Registration

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2012 Dearfeld
5K Race
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Where: Dearfeld, Weld County, Colorado.
When: Saturday, May 20th at 8:00am.
Cost: $20 before April 25th, $30 day of race
registration.
What?: 5K run/walk for the whole family
through Dearfeld historic ghost town.
Why?: To help raise money for the Journal
of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence and keep the editorial magazine in
circulation!
Why not? Free breakfast will be ofered afer
the race, along with a carriage ride around the
ghost town featuring a historical tour! Enjoy
your post-workout begals and fruit while
learning more about the history of the town at
this secret hidden Colorado treasure.
Contact Information:
Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence
Johnson Hall
Campus Delivery 1052
Institute for Learning and Teaching
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1052
(970)-491-2390
JUR Invites you to participate
in the 4th annual Deartrail 5K
through a historic ghost town on
Saturday, May 20th at 8:00a.m.
Please Submit the following information to the
JUR ofces in order to participate, or register
online at: www.active.com/register/JUR/deartrail.
com
Name:___________________________
D.O.B:_____________________________
Gender:__________________________
Address:__________________________
Phone #:__________________________
Method of payment:________________
(Checks made payable to JUR)
If card, please include:
M/C Visa Amex Discover
Card #:___________________________
Expiration date: _____________
Where?
What is JUR?
Dearfeld is a ghost town and a historically black
majority settlement in Weld County, Colorado,
United States. It is 30 miles east of Greeley. Te town
was formed by O.T. Jackson who desired to create a
colony for African Americans. In 1910, Jackson, a
successful businessman from Boulder, fled on the
homestead that later became the town and began to
advertise for colonists.Te word dear was chosen
as the foundation for the towns name due to the pre-
cious value of the land and community to the towns
settlers.


Te frst settlers of Dearfeld had great difculty
farming the surrounding pasture and endured several
harsh seasons. However, by 1921, 700 people lived in
Dearfeld. Afer several prosperous years, the Great
Depression arrived and the towns agricultural suc-
cess signifcantly declined. Settlers began to leave
Dearfeld in order to fnd better opportunities.
By 1940, the town population had decreased to 12,
only 2% of the towns 1921 population. A few de-
serted buildings remain in Dearfeld: a gas station, a
diner and the founders home. It is a Colorado Regis-
tered Historic Landmark. A 2010 monument next to
one of the remaining buildings contains information
about the history of the site.
Why should I participate?
Give back to the CSU community.
Help a
CSU-hosted
Journal
become an
International
business
operation.
Talk to our
staf, and
learn more
about how
to get your
work pub-
lished or
even become a staf member.
Enjoy the unique experience and learn about
this spooky ghost town.
Great for the whole family to participate
Parade and festival through the ghost town
afer the race, accompanied with free break-
fast.
Have FUN!

As an editorial magazine that is hosted by
Colorado State University.
The magazine is specifically for under-
graduates, ran and operated by under-
graduates.

JUR publishes extraordinary undergradu-
ate work in an easily accessible and pro-
fessional peer-reviewed journal.
The magazine consists of the following
sections: Health Sciences, Natural Scienc-
es, Environmental Sciences, Art, Social
Sciences, Literature, and Journalism.
Students from any field, and any school,
are encouraged to submit their original
work to be published and used as a re-
sume item upon hire.
JUR is registered with the library of con-
gress and has been spanning their out-
reach internationally.
The journal must increase advertis-
ing, and start to shift their focus from a
student-ran organization to a student-ran
business operation.
The money rasied will go directly to the
Journal for Undergraduate Research and
Scholarly Excellence and will help to
build up the rapport of the Journal more
around the globe and throughout the
United States.
Why?