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international tours to China (by the Choir of the West and University Orchestra) and to Norway (by the Wind Ensemble and University Chorale), thereby affirming both our place on the Pacific Rim and our Scandinavian history. The times of change returned in the early 1990s as enrollment downturns of the previous decade finally hit PLU and the university entered uncertain economic times. PLU’s current president, Loren J. Anderson arrived and led the university through those turbulent times. The university

band.” I’m really glad in retrospect I did it that way. That would be advice I’d give any current student — look forward and prepare for your desired career, but don’t feel like you have to immerse yourself in it as an undergrad, because you have your entire life to do that. Read Previous Lutes sing their way through the Southwest on Choir of the West tour Read Next Symposium uplifts collaborative student-faculty research COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for

jersey with the team’s name, “Abes,” on it and the number 1. After he joined us in the elegant 1913-style auditorium, the choir sang an American song and a Chinese song (in Chinese!), joined by five students from Lincoln’s partner school in our Chinese Sister City of Fuzhou. A film began, featuring a number of us involved with Tacoma-Chinese affairs speaking to the importance of our many relationships with China.President Xi was the tip of the iceberg of perhaps 1000 Chinese dignitaries and

, deeply rooted in their lineage. Watness and Maya belong to a long line of people connected to PLU and its mission. Eric’s mother, Isabel Geraldine (Harstad) Watness, was Bjug Harstad’s granddaughter. Isabel met Eric’s father, Luther Watness, in 1947 while on a PLU Choir of the West tour. Isabel started school in Iowa but finished her degree at PLU and later worked for PLU’s president. Their family remained very involved with PLU through alumni activities, music, giving and sporting events. Eric’s

their own special and unique gifts. As for what it means to be a Lute. I believe it means to be engaged in the community and the classroom, to act in life in service, to thirst for knowledge and conduct thoughtful inquiry, and to take the lessons learned to provide service and positive change to that in the world which needs it. This I have done while being a 4-year Stuen Hall resident, hall council member, RHA Vice-President, Choir of the West member, and active participant in Chapel and Hall

starts in describing the origin of the music and drums, Tom Krise just listens. And enjoys. It was an unplanned, serendipitous welcome home. Read Previous Skones Era Choir of the West Reunion Read Next I never thought I’d study away four times and still graduate on time COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade

, and the journalism major is in a place to share her story not only with those close to her, but with the masses. Professor Joanne Lisosky said she is very proud that her student’s work garnered attention on a larger scale. “I adore her,” she said of Norman, who is a member of Choir of the West and active in stage productions as a theatre minor. “She is a delight in the classroom where she demonstrates strong leadership skills and a pure joy of learning.” "I’m happy I know why I am the way I am

expertise and use a kind of rhetoric that translates it for lay publics and broader constituencies than their peer groups, but in the academy we’re trained to write essentially for the choir and the priesthood and we are woefully inadequate, in many cases, to even write an op-ed that makes sense. So I’m arguing that if we want to make public arguments and we want to do scholarship that matters to people, we’ve got to get better at speaking a different language. Busick: My “Did You Know…” is, “Did you

Sandström’s setting is a thoughtful reimagining of St. Matthew Passion that honors both the Bach setting that inspired it and the contemporary audiences for whom it is intended. Performed by the Choir of the West and Choral Union with University Symphony Orchestra. Day of Vocation April 5-6 | various times and locations across campus Your Deep Gladness. The World’s Great Hunger. Annual Lemkin Lecture and Essay Contest April 7 | 7-10 p.m. | Regency Room Earth Day Lecture: Dr. Alex Wilson from the

January 22, 2013 PLU chef Erick Swenson ’91 checks on a tray of shrimp from the oven. Food For Thought By Katie Scaff ’13 Twenty years ago, you’d never find pav bhaji – a curry dish served on dinner rolls – alongside the burgers and fries in the University Commons – but a lot has changed in 20 years.  Two decades ago Erick Swenson ’91 was a junior studying music at PLU. He’d eat dinner with fellow choir students at long industrial, cafeteria style tables that have since been replaced by smaller