When members of the Leavitt family gathered recently to consider the next steps in their philanthropy, they united around the University of Puget Sound and its ability, according to one family member, to develop students with “well-honed analytical skills to help solve the complex problems facing the people of the world.” After giving to the Puget Sound Fund for many decades, the Leavitt family first established a scholarship fund in 2014.
A Career in Food
Cookbook author Cynthia Nims’ romance with food had as good a beginning as any: a ham sandwich.
Nims ’86 had just arrived in Paris for a study abroad program when she tasted a classic French baguette sandwich with ham, butter, and Dijon mustard. The simplicity was “mind blowing,” she says. “It was different from any sandwich I’d ever had.”
That Voice You Hear
Access to National Public Radio’s Washington, D.C., headquarters is limited these days; tours of the building, located a mile due north of the U.S. Capitol, remain suspended as they have been since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s not off limits to employees, of course, but as at so many other workplaces over the past two and a half years, the option to work from home has proven too attractive for many to pass up. So it is that when Rachel Martin ’96, Hon. ’14 offers to show around a guest, the high-tech studios at North Capitol Street NE are not on the itinerary.
Bruce Has Always Been Bruce
Steam poured out from the grille of the “Loggermobile,” the University of Puget Sound’s team bus.
It was not an elegant vehicle. Built sometime in the ’60s, it wasn’t really even a bus at all—it was a 15-passenger stretch Chevy Suburban, the type of ungainly behemoth typically reserved for use as an airport shuttle or an ambulance. Now, on the way back from playing a match at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, the Loggermobile had given up the ghost.