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Breaking down Fences Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 2, 2018 April 2, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPLU junior’s first production fields university’s first all-black castJosh Wallace ’19 wanted to do something different for his directing debut with PLU Theatre. A creative who also dabbles in acting, music and art, the junior figured the time was right to take on a challenge ― put together the university’s first all-black cast for a production of “Fences,” a play

James Sales. For the remarkable work the staff does at the school to inspire hope against the odds, The Ellen Show and Target gave the school $100,000. For instance, right before winter break, staff had noticed a rise in anxiety and even outbursts by the students. Many of the students know they won’t get much for Christmas, and breaks also mean no meals from school. “So many of the kids are carrying the weight of the world,” said Brianna Williamson ’08, first grade teacher. Schroeder and the staff

Festival of Toy Music, Town Hall Seattle and New York’s Le Poisson Rouge. •    She’s a member of the Steve Newcomb Orchestra and a past member of ensemble mise-en and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. •    She has held artistic residencies at The Banff Centre and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. •    She was a finalist in the 2013 Seattle Flute Society Young Artist Competition and the winner of the 2009 Coeur d’Alene Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition. That’s quite a résumé for anyone, but

for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Olson Auditorium. Tickets may be purchased by calling the PLU athletic department at 253-535-7352. Jason Thiel: Football 1991-94 and Track and Field 1991-94 Jason Thiel was arguably one of the greatest defensive linemen to play football at PLU, and he also placed himself among the best in the Track and Field record books. Thiel amassed remarkable stats as a defensive tackle, and as a star hammer thrower and shot putter. Thiel started in 27 of the 29 games that he

August 2, 2013 Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure interview. There, he was asked: What is the strength of the PLU theater program? “We sort of teach the MacGyver school of theater,” he told his interviewers. “We arm students with a pocket knife and they go

leadership roles. I was curious and I wanted to learn, so I asked a lot of questions about why things operated the way they did and about how decisions were being made.” In 2016, Mariani transitioned to a full-time leadership role, serving as the physician executive for occupational health and wellness. Then, after a two-year stint as the physician executive for retail health and strategic partnerships — and after earning a Leadership Executive MBA — he was promoted to his current position. Mariani is

at Duke University, and he recently received an endowed Chair in the Department of Surgery. “PLU really helped lay a lot of foundations,” Haglund said. “It will always have a soft spot in my heart.” That soft spot remains in part because Haglund met his wife in PLU’s Mortvedt Library, and they have now been married for 32 years. It’s also because of the close, personal relationships he developed with recently retired chemistry professors Charles Anderson and Larry Huestis and especially biology

Seattle and New York’s Le Poisson Rouge. She’s a member of the Steve Newcomb Orchestra and a past member of Ensemble Mise-En and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. She has held artistic residencies at The Banff Centre and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. She was a finalist in the 2013 Seattle Flute Society Young Artist Competition and the winner of the 2009 Coeur d’Alene Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition. That’s quite a résumé for anyone, but it’s especially impressive for someone who wasn’t

, Bea Geller, Steve Sobeck, Jessica Spring and Michael Stasinos. The artworks in the exhibition range from ceramic vessels, sculpture, digital photography and paintings to printmaking and letterpress. JP Avila, associate professor of art and design, will be debuting a new body of work titled “Held Memory” using methods of cutting and folding, a technique used by several cultures for decoration, celebration and narration. The title, “held memory”, represents the piece in two ways. When paper is

May 11, 2012 For more than a decade, Professor Craig Fryhle, chair of PLU’s Chemistry Department, has coauthored an organic chemistry textbook that has become standard, celebrated and familiar fare for sophomore students studying organic chemistry in many universities. Fryhle is just finishing up the 11th edition of the book with his coauthor, T.W. Graham Solomons. (Photo by John Froschauer) For organic chemistry students, Prof. Craig Fryhle’s name pops up almost every time they open a book. By