LittleSis: William K Coors

William Kistler Coors was born in Colorado on August 11, 1916. He earned a Bachelors Degree, from Princeton University in 1938 and received his Masters Degree in chemical engineering in 1939. The grandson of Adolph Coors Company founder Adolph Coors, he started his career at the company in 1939. William Coors entered the family business as a chemical engineer for Coors Brewing Company. Coors was respected in the industry for his ability in packaging, bottling, and engineering. He is credited with pioneering the recyclable two-piece aluminum can, which is now standard throughout the industry. In the 1950's, Coors requested $250,000 from his father, CEO Adolph Coors, Jr., to build an experimental line of aluminum cans. By the early 1960's, can recycling was viable, and the company offered customers a one-cent deposit on returned cans. Coors was elected to the board of directors in 1973. When the non-brewing assets (e.g., Coors Ceramics Co.) of Adolph Coors Co. were spun off in 1992 as ACX Technologies Inc., Bill Coors served as chairman of both companies. In 2003, at the age of 87, Coors retired from the boards of the Adolph Coors Company and the Coors Brewing Company, although he remained with the company as chief technical adviser. Coors is survived by three children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Bill is survived by his children Margaret Coors Beresford and her husband Michael, May Louise Coors and her husband Sharad Atre and Williams Scott Coors and his partner David Hurt, 7 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren, and a great number of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. He is pre-deceased by his parents Adolph and May Coors Jr., his brothers Adolph Coors III, Joseph Coors, Sr., and his sister May Louise Tooker.

Donor	Common Recipients
Rita Bass Coors	Peter H Coors, Rodney P Frelinghuysen, Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, David R Thomas, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, George W Bush, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Stanley Matsunaka, Cory Gardner, Collis Michael Callihan, Joseph Coors Jr
Jordon Perlmutter	Peter H Coors, Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond, Hank Brown
A Barry Hirschfeld	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, George W Bush, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond, Joseph Coors Jr, Hank Brown
James Leprino	Peter H Coors, Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner
Larry A Mizel	Peter H Coors, Ed Perlmutter, Ken Salazar, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Hank Brown
Joseph Coors Jr	Peter H Coors, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Coors Bewing Company - Political Action BY Coors Employees, Joseph Coors Jr, Hank Brown
Edward A. Robinson	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, Bob Dole, David R Thomas, Mike Coffman, Stanley Matsunaka, Richard Randolph Bond, Collis Michael Callihan
Dan Ritchie	Peter H Coors, Ed Perlmutter, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, George W Bush, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond, Collis Michael Callihan
Ray Kogovsek	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Stanley Matsunaka, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond
Peter H Coors	Peter H Coors, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Coors Bewing Company - Political Action BY Coors Employees, Joseph Coors Jr, Hank Brown
Pat Broe	Peter H Coors, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond, Joseph Coors Jr
Norm Brownstein	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond, Hank Brown
Philip Anschutz	Peter H Coors, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Campaign America Inc, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Daniel L Schaefer, Cory Gardner, Joseph Coors Jr
Meyer M Saltzman	Peter H Coors, Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, George W Bush, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Hank Brown
Ralph J Nagel	Peter H Coors, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Campaign America Inc, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Joseph Coors Jr, Hank Brown
Michael Stratton	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, David R Thomas, Stanley Matsunaka, Richard Randolph Bond, Collis Michael Callihan
Marilyn Coors	Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Coors Bewing Company - Political Action BY Coors Employees, Joseph Coors Jr, Hank Brown
Michael A Feiner	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, David Skaggs, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Richard Randolph Bond
Charlie Fote	Peter H Coors, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Joseph Coors Jr
Steven Demby	Ed Perlmutter, John Tony Salazar, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, George W Bush, Mike Coffman, Stanley Matsunaka, Cory Gardner

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Rita Bass Coors