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. Both JeanMarie and Jerry have been on the Parents Council since 2006. Why we Give to Q Club: “Living in Western Washington, we both knew about PLU but didn’t really know PLU. In 1995, our dad, Julian Foss, became interested in the new Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ installation and, after his death, the Foss family created an endowment in his name for its upkeep. We later met alumnus Darren Kerbs ’96 through our church and got to know a little more about the university. Our daughter Jillian, as a

birds. They are unpredictable, they don’t breed at a given time, they are nomadic, so you can’t find them in one area, but they have a wonderful song, they are colorful…and they are non-traditional.” Crossbills – a member of the finch family – get their name from their beaks, which cross at the tip, giving the bird the ability to extract seeds from closed conifer cones. Each bird might gobble up 1000s of the small seeds daily to maintain their high metabolism. When the pairs are mating, the

minister, would eventual become an advocate for civil rights, but much of his extended family saw Zellner as a traitor to his race. He recalled that before one march near his hometown in Mobile, Ala., his mother called and warned him not to go. His grandfather had threatened to shoot him if he saw him. Zellner’s journey into the civil rights movement began as a sociology student at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. As an assignment, he and his fellow students were asked to solve the race problem

Bible are modern products of the last few hundreds years,” Borg said. Borg suggested an exercise: think back to the end of your childhood, age 10 or 12, and think about what you would have said about the heart of the gospel if you had to sum it up in a sentence or two. He vividly recalled what his answer would have been at the time: “Jesus died for our sins so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven if we believe in him.” “Even if you grew up in non church going family,” Borg said, “you would have

Stockholm. Infants heard either Swedish or English vowels and they could control how many times they heard the vowels by sucking on a pacifier connected to a computer. Co-authors for the study were Hugo Lagercrantz, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden as well as a member of the Nobel Assembly and Patricia Kuhl, endowed chair for the Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning and co-director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences. The study

’76, far left, poses with Nichelle Nichols – who played Lt. Ohura in Star Trek — after a ride on the Advance Cab 747 simulator and a group of her office colleagues and their children on NASA Family Day. Santa Cruz to work for NASA and has been there for close to 20 years. She said the thing that set her apart was her experience working as a therapist for six years after graduate school. This background made her a prime candidate for the human resources department of NASA, which is where she got

. After a quick vacation in Norway, where she’ll meet up with her family, Nelson will be deciding what to do next. She will look for a job. She’s considering setting up youth service center. “I plan to encourage to serve others, and do so myself, as much as I can,” she said. “It’s such a meaningful part of life.” Read Previous Diving for an A, at the bottom of the Puget Sound Read Next Food for thought COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad

, finances, relationships and family helps build stronger leadership skills and establishes balance. “There’s no doubt in my mind you will experience crisis in those areas at some point in your life,” Dahl said. “When all those are happening, you’re in the hurt locker.” A strong faith has helped Dahl through those times, he said; but for the first 15 to 18 years of his career, he felt it was inappropriate for him to talk too much about that. “But then I became more comfortable with it when I discovered

attended, Foege said the best professors, indeed the best teachers, were at PLU.“I really didn’t expect that,” said Foege, who said that four of his immediate family members, along with nieces and nephews, have attended PLU. “But after going through the UW and then Harvard, I realized it was true. The best professors I had were at PLU. “I tell students to relish their experience here,” he said. An Atlanta-based physician and epidemiologist, Foege and colleagues founded the Task Force for Child Survival

at Commencement by his wife, Jennifer Kinney ’14, who received her degree in Psychology and plans to continue for a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University. It’s been a long road for the Kinneys, who celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary on the day of PLU’s Commencement ceremony. Their true journey began three years ago, on Sept. 6, 2011, when Jym Kinney reported to his first day of classes at PLU. After meeting with his advisor, Kinney headed home on his bike