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A very special weekend, October 24-26, is returning to Pacific Union College... a chance to visit the campus that has become your child's home away from your home... a chance to talk with the men and women who are teaching your child and preparing him or her for a life beyond the college walls... and most importantly, an opportunity to spend time with your son or daughter talking around the dinner table, worshiping together in celebration, and exploring their world. If you have a son or daughter enrolled at PUC, we would like to invite you to come to Parents' Weekend, a family time on campus when students and their parents can get together to share the joys of the lives they have given one another. Over the weekend there will be many opportunities to share the PUC experience with your son or daughter. Worship will be one of our keystones as we celebrate our faith in a family vespers, student-lead Sabbath school and a church service lead by the college pastor, Ray Mitchell. There will also be a special musical program hosted by the Music Department, and the women's volleyball team, the PUC Pioneers will challenge a local team...

Recently, the nursing department launched a new program to make it easier for working nursing professionals to complete a bachelor's. The Second Step program allows current nurses to upgrade from an A.S. in nursing to a bachelor's degree in as little as nine months. Ideal for registered nurses, Pacific Union College's Second Step Nursing Program meets in short, concentrated time periods at one of three convenient classroom locations-Angwin (in the Napa Valley), Hanford, or Los Angeles. Students may even fly to classroom locations and continue the clinical experiences at home locations....

For the fourth straight year, U.S. News & World Report ranked Pacific Union College among the top ten regional liberal arts colleges. The college ranked fifth, up from last year's ranking of sixth, and remains the highest ranking regional liberal arts college in California. Significantly, U.S. News also listed PUC in its top ten list of "Best Values" among liberal arts colleges in the western United States. For this year's rankings, U.S. News employed a new, even more thorough approach. Overall rankings were based on academic quality, faculty-to-student ratio, available resources, financial aid, student diversity, and pre-professional programs. PUC scored especially high in all categories, especially academic quality, faculty-to-student ratio, and student diversity....

In the midst of the jumbled conversations of antsy freshmen and the imposing banners of various clubs, a tiny voice called out from behind a small, white poster which read the same message the voice was pleading: RETURNED SMs, COME HERE! Crammed into a corner and overwhelmed by the larger clubs, the newly formed Student Missionaries Club was almost drowned out by the chaos of registration day; but the relentless shouting and flailing arms managed to sign sixty names. The organization formed this year in hopes that individuals returning from the mission field would have a support group to rely on. "Most people don't know this, but many returned SMs suffer from a sort of reverse culture-shock," says Michiko Miyajima, a former student missionary and director of World Missions. "You have had an experience that allows you to see life from a whole new perspective, and you want to share this with someone who will understand -- a fellow returned missionary. Hopefully, this club will help us to find each other." The club plans on holding several worship services and Bible study groups. They have already had a pre-vespers program that welcomed close to thirty attenders. "It was really encouraging...

For Julie Hill, trusting God means expecting the unexpected. Julie, a junior nursing major at Pacific Union College, was shocked and honored to find she had been chosen to give the worship call at the official Net '98 kickoff program to be broadcasted all over North America. Then two days before she flew out to Andrews University for the filming, she received a phone call from the executive committee of Net '98. The co-host for the program had taken ill, and Julie had been chosen as the replacement. The next thing she knew, she was at Andrews University's Pioneer Memorial Church, meeting her co-host, Cedric Belcher of Andrews University, eating lunch with North American Division President Al McClure, and rehearsing her lines for the national broadcast. If that wasn't overwhelming enough, she was further astonished to discover that evening that "hosting" Net '98 involved more than a few minutes of chat at the start of program. "I thought that I'd just be giving a short welcome and maybe opening prayer," says Julie. "But I ended up staying on the stage throughout the entire hour, introducing every speaker." Although it was an experience that tested her improvisational skills, Julie was thrilled...