Willamette University - Wallulah Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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WAtLtLQDLALHJ 44The Oregon Institute expanded into the University which was chartered in 185334 Silence. ttYou have heard of Jason Lee? I nodded. , ' 44Well, when the Indian Mission School he planted in 1834, ten miles north, in a log cabin, was about four years old, Mr. Lee went back to the States for reinforcements. ltYeS?77 44He returned to Oregon 111 the Lausanne. There were nineteen children on that ship. teYeSoZ77 ttMr. Lee was bringing preachers, farmers, mechanics, a physician, teacherSAt tsYeS?77 44 and one teacher was for the children, Miss Clarke, a grad- uate of Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts? ltYeSo-Z77 ttAnd when the Oregon Institute opened, Miss Clarke, now Mrs. Willson, was the teacherW ttYou knew her? ttVery well. Tall and dark, with a fine air when she walked4an excellent teacher4served for many years41ater preceptress 0f Laus- anne Ha114thr0ughout the entire presidency of Doctor Gatch delivered a lecture once a week to the young ladies. She and her husband relinquished their own donation claims to hold valuable lands for the University, 111 which the present campus was included. Forty years OLtD OREGON INSTITUTE

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.elimpgw of Willamette? 391m 33p iBrnf. Elamw-ZE. Matthemg OMING out of Eaton Hall in the late afternoon, I saw an old lady toiling up the front steps. ttOh, she said, HI have come to take my last look at the dear old place. You see I was a student here in the fifties. Straight to the tablet in the porch I led her, and she read the legend With joy. ' Now, sir, let me show you Where I went to sehoolW . We halted at the gymnasium and the old lady sat down on the front stoop. Pointing she said, HAbout there it stood, the 01d Institute, a big frame building, cost- ing ten thousand dollars, school house and presidentk residence combined. NWell, we11,'to think that sixty years ago you and others studied and played on this same eampusW HBoys and girls studied and played here seventy years ago. Oregon Institute was opened in 1844, a primary school for White children? ttBut Willamette University? JASON LEE JASON LEE'S HOMEeTHE FIRST HOUSE IN SALEM BWW V0 W ,w - f.g'JN 3. r

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MRS. XVILLSON brance. we began in 1864.77 anyone so moved. What a story it tells.77 flags flying. t t ingW7 ttFor a lark some boys burnt it down one Sunday nightW We emerged on the west side of Waller Hall. I Wish I could see again Mrs. Willsonk home on Court Street. HThere it is,77 I said, pointing. the dormitory for our girls, Mrs. Willsonts last gift to Willamette University. t , HOh, 0h? she bubbled, HI did not knOVV.77 ago a. host of people, her old stu- dents, held her in loving remem- tth like to see the big building ttWaller Hall, we call it.77 uAh, I knew Father WallerW At the east entrance the old lady spied the hole worn in the stone doorstep. I think I have never seen HLook, look at that deep hollow. Then she added, NI was present the day the school marched from the old building to this, drums beating, HAnd the Old Institute build- ttWe call it Lausanne Hall. HALL x x h Xx, 1vx Mu, Q . -A z NQ nykhhgh Q R If! t h .M' SW 7'1 , g 1-! T