Volume 6, Issue 28 - April 25, 1984

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Volume 6 h.rue 28

April 25, 1984

Richard Fontera

He had an Infectious enthusiam-he came here with an underst~ndlng of what this school could be· all about, and then he began to create It.

I feel that I lost.a good friend and a good boss. He was a very caring person- he loved people. I know he planned on never leaving Metro. - Evelyn Rivera

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He gave himself to the community like no other college president I have ever known. He seemed to be In a great hurry to bring the recognition to h~ school that we deserved, and he_.rnade us feel ..,.. • • better about oursel\Jtfs

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· Miropoiitan College has Jost a great President-a mentor and visionary that brought our school from awkward Dick Fontera was a hard-nosed adolescence onto the threshold of maturity. When cancer took · realist who was also a very warm, him from us and from his family on April 17, we lost the leader and very man. It was that · who dragged us, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the complexitycaring that I'll miss most. 1980's. He was the engine of our progress-into the future, and he - Brooks VanEveren is gone. But he has left us a great momentum,-a legacy of top-notch education, of an ever-widening respect and commitment from the Denver community, of a dynamic, flexible, urban campus that stretches from the southernmost to the northernmost edges of Denver, a network of upward mobility, ·of expanding horirons; of hope. cont. on. page 7

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I considered him a friend of mine. -Brendan Kelly

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He recognized Metro for . the force in the community it is. He always told us it doesn't matter who the president of MSC is, we'll move ahead in the community, no matter what. His force goes on as ~ a part of that. -Dr. Wilton Flemon


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