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to processing where they tattooed a number on her arm. At Mühldorf, (another slave labor camp) in April, 1945, Magda met the man she would eventually marry: Mr. Izak Schaloum, a Sephardic native of Salonika, Greece. Their stay at Mühldorf was brief. The Nazis loaded them onto a cattle wagon with other survivors to be transported to an unknown spot to be murdered, but Allied troops liberated them along the way. Magda passed away in June 2015. Her son Jack is a member of the Holocaust Center for

annual tradition of ringing the bell & processing to Convocation9:35AM-10:00AMRed Square Required (All) LUTE Tradition: Convocation REQUIRED: A PLU tradition to open the academic year! 10:00AM-11:00AMOlson Gym HUNGRY? Optional: Lunch on your own10:30AM-2:30PMAnderson University Center (AUC) Commons & Old Main Market (OMM) First Day of Fall 2024 Semester You got this, Lutes! Starting at 11:50AMTip: check out your classroom locations during LUTE Welcome weekend ahead of your first day so you know where

important thing I do as a coach is help young people become better young people. In the process, they become better basketball players.” – Steve Dickerson Dickerson said the outpouring of support overwhelmed him well after the reunion ended; he says he’s still processing it all. “My greatest accomplishment is that nobody asked me to leave,” he quipped. “I’ve always left (jobs) on my own terms.” Except for last year. Dickerson initially planned to end his career after the 2016 season. But some folks

chance to relax…” @PLUWangCenter – December 01st, 2017 The Wang Center for Global Education   Made possible by a generous gift from Drs. Grace and Peter Wang, the Center is an academic support unit dedicated to providing faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating for a just, healthy, sustainable, and peaceful world at home and abroad” through faculty development and grant opportunities, delivery of study away

considered to be ‘older than dirt’ by so many, it has been such a wonderful gift and inspiration to connect with the women of PLU. I always leave with a greater sense of confidence in our youth and feeling confident that today’s youth will do much better for the world than my generation has done.” Erin McKenna: Faculty at PLU since 1992; former Chair of Women’s Studies “When I arrived at PLU, the Women’s Center was still very new. The fact that PLU had a Women’s Center (and a Women’s Studies Program) was

to a sister school, Augustana in Sioux Falls, SD, where she finished with a major PLU didn’t have. “It was really an unselfish act,” says Shjerven. “I experienced a lot of that from my professors and mentors at PLU.” Another influence was Susan Briehl, a former PLU campus pastor and the first female pastor she’d encountered , who told her to consider seminary. This planted a seed that took years to grow. “What a gift that was,” Shjerven says, calling PLU “a community that helps people to imagine

expecting,” she said of the individualized experience. “I took every possible class you could take in the master’s program and created extra ones.” Christina Pepin, clinical assistant professor, studied at PLU for her undergraduate (2004) and graduate (2007) nursing degrees (she also earned undergraduate degrees in biology and English at the University of Wisconsin-Superior in 2001). She never planned on being a nurse, but eventually realized she had the gift of connecting with patients on a deeper

Title: The Holocaust and the Pope’s Dilemma Who: Jacques Kornberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Toronto Bio: Kornberg earned his his B.A. from Brandeis and his Ph.D. from Harvard. His research interests include intellectual history, modern European Jewish history, antisemitism and Holocaust studies. He established the Kornberg-Jezierski Family Memorial Essay Prize in Holocaust Studies with restitution money from the Belgian occupation, 1940-45. The gift was made in memory

Center for Global Education, Peter and Grace Wang The Wang Center for Global Education opened in 2002 to fulfill the vision of donors Peter and Grace Wang. Their endowment has emphasized the role education can play in building a more just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world. The Wangs recognized an opportunity to further PLU’s academic reach, and their gift has helped prepare students for lives of leadership and service in an interconnected world. Both are first-generation Americans. Peter Wang

focus in the area. This meant transferring to a sister school, Augustana in Sioux Falls, SD, where she finished with a major PLU didn’t have. “It was really an unselfish act,” says Shjerven. “I experienced a lot of that from my professors and mentors at PLU.” Another influence was Susan Briehl, a former PLU campus pastor and the first female pastor she’d encountered , who told her to consider seminary. This planted a seed that took years to grow. “What a gift that was,” Shjerven says, calling PLU “a