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whereabouts,  she disguised herself as a Red Cross nurse and led her son to a new safe house.  Metzelaar recounted his story at the first Powell and Heller Family Conference in Support of Holocaust Education. The year wrapped up in April with a talk by Carl Wilkens, the only American to remain in Rwanda through the 1994 genocide that claimed one million lives. Wilkens discussed the choice he made to stay, even as other relief and aid workers fled. During the three months of violence, Wilkens helped save

July 8, 2008 Accepted to med school For those passing through northwest­ern Idaho, here’s hoping you don’t meet Guy Jensen. Jensen is a volunteer emergency medical technician, who, during the summer, is likely to be one of the first people on the scene in the event of a car wreck, wildfire or other emergency on the rural roads near his hometown of Genesee, Idaho, population 900.Jensen, who otherwise works on the family farm when he’s not at PLU, saw this as an opportunity to serve his

Peterson, ’75 all told of seeing compassion, generosity, dedication and service in the countries where they worked as nurses after they left PLU to pursue their careers in nursing. Here are some of their stories: Helen Holt ‘97, an advanced registered nurse practitioner, said she was faced with supporting her family as a single parent in her 40s, when she decided to return to college and get her degree. “I had four kids at home and no child support,” Holt told the audience. She received her master’s

). $50 per person, for tickets contact the Scandinavian Cultural Center at 253-535-7349 or scancntr@plu.edu.   PREVIOUS EVENTS Annual Norwegian Language Advent Service  Dec. 2 | 7 p.m. | Ness Family Chapel Happy first of Advent! PLU will be celebrate the season with our Norwegian Language Advent Service with Pastor Art Sortland officiating in Norwegian. All are welcome to this event and to have kransakaka afterwards. Carols with Cassie  Dec. 3 | 10:30 a.m.  | Scandinavian Cultural Center Join harpist

hand, and walked off. I just wanted out of there.” Huang spent most of her life in Nanning, a Chinese city in Guangxi Province, where she lived with her family and friends. China always signified childhood, self and home. But in 2011, she relocated to Everett with her mother, to live with her stepfather, Don Rollevson — someone she refers to, lovingly and simply, as “dad.” She finished her final years of high school and two years of community college before enrolling at PLU to major in biochemistry

Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 Brandon Nguyen '21 was born in Hawaii and moved to Washington with his family when he was a child and has lived in the Pacific Northwest ever since. Nguyen shares how he became interested in biology and why he chose PLU for his studies.1. Can you give us an introduction about yourself? My name’s Brandon Nguyen. I was born in Hawaii, and I lived there for four years. Then the Military PCS’d my family

individualized major pathway, she is the university’s first graduate with a major in innovation studies. Innovation Studies at PLUCourses in the Innovation Studies minor teach fundamental skills like design thinking, collaboration, and building an entrepreneurial mindset. You then form teams and develop your own solutions to contemporary problems and strategic opportunities. An Innovative Major Ambachew’s family moved to the United States from Ethiopia. She first heard about PLU from her older sister, who