The Chris Klug Foundation will be honoring Nancy Dick at the Tuesdays with Michael event on Tuesday July 22nd. Nancy E. Dick was the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1979 to 1987 under Richard Lamm. She was Colorado’s first female Lt. Governor. Nancy was very instrumental in the development of Colorado’s donor program.
The Dick family suffered a terrible loss of Timber Dick, who died on April 10 from injuries sustained in a car accident. A great article about Timber Dick was just featured in Westword magazine and here is an excerpt…
As the story goes, two somber government types showed up at Nancy Dick’s Aspen door one winter day in early 1963 and handed her a letter addressed to President John F. Kennedy — with her return address on it.
“Dear Mr. President,” the missive read, “Our country has a big problem. We must get to the moon before the Russians! Regular rockets will take too long and use too much fuel. I have plans for an atomic powered rocket engine. It is the most powerful engine ever made by man! I will contact you again soon. Signed, Mister X.”
The FBI wanted to find this Mister X, so Nancy sternly trotted out her eight-year-old son, Timber, his leg cast from one of the many broken limbs he’d suffered since moving to Colorado from Cleveland with his family seven years earlier. Timber sheepishly admitted he’d sent the letter — but didn’t surrender his detailed rocket-engine drawings, which were hidden among the Popular Science magazines and model spaceships in his room.