One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1866. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- Acceptance of new churches in Astoria and Hillsboro; -- Creation of a new Home Missionary Committee and resolutions in support of the American Home Missionary Society; -- Resolution in support of religious education; -- Resolutions in support of "The Pacific," a religious newspaper; -- Resolutions asking church congregations to meet and invite new members, even when they had no pastor yet; -- Resolutions in support of creating Sunday Schools (or "Sabbath Schools") and creating a standing committee on the subject; -- Resolution supporting Pacific University and creation of a related standing committee; -- Resolutions in favor of Temperance.
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1864. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Creation of a Committee for the State of the Country [i.e. on matters relating to the Civil War and national politics]; -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- Resolutions by George H. Atkinson asking the American Home Missionary Society to send three more missionaries to work in Oregon and Idaho; -- Discussion of a resolution that the AHMS also appoint an Agent to serve Oregon, Washington and Idaho; -- A man namedTanner granted a license to preach; -- Resolutions in support of the Union Army and raising funds for the soldiers' Sanitary Fund; -- Resolutions recognizing that "God is freeing the slaves of our country," and that donations should be raised for the Freedman's Aid Association; the latter resolutions were adopted with amendments affirming the hope that "slavery will be entirely destroyed," but omitting fundraising for freed slaves; -- Resolution in favor of raising salaries for ministers; -- Resolution in support of inter-denominational harmony.
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1863. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- Resolutions regarding creating a Committee on Theological Studies, which would recommend coursework for young men wishing to become ministers; -- Acknowledgment of Henry Spalding's work with the Nez Perce tribe and a motion asking him to send information concerning his region; -- Resolution urging ministers to encourage students to enroll at Pacific University and Tualatin Academy; -- Resolution regarding the Civil War, reaffirming "our devotion to the Union."
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1862. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- Approval of D.B. Gray to preach in Albany and Eugene; -- Resolution deferring decisions on creation of Home Missionary Chapters to a committee; -- Resolution regarding Secret Societies; -- Resolution by Sidney H. Marsh regarding "the state of the country" (the text of which was not recorded).
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1860. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- "Narrative of the Churches" describing the membership and finances of member churches, including the note that a "Ladies Sewing Circle" raised hundreds of dollars towards church expenses; -- Resolutions in support of religious education and Pacific University; -- Discussion of Sunday Schools and the religious education of children.
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing the minutes of the annual meeting held in 1859. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: -- Acceptance of routine reports; -- Resolutions in favor of religious education and Pacific University; -- Resolution concerning the Plan of Union of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches; resolution recommending that the U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs appoint Henry Spalding as a teacher to the Nez Perce tribe; -- Resolution in support of Cushing Eells going to Wailatpu to establish a new college, to be named the "Whitman Seminary" [this would become Whitman College]; -- Resolution in favor of sending a representative to the East Coast; -- Resolution affirming that the Association would not grant membership to any ministers who allowed pro-slavery preachers to speak at their churches; -- Resolution against the validity of divorce; -- Resolution regarding treatment of church members who had committed offenses; -- "Narrative of Churches," describing how ministers should continue to preach regardless of public disapproval, and also noting a recent revival and conversions in Forest Grove and condemning "entertainments"; -- Amendments to the Association's constitution; -- Resolution against dancing.
