Archives and Museum
Kunal Nayyar ‘03 Challenge Gift for Performing Arts
Kunal Nayyar ’03, star from the Big Bang Theory, has pledged to give $200,000 to support the Performing Arts Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Kunal hopes to inspire at least 100 donors to make a gift to any designation in the College of Arts and Sciences campaign. When this goal is reached, his gift will provide support for performing arts students and programs.
Join the challenge starting tomorrow at 12:00 p.m.! On April 4-5 from noon to noon, the UP community will come together for our first ever day of giving:#PilotsGive. With nearly $400,000 in challenge funds available, University of Portland has an ambitious goal of securing 1000 donors in one day! #PilotsGive is OUR chance to make UP stronger. pilotsgive.up.edu Together we all add UP!
In Memory of Dr. Manuel Macias, 1929-2016
The University Museum has created two displays to honor the memory of Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Dr. Manuel Macias, who passed away on March 19, 2016. Please visit and remember him by viewing items in the Buckley Center first floor display case (across from the Studies Abroad office). See photos and memorabilia donated to the University Museum, including the extremely memorable blue “lampshade” academic cap and regalia.
Women admitted to UP!
In 1951, the University of Portland began admitting women as students to the College of Arts and Sciences. Though women had been admitted to nursing and music before the 1950s, since these were considered the proper sphere for women’s activities, the opening of CAS prompted the opening of the entire campus to women who wanted to study in any field.
The display featuring this milestone in the University’s history was created by the University Museum using photographs from the University Archives for the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center. Visit the display the next time you are in BC!
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American women in the 1950s:
In her best-selling 1963 publication, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan painted a picture of a 1950s world in which a life of domesticity proved the only option available for American women, noting that college admission rates for women had actually declined from the 1920s to the 1950s. Although Friedan’s claim accurately reflected some aspects of 1950s America- including the shifting gender ideologies brought about by the post-World War II era- it didn’t capture or define all of American women’s experiences in the 1950s.
In reality during the 1950s American women continued to attend college; they continued to work outside of the home (in fact married women’s labor force participation, increasing since the 1920s, continued to climb upward throughout the 1950s); women continued to be involved in political activities, spearheading some of the first anti-nuclear and peace organizations of the McCarthy era; and, though often over-looked, women such as Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosa Parks, and Jo Ann Robinson played critical roles in laying the groundwork for and organizing the Civil Rights Movement.
If you’d like to learn more, consider taking one of the following courses in the Fall, 2013:
HST 316: History of Modern American Women
SW/PSY 356 Perspectives on Human Sexuality
For further reading:
Joanne Meyerowitz, editor, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Post-War America, 1945-1960, (Philadelphia: Temple University, 1994.)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, (New York: Basic Books, 1999.)
Brother Donald Leaves UP
After 24 years at University of Portland as history and political science professor, dean, academic vice president, and provost, Br. Donald Stabrowski, C.S.C., leaves University of Portland to service as assistant provincial for the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers. A look back on his years with the Congregation of Holy Cross and University of Portland.
Columbus Day Storm, 1962 on Display
October
Fifty years ago on October 12, 1962 a major storm struck Portland, remembered by those who experienced it as “the Columbus Day storm.” The roof of St. Joseph Hall, a two-story wooden structure to the west of Howard Hall then serving as a residence for several Holy Cross religious, was ripped away by the wind and many of the native Douglas firs on the campus were uprooted. Power was lost to much of the city including the campus. The food service at the Commons improvised with hamburgers cooked over charcoal on the grills that originally lined the west entrance to the building.
The University Museum has created a display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Columbus Day Storm. The display is located in the display case near the computer stations in the Pilot House and will be in place until the end of October. Contact Carolyn Connolly, Museum Coordinator, at 8038 or piatz@up.edu for more information.