One day in May, Jeff Strong ’76, P’11, P’13 found himself at the entrance to Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, preparing to transform more than 100 tons of sand into a giant marine-life sculpture.
From Fleece to Fleek
But there, among the fleece pullovers and down jackets, that’s exactly what happened.
She had just graduated from Puget Sound with an English degree and didn’t know what to do next. “I thought I was going to go to law school like my parents did, but my friend, Anni Kelley-Day ’03, had this opportunity to live at her uncle’s apartment in New York,” Anna recalls. “She asked, ‘Why don’t you come with?’ And I did.”
Bird Nerd
Rare in Western Washington, this larger cousin to the more common cedar waxwing experienced an "irruption" last year, which, Will explains, is when a species expands into an area where it normally isn’t found. “I didn’t even see the bird, but I heard it—which still counts,” he says earnestly.
Eco Warriors
That’s according to In These Times magazine, which published an August 2015 article that connected climate change-induced fear to pre-traumatic stress disorder in millennials. Indeed, this generation has lived through some of the most destructive hurricanes in American history, severe droughts, and massive wildfires. But at the recent Cascade Climate Network Spring Fling conference held on campus, two dozen students were turning that fear into action.
Donn Marshall: 30 Years of Listening, One Student at a Time
He was young, still a student, and for the first time someone he greatly respected had questioned just who Donn was and where he fit into the world. It was the ’70s, when the women’s liberation and gay rights movements had captured the national stage. While Donn empathized strongly with those rallying cries, he says that as a straight white male, he was “clueless” about the role he could play.
Field Trip in a Box
The visitor at Jennie Reed Elementary School in Tacoma turned to someone else and moved on. Then another chance came. “If there are 175 birds in this area year-round, and there are an additional 75 migrating ones, how many birds can you guys see total?”
Matthew caught her eye. “Two hundred and fifty,” he murmured, suddenly shy.