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Archbishop Alexander Christie

Inaugural Helen Schwarten Foundations of Freedom Lecture, Oct. 24

October 17, 2019

Please join the political science and global affairs department on Thursday, October 24, at 5 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Lecture Hall (Dundon-Berchtold 004) for the inaugural Helen Schwarten Foundations of Freedom Lecture. The speaker is Michael Munger of Duke University, who will discuss his new book, Is Capitalism Sustainable? (American Institute for Economic Research, 2019).

Munger is professor of political science, economics, and public policy at Duke University, and directs its Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. He has worked as an economist at the Federal Trade Commission and served as president of the Public Choice Society. He has taught at Dartmouth College, University of Texas-Austin, and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His other books include Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy (Cambridge 2018) and Choosing in Groups with Kevin M. Munger (Cambridge 2015). His research interests include regulation, political institutions, and political economy.

For more information contact Bill Curtis, political science, at curtisw@up.edu.

Filed Under: 10-07-2019, 10-14-2019, 10-21-2019, Academics, Political Science Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Michael Munger, Political Science Department

From Our Past: Christie Hall Groundbreaking

July 27, 2018

June 8, 1911 saw the groundbreaking for Christie Hall, at a ceremony attended by Portland archbishop Alexander Christie, the building’s namesake, who turned the first spadeful of earth himself.

When the property on which the University stands was purchased in 1901 from the University Land Company, the terms called for the construction of “a major building” within ten years. The Columbia Colosseum athletic fieldhouse was built in 1903, but Christie Hall is the second-oldest building on campus, since the Colosseum collapsed during a storm in 1927.

The school catalogue described Christie as “a model school dormitory,” designed in Tudor-style brick with three floors and a full basement, with 122 private rooms. “Each room was lighted, ventilated, heated by steam, and contained a washbasin with hot and cold running water,” according to Jim Covert’s A Point of Pride. The University library was moved from West Hall to the Christie basement that year; the “temporary” basis of that move lasted until the Clark Library was built in 1958. The basement also included two bowling alleys, a billiard room, and a smoking room. Christie Hall’s chapel was located where it is today, and has served for the past 107 years as a refuge for quiet prayer and reflection.

Christie Hall has served a number of functions over the decades. Many of the legendary Holy Cross priests and brothers made their homes there, including Frs. John and Con Hooyboer, Fr. John Delaunay, and many others whose open-door policies led students to seek their counsel at all hours. Faculty members kept offices in Christie Hall rooms, especially before the construction of Buckley Center in the late 1960s, and Christie was also home to the University’s credit union, administered faithfully and meticulously by business professor Russell Braden and his wife Kay until the early 1980s.

Filed Under: 07-30-2018, Campus Services Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Christie Hall

Founders’ Day: Tuesday, April 12

April 8, 2016

ChristiesThe University’s annual Founders’ Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 12. Student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, undergraduate research, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual.

Founders’ Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. Christie’s annual visits were eagerly anticipated by the University’s college and preparatory students until his death in 1925.

For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.

Filed Under: 04-04-2016, 04-11-2016, Academics Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Founders Day, Provost's Office

Founders’ Day: Tuesday, April 12

January 29, 2016

ChristiesThe University’s annual Founders’ Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 12. Four sessions of student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, undergraduate research, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual.

Founders’ Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. He continued his annual visits throughout his tenure as archbishop.

For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.

Filed Under: 02-01-2016, Academics, Provost's Office Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Founders Day, Provost's Office

From Our Past

August 25, 2014

quinlan2Fr. Michael Quinlan, C.S.C. (pictured), the second president and first Holy Cross president of the University of Portland, died on August 29, 1944, at age 70. He served as president from 1902 to 1906, succeeding Fr. Edward P. Murphy, a Portland archiocesan priest who had been appointed president by archbishop Alexander Christie. Fr. Quinlan’s tenure proved to be difficult, due mostly to a clash of personalities with Archbishop Christie. Both were plain-spoken men with no use for diplomacy. Fr. Quinlan was succeeded in 1906 by Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher, C.S.C., who served as president until 1914.

Also, on August 30, 1964, the first group of UP students departed for the University’s program in Salzburg. Under the guidance of the program’s first resident director, Fr. Ambrose Wheeler, C.S.C., the group would travel to Scotland to begin a tour that would take them through England and the continent before arriving in Salzburg. For more history from this week, see the University of Portland Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac/.

Filed Under: 08-25-2014, Campus Services, University Archives, University Museum Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Rev. Ambrose Wheeler C.S.C., Rev. Joseph Gallagher C.S.C., Rev. Michael Quinlan C.S.C., Salzburg

Founders’ Day Celebration, April 8

February 3, 2014

Christie3The University’s annual Founders’ Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 8. Four sessions of student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, undergraduate research, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual.

Founders’ Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie (pictured) visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.

Filed Under: 02-03-2014, Academics, Events, Provost's Office Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Founders Day

From Our Past

July 8, 2013

Br Ferdinand MoserJuly 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.

Filed Under: 07-08-2013, Campus Services, From Our Past Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Br. Ferdinand Moser C.S.C.

From Our Past

July 8, 2013

Br Ferdinand MoserJuly 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.

Filed Under: 07-08-2013, Campus Services, From Our Past Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Br. Ferdinand Moser C.S.C.

From Our Past

June 10, 2013

aerialJune 8, 1911 saw the groundbreaking for Christie Hall, named for Archbishop Alexander Christie of the Portland Archdiocese, founder of Columbia University (renamed the University of Portland in 1935). When the campus property purchased in 1901 from the University Land Company, the terms called for the construction within ten years of a major building. A huge athletic field house had been built in 1903, large enough for indoor track meets and even baseball games, but Christie Hall would be the building which officially satisfied the terms of the sale. The archbishop himself turned the first shovelful of earth, and photographs show him, shovel in hand, towering above the gathered boys and faculty. Aerial photographs from the time show West (now Waldschmidt) Hall, Christie Hall, and the Columbia Colosseum huddled together on the mostly blank campus; Christie and West Halls survive, but the colosseum, which was located roughly where Howard Hall and the Pilot House are now, collapsed during a winter storm in 1927.

For more history from this week, see the University of Portland Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac/.

Filed Under: 06-10-2013, Campus Services, From Our Past Tagged With: , Archbishop Alexander Christie, Christie Hall, Columbia Colosseum, Waldschmidt Hall, West Hall

Founders Day, Tuesday April 9

April 1, 2013

The University’s annual Founders Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 9. Four sessions of student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual. Founders Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.

Filed Under: 04-01-2013, Academics, Events, Featured Tagged With: Archbishop Alexander Christie, Founders Day

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

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Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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