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George Norlin (1871-1942) was president of the University of Colorado from 1919 until he retired in 1939; he was named acting president in 1917. The university library is named after him. President Norlin is remembered for resisting efforts by the Ku Klux Klan, which had taken control of the Colorado legislature in about 1922. The Klan insisted he dismiss all Catholic and Jewish faculty, but he resisted and guided the University through the years until 1926, when the Klan lost control of the legislature and governorship. During that period the University subsisted on a millage built into the state constitution; its budget was cut to zero.
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