Lacey Fry
Lacey Fry, Assistant Loan Closing Officer
A 2008 addition to the CLS staff, Lacey is a graduate from Oklahoma State University (OSU) with a BS in Business Administration, a strong major in Finance, three academic scholarships (for women's basketball), a President's honor roll achievement, and, a passion for Etruscan antiquity.
A native of Oklahoma, with a short stop in Texas en route to Colorado, and an internship at a well regarded CDC on the way to CLS, Lacey enjoys volunteering, coaching basketball, screen writing, kick boxing, duck shooting, drink mixing, waffle making, bench pressing, barrel racing, computer programming, calf roping, candle making, personal training, crocodile whispering and driving around Denver's busy one-way streets in her classic Renault Dauphine while making rude gestures at pedestrians who walk across intersections even when it says "don't walk" ...
Lacey's fascination for all things Etruscan stems from a chance encounter (at the 2005 Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City) with Michael Olteanu, the eminent executive director of the Vatican's Gregorian Etruscan Museum. Mr. Olteanu happened to be in Kansas City that weekend on behalf of the Vatican Bank which was looking to invest in some AAA sub-prime residential mortgage loan pools at the time. An offensive block from Lacey caused the ball to spin wildly from the court into the crowd where Mr. Oltenau's respectable spectacles ended up being ground into the stale fries of an irate Missouri fan's Happy Meal. Coincidentally, that very next year, almost eight months and twelve hours to the day, on her way home one evening after a torrid OSU practice session, a wrong turn in her trusty, rusty Renault down a dark, rain-soaked road led to the chance discovery of a Corinthian vase from around 600 BC lying half submerged in a puddle amidst a small and secluded grove of Cottonwoods. Well, one thing led to the other, and despite a busy athletic and academic program, working part time when she could, making candles by lamplight in the moldy basement of the gym where she coached and trained, Lacey has since assembled one of the most complete archeological collections of Etruscan artifacts known to modern woman, documenting, as it does, the "orientalizing" period of the Etruscan civilization (late 8th to early 6th century B.C.), which, as everyone knows, brought Etruria into closer commercial and cultural contact with all the principal Mediterranean centers. Or at least, that is what she tells people repeatedly while practicing three-pointers from the other end of the court.
Notwithstanding, in her rare free time, Lacey’s favorite musical artists include: Lost Worlds, The KLF, Iron Maiden, Kurtis Blow, Jay-Z, Katt Williams, Black Eyes Peas, Gorillaz, The Cribs, Russ Landau, and, The Ancient Order of Reneaux.