Arches

Winter 2025

Cover of Winter 2025 Arches magazine

Arches is the alumni magazine of Puget Sound, serving more than 40,000 Loggers worldwide. 

Guided by the intellectually curious and humanist values of the liberal arts, Arches strives to capture and convey the ethos of the college through stories that are relevant to the times we are living in and that amplify the voices and experiences of Loggers in an effort to foster understanding and fuel connection within our community and beyond.

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To the Heights

Professor David Moore
Q&A

Professor David Moore on what leads to satisfaction in romantic relationships.

Goals for Relationship Success
Illustration depicting the characters from The Wizard of Oz

Classes for a Changing World is a new regular feature in Arches that will spotlight one of the scores of inspiring, innovative, and timely courses offered each semester at Puget Sound.

CONN 139: The Wizard of Oz
Regina Jorgensen '98

After studying physics in the Honors Program at Puget Sound, Regina Jorgenson ’98 dedicated her astrophysics career to exploring space, specifically galaxy formation and evolution.

What to Expect from the Sky in 2025

Always a Logger

Dorothy Lewis '70

Dorothy Lewis ’70 made her name as a financial planner by jumping into the field with almost no plan at all.

David Poston '85

Accounting seems an unlikely path to take on the journey to find a cure for cancer, but that’s the road taken by David Poston ’85.

Elena Becker '17

For Elena Becker ’17, the pursuit of lifelong learning has always been central to who she is.

Keith Blocker '12

Fate has shown its sunny and harsh sides to Keith Blocker ’12 since his days at the University of Puget Sound.

John Hines '05

Without John Hines ’05 the history teacher, it’s unlikely there would be John Hines the community leader and John Hines the football coach—much less John Hines the deputy mayor of Tacoma.

A collection of ephemera focused on a Logger love story from way back.

LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART Part of the Logger love story of Margaret Parkin ’23 and Ralph Warren Brown ’24 was captured in a page of the scrapbook of Thelma Bestler ’24, who was one of six bridesmaids in their 1925 wedding.

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