One year ago on May 23, the University lost beloved biology professor David Alexander after his two-year battle with cancer. He taught on The Bluff from 1995-2013 and received the Becky Houck Award for Excellent Advising in 2013. The University Museum has created a memory tribute to David with a slideshow on the Museum blog at http://tinyurl.com/opzlfwr. For more information contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at 8038 or piatz@up.edu.
University Archives
Recent Retirees Redux
The University archives and museum have prepared a new WordPress post featuring the 2014 retiring faculty members, according to museum coordinator Carolyn Connolly. Visit the WordPress site for a slide show of the eight retirees and see how they’ve changed over the years: https://wordpress.up.edu/museum/2014-retiring-university-faculty/.
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Wally Pilot
As another academic year draws to a close, it seems as though a lighter post about the University’s longtime mascot would be in order. See a brief history of SPU (“Spirit of Portland U.”) and/or Wally Pilot, and a slideshow showing Wally’s development over the years on the Museum WordPress site at https://wordpress.up.edu/museum/851/. For more information contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at 8038 or piatz@up.edu.
From Our Past: Hours & Bases, Great Fire of 1969
Two new posts have been added to the University Museum WordPress site, according to Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator. One is not associated with a specific date but is applicable for Holy Week, titled “Hours and Bases,” at http://tinyurl.com/mscqbk5. The other post is about the April 18, 1969 Great Fire which destroyed the University’s theater and auditorium as well as Music and Education halls. It also details the definition/boundaries of the quad on campus after 1969.See the post at http://tinyurl.com/mscqbk5.
For more information contact Connolly at piatz@up.edu.
From Our Past: Founders’ Day
The University museum and archives have created another post for the Museum WordPress site on Founders’ Day, celebrated this year on Tuesday, April 8. This post covers the origins of Founders’ Day, which in years past featured an annual visit from Portland Archbishop Alexander Christie, who founded what was then named Columbia University in 1901. See more at https://wordpress.up.edu/museum/april-8-founders-day/.
From Our Past: Br. Raphael Wilson, C.S.C. Inauguration
March 11, 1979 was the date of the inauguration of Brother Raphael Wilson, C.S.C., as the sixteenth president of the University of Portland. He had served as professor of biology at University of Scranton and on the UP faculty prior to becoming president. In 1982 he left the University and in 1996 was ordained a priest for the diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The University museum has posted an entry on Br. Wilson on its WordPress site at http://tinyurl.com/n42l9xy.