One part of a record book compiled by the Congregational Association of Oregon, with this part containing its Constitution and By-laws, a membership list dated 1857-1878, and the minutes of annual meetings held in 1857-1858. The Association's members were church ministers and other delegates from Oregon and bordering areas. They met annually to share reports, promote Christian education, support special projects and address internal disputes. Some of the topics covered in this part of the record book include: 1857: Governance rules and committees of the organization; -- Possible publications such as a newspaper; -- Finding a pastor for the church in Forest Grove and mediating a dispute over church leadership there; -- Formation of a committee to handle communications with external organizations; -- Discussion of a report on slavery, concluding that while the Association did not support slavery, they could not give funds towards the cause; -- Resolution against slavery in Oregon, authored by Obed Dickinson; -- Resolution on prohibiting alcohol and supporting collections of funds in support of this cause; -- Resolution on the church in The Dalles, recommending Dickinson visit and preach there; -- Resolution on the role of Horace Lyman at Pacific University and a resolution in support of the university; -- Advising William Tenney to visit Astoria. -- 1858: Acceptance of routine reports; -- Acknowledging the death of Rev. Harvey Clark; -- Tending to regular church business and meeting rules; -- Discussion of a resolution by Henry Spalding on Sunday Schools; -- Resolutions concerning preaching; -- Resolutions condemning slavery and criticizing the American Temperance Society's recent stance on the issue; -- Resolution in support of Pacific University.
A bronze statue that likely functioned as an incense burner, similar in appearance to Pacific University's qilin "Boxer" mascot. This statue appears to be a 19th or 20th century Chinese (or possibly Japanese?) work depicting an unknown mythological creature, possibly a "Denglong." Its features include: cone-shaped ears; fish-like scales on its back, chest and legs; clawed feet; a mane and tail; protruding black eyes on short stalks; a single horn with two branches on its forehead; a dog-like snout; a fish-like or frog-like mouth; and a dragon-like crest of scales running down its backbone. It is similar to a Qilin, except for the fact that its feet have claws rather than hooves, and it has no whiskers. The statue's head was connected to the body with a hinge (now broken), inside of which incense could be placed, so that the smoke would come out of its nose and mouth. The tail is removable, probably so that ash could be removed. One ear has become loose but still attaches to the body. The statue measures 8.5" high, 4" wide and 10" long.
The statue resembles the bronze qilin incense burner nicknamed "Boxer," which later became Pacific University's official mascot. In the 1950s, the Boxer statue was circulating among Pacific U. students, who would periodically bring out the statue for a brawl-like contest over its possession. This similar bronze statue was collected by Roger K. Smith (Pacific University Class of 1953), probably in October 1951. The Smith Family kept this statue for 71 years, alongside a letter that Roger sent to his parents on Oct. 22, 1951, which stated: "When the package [containing the statue] comes, take good care of the contents. Even Myron [Roger's brother, another Pacific U. student] doesn't know that I came up with the thing. The poor boy sure took a beating. Came up in four parts." The statue was donated to Pacific University by the Smith Family in November, 2022. The copy of the letter that accompanied the statue is kept in the Archives subject files. For other materials related to the Smith Family, see the LeRoy and Reatha Smith Papers (Pacific University Archives, MS.48).
A log by Les AuCoin of his experiences supporting the Barack Obama / Joe Biden ticket in the 2008 United States Presidential campaign in Ohio. AuCoin was a former U.S. Congressman from Oregon. At the time he wrote this log, he was serving as a visiting professor at Southern Oregon University. The photographs in the log were taken by his wife, professional photographer Sue AuCoin.
This log was originally published electronically as a blog in 2008. It covers the AuCoins' work for the Obama campaign between September 27 - November 3, 2008, mostly in Ohio; Les AuCoin's reactions to the results on Election Day, November 4, 2008; and reflections on Obama's victory, written on November 23, 2008. In 2022, AuCoin added comments to the original blog series and saved the text and images in the present PDF format.
A Japanese doll in a glass case. A gift to President Hallick from Fred Scheller, probably circa 2010. This was a gift bought in Japan by Fred's wife which Fred thought should be given to Pacific University.
A short video of a parade and attendees during the Gay Nineties Festival in downtown Forest Grove, Oregon sometime between 1962-1965. The Gay Nineties Festival was a community event that took place in Forest Grove from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. Celebrating the era of the 1890s, it was originally held in conjunction with the town's Barbershop Quartet Contest. During its heyday, the festival featured a parade, stage shows, and carnival, and attracted thousands of attendees.
