National Parks Tour of the Golden West
14 Days Travel with other Lutherans departing July 13, 2012 from $1348*
Visit landmarks in NINE NATIONAL PARKS. Witness the giant Redwood trees in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, then be amazed at the rock formations and waterfalls in Yosemite National Park. Visit majestic Lake Tahoe and stop in historic Virginia City, Reno, Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada. In Utah tour the world’s largest man-made excavation – the Kennecott Copper Mine plus the Great Salt Lake! Next tour the unique rocks at Arches’ National Park; and Canyonlands, with enchanting vistas carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers. Next visit Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon National Parks and drive through the Dixie National Forest. Then it’s the grandest of all National Parks, The Grand Canyon, for both a day and night. Finally, try your luck in exciting Las Vegas with an included day excursion to Zion National Park.
14 Days Join other Lutherans departing September 17, 2012 from
Elegant Danube River Cruise $2698*
Enjoy the YMT chartered, 4-star ship, the “TUI Melodia”! Round trip cruise from Passau … PLUS tour Germany!
Start in Munich, Germany for one-night. Then travel to Schwangau and a guided tour of the famous Neuschwanstein (Disneyland) Castle and Rothenburg o.d. Tauber for an overnight stay. The following day you will leave for the Czech Republic stopping in Plzen, where Pilsner beer was created with an included brewery tour; followed by Bohemia and Prague. Spend the next day sightseeing before you embark. Your cruise includes the Danube’s highlights including Melk and Vienna, Austria (the classical city of music); Esztergom and Budapest Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Linz, Austria; before returning to Passau. Travel back to Munich with additional sightseeing, before flying home. Your “brand new” ship the TUI Melodia, constructed in 2011, offers a state-of-the-art, experience! Price includes (very limited) outside Porthole. *Add $300 per person for French Balcony.
Autumn Leaves Tour
14 Days Travel with other Lutherans departing September 28, 2012 from Your Lutheran Chaplain: Pastor Ude
$1598*
Start in Philadelphia and enjoy a historic city sightseeing tour including the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. The following day your scenic tour begins offering spectacular and colorful vistas through Amish Country to Gettysburg where you will see the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Continue traveling north with a stop at the Corning Museum of Glass into Ontario and awe-inspiring Niagara Falls for two nights. Then head back to up- state New York where you will board a cruise through the 1000 Islands, including a guided tour over historic sunken wrecks and narrative of all the highlights. Next, drive through the six-million-acre civilized wilderness of the Adirondack region, with a stop in Lake Placid. Then head into the forest area of New England: The White Mountains, including Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire and Flume Gorge with impressive waterfalls. Then drive along the New England coast to Boston, with a city tour of the major sites; Cape Cod for 2 nights, exploring Chatham and Provincetown with coastal scenery, village shops and art galleries; view the gorgeous Mansions of Newport, Rhode Island; drive along the Atlantic coast through Mystic Seaport and New Haven, Connecticut; and New York City sightseeing all the sights of the “Big Apple.” Stephen Ude is retired as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Ogden, Iowa. This is his third trip with YMT Vacations.
*Price per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra. For details, itinerary, reservations & letter from
YMT’s chaplain with his phone number call 7 days a week: 1-800-736-7300 44 The Lutheran •
www.thelutheran.org
Higher education
Do you ever think about the farm- workers who help feed us? Califor- nia Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, does. Using a $150,000 grant from the California Wellness Foun- dation, two professors will help student researchers assess the work- ers’ exposure to pesticides, their knowledge about the health risks and whether they can advocate for themselves. The researchers will use their findings to make policy recom- mendations and communicate health information via media, including Spanish-language radio.
If, as Pulitzer-winning poet Gwen- dolyn Brooks once said, “Poetry is life distilled,” then another award- winning poet, Carol Gilbertson, has been busy distilling it. In February, Gilbertson traveled to Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa, to read poems from her work, From a Distance, Dancing (Finishing Line Press). Gilbertson is emerita profes- sor of English and founding director of the Lutheran Festival of Writing at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
In the wordsof an old Saturday Night Live sketch, “Talk amongst your- selves.” Roanoke College, Salem, Va., began offering the community coffee shop talks. Professors lead hour-long discussions on freedom and free will, the effects of social media and more.
How do people perceive faces as we age? Do we believe someone with a sweet tooth is more friendly? Get- tysburg (Pa.) College psychology professor Richard Russell is work- ing with Chanel researchers to study visual cognition, aesthetics and the perception of faces as they age. Sepa- rate research by another Gettysburg psychology professor, Brian Meyers, found people with a sweet tooth are (and are perceived to be) more willing to volunteer and help others. M
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