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Pacific Union College will be hosting the 12th annual Malcolm Maxwell Golf Classic at the Napa Valley Country Club on Monday, May 17. The event will feature 18 holes of golf in a two best ball foursome play, with an individual low gross and low net division. Proceeds from the Golf Classic benefit students supported by the PUC Malcolm Maxwell Scholarship Fund. The hole-in-one prize is a 2004 Chevy Blazer 4x4 courtesy of Epps Chevrolet. Awards for the longest drive and the closest to the pin on all par 3’s will be presented at the tournament. Additional contests include the One Million Dollar Shot, the Vacation Celebration, Guess Your Drive, and the $5,000 Putting Contest....

Renowned brain researcher Dr. Robert Sapolsky will present "Stress Management and Health" on Thursday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Pacific Union College's Dauphinee Chapel. Admission to the seminar is free and open to the public. Sapolsky, known for his engaging and lively speaking and writing styles, is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. Sapolsky's lecture will focus on stress and the causes of stress-related diseases. He says that while the body's physical responses can cope with short-term physical threats, they are not suitable responses for the psychological stress faced in today's world. Sapolsky calls our reactions to today's stress "generally short-sighted, inefficient, and penny-wise and dollar-foolish." Sapolsky has authored several books, including: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, and The Trouble with Testosterone....

When Pacific Union College participated in Matchmaker’s national campus and community bone marrow drive last week, responses far exceeded student coordinator Stefanie Holimon’s hopes. “I was excited but nervous before,” she explains. “I wasn’t sure of the response we’d get.” But after PUC registered 145 students, faculty and staff as potential bone marrow donors (compared to the 13 Microsoft registered and 55 from UC Berkeley in the same drive), Stefanie was completely thrilled. “I’m really proud of the school,” she says. Stefanie’s involvement with projects such as these really started 17 years ago in Japan, when her aunt was diagnosed with lukemia. In response, Stefanie’s mother and aunt started a much-needed registry of bone marrow donors in Japan. Stefanie has personally been involved in numerous bone marrow drives. “This one has been the most successful of all of them” she says. Matchmaker, a function of the Mavin Foundation, is a national program dedicated to mixed race bone marrow donor recruitment and education and is under the umbrella of the National Marrow Donor Program....

In the yearly auditions of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, 116 Napa County piano pupils earned memberships in the National Fraternity of Student Musicians. Two students received additional honors: Sasha Fulton was a Five-Year National Winner, and Michelle Holy earned the College Sophomore Diploma. Auditions were held May 14 to 18 in Napa at the Napa Valley Baptist Church and in Angwin at Pacific Union College. Students participating were from the classes of Ruth Andrieux, Lois Case, Judith Cochran, Angela D’Angelo, Anita Ford, Winsome Gane, Donna Kuntz, Janel Tasker, Phyllis Webster, and Lynn Wheeler. From coast to coast (and now also in Taiwan), nearly 120,000 enthusiastic piano pupils participate in this annual piano-playing event held in 843 music centers throughout the country. Each of the student winners receives a year’s membership in the National Fraternity of Student Musicians and Piano Hobbyists of the World, a gold or bronze embossed pin, and a certificate according to the number of pieces performed. Begun at Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, in 1929, national headquarters are still maintained in Texas, where Rules and Regulations are available on request free of charge by addressing Piano Guild, Box 1807, Austin, Texas 78767-1807. The names of local...

Five grand. That's exactly what St. Helena Hospital employee Dwight Boyd won when he sunk a 50-foot putt during Pacific Union College1s Malcolm Maxwell Golf Classic on May 17. It was the first time someone has won the putting contest prize. PUC1s annual fundraiser, held at the Napa Valley Country Club, raised nearly $40,000 towards student aid through the Malcolm Maxwell Scholarship Fund In addition to playing 18 holes of golf, participants had an opportunity to win prizes sponsored by various Napa Valley businesses. Former PUC president Malcolm Maxwell was on hand to distribute awards to students during the dinner ceremony. In addition, prizes were awarded in the winning categories: low net-women: Diane Dillon low net-men: Gary Ortman low gross-women: Julie Ching low gross-men: Lenny Ballew 1st place team: Jay Lewis, Nelson Thomas, Pat Patterson, and Gary Nelson 2nd place team: Bob, Brian, Phyllis and Julie Ching...