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University Highlights 1 989- 90 June
Reverend David C. Wold, Bishop of the Southwest Washington Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, received an honorary doctor of d ivinity degree from PLU June 17. The conferral took
place during the annual Synod Assembly, held in Vancou ver, Wash. Wold, the synod bishop since 1 987, has been a member of the PLU Board of Regents for 17 years and its chairman
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since 1 981 . He has been associated with PLU for 36 years as student, active alumnus and parent. PI'0ro A
• Dr. Donald Ryan, a research scholar with the anthropology department, directed an a rc heological dig in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. After one half hour of work on the first day, the team discovered a tomb containing what is t hought to be the mummified remains f Hatshepsut, a queen of t he 1 8th Dynasty (1570 B.c. to 1 320 B.C.).
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• The Toront Blue Jays selected 1989 graduate Sterling Stock in the 28th round of the major league baseball draft. Stock is the 10th Lute to play professional baseball. Phoro C
July
PLU is one of more than 300 colleges and universities nationwide
selected for inclusion in the 1 989-90 edition of Peterson's Guide to Competitive Colleges. Listed schools represent approximately 10 percent of all American institutions of higher education. Criteria for inclusion are based on the level of achievement of entering freshman classes.
• PLU received a $100,000 grant from Burlington Northern Foundation to en hance the campus liberal arts program. Funds are being used to increase library holdings, develop an experi mental psychology laboratory, and provide a classroom to foster teamwork development and interactive multi media communications in business administration.
August
The United States Information Agency announced this month that Pacific Lutheran University would be the U.s. institution in the first U.s.-Baltic exchange funded by the U.S. government. Fifteen students from the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia would study at PLU and 15 PLU studen ts would study at sister institu tions in the Baltics.
• Susan Halvor of North Bend, Ore., was the second United States Presiden tial Scholar to enroll at PLU. She was one of 11 National Merit Scholars and a National Merit finalist who joined the PLU freshman class in the fall. PhoUJ D
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