Our original Distribution Committee, now called Board of Trustees, included entrepreneur John Kernan “J.K.” Mullen, educator Emily Griffith, plumbing supplier Martin O’Fallon, industrialist J.F. Welborn, insurance executive F.W. Standart, and Judge Ira C. Rothgerber, all volunteers. They held their first meeting in the offices of the Colorado National Bank. There were no funds to distribute just yet; that had to wait another year. Colorado National was among five Denver banks—the others were American National, Denver National, International Trust, and United States National—who spearheaded our founding. First National Bank joined this sponsor group in 1929.
