Comart John Mekkelson

Comart John Mekkelson of Alta Iowa attended the University of Denver in 1907. After a brief stint as a pharmacist, he went to seminary. In a poem, his classmates played with the change in career:

Tall and fair, curly hair,
The mortal was his feature.
Who will dare e’er declare
He’s not as good a preacher.

At Denver, he was a member of Homer Club, the Philomathean Literary Society, and the debating team. He was delegate to the Lake Geneva Conference and the State Y.M.C.A. conference.