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How a failed attempt at major league ball, and an invitation from Puget Sound, launched Casey Sander's acting career

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Common Ground

It was Mushawn’s idea to build the garden. He was proud of that. His fifth-grade class had been invited to help design the empty park next to their school, and …
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Alumni

The Orchard

In 1938, Mary Louise Curran ’36 entered an essay contest that would change her life and her community forever. The topic was “Why I want to live in University Place,”…
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Alumni

Life in an Airstream

Smack in the middle of the almost 500-mile journey, surrounded only by boarded-up shops and a barren landscape, they heard a thud. Down the road, they…
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Alumni

An Assist for the Brain

As a Parkinson’s disease specialist, the neurologist said he wished he could do more for his patients. He could give them dopamine to ease symptoms, …
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Alumni

The Business of Baseball

And while some of it has to do with the Loggers’ on-field success in the sport, much has to do with what happens in the classroom. “The vast majority of the classes are…
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Alumni

Salmon Stories

Perched on a log above the Mashel River a few miles from the Puget Sound campus, Daniel Sherman explains the complex and often harrowing plight of perhaps the most iconic…
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Alumni

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…

Alumni

Ask the Expert: How to Stay Safe Online

Faithlina Abeshima ’16 majored in music and psychology, but a work-study in technology set her on a different career path. Shortly after graduating, she was hired by the…
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Alumni

50 Years of Arches Magazine

Puget Sound has been sending a newsletter to alumni since 1929, though back then it was typewritten and copied on a mimeograph machine. The masthead said, "Issued Quarterly …
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Alumni

The Professionals

John Weaver ’98, creative director for the Seattle Seahawks, was on a phone call one day when he learned that he’d been working with another Puget Sound alum for years…