The footage was shot from Pacific Avenue near the corner of College Way. People appearing in this video before the parade begins include Don Conrad (wearing a straw flat hat) and other Conrad Family members. Parade participants include: marching bands; a covered wagon; classic cars; floats from St. Anthony's School and Central School; unicyclists; and people in various historic costumes. Locations appearing in the background include the Standard Oil Gas Station, a service station on the corner of College and Pacific, the Grove Theatre, Gimre's Shoes and Floyd's Music. The Tip Top Cafe's blinking neon sign is partially visible near the 1:24 mark: the "O" and "I" in Tip/Top blink on and off.
This video is one of three that was created by local area resident Irene Conrad between 1962-1965 on 8mm film. The family transferred the films to DVD format and then extracted clips in MP4 format. Copies of the MP4 format were given to Pacific University. The videos do not have sound, and no higher resolution version is available.
A short video of a parade held during the Gay Nineties Festival in downtown Forest Grove, Oregon sometime between 1962-1965. The Gay Nineties Festival was a community event that took place in Forest Grove from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. Celebrating the era of the 1890s, it was originally held in conjunction with the town's Barbershop Quartet Contest. During its heyday, the festival featured a parade, stage shows, and carnival, and attracted thousands of attendees.
Parade participants visible in this video include a marching band, a majorette, and horseback riders. The parade footage was shot from Pacific Avenue near the corner of College Way. Locations appearing in the background include the Standard Oil Gas Station and Pacific University's Carnegie Hall.
This video is one of three that was created by local area resident Irene Conrad between 1962-1965 on 8mm film. The family transferred the films to DVD format and then extracted clips in MP4 format. Copies of the MP4 format were given to Pacific University. The videos do not have sound, and no higher resolution version is available.
A short video of a parade held during the Gay Nineties Festival in downtown Forest Grove, Oregon sometime between 1962-1965. The Gay Nineties Festival was a community event that took place in Forest Grove from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. Celebrating the era of the 1890s, it was originally held in conjunction with the town's Barbershop Quartet Contest. During its heyday, the festival featured a parade, stage shows, and carnival, and attracted thousands of attendees.
Parade participants visible in this video include costumed performers portraying pioneers, cowboys and Native Americans. Marching bands, horse-drawn wagons, classic cars and other displays also appear. The parade footage was shot from Pacific Avenue near the corner of College Way. Towards the end of the video, there is footage of Don Conrad opening the door of Gimre Shoes, which stood on the south side of Pacific Avenue between Main and Council Streets. Locations appearing in the background include The Grove Theatre, Standard Oil Gas Station, Gimre's Shoes, a music shop, a coffee shop, and Pacific University's Carnegie Hall.
This video is one of three that was created by local area resident Irene Conrad between 1962-1965 on 8mm film. The family transferred the films to DVD format and then extracted clips in MP4 format. Copies of the MP4 format were given to Pacific University. The videos do not have sound, and no higher resolution version is available.
An article by Steve Dodge on the 1975 fire that destroyed the interior of Marsh Hall on the Pacific University campus. The article includes: details about the original 1895 construction and layout of Marsh Hall; eyewitnesses accounts of the fire; descriptions of other fires on campus; student and faculty responses to the fire; the response of President Miller and the Board of Trustees; clean-up, fundraising and reconstruction efforts; and the origins of the purple elevator doors in the current building. This article was originally published in the Summer 2005 issue of Pacific University's alumni magazine.
A group portrait of the boys in the Chemawa Indian School band, taken soon after the school relocated to Chemawa from Forest Grove in 1885. The students hold their instruments as if they were performing, probably as a posed demonstration for the camera. From left to right, they hold four trumpets (and/or bugles); three euphoniums or similar brass instruments; a tuba; a large drum with cymbal; and a snare drum. The student holding the large drum is probably James Stewart, Nez Perce. The four students on the left may be the same boys noted as being "buglers" on the school roster (not necessarily in this order): George Piute, Warm Springs; George Brown, Tlingit; Philip Jones, Tlingit; and George Blake, Tlingit. For another photograph taken on the same day, see image WCMss261_001_157.
