When Meg Garvin ’91 saw a job listing seeking a victims’ rights lawyer for the National Crime Victim Law Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, she’d never heard of victims’ rights.
A Change of Heart
Namibia has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV prevalence, and while work is being done to treat the nation’s HIV-positive population, the disease is still the country’s leading cause of death.“It’s really painful to see, in person, the severity of illness in an area that just doesn’t have access to care,” she says.
Brew Master
Intending to go into the nonprofit sector after graduation, working in artist management or development at a performing arts organization, Madeleine took a part-time job as a barista in the campus coffee shop, and everything changed. That job opened the door to a career path she’d never imagined, one that now finds her poised to change the way the world views Hawai`i-grown coffee.
The Cherry Trees
Two very different strangers came up to speak to Scott Higashi '91. He was taking part in two separate events to honor Puget Sound's 36 Japanese American students who were sent to internment camps in 1942, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In 1989, he and fellow students were planting cherry trees in front of the Student Union Building—a ceremony of remembrance and regret that replaced the trees first planted in 1940 as a gift from the Japanese Student Club—when a woman approached.
Beyond Billie
Sam Faustine ’13 likes to say he has four feet. A freelance musician based in San Francisco, he uses the metaphor to explain how he juggles his varied interests as a musician. “I have one foot in the choral community, one in sacred music, one in musical theater, and one in the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera,” he says.
Aloha, Logger Swimmers
Every year during winter break, the Logger men’s and women’s swim teams embark on an annual training trip. Every four years, the trip takes them to paradise.
