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Margaret Greenwood ’74 Lisa (Miles ’84) and Tim ’84 Kittilsby Lisa Kind Korsmo ’87 and John Korsmo ’84 Knut Olson ’90 and Kim Morter Olson ’88 Carol Quigg ’58 Brad ’83 and Danielle ’85 Tilden Dale and Jolita Benson (both ’63) established two endowed chairs, the Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History and the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education. The Bensons have also been major contributors to many campus projects and programs including endowed support for student

Prejudice, and it seems we haven’t stopped watching Austen since. There is a huge variety in what Austen adaptations look like, although each decade seems to hold onto a unique idea of Austen. Carrie Wittmer of Vulture offers a chronology of Austen adaptations, where she traces the themes explored in different eras. To Wittmer, the 2020s are bringing Austen back into the cinema, a comeback that is taking us away from the superheroes and romcoms of the 2010s. As Voyles demonstrates, the intense criticism

students do too. We’re able to give excellent theatre education without trapping or abandoning our students. Tell us a few fun experiences, professional or personal, that you’ve had since you began teaching at PLU. One of my students came to observe me while I was doing a lighting design at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. I loved hearing her perspective on the collaboration she witnessed. Recently I did lighting designs at Taproot Theatre Company and the Seattle Public Theatre and both times the

is an important distinction because while students are away from the PLU campus we are required to be active and engaged in the communities that surround us in the world. As stewards of the world, armed with new knowledge about people, places and cultures, that information that we learn is brought in to the classroom as a great tool for discussion and collaborative learning. Taking classes in the liberal arts is a gift—we are required to expand our interdisciplinary knowledge. No PLU graduate

students do too. We’re able to give excellent theatre education without trapping or abandoning our students. Tell us a few fun experiences, professional or personal, that you’ve had since you began teaching at PLU. One of my students came to observe me while I was doing a lighting design at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. I loved hearing her perspective on the collaboration she witnessed. Recently I did lighting designs at Taproot Theatre Company and the Seattle Public Theatre and both times the

understanding of how important it is to us to preserve our culture and we do that in many ways,” she said. Although the PLU program is helpful for outsiders, many of the Makah’s programs are geared toward teaching their own community. From the tangible, like basket weaving, to in-depth storytelling that teaches a lesson, is a lesson unto itself and expresses the rich heritage of the Makah people. That hope is what Huelsbeck tries to teach in the way of voice and authority. Every individual has a voice or an

has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in poetry and fiction and in 1978 was selected as a US/UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship to England. He has published two YA novels with Henry Holt, and his novel The Fall of Alice K was published in 2013. His newest book of short-shorts, Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, was published in 2014. Heynen lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Saturday, Aug. 8, 7:30 p.m. Kevin Goodan. Goodan’s first collection of poetry, In the Ghost-House Acquainted

isn’t enough—we need to improve life for everyone around us, too.”  While at PLU, Schwartz worked at the Boys and Girls Club, and was a big buddy at nearby James Sales Elementary school.   Schwartz majored in sociology at PLU, and in classes with professors like Dick Jobst and Anna Leon Guerrero, he was asked challenging questions, and examined systems of oppression, discrimination, and racism. Like nesting dolls in reverse, he saw how vast the world’s systems could be. “I didn’t have either

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, Center for Student Success; member, the collective; founder and organizer, Interfaith Games; Women’s Action Commissioner, Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Green River College Post-graduation plans: Working for a company owned by a fellow PLU student’s family; completing a JD or PhD to pursue youth advocacy and justice work in education Born in Nairobi, Kenya to a family of asylum-seekers from Mogadishu, Somalia, Aziza Ahmed moved to the US at five, and came to PLU from Auburn’s Mountainview