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Summer 2020

Feature

The Dream is Intact

Every day—even now, especially now—Fedele Bauccio ’64, ’66 is feeding people who need healthy food. In March he partnered with World Central Kitchen to feed passengers and crew quarantined on the Grand Princess cruise ship.

  • Jessica Murphy Moo

A Reminder

A nurse makes home visits during the pandemic. What does she see? Body, mind, emotion, spirit, dream.

  • Sallie Tisdale '83

Paying Attention to My Neighbors

This is what it means to pray these days.

  • D.L. Mayfield

If You Build It...

The University’s new baseball stadium will need to wait until next season for its premiere, so we’re taking this opportunity to look back on the blood, sweat, and puddle suckers that got us here.

  • Marcus Covert ’93, ’97

Alumni

Devotion

As the 2020 recipient of the Thomas A. Gerhardt Award for Service and Leadership, Diana Salgado Huicochea ’20 serves “not as a duty, but out of love for my community.”

  • Anna Lageson-Kerns ’83, ’14

Here for You

1st. Lt. Beth Biggs ’18 was in the Army ROTC program during her time at UP and is now part of the Oregon Army National Guard 141st Brigade Support Battalion’s COVID-19 response team, distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) throughout Oregon.

  • Karen Bridges

Resilience

Kenechi “Kene” Anigbogu ’18 was a member of the 100th group of American Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Morocco. His Peace Corps service was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Kenechi Anigbogu

On the Bluff

Beacon Reporters Past and Present on the Ground in New York City

On March 11, ESPN NBA reporter Malika Andrews ’17 landed in New York after a long flight from Los Angeles. Although she’d been scheduled to cover a game in Milwaukee, ESPN was pulling reporters back home.

  • Roya Ghorbani-Elizeh ’11