Pacific University - Heart of Oak Yearbook (Forest Grove, OR)

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Den red In 1 870 : : l : I 3 : 'E U A d .- I I- 9 h i D U .- i- 9 l .- I k A v d ,5, U '5 3 n v 3 5 .- A V Enarh nf Eruatew - PRES. ROBERT FRYE CLARK, EX-officio ...... Forest Grove GEORGE H. MARSH ......... . ..... . ................ P ortland ' ROBERT TREAT PLATT . . .. ....... . ........ , ........ Portland NAPOLEON DAVIS ............................ 1. .. Aurbra B. S. HUNTINGTON . . . .' ............. .. . . .1 ........ Portland HARRISON G. PLATT ........... . ...... ........... Portland J OHN A. THORNBURGH . .1 ............... - ..... Forest Grove WILLIAM T. FLETCHER ..... ' .................... Portland - J OHN E. BAILEY ............ ................. Forest Grove , GEORGE A. WARREN ................ l. . . . .. ....... Portland REV. DR. W. T. McELVEEN ................... .... Portland S. C. PIER....,....x ........... Portland FRANK M. WARREN ............... ........ Portland R. FRANK PETERS ...................... , ..... , . . . . Hillsboro . ALBERT S. ROBERTS ....... ' The Dalles OBffiwrz nf the 71-31mm I HARRISON G. PLATT . ........................... President JOHN E. BAILEY ....................... . . . Vice President NAPOLEON DAVIS .................... ' .......... Secretary GEORGE H. MARSH ' .................... Assistant Secretary GEORGE A. WARREN ........................... Treasurer D.-A. HESSEMER .................. ' ...... Assistant Treasurer

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Mb 1 Viva 7fea , . To an ever-increasing body of people in this Pacific North: west, the name of Pacific University means that factor in their lives which has been the inspiration, guide and leader to their sev- eral planes of success. Not only to those who have at one time or another been in direct contact with her material qualities, but to her scores of friends, the iiSpirit of Pacific Universityli has come to mean a wonderful constructive power in the building of char- acter. ' It is said that good must necessarily thrive among beautiful surroundings, and so, one need only take a glance at the scene of operations to assure himself that Pacific University is surely an ideal place in which any young person might spend those four important years of his life. Pacifids students are pleased with an onportunity of showing to others the beauties of theircampus, for Pacificls is a campus laid out with room reserved, before a town tho,t of crowding in around it. With its broad expanse of green, the great oaks and firs lending themselves to a continuous l pattern of light and shadow, giving hazy glimpses of the dull red of Gabled Marsh Hall. it is a picture worth the seeing, to all ob- servers. But to Pacificls old students, what memories it recalls! Here the iibee-treefi and there at the base of the oak a the old stone bench. while farther on, the petrified stump that marks the site of theolog church where tiGrandma Brownt in 1847 started her orphanage for some twenty adopted children; an orbhanage that was destined to become a university after years of labor by men like Harvey Clark and Dr. Atkinson. More and more as Pacific grows, her loyal ones are realize ing that her growth has always been, and must continue to be at the price of personal sacrifice. To President Marsh, who, for twenty-five years put his whole effort into the developing of Pacific University, is due great honor. Handicapped by a lack of funds and a country so sparsely populated that students must be few, it was not an easy undertaking. It was he who at three dif- ferent times made trips to the East and gathered together suf- ficient'funds for the construction of necessary buildings, and for the small salaries of the instructors who labored with him. All of this he did without a salary for himself sufficient to meet the needs of his own family. Perhaps it is well that one of these buildingsenow the Sci- ence Hall-remains to us as a reality of the past, serVIng to keep before us the fact that we too, must work for the betterlng of l s 7wenfy-lWO l .