Publisher Andrea "Andy" Hoig (left) participated with Miss Nebraska, Belinda Wright, at a Cox Classic/ALS in the Heartland Charity event. Wright was featured on the July cover of metroMAGAZINE.

Bouncing Back from Fire
Chamber Names 'metroMAGAZINE'
Small Business of the Month
By Andy Roberts
The Daily Record
   It began more than 20 years ago with the idea of focusing on the Omaha area's philanthropic efforts.
  It nearly ended on a frigid night last January after a fire started in the Bagel Bin and roared through the building housing the magazine's old offices near 119th and Pacific resulting in the destruction.

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New Yorker Susan Poser marvels at the broadening outlook of living in the Midwest.

Susan Poser
NU's New Law Dean Feeling at Home
By Andy Roberts
The Daily Record
   From her office in the dean's suit on the first floor of the University of Nebraska College of Law, Susan Poser really can't see that much.
   "There is no view to speak of," she said.
   So much for setting a dramatic scene, but there should be no lack of excitement over Poser's appointment in May as NU's newest law dean.

 As Norwegian Consul for the State of Nebraska, Virgil Johnson has made two official trips to Norway and several pleasure trips as well.

Johnson Believes Being
A Businessman Has Made
Him a Better Business Lawyer
By Shiloh Todorov
The Daily Record
  Virgil K. Johnson stepped down in April as the president of Erickson & Sederstrom, a Regency law firm with about 35 attorneys. He remains chairman of the board for a firm in which he's been a partner since he began practicing law in the 1960s.

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   Dorothy Wahrman spends her nursing days in places like Nebraska Methodist Cancer Center, making patients' experiences better.

Nurse Practices Her Vocation
By Treating Others as
She Would Want to Be Treated
By Julien R. Fielding
The Daily Record
  Most of us know the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would want others to do unto you."

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