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Office Profile
oENVER You need pay only a short visit to Denver
to feel the attraction that the mile-high
city exerts on almost everyone who comes
within its spell.
Here is a metropolitan region of nearly
one and a quarter million people, offering
almost every facility and advantage of
urban living that can be found in dozens
of larger population centers in the United
States. Yet the beauty of its location,
where the high plains of eastern Colorado
rise to meet the Front Range of the
Rockies, is like that of no other city in
the country.
It is as if a master planner had somehow
been at work back in 1859, when
swarms of gold-fevered settlers having
heard rumors of a big strike put up a
scattering of frame huts at the junction of
Cherry Creek and the South Platte River,
and decided to stay. The mountains lying
a few miles to the west were an exploration
ground in their search for minerals,
and since that time the Colorado Rockies
have yielded gold, silver and uranium
that have promoted Denver's growth
from a crossroads settlement to a metropolis.
Water was drawn from the mountains
to irrigate the farms that stretch
out in a fertile green strip along the foot-
Statehood centennial. Columbia Welcomes
Colorado to the Union Sisterhood, allegorical
painting by Joseph Hitchens, commemorates
Colorado's statehood in 1876. (Courtesy
of The State Historical Society of Colorado.)
hills. Denver in the late 1800s grew into
the biggest population center between
Kansas City and the Pacific.
Its great attraction today for those who
seek the good life is the combination of
clear, dry climate in this high country and
the beauty of the snow-capped Rockies
that form the skyline west of the city.
Here, when the work schedule permits,
you can find the serenity that comes from
leaving noise and crowding behind and
exploring the vast outdoors. Yet this is
all within reach and sight of a dynamic
city offering a full range of professional
and business opportunities.
From top to bottom, the Haskins &.
Sells Denver office reflects the pulling
power of this region. Howard Kast, partner
in charge, came from Iowa, and fell in
love with Denver when he was stationed
here with the Army in World War II. As
soon as possible after graduation from
Drake University in Des Moines he sought
assignment in Denver, and he arrived
here in March 1947 after a few months
with our Chicago office. Of the other
partners in Denver, only two were born
in Colorado. And of sixteen managers, a
large majority came from other states.
The same picture, although perhaps in
