History and Leadership

Leadership:

Denver Transportation Club – Officers 2010

President: Valerie Clark, AIM National Lease
Vice President / Operations: Dan Schachtner, CGL – Concert Group Logistics
Vice President / Education: Roy Becker, Roy Becker Seminars
Vice President / Membership: Mike Overn, Agrium
Vice President / Activities: Heather Cavanaugh, Ocean, Air & Trucking Services, Inc
General Manager: Wendy Brice, Navajo

Directors (Terms Expire December 2010)

            Doug Draper, Acme Distribution Centers
            Harley Hines, Agrium
            Karen Kuntz, Gates Corp
            Dean Smith, BNSF Railway
            Bill Weaver, M2 Logistics

Directors (Terms Expire December 2011)

            Mike Critchley, YRC Worldwide
            Richard Duwell, Fredrick  Intermodal
            Henri Duhot, Echostar Technologies
            Raza Minhas, Denney Transport
            Jesse Arnold, Acme Distribution
            Kevin Douglas, K2 Transportation

History:

The Colorado Traffic Club was incorporated March 29, 1906. The organization was the culmination of a movement to get the business men and railroad men together in one large organization. Following are names that appear in the incorporation papers:

Charles F. Freeland * Lester B. Bridahan * Aaron D. Lewis * Ralph R. Gillette * Joshua P. Hall * John F. Vallery * Karl K. Mayer * Charles D. Griffin * George W. Brooks * William P. McPhee * A. D. Parker * William M. Lampton * James C. Ferguson * Lewis F. Kimball * W. C. Metzger

 A.D. Parker was chosen as the first president.

The motto of the club was: “Strive for the up-building of Denver and Colorado”

Membership of the club was initially limited to 800, and there was a long line of applicants waiting to take the place of members who, in the natural shifting of events, drop out of the club. On the membership roll of the club are the names of nearly every man high in the commercial, industrial and railroad affairs of Denver and Colorado.