O.H.P. Baxter Inducted April 5, 1991 Oliver Hazard Perry Baxter was one of Pueblo's earliest leading citizens and a man whose contributions to business and civic affairs in Pueblo were simply staggering.  Born in 1835 in Indiana, he came to Colorado with the Gold Rush and toop up ranching along the Arkansas River cast of Pueblo.  Soon afterward, he was appointed one of thefirst three Pueblo County Commissioners and was elected to the Lower House of the Colorado Territorial Legislature.  He was an incorporator of both the First National Bank and Stockgrowers National Bank, and a Director of the Pueblo and Salt Lake Railroad.  He was a trustee for the Pueblo and South Pueblo Street Railway Company.  He was a founder of Union Gas Company.  He helped open ofe of Pueblo's first libraries, organized the Pueblo Board of Trade (the city's first Chamber of Commerce), served several years as a City Councilman and School Board Director, and was on the board that helped develop Mineral Palace Park.  He donated the southwest corner of Fifth and Main to the Federal Government where the Federal Building was built and still stands today.

Frank S. Hoag, Jr. Inducted April 5, 1991 Pueblo native Frank S. "Bud" Hoag, Jr., made his mark locally and statewide as a leader in the newspaper industry, but it was his civic work in southeastern Colorado where he really made an impact that is still felt today.  Hoag began working at the family newspapers, the Star-Journal and Chieftain, while in high school, returned to work there after graduating from college in 1931, and became publisher in 1947.  Frank was a member of the first Colorado Advertising and Publicity Committee, a board member and President of the Colorado Press Association.  Locally, he was a member of the Pueblo Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for 15 years and President in 1940.  A strong supporter of higher education, he was a founder of Pueblo Junior College in 1933, served on its board until 1961, and served on the Colorado Commission on Higher Education for three terms, and was a trustee for Colorado College for many years.  Hoag served as a Director of both the Water Development Association of the Arkansas Valley from 1939-1946, and the Water Development Association of Southeastern Colorado.  The latter was successful in getting the Fryingpan/Arkansas Water Diversion Project approved and built, thus assuring that Pueblo would have an abundance of water with which to grow and prosper.

David Packard Inducted April 5, 1991 A business that was started out of a garage by college classmates David Packard and William R. Hewlett with an initial investment of $539 has grown into one of the premier high-tech companies in the world.  Much of the Hewlett-Packard Company's growth came under David Packard's leadership before he left the company briefly to become Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon administration, only to return as HP's Chairman of the Board.  In 1985, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to chair the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management.  That group became known as the Packard Commission.  Packard also has been a civic leader in California, most notably as the benefactor of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its research institute.  But he hasn't forgotten his hometown, having made several contributions to worthy causes in Pueblo through the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.

Fred E. Weisbrod Inducted April 5, 1991 Until Fred E. Weisbrod became Pueblo's City Manager in 1966, the city's infrastructure was woefully below par.  The street lights were inadequate, the fire department did not have enough working fire engines, and only 63 percent of the city's fire hydrants operated.  The sewer system was primitive by contemporary standards, and several thousand Pueblo families were living without indoor plumbing.  There were 6,160 substandard dwellings in the city.  Twelve square miles of newly annexed area were without the benefit of water and sewer.  Four hundred blocks of Pueblo streets were not paved.  Budgeting scrupulously while finding all the federal funds available to help build Pueblo's infrastructure, Weisbrod began an ambitious program.  Streets were paved, street lights went up, and new sewer lines were laid.  During his tenure, the city received more than $88 million in federal grant funds.  He was also an astute budget writer.  During his latter years as a manager, Pueblo was able to amass a reserve of $10 million, money needed for a rainy day that came when CF&I Steel downsized and several thousand Puebloans lost their jobs.  With "rainy day" funds, Pueblo was able to attact Sperry Corp., trigerring Pueblo's economic renaissance.

Mahlon T. White Inducted April 5, 1991 Throughout his life, Mahlon T. "Butch" White, a descendent of the Thatchers, one of Pueblo's leading pioneer families, has displayed natural leadership instincts both in his career as a banker and through the Thatcher Foundation he launched as a way to give back to his community.  White entered the banking business out of college in 1959.  Seven years later became President of the First National Bank of Durango.  Following his father's untimely death, White, at the age of 29, became President and Chief Executive Officer of the family's Colorado holdings:  banks in Durango, Salida, Alamosa, Aspen, and the Minnequa Bank of Pueblo.  Under his leadership, Minnequa Bank has always been in the forefront of Pueblo betterment proposals, many times making significant economic contributions in risky ventures.  Meanwhile, as President of the Thatcher Foundation, countless organizations have benefited from his generous support.  But perhpas the crown jewel of his family's efforts and generosity is the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, of which White was an original benefactor and for which is mother's $1.4 million grant made possible construction of the Helen Thatcher White Gallery building.