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),” Hoefer said. “Her family didn’t approve of her being gay. She ended up committing suicide for being gay. I cared about gay rights before that, but I full-blown was not gonna take any (crap) against LGBT. It was a pretty bad experience. This happened when I was about 14.” By the time he got to PLU, Hoefer said, “I had a good amount of knowledge about language and how to use it, but I still was unaware of some LGBT words. I learned they called themselves queer, and I thought, ‘You don’t say that … no

PLU publishing experience. Olson and I met at the Anderson University Center. He and his wife, Carol Olson ’63, have lived in Tucson since 2008, but Olson was in town for his grandson’s PLU Regents Scholarship interview (must be a Lute gene in the Olson family!). (Photo: Sandy Deneau Dunham) Jon Olson ’62 was the creator of the very first PLU magazine—and the originator of the name Scene . +Enlarge Photo Right off the bat, Olson carefully handed me a coveted first-edition copy of PLU’s debut

Resolute Staff – Resolute Online: Spring 2016 Search Features Features Welcome Amuse-bouche Tasting Menu À la Carte On Campus Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Homecoming 2016 Lute Recruit Alumni Profiles Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights Resolute Staff Marketing and Communications Kari Plog ’11, senior editor Kari previously spent five years working in nearly every corner

S. Dunn, Sr. Research Chair in General Internal Medicine at the Houston Methodist and is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Institute of Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute. She is an Associate Professor, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. Dr. Miller is the Deputy Chief in the Department of Family Medicine at The Methodist Hospital. Dr. Miller is currently the senior Chair of the Institutional Review Board of

/discrimination, financial difficulties, family conflict). We will also discuss the history of anti-Asian racism and present recent data on racism targeting Chinese and Chinese Americans during COVID-19. Participants will learn how to help Chinese American parents talk to their children about race and promote Chinese family strengths, parent-child communication and emotional wellbeing. Racial-ethnic socialization is defined as parents’ transmission of messages about race to their children, including cultural

aim for the future they want in school, work and life. He is also one of the most vocal advocates of psychological reform of America’s education system. He helps schools function less like impersonal factories and more like dynamic human development centers that help students achieve the meaningful futures they say they really want – including a good job and a happy family. Dr. Lopez is Gallup Senior Scientist in Residence and Research Director for the Clifton Strengths Institute. As chief

dessert wine with the perfect amount of sweetness tugged at his heart strings. Standing in a chilled storage room surrounded by cases of wine, Benson said the Ruby Port is named after his grandmother. “It was a labor of love and a fitting wine for someone like her,” he said. The port was a three-year project, and Grandma Ruby never got the chance to drink it before she died in 2010. But her sweet memory lives on every time someone uncorks a bottle. “It’s a tribute to my Benson family roots,” Benson

Spotlight Series Obituaries Robert (Bob) Howard ’63 Robert died July 8 at the Cambridge Health Alliance Hospital in Everett, surrounded by his loving family. He was 71 years old. Born in Franklin, he is the son of the late Thomas and Marjorie M. (Grover) Howard. On June 22, 1967, Bob was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Specialist Four Howard distinguished himself by heroism in connection with military operations against an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam while assigned

and government and associate professor of political science, identifies as Latina. She’s a native Spanish speaker who didn’t learn English before beginning school. She was raised in an immigrant household in the Southwest and experienced many of the obstacles fellow Latinos face every day in the U.S. Like many who come from a similar background, Chávez was the first in her family to graduate from college, despite the barriers she faced. She came from a home and a school system that didn’t

Welcome Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center for Global Education, discusses PLU’s holistic approach to global education and its role in an increasingly interconnected world amid conflict and uncertainty. Read More Oaxaca An undocumented PLU student shares her experience going back to Mexico —  for the first time since her family relocated to the United States —  as part of the Oaxaca Gateway program. She opens up about her identity struggle and the valuable lessons learned abroad