Dear Friends, As always, we are pleased to bring you this new edition of the Spirit magazine. Our editor, Paula Paine, our senior designer, Lee Stadler and our communications specialist, Courtney Servaes do a great job for us on these publications and we appreciate their hard work and creativity. We get many compliments from our readers, and we are glad that you seem to enjoy this regular update on the status of our institution with its far-flung reach and scope. This edition’s theme is

Every now and then the English language offers us a fun aberration. Arguably, the word “culture” is one of those. Why? Because the diversity of the meanings associated with it serves to define the word itself, so that as one explores and cultivates the various aspects of culture, he or she, by default, develops its essence in their lives. When you explore the Mayan culture, for example, or pursue the arts, or grow a bacterial culture, or study a particular social or ethnic group, you are