Colorado Women's College

Colorado Women's College was originally located on the east side of Denver, and is the alma mater of Linda, the wife of Wally, my friend and former University of Denver Bookstore colleague. CWC, as it is known, ran into financial difficulties back in the early 1980s.  A local architect and real estate developer named Temple Buell offered to bail them out it they would rename their school Temple Buell University. That didn't sit too well with the Board of Trustees, and so they sold the school to the University of Denver.  DU eventually moved the school to its main campus (see photograph above).  In any case, when I worked at Hatch's Bookstore years ago, I actually met Mrs. Temple Buell.  She was making a purchase at the Bookstore, and the credit card company told us to seize her card.  She told us "I AM MRS. TEMPLE BUELL" and made a few phone calls, but by the time her accountant called us, an eager cashier had already cut the card in half.  I related this to the very depressed sounding accountant and he quietly hung up. Yet another bumpy interaction with the rich and powerful.