George Norlin

(1871-1942) lived in Hastings. Educator, classical scholar, administrator, known as president of the University of Colorado from 1919 to 1939 when student enrollment grew from 1,200 to 4,000, he was largely responsible for expansion of facilities and establishment of uniform Northern Italian architectural design for the campus, and widely regarded for promoting educational quality and academic integrity; was honored by campus library named after him which featured over its doorway the Isocrates quotation, "Who knows only his own generation remains always a child." Consult Atlantic Monthly, Vol 163 (June 1939) 785-793 and New York Times obituary, March 31, 1942, p. 21 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 41 (1956) 226 and Biographical Dictionary of American Classicists (Greenwood Press, 1994) 446-448.

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