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drama). His accomplishments include: Leading students to three national and 36 state championships in speech and debate; the Washington State Teacher of the Year award; the National Speech and Debate League Living Legends Award; the Bruno Jacob Lifetime Award for Service to Forensics Education; coaching baseball for 15 years; serving on the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Forensics Committee for 14 years; and more than 30 years of high school and college football officiating

Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition (Photo: John Froschauer) Mike Burton '69 +Enlarge Photo  Mike Burton ’69 Distinguished Alumnus Award For his years of dedication and service in education, including unprecedented contributions to forensics and college-football officiating. Read Full Bio (Photo: Kali Raisl) Marissa Meyer ’04 +Enlarge Photo  Marissa Meyer ’04 Outstanding Recent Alumna

Blogs Alumni News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition (Photo: John Froschauer) Mike Burton '69 +Enlarge Photo  Mike Burton ’69 Distinguished Alumnus Award For his years of dedication and service in education, including unprecedented contributions to forensics and college-football officiating. Read Full Bio (Photo: Kali Raisl) Marissa Meyer ’04 +Enlarge Photo  Marissa Meyer ’04 Outstanding Recent

www.plu.edu/student-financial-services. PLU Academic, Artistic, Entitlement and Donor-Funded Scholarships and Grants The maximum PLU gift award based on merit is established for each student at the time of admission and may be met by one or more PLU awards. Artistic Achievement Scholarships for music, theatre, dance, art, or forensics are the first dollars counted toward meeting the maximum merit award. The gift amount (not awarded on the basis of financial need) is guaranteed for up to eight semesters of

the PLU mathematics department in 1981 and taught Computer Science classes with Jim Brink and Larry Edison. He was a founding member of the PLU Department of Computer Science and colleagues say he had a hand in nearly all aspects of its formation. Rick taught nearly every course in the department and designed and taught several special topics classes, including Genetic Algorithms, Computer Security, Cryptology, Artificial Life, Signal Processing, Network Security, Computer Forensics, Alternative

Achievement Award applicants. Since 2014-15, we have grown 29% in the number of annual scholarship auditions, interviews, and portfolio reviews conducted by our Music, Theatre, Dance, Art & Design and Forensics (Speech & Debate) programs. In addition, our matriculation rate of these award recipients has increased 6.4% – now to a point that more than 50% of all award recipients accept and attend PLU. Increased freshman-sophomore retention rates. Since 2010, we have increased our freshman to sophomore

campaigns through pre- and post- logs for clients. What were you involved in while at PLU? I  was involved in the American Marketing Association, Student Philanthropy Committee, and the T.O.H. Karl Forensics Forum, both as a debate member and the PR specialist. What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced since graduation? The biggest challenge for me has been not being surrounded by my friends at PLU. It’s been hard to adjust to making plans weeks in advance to see my friends instead of just