Steve Mark

Adam Salzman, a Coloradan for the last nine years, previously had a great career working in corporate finance for Nissan in Nashville, Tenn.A nice job, but for Salzman, not fulfilling enough. An Akron, Ohio native who majored in international business and finance at Ohio University, Salzman had studied abroad in China and taught English as a 19-year-old.

In the middle of the afternoon on May 14, Leslie Tunick Frisbee of Boulder saw a text pop up on her iPhone.“It started with a notice from Apple that there was a charge to my account from an Apple store in Canada, for over $400 or so.“It read, ‘If this was not you, please notify us.’”

Ask Jonathan Lev, executive director at the Boulder JCC, what he is most proud of at his sprawling campus, and the talking points are significant.

For 32 years, Esther Melamed has been the secular studies principal at Beth Jacob High School. That’s a lot of students she has seen and guided. Melamed estimates that over the years she has taught 800 to 900 graduates; a perfect background to bolster conversations about the 250th anniversary of the US and the future of America.

Alex Doe remembers, to this day, an incident that transpired 16 years ago, when he was a student at Cherry Creek High School. “In freshman year I was in a class and some guy Hitler saluted at me.”