The Barbara Davis Center’s new, $32 million home was dedicated at a ceremony attended by its namesake and several hundred staffers, supporters, patients and their families. In the heart of the University of Colorado’s Fitzsimons campus, the center is considered one of the world’s best research and treatment facilities for juvenile diabetes.
Barbara Davis recalled the circumstances that led to the center’s establishment in 1980: the diagnosis of diabetes in her then 7-year- old daughter, Dana. Since then, the center’s scientists have discovered the first T-cells that cause diabetes, among other outstanding contributions to the field.
Guests included U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette; Dr. Richard Krugman, dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine; Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld, who had chaired the previous evening’s High Hopes Tribute Dinner that raised a record $670,000 for the center; Florence Ruston, founder and chairwoman emeritus of another center fundraiser, the Nov. 17 Brass Ring Luncheon and Fashion Show; artist Nancy Lockspeiser, who created the carousel-themed mural that graces Sandy’s Playroom at the new facility; playroom benefactor Sandy Wolf Yearick and her husband, Walt; Steve and Cindy Farber; Margy Epke, president of The Guild of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation at Denver; past president Helen Hanks; foundation director Chrissy Lerner; and Dr. George Eisenbarth, the center’s executive director.
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Denver chapter of ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) has chosen Kathryn Hach-Darrow as its Scientist of the Year and will pay tribute to her at a Nov. 10 luncheon at Colorado State University. She and her late husband, Clifford, founded Hach Chemical Co. in Ames, Iowa, in 1947 and worked side by side until his death in 1990. They opened a manufacturing arm of the company in Loveland in 1977 and eventually saw the company grow to 1,000 employees and sales of $150 million. … Glenmoor Country Club is the setting for Entertaining Colorado Style, a two-day extravaganza featuring a display of decorated tables, speakers who will share their expertise on all aspects of entertaining, a boutique, silent auction and raffle, and high tea. Doors open at 11 a.m. Friday, and chairwomen Jill Pedicord Peterson and Scottie Taylor Iverson note that proceeds go to the philanthropies of Kappa Alpha Theta: Court Appointed Special Advocates, the Denver Educational Trust Fund and Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation. Lt. Gov. Jane Norton is the honorary chair. Call Edie Bell, 303-694-9041.
Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or jmdpost@aol.com.
