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Dennis L. Plubell is a lifelong Adventist born and raised in California and Hawaii. Like other family members, Plubell attended 海角视频鈥攈is 鈥渉ome鈥� school for higher education. He graduated from 海角视频 in 1976 with a B.A. in Biology and received his M.A. in Biology in 1982.

While his family was living in San Jose, CA, Plubell worked most summers during his college years for his grandfather and uncles in the apple and pear orchards around Camino, CA. In 1973, he spent time on the Miller Place, a ranch acquired by the family, where Plubell discovered the Grainger Hall plaque in the grime and dust of the barn equipment.

The Grainger Hall plaque is an old bronze college artifact. According to Plubell, it identified the men鈥檚 residence hall and was mounted on the building or stone pillars.

Plubell was only met with conjecture when trying to find how the plaque ended at the barn. He and others had their theories but didn鈥檛 trouble themselves with exploring how the plaque made its way from campus to Camino, CA. Instead, he returned it to its home on campus鈥�50 years later.

The plaque was displayed on Plubell鈥檚 desk in the dorm. Upon graduation, his roommate and cousin Raymond W. Larsen (1976) asked if he could take it to dental school at Loma Linda University. Plubell admits that 鈥渙ut of sight鈥� truly can be 鈥渙ut of mind.鈥� He forgot about the plaque as his career launched in teaching and leading Adventist schools. When Larsen completed his DDS degree, opened a dental office in Placerville, and acquired an apple orchard in Camino, the plaque again was left in the dust and forgotten for over 40 years.

Plubell moved to the northwest after 17 years in Northern California and then served in Maryland at the Office of Education at the North American Division. There, he met PUC President Ralph Trecartin, a lay delegate from the New York Conference to the annual NAD year-end meetings, for the first time. 鈥淲hile I knew of him because our mothers are cousins, I hadn鈥檛 met him until about 2010,鈥� shared Plubell. He concluded his career as vice president for education in the North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 2014-2022.

鈥淲hen Dr. Trecartin accepted the invitation to lead PUC as president, I invited him to explore some of the shared family roots that he had never before visited in the Sierra Nevada foothills around Camino, CA,鈥� said Plubell. 鈥淭hus, when we finally connected for a Sabbath together with relatives, it was decided by my cousin, Dr. Ray Larsen, that it was time (maybe past time!) for the Grainger Hall plaque to be returned to PUC!鈥�

When Trecartin first heard this story and received the plaque, he felt responsible for honoring past stories and memories of the college. 鈥淲e are certainly grateful to Dennis and Ray for advertising PUC in this unique way in their dorm rooms all those years ago,鈥� said Trecartin. 鈥淲e welcome our alumni to share their treasures, whether tangible like this bronze plaque or intangible from the storehouse of treasured memories.鈥�

The plaque is now located in PUC鈥檚 alumni office until further notice. There are plans for facilities to reinstall it.

鈥淥ld artifacts are valuable for the memories they evoke,鈥� said Plubell. 鈥淭he human-interest stories they bring to mind are of shared experiences and special events meaningful primarily to those present and participating in life.鈥