This photo of Frances B. Clapp was taken on June 30, 1903, the year she graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from Pacific University. She later received a Ph.D in music from Pacific in 1935. Clapp went to Japan and taught at the Doshisha Women's University. She also conducted missionary work while there. The Japanese government honored Clapp with the Fifth Order of Sacred Treasure.
In 1911, Dora Baker was the first student to be nominated summa cum laude, with highest honor, at Pacific University. This photo was taken on May 19, 1904.
Harmon Chapman was the son of Pacific University music professor Frank Thomas Chapman. Frank Chapman taught at Pacific from 1903 to 1917. His wife, Pauline (Miller) Chapman, also taught music at Pacific from 1903 to 1913.
Frances B. Clapp graduated from Pacific University in 1908 and later received a Ph.D. in music at Pacific. Clapp left America to teach at the Doshisha Women's College in Japan and to missionary work there. She was later honored by the Japanese government by decorating her with the Fifth Order of the Sacred Treasure. There was an endowed scholarship created in Clapp's name at Pacific for music students.
Portrait of Daniel Irwin Aller, a member of the Pacific University Class of 1907. Aller was born in Ohio in 1886 and died in Fresno, California in 1979. This photograph appears to show him as an early adult, possibly while he was in college or soon afterwards.
Photo of Daniel Irwin Aller in 1908. He was a member of the Pacific University Class of 1907, in Forest Grove, Oregon. Aller was born in Ohio in 1886 and died in Fresno, California in 1979.
Photo of Daniel Irwin Aller in 1908. He was a member of the Pacific University Class of 1907, in Forest Grove, Oregon. Aller was born in Ohio in 1886 and died in Fresno, California in 1979.
Daisy Abernathy, presumably a student at the Tualatin Academy before Pacific University was established, on December 27, 1905. Abernathy married Olympic sprinter Archie Hahn who coached at Pacific in 1907. Archie Hahn also coached at Princeton University and for 22 years, starting in 1929, at University of Virginia.
A portrait of Daniel Irwin Aller, possibly from 1908. He was a member of the Pacific University Class of 1907, in Forest Grove, Oregon. Aller was born in Ohio in 1886 and died in Fresno, California in 1979.
A group of Pacific University students and faculty posing for a picture during a picnic outing at Gales Creek, Oregon. Those pictured include: Henry Liberty Bates, Principal of Tualatin Academy; Mary Frances Farnham, Dean of Women and Professor of English and Literature at Pacific University; Victor Emmanuel Albright, Instructor in Public Speaking and English at Pacific University; and students Livia Ella Ferrin, Arthur John Prideaux, Frances Thora Sorensen, William Beatty Rasmussen, Willard Herman Wirtz, Daniel Deronda Bump and Clara Ida Irvin (Class of 1906); and Ethel Belle Moseley, Sarah Pamela Boldrick and Pearl Wilma Chandler (Class of 1907).
