne.

The Center has combined the Stegner Award with the Humor Initiative to celebrate the Simpsons’ contributions to our understanding of the West, and to embrace the opportunity to laugh as we do so.

“As public servants, and as people who have contributed their great gifts as story-tellers to the well-being of the West, the Simpson Family occupy a central place in the cultural identity of the West,” Patty Limerick, Faculty Director of the Center of the American West said. “With the Simpsons in our midst, the West has cornered the market for honest, forthright, and very funny commentary on the whole nation’s successes and defeats, the charms and the vexations, the ideals realized and the ideals still in need of our attention and action.”

Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual or group of individuals who have made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West. The Center also presents the Fools for a Day award annually to celebrate those individuals whose skills and temperaments support the central conviction of the Center of the American West: A dose of good humor is essential to constructive public discussion, and not coincidentally, to public health.

Thank you to Al and Carol Ann Olson, for their support of the Stegner Award, and to Bill and Jane Reynolds for their support of the Humor Initiative.

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