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  Pacific University group leaving Hawaii

  A group from Pacific University at the Honolulu airport, about to travel home from Hawaii to Oregon in May 1959. The original slide is slightly blurry. Based on an article that appeared in the Pacific University Index (May 18, 1959, p. 2), the students in this group were attending a speech tournament on Oahu. "Bedecked with leis and smiling happily were the four representatives to the University of Hawaii Invitational speech tourney who returned to campus this morning at 5 a.m. carrying six trophies." This trip was also the first intentional recruitment event in Hawai'i by a staff member of Pacific University. According to the Pacific University Index (May 4, 1959, p. 3), Professor Fred Scheller, the group's speech coach, was planning "to speak at several high schools in an effort to recruit Hawaiian students, and will appear before ministerial and Pilgrim Fellowship groups." Hawaii became a state about three months after this photograph was taken in 1959. Scheller went on to become one of the founders of Pacific's Hawaii Club, Na Haumana O Hawai'i, which was organized that fall with twenty members who were from the state of Hawaii. A group that appears to have included the same people are in another photograph from 1959 (see PUApic_010595). Students from Hawaii would eventually make up a significant percentage of Pacific's student body. Group members named in the article included the students: Larry DePolo (Class of 1962; the man without glasses, right); Deanne Dayton (Class of 1961, the woman wearing a lei); and Steve Hanson (Class of 1962; the man with glasses, left). The fourth student in the group, John Randlett (Class of 1962), does not appear to be in the photograph; he may have been holding the camera. The students were accompanied by Professor Fred Scheller (the man with glasses, right). These names match a handwritten caption on the original slide, which appears to have come from the offices of Fred Scheller. It reads: "Leaving Hawaii - the [K---?], Deanne, Larry, Steve." Hanson, Dayton, DePolo and Scheller are wearing leis that were likely given to them by friends on Oahu. Hanson and Dayton are carrying Northwest Airlines bags. The women who are not wearing leis were probably seeing off the group as they left the island. The May 18, 1959 article noted above states: "They also visited the parents of several Hawaiian students attending Pacific and Sam Luna, Pacific graduate and husband of Madean Luna, Pacific senior, drove the students and Mr. Scheller to the airport and saw them off when they left this morning." The women in the photograph may be from the Luna family.
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  First Group That Went to Hawaii for Recruiting

  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.
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  Alumni Sam Arashiro and Jennifer Char Wedding

  Photo of Pacific University alumni Sam Arashiro, class of 1979, and Jennifer Char, class of 1981, wedding in Honolulu, Hawaii on June 27, 1981. This photo was published in the Winter 1982 edition of Pacific Today alumni magazine. Other alumni in the wedding party include Brenda Wall, class of 1980, and Galen Shigita, class of 1977.