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Healing the Pain of Heartache by Erv Hinds ’63 Subtitled “A Physician Explores the Broken Heart Syndrome,” this book provides medical evidence underlying the intuitive knowledge of heartache. It presents heartache as a legitimate illness that needs to be treated — just as other illnesses involving physical pain are treated. Documented stories and data illustrate…

1945 Elizabeth M. Warner graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s in education and earned a diploma from the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy in 1946, but CC remains her favorite college. When she wasn’t working with physically disabled people, she enjoyed performing in civic theater, a love that was fostered at CC.…

1980 Patty Pansing Brooks is running for the Nebraska Legislature, District 27 (pattypansingbrooks.com). She lives in Lincoln, Neb., and is an attorney. She received her law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Dave Feamster was profiled in the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain’s “Hometown Heroes” series. After playing four seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks,…

1990 David Cripe is a new partner in the Denver office of Kutak Rock. David represents a variety of companies and individuals on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate transactions. His corporate practice includes business formation and structuring, and drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of contracts. He received his law degree…

2010 Ryan Nichols received his law degree from the University of Denver in May 2013. He is now an associate at the Denver-based law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. His practice focuses on general corporate matters, business entity formation, and restructuring, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. While he was at the University of Denver,…

2005 Gordon Beecher (Nitka) is the coach of Team GB Fitness in Scottsdale, Ariz. He has coached power lifters, Olympic lifters, and fitness competitors. Gordon is coaching Amanda Loy, a 4-foot-tall bodybuilder. They traveled to New York City in April for the New York Metropolitan Championships, where she took fourth. After a feature on “Inside…

College Press Club doesn’t look like other startup companies. An established market and way of doing business already existed when, shortly after graduation, Alex Kronman ’12 and Ben Quam ’12 founded an online platform to connect advertisers with college newspapers. But the potential for improving how business is done in the $300 million industry is…

Dear Fellow Alumni, Building college graduation rates among talented first-generation, low-income, and ethnic minority students is a national challenge. We, as CC alumni, can have a meaningful impact through active involvement with the CC Alumni Association, groups such as CC Alumni and Students of Color Association (CCASCA), and our regional chapters and activities. As our…

The following will be honored Oct. 11, during the Homecoming Honors Convocation. The Louis T. Benezet Award recognizes outstanding achievement in one’s chosen field, excellence through unusual success or contribution, innovation or research that has advanced a profession or a cause, and/or extraordinary contributions and achievements that exemplify the values of a liberal arts education.…