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modeled Rilke’s wisdom was the great Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl.  In 1939, he was conducting research along the coast of British Columbia in a effort to understand the northern Pacific ocean currents, when he as called home because WW II had broken out in Europe.  In 1998, 59 years later, and at age 83, Heyerdahl came to be our PLU commencement speaker, and he arrived three days early so that he could visit BC and continue his research.  Heyerdahl personified our great human

community members and Parkland youth to meet, talk about personal experiences and begin the process of building relationships and understanding others. She founded the Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management and now is its student president. In the spring of 2013 she received a Kurt Mayer Holocaust Studies Fellowship and spent the summer conducting research on issues in Israel/Palestine; she was accepted to participate in a peace conference hosted by the Kroc Institute at the University of

hours before I take the Washington State Marriage and Family Therapy Licensure test. Then, I want to complete a total of five years of therapy and take classes to become an AAMFT supervisor for the state of Washington. My hope it to end up supervising therapist-in-training while conducting a private practice. My reason for choosing a career path in marriage and family therapy is that if I can end my day knowing I improved the quality of life for a person, I know I am fulfilling my personal passion