Jean Allin, Class of 1939, standing next to the gravestone where Boxer was reported to have been hidden. Members of the Gamma Sigma fraternity would unscrew a metal plate on the gravestone to reveal the mascot inside.
Glen Rice '38 and Don Lucas '38 lean against a gravestone in Mountain View Cemetery in Forest Grove. Rice and Lucas were members of the Gamma Sigma fraternity. The Gammas reputedly hid Boxer behind a metal plate on this gravestone. Rice and Lucas both went on to become doctors after joining the military and serving in World War II.
Photograph of the statue Ming, which a group at the University tried to use as a replacement for Boxer when the Boxer statue went missing for an extended period in the 1940s.
Two Pacific University students pose with a wooden statue that was meant to stand in for the school's original bronze "Boxer" mascot, probably around 1980. The original Boxer statue had been missing for about ten years when this photograph was taken. Students used this wooden statue as a temporary symbolic replacement. This photo was taken near the circulation desk in the Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library, later known as AuCoin Hall. The wooden statue is now in the Pacific University Archives.
Photo of students holding the Ming mascot in the 1940s. The Ming statue was presented to Pacific University as a replacement for the Boxer mascot after it disappeared during a Boxer Brawl.The Ming mascot was refused by the student body. What is left of the Ming statue can be found in the Pacific University Center.
A young man, a Pacific University student, poses with the leg broken off of Boxer. The leg likely broke off during the Boxer Toss that was a tradition at Pacific University for many years. See PUApic_015721 for a picture of the same student.
Two students pose holding a leg broken off of Boxer. The leg likely broke off during the Boxer Toss which was a tradition on campus for many years. For a close-up of the leg see PUApic_0015720. For another picture of the young man to the left see PUApic_015722. For another picture of the young man to the right see PUApic_015726 and PUApic_015728.
A group of students and Pacific University president Charles J. Bushnell pose for a group photo outside of Carnegie Hall. Bushnell is holding Boxer and was the university president from 1913-1918. This photo is a part of Charles J. Bushnell Collection (RG.3.106).
Six photos of students with Boxer. The photos are displayed on a page from Thelma Mill's photo album. Most of the students are not identified, however, the photo labeled '3' on the front page features Harry Kunkel, Henry Riske, and John Garrigus holding Boxer, all three graduated from Pacific University in 1924. The photo on the back page features Thelma Mills herself holding Boxer. She graduated in 1923. Two other students are identified as 'Red' Sheeley and 'Jazz' Hoar and may refer to the photo in the upper left hand corner of the front page.
A group photo of the Tualatin Academy class which entered in 1895. They were the first to use Marsh Hall. The students and teacher are identified on the back of the photo. Listed back to front and left to right, they are: Cecil Thomas Humphreys, Frank Erastus Beauchamp, Julius Anton Young, Arthur Elias Yoder, Alfred John Funge, Willis H. Trenner, Fanny Sorensen, Robert Peter Wirtz, Harriet Eva Scholfield, Wilma Waggener, Charlolette Dot Graham, Jennie Lydia Yoder, Samuel Elverton Gates, Ora Della Caples, Margaret Best (Principal of the Woman's Department and Instructor in English), Mabel Hinman, Mary Bailey, William Turpen, Elizabeth Emily Tongue, Eleanor Russell, Ellen Gertrude Garrison, Rowena Pratt, Francis Eolia Cornelius, Jessie Leone Hibbs, James McCalmont Morrison. [Note: All of these students are found within the Pacific University records, however, this appears to be taken during their second year and the students that appear in this photo do not seem to account for the entirety of the 1895 class].
Five members of the Gamma Sigma fraternity stand with Boxer in front of the '1967' stone that is placed in one of the outer walls of the Harvey Scott Memorial Library (now Scott Hall). In the back row, from left to right, are Larry Alberton (Class of 1969), Bill Swanson (Class of 1969), and Gary Wright (Class of 1970). In the front row, left to right, are Paul 'The Beak' Diederich and Jim 'Handsome' Ransom (Class of 1971).
