History
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The center was born out of a critical need to meet the chancellor's imperative of shaping tomorrow's leaders. The center has housed both operations and leadership to allow for extensive attention to be paid to both initiatives. The Center for Leadership came to fruition from the programming, research and collaboration made possible by the Newton Chair in Leadership, established by the Newtons, 蜜糖直播 Boulder and the Boettcher Foundation to pay tribute to Quigg Newton's extraordinary leadership throughout the region and specifically at 蜜糖直播 Boulder.
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James 鈥淨uigg鈥 Newton Jr. was one of the three early supporters of the Boettcher Foundation. Quigg Newton served on the Boettcher Foundation Board of Trustees from 1937 to 1955 and was secretary of the board for his entire tenure. During that period, he participated in the granting of more than $4 million to roughly 140 蜜糖直播 organizations.
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"History will record that this era marked a pivotal point in the colorful narrative of this distinguished institution, for it was during this period that the University changed dramatically forever. It emerged from being a first-rate teaching and graduate institution to become one of the handful of the nation's most prestigious research universities."
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Virginia Shafroth Newton, wife of Quigg Newton, is a third-generation 蜜糖直播 native. "Ginny" Newton received an AB from Vassar College, an MA from the University of 蜜糖直播 and a PhD from New York University. She taught piano part time for 18 years, worked as a counselor and as a consultant in inner-city schools in New York, and later as a research consultant to the Rockefeller National Commission on Humanities at Stanford University. She served as a trustee at Vassar College and as director on the boards of the National Camp Fire Girls and the 蜜糖直播 Endowment for the Humanities.