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There are many different ways to support Pacific University this holiday season.
John Elton Rudi died July 22, 2022, at age 89.
Deanne Wahlstrom OT ’90 died Aug. 3, 2022, at age 61. 
Jane Perkins ’73 died Oct. 7, 2022, at age 91.
Matthew "Matt" Wierima ’00 died Sept. 16, 2022, at age 44.
NHOH club members with donated holiday gifts
The Pacific University Hawai’i Club, Nā Haumāna O Hawai‘i, is hosting its annual Holiday Giving Tree project for members of the Western Farmer Workers Association. Please donate by Nov. 30.
The Pacific Staff Senate encourages university departments to dress up its office doors to spread some cheer. Also mark your calendars for holiday socials on the Hillsboro and Forest Grove campuses for all employees — faculty and staff. 
Christopher Berg, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Music at the University of South Carolina and world class guitar and lute player will perform with the Pacific Philharmonic Orchestra. 
Faculty Poet Shara McCallum and book cover for "No Ruined Stone"
MFA faculty poet Shara McCallum's sixth book, No Ruined Stone, has won the 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s Annual Legacy Awards Ceremony honors the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe.
Join us for the first of a five-part series on Latinx History. The online presentation will be led by Israel Pastrana, a Chicanx historian and educator, who will be discussing the historical origins of Latinx migration to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest on ZOOM at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 30.

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