Heidi Ganahl is having a howling good time as head of the Camp Bow Wow empire.

In the 45 years that Gary Mobell’s family has owned the Blue Bonnet Café, he’s seen a lot of restaurants come and go. And he knows that as great as it is to have a hot dining scene in Denver, it also means increased competition in a tough economy. “We […]

When the restaurant that would become White Fence Farm first opened in 1973, it was the southwesternmost eatery in Denver. Owner Charlie Wilson has seen the area surrounding the restaurant change a lot since then — what was once fertile farmland is now homes and strip malls — but his […]

Looking for tips on effective resumé design? Talk to Brad Klausen. The DU art grad was working for a design firm in Los Angeles when a newsletter from the Pearl Jam fan club caught his eye. Inspired by what he saw, Klausen (BFA graphic communication design ’98) designed a Pearl […]

Ann Moore never wore a pair of cowboy boots, never owned spurs, never roped a calf. An English teacher at Cherry Creek High School, she taught a course called Reading and Studying for Success, and didn’t blame her students when their eyes glazed over. “It was an awful title,” Moore […]

Ruth Purkaple did not conform. She came of age possessed of a discerning mind and a wanderlust generations before the modern liberation movement loosened the shackles on most women’s dreams. But rather than heeding the barriers of the day, she followed her heart and now, at the age of 100, […]

David Zimmerman graduated from DU with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in June 2011 and he’s wasted no time in putting what he learned to use. The surfer and snowboarder created his own urban streetwear clothing line — Giuce — and has used his marketing training to build buzz around […]

LoAn Vo surveyed the scene of endless golf tournaments and saw no need for another. She wanted to help local charities and couldn’t bear to build one more high-dollar get-together on the greens. “My friends and I play tennis and, in the tennis community, there’s not a lot of events,” […]

“I remember asking my dad for money, and he said, ‘If you want it, go make it.’” Mike Hills’ quintessential adolescent appeal and his father’s classic reply were a springboard for the budding small-business owner. He started out as “the kid who went around and knocked on doors” to drum […]

Helpful tip: Oil is better than water. At the beginning of the year, DU alumna Annie Kinkel had been living in Cairo, Egypt, for about four months. A Fulbright scholar, she came to the country for extensive archival research for her PhD in history from Rutgers University. She didn’t envision […]

For a while there, Rob Jordan had a pretty cushy lifestyle. He was living in Bellingham, Wash., where he worked for an outdoor equipment company selling ankle weights for SCUBA shops. “I was 27 years old, had a house, two cars … and I was bored,” he recalls. Now, he’s […]

John Bazley, a highly decorated professor in DU’s School of Accountancy and executive MBA program, passed away on June 3. Bazley received many accolades throughout his 35-year career at DU, including the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Vernon Loomis Award for Excellence in Advising, the Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence, the […]

Choosing whether to cheer for the hockey team at the University of Denver or the University of North Dakota is not the only thing that former U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) has been juggling since he retired from the Senate. “I have been torn for decades between the two teams […]

Katie Crouse was born to bake pizza. “I was born and raised on the pizza goodness,” says Crouse, whose father was the second franchisee of Black Jack Pizza in Colorado back in 1984. Crouse started helping him when she was just 13 years old, working the front counter in a […]

It’s one of life’s ironies: Those who are able to tell the most riveting stories of personal experience are often also the most reluctant to tell them. For that reason, alum Patrick “P.J.” Glavey (BS finance ’07) talks about losing his legs in a dispassionate, just-the-facts manner. The 26-year-old could […]