News, Media and Stories | Winter 2015

Climbing up the mountain
Danika Gilbert '94 led 13 Afghan girls on a mountain climbing expedition, helping them build leadership skills and confidence in a part of the world that often tells them, "You can't."
Charlotte Filer
Bequests provide a lasting legacy at Pacific.
Weberling Smiling
A passion for Pacific earns four new members a place in the President's Circle, honoring the university's $100,000 lifetime donors.
Mad Dog Teaser
At their 30th class reunion in 2003, his classmates honored his efforts by unveiling the Mad Dog Scholarship Fund. The fund reached the endowment level in 2009 and offered its first scholarship to an optometry student in 2010.
Tran Library
As it celebrates its 10-year anniversary this fall, the Library is still counted among the “new” buildings on Pacific University’s Forest Grove Campus. A decade, after all, is nothing compared to the original campus library, Carnegie Hall, which marked its centennial in 2012, or the recently renovated Scott Hall, which was the library from 1967 to 2010.