4 Quotes & Sayings By Lois Capps

Lois Capps is an award-winning author, journalist and teacher. Lois studied journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she was a member of the Missouri Express news team. In 2006 she was inducted into the Missouri Journalism Hall of Fame. Lois is a member of the Rocky Mountain News Hall of Fame and the Missouri Journalism Hall of Fame Read more

She began her career in radio in 1946 as a reporter for KCMO in Kansas City, MO and went on to report for WLW in Cincinnati, OH and WSB in Atlanta before moving to Denver in 1963. In 1970 she became a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News. In 1979 she joined KDVR in Denver, where she worked until 1990.

From 1990 to 1999 Lois served as executive director of the Rocky Mountain News Foundation, an educational foundation that honors journalists who have made outstanding contributions to their profession.

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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. Lois Capps
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. Lois Capps
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And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. Lois Capps