ALBERT SCHWEITZER PHOTO IN ASPEN.
Albert Schweitzer in Aspen during the first week of July 1949 was significant. He was the keynote speaker for the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation, which essentially launched the Aspen Music Festival, the International Design Conference in Aspen, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and the foundational values that brought the best and brightest to Aspen, who brought money and skiing to Aspen—rejuvenating the small mining town and making Aspen, Colorado one of the great destinations of the world.
Schweitzer embodied and exemplified body, mind and spirit. He was a physician, philosopher and minister, a renaissance humanitarian. His only visit to the United States was because of his invitation from Walter Paepcke. Aspen and Schweitzer were deliberately chosen by Paepcke as being inspiring. Aspen as a retreat is conducive to bringing out new, proactive ideas for the betterment of mankind—as the Aspen Institute still does to this day.
