Word: boettcher
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most crippled children never go to school, get their lessons from visiting teachers at home or hospital. The man who made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
Last week, as old Charles Boettcher took his daily stroll to work down 17th Street, Denverites stopped him in the street, warmly shook his hand...