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001937 IN MEMORIAM - CLIFFORD H 0 STONE WHEREAS by the untimely death of Clifford Ho Stone, the first and sole Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Colorado has lost one of her most influential native-born sons, who brought the State great honor by his conduct of his office, and who accomplished great and lasting progress in the use of her water resource, and in relations with neighbor states, and , j WHEREAS at the beginning of his tenure of office, some fifteen years ago, Colorado was the most backward of all Western States in increasing water use; almost nothing had been done for twenty years., and the Bureau of Reclamation had almost ceased to function within the State, and ,~S during his administration of the Water Board many projects, large and small, were actually built, both by Federal agencies and by private initiative, so that the expenditure therefor exceeded two hundred millions of dollars, and WHEREAS even this large physical program did not, by any means, embrace all Judge Stone's activities but at the same time he was building on sound bases a national reputation as an authority on interstate water compacts and working out in practise the coordination of policy and activity in major river basins and so exercising a good and great influence on national water policy, and WHEREAS in spite of his constant concern with problems of such great magnitude he was ever ready to listen to anyone with a water problem, large or small, and VffiEREAS he was always, in all his dealings, most patient and farseeing, willing to build upon the most hllIl\an basis possible with all his fellow-men, so that no one who dealt with him ever felt he was getting less than the utmost of Judge Stone's con- sideration for his problemo NOW, THEREFORE, DE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of The Colorado River Water Conservation District, that they sincerely mourn the demise of their great and good friend, Clifford Ho Stone, and give him thanks, in memory, that Colorado was forti- fied, during his service, in its relations with neighbor states, by many well-con- ceived interstate compacts; that the impetus toward a wise state-wide policy of water use was strong and continuous under his constant care and guidance; and that the pro- blems of every part of the state, our own included, always received his whole-heart- ed care and attention, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in token of their sorrow at his going they direct that copies of this resolution be sent his faithful wife and family and the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and they further feel and must express their belief that the time of his activity in water use in Colorado, will, and alw~s should, be held up as an example of the highest devotion to duty and selfless sacrifice to the high ideals which Judge Stone had for his work. Unanimously adopted by The Board of Directors of The Colorado River Water Conserva- tion District at a regular meeting, January 20, 1953, at Glenwood Springs. ColorAdo.