Six photos of students with Boxer. The photos are displayed on a page from Thelma Mill's photo album. Most of the students are not identified, however, the photo labeled '3' on the front page features Harry Kunkel, Henry Riske, and John Garrigus holding Boxer, all three graduated from Pacific University in 1924. The photo on the back page features Thelma Mills herself holding Boxer. She graduated in 1923. Two other students are identified as 'Red' Sheeley and 'Jazz' Hoar and may refer to the photo in the upper left hand corner of the front page.
A group photo of the Tualatin Academy class which entered in 1895. They were the first to use Marsh Hall. The students and teacher are identified on the back of the photo. Listed back to front and left to right, they are: Cecil Thomas Humphreys, Frank Erastus Beauchamp, Julius Anton Young, Arthur Elias Yoder, Alfred John Funge, Willis H. Trenner, Fanny Sorensen, Robert Peter Wirtz, Harriet Eva Scholfield, Wilma Waggener, Charlolette Dot Graham, Jennie Lydia Yoder, Samuel Elverton Gates, Ora Della Caples, Margaret Best (Principal of the Woman's Department and Instructor in English), Mabel Hinman, Mary Bailey, William Turpen, Elizabeth Emily Tongue, Eleanor Russell, Ellen Gertrude Garrison, Rowena Pratt, Francis Eolia Cornelius, Jessie Leone Hibbs, James McCalmont Morrison. [Note: All of these students are found within the Pacific University records, however, this appears to be taken during their second year and the students that appear in this photo do not seem to account for the entirety of the 1895 class].
Five members of the Gamma Sigma fraternity stand with Boxer in front of the '1967' stone that is placed in one of the outer walls of the Harvey Scott Memorial Library (now Scott Hall). In the back row, from left to right, are Larry Alberton (Class of 1969), Bill Swanson (Class of 1969), and Gary Wright (Class of 1970). In the front row, left to right, are Paul 'The Beak' Diederich and Jim 'Handsome' Ransom (Class of 1971).
A china plate depicting various buildings on the Pacific University campus, the school's mascot, and the school's crest, founding date, and Latin motto: Pro Christo Et Regno Ejus.
Photo of the Adult Student Housing, taken for the 1970-1971 Pacific University catalog. The apartment are located on Main Street in Forest Grove, to the north of campus. They are now known as the Boxer Apartments.
Portrait of Reverend Joseph Elkanah Walker, Pacific University Class of 1867. He was responsible for bringing the original Boxer to Pacific University. J. E. Walker was a missionary in China for decades. This photograph was taken during one of his visits home to Oregon, possibly circa 1890-1900.
Five men and one woman, all appearing to around age 70, posing for a snapshot with Pacific University's original Boxer statue. The people, all of whom are wearing Boxer-themed name tags, are likely Pacific University alumni or trustees. The statue would later become the mascot of the university. This photograph, which appears to date from around 1950-1960, may have been taken at a 50th Reunion celebration.
A photograph of the symbolic burial of the old Pacific University "Badger" mascot costume in 1968. In this year, the Pacific student body and alumni confirmed that "Badger," which had been the official mascot for decades, would be replaced by "Boxer," the more popular grassroots emblem of the students. The original Badger mascot costume is held in Pacific University's museum collection.
A photo of LeRoy Gamble, Len VanBuren, and Hal Whitbeck [likely left to right]. They are resting under a tree after a Boxer Toss during the 1948-1949 school year. LeRoy Gamble graduated in the Class of 1950 and served as principal at Forest Grove High School for many years. Hal Whitbeck graduated in the Class of 1949 and was a high school teacher and coach for many years.
Students gather in a field at Pacific University to watch a Boxer Toss. Boxer Tosses were events where the bronze statue of Boxer would be fought over by a crowd of students, all wanting to have the statue of Boxer for themselves or their club.
Pacific University Badgers engaged in a basketball game against Willamette. Pacific's mascot was the Badgers until it was changed to the Boxers in 1967.
A group of Pacific University fraternity members hold Boxer after they rescued him from would-be snatchers. Left to right are: T. Fishburn, Ed Bennett, Class of 1941, John Uchiyama, Class of 1939, Ed Goddard, Class of 1940, Lewis Merz, Class of 1939, and, in the center, holding Boxer, Myrl Barkhurst, Class of 1939.
Nine Pacific University students (8 male, 1 female) holding large canes seated around a banquet table. "Boxer," a Chinese bronze statue of a qilin that would later become Pacific University's mascot, sits in a place of honor on the end of the table. Various banners are hanging behind the students which read '1903' and 'PU 02'. 'Annual Banquet' is written on the end of the table. This banquet probably took place in November 1899 when members of the Class of 1902 were sophomores. It was the first time that students displayed Boxer after having stolen him as a prank in October 1899.
