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in Holocaust Studies was created to honor Mayer and to ensure that teaching of the Holocaust would remain an important part of the PLU curriculum. Mayer published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History , in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012. Mayer appeared at PLU’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education in 2010 and 2011, was the featured author at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and has held various other signings, with all proceeds

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Lutheran Reformation. Students and faculty at PLU still study the Bible in the spirit of the Reformation, meaning that we do not expect simple truths or universal agreement. Instead, we find in these texts critical and challenging questions about our history, our community and our planet. We welcome The Saint John’s Bible to our campus in that spirit, looking for the challenging questions it can inspire rather than easy answers. This year, PLU honors the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with

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community our President envisions, our commission’s goal is to develop ideas and priorities that position PLU for long-term financial health to deliver our mission. These are commitments that will guide our process and work: Be authentic to Pacific Lutheran University’s history, culture, and mission. Honor Pacific Lutheran University’s governance systems and processes. Use a broadly inclusive process that embraces Pacific Lutheran University’s collective wisdom, creativity, and experience. Develop

of quota. Shelondra Harris ’17: Black Student Union formed (again) in order to unite black students and other ethnicities through organization of events that emphasize the history, culture, existence and influence of such individuals. BSU is a space for my race. What were/are some of the club’s challenges? Bruce Driver ’78: Trying to have the meetings and consistently have people come to the meetings. Rodreshia Dunbar ’01: I don’t think we had challenges in the beginning. There was so much

events and developing strategies to raise visibility. Shelondra Harris: BA in Communication Shelondra has been the driving force to reinvigorate PLU’s Black Student Union. She has led a group of current students to realize the positive benefits of this powerful student organization at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. Shelondra, who served as President of this organization, brought it back to life by bringing her unparalleled skills of strategic communication into play. She designed and

has become confused and debased by the contemporary industrialization of education. The Humanities embody the two central concerns of liberal education traced by Bruce Kimball in his history Orators and Philosophers [5]: recollection and the study of words. In the quest for wisdom—shaping powerful words that free us and move us—this is what the Humanist pursues. Though Plato once wrote that “there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” (Republic 607b5–6), today, poetry and wisdom’s love

of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West story … from 1939. It was so full of history and facts and fun, we wanted to share it with everyone. Writes Lorna: “Now at 93 years old, this trip remains very vivid in my memory!” By Lorna Vosburg '40, '69 “Whee…eee!,” I read in my diary. “We are off on the trip of a lifetime!” I was just 19 years old, a student at Pacific Lutheran College and a member of the famous Choir of the West, which was leaving on a 3,000

2013 edition of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West story … from 1939. It was so full of history and facts and fun, we wanted to share it with everyone. Writes Lorna: “Now at 93 years old, this trip remains very vivid in my memory!” By Lorna Vosburg '40, '69 “Whee…eee!,” I read in my diary. “We are off on the trip of a lifetime!” I was just 19 years old, a student at Pacific Lutheran College and a member of the famous Choir of the West, which was leaving