"I left Indiana in 1953 to come to Golden, Colorado where Art was going to school.
After he was cremated, I trudged up the mountainside and buried his ashes a few feet lower than the large "M" that is made of whitewashed rocks and lighted each night with 1500 lights.
I thought the light shining over him each night symbolized his determination to get through school to get his engineering degree rather than work in an Indiana factory.
He had always wanted to fly and he read in the newspaper that the Navy offered a contract for good students to go to two years of college (the Navy paid for tuition, books and $50 a month for room and board), followed by flight training in Pensacola and then they would serve two years flying in the Navy, followed by another two years when the Navy would pay tuition and a living allowance. His parents never gave him a penny toward his education so he realized this fulfilled his dream of flying and going to college.
If you google for "Colorado School of Mines lighted M," you will see a picture of the mountain side with the M that is Art's grave marker and that can be viewed from all over Denver.
For me, being buried on the mountainside does not symbolize only Art, but lots of young people who figured out how to get a college degree.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
--A loving tribute from his wife
After he was cremated, I trudged up the mountainside and buried his ashes a few feet lower than the large "M" that is made of whitewashed rocks and lighted each night with 1500 lights.
I thought the light shining over him each night symbolized his determination to get through school to get his engineering degree rather than work in an Indiana factory.
He had always wanted to fly and he read in the newspaper that the Navy offered a contract for good students to go to two years of college (the Navy paid for tuition, books and $50 a month for room and board), followed by flight training in Pensacola and then they would serve two years flying in the Navy, followed by another two years when the Navy would pay tuition and a living allowance. His parents never gave him a penny toward his education so he realized this fulfilled his dream of flying and going to college.
If you google for "Colorado School of Mines lighted M," you will see a picture of the mountain side with the M that is Art's grave marker and that can be viewed from all over Denver.
For me, being buried on the mountainside does not symbolize only Art, but lots of young people who figured out how to get a college degree.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
--A loving tribute from his wife
"I left Indiana in 1953 to come to Golden, Colorado where Art was going to school.
After he was cremated, I trudged up the mountainside and buried his ashes a few feet lower than the large "M" that is made of whitewashed rocks and lighted each night with 1500 lights.
I thought the light shining over him each night symbolized his determination to get through school to get his engineering degree rather than work in an Indiana factory.
He had always wanted to fly and he read in the newspaper that the Navy offered a contract for good students to go to two years of college (the Navy paid for tuition, books and $50 a month for room and board), followed by flight training in Pensacola and then they would serve two years flying in the Navy, followed by another two years when the Navy would pay tuition and a living allowance. His parents never gave him a penny toward his education so he realized this fulfilled his dream of flying and going to college.
If you google for "Colorado School of Mines lighted M," you will see a picture of the mountain side with the M that is Art's grave marker and that can be viewed from all over Denver.
For me, being buried on the mountainside does not symbolize only Art, but lots of young people who figured out how to get a college degree.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
--A loving tribute from his wife
After he was cremated, I trudged up the mountainside and buried his ashes a few feet lower than the large "M" that is made of whitewashed rocks and lighted each night with 1500 lights.
I thought the light shining over him each night symbolized his determination to get through school to get his engineering degree rather than work in an Indiana factory.
He had always wanted to fly and he read in the newspaper that the Navy offered a contract for good students to go to two years of college (the Navy paid for tuition, books and $50 a month for room and board), followed by flight training in Pensacola and then they would serve two years flying in the Navy, followed by another two years when the Navy would pay tuition and a living allowance. His parents never gave him a penny toward his education so he realized this fulfilled his dream of flying and going to college.
If you google for "Colorado School of Mines lighted M," you will see a picture of the mountain side with the M that is Art's grave marker and that can be viewed from all over Denver.
For me, being buried on the mountainside does not symbolize only Art, but lots of young people who figured out how to get a college degree.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
--A loving tribute from his wife
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