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.” Berger earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Washington, and didn’t initially consider a career in law enforcement. However, after talking with and riding along with several college friends who did enter the profession, Berger opted to throw his hat in the ring. He spent three years working for the Seattle Police Department before moving south. Berger was born and raised in Tacoma, and his older brother graduated from PLU. He and his wife, Zoe, have two sons, Aaron and

he talked about what inspires his musical compositions today. “I really didn’t have any particular gift in that area,” Reid said of his mother’s innate talent with the paintbrush. “But I did want to transfer what she did into music. “I found that I liked expression in modern music,” he continued. “I know there were people who didn’t like modern music, but it just seemed natural to me.” The genesis of his career in composition came in junior high, when he composed a guitar piece. He still has the

Gates Foundation, advising the organization on strategies that could be usefully pursued in global health. In his career, Foege has served in a variety of executive positions at the Carter Center and as a senior investigator on child development at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, which he helped form in 1984 to accelerate childhood immunization. Foege is Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health

June 16, 2008 Graduate breaks new ground It’s been a whirlwind four years for Candice Hughes ’08.An international student from Trinidad and Tobago, Hughes participated in theater and Dance Ensemble, held leadership roles in the Diversity Center and ASPLU, and spearheaded the first campus Caribbean Carnival in February 2006. She even fit in a semester studying away in Botswana. At Spring Commencement 2008, the geosciences major capped off her university career as the senior class speaker. Her

her athletic and coaching careers began, Hacker explained, not in soccer as most assume. True, she’s served as the sport psychology consultant for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team since 1995. And true, under her tenure the team won two gold medals and a silver in the past three Summer Olympics. But it was in field hockey that Hacker competed at the national level 10 times. It was where her PLU coach career began, and where during her second year as head coach, the women’s team qualified for

has continued to develop his performing career – he became the concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony in 2000 and has been the artistic director of the Second City Chamber Series in Tacoma since 2007. His schedule keeps him busy with 30 to 50 concerts a year, while still teaching full time. Ronning’s joy is being around the students and teaching them. “Music is one of the best things you can do for your mind, body and soul,” he said. “No matter what major you take.” Yes, if you want to be a full

Pogue, who plans to become a music teacher once he graduates. “I knew this was going to be my school.” Pogue’s journey to PLU actually began when he was a student at Pasco High School and his love of music developed. The 2,400-student high school was not socially kind to Pogue, or anyone else who wasn’t a jock, and he dropped out and later earned his GED. He worked at the Seattle Symphony and then for Amazon.com for awhile. In 2009, he started up his college career again when he registered at

and Leadership at PLU, started his teaching career at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center, a state institution in Bremerton, which closed earlier this year. At the time, it served autistic children ages 3 to 13. “That was my first introduction really to teaching and being responsible for the instructional management of kids with those types of disabilities,” Williams said. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCaTNPMKwgQ Thirty-seven years later, Williams is still doing this work. “I’m still working with

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class,” Flenniken said. “I took it very seriously from the beginning.” In the early stages of her career in poetry, Flenniken wrote about the everyday, domestic life. But now, she is drawing on her roots as a Richland, Wash. native and taking on more serious social issues, including those surrounding the Hanford nuclear site. “Her poems go from the everyday experiences that we can all relate to, to the more serious topics that she handles so beautifully,” Zeigler said. Growing up in Richland