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  • Heidi Ganahl
    After overcoming personal tragedy and business failure, Heidi Ganahl founded a small daycare for dogs that’s now the world’s largest pet care franchise.
  • Jennifer and Michael Schmelzer
    Michael and Jennifer Schmelzer, brother and sister winemakers, produce premium Old-World wines on a family estate in Tuscany.
  • Carlton Stoiber cartoon
    Carlton Stoiber is a nuclear law expert with a funny bone.
  • Esther Manheimer
    There are people with a fascination for the machinations of local government, and people who like beer. 
  • Don Nottingham
    Don Nottingham (Law’04), a former prosecutor, travels the world as a member of the all-male a cappella group Straight No Chaser.
  • Bernard Trainor
    From an early age, long before he became a U.S. Marine Corps Lt. General, Bernard Trainor (MA’63) pursued a simple life strategy.
  • «Ƶ Theater marquis
    Working as “popcorn girls” at various «Ƶ theaters in the late 1970s, sisters Kathy (Engl, PoliSci’86) and Robin Beeck (Comm’88), founders of the «Ƶ International Film Festival (BIFF), saw lots of movies — good, bad and sleazy.
  • Dalton Trumbo
    Hollywood screenwriter and First Amendment champion Dalton Trumbo died nearly 40 years ago. In 2015 he's making a comeback – and looking a lot like Bryan Cranston.
  • Brown's Canyon
    In February President Obama declared Colorado’s Browns Canyon a national monument. For Bill Dvorak, it was a long time coming.
  • Kate Brown
    Oregon’s new leader, Kate Brown, takes charge.
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