News From The Denver Post on Ethel Marie Rice, who recently dropped that pleasant bombshell on her alma mater, when she revealed that she was the anonymous philanthropist who several years ago donated $1 million to the college’s art department and funded two scholarships for art students and women’s athletics.
“Miss Rice,” as patrons called this petite, bespectacled woman in home-sewn skirts and blouses, was the take-no-guff shusher of loud visitors to the Western State College library. The only child of a coal miner, she never married, and her life seemed as orderly as the Dewey Decimal system. She was a paper-clip-saver. Before she retired two years ago, she harbored a dislike of the library’s newfangled computers.”
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