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of Washington in a Golden Jubilee Celebration at the Fair. (Washington was admitted to the Union Nov. 11, 1889, and we were celebrating 50 years of statehood.) It was June 7, 1939, and a crowd had gathered in front of PLC, including a news reporter and photographer, to wish us well on our important mission. Dr. O.A. Tingelstad, president of PLC, shook hands with the choir director, Gunnar Malmin. The fully loaded bus, plus two full cars, headed south, carrying the 43-voice Choir, and its director

is half-hidden away in a gorge in South Iceland. (Photo provided by Stiles) Read Previous Chris Holland ’24 balances class, internships, mentorships and countless hours building new software Read Next Lydia Flaspohler ’25 and Ryan Fisher ’24 dive into the secrets of marine microorganisms LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny

programs that earned the university its honor. In general, “PLU has made a conscious decision to talk about “study away” rather than “study abroad,” Sobania said. “We do so because the south Puget Sound is so richly diverse that one does not need to travel more than a few blocks to have a cross-cultural experience.” Many of those cross-cultural experiences happen right on campus. For instance, more than 230 international students study on-campus, representing 24 countries. On-campus groups also focus

double major Igor Strupinskiy ’14, who took photos for the News Tribune for last year’s election. The nature of the campaign parties vary year to year and from location to location — with several hundred people attending the Washington State Democrats Election Night Party in Seattle and the Washington State Republican Party in Bellevue, and crowds in the dozens at South Sound parties and parties for initiatives rather than specific candidates. Students working for the News Tribune typically gather at

experience in the United States and abroad. “I worked on a variety of farms in the south of France—beekeeping, cheese-making, peach-picking, chicken-rearing and more—and then for nine months in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)-designed vegetable garden in Arkansas, growing produce and teaching about sustainable agriculture under the umbrella of Heifer International,” Rousseau said. “Now I’m farming in a completely new and foreign climate, the tropics.” An avid outdoorsman, Page also cultivated his

reached out to me. I’m from Anacortes and still local—after PLU, people tend to leave the South Sound—but I also work with Big Brothers and Big Sisters here, so I stay involved with that and with PLU.” Smith, president of the board, acknowledged it out loud: “I’ve been on a similar path,” he said. “I wanted to find a way to give back, but I couldn’t give monetarily right out of school—I was still paying debt, and I wasn’t making the big bucks yet. So I gave my time and knowledge. I reached out to

is half-hidden away in a gorge in South Iceland. (Photo provided by Stiles) Read Previous New collaborative program aims to help district grads address Tacoma’s teacher shortage Read Next Military To Medicine: Air Force, Navy veterans become nurses after second chances at college COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships

impact of the Holocaust in South America Read Next Dayton Campbell-Harris ’16: Fighting for voters’ rights COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford