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Brice Johnson ’99 finds vocation in Red Cross leadership. Two neighborhoods in St. Paul, Minnesota share streets and a zip code. Interstate 94 runs down the middle, and since the freeway’s construction in the 1950s, the life expectancy between Summit Hill and the historically Black…
you just want to root for him.” Johnson and Kechely were not only housemates while at PLU, but also wrote and played music together in the folk-rock band Six Hours Later. Johnson wasn’t on the football team, yet both he and Kechely were influenced by the leadership of football coach Frosty Westering, whose book “Make the Big Time Where You Are” outlines his influential approach to team-building, motivation and value-setting. Born and raised in Keizer, Oregon, Johnson was a communications major who
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Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…
was as depressing as this. To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all. [1] Professor Emeritus Doug Oakman and his students in 2015 Words. Words are the heart of the Humanities. Whether they are in English, Spanish, Latin, or Greek. Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Chinese. Words are like images. Words are images. Words become music to the attentive ear. So there is a natural affection between the Humanities
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In their own words By Chris Albert Soon new PLU graduates will go out into the world. In the following, some Lutes share their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences have been and what’s the next chapter in their lives. More…
that I didn’t see at other schools. I was super excited to study away, to participate in the music program, and feel at home at a Lutheran university. Lauren Frerichs ’11 – Bachelor of Arts psychology and religion with a minor in Hispanic studies Now my little brother, Daniel, is also a student here (c/o 2013) and Bethany teaches Spanish and writing classes for ESL students at PLU. It’s fun seeing two of my siblings on campus, and even playing against them in intramural volleyball. My PLU
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Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a…
in Germany, and the nearly five in New York City. No question growing up in the Pacific Northwest in particular, and the American West in general, have greatly defined my work. I’m fortunate to be extremely fond of the place I’m from. The mountains, waters, trees, and even vast horizons east of the mountains have always been dear to me and important to the work. Other art of any discipline greatly informs my work, as well- whether film, music, other painters… Seeing the contents of so many
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HM King Harald V to Speak at Commencement, Receive Honorary Degree TACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 10, 2015)— As part of his official visit to Washington and Alaska in May, His Majesty King Harald V of Norway will speak at Pacific Lutheran University’s Commencement ceremony, where he’ll…
Harald made his first official state visit abroad, traveling to the United States in connection with the 50th anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. • In March 1968, it was announced that King Olav had given his permission for the Crown Prince to marry Miss Sonja Haraldsen from Vinderen in Oslo. The couple had known each other for nine years before their marriage was approved. The wedding was held in Oslo Cathedral on Aug. 29, 1968. Read Previous PLU Alumna and Gospel Music Superstar
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 19, 2017)- Noelle Green ’18 says equal access to education means equal access to facilities across campus. Leaders at Pacific Lutheran University agree. The institution recently invested more than $630,000 to improve accessibility for students such as Green, who was diagnosed with…
. “It’s a step in the right direction,” Green said of the recent upgrades across campus. In addition to the elevators, which will be completed by January 2018, a wider restroom door and new ramp provide better access to the Kreidler Hall lounge where commuter and military-affiliated students gather. Paving between Mary Baker Russell Music Center and Hong Hall, as well as miscellaneous spots around campus, offer smoother access to sidewalks (funds from ASPLU were included in this project). And
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Dr. René Carrasco is the new Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, who began at PLU in Fall of 2019. Originally from Mexico City, René came to the United States when he was 15. After he graduated high school, he went on to community college and…
this is super important. Learning another language sheds light on your own language, your first language, your mother tongue, and it opens crazy worlds, crazy opportunities. I mean, in terms of, like, travel, in terms of what music you can be exposed to, what movies, TV series, what cultural production you can come into contact with and learn from. It just opens the floodgates of knowledge and culture. I never said this to my students because I didn’t have the chance to, but I had a couple students
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Mark Lee, Mimi Granlund and Matt Hubbard and the apparatus they built to help them understand how the roughness and size of a tongue would affect the amount of water an animal could lap up and still be efficient. (Photos by John Froschauer) What exactly…
time of her presentation she was waiting nervously to hear whether she would get a job as a data analyst at Seattle-based Horizon Air. She credited this physics capstone – she had to do two others to complete her triple major – with catching the attention of the human resources department at the airline. Every spring, hundreds of PLU students go through the drill of final projects, called capstones. But these research projects, works of art, or music compositions are much more than a final box to
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)- Travel from the shores of Puget Sound to the fjords of Norway with the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Sea , on view exclusively at Tacoma Art Museum April 9 through July 17, 2016. This is your opportunity to dive…
of intense emotions. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, lively music, and a photo booth. Cost: Free for members, $20 general, $10 student with ID. Email RSVP@TacomaArtMuseum.org by April 1. Members’ opening in-kind support provided by Heritage Distilling Co. Conversation with the Collector: Sally Epstein, Sunday, April 10, 2 pm, Location: TAM A core group of prints in Edvard Munch and the Sea are from the exceptional collection of Sally Epstein, who has amassed the world’s largest private Munch
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On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of…
Fall in love with “Almost, Maine” Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 19, 2012 April 19, 2012 On a
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