BOARD01250

• Board Meeting Date: 12/9/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Mr. Kuiper was City Manager of Delta,
colorado, from 1953 to 1956, and Manager of
Public Works for Aurora, Colorado, from 1956
to 1958 when he joined the staff of this Board.

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He first served as Chief Engineer, and was
Acting Director of the Board from September
1961 to July 1963 when Director Sparks served
as Natural Resources Director. He was
appointed Deputy Director early this year and
was serving in that position when he died
suddenly on November 4, 1964, in Denver.

Mr. Kuiper directed the technical studies
which were instrumental in settling the bitter
controversies involving public and private
power interests over the Colorado River Storage
Project transmission system and was active in
working out the plans of the Committee of
Fourteen, composed of 14 water officials of the
Colorado River Basin, looking toward the solu-
tion of a water salinity problem in the Basinl

Mr. Kuiper is survived by his widow,
Marion; a daughter, Mrs. Cathyann Wear of
Beeville, Texas; two sons, Steven and William,
of Aurora; and two brothers and three sisters.

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation
Board and the State of Colorado have lost an
able, dedicated public servant in the person
of Leonard R. Kuiper, a man who, by his calm,
reasoning personality, was able to resolve
differences of opinion between protagonists
to the lasting benefit of the people of the
State of Colorado; and

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WHEREAS, his services will be seriously
missed by the members and staff of this Board,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the
Colorado Water Conservation Board that it
expresses a deep sense of loss upon the
untimely death of Leonard R. Kuiper, and
directs that a copy of this resolution be
spread upon the minutes of this Board, and a
copy be sent to his widow and family. I..