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FALL 2014<br />
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SAVING THE<br />
WHITE PINE<br />
GLOBAL<br />
ENGAGEMENT<br />
CYBER<br />
VIGILANCE<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
Towards Optimism, a once-in-a-lifetime<br />
sunset in Xingping Town and Li River,<br />
in the Guangxi Province of China.<br />
PHOTO BY KYLE OBERMANN '14<br />
S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E<br />
FALL 2014<br />
Volume 61 · No. 3<br />
Carole Leigh Engblom<br />
EDITOR<br />
Don Bratland '87,<br />
Holmes Design<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Laura Hamilton Waxman<br />
COPY EDITOR<br />
Greg Breining, Joel Hoekstra '92,<br />
Erin Peterson, Jeff Sauve,<br />
Andrew Wilder '15<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br />
Gary Alan Nelson, Brian Peterson,<br />
Tom Roster, Jonathan Timmes,<br />
Andrew Wilder '15<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Readers may send name/address<br />
changes and corrections to<br />
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