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careers here. My hope for them is a professional and personal life as full, rich and sustained as I’ve enjoyed at this very special place. David Robbins is professor of music and chair of the music department. Read Next Think faster, work harder, feel more deeply LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and

doctors.” She encouraged the audience to take mission trips overseas. “This type of work is challenging,” she said. “But the compensation emotionally, far outweighs the challenges.” Finally, Mary Beth Peterson ’75, talked of working in Colombia during her time in the Peace Corps between 1978 and 1980. She said that the bus driver who took the nurses to the hospital, doubled as a guard, since rebel forces often targeted Americans for kidnapping in the wild regions around Bogota. Read Previous Author

focus and mission we have had for decades,” said PLU President Loren J. Anderson. “Our university is one that stresses how small a world we have become, and the necessity to see and engage the world in thoughtful scholarship and a passion for service and care.” Neal Sobania, executive director of the Wang Center for International Programs, agrees. “For me, it’s a significant validation of the work that people have been doing on campus for a long time,” he said. “And that’s to increasingly make PLU a

Global Initiative where he officially founded and launched the Darfur action organization ‘Where Will We Be?’ Through WWWB, Cheek will gather an international coalition of champion athletes to join him on a trip to Darfur to continue to raise awareness and work toward a resolution of the crisis. Cheek is attending classes at Princeton University, where he enrolled in 2007, and is studying economics. But his passions still lie with helping the people of Darfur and with humanitarian issues. That has

participated in the Clinton Global Initiative where he officially founded and launched the Darfur action organization ‘Where Will We Be?’ Through WWWB, Cheek gathered an international coalition of champion athletes to join him on a trip to Darfur to continue to raise awareness and work toward a resolution of the crisis. Cheek has since folded in WWWB activities and Team Darfur, an organization which he helped launch, into the Save Darfur non-profit organization. Cheek is attending classes as a junior at

Shillong. Bryant and others helped in providing assessments and training for the group. After the work was complete the group asked the group Bryant was with to come into their stores for tea and food. They asked her to take a picture with one of the children. She didn’t learn her name. in Shillong a rare second chance. They teach the students, who have usually failed or dropped out of high school, enough English so they can pass the 10th grade level of a high school equivalency test. Bryant had 55

collegiate softball, so she uses intramurals to get that team aspect she craves,” Allison said. “Intramurals work for her because she can’t commit the time to a team sport.” All this to say, the competition level can be pretty high. Given this, both Allison (and her fellow athletes) and Chris (and his yelling Accommodators) love the intramural program for exactly the same reasons. It is a great way to get exercise and blow off some steam. And it is also a great way to meet new people, get sweaty and have