Phi Alpha Tau Fraternity

Title

Phi Alpha Tau Fraternity

Description

A photograph of the members of the Pacific University chapter of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity. Phi Alpha Tau was an honorary fraternity "developed to the interest and development of the public speaking arts" for students "having represented the college in debate, oratory or dramatics."

This image probably depicts the founding members of the chapter in spring 1914 or shortly thereafter. A Pacific University Index student newspaper article published on January 27, 1914, identified the charter student members as: Alva Philip Patten, Ivan Donaldson, Clinton Edgar Ostrander, Charles Lachan McNeill, and Howard Rice Taylor; and charter faculty members as: President Charles J. Bushnell, Professor William Martin Proctor and Professor William Grueby Harrington. President Bushnell appears in the front row, second from the left. Professor Proctor is in the first row, third from left.

This image was clipped from an unidentified printed source. It is based on an earlier original photograph. A copy of the original is in the Pacific University President Bushnell Collection (see image PUApic_015692). The clipping is pasted into a scrapbook compiled by Frances B. Clapp, a 1908 Pacific University graduate.

Date

1914

Is Part Of

Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (MS.11)

Language

English

Identifier

PUA_MS11_092

Subject

Student activities

Students--Oregon

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon, United States

Bibliographic Citation

Phi Alpha Tau Fraternity from Pacific University, Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (1904-1910), 74, Pacific University Archives, Forest Grove, Oregon.

Source

Pacific University Archives

Date Created

circa 1914

Type

Still Image