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years of dedication and service, this alumnus has achieved professional or vocational distinction.1961-19801964 Luther Jerstad ‘58 1966 Dr. Martin Johnson ‘18 1968 Dr. Lloyd Nyhus ‘45 1969 Dr. Halfdan L. Foss ‘18 1969 Dr. Robert Mortvedt (family) 1970 Dr. William. O. Rieke ‘53 1971 Dorothy (Meyer) Schnaible ‘49 1972 Dr. Walter H. Capps ‘57 1973 Dr. William H. Foege ‘57 1974 Edna (Lee) Goodrich ‘41 1975 Dr. Jens Knudson ’52 1976 Elizabeth Hensel ‘50 1977 Dr. David B. Wake ‘58 1978 Marvel K. Harshman
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in the middle of campus on Red Square, across from the Ness Family Chapel in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The steel and brick Centennial Bell was a 100th-birthday present to the university in 1990 from then-President and Mrs. William O. Rieke. The bell structure is 12 feet high by 15 feet wide. Rune Stones Date and Artist: September 8, 1976; Tom Torrens See it: Rune Stones is located in Red Square The Rune Stones is a sculpture consisting of five weather steel shapes
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Georgiana and her Portrait Posted by: ramosam / July 26, 2022 July 26, 2022 By Elsa Kienberger If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos) himself was the heinous family relation after Georgiana’s inheritance
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executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which leads groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.Jenny JohnsonJenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet, published by Sarabande Books in
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why she was selected. Passion Leads to PLU Hunt, a 2011 PLU graduate, discovered her passion for archaeology early. “Ever since I can remember—ever since my family can remember—I’ve been obsessed with it,” Hunt said from her hometown of Anchorage. “I would watch National Geographic constantly and tear apart the magazines and put them in a special binder.” Hunt’s TED Experience Watch Katie Hunt’s TED talk: www.ted.com She pursued her passion through two years at another (ahem) western Washington
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discipline of business and more about providing a ‘PLU life coach,’ ” explains Mulder. “Our alumni and students are really excited about connecting via this program, and we see it as especially beneficial for first-in-their-family (to attend college) students who can use a bit of extra support around the transition to university courses, exploratory conversations about areas of study, and becoming acclimated to learning and life in the School of Business at PLU.” Mulder, who majored in business at PLU in
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Amazon drivers, grocery-store workers and nurses. One student was one of 10 children in the family, with a truck-driving father stranded on the road. Another, the child of a nurse, had to live with grandparents for a while. If a child watched the day’s posted video, Zwang counted that as attendance—as did completing homework over the weekend with an essential-worker mom. Zwang addressed social-emotional needs, too, talking with kids about what the virus meant and that it was OK to be scared.In
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, which happened to be the day that my mother died. So, it seemed somehow personal to me, and to my family, that the flag came down on the day of my mother’s death. The personal connection to these issues in Charleston touched me again closer to home. Some of you may be aware of the “Hate Won’t Win” campaign launched by two granddaughters of the murdered pastor of Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel AME Church, the Rev. Daniel Simmons. I think the whole country was astounded when the relatives of the
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that provide for program sustainability. For example, in recent years, we’ve added programs mostly in areas where we have current strength (MSF, MSMR, DNP). But, PLU has also created a new program and hired an entire department to run it (MA in Marriage and Family Therapy back in the ‘70s); and we adopted a program from outside the university (MFA in Creative Writing). Both of those have been very successful. The only program discontinued in recent years is the major in Computer Engineering, and
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the credits she needed to graduate at 16 years old. Then, while studying at Olympic College in Bremerton, she learned about financial aid and the possibility of transferring to a university to study nursing, with tuition covered. “I didn’t even know those things were possible,” she said. “Nobody in my family had even graduated high school, let alone gone to college.” At 21 years old, she entered the School of Nursing at PLU in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. Even though she felt out of place at
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