Annuals 2

Each year the campus community is ever renewed with new members, about whom established faculty and staff forever sigh: so young.  Even the senior class envies the fresh-faces of the freshmen class.

But everyone was new once: Our 25 year class of new faculty and staff from 1991 includes — Brian Doyle, editor of Portland Magazine; Howard Feldman, Business; Patrick Berg, Political Science.  Each continuing to enrich our common enterprise.  Beginners from 20 years ago include — Mark Kennedy, Engineering; Regina Largent, Army ROTC, then, first director of the Shepard Freshman Resource Center; Peter Osterberg, Engineering; Patricia (Tisha) Morrell, Education; Stephen Vegdahl, Computer Science/Engineering; and Zia Yamayee, Dean of Engineering from 1996.  People whose continuing influence benefits UP student life and learning today.  But the maximum impact member of the 20 year club is surely *** Kirk Mustain *** Chef, Supervisor, Manager in the Kingdom of Bon Appetit at the Commons, Pilot House, and new to Lund Family Hall.  We all rely on him and his ever-young reading of the need, care, maintenance of a quirky community.

Also, on March 3, 1991, Rev. David T. Tyson, C.S.C. was inaugurated as the 18th President of the University of Portland.

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Tisha Morrell, 1997

Steven Vegdahl, 1997

Brian Doyle, 1994

Col. Regina Largent (Army ROTC), 1997

Howard Feldman, ca1993

Kirk Mustain, 2000

Mark Kennedy, 1997

Zia Yamayee, 1997

In his 1988 book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum observes how truly the skills learned in pre-school and kindergarten launch us into social and cultured life; such rudimentary learning as pairing with a partner and holding hands to walk-in-line when proceeding as a group– all the while eschewing chewing gum while in-motion.  Perhaps the last formal application of this lesson occurs at college graduation, dressed in unfamiliar robery, balancing square-hats, and trying not to call attention to yourself getting to your seat on the floor of the Chiles Center.

All under the watchful care of MACE-WIELDING senior Marshals attempting as best as they can to keep order among the Faculty too, which august and more colorfully garbed assemblage is sometimes as challenged keeping their lines and precedence as is the body of celebrating and properly gleeful graduates.

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At the end of the 2015-16 academic year, six members of the University of Portland faculty will retire after many years of service to this institution, making a difference in the lives of untold number of students.    The University gives thanks to our retiring faculty for their dedication and commitment to teaching and learning and wishes them all the best.

Dr. Robert Butler, Environmental Science, at UP since 2004
Dr. Howard Feldman, Business Administration, at UP since 1991
Ms. Drew Harrington, Dean of the Library, at UP since 2006
Rev. Thomas Hosinski, C.S.C., Theology, at UP since 1978
Dr. Lawrence Lewis, Business Administration, at UP since 2001
Dr. James Seal, Business Administration, at UP since 1977

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At the end of the 2014-15 academic year, five members of the University of Portland faculty will retire after many years of service to this institution, making a difference in the lives of untold number of students.    The University gives thanks to our retiring faculty for their dedication and commitment to teaching and learning and wishes them all the best.

Dr. Raymond Bard, Chemistry, at UP since 1986
Dr. Susan Decker, Nursing, at UP since 1973
Dr. Kenneth Kleszynski, Music, at UP since 1987
Dr. Elayne Shapiro, at UP since 1987
Dr. Joanne Warner, Nursing, at UP since 2005

The University of Portland campus continues to grow.  One hundred years ago life on the Bluff cycled through just three buildings: West, Christie, and Howard Halls.  That was the story.

Today the campus – upper and lower – is 150 acres, with 30+ buildings supporting and sheltering student life.  So this brief, helpful orientation for new members of the University Community.

If you can hear the bell chimes of the Bell Tower, following the sound will lead you to Bauccio Commons and The Chapel of Christ the Teacher; the south corner of the academic quad where body and soul are nurtured and fed.

If you look up and see a purple P against a white background, you are at the sports and practice fields along Willamette Boulevard: the Chiles Center, Merlo Field, Prusynski pitch, for varsity and club sports.

If looking west from Etzel baseball field you see a gorilla on the horizon: well, some matters are beyond explanation.  All anyone knows is that the gorilla has risen joyously above Villa Maria at the opening of the school year on and off since 1998.

If you look up from green space into these marvelous arches, you are lost: off-campus, in Cathedral Park at the base of the St. John’s bridge.

Each year at this time the University of Portland sends its graduates beyond the Bluff into the world.   This year the University announces a record number of 212 graduate and 929 undergraduate students to receive their degrees during the first weekend of May here on campus in the Earle A. and Virginia H. Chiles Center.

The number of University graduates has fluctuated during the years of the University’s existence.   For example, Lawrence Brennan received the only university degree awarded in 1932 (we had first become a 4-year University four years before).    The University of Portland became fully co-educational in 1951, and when the University conferred its 10,000th degree in 1974, it was received by Catherine Glidden, an earned bachelor’s degree in Nursing.

From Army and Air Force commissionings, to the Nursing pinning ceremonies, President’s Luncheon, academic procession, and valedictory addresses, the end of college is marked by more than moving out and moving on.  It is a time of accomplishment and pride, celebration and ritual for both faculty and students and families met together this weekend in joy.

At the end of the 2013-14 academic year, eight members of the University of Portland faculty will retire after many years of service to this institution, making a difference in the lives of untold number of students.    The University gives thanks to our retiring faculty for their dedication and commitment to teaching and learning and wishes them all the best.

Dr. Herman Asarnow, English, at UP since 1979
Dr. Susan Baillet, Psychology, at UP since 1983
Dr. Kathy Crabtree, Nursing, at UP since 2011
Dr. Robert Duff, Sociology, at UP since 1972
Dr. Thompson Faller, Philosophy, at UP since 1964
Dr. Christopher Kodadek, Biology, at UP since 1982
Ms. Caroline Mann, Library, at UP since 1998
Fr. Claude Pomerleau, C.S.C., Political Science, at UP since 1991

Gallery of 2014 Retiring Faculty

This year marks 25 years of the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers Series founded by the late Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, C.S.C. and his late sister, Suzanne Fields, in honor of their parents.  Since writer Barry Lopez inaugurated the Schoenfeldt Writers Series in 1989, the University of Portland has hosted many of the finest writers to campus for classroom visits and public readings.    Some of the past Schoenfeldt Writers include William Stafford, Ursula Le Guin, Peter Matthiessen, Sally Tisdale, Terry Tempest Williams, Kim Stafford, and more.    Distinguished Writers visit the University two times a year, usually in February and October.     The 2013-14 Schoenfeldt Writers are David James Duncan and Louise Gluck.