The Presidential Advisory Committee on Health and Safety and the athletics office are offering free cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator (CPR/AED) training classes on July 11 and July 12, according to Jeff Rook, public safety. Come learn how to save lives. The class will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Buckley Center room 310. The class is free to all faculty and staff with limited space available. Registration for the class can be done at http://upcprtraining.eventbrite.com. Select the day that works best for your schedule. For more questions contact Rook at rook@up.edu or 7161.
Campus Services
Counting Down for UP Soccer Season
The 2013 men’s and women’s soccer season kicks off in less than two months when the women take to Merlo Field against Marquette on Friday, August 23 at 7 p.m. There are going to be some fun promotional events this year surrounding this game including the annual Bite on the Bluff before the game and post-game fireworks. There will also be the 25 year reunion of the first men’s final four soccer team on the 15th of September, and a Movie Night sponsored by Safeway on the baseball field following the games on September 27th. Reserve your season tickets now to see all 25 home games. General admission season tickets start at just $88, new season tickets only. All University of Portland faculty and staff can receive 50 percent off their season ticket purchase by visiting the box office and presenting a valid UP ID card. For more information or to order your season tickets, please call (503) 943-7525.
Learning Assistance For Summer
The learning assistance program which operates during the academic year will also be available on a limited basis for students taking summer classes. All students interested in developing skills of time management, test taking, reading strategies, note taking, and more are welcome to improve their abilities by contacting the learning assistance counselor, Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., at 8716. Faculty referrals are welcome.
Pilot Kids Club
Registration is open for faculty and staff kids in the U.S. Bank Pilots Kids Club. Benefits of signing up your child include free admission to select soccer and basketball games as well as free admission to all other sporting events hosted at the University of Portland. Each member will also get a Pilots Kids Club T-shirt, shoelaces and a chance to be a “Pilot for the Day” at home soccer games. For more information contact athletics at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.
From Our Past
July 13, 1964 saw the death, at age 74, of Br. Ferdinand Moser, C.S.C., pictured. He had come to the University in 1933 and became, in addition to his teaching, the University’s first landscape architect, establishing the beginnings of a remarkable collection of varieties of camellias as well as rhododendrons, azaleas, holly, and other plantings, especially the tall sequoias (S. gigantea) that now tower over the campus. His tenure started much too late, however, for Br. Ferdinand to have planted one of the campus’s iconic trees; the awe-inspiring white oak in the Pilot House plaza is estimated to be at least 300 years old.
On July 20, 1901, Alexander Christie, Archbishop of Oregon City, entered into an agreement to purchase from the University Land Co. a building and twenty-eight acres of land on Waud’s Bluff in the far, far outskirts of North Portland, under the conditions that “a school be conducted and a major building erected within ten years,” according to James Covert’s 1976 University of Portland history, A Point of Pride. On July 22, 1901, the portion of the present campus that had formed the old Methodist Portland University (including West Hall, now Waldschmidt Hall) became the property of the Archdiocese of Oregon City under the title of Columbia University. The Archdiocese later ceded the same property to the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which continued to operate the institution under the Columbia University name until 1935, when the name was changed to the University of Portland. In 1968 the Indiana Province turned the assets of the University over to its newly formed lay board of regents, which has governed and operated the University ever since.
For more University history see the University Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac.
From Our Past
July 13, 1964 saw the death, at age 74, of Br. Ferdinand Moser, C.S.C., pictured. He had come to the University in 1933 and became, in addition to his teaching, the University’s first landscape architect, establishing the beginnings of a remarkable collection of varieties of camellias as well as rhododendrons, azaleas, holly, and other plantings, especially the tall sequoias (S. gigantea) that now tower over the campus. His tenure started much too late, however, for Br. Ferdinand to have planted one of the campus’s iconic trees; the awe-inspiring white oak in the Pilot House plaza is estimated to be at least 300 years old.
On July 20, 1901, Alexander Christie, Archbishop of Oregon City, entered into an agreement to purchase from the University Land Co. a building and twenty-eight acres of land on Waud’s Bluff in the far, far outskirts of North Portland, under the conditions that “a school be conducted and a major building erected within ten years,” according to James Covert’s 1976 University of Portland history, A Point of Pride. On July 22, 1901, the portion of the present campus that had formed the old Methodist Portland University (including West Hall, now Waldschmidt Hall) became the property of the Archdiocese of Oregon City under the title of Columbia University. The Archdiocese later ceded the same property to the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which continued to operate the institution under the Columbia University name until 1935, when the name was changed to the University of Portland. In 1968 the Indiana Province turned the assets of the University over to its newly formed lay board of regents, which has governed and operated the University ever since.
For more University history see the University Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac.
Annual Closure For Bookstore
The University bookstore will be closed on Friday, July 5 for annual maintenance, according to bookstore manager Erin Bright. The store will reopen on Monday, July 8 for regular summer hours. For more information contact Bright at 7125 or bright@up.edu.
Independence Day Holiday
The Independence Day holiday will be observed for University employees on Thursday, July 4, according to the 2013 University holiday schedule (http://tinyurl.com/n7jo7mq). Classes will not be held and University offices will be closed. Please note that hourly staff performing essential services who are required to work on a designated holiday will receive holiday pay. For more information, contact human resources at 8981 or hr@up.edu.
From Our Past
Rev. Joseph J. Boyle, C.S.C., eighth president of the University of Portland, died suddenly of complications from a stroke on July 3, 1936. He was in Mason City, Iowa, where he had gone to visit family. He had been appointed president of the institution in 1934 and was still serving in that position when he died at the age of 54. He was about to accept an invitation to teach at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC when he learned of his new duties at the Congregation’s university in Portland. He was enthusiastic about his appointment to the Pacific Northwest and reportedly told the Morning Oregonian newspaper: “I became a citizen of Oregon this morning when the North Coast Limited crossed the Columbia River into the State, and I became a citizen of Portland when I stepped from the train.” In his first year as president the four-year University program was fully accredited. In his second year he authorized the change of the college’s name from Columbia University to the University of Portland in order to be more closely identified with the city. He later initiated a fund raising campaign for the Science Building, now Romanaggi Hall. He died two weeks after construction began, the first University of Portland president to die in office.
For more information on UP history see the University Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac, or the Clark Memorial Library Digital Collections at http://cdm16472.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/.
Tuition Remission Due July 1
Faculty and staff applications for tuition remission will only be accepted via online forms and can be accessed through the human resources website at www.up.edu/hr/, according to Bryn Sopko, human resources. The HR office will no longer accept paper forms. In addition to easier access, HR has updated the application dates for remission to match deadlines in student accounts, so please keep these dates in mind:
- Spring term: November 15
- Summer term: April 5
- Fall term: July 1.
Please note that there are separate tuition remission application forms for undergraduate and graduate course work, and that any graduate level tuition remission benefits will be taxable to the employee on the value above $5,250 for attempted credits and subject to applicable withholdings, and will be reflected on the W-2 form of the tax year the remission was applied. A summary on tuition remission and links to the online forms are available at http://tinyurl.com/c8f6j2x. For more information contact human resources at 7461 or hr@up.edu.