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Winter 2023

 

Arches Winter 2023 Cover

 

 

 

Arches is the alumni magazine of Puget Sound, serving more than 40,000 Loggers worldwide. 

Guided by the intellectually curious and humanist values of the liberal arts, Arches strives to capture and convey the ethos of the college through stories that are relevant to the times we are living in and that amplify the voices and experiences of Loggers in an effort to foster understanding and fuel connection within our community and beyond.

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From the President
Baker Stadium
Campus
Arches

A Championship Culture

Q: Puget Sound athletics just received a huge boost: a historic ...
Features
Gretchen Kunigk Fraser ’41
Alumni
Arches

Hidden Gold

Atop a mountain thousands of miles from home, Gretchen Kunigk Fraser ’41 eased into the starting gate, set into a crouch, an...
Chloe Pargmann-Hayes spends the summer interning with the City of Tacoma where she got to put her communication studies skills and her passion for social justice to work supporting the artists painting a Black Lives Matter mural downtown.
Arches
Students

Summer in the Cities

Every year, Puget Sound students turn their academic interests into summer internships, learning the sorts of things that co...
Weyerhaeuser Hall
Faculty
Arches

Master of His Craft

Roger Allen has been a professor, a sailor, a celestial navigator, a physical therapist, and a professor again. The latest l...

To the Heights

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Courtney Thatcher
Connections

Students use math, geography, and other disciplines to examine the way electoral maps are drawn.

A Close Look at Redistricting
Assistant Professor of Music Education Tina Huynh
Q&A

In the classroom, in the choir, in a children’s book, in a documentary: Tina Huynh is always finding new ways to preserve and share the importance of music.

Spreading the Joy
Austin Glock ’23 loved searching for exoplanets under the direction of faculty member Tsunefumi Tanaka.
Explorations

Austin Glock ’23 spent his nights last summer in the Puget Sound observatory atop Thompson Hall, looking for planets outside our solar system.

Searching Among the Stars
Tom ’59 and Meg ’56 Names
dispatches

$10 million commitment is the biggest single gift in Puget Sound’s history.

A 'Transformational' Gift
Lo Sun “Lotus” Perry has taught Chinese language and culture at Puget Sound since 1986 and serves on the board of the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation in Tacoma.
ask the expert

Chinese language and culture instructor Lo Sun "Lotus" Perry shares the origins and traditions of the Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year
A spread from Paper Blossoms: A Book of Beautiful Bouquets for the Table by Ray Marshall.
object of our affection

These books really pop.

Books with Moving Parts

Always a Logger

Madyson Willoughby '19
A Life in Clothes

Madyson Willoughby ’19 used her business degree to start a vintage clothing shop in Tacoma.

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Michael Pili Pang ’84
Keeper of the Hula Tradition

Michael Pili Pang ’84 preserves the indigenous art form of hula by teaching it to others.

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Erin Peterson ’00, DPT’03
Finding Home on the Field

Erin Peterson ’00, DPT’03 balances her primary job as a physical therapist in Seattle with a side hustle as a softball umpire.

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Matt Loewen '08
Rocks & Volcanoes in Alaska

Matt Loewen ’08 puts his Puget Sound education to work studying active volcanoes.

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