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).
Students gather in a field at Pacific University to watch a Boxer Toss. Boxer Tosses were events where the bronze statue of Boxer would be fought over by a crowd of students, all wanting to have the statue of Boxer for themselves or their club.
Pacific University Badgers engaged in a basketball game against Willamette. Pacific's mascot was the Badgers until it was changed to the Boxers in 1967.
A group of Pacific University fraternity members hold Boxer after they rescued him from would-be snatchers. Left to right are: T. Fishburn, Ed Bennett, Class of 1941, John Uchiyama, Class of 1939, Ed Goddard, Class of 1940, Lewis Merz, Class of 1939, and, in the center, holding Boxer, Myrl Barkhurst, Class of 1939.
A photograph of the original Boxer statue circa the 1940s. The statue, which was originally a bronze Chinese incense burner, had served as a symbol of Pacific University's school spirit since the late 1890s. For decades, student groups stole and hid Boxer from each other. In this image, which was likely made in 1945, Boxer shows evidence of damage and graffiti that had occurred over the last 45 years, including welding-marks and many etched signatures. The tail is missing.
This photograph is likely the same one described in the October 5, 1945 issue of the student newspaper, The Index: "Pictures of Boxer, taken in the physics labs the night of the freshman reception were shown by Mr. Vanderberg. These closeups were clear enough so that some of the names carved on the dog could be distinguished."
Team photo of the Pacific University baseball team, circa 1960s. The uniforms say 'Badgers' - Pacific University did not adopt Boxer as its mascot until 1968.
A group of male students from Pacific University holding Boxer. They are all dressed in a suit and tie. This photograph was published in Issue II, Volume IV of the 1968 Pacific Today magazine in the 'Do you remember?' section.
A large group of students gathering on a lawn for a Boxer Toss. When a sports team, sorority, fraternity, club or other group got a hold of Boxer, the tradition was to wait a few weeks and then 'flash' him at a public setting. This showed everyone who had possession of Boxer and prompted a surge of spirit. After a few months, the organization would 'toss' out Boxer to the students who would wrestle and fight over the statue until a new holder of Boxer emerged. (-excerpt from a Breif History of Boxer http://www.pacificu.edu/boxercentral/about/history.cfm)
