All the News About Denver’s Best Residential Community Since 1960 • Volume 59, Issue No. 3 • March 2020 East High senior pitcher Christian Rogers delivers the ball during the first game of a double header at all-City Field against the Denver West Cowboys last May 4. Rogers has committed to play baseball at Northeastern Junior College.
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• Lucy McHugh, Lacrosse, University of Richmond • Tess McHugh, Lacrosse, Pomona College • Helen Moses, Softball, Carleton College • Christian Rogers, Baseball, Northeastern Junior College • Stella Rollo, Basketball, California State University, Chico • Ryan Sangchompuphen, Golf, University of Detroit Mercy • Ella Squibb, Lacrosse, Butler University The path to playing a sport in college continued on page 12
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sion with a ceremony attended by parents, coaches and administrators. On Feb. 5, East High honored 13 student athletes who have been accepted to college and recruited for their athletic prowess. They included: • Ethan Boyle, Soccer, American University • Chloe Brown, Diving, California State University, Bakersfield • Will Daley, Cross Country, Dartmouth College • Hendrik deKoning, Golf, Adrian College • Jaylin Graham, CSU Pueblo, Football • Wyatt Johnson, Lacrosse, St. John’s University
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National Signing Day has traditionally been the first day a high school senior can sign a binding letter of intent for a collegiate sport with a National Collegiate Athletic Association-affiliate school. The website ScholarshipStats.com notes only a little over 7 percent of high school athletes (about 1 in 14) go on to play a varsity sport in college. Fewer than 2 percent of high school athletes (1 in 54) go on to play at NCAA Division I schools. That makes college commitment a cause for celebration. Denver high schools mark the occa-
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For 13 East High Athletes, A Day For Celebration Story and photos by Reid Neureiter
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UPCOMING GPHC MEETINGS The next meetings are on Thursday March 5 and Thursday April 2 at 2823 Fairfax St. at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Waiting To Be Surprised Local Photographer Melanie Weiss-Turner, On Decisive Moments, The Color Of Light, And Framing The Shot Interview by Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN
Downtown and the mountains beyond, from the new clubhouse at City Park Golf Course.
Check Out This View City Park Golf Course On Track To Open Sept. 1 Story and photos by Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN
In late February, Scott Rethlake, the director of golf for Denver Parks & Recreation, gave directors of Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. a sneak peek of the nearly finished clubhouse at City Park Golf Course. The public golf course has been closed since Oct. 31, 2017 as part of a controversial plan to reconfigure it as part of the Platte
to Park Hill stormwater drainage project. (The City Park Golf Course, west of Park Hill, is between Colorado Boulevard and York Street and 23rd and 26th avenues. It should not be confused with the nearby Park Hill Golf Course at Colorado Boulevard and 35th Avenue – which has also been the source of much recent controversy.) The course was originally scheduled to reopen last summer, but delays have pushed the new reopening date to Sept. 1. continued on page 10
Cake Crumbs Bakery, which often features the work of local and regional artists, will exhibit the photography of Melanie Weiss-Turner during the month of March. An architect by training, Weiss-Turner and her husband moved to Colorado from Chicago, and have lived in Park Hill for more than 30 years, raising three children. She retired three years ago following a career that included designing and managing public sector building projects for entities including the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver Public Schools and the U.S. Government Services Administration. Photo of Melanie Weiss-Turner by Katy Tartakoff, in Kiowa, Cake Crumbs is Weiss-Turn- Colo. er’s first photography exhibit, me to all forms of art from a very young and the collection includes age. One of my clearest memories from my photos taken in Colorado, and places she’s childhood, when our family spent sumtraveled in the United States and abroad. mers in New York, is walking Manhattan A wine and cheese opening is scheduled from end to end. Each summer she toured at Cake Crumbs, at 2216 Kearney St., on us through The Metropolitan Museum of March 7 from 3 to 6 p.m. – to which evArt, MOMA, the Guggenheim, the Whiteryone is invited. Weiss-Turner spent a few ney and galleries. My younger brother calls minutes in February to share her thoughts these the “death marches,” as my mother on photography, art, and what inspires her. eschewed taxis and buses. But these tours Greater Park Hill News: How long have imprinted a vocabulary of artistic expresyou been a photographer? Have you been sion in my mind. We also took long walks mentored or formally trained by anyone? at Jones Beach and Sunken Meadow, colMWT: I am most influenced by my mother, who was a painter and exposed continued on page 11