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opportunity to work at the Pentagon, but chose to serve as an Army Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and as an Army Senior College Fellow with the National Security Program in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It was a risk, he said, but worth it. “I mention that because each of you are going to be faced with those opportunities,” Dahl told the students. The world needs those who take risks, he said. And knowing what risks are worth taking is

strength. The AVID program was the best thing for me. It made me think about the future and push myself.”Mattich attended another college right out of Emerald Ridge High School but transferred to PLU her junior year. She’s majoring in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Special Education and hopes to stay in the area to teach first- to third-graders. But first she wants to be an AVID tutor—at Ferrucci. Mattich said she has maintained relationships with Ferrucci teachers and stops in to observe and

music program to include children in junior primary (grades K-3), she initially felt daunted at the prospect. She had taught in classrooms for less than a year. Yet she remembers thinking, “You know what? If they want this, what’s stopping me from achieving my goal as a music educator, which is access for all? I will take on this opportunity with as much grace as I can.”  As an avid traveler—she has visited ten countries in 24 years—Delos Reyes chose PLU because of study away opportunities like the

formed Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focused initially on trying to attack poverty by first solving a deceptively simple-sounding problem: How to get basic vaccines to the world’s poorest children. Bill Gates Sr., as the point man for his son and daughter-in-law’s new philanthropy, had by then also learned of a small, Seattle-based organization called PATH, or the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health. PATH, like most other such international public health organizations, had been working

town’s annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Two weeks earlier the deadliest tornado in our nation’s history ripped through Joplin, Mo., killing 160 people and causing almost $3 billion in damage. Today our goal was to interview any survivors and relief workers we could find. We figured the best place to find people would be in the center of the devastation. I was traveling the country researching for a documentary on compassion fatigue, an issue that particularly affects caregivers

his way through a crowd, 200 strong, at the June 1 gathering to welcome him on his first day, Krise repeats that refrain again and again to those in the greeting line in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. His shiny, gold PLU-issue name badge reinforces his informal style, stating simply: “Tom Krise, President.” A few feet away, his wife, Patricia Krise, an executive at Ford Motor Company, utters a similar refrain. Her name badge: “Patty Krise.” Both approach you similarly – firm handshake, friendly