Dottie Generaux kissing Boxer · Digital Exhibits

Title: Dottie Generaux kissing Boxer
Description: Dorothy ("Dottie") Dobyns Generaux, of the Pacific University Class of 1959, kissing "Boxer". A Chevrolet sedan appears in the background. This is one of a set of photographs taken in 1957 by a member of Pacific University's Phi Beta Tau fraternity. Members of the fraternity had won the statue and offered to take Dorothy to see it one Sunday, just as she was leaving church. She agreed, and they drove with her to a field near Gales Creek, where she posed with Boxer.; 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.
Identifier: PUA_MSFILE_169_002
Date: 1957
Date Created: 1957
Subject: Student Activities; Pacific University; Mascots
Spatial Coverage: Gales Creek, Oregon
Is Part Of: Dorothy Generaux Boxer Collection (MS.FILE.169)
Source: Pacific University Archives