Alum credits CNCC with changing life

RANGELY — Steve Swymer remembers the first time he stepped foot in northwest Colorado.
It wasn’t quite the reception he was anticipating.
“I was expecting a band and cheerleaders to greet me,” said Swymer, who came from Massachusetts to Colorado Northwestern Community College on a basketball scholarship in 1968. The school was called Rangely College in those days.
Instead, the only person there to greet him was Paul Conrad, who was an assistant basketball coach…