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Point of Pride
Late into the night of July 11, 1997, Jenn (DeLury) Ciplet ’98 and a group of friends were dipping Styrofoam cups into bright colors of paint. They were members of the student club United Methodists (UMeth), and they had a…
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The Orchard
In 1938, Mary Louise Curran ’36 entered an essay contest that would change her life and her community forever. The topic was “Why I want to live in University Place,” and the goal was to advertise a newly developed…
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Dear Graduates of Color
Once there was a woman from America’s heartland who was black and imperial and seated at a desk. Her right hand clasped a Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil, which she held above a yellow legal pad. There, the woman brightly…