A group portrait of the 1885 graduates of the Forest Grove Indian School. The school relocated from Forest Grove to Chemawa that year and was renamed soon afterwards. This image was probably made at Chemawa based on the white building in the background. It was probably taken at the end of the school year in June. The boys wear their military-style school dress uniforms; several have stripes, epaulets and medals that probably indicated their ranks within the school. The girls wear matching white dresses which the girls probably sewed in the school's sewing workshops. Two students have been identified: James Stewart, Nez Perce (middle row, fourth from right); and Jacob Helm, Paiute of Yakama (middle row, second from left). Emma Kahama may be the fourth student from the right in the top row. Students listed in school records as 1885 graduates, many of whom are probably in this portrait, include: John Alexis, Lummi; George Blake, Stikine Tlingit; David Fletcher and Jennie Fletcher, Snohomish; Jacob Helm, Paiute of Yakama; Etta Hollaquilla, Warm Springs; Thomas Itwis, Puyallup; Levi Jonas, Nez Perce; Emma Kahama, Puyallup; Peter Kalama, Nisqually and Hawaiian; Ella Lane, Puyallup; William Lewis, Tlingit; William Martin, Puyallup; George Meacham, Wasco; Lizzie Olney, Warm Springs; Emma Parker, Wasco and Warm Springs; Lillie Pitt and Sallie Pitt, Pit River and Warm Springs; Rosa Price, Nez Perce; Peter Sherwood, Squaxin Island; John Smith, Skokomish; James Stewart, Nez Perce; Susie Winyer, Nisqually.
A group portrait of mostly Tlingit boys from Alaska who were enrolled at the Forest Grove Indian School in 1881 or 2. The photograph was taken by an employee of the I.G. Davidson Studio of Portland, outdoors on the school campus. The Davidson studio took several other group portraits of students on the same day. Copies of the photographs were sold as albumen print cabinet cards to the public, with a portion of the proceeds going to the school coffers. This arrangement was made as an agreement between the studio and the school's first superintendent, Captain M.C. Wilkinson. The caption reads: "Davidson Photo. No. 37. Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon. Group of Alaska Boys. Capt. M. C. WIlkinson, U.S.A., in charge."
The boys wear their everyday school clothes and caps from the school's military-style uniforms. Most of them have tucked small tokens into their button holes: oak leaves and wildflowers. Students in this image probably include those listed in the school roster as having come from Alaska by 1881: William Lear, George Brown, Frank Shattuck, Samuel Goldstein, Walter Burwell, Arthur Jackson, Harry Kadeshan, Charles Lott, Philip Jones, George Blake, and William Lewis. Of these, William Lear and Frank Shattuck appear to have actually been Samish and Coast Salish from northern Washington; the others were Tlingit of Chilkat, Sitka and Stikine. Based on another confirmed photograph, the second boy from the left in the bottom row is probably Walter Burwell. A swing can be seen hanging from the trees in the background, possibly identifying the location as the school's play area, which was just west of the campus.
A group portrait of the boys enrolled at Chemawa Indian School, very soon after the school relocated there from Forest Grove in 1885. The boys stand at attention, demonstrating a military drill for the camera. The student standing in front of the others may have been leading the drill. One student holds the United States flag aloft on the right. A woman stands in the doorway of the white building on the left. Trees, which had not yet been cleared from the campus, lie behind a fenced area in the background. The boys in this portrait were taken to the school from tribes across the Pacific Northwest as part of a government plan to force them to assimilate into white culture. For another photograph taken on the same day, see image WCMss261_001_176.
A group portrait of 62 Native American students from Pacific Northwest tribes who were enrolled at the Forest Grove Indian School. It was likely taken between May-June 1881, by which time a total of 64 students had enrolled.
