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SEEK YE FIRST
By: Grant Miller, University Chaplain, Class of 2010 There’s a story that’s told from time to time on our campus about an early moment in our University’s history. As the account goes, in the spring of 1919, then-president H. Orton Wiley was walking our campus, deep...
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SEEK YE FIRST
By: Grant Miller, University Chaplain, Class of 2010 There’s a story that’s told from time to time on our campus about an early moment in our University’s history. As the account goes, in the spring of 1919, then-president H. Orton Wiley was walking our campus, deep...
MOTHERHOOD & NURSING: A BALANCING ACT
By: Honoria Piña Fernandez, Class of 2025 I am the first of seven children in my family to attend college and the second to graduate high school; never in my life had I imagined I would have come this far. I held back a few years after I graduated high school because...
Never Be An End.
by Dr. Jay Richard Akkerman G. Arthur Janssen frames it well: "They are spread out from Alaska to the Virgin Islands, Maine to Hawaii. They cover the gamut of national parks, monuments, a seashore, parkways, memorials, a preserve, a battlefield, recreation areas,...
MORE THAN A GAME: FAITH & BASKETBALL
By: Noah Peterson, Athletic Communications Student Assistant Christian Rose’s basketball story started like many others—it was simple. “The first time I touched a basketball, I was eight years old. I played in a rec league with some buddies of mine when I was in...
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