Boxer underside with repair patch etched by Gamma Sigma members

Title

Boxer underside with repair patch etched by Gamma Sigma members

Description

A close-up photograph of a metal patch on the underside of the original "Boxer" statue, taken on Feb. 25, 2024. The patch was welded onto a missing section of the statue after it was damaged. The patch is etched with the note: "2-1967, L. Jennings [Lance Jennings, Class of 1966]; J. Inmon [Jack Inmon, Class of 196-?]; and G. Suchy [Gary Suchy, Class of 1969]." All three men were members of the Gamma Sigma fraternity, which is known to have had possession of the statue at about that time.

Boxer is a bronze statue in the form of a qilin, which was the inspiration for Pacific University's mascot. There was a tradition of students stealing, hiding and fighting over the original Boxer statue from the early 1900s through the 1960s. This image is one of a series of photographs that documented the physical appearance of the statue when it was returned to the university in 2024, after being hidden for the previous 55 years.

Identifier

PUA_MS95_555

Date

2024

Date Created

Feb. 25, 2024

Creator

Timm, Blake

Subject

Pacific University

Mascots

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Rights

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

Source

Pacific University Archives