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BOULDER, Colo.—A retired Denver Post staffer has left the University of Colorado’s journalism and mass communications school nearly $780,000 for scholarships.
The university said Thursday the bequest from the estate of William S. Hemingway came as a surprise.
Hemingway died in April at age 79.
He worked at The Post for 31 years as a copy editor, an assistant city editor, assistant editor of the newspaper’s Empire Magazine and in other roles. He retired in 1991.
He had also worked at The Durango (Colo.) Herald and the Cortez (Colo.) Sentinel.
CU said it was told Hemingway had inherited a substantial sum of money from a relative a few years before he retired.
