Congratulations to our retiring faculty members! The University Archives and Museum announces a new blog post featuring these four members of the University of Portland family. Visit our site for a slideshow of the honored retirees.
To complement the blog post, the museum also has a photograph display of the retiring faculty in the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center (across from the Studies Abroad office).
Contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at x8038 or piatz@up.edu for more information.
April 18, 2019 marks the 50 year anniversary of the University’s Great Fire of ’69, according to museum coordinator Carolyn Connolly. Education Hall, located near the present-day Mago Hunt Center caught fire in the early morning hours and was a total loss, causing the drama, music, and education departments to lose their physical homes on campus along with decades worth of instruments, costumes, the University’s auditorium, and personal and professional documents and items.
On July 20, 1969, an estimated 530 million people watched Apollo 11 astronauts take the first steps on the moon. The whole world remembers Neil Armstrong’s small step and giant leap in human achievement. And was there a local connection? Read about UP’s brush with fame in 
The Dundon-Berchtold academic building is on schedule and even hosting tours. Looking back 50 years, Buckley Center was new to campus then. Students and faculty moving in for spring semester of 1969. A new academic building with all of the modern furnishings. Visit the 
Check out the new 
The University Museum and Archives remember Dr. Arthur A. Schulte, Jr., for his dedication and generous service to the University during and long after his 45 years on The Bluff. New memorial 
Robert Franz and his sister Elsie Franz Finley advanced the University mission in 1995 when their generosity helped make construction of Franz Hall possible. The new Franz Campus will bring expanded sporting fields for both varsity and intramural sports, which complements the Franzs’ earlier gift, as from the beginning of UP’s time on the bluff, its mission has embraced not only clean living and clean air, hands, and hearts, but also assisting to shape our students as whole persons through leadership, learning, and formation. See the latest Archives and Museum blog post at 
To complement our blog entry “Welcome to College” 
It’s a new year on campus. The grass on the main quad is green. The residence halls are dusted. Moodle is loaded with syllabi. Faculty and staff are ready to welcome first year and upperclass students to a year of adventure and learning and friendship on The Bluff. Visit this new post from the University Archives and Museum remembering Orientation traditions and events past and present. 