Mike Stansbery's Contributions

These are all "Real Film" photographs that Mike scanned and sent along to me. Mike sent these to me a long, long time ago. That these were so late in being put up on the web site is a testament to my Black Belt in Procrastination.

For a frame of reference: These images are from the mid-1970's on into the early 80's. If anyone can specifically date an image, I want to hear from you.

First are presented a series of 'snaps' of UBSC folks -- at work and while partying. Next is a picture of the UBSC "BITS" Men's softball team. Lastly is a 1982 UBC calendar and a UBSC picture collage.
Enjoy!

Mike made comments on some of the images he sent me. Those are set off in "quotation marks". Also set off in "quotes" with attribution are comments sent in by others.
Bill Caffrey, Jim Stokes, and Marv DeSelm identified some of the names Mike could not remember.
Unquoted text is my own prattle.

Corrections, or amplifications to what you see below to Jonesy: email for UBSC Website

So, we begin with pictures of Mike, himself -- from those days of yore.

Above we see Mike toasting some 'significant event' with what is very likely another UBSC 'celebrant'.

Mike Stansbery

Next we see a B&W picture of Mike from - I believe - an early 1970's UBSC picnic in Progress Park on West Belleview at Big Dry Creek.

Hugh Cunningham

Another head of hair.
Those were the days. sigh...

The calendar reads "December", but we know not what year.

Bea Fittler

Burt McGregor

Chuckle...
What's a 17-year old doing at the terminal?

DeSelm - Hawthorne - Schlagel

UBSC Company Picnic - Marv DeSelm, Gale Hawthorne, Sally Schlagel at Prospect Park picnic.

Don Stallings

Kathy Fowler

No! We did not have free beer in the UBSC break room. This was at a 1970's UBSC Summer Picnic at Prospect Park.

Mary Lilly

Slocum and Watt

Jerry Slocum and Dick Watt at Prospect Park picnic.

Teri Goldstein

Don Stallings, Penny Mortola, Ed Ferber

"The 'CRJE room' with Sandy Joppa, Gary Antrim and a young lady whose name escape me. Talk about history!

"This pic must have been taken just after the CRJE terminals were replaced with the Ratheon CRT's. Note the CRJE R.I.P tombstone on the chalkboard. It even shows the dates, but I can't quite read them.

"Judging from the notes to the right of the chalkboard, we were just moving all the PL/1 compilers into production. Those were the days!"

CRJE: Conversational Remote Job Entry -- later replaced by TSO. I cropped out, blew up, and tried to sharpen the "CRJE tombstone" that Mike referred to above -- see below.

My image manipulation Fu is not up to fictional TV standards, but I read:

C R J E
1975 - 19??
REST IN
PIECES

The ending year number looks like it's been erased and written over several times. I do remember that CRJE was scheduled for elimination several times.

Before CRJE we used keypunches - OH, JOY!

Now for some more UBSC people pictures, but this time in a "Party Environment". I know not what saloon or tavern where these were taken. They all seem to be from the same setting.
Dernoga, Littlejohn, Hurdel

Joe Dernoga, Nat Littlejohn, Lyle Hurdel

John Mandley, Greg Wagner, Rick Weir, Joe Dernoga, Nat Littlejohn, Dan Malone, Mark Nichol, Don Nelson,
(foreground) Joanne Schirm

Another large group

unknown5, Art Booth, Marilyn (Clemens) Franklin, Bev Rose, Tammy...???, Roger Pelot

Yet another large group

unknown8, Mary Ann Stallings, unknow10, Don Stallings, Jane Stallard, Keith Stallard

Laurie Hawthorne, unknown

Laurie Hawthorne, Cheryl Dummitt

Greg Wagner, Bea Fittler, Mark Nichol

Mike Stansbery's comment on the party pictures: "Mike Stansbery liked his Tequila (and still does!)"

And now a picture of the UBSC BITS baseball team
"Note: BITS record that year was 0 wins, 16 losses, 1 tie. It was circa 1975"
UBSC BITS baseball team

Left to right, top to bottom:
Bob Brown, Mike Calhoun, Vern Sandoval, unknown13, Jim Stokes, Hugh Cunningham
Paul Pritchard, Mike Ansley, Jim McCroskey, Tom Robinson, Mike Stansbery, Bob Batten

"We did have two men's teams though. The other team was called the Bytes. Eager to prove that it really doesn't take 8 bits to make a byte, a bunch of us Byte bench sitters formed our own team, the Bits. Our record forever solidified the fact that, at least in terms of softball teams, it does indeed take a minimum of 8 bits to make a byte."

Mike also sent some images of the 1982 UBC calendar -- which featured photographs taken by UBC employees.

Two of Mike's photographs were chosen and appeared on the February and October pages.

He laid out all the pages and photographed them -- January through December.

"The 1982 Employee Calendar - all calendar photos taken by United Banks of Colorado employees.
"Jan: Martin Bronstine, Feb: Mike Stansbery, Mar: Ron Frager, Apr: Martin Bronstine, May: Martin Bronstine, Jun: Karen Van Lewen, Jul: Ron Frager, Aug: Jacque Bassett, Sep: Marilyn Webb, Oct: Mike Stansbery, Nov: Roslyn Turner, Dec: Martin Bronstine"

Here are Mike's two calendar pages in larger detail:
February 1982

Mike's photo for February.

Notice that the UBC slogan du jour in 1982 was "Challenging Ourselves".
October 1982

Mike's Photo for October.

Lastly, Mike sent a large'ish B&W collage that covered UBSC "activities". The image he sent was more than twice the size you see here. I've cropped out the various sections of the full image for better viewing.
UBSC Collage