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.” With wife, Julie Morris, the two began to discuss starting their own theater company, Babel, to showcase all the talented actors and performers they met during their time at the New School. “I’m hoping that instead of waiting tables,” said Tristan Morris. “We can sort of make something and get us moving towards the jobs we really want.” Still in the beginning stages, Babel got its roots from Vpstart Crow (pronounced Upstart Crow), a theater program Tristan and Julie Morris founded at PLU. Vpstart

crisis, and by night, he spent time with his housemates, fellow LVC volunteers, exploring their values and perspectives. “There was a lot of room for personal growth and self-examination of what my values are,” Goble said. “We all have this like mindedness of wanting to serve and the excitement of living, with a low income.” The relationships had as much if not more of an influence on Goble than the service component. After his year in Omaha, Goble came back to Tacoma and signed up for a year of

., where she was a member of an integrated brand marketing team devoted to reaching the billion-dollar milestone for Barbie worldwide sales.  Gibbs began her corporate career at Apple as a public relations manager. Gibbs graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications arts and sciences from Michigan State University. She currently lives in the San Francisco area with her husband Dennis Minor and two spoiled standard poodles.  She is a long-time volunteer for Meals on Wheels and National Public

success after another—and perhaps destined by one very early experience: The first article she wrote, on cafeteria lunches, ran in her elementary-school newspaper. “I thought it was so much fun seeing my name in the paper,” Patterson said She picked up reporting again in high school, working for her school’s paper and freelancing for The News Tribune’s Young Adult Pages. She also delivered newspapers. “There was a point in time when I was delivering the paper and had a byline,” Patterson said. Still

Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. As Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust, he participated in three meetings in the past year designed to include Muslims in the Museum’s goal of spreading Holocaust education. As Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, Bob received travel support to attend a meeting of the Editorial Board of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte in Germany, and he spent time in the British Library in London, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the Cambridge University

,” he says. “The media made science out to be hard truth, and not fallible.” After he graduated from PLU, Paulson attended Johns Hopkins University, where he was in a class of three other students, one of whom is now the executive editor of Smithsonian. Paulson also started a construction company with a partner who is now a millionaire (“I should have stayed in construction,” Paulson jokes) and spent some time as a resident ski bum in Montana. Between then and now, he has worked as the science and

service in Congress in 1977 and served continuously until 2013. He now serves as a senior policy advisor in Ness Van Feldman, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Seattle. PLU was in Dicks’ Congressional district for a good share of the time he was in office, but even when the district boundaries were remapped and the university was not in his district, he and his office were always helpful to the university. Throughout his career, Dicks led the way in key educational and environmental

and hunger. After living in China for about a year after graduating from PLU, Rasmus returned to the Seattle area through the AmeriCorps VISTA program, working at First Harvest as a VISTA member, and then as a full-time staffer for the last four years. Rasmus’ job involves connecting local farms with food banks, so all can benefit from harvesting crops that otherwise would go to waste. There are eight project sites in Washington, which involve 10-20 food banks each, and about 200 small farms, he

building apps and producing “connected products”—so Venuelabs perfectly fits the bill. Crist calls the funds from Salesforce.com “a great source of validation that they [Venuelabs] are on the right track.” During his time at PLU, Crist took part in many School of Business events, including Washington Family Business Awards and Young Entrepreneurs, and says these programs helped him “reach outside the classroom” while still in school. Crist also fondly remembers the contagious excitement of students and

Desire.” “Today I would probably be called a 20th-century U.S. cultural historian with a focus on consumption, childhood and leisure issues,” writes Cross, co-author of Packaged Pleasures and author of several other influential books. “But, as a historian trained in modern French and German history and with experience in British and Australian libraries and universities, I have also done comparative history on work, political economy and time. … My abiding theme is the origins, uses, meanings and