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January 1, 2013 Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012.   Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria made this program possible.  Mayer’s long friendship to PLU prompted Mayer and his family to join with Nancy Powell and her family to provide generous gifts which launched the Kurt Mayer Professor in Holocaust Studies in 2007

space only had room enough for the four to sit or lay down. The family remained in hiding for 18 months, freezing from the cold and slowly starving as food became scarce. His mother was pregnant when the family went into hiding, and as the weeks stretched to months, the four living in the barn had to decide what to do with the baby. “We were infested with lice and fleas, and living hour by hour in fear,” Friedman said. “When the time came to vote, I could only think that I didn’t want to die, I

grandson, told his hometown paper, The Free Press of Mankato, Minn. “This is just a part of the fabric of who we are.” In total, nine members of Harstad’s family will hike 33 miles over four and a half days, said Carolyn Harstad, 77, the wife of Peter Harstad, from Lakeville, Minn.: “Eight miles one day, four another and so on.” The hikers and other Harstad family members will converge in Skagway, Alaska, on July 23, she said. Then, after taking in a mandatory trail orientation, a family hike and a

sometimes fraught relationship with her parents in light of who she has become as a daughter, wife, and a mother. Told in a graphic novel format, Bui explores the universal themes of immigration and migration, family, racism and discrimination, duty, and redemption as they relate to the modern-day Vietnamese Asian-American experience. – from https://www.plu.edu/first-year/ Mortvedt Library has many resources to support your reading of and engagement with The Best We Could Do. In addition to print books

her undergraduate degree in Communication and a master’s in Business Administration at PLU, where she was a founding member and one of the first managers of MediaLab and served on the MBA student advisory council. She worked as a reporter at the Northwest Guardian and as Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the Physical Therapy Association of Washington before joining Cascade. One nominator described Young a a true servant leader, noting her work with United Way of Pierce County’s Project U