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Orphan Holiday

October 23, 2014 By Carolyn

This October students host neighborhood children in the residence halls and the Chiles Center for Halloween fun.   The basement of Shipstad Hall, scary enough in normal times, is decorated as a Haunted House.  And Trick-or-Treat events are scheduled for monsters, princesses, and characters from Frozen (college students as well as visitors in costume) on Halloween Day.

The seed of these celebrations, from an earlier slice of time, is the annual Orphans’ Christmas Party.  From as early as 1948, University of Portland student run service groups sponsored and hosted Christmas parties for children from St. Mary’s Home for Boys (Beaverton) and Christie Home for Girls (Oswego).  The tradition was maintained into the 1960s by the Associated Women Students, bringing as many as 100 orphan children to campus each year for this holiday event.   Then, as now, the festivities were almost as much for those who give as for those who receive.

The Beacon, December 10, 1948
Intercollegiate Knight member with girl and Santa, 1950
Boy Scout with Santa, 1952
Girls with Christmas gifts, 1954
Students entertain children, 1954
The Beacon, December 2, 1955
Two children with Santa Claus, 1956
Young boy, Iota Kappa Pi members, and Santa, 1959
Teresa Kuffner, '01 as an Emergency Services Firefighter from Never-Never-Land, 2000
Children in Halloween costumes, 2005
Fairy princess, 2005 Halloween
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