Illuminating New Perspectives

10/19/2012

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/peppard-resurfaced-ross-perot-to-be-honored-by-cooper-insitute.html/

With a new autobiography due out in January, Ross Perot is inching toward the spotlight he has avoided for the last few years. Twenty years ago, he was ubiquitous: He was in presidential debates, a regular on Larry King and parodied on Saturday Night Live. This week, he endorsed Mitt Romney ...

10/17/2012

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It was 40 years ago this month when a plane with an Uruguayan rugby team aboard crashed into the Andes. In freezing conditions and learning through radio transmissions that rescue was doubtful at best, the 16 of the 45 people

10/15/2012

I awoke as my teammates brought me snowballs for my thirst and began to tell me the news of my mother and sister. I needed my mother’s strength that day, and every day on the mountain. I crawled to Susy. Holding her in my arms I began to think of my father, “He would have heard the news three days ago, and for all that time he would lived believing he had lost us all … ‘I am alive,’ I whispered to him, ‘I am alive.’” (Miracle in the Andes)

Photo: Seler Parrado & Xenia Parrado

10/15/2012

I lay in a coma this day forty years ago, unaware of the desperate situation, “We were a group of untested boys who had never in our lives truly suffered. Few of us had ever seen snow. None of us had ever set foot in the mountains. Where would we find our hero? What magic would carry us home?”

10/15/2012

Andes survivors mark 40th anniversary of crash on October 13.

Don't miss your opportunity to hear Nando Parrado tell the story of his journey in person at The Cooper Institute's Illuminating New Perspectives event in Dallas.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-14/andes-survivors-mark-40th-anniversary-of-crash

http://news.yahoo.com/andes-survivors-mark-40th-anniversary-crash-053941345.html

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Surviving members of an Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days in the cordillera and forcing them to eat human flesh to stay alive.

10/03/2012

You do not want to miss The Cooper Institute's Illuminating New Perspectives dinner program, honoring Margot and Ross Perot and featuring Miracle in the Andes Author and Survivor, Nando Parrado, on Tuesday, October 23. This will be an unforgettable evening at Belo Mansion & Pavilion!

Individual PATRON Tickets now available, starting at $500
(Includes preferred seating, program recognition and invitation to VIP reception preceding the dinner)

Individual FRIEND Tickets also available for $250
(Limited quantity)

To purchase tickets, contact Caroline Fair at [email protected] or 972.863.3777.

06/29/2012

Sponsorships from $5,000-$50,000

For more information and to place sponsorship, please contact Caroline Fair at 972-863-3777 or [email protected].

06/28/2012