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can count on me and come to me if they need anything, and I have enjoyed getting to know each of them and learning about their cultures and languages.” Marquez believes her Hispanic studies minor will help her in her social work career. “At first I did not want to take Spanish because I am a heritage speaker, but it was actually really good to polish my Spanish and learn about my own and other cultures. It will help me when working with Spanish speaking communities, and also when working with

program, I took a trip to Barcelona by myself. It was really fun to do a solo experience and I made it really economical. I stayed in a hostel and cooked some meals, went on a ski trip to the Pyrenees Mountains, went to a mountain that has a monastery on top of it called Montserrat outside of the city, watched street performances in the city — that whole trip was really fun. Studying away locally and abroad: PLU emphasizes that you don’t have to go far to find different communities and cultures that

August 24, 2010 Endowment support ensures the growth of ‘intellectual capital’ Throughout PLU’s history, thousands of alumni and friends of the university have been remarkably generous in providing the financial resources that have helped the university succeed. This kind of broad support made possible the construction of the first building on campus, Old Main (now Harstad Hall), and the latest, the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, as well as many of the buildings in between. Similar

1957 PLU graduate, Foege’s talk, titled “From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: The Changing Face of Global Health,” is slated for Friday, Feb. 22 at 11:15 a.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall. Foege is widely recognized as a leader in the successful eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. He has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. A strong proponent of