Professor Fred Scheller (left) with a student (center) and another man who is most likely Professor Albert "Hap" Hingston (right), on Pacific University's campus. Both Professors taught Speech and Communications at Pacific. Walter Hall appears behind them on the left; McCormick Hall is in the background. The original slide was printed in March 1978.
Pacific University professor Fred Scheller on a ski trip to Mount Hood in February, 1971. This appears to have been part of an annual trip organized by Pacific's Haumana O Hawai'i (Hawaiian Club), led by Scheller. The original image is overexposed.
Pacific University students eating dinner at Professor Fred Scheller's house in Aloha, Oregon circa 1969-1973. They are identified on the original slide as: Ava Fasone; Gerry Yoshida (Class of 1973); Cassy Vannatta; and Clyde Kunashiro. Several of the students are wearing leis and Hawaiian shirts. Professor Scheller was the advisor to Haumana O Hawaii (Hawaii Students Club); this may have been a club social event.
Members of a team of Pacific University faculty, staff and students, in a photo taken during the university's first recruitment trip to Hawaii. This trip probably took place in 1959; possibly in May. The college's Hawaiian Club formed in November ("Nineteen students in Hawaiian Club," The Index, Nov. 23, 1959, p. 2). This photograph was printed somewhat later, in January, 1960.
This photograph has been identified, presumably by alumni, as the "First Group that went to Hawaii for Recruiting." It was formerly owned by Professor Fred Scheller, based on a note on the back ("return to Fred Schellar").
Some of the people in this photograph have been identified based upon another photograph that appears to have been taken during the same trip: see PUA_PeoSlides_002. Seated in the back row, from left to right, are: Deanne Dayton (Class of 1961); Larry DePolo (Class of 1962); and Professor Fred Scheller. Seated in the front row from left to right are: John Randlett (Class of 1962); an unidentified woman who was likely a Pacific University alumna from Oahu; and Steve Hanson (Class of 1962). The standing woman may be a relative of the unidentified woman seated on the floor. These two women were likely hosting the visitors from Pacific.
Scheller taught speech and debate at Pacific. In May 1959, he led Dayton, DePolo, Randlett and Hanson on a trip to the University of Hawaii on Oahu for a speech tournament (see: Pacific University Index, May 18, 1959, p. 2). On the trip, they met with several Pacific University alumni families. During this trip, Scheller also spoke "at several high schools in an effort to recruit Hawaiian students, and will appear before ministerial and Pilgrim Fellowship groups" (Pacific University Index, May 4, 1959, p. 3). This was likely the first intentional recruitment trip in Hawaii by a member of Pacific's staff.
In November 1959, Scheller co-founded and became the advisor of Na Haumana O Hawaii, Pacific University's Hawaiian Student Club. He was a leader in recruiting students from Hawaii for Pacific University. Students from Hawaii would eventually make up a significant percentage of Pacific's student body.
