We have been very busy at PIU over the past week with the arrival of students. It has been a lot of fun picking up the returning and new students as they come in to the airport. Today (Tuesday) was the first day of classes but students have been arriving since the beginning of last week. It looks like we will have just under 90 on the Guam campus. Registration began last Wednesday and late registration will end later this week. Except for a few conflicts and unexpected problems we have almost everybody situated in dorms, classes etc. Here are a few pictures from registration with a couple more posts on the beginning of school to follow.
Registration is one of the busiest weeks of the year for the staff. On the left here, Financial Aid Director Delight Suda, counsels a student about grants and scholarships while, on the right, Mary Lou Carruthers assigns student email addresses and makes sure that student information in the computer is all correct.
This is the scene that greets students as they come out of Guam customs and into the waiting area of the Guam airport.
Steve Stinnette and I pose in the airport with Josh Ladd, a new PIU student from North Carolina. Josh is also the son of long-time missionaries in Micronesia, Ernie and Annette Ladd. Ernie was one of our faculty colleagues when Joyce and I first arrived in Palau in 1984. Josh was born in Palau and has now returned to the islands to go to college.
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