Gamma Sigma alumni visiting Boxer, Boxer II and Boxer III

Title

Gamma Sigma alumni visiting Boxer, Boxer II and Boxer III

Description

Alumni members of Pacific University's Gamma Sigma fraternity visiting with three versions of the statue that serves as Pacific University's mascot: the original bronze Boxer, which Pacific first acquired in the late 1890s (gold-colored, left); the second casting of Boxer II, created in 1983 (middle, dark grey); and Boxer III, created in 2018 (right, lighter grey). The original Boxer had been missing between 1969-2024, when it was finally returned to the university. The first casting of Boxer II had been missing since the mid-2000s, but a second casting had just been returned to Pacific a few weeks before this event. This was the first-ever time when all three Boxer statues were brought together at once.

Several of the alumni in this photograph remembered seeing the original Boxer before it went missing, and were also among those who raised funds to create Boxer III. Pete Truax (Class of 1969), wearing a maroon t-shirt in in the background, was one of the last students to "throw out" the original Boxer statue in a "Boxer Toss." Bruce Bishop (Class of 1968), pointing the camera, was one of the most active in the commissioning of Boxer III. The photograph was taken by Martha Calus-McLain (Class of 2023), Pacific's Alumni Director, who had seen the original Boxer II when it was on campus. Others pictured in this photograph include: Frank Baldwin (Class of 1967), wearing a baseball cap; Gerry Frye (Class of 1962), wearing red and black; and Scott Pike (Class of 1969, OD 1970) , in the foreground, next to the Boxers.

Identifier

PUA_MS95_522

Date

2025

Date Created

June 29, 2025

Creator

Calus-McLain, Martha

Subject

Pacific University

Mascots

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Source

Pacific University Archives