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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Emily Muthersbaugh
Tyler Jacobsen
The Best of the Best
More than 30 students presented at the Undergraduate Academic Symposium in April. Presenters represented a wide variety of disciplines, with topics ranging from fractals and the Pythagorean triangle, to healthcare market research and the history of civil defense in Portland. “The symposium is intended to highlight ‘Excellence in Thought’ and ‘Beauty in Expression,’” says Cheris Current, symposium organizer and assistant professor of social work. For a complete list of symposium presentations, see wallawalla.edu/symposium.
Lecture Spotlight
David Bullock, chair of the Department of Communications and Languages, will present the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Sunday, Nov. 10. Bullock is currently developing his lecture and most likely will draw from his observations and research in social and political conflict. He gained political experience as the communications director for a 2006 congressional campaign. Bullock is a WWU journalism graduate and has a master’s degree from Washington State University and a doctoral degree from University of Arizona.
Employee Kudos
Lucas Anderson and Julianne Ward were both recipients of the 2013 Student Employee of the
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Westwind Summer 2013
Year Award presented at the Awards Celebration in April. Anderson, senior communications and web design major, received first place and a $1,000 scholarship. Ward, a senior nursing major, was recognized as the runner-up and received a $700 scholarship.
For the second year, graduating seniors who have been student missionaries will receive a medallion to wear at commencement. “Returned student missionaries are as proud of their year of service as they are of their grade point average,” says Jeanne Vories, student missions director. “Student missionaries want others to know how much their year broadened their horizons and how much they learned about our world that they could never learn from a classroom.”
Edited by Steven Dunbar, L. James Gibson and Humberto Rasi (Adventus – International University Publishers, 2013)
This new book about environmental issues from a primarily Adventist Christian perspective is one of the best treatments of this subject I have read. Each of the book’s five sections (with chapters written by different authors) addresses issues ranging from the scriptural basis for our duty, our moral obligation we have to preserve the ecosystem and animals in it, several theoretical aspects of biodiversity in our communities, and ways we can educate the next generation about problems and solutions before it is too late. —Joe Galusha, Professor of Biology
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On a Mission
The Associated Students of Walla Walla University had an ambitious fundraising goal for the 2012—13 school year: raise $60,000 to build 10 wells in the Zambezi Province of Mozambique. Through the help of generous sponsors and events such as the International Food Festival, ASWWU exceeded its goal, raising about $85,000, enough for 14 wells.
Entrusted: Christians and Environmental Care
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Corrections We hate it. but it happens. » Spring 2013 issue. Page 7. Professor David Lindsey spent two months on sabbatical at Texas A&M University, not three weeks as we stated in a news story.
» Spring 2013 issue. Page 18. In the KGTS timeline, we should have recognized engineering professor Glen Masden as one of the key players in the formation of KGTS, as well as Stanley Kirk and Walter Murray.
» Spring 2013 issue. Page 31. In the scholarship ad, the captions were switched between the photos of Albert and Myra Thompson and Scott and Lorene Berger.
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Megan Cleveland
In Recognition
Team of Rivals is a beautifully written narrative of Abraham Lincoln, his path to the presidency, and his remarkable choices when forming his cabinet. Goodwin outlines how Lincoln chose his strongest rivals for his cabinet, which kept them within his political circle and also harnessed their considerable energies for causes that were important to him. Together they moved the country through the most divisive period in its history. The book won the Lincoln Prize and the American History Book Prize, and was a source for the recent motion picture, “Lincoln.” —Terrie Aamodt, Professor of History