Illuminating New Perspectives

Nando Parrado

Forty years ago, powerful emotions stormed my heart – disbelief, outrage, sorrow, and fear. “Once again, I heard that cold, steady voice in my head rise above the emotional chaos. Look forward, it said. Save your strength for things you can change. If you cling to the past, you will die.” Words I still live by today.

Peppard: Resurfaced Ross Perot to be honored by Cooper Insitute

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popcultureblog.dallasnews.com 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 ...

Dr. Charles Sterling To Receive 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award At Illuminating New Perspectives Din

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mysweetcharity.com 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

Nando Parrado

Forty years ago today I saw my first view of the Andes. “I forced myself to stand. I staggered outside the fuselage … I was baffled by the strangeness of the place that at first I struggled to convince myself it was real. The mountains were so huge. Nothing in this place welcomed human life, or even acknowledged its existence. Our chances of survival would have been better if we’d been stranded in an open ocean or the Sahara. At least some sort of life survives in those places. During the cold months in the high Andes, there is no life at all.” (Miracle in the Andes)

Nando Parrado

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)

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Nando Parrado

This weekend I reunited with my teammates. “We lived constantly on the verge of hysteria, but we did not panic. Leaders emerged, and we responded in the way we’d been taught by the Christian Brothers – as a team.”

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Nando Parrado

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?”

Andes survivors mark 40th anniversary of crash

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.

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businessweek.com 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.

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

Sponsorships from $5,000-$50,000

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

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Meet the plane crash survivor who inspired the movie 'Alive'

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Announcement of “Illuminating New Perspective Luncheon” Includes Ken Cooper, Troy Aikman And Nando P

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mysweetcharity.com The Cooper Institute learned at the last moment that author/motivational speaker Nando Parrado and his gorgeous wife Veronique were going to be in town Monday. Since it hadn’t been announced yet that he was to be the speaker for the

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Honoring Margot and Ross Perot and The Perot Foundation and Featuring Miracle in the Andes Author and Survivor, Nando Parrado