Volume LXIV No. 2
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Pacific Lutheran Unfversity B u l letin ( U S P S 41 7-660)
The Ideals We Cherish . . . . . . . .
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Five veteran PLU pro f es s o r s with a combined 149 years of teaching at PLU retired this sp ri ng . Each reflects on he past th ree decades of personal and campu'5 life
TwO Ful bright Sch olars . . . . . . . . . 6
E ric Fjelstad and Ph il l i p Nelson'S' schola rsh i ps bri n g to 10 the n umber of Fulbrights awarded to PLU students during the past decade Both will study In Ger many next year
The Right Thing . . . . . . . . . . 1 0
Dr. G . Robert Truex Jr., Rainier Bank chairman and recent PlU honorary doctor's degree reci pient. advocates strong ties bet ween business and education.
u.s. SeCurity polley . . . . . . . . .
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Alumnus Fred Wikner. an au thority on national security policy and technology, discusses U .S. defense pasture and the status of the U .S.-SOviet arms race.
Cover Music professor Gordon Gilbert son, one of five retiring profes sors, directed all of PLU's major ensembles at some time during his career . At the annual Com mencement Concert May 1 9, he . directed all four again. (see page
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