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. We asked three Lutes who have each managed to study away multiple times (one even squeezed in seven different programs!) to share about their own experiences.Acadia GrahamJunior (Class of 2020). Hometown: Anchorage, AK Global Studies major, Anthropology and dance minors, Peace Corps Prep program (Youth & Development Track) Involvement: Admission Intern, Global Ambassador for Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Outdoor Recreation guide Number of times studying away: I’ve

The Passing of Thomas Pfeifle Posted by: Thomas Krise / August 30, 2016 Image: Tom Pfeifle running on the PLU Track and Field team. (Photo courtesy of PLU Athletics) August 30, 2016 UPDATE: PLU will host a celebration of life for Tom Pfeifle on Sept. 22 in Lagerquist Concert Hall at 6 p.m. The ceremony is one of many ways the campus community is honoring Pfeifle, who was an active member of Outdoor Recreation, as well as the cross country and track and field teams. A memory wall is on display

February 28, 2011 Actors practiced the art of Bunraku puppetry to express Paula Vogle’s play, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” Pictured here are David Ellis ’11 and Abigal Pishaw ’12, who play the parents in the play. (Photo by John Froschauer) Actors and puppets take audience through a bittersweet, Christmas car ride By Barbara Clements Most of us have this childhood memory – sometimes cherished, sometimes tucked away under lock and key – of the family road trip. The miseries of sitting in the

people in the industry and wrote for SPJ’s member magazine on the topic. “It was a really good opportunity to write about something that has two components I like: journalism and law,” she said. Coats is headed back to western Washington to this fall to look for a job in communications, preferably in journalism. The Julie Galvan Outstanding Graduate in Journalism Award is named in memory of Julie Galvan, a former president of the SPJ San Jose State University Campus Chapter, who was killed in a car

May 24, becoming the first in her family to earn a college degree— in her case, Hispanic Studies—she will be grateful for all the support that made her journey possible: from the Bensons, her Minds Matter tutors, the Karl Stumo family, her PLU professors and her parents, who arrived in the U.S. as undocumented workers 15 years ago. “They worked very hard and supported me,” Jimenez said of her parents. The Jimenezes also worked and saved to raise enough money—$6,000 each—to get the visas necessary

other very well.” The two will be spending a lot of time together as they travel around Norway. They each have a research project to complete during their time with the International Summer School, where they will study with students from 80 countries around the world. The global connection was one of the highlights for Peace Scholar alumna Ellie Lapp ’17. “A casual dinner conversation or walking down the hallway can be more like cultural experiences and experiences of diversity,” Lapp said. “These

little cesspool in which the mind of man likes to wallow” (Francis Ponge). Philosophical critiques of history’s pretensions have been fewer in number, perhaps because the desire for a usable past is so powerful, and because the uselessness of an unknowable past is so plain. Did not Polybius write in the preface to his universal history that “the knowledge of the past events is the sovereign corrective of human nature”? If this is wrong, should we not feel as helpless as a victim of severe memory loss

so full of history and facts and fun, we wanted to share it with everyone. Writes Lorna: “Now at 93 years old, this trip remains very vivid in my memory!” By Lorna Vosburg Burt ’40, ’69 “Whee…eee!,” I read in my diary. “We are off on the trip of a lifetime!” I was just 19 years old, a student at Pacific Lutheran College and a member of the famous Choir of the West, which was leaving on a 3,000-mile tour of the Pacific Coast, including daily concerts at the 1939 World’s Fair in San Francisco. We

. In his last year or two at PLU, he often read through my notes on a geometry book I was writing, making many great suggestions for improvements.” A funeral mass in Bryan’s honor will be held on Friday, June 14, 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Heaven (14601 A St. S., Tacoma, WA 98444). PLU community members are welcome, and encouraged to RSVP by emailing jeanette.dorner@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, community members may make a gift in memory of Bryan to the Bryan and Celine Dorner Mathematics

strives to close student achievement gaps in Washington state. “I help other teachers develop qualities that I developed,” Jones said. After observing a teacher making a difference in that Philadelphia school – without the benefit of books, computers, or copy machines – Jones realized the power of education. “I believe education can change lives,” Jones said. Jones subsequently enrolled at PLU, where she received her teaching credential in 2001. With the memory of that Philadelphia school still vivid