This year three buildings that are integral to student life here on The Bluff are celebrating milestones for their years of service. Kenna Hall and Bauccio Commons both mark 65 years on November 22, 1959. Mehling Hall, also part of the November 22 anniversary trio, is slightly younger at 60 years and was dedicated in 1964. The University Museum and Archives has dug up some interesting (and fun!) facts about each building along with photographs from throughout the years.
Check out our PortLog post for historic images and more:
For more information contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, museum@up.edu.
In the school-room, spring-fever is that longing and dream we have stuck inside, looking out with the stirring to escape. Recess, games, sport are our excuse to run out onto the grass and burn and shine in the glow of spring-time. Baseball has belonged to spring on the Bluff, and across the United States, since before the University’s founding. We dug through the museum’s athletic collection for some vintage baseball artifacts and uncovered this Reach Baseball Glove, ca1908. Follow our link to the Museum and Archives blog to learn more about this glove and where it fits in baseball equipment history: 
What’s old is new again? Six feet = social distancing. Dispersal of crowds. All of which rings a bell. We searched both memory and the University Archives for moments and policies of social distancing in UP’s past. Here is a notable public spaces pronouncement, 1970s style. 
Hello, Sherlock Holmes fans! It’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday today. Did you know the Portland & Vancouver Sherlock Holmes Society originated at UP under the direction of Dr. James Covert (“The Grande Olde Honker”)? Here’s the scoop! 
Congratulations
With the unusual circumstances surrounding the 2020 Commencement exercises, the staff of the University Archives and Museum looked through archive files for other commencement interruptions. We found one, in 1948. Visit