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  • wrong. Loomis has shouldered a lot of strategic planning and big-picture thinking that’s vital but often unseen, serving back to back as chief financial officer for two major nonprofit health care systems in the Pacific Northwest — first for Tacoma-based MultiCare and more recently for Legacy Health in Portland. So, it was a pleasant surprise to Loomis when South Sound Business magazine shined a spotlight into her corner of the corporate world, naming her CFO of the Year for her work with MultiCare

  • a great opportunity and education to be a nurse.” – Trang, Tacoma, WA “My daughter was a recipient of scholarship while attending PLU.” – Anne, Redmond, WA “PLU formed my life, and when I graduated in 1970 I carried the gift that was given to me and will never forget.” – Gregory, Rockville, MD “To honor the legacy which launched us and to further the ongoing mission of the University.” – David, Lafayette, CA “We are doing what we can to sustain for the future, the opportunity that PLU presents

  • Russell gave the first naming gift to launch the new Music facility, which would be named the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Mary Baker Russell listens to Dave Robbins Even in the early seventies, the department had clearly outgrown the small space they shared with theatre and communication in Eastvold. Youtz remembers buckets catching drips of rainwater while he lectured. Robbins wrote the very first report justifying a new fine arts music building, which was approved by the regents in 1978. “The

  • stuffed in his pocket – a gift from his girlfriend who dropped him off at the Seattle airport.   “I remember thinking ‘please, pleeease, let someone be there for me,”” Kennedy said this year. There was a friendly face waving a sign. But Kennedy soon discovered the job he had flown almost 9,000 miles to do didn’t exist. This series of panic, calm, panic, calm, had been the normal state of affairs for Kennedy ever since he decided to leave his safe and secure job at REI in 2008. “I knew to be happy, to

  • China as you pursue your master’s? I’m applying to music schools in China so I can be immersed in the Chinese language and still continue my studies in piano. I am interested in Chinese interpretation work, and of course I want to continue teaching and playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese

  • piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans? There

  • of nerves, anticipation and excitement. She had never been to Washington, and “didn’t know a soul” at PLU (then Pacific Lutheran College). When the train stopped in downtown Tacoma, for a moment, so did her heart. She clutched the monogrammed luggage she received as a high school graduation gift, and departed. A senior from Knutson’s soon-to-be college was standing there with a warm smile and a cardboard sign with her name on it. She still remembers how special and welcome she felt that momentous

  • fit for college students, staff and faculty,” Vagts said. “She’s passionate about developing leaders, always looking to find the right way to engage someone and help them discover or deepen a gift or interest of theirs.” Rude also has served as a colleague in ministry at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston, Illinois, an associate pastor at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Chicago, and as youth outreach minister for The Night Ministry in Chicago, where she provided pastoral care, crisis response and

  • playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans

  • Washington, her young mind was a swirling sea of nerves, anticipation and excitement. She had never been to Washington, and “didn’t know a soul” at PLU (then Pacific Lutheran College). When the train stopped in downtown Tacoma, for a moment, so did her heart. She clutched the monogrammed luggage she received as a high school graduation gift, and departed. A senior from Knutson’s soon-to-be college was standing there with a warm smile and a cardboard sign with her name on it. She still remembers how