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Contributions to Excellence By Steve Hansen Alumnae are a proud group of people. Instilled with a passion to give of themselves. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta is no exception. Kopta graduated from PLU in 1950 with the bachelor’s degree in education. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta. Later…
. “My passion is teaching. My love is music and singing. And my heart wants to give back to the music community. This award and the benefits to students is one way of achieving my goal. I am very honored.” Kopta’s passion for teaching and her love for singing continue to this day. She formed her own choir that entertains residents at local nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Kopta wants to share her gifts with others. “My choir members thank me for teaching them – I smile because they warm
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A $15M bequest propels campaign past $100M, with a year to go By Greg Brewis Upon final accounting, the $10 million bequest from Karen Hille Phillips ’55 that was announced in October now amounts to more than $15 million, helping push the university’s current fundraising…
October now amounts to more than $15 million, helping push the university’s current fundraising campaign beyond the $100 million mark. “In a remarkable testament to the commitment of our alumni and friends to the university’s mission and goals, more than 20,000 donors – with gifts large and small – have given and pledged more than $102 million in support of the campaign,” Anderson said. “The campus community is sincerely grateful for their support.” Foremost among the university’s supporters was Karen
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Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012. Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria…
January 1, 2013 Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012. Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria made this program possible. Mayer’s long friendship to PLU prompted Mayer and his family to join with Nancy Powell and her family to provide generous gifts which launched the Kurt Mayer Professor in Holocaust Studies in 2007
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January is Stalking Awareness Month. The PLU Center for Gender Equity is choosing to uplift stalking awareness in this library exhibit because it often falls to the wayside in discussions of domestic violence, healthy relationships, and romantic gestures. Across media and society throughout the decades,…
, texts, and contact via social media, unwanted gifts, showing up/approaching an individual or their family/friends, monitoring, surveillance, property damage, and threats.” (SPARC, 2021). Because many stalking behaviors can be benign or even nice gestures OUTSIDE of a stalking relationship, and not a crime on their own, it’s common for people to not recognize these behaviors as stalking (e.g., an ex sending flowers or showing up where you are unannounced). Stalking did not even become illegal until
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News for Pacific Lutheran University.
Gaps and Gifts Originally Published 1999 “The Artist, the thinker, the hero, the saint —who are they, finally, but the finite self radicalized and intensified? . . . The difference between [them] and the rest of us . . . is a willingness to undergo the journey of… May 26, 2022
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News for Pacific Lutheran University.
Gaps and Gifts Originally Published 1999 “The Artist, the thinker, the hero, the saint —who are they, finally, but the finite self radicalized and intensified? . . . The difference between [them] and the rest of us . . . is a willingness to undergo the journey of… May 26, 2022
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At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every…
, mechanical/structural, electrical, software, product security, systems, manufacturing, industrial, material, and test engineering. These entry-level positions have a start date anytime between January 2022 and September 2022. Applicants best matching the attributes/qualifications described below will be scheduled for virtual interviews. https://jobs.boeing.com/job/seattle/engineering-entry-level-positions-in-multiple-boeing-locations/185/21687616528 Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience
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At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every…
, mechanical/structural, electrical, software, product security, systems, manufacturing, industrial, material, and test engineering. These entry-level positions have a start date anytime between January 2022 and September 2022. Applicants best matching the attributes/qualifications described below will be scheduled for virtual interviews. https://jobs.boeing.com/job/seattle/engineering-entry-level-positions-in-multiple-boeing-locations/185/21687616528 Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience
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Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…
paper and crows. [4] PLU’s Mortvedt Library The ironies of our Time Being, brought to imaginative expression, perhaps lie in our increasing forgetfulness of the humanizing gifts from the past. Even the meaning of liberal arts education has become confused and debased by the contemporary industrialization of education. The Humanities embody the two central concerns of liberal education traced by Bruce Kimball in his history Orators and Philosophers [5]: recollection and the study of words. In the
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President Loren J. Anderson enters the Tacoma Dome on May 27, 2012 to give his last commencement speech. (Photograph by John Froschauer) President Loren J. Anderson’s final commencement address to the Class of 2012 “GRATITUDE . . . WONDER . . . AND COURAGE” Distinguished…
, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Living gratefully begins when we recognize and accept in joy the incredible gifts that are ours. In the faith tradition of Pacific Lutheran University, we believe that God’s greatest gift is life itself, your many talents and abilities are an inheritance. Each member of the Class of 2012 has been nurtured and loved by a village that cares deeply, and to whom you matter greatly. And during your PLU time, you have been taught and mentored
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