Buchtel House And Other DU Memories

The photograph on the left is of Buchtel House, the official residence of the chancellor of the University of Denver, located a couple of blocks to the east of campus.  Before it became the official home of the chancellor, the house was rented out for various events, and was once the site of the University of Denver Bookstore's annual holiday party.  As I recall, the party was quite a success, although we were told that we could only bring beer in cans - which is what we did.  However, when we opened the refrigerator to put the beer inside, we saw it was already filled to bursting with bottled beer - good bottled beer, too, which we all then proceeded to drink.  We later learned that although the downstairs part of the house was rented out for events, the upstairs rooms were rented out as housing to university employees, including the assistant to the chancellor.  A few days after the event, someone called the bookstore director and asked her if we were the ones who drank all the beer in the fridge.  I think she said no, that we were all teetotalers.  I wonder how that went over?

The person who organized that event for the bookstore was Dave B, who was both the art and supply buyer and also in charge of advertising and promotions for the store.  The portrait of Dave seen on the right comes from my international bestseller, The Book on the DU Bookstore, which you can peruse at your leisure at https://www.blurb.com/b/1230340-the-book-on-the-du-bookstore. When the DU Bookstore was outsourced to Follett Higher Education Group, Dave B. was one of only a few employees to not accept a guaranteed one year position with that company.  And when Follett Higher Education Group laid me off after that one year, the Human Resources Department at the University of Denver confused me with Dave B, and tried to deny me unemployment insurance, bless their incompetent little hearts. Instead of sticking it out at the DU Bookstore for one more year, Dave opened his own business selling healthful snacks for resale to grocery stores, as well as to individuals online.  The last I checked, the company is still up and running. You can check out his website at https://superfoodsquares.weebly.com/.