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Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition (Photo: John Froschauer) Mike Burton '69 +Enlarge Photo  Mike Burton ’69 Distinguished Alumnus Award For his years of dedication and service in education, including unprecedented contributions to forensics and college-football officiating. Read Full Bio (Photo: Kali Raisl) Marissa Meyer ’04 +Enlarge Photo  Marissa Meyer ’04 Outstanding Recent Alumna

Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition David Olson Special Recognition Award D r. David Olson served as athletic director and Dean of the School of Physical Education at PLU from 1968-96. During Olson’s tenure, PLU athletic teams won nine National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Championships, including three each in football and women’s soccer, two in softball and one in women’s cross country. At

Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition Liz (Pulliam ’85) Weston Distinguished Alumna Award L iz Weston is an award-winning, nationally syndicated personal finance columnist and the author of several books, including the best-selling Your Credit Score. Weston is a contributing editor for Bankrate.com and writes about education and money for Reuters news service. Her question-and-answer column

Full Bio (Photo: ) Nancy Pedot '73 +Enlarge Photo Nancy Pedot ’73 The Distinguished Alumna Award For her distinguished career building strong brands and dynamic retail concepts. Read Full Bio (Photo: ) Troy Andrade '07 +Enlarge Photo Troy Andrade ’07 The Outstanding Recent Alum Award For his accomplishments as an attorney and his work forwarding civic education. Read Full Bio (Photo: ) Marilyn Knutson '59 +Enlarge Photo Marilyn Knutson ’59 The Heritage Award In recognition of her many years of

year on the major worship celebrations on campus: Orientation Sunday, Homecoming Worship and, until last year, Commencement Worship. These services require a great deal of special setup, and for communion at least four times the bread preparation of a regular Sunday. Over the years, Ms. Oakman has been a mentor to students who assist her in setting up the worship space, giving them an education as to what each element of worship is and what it means to the worshipping community. One of the

Blogs Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition (Photo: John Froschauer) Mike Burton '69 +Enlarge Photo  Mike Burton ’69 Distinguished Alumnus Award For his years of dedication and service in education, including unprecedented contributions to forensics and college-football officiating. Read Full Bio (Photo: Kali Raisl) Marissa Meyer ’04 +Enlarge Photo  Marissa Meyer ’04 Outstanding Recent

Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition Liz (Pulliam ’85) Weston Distinguished Alumna Award L iz Weston is an award-winning, nationally syndicated personal finance columnist and the author of several books, including the best-selling Your Credit Score. Weston is a contributing editor for Bankrate.com and writes about education and money for Reuters news service. Her question-and-answer column

meaningful living, and to discuss ways to mentor students to live into the PLU mission. Each seminar group will meet to study and discuss a variety of matters vital to their profession as faculty at PLU.  They will discuss some important historical materials and debates about vocation, various contemporary issues in pedagogy and higher education, and related controversies in contemporary society and academic disciplines.  These discussions will intersect with consideration of PLU’s mission and individual

International Education in Peacebuilding Search for Common GroundThe Common Ground Blog - Divided We FallA commitment to the power of grassroots citizen-generated conflict prevention and peacebuilding has defined Mr. Idriss’s life’s work. Even as a senior with a major in Economics and Philosophy at Swarthmore College, he demonstrated his passion for conflict prevention writing an undergraduate thesis on the topic of “Track II Diplomacy and International Conflict Prevention.” Track II diplomacy, writes