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Christmas season and the bounty of the great Northwest. ‘Journey of Light’ Concert: Featuring the Choir of the West, the University Chorale and members of the University Symphony Orchestra in what has become one of the region’s most inspirational Christmas celebrations. $100 ticket includes a $50 tax deductible donation to Music Scholarships, pre-concert reception as well as reserved seating. $50 ticket will include the pre-concert reception. Please note that at the $50 price, no other discounts apply

major artists to campus. He also helped further build PLU’s musical ensembles, such as Choir of the West, and establish Tacoma Opera’s hosting the first opera, Die Fledermaus, performed at PLU’s Eastvold Auditorium over fifty years ago. “As a dean I’m a promoter, an entrepreneur,” Dick told the News Tribune in 1987. “I spend a lot of time thinking not only about how we can reach our students more effectively, but how to play to a larger audience, the one beyond campus.” Dick stepped into retirement

limited in what you can participate in,” he said. “Because PLU is the way it is, we all got to do a little of everything. I got to understand the mechanics of theater,” he said. While at PLU, Hobson helped plan the Night of Musical Theater, and he participated in the opera program. He was also in the Choir of the West, and got the opportunity to do the technical side of theater, working on lighting and tech design for several shows. Once he made the major switch, his career progressed at a fast clip

international tours to China (by the Choir of the West and University Orchestra) and to Norway (by the Wind Ensemble and University Chorale), thereby affirming both our place on the Pacific Rim and our Scandinavian history. The times of change returned in the early 1990s as enrollment downturns of the previous decade finally hit PLU and the university entered uncertain economic times. PLU’s current president, Loren J. Anderson arrived and led the university through those turbulent times. The university

band.” I’m really glad in retrospect I did it that way. That would be advice I’d give any current student — look forward and prepare for your desired career, but don’t feel like you have to immerse yourself in it as an undergrad, because you have your entire life to do that. Read Previous Lutes sing their way through the Southwest on Choir of the West tour Read Next PLU faculty members Lisa Marcus, Michael Halvorson and Amy Young discuss the word ‘symbol’ (podcast) COMMENTS*Note: All comments are