The 2008 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium will
examine the Pikes Peak Region's unique history of pioneer
Doctors, Disease & Dying in the Pikes Peak Region
Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium - June 7, 2008

8:30 AM - Doors open at East Library
9 AM - Welcome and opening remarks - Cal Otto and Paula Miller
Introduction to Doctors, Disease and Dying in the Pikes Peak Region - Michael Olsen

9:15 – 10:45 - Pioneers of Health Care - Introduction - Cal Otto
* John Hutchins - From Pike to Fitzsimons: U.S. Army Doctors in Colorado - 1806-1921
* Don Headlee - "and the Patient Recovered" - Medical practice on the Santa Fe Trail and Bent’s Fort
* Joanne Ruth - Nurse…? Nurse…? Do I Have A Nurse? The Evolution of the Colorado Conference Deaconess Hospital and Training School for Nurses
* Lynn Gilfillan-Morton - Haute for Health – The Women Who Fashioned Health and Caring for Individuals and Communities in the West, 1870-1970
* Questions and Discussion - Moderator - Michael Olsen

10:45 - 11:00 – Break

11:00 – 12:30 - Doctors - Introduction - Cal Otto
* Joyce B. Lohse - Justina Ford, Medical Pioneer
* Bob Hoff - Trooper! Boswell P. Anderson, M.D.
* Deborah Harrison - Taking the Manitou Cure with Dr. Basil Creighton
* Ed & Nancy Bathke - Lester L. Williams, M. D., Healer, Humanitarian, and Historian
* Questions and Discussion - Moderator - Michael Olsen

12:30 - 1:15 - Complimentary light lunch - Video cast of "The Medicine Show: Nostrums and Quackery" presented by Cal Otto
* 1:15 – 1:45 - John Stansfield as Dr. Charles Fox Gardiner - A Doctor at Timberline

1:45 - 2:00 – Break

2:00 – 3:40 - Disease & Dying in the Pikes Peak Region - Introduction - Cal Otto

* Martina Will DeChaparro - Death and Dying in the Colonial Southwest
* Nita Peters - Spencer & Julie Penrose: Cancer Treatment in the Pikes Peak Area
* Matt Mayberry - On A Cough and a Prayer: The Modern Woodmen of America Sanitarium
* Leah Davis Witherow - Death is the Poor Man's Doctor: Caring for the Destitute in Colorado Springs
* Questions and Discussion - Moderator - Michael Olsen
* Closing summary - Michael Olsen

3:30 - Reception and Authors' book signing
“Fade to Black - Victorian Funeral Customs and Rituals”
June 8, 2008 -10 AM - 2 PM - Visit the Palmer Memorial Chapel in the Evergreen Cemetery - 1005 S. Hancock Ave. for a tour of Victorian Era funerary customs. Free to symposium participants.