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Louis Hobson ’00 shares experience and advice at PLU workshop Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 29, 2013 March 29, 2013 So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer seems to be, everything. Just last month, Hobson acknowledged he will be artistic director of Seattle’s Balagan Theatre in the Capitol Hill
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Louis Hobson ’00 shares experience and advice at PLU workshop Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 29, 2013 March 29, 2013 So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer seems to be, everything. Just last month, Hobson acknowledged he will be artistic director of Seattle’s Balagan Theatre in the Capitol Hill
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November 18, 2010 PLU alumnus came for the hoops, stayed for the connections By Kari Plog ’11 Steve Maxwell, ’90, always knew he wanted to be in business, but that isn’t what originally attracted him to Pacific Lutheran University. “I came to PLU to play basketball,” Maxwell said. “Of the schools recruiting me, I loved PLU programs, I loved the coach and I loved the campus.” Steve Maxwell ’90 Maxwell is the President for the South Puget Sound District of Key Bank. It was basketball that drew
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May 16, 2008 Alumna, graduate speak at commencement More than 700 undergraduate and graduate students will participate in Spring Commencement 2008 at the Tacoma Dome on Sunday, May 25 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony features a keynote address by career diplomat Joyce Barr ’76, as well as a speech by graduating senior Candice Hughes. Hughes was selected to speak by faculty and staff. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Hughes came to PLU as a freshman in 2004, and is the first graduate of the
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September 20, 2012 The Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Larry Rasmussen gives the keynote address during the Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Voices from empty chairs By Chris Albert The human species’ role in today’s global economy is one of using the Earth as a commodity, said Larry Rasmussen. To sustain the Earth, including human life, a shift must occur to an ecological economy, where humans
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students in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties receive an excellent and equitable education. That birthday gift, Hall says, is the gift that keeps on giving. She feels privileged to work with a talented team of communicators. “I have loved watching the communications team blossom and grow,” she says. She’s had a variety of roles supporting internal and external communications needs, including web design, graphic design, social media and web and document accessibility projects
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PLU hosts Special Olympics Washington events Posted by: Kari Plog / May 31, 2017 Image: Pacific Lutheran University hosted the sixth annual Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in January 2017. (Photo courtesy of Athletics) May 31, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 31, 2017)- Pacific Lutheran University will welcome about 3,000 people for the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics, which the university is hosting for the first time.Roughly 800 athletes will
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loved playing the Suzuki songs, but I also loved to sing and sang in a group like the Tacoma Youth Chorus (the Northwest Boychoir) as well. I also took piano lessons from my mother, and later from a local high school student named Rick Steves (yes, he grew up to be THE Rick Steves!). I loved all of these things (and continue to), but by the time I was finishing grade school I knew I had to make a choice. I gave violin my all, but learned a bit of guitar, and occasionally sang in choirs. When I was
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series of quarterly business reports, relying on each other to get the job done. It paid off with first place finishes in multiple categories of the competition. “I wasn’t too surprised,” said Kory Brown, assistant professor of business and the group’s advisor. “The six individuals we sent are just outstanding students.” For more than four months, the six PLU seniors worked toward making the decisions as an executive team of a corporation. Collectively, they spent nearly 2,000 hours working on the
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Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World, an AIDS advocacy organization. Speaking to a packed auditorium, Lewis recounted the defining moment in his career. It came while touring a pediatric AIDS ward in Africa, where he noticed every crib was filled with three, four, five babies, most infected with AIDS and clinging to life. Then a shriek made him freeze and snap his attention to the corner of the room. A young mother was wailing. Her child had just died
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