Values First

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Despite it be- ing a warm March day in Jerusalem, I felt anything but sunny: 20 tears welled up as I made my way down the path called the “Righteous Among The Nations.” It honors those who risked everything to save the Jews during the Holocaust. With every step I took, I could feel my heart pounding in Mr. Smith’s Journey my ears. In my chest, the very palpable sense of dread and Hannelore Sudermann repulsion grew as I neared the entrance to the triangular by building featuring the exhibits. The memorial’s design is in- Growing up in a lumber town provided the grounding for sidiously ingenious, making you feel like the walls are closing Orin Smith’s legacy of nurturing the human spirit in and that you are trapped forever among the horrors. Ironi- cally, though, once I was inside and my eyes locked onto the lone source of light at the opposite end of the building, I felt a glimmer of hope—in the form of a UW grad by the name of Thomas Peter Lantos. 24 The Lantos family were Hungarian Jews. At the age of 16, the boy from Budapest was separated from his family and sent to a Nazi labor camp. He escaped, was captured and beaten but he escaped again. This time, he hid with an aunt who lived in Best Lesson Ever a safe house run by Raoul Wallenberg. Thanks to his “Aryan” Quinn Russell Brown looks—blond hair and blue eyes—the teenager was able to by move around Budapest, sneaking food and medicine to fellow Imagine if your class schedule included all of this year’s best Jews in hiding. But his deeds were not rewarded in the end; teachers. Just think of the things you would learn when Budapest was liberated in January 1945 and he was no longer hunted by the Nazis, Lantos learned that the rest of 34 his family had perished. So he left Europe for this glo- rious place called America, and decided he wanted to settle in The Widowmakers Seattle and attend the UW. He JON MARMOR Jim Caple A plaque honoring a Dutch woman who would go on to become one of by provided forged documents and hid Jews from the Nazis on display along the “Righ- the greatest advocates for hu- An intramural softball team forged with friendships and teous Among The Nations” path at Yad man rights this nation has ever Vashem, the Israel holocaust memorial. a desperate need to win a T-shirt created lifelong memories seen. He remains the first— and only—Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress. It was his legacy that gave me hope amid the museum’s exhibits of suffering and cruelty. Lantos, who died in 2008, perhaps the unlikeliest UW graduate of them all, spent his life standing 36 up for the oppressed. “I had seen what a police state does to people,” Lantos told me for a 1999 profile. “I had to be part of the policy part, to make things better. I have a passion to make sure we prevent others from going through what I did.” Star Search Once outside the grounds of Yad Vashem, I couldn’t wait Hannelore Sudermann to tell my traveling companions—20 alumni and friends who by joined me on a UW Alumni Tours trip to Israel—about Lantos For 40 years, a group of Seattle-area women has helped and his humane imprint on the world. I don’t think I have ever UW students strive to be the best in science and engineering been prouder to be a Husky. jon marmor, ’94, editor Letters President’sCharacter PageNews Hub Sports SolutionsNewsprintFaculty AlumniProfile InProfile Print CalendarMemorials 8 10 12 14 16 18 40 44 45 47 54 55 56 ON THE COVER Miha Sarani, ’15, a UW grad student and former Starbucks baris- ta, created the portrait of Orin Smith by using coffee and wine to stain the paper. COMMUNICATIONS ATHLETIC 6 COLUMNS MAGAZINE JUNE 2 0 1 8 Furry Heir I can sit here like a good boy and wait for a treat, but I’ll level with you—all I want to do is run onto the Husky Stadium field and make 70,000 fans go crazy. I want to hear the touchdown siren wail- ing. But nooo, I have to wait until next season because big Dubs is still here for one more year. I'll just keep training and be patient, even though I can barely contain myself.

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