© Logan Brown

Junior kinesiology major Michelle Mjoen plays the saxophone on Nov. 19, 2004. Mjoen who plays the saxophone in the University of Colorado marching band, is a lover of jazz music.

© Melanie Ahlf

University of Colorado senior Kelly Hagelstein is recovering from lymphoma, a cancer with which she was diagnosed in February 2003.

© Paula Combs

Chris Fletcher, of Crawford, Colo., has been climbing for 10 years on such Boulder, Colo., landmarks as the Flatirons.

© Shannon Shafer

Staff Sgt. Michael Roy, of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, comforts his girlfriend Susan Chadderdon during a portrait session. Roy, of Westminster, Colo., left March 20, 2004 for Camp Pendleton, Calif. in advance of a possible August deployment to Iraq.

© Matt Hoke

Marissa Anderson, 20, is studying massage therapy in Boulder. Anderson moved to from Pennsylvania a year ago.

© Bret Englander

John Wilson, at home in Boulder.

© Courtney Gates

Lainie Kritser was raised on a ranch near Amarillo, Tex., but hopes her studies in public relations made lead her to a career in New York.

© Barton Glasser

Susana Murillo tugs at a necklace given to her by a former fiancée. It is one of the few possessions she has from what she describes as her "old life."

© Caroline Rydberg

Luke Bogaason, 21, a business major at The University of Colorado at Boulder, spends his free time as a volunteer firefighter for the Sunshine Canyon Fire District in rural Boulder County. A native of Minnesota, Bogaason first began volunteering two years ago in Southern California and kept up his service when he came to Colorado for college.