This photograph was taken by an employee of the I.G. Davidson Studio of Portland. The tribes then present at the school included Puyallup, Warm Springs, Spokane, Chehalis, and Alaskan (primarily Tlingit). The caption reads: "Davidson, Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon, Photo." The Davidson studio took numerous photographs of the school to sell to the public as cabinet cards. However this image, which is printed on different stock than the other Davidson cabinet cards and with a handwritten rather than printed caption, appears to have been made in smaller quantities, possibly for a smaller audience.
Several students have been identified based on other confirmed portraits. The two students in the top row wearing plaid are Nugen and Augustus Kautz, whose mother was a Nisqually woman named Tenas Puss and father was General August Valentine Kautz of the U.S. Army. The fifth student from the right in the third row from the top is David Brewer, Puyallup. The student standing furthest to the left in the third row from the top is Samuel "Spott" McCaw, Puyallup.
An illustration of scenes from the Forest Grove Indian School that was published in the magazine Harper's Weekly in 1882, based on photographs from 1881. The school, which functioned from 1880-1885, tried to assimilate Native children into Western culture, teaching them trades and basic academic skills while eradicating their native languages and cultural practices.
The images include: 'Housekeeping' (upper left): female students performing tasks they learned at the school including sewing, laundry, ironing, and making bread, with several younger students holding dolls; 'Carpenters at Work' (upper right): male students in front of the school's workshop performing tasks from carpentry class including sawing and cabinetmaking; 'A School Scene' (lower right): male and female students posed in an academic classroom scene outdoors with teaching equipment such as maps, books, charts, and an organ; 'Shoemaking' (lower left): male students in front of the school's workshop performing tasks from the shoemaking class, accompanied by teacher Samuel A. T. Walker; and 'New Recruits, Spokane Indians' (center): a group portrait of the Spokane students who arrived at the school in July 1881: Alice L. Williams, Florence Hayes, Suzette (or Susan) Secup, Julia Jopps, Louise Isaacs, Martha Lot, Eunice Madge James, James George, Ben Secup, Frank Rice, and Garfield Hayes.
The illustrations were based on a series of photographs that were taken in 1881. The photographer was from the I.G. Davidson studio of Portland. The four classroom scenes were posed outdoors at the Forest Grove Indian School, and are intended to show some of the skills that the students were learning there. The center group portrait was taken at the Davidson studio and was intended to be a 'before' picture of how the students looked when they arrived at the school; an 'after' photograph showing them seven months later was also taken, but not reproduced in this illustration. The photographs were probably originally produced in order to assist in fundraising activities for the school.
This double-page illustrated version of the photographs was drawn by Thure de Thulstrup to accompany an article in Harper's Weekly, which was an American magazine with a very large circulation. The article praised the school and described its accomplishments in assimilating Native children.
This image shows the building which had been used as a dormitory at the Forest Grove Indian School from 1880-1885 as it appeared in 1894, after the Indian School had moved away to Salem. By the time of this photograph in 1894, the building had been converted to housing for male students at Pacific University. As an historian of the university written a decade later recounted, 'One of the main buildings erected for the [Indian] school burned a short time before the removal [to Salem; this is referring to the Indian girls' dormitory, which burned down around 1885], and the other has been fitted up for a boys' dormitory and boarding house [for Pacific University students]. Here some of the young men have clubbed together, and thus boarded themselves for from a dollar and a quarter to a dollar and a half a week.' The historian cross-referenced this image from the Pacific University 1894 yearbook, 'The Heart of Oak,' where this image was first published. See: Eells, Myron, ed. 'A History of Tualatin Academy and Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 1848-1902.' Typescript. (1904) p. 83-84. Pacific University Archives.
A portrait of an unidentified Native American girl. She probably attended Chemawa Indian School and/or the Forest Grove Indian School; or she might be the daughter of alumni from the school, such as Katie and David Brewer. The photograph is a small, 43mm x 81mm image in carte-de-visite format. It is stamped on the verso of the photograph as having been taken by W. P. Johnson, and probably dates from between 1886-1888 (See: Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 394). This may be the same girl who is pictured in another portrait in the collection, PUApic_008361.
