Roger Mangan

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Roger Mangan graduated from UIU with a bachelor’s degree in history, political science and French. A four-time Peacock letter winner in wrestling, he compiled a 33-2-2 career record and won Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships at 147 pounds in 1959 and 1960. He was elected into the UIU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

After graduating from UIU, Mangan earned a master’s degree from University of Iowa and an Ed.S. degree from Western Illinois University. He started a 16-year teaching and coaching career in Fredericksburg, Cresco, Bettendorf and Estherville. He later became an educational consultant for the Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency in Davenport, Iowa before moving to Littleton, Colorado, with his wife, Alice, and two daughters in 1976. Upon moving to Colorado, Roger opened a State Farm Insurance scratch agency. He credits Alice, who worked along his side for 34 years, as being essential in helping develop the agency into one of the largest State Farm agencies in the Denver metropolitan area.