Front side: A group photo of six Pacific University students. The young woman furthest left is identified as Ethella Stoughton Stearns and the young woman furthest right is identified as Esther Silverman [unsure of maiden name]. Back side: Harry Pembroke Humphreys digging a ditch to drain the athletic field on Campus Clean-up Day.
A group photo of Pacific University's 1929 intramural men's basketball team. They are identified as follows. Left to right: Clyde Gray, William Ladd, Homer Reinhart, Guy Shellenbarger, and Arthur Johnson.
Three photos of Pacific University sports teams. Clockwise they are, top, a football team, bottom right, a baseball team, and, bottom left, a basketball team.
Pacific University students, alumni and faculty attending a Lu'au outdoors on May 25, 1957. Several attendees wear leis. They are seated at tables set up on the campus lawn near McCormick Hall, where Walter Hall would be built the following year. Bates Hall can be seen in the background, alongside a miniature pony ride. This lu'au was held on the Saturday afternoon preceding Pacific's 1957 Commencement ceremony. The photograph was taken by Herb Drew (Class of 1960). For two other images of the same event, see: PUApic_008557 and PUApic_008558.
An article published in the campus newspaper, "Pacific celebrates initiation of Luau" (The Index, May 27, 1957, p. 1), described the event: "Saturday noon saw the initiation of Pacific University's first Luau, a Hawaiian dinner held in honor of the Rev. Roy Beecher Damron who was slated to receive an honorary degree from Pacific this year. The dinner, held at the proposed site of the new girls' dorm [i.e. Walter Hall], was given for the general purpose of honoring Hawaiian students, and the senior class. From 12 to 1 p.m., the group ate cracked crab and were entertained by Pacific students. Drs. Frank Chipps and Lowell Ellis were chairmen of the event, with Dr. Meredith McVickers handling the decorations."
This 1957 outdoor Lu'au predated the later Lu'au tradition established by Pacific University's Haumana O Hawai'i (Hawaii Student) club in 1961. Unlike the Hawaii Club Lu'aus, this 1957 event was not hosted by Hawaiian students, and was apparently much less authentic. One of the founders of Haumana O Hawai'i, Professor Fred Scheller, recalled, "“We really didn’t think their lu‘au was very good and we [complained]." Their complaints led to a challenge for the club to put on a lu'au instead, which they first did in 1961. (See: "The Aloha Connection," Pacific Magazine, Spring 2010, p. 12.)
A photograph of attendees wearing redface while in line for a buffet at a Pacific University alumni dinner, held between 1957-1959. There were at least two alumni dinners held during this time period, which were advertised under the title, "Pow-wow Dinner." The event did not actually include Native Americans. From photographs, it appears to have included: white performers dressed in wigs, makeup and costumes; performing a fake "pow-wow" dance; university officials wearing Native-style chieftain headdresses; attendees being given headbands with feathers to wear (visible on the left in this image); and decorations mimicking a forest setting. This took place in Pacific University's Old Gymnasium. The photographer, Herb Drew, was a student at Pacific who took photographs for the student newspaper.
A dance that appears to be by white performers wearing redface, held at a Pacific University alumni dinner, probably in 1959. There were at least two alumni dinners held in 1957-1959 advertised under the title, "Pow-wow Dinner." The event did not actually include Native Americans. From photographs, it appears to have included: white performers dressed in wigs, makeup and costumes performing a fake "pow-wow" dance (visible in this image); university officials wearing Native-style chieftain headdresses; attendees being given headbands with feathers to wear; and decorations mimicking a forest setting. This took place in Pacific University's Old Gymnasium.
Alanson Hinman was a pioneer that came to the Oregon Territory in 1844. His headstone resides at Mountain View Memorial Gardens in Forest Grove, Oregon.
Image of a bronze statue at Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon of Harvey W. Scott who was editor of the Oregonian newspaper from 1865-1872 and from 1877 until his death in 1910.
Unidentifiable person standing next to Tabitha Brown's bee tree at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Silver gelatin print of a newspaper clipping or copy of original.
