January 2007

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Feature

What's in a Name?

January 01, 2007
For 115 years Walla Walla College has been known as Walla Walla College. On September 1, 2007, that will change, as the institution becomes Walla Walla University.WWC has been officially recognized as a university for more than a decade by the Car...

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  • The Story's Next Chapter

    As Walla Walla College undergoes several changes, a new president provides a link to the past and casts a vision for the future.In an old office, books, papers and boxes lay in various stages of unpacking and repacking. A new office sits empty in ...
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  • The Story's Next Chapter

    As Walla Walla College undergoes several changes, a new president provides a link to the past and casts a vision for the future.In an old office, books, papers and boxes lay in various stages of unpacking and repacking. A new office sits empty in ...
    Read more

  • Magnificent Adventures

    On a hot July Sabbath in 2005 at the Oregon Camp Meeting, Ron and Virginia Oliver listened as Shawn Boonstra, speaker and director of It Is Written, talked about creation and how, when God created humans, He gave them a spark of adventure. “The de...
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  • Magnificent Adventures

    On a hot July Sabbath in 2005 at the Oregon Camp Meeting, Ron and Virginia Oliver listened as Shawn Boonstra, speaker and director of It Is Written, talked about creation and how, when God created humans, He gave them a spark of adventure. “The de...
    Read more

  • Fast Facts

    January 01, 2007
    Year founded: 1892Enrollment: 1,876Majors offered: 52Most popular majors: business, engineering, nursing, elementary educationAverage financial aid package: $17,448Average yearly family contributions: $4,356Rate of alumni giving: 25%Student to fac...
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  • Fast Facts

    January 01, 2007
    Year founded: 1892Enrollment: 1,876Majors offered: 52Most popular majors: business, engineering, nursing, elementary educationAverage financial aid package: $17,448Average yearly family contributions: $4,356Rate of alumni giving: 25%Student to fac...
    Read more

  • What's in a Name?

    January 01, 2007
    For 115 years Walla Walla College has been known as Walla Walla College. On September 1, 2007, that will change, as the institution becomes Walla Walla University.WWC has been officially recognized as a university for more than a decade by the Car...
    Read more

Others

  • Let's Talk Check Out the New Weekly Blog

    January 01, 2007
    Check Out the New Weekly BlogThroughout 2006, the GLEANER featured a monthly reader-response section called Let's Talk. Now that column has moved from a monthly feature to a weekly or even daily online journal, or blog, as it is called on the Web....
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  • C.S.... On My Resume!

    In April when I was diagnosed with a very aggressive, stage 4, non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer called mantle cell, I said, "I never wanted to have 'cancer survivor' on my résumé but now I desperately do." On Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, when Sue and I hear...
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  • Let's Talk Check Out the New Weekly Blog

    January 01, 2007
    Check Out the New Weekly BlogThroughout 2006, the GLEANER featured a monthly reader-response section called Let's Talk. Now that column has moved from a monthly feature to a weekly or even daily online journal, or blog, as it is called on the Web....
    Read more

  • Alive and Healing

    January 01, 2007
    New Year’s Day a year ago I was in the hospital, recovering from an emergency appendectomy.I had abdominal pain the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s, not too bad, (I kept working) but bad enough that midweek I went to see the doctor. Sh...
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  • Intercessory Prayer

    Intercessory PrayerMake a list of those you hope to reach with the Adventist message. Ask Jesus who you should put on the list. Often people in transition or trouble are most open to spiritual influences. Begin praying that God will bless them eac...
    Read more

  • C.S.... On My Resume!

    In April when I was diagnosed with a very aggressive, stage 4, non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer called mantle cell, I said, "I never wanted to have 'cancer survivor' on my résumé but now I desperately do." On Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, when Sue and I hear...
    Read more

  • Intercessory Prayer

    Intercessory PrayerMake a list of those you hope to reach with the Adventist message. Ask Jesus who you should put on the list. Often people in transition or trouble are most open to spiritual influences. Begin praying that God will bless them eac...
    Read more

  • Alive and Healing

    January 01, 2007
    New Year’s Day a year ago I was in the hospital, recovering from an emergency appendectomy.I had abdominal pain the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s, not too bad, (I kept working) but bad enough that midweek I went to see the doctor. Sh...
    Read more

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