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coordinator of the University Gallery & PLU Permanent Art Collection, overseer of the annual Studio Art, Design, & Media Artistic Achievement Awards, and manager of equipment, supplies, and repairs for all art and design studio area courses. Mathews’ service extends beyond PLU, where her role as co-coordinator of Visual Culture for the German Studies Association highlights her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. She leads with inclusivity and democratic practice. Her extraordinary service

have existed since the early 1980’s as a showcase for the talents of PLU’s distinguished music faculty. PLU’s large and distinguished vocal faculty is represented in selections of the Sperati family’s beloved Italian Opera, in this case, Mozart’s Cosi fan tutti. Finally, the musicians will combine forces to perform an example of Lutheran Church Music from the German High Baroque. J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 29, Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (We Thank You, God, We Thank You), was selected not

Stuen, former German, Norwegian, math and science professor, as well as the school’s first basketball and tennis coach. Ole Stuen built PLU’s first tennis courts, right where Red Square is today. Call it educating the entire student. It has been something PLU has been doing since its inception. And it is something both Olbertz and Stuen believe is worth supporting. “There are academics here, and they are the most important,” Olbertz said. “But there are also athletic programs here that need support

Lost and Found in Translation Posted by: alex.reed / May 21, 2022 May 21, 2022 Excerpted in Prism from Shadows and Echoes, the Language and Literatures Department’s publication, in 2004.In what Shadows and Echoes hopes will be an annual feature, “Lost and Found in Translation” takes a poem by Emily Dickinson and translates it through a number of languages (German, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Latin) before bringing it (or something!) back into English. Each of the translators worked only from

. Ryan has the rare distinction of holding six First Prize awards from major international and national organ competitions. In his appearance at PLU he will play J. S. Bach’s “Clavierübung III”, sometimes also referred to as the “German Organ Mass.” Kathrine Handford, Guest Organist – Sunday, November 6 2016, at 3pm Kathrine Handford is University Organist at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. She holds a Master of Music degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Handford

letter to German councilmen—“We are such blockheads and beasts when we dare to ask, ‘Why should we have schools?’”—imploring them to establish Christian schools and to use municipal taxes to maintain them and pay their teachers (does that arrangement ring a bell?). Building on that centuries-old premise, the PLU Faculty Assembly added these words to the faculty handbook in fall 2011: “The individual faculty member upon appointment becomes a member of a community of scholars who respect and uphold the

University of Munich students who spearheaded a nine-month anonymous underground campaign calling for active opposition to Adolf Hitler’s regime. Group members created mimeographed leaflets, leaving them in public spaces and mailing copies to members of the intelligentsia whom they felt might respond to their message of peaceful resistance. At night, the students painted slogans against the Nazi regime in a graffiti campaign around the city. Eventually the movement expanded to other German cities

justification by faith. Or, too, the very Lutheran concept of living a life of faith and interjecting it in the world. “It’s the idea of connecting your morality with your citizenship,” he said. This was, after all, what Martin Luther and the German Reformation was all about. It’s also what PLU is about. Halvorson knows – he’s seen it from both sides, as a student and a history professor. “When I first came here, I thought it was the biggest place in the world,” Halvorson said of his days as an

when they became co-chairs of the Eastvold Leadership Committee along with Dick and Marcia Moe. Mayer is known to many as the author of his memoir, My Personal Brush with History (2009). One of his fondest hopes was that a German-language edition could be made available in the country he and his family fled those many decades ago, a country he had learned to respect for its eventual willingness to face up to its horrific past. Just two weeks before his death, Mayer was able to hold that edition

are used regularly by PLU faculty members on campus as well as K-12 and community educators throughout the area. “The artifacts collection of the Scandinavian Cultural Center is an invaluable teaching resource for faculty members,” said PLU Associate Professor of German Jen Jenkins, Ph.D. “We bring classes in to see artifacts relevant to what we are teaching, such as Scandinavian immigration and music, and the students are mesmerized to get a firsthand look at some of the things they have only