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). In addition to the Veterans Day Celebration, the annual PLU Military Appreciation Football Game is this Saturday, Nov. 5. Why are events like this important to service members? In the military we work hard and we train hard. It’s a very serious job and often times lives are at stake. You build a bond that’s as close as family. Some of the best times are when you get to play hard with that family. The PLU Military Appreciation Football Game is a perfect opportunity for that. × × Read Previous

of that person, which asks us ‘what do we think about that.’” The current political climate is one reason Torvend wanted to share Oelbermann’s story. “I am well aware of the fact that we have people in office today who bring with them incredible hostility towards LGBT people,” Torvend said.Cue the political side of the religion-politics theme. Growing up, Torvend’s family was very politically active. His father was chair of the Lutheran Services in northern California when Ronald Reagan was

transitioned to social worker and family support specialist for Communities in Schools, which links community resources and public schools. That job launched her lifelong love affair with the world of education. She attended the University of Washington Tacoma to earn a teaching certificate, then earned a master’s in education from Antioch University in Seattle. She started teaching elementary school in Tacoma, then became a principal in 2008 and, in 2013, the Tacoma Public Schools early learning and Title

hope that some day nations can live in harmony. Veterans Day 2014 at PLU on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) The date of Veterans Day has some personal resonance for me, because both of my grandfathers were in uniform on that day, November 11th, 1918, and they both expressed their joy at hearing the news of the armistice.  In fact, members of my family have been in uniform for every American war except for the Spanish-American War.  I keep a small framed photograph of my father

. Baumol that explains how it works. Baumol points out that society is able to continue to afford such highly trained personal services because the productive side of the economy (manufacturing, etc.) reduces the relative costs of things like food, clothing, and transportation to such an extent that the average family is able to afford, say, a college education, in part because other things have become relatively cheaper as a percentage of household income. And, while this is generally true for “the

. “Mom was a Republican and dad was a Democrat, and I chose right,” Parnell said with a smile. “It made for some interesting discussions around the dinner table. “Growing up, around the family dinner table we basically talked about public service and theology,” Parnell recalled. The elder Parnell instilled in his son that being a public servant was a noble goal. “I think even at PLU, he always felt the call to public service,” said Sandy (Scebold ’84) Parnell, who met her future husband her freshman

in this e-mail interview. PLU alumna Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson, ’08, accompanied her husband and U.S. soccer player, Clarence Goodson IV, to South Africa to represent the U.S. team at the World Cup (Photo provided by Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson ’08) Describe what it was like being up in the stands for those games. Did everybody come in red, white and blue face paint? What was the strangest getup you saw? About two hours prior to each match, over a hundred U.S. family members, staff and, of course, U.S

yourself up,’ ” says Stacia Vierra ’12, a social worker for MultiCare Tacoma Family Medicine who previously served as the director of a shelter for survivors of domestic violence. Vierra first experienced a calling for social work and advocacy while working at PLU’s Center for Gender Equity. Psychology classes taught her to stand up against injustice and oppression, center inclusivity, and amplify the voices of historically marginalized community members. Since earning a master of social work degree in

middle-child, yet many critics have pointed out that in Persuasion she is wise by principle of Austen-canon rather than in terms of what is caught on camera. Anne’s dignity is made shallow by slapstick humor, but Mary’s surface-level concerns dig deeper. Entertainment journalist Elisa Guimaräes sums this up in her article (Collider, 2022) by depicting Mary’s behavior as a nuanced family trait: 2022 Anne is just as childish and vapid as the rest of her close family. Her constant sarcastic glances

'18/PLU) By Genny Boots ’18 Joel Earlywine is the first person in his family to go to college and he isn’t stopping with his undergraduate degree. He’s leaving PLU for a prestigious master’s program in health science at Boston University. “I’m shooting for the stars you know,” Earlywine said, “so my goal would be to keep going and get my Ph.D. there.” Earlywine is an economics major and a statistics minor from Federal Way, Washington. He will pursue a Master of Science in Health Services and