One of the “way back in the past” pieces in the University Museum is a vintage library dictionary stand, according to Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator. It is very old. Maybe even a piece of original campus furniture from the days of Methodist Portland University. All are invited to read a new post about this venerable cradle […]
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New Museum Blog Post: Presidential Campaigns at UP
As the election season winds down, the University Museum and Archives blog is featuring past presidential candidates who have campaigned on The Bluff. The next two entries in the series are from the 1960s era: Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his campaign in the 1964 election. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his campaign in the 1968 election. […]
Museum Blog Post: Chapel of Christ the Teacher 30th Anniversary
The icons of The Seat of Wisdom and of Christ the Teacher are often paired in religious tradition. On the UP campus they have been paired, doubled, and multiplied, creating a pattern net to challenge Robert Langdon/The DaVinci Code. The University of Portland Museum and Archives celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Chapel of Christ the […]
Historical Presidential Elections Display
The University museum recently created a display of historic presidential campaign memorabilia from its collection as well as that of the University archives. On view are campaign buttons from FDR’s campaigns in the 1940s; a Herbert Hoover lucky piece from 1928; buttons from presidential hopefuls Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern; and more. Pictures and […]
UP Trivia/Bar Bets: Hanging Up the Pads
UP Trivia/Bar Bets is a new series which provides ready-references from the University archives and museum to frequently asked questions about the elements, characters, and events that make up the University of Portland story. What do inquiring minds want to know? Ask us! In our first entry we wrote about football on the Bluff. We […]
A Campus Sanctuary
Campus chapels provide a place for private prayer and reflection, a space apart from the busy-ness of college life, integrated into the weave and pattern of campus life. For the latest update from the University archives and museum blog, see a brief post and photographs about the Chapel of Christ the Teacher, dedicated on October […]
A Given Life: The Pioneer Four
As the University draws outstanding students and faculty to The Bluff in its second century, it is important to recall that our origins were small and that our present is the fruit of promises made by those who walked these fields before us. In the first days four consecrated religious were called and sent to […]