Speeches being made for Pacific University library dedication. Pictured are: Steve Prince, professor of English; Joe Jefferson, trustee; and Virginia A. Stretcher, Class of 1968, who became a teacher at Mar Vista High School.
Copy of a photograph of speeches being made for Pacific University library dedication. Pictured are: Steve Prince, professor of English; Joe Jefferson, trustee; and Virginia A. Stretcher, Class of 1968, who became a teacher at Mar Vista High School.
Robert Fenton Duvall, president of Pacific University from 1983 to 1995, with trustee Roy E. Lieuallen, Class of 1940. Lieuallen was married to Barbara (Wales) Lieuallen, Class of 1939.
Former Board of Trustee member Douglas Strain and an unidentified trustee member pose next to the Pacific University sign in the mid 1980s. Strain was the chair of the board from 1984-1986 and funded the Strain science building on the Forest Grove campus built in 1993.
Former Pacific University Board of Trustees member Douglas C. Strain attends a banquet during the mid 1980s. Strain was the chair of the group from 1984-1986. Strain funded the construction of Pacific University's Strain science building.
A portrait of Myron Eells (1843-1907). This photograph was taken at the I. G. Davidson Studio in Tacoma, WA, which was active between 1886-1891.
Eells was born at the Tshimakain Mission near modern Spokane, WA, in 1843. His parents were the missionaries Cushing and Myra Eells. The family relocated to Forest Grove, OR in in 1848. Myron's father moved back to eastern Washington in the early 1860s, where he founded Whitman College. Myron Eells remained in Forest Grove, graduating from Pacific University in 1866. After studying to become a minister, he moved to the Skokomish Reservation in 1874, where his brother Edwin Eells was the Indian Agent. While working there as a missionary, Myron became a well-known historian and ethnologist, collecting hundreds of Native American artifacts and early Pacific Northwest manuscripts and books. He published numerous works on Native American language and culture. Myron also served as a trustee of Pacific University for many years and wrote one of the first histories of Pacific University in 1902. He died in 1907.
Portrait of Napoleon Davis, Pacific University Class of 1883. After graduating, he became a lawyer in Portland, Oregon and a member of the Board of Trustees of Pacific University.
Portrait of Reverend Elkanah Walker, a Congregationalist missionary who spent much of the latter part of his life in Forest Grove, where he helped found Tualatin Academy and Pacific University.
Portrait of Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding. An active missionary, he lived for a time in Forest Grove and served as a trustee to Tualatin Academy. His wife Eliza also served as the Academy's first teacher.
Portrait of Revered Elwin L. House, a Doctor of Divinity from Portland who was pastor for the First Congregational Church. He also served as a Trustee for Pacific University.
