1. An Intellectual Odyssey
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In the current issue of Arches, we profile Loggers working in academia, how Puget Sound shaped these alumni — and how they, in turn, are shaping the future of higher education.
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Alumna Cindy Rogers ’86 reflects on falling in love at Puget Sound and finding her calling as an occupational therapist.
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3. Every Career is a Journey
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Always a Logger is a podcast about the winding path to success and the many ways alumni find personal and professional fulfillment after graduation.
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On Endings and Beginnings
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Since becoming president of Puget Sound in 2016, Isiaah Crawford has guided the university as it navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, modernized the curriculum, expanded graduate education, secured the largest-ever individual gift to the institution, and advanced ambitious plans for the future. Ahead of his retirement in 2027, President Crawford sat down with Arches to talk about the accomplishments of the past 10 years, the Loggers who inspire him, and the road ahead.
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Prof. of History Douglas Sackman was interviewed on the Nerd Farmer podcast about the 19th century's Gilded Age, a turbulent period of rapid industrialization, staggering wealth inequality, labor unrest, and political corruption that reshaped the U.S. In the episode, Sackman discusses what this period of American history can tell us about the present.
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Logger Athletics had a banner year in the 2025–26 season, with several teams reaching the conference and national championships, including women’s volleyball, women’s soccer, men’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s track and field, and women’s crew. Overall, the Loggers finished in third place in the Northwest Conference’s all-sports standings.
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Pictured above are pages from a Reilly and Britton Co. scrapbook titled School-Girl Days, documenting Lyle Elizabeth Ford Drushel’s time as a Puget Sound student from 1907 to 1912. After graduation, she worked as a schoolteacher in Tacoma, and then married and moved to Michigan for four years with her spouse before returning to Tacoma in 1932 to start work as the dean of women at Puget Sound. She served in that role until 1953, and also taught in the English department, attaining the rank of associate professor.
Drushel (1888–1985) is one of several alumni who returned to Puget Sound as faculty members and who later donated materials — teaching and research notes, scrapbooks, sheet music, and more — to the university archives. To explore her collection, or the collections of Walter Lowrie ’58, who taught in the history department for 44 years, or Leroy Ostransky ’48, who taught in the music department for more than 30 years, email archives@pugetsound.edu and schedule an in-person or virtual research appointment.
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