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Obituaries – Resolute Online: Fall 2023 Search Back to Landing Page Big Names On Campus Accolades Lute Library Class Notes Class Notes Obituaries Submit a Class Note Obituaries Deborah Oakman Deborah Oakman , wife of retired religion professor Douglas Oakman , passed away on Feb. 15, 2023. She was known to many alumni over the years as the sacristan (worship assistant) for the University Congregation, for which she received a special recognition award in October 2015. She will be dearly missed

Torvend, Professor of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) 4:15pm – 4:30pm: Break Walk to Ness/Tower Chapel in Karen Hille Phillips (KHP) Center for the Performing Arts; elevator and stairs to top floor entrance to the chapel 4:30pm – 5:30pm: Holy Communion Ness/Tower Chapel 5:30pm – 7:30pm: Reception and Dinner Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Main Lobby 7:30pm – 8:30pm: Presentation Two Taking, Making, and Remaking: Engaging Scriptures in

to PLU, I thought I should already be much better at piano than I was if it was going to be my career, so I decided it was more practical for me to major in different things. I absolutely loved my Chinese class freshman year, and translation work interested me. I also wanted to study the Bible more, so I chose a second major in religion. My junior year, I went on the PLU exchange program to Chengdu and loved my time there, but really missed piano. When I came back to PLU, I still wasn’t able to

cheerleaders and the basketball team were invited to a home on Wheeler Street after a big on-court victory. The school’s attorney and his wife had built the home. Knutson and her late husband, David ’58, who was a PLU religion professor, bought that same home in 1985. It was convenient for the family to live next to campus where they were raising two kids, Kari and Kris. David, a diabetic, was blind and eventually lost both his legs. There were times students came to the house to turn in an assignment

first came to PLU, I thought I should already be much better at piano than I was if it was going to be my career, so I decided it was more practical for me to major in different things. I absolutely loved my Chinese class freshman year, and translation work interested me. I also wanted to study the Bible more, so I chose a second major in religion. My junior year, I went on the PLU exchange program to Chengdu and loved my time there, but really missed piano. When I came back to PLU, I still wasn’t

recalls a time when she and the other cheerleaders and the basketball team were invited to a home on Wheeler Street after a big on-court victory. The school’s attorney and his wife had built the home. Knutson and her late husband, David ’58, who was a PLU religion professor, bought that same home in 1985. It was convenient for the family to live next to campus where they were raising two kids, Kari and Kris. David, a diabetic, was blind and eventually lost both his legs. There were times students came

Beth El in Tacoma and Adjunct Professor in the Religion Department, part of Holocaust and Genocide Studies faculty, and Affiliate Chaplain at PLU. He and his wife Barbara of blessed memory are authors of three books in Jewish education. He was the editor of a symposium on the theme of “Poetry after Auschwitz” that appeared in the Journal of Reform Judaism in Winter 2015 comprised of articles by PLU faculty. He earned his B.A. in Religious Studies from Stanford University and was ordained as a rabbi

Cara Gillespie ’17: BA in Communication, Minor in Religion “Since graduation I’ve been in a period of transition. I’ve officially been invited to serve with the Peace Corps in Peru as a Business Advising Volunteer. I leave for Lima in March 2018. In the meantime, I am spending time with my family and working as a bartender saving money to prepare for my two years of volunteer service, as well as, brushing up on my Spanish in my free time. I am so grateful for my time at PLU and know that my

of Religion (RL) (4): Students will engage in critical and empathetic analysis of religious traditions. Fitness and Wellness (FT) (2): Students will develop skills for lifelong physical and mental wellness. Global Engagement (GE) (4): Students will learn about the factors that shape human experience in transnational, cross-cultural, or non-US contexts. Study away and world language courses with these emphases will also meet this requirement. Global Engagement is the second course in the PLU

Clifton Strengths Institute From Youth at Risk to Kids at Hope: Harnessing the power of a culture to ensure the success of all children and youth, No Exceptions! Rick Miller, Founder and President, Kids at Hope 11:50am-1:15pm — Women in Prison and Transformative Learning (Regency Room) Danielle Azevedo, FEPPS Graduate, Student at Clark College Dr. Tanya Erzen, Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies, University of Puget Sound and Executive Director, Freedom Education Project Puget Sound