About the University
The University of Puget Sound is an independent, predominantly residential undergraduate liberal arts college with selected graduate programs building effectively on a liberal arts foundation. The University, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction.

The mission of the University is to develop in its students capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence. A Puget Sound education, both academic and co-curricular, encourages a rich knowledge of self and others, an appreciation of commonality and difference, the full, open, and civil discussion of ideas, thoughtful moral discourse, and the integration of learning, preparing the University's graduates to meet the highest tests of democratic citizenship. Such an education seeks to liberate each person's fullest intellectual and human potential to assist in the unfolding of creative and useful lives.

Inauguration Steering Committee
Honorary Chairs
Deanna Oppenheimer, Chair, Board of Trustees
President, Banking & Financial Services
Washington Mutual Inc.
Seattle, Washington

Melanie Dressel
President and Chief Operating Officer
Columbia Bank
Tacoma, Washington

Steering Committee
Jeffrey S. Johnson, Co-Chair
Michael Oman, Co-Chair
Ann Stevens '85, President, National Alumni Board,
ex officio
Marilyn Bailey
Kim Bobby
Sarah Bodnar '05
Houston Dougharty '83
John Finney '67
Kurt Graupensperger '87
John Hines '05
Nancy Hoff '51
Tom Leavitt '71, JD '75
Paul Loeb
Ken McGill '61
Gayle McIntosh
Alexa Tullis
James Vance

Board of Trustees
Donna Oppenheimer
Chair, Chair of the Executive Committee

William T. Weyerhaeuser
Immediate Past Chair, Vice Chair

Ronald R. Thomas
President

Peter K. Wallerich
Treasurer

Carl G. Behnke
Richard M. Brooks '82
Marvin H. Caruthers
Bradbury F. Cheney '82
Michael J. Corliss '82
John W. Creighton, Jr.
Lowell Daun '68
Hollis S. Dillon '84, JD '88
Elias G. Galvan
Nancy R. Hoff '51
Mack L. Hogans
Justin L. Jaschke '80
Haruo Kazama '66
Thomas E. Leavitt 71, JD '75
Janeen Solie McAninch '77
William D. McCormick
William H. Neukom
Marc A. Olson '87
Deanna W. OppenHeimer '80
Carolynn Reid-Wallace
Allan D. Sapp '78
Nathalie B. Simsak
Elaine J. W. Stanovsky '76
Kiseko Miki Takahashi
Peter K. Wallerich
William T. Weyerhaeuser
John A. Whalley '64
J. Peter Whittall '60
Kenneth W. Willman '82
Ronald B. Woodard '66