Surprise: Former Denver Editor Leaves J-School $780,000

By: A retired Denver Post staffer has left the University of Colorado's journalism and mass communications school nearly $780,000 for scholarships.

The university said Thursday the bequest from the estate of William S. Hemingway came as a surprise.

Hemingway died in April at age 79.

He worked at The Post for 31 years as a copy editor, an assistant city editor, assistant editor of the newspaper's Empire Magazine and in other roles. He retired in 1991.