PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE JULY 2014 PIONEER HOMECOMING SPIRIT 2014 Students Helping Inspiring PUC to Wheelbarrows and Students 19 Think Big 20 Water Filters 35 PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE • JULY 2014 president’s message STAFF Editor Cambria Wheeler, ’08
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[email protected] One of the greatest blessings of being on an at our college—the highest enrollment in 24 years, Photographers Brian Kyle, ’04; Allison academically outstanding and spiritually vibrant an unprecedented increase in the freshman to Regan, ’15; Haley Wesley campus like Pacific Union College’s is watching sophomore retention rate from 71 to 85 percent in Contributors Walter Collins; Alexandra the incredible development—intellectual, spiri- just three years, as well as the receipt of the largest Dunbar, ’14; Emily Mathe, ’16; Madeline Miller ‘15; Julie Z. Lee, ’98; Karen Roth, tual, and social—that happens during the college single cash gift in the institution’s history. We are ’85; James Shim, ’14; Benjamin Speegle, years. I am confident that everyone at Pacific certain that your prayers and support have been ‘13; Jennifer Tyner; Darin West, ’11; Union College, from administration to faculty and crucial to achieving these important milestones. Midori Yoshimura, ‘12 staff, would agree with me that the students en- PUC ADMINISTRATION trusted to us are both a sacred charge and our most As mentioned above, we concluded a landmark President Heather J. Knight, Ph.D. treasured asset. While we celebrate having each year by receiving the largest single private gift “The 2013-2014 Vice President for Academic Administration one of these precious students on our campus, we in the college’s history, a $2.4 million testamen- Nancy Lecourt, Ph.D.