1,000 Words: Honoring 2025 CMC nurses

This photograph by John Russell appeared on the front page of the Steamboat Pilot & Today on May 3, 2025 and is reposted with permission.

Graduate Mattie Bork is pinned by her daughter Ollie Kruse during Colorado Mountain College’s pinning ceremony inside the Allbright Family Auditorium on Friday, May 2, 2025. The pinning ceremony, which included 15 graduates, is the symbolic welcoming of nursing school graduates into the nursing profession.