2008 Annual Celebration of

Denver Public Schools Gala Sponsors

THANK YOU

for helping Denver's students ACHIEVE!

                       Presented By:

Sponsored By:

           Spanish Language Media Sponsor:

Valedictorian Sponsors:

Marcy and Bruce Benson • Elaine Gantz Berman and Steve Berman •

Janice and Jim Campbell • Martha Records and Rich Rainaldi

Salutatorian Sponsors:

Barbara & Daniel Berv  • BTG Family Foundation - Francisco Garcia  •

Community Banks of Colorado • Susan Daggett & Michael Bennet •

Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP and Les Woodward • Fast Enterprises LLC • FirstBank •

FSN Rocky Mountain • HealthONE - Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children •

Hogan & Hartson, LLP • Janus • Kaiser Permanente • Kiewit Building Group, Inc. •

KM Concessions, Inc. • McClain Finlon Advertising • Susan Morrice & Alex Cranberg •

The Paul M. Rady Family • Petroleum Place • Riverfront Park Community Foundation •

St. Charles Capital, LLC

National Honor Society Sponsors:

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation • The Anschutz Corporation • Jana and Fred Bartlit •

Erna Butler • Carson Foundation • CH2M Hill • Chevron USA • Wendy & Steven Cohen •

Colorado & Santa Fe Real Estate - Marcel Arsenault and Peter Wells • Colorado Business Bank • Compass Bank • CRL Associates, Inc. • Daniels Fund • Cathy & Peter Dea •

Delta Petroleum Corporation • Denver Board of Realtors • Denver Classroom Teachers Association • Exempla Healthcare • Lyndia K. & Cannon Y. Harvey • HealthTrans •

Kutak Rock LLP • Mary Pat Link & John Strohm • Texie & Scott Lowery and Collect America •

National CineMedia and Kurt Hall • Oak Tree Foundation • Jack Overstreet •

Theresa Peña & Matt Chavkin • RBC Capital Markets • Shelly & Rick Sapkin •

The Sprout Foundation • Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated •

Vestar Capital Partners • Wagner Equipment Co.

Honor Roll Sponsors:

The Architecture Firm of klipp • The Bank of New York Mellon • BCER Engineering •

Benefit Mall • Joe B. Blake • Bookhardt & O'Toole • The Children's Hospital • Cisco •

Clifton Gunderson, L.L.P. •College In Colorado • Colorado State Bank and Trust •

Columbine Health Plan • Cooley Godward Kronish • Delta Dental of Colorado •

Denver Health Foundation • Denver Kids, Inc. •

Denver Public Schools Instructional Superintendents •

El Pomar Foundation • Emergency Medical Services Corporation •

George K. Baum & Company • Goldbug/Katherine Gold • HMB Partners, Inc. •

The Hunt Family Foundation • IKON Office Solutions • Intertech Plastics •

The Jefferson Foundation • Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP • KeyBank • KPMG LLP •

Land Title Guarantee Company • Latin American Educational Foundation •

Leprino Foods Company • Merrick & Company •

Mile High United Way • Patton Boggs L.L.P. • Piper Jaffray & Co. / Sherman & Howard LLC •

Jared Polis Foundation • Qwest Communications • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers •

Saunders Construction • Semple, Miller, Mooney & Farrington, P.C. • Sinton Dairy •

Snell & Wilmer • Solera National Bancorp, Inc. • Sprung Construction • Starz Entertainment •

The Tointon Family Foundation • United Western Bank • University of Colorado Foundation • University of Denver • Vectra Bank Colorado • Wells Fargo • Western Dairy Association •

Westerra Credit Union • Wheeler Trigg Kennedy LLP • Xcel Energy • XJet World

Patron Sponsors:        

Carol & Howard Boigon • Corporate Express • Christine A. DeRose

Colorado Connections Academy • Continuum Partners LLC • Denver International School

Denver Public Schools Instructional Specialists • First Western Trust Bank

Melanie Grant / Denver Center for International Studies

Independence Capital Asset Partners, LLC • Jacobs Engineering Foundation

The Jerry Gart Family Foundation • JohnstonWells Public Relations

Kennedy Childs & Fogg P.C. • Donna Lynne • MSN

The Natalie and Jack Blumenthal Charitable Trust • Northern Trust

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti

Monica Martinez & John J. Huggins • Richard H. Lewis Family Foundation

Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis • Mark Savit

Shughart Thomson & Kilroy • Sprint • Van Gilder Insurance Corp. • The Youth Foundation

Individual Gifts:

Anna Alejo & Shepard Nevel • American National Bank • Elizabeth & Evan Anderman

Cathy & Truman Anderson • Bankers' Bank of the West • Teresa A. Barela

Robert M. Bearman • Beth Biggs • Marsha Breit & David Wilhelm • Susan D. Brienza

David E. Brody • Calcon Constructors • Cheryl Caldwell & Win Deal • Connie Casson

Carin Chow & Tom Boasberg • CollegeInvest • Colorado Children's Campaign

Sue & Richard Combs • James W. Cozens • Denver Scholarship Foundation • DLR Group

Tracy Dorland • Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc. - Tamara Door • Michael Driver

Charles F. Elbot • Kent Epperson • Lisa Farber Miller & David Miller • Shirley Farnsworth

The Fox Company • Amy Friedman • Daniel Furman • Josh Hanfling • John Harrington

Happy Haynes • Arlene & A. Barry Hirschfeld • Sarah & Craig Hughes • Cathy & Jim Kidder

Beth Hessel-Kirkman • Johnson & Wales University • Barb Jones & David Suppes

Cynthia Kahn • Cheryl & Art Karstaedt • Maureen & John Kechriotis • Terrance R. Kelly

Marianne Kenney • Lucretia & Richard Koeppe • Chrisanne LaHue & Brad Jupp

Marcia Q. Lamb & Jackson D. Turnacliff • Alice & Joseph Langley • Steve Lass

Councilwoman Peggy A. Lehman, Denver City Council • Betsy Leighton • James Lewis

Doug Linkhart, Councilman-at-Large, Denver City Council • Reagan LJungdahl

Rebecca X. Marques-Guerrero • Carolyn L. McIntosh • Patricia B. McClearn

Carolyn & Jay McCormick • W. Thomas Murnan • Esther G. Nelson • Jack Olson

Jacque and Randy Overstreet, JCOR Mechanical, Inc. • Nicole Pearce • Jessica Pearson

Dean Prina, M.D. • Ardell C. Rivera-Francis & Michael W. Francis • Rose Community Foundation

Anne Bye Rowe • Lisa Schiff & Antony Relou • Jeff Shoemaker • Stephen H. Shogan, M.D.

John Simmons • Patricia Slaughter • Janice Spearman • Nicole Tembrock & Ethan Hemming

Anita Theriot • John Voorhees • Elaine & Turner West • Cole A. Wist • Kenneth S. Witt

Robert Woodson

Proceeds from the event will help the DPS Foundation support key initiatives aligned with the district's ambitious plan to improve student achievement including,

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