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on her mother’s. She was a descendant of one of the Decembrists, the early 19th century social justice revolutionaries in Russia. Hewett remembers her mother as a passionate idealist and natural social worker. André and Magda met in the mid-1920s while studying in New York City, he at Union Theological Seminary and she at the New York School of Social Work. Six weeks after meeting, they were engaged. “They were two people from different places with the same ideas about serving humanity and doing

said he had a hard time memorizing it himself. The club’s humble beginnings saw a weekly turnout of about eight students, but before long there was a demand for more equipment as interest was growing. At the end of spring semester 2009, ASPLU appropriations committee approved $500 of funding for club members to purchase six unicycles and other equipment. “All of a sudden there was a surge of people,” Bendzak said. That surge has grown into what is today a popular campus pastime. Bendzak said at the

1944. On the way out of the city, the family stopped to rest and Elbaum, then about six, wandered out into a field, where he picked up what he thought was a toy with an odd pin at the top, which he pulled. Just then Leon called Elbaum back to the road, and the boy tossed it into a ditch, where it exploded, harmlessly. “As I said, luck,” Elbaum laughed. When the war ended, Elbaum and his mother were reunited lived first in Warsaw, setting up book stores for the communist government, then Paris and

the Fife school district. It has an important meaning to my family and me. I love Fife — it’s a great community. I am actually student teaching with my past fourth-grade teacher, so I have enjoyed seeing the other side of it. Fife just feels like home and that I have always been here,” Knapp said. After completing his practicum earlier this school year, Knapp will spend six weeks in a fifth grade general education classroom and nine weeks in a third through fifth grade special education resource

Technology, where, this year Duffy, Madeline and Matthew listened to the Vines for six hours straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they

to make that jump, just be brave and experience it,” he said. “If there is a place to jump to it is PLU. It is a place that will support you no matter who you are or where you come from.” Read Previous Act Six scholar finds “automatic community” at PLU Read Next Q&A with a PLU Palmer Scholar LATEST POSTS Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient