Willamette University - Wallulah Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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WWHI M w ffThere have been many changes in this country since the fOld Institutei was opened in 1844, I said. , fers, and naturally so, because the Oregon Institute was almost the very first thing in the country. Mrs. Willson began to teach there six months before the first cabin was built on the present site of Portland,ethink 0f ineand two years before the fOregon question, was settled, and four years before the first territorial governor came to assume his duties. By that time the school had two teachers and nearly a hundred pupils. Six years before Oregon became a state, the Old Institute had grown into a college, which was chartered under the title, Willamette University. Salem, planted on the original donation claim of the university, has literally been built around the institution. i , A moment later she added, HAt my last Visit we had only one building on the campus. Now we have seven. We are growing. But, excuse me, I must go, I must go? XVALLER HALL IN 1886

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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

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T. S. McDANIELfE President 13. L. STEEVES, Vice President I. H. VAN WINKLE, Secretary A. N. BUSH, Treasurer . . 015132 ghminigtratiun QBffiters of the 330mb of QErustzeg memberz of the iguana: ' XV. L. AIRHART . . . . Portland 0. C. ANDERSON . . Boise, Idaho E. T. BARNES . . . . Salem G. F. BILLINGS . . . Ashland J. H. BOOTH . . . . R'oseburg W. W. BROXVN . , . . . Fife JAMES CAMPBELL . . . Medford GEORGE L. CLEAVER . . La Gfande E. S. COLLINS Ostrander, Wash. BISHOP M. S. HUGHES . . Portland J. W. DAY . . . . . Portland M. C. FINDLEY . . . . Salem A. F. FLEGEL Portland R. J. GINN . . . . . Moro J. L. HARTMAN . . . . Portland R. J. HENDRICKS . . . . Salem THOMAS B. KAY . . . Salem A. A. LEE . . . . . Salem JAMES MOORE- . . . . Eugene B. LEE PAGET . . . . . Portland H. J. VON FOSSEN . . . Ashland PAUL B. WALLACE . . . Salem P. J. BRIX . . . . . Astoria. 0. P. BISHOP . . . . Salem A. M. SMITH . . . . Portland G. F. JOHNSON . . . . Portland FDeceased J. W. McDOUGALL R. A. BOOTH HIRAM GOULD W. S. GORDON WALTON SKIPWORTH D. H. LEECH A. R. MACLEAN J. T. ABBETT W. H. ODELL, Emeritus NATHAN EVANS ROBERT BRUMBLAY F. D. McCULLY A.E.EATON$ 0. H. PACKENHAM A. J. WEIGLE C. J. LARSEN . . . . . . Portland . . . . Salem . . . . . . Salem . . . . . . Salem 0. B. MOORES Portland T. S. MCDANIEL9:1 Portland B. L. STEEVES Salem CARL G. DONEY, ex officio Salem LLOYD T. REYNOLDS Salem BURGESS F. FORD Salem ' I. H. VAN WINKLE Salem R. N. AVISON Salem GEORGE F. HOPKINS . Raymond, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Eugene Marshfield Astoria Hillsboro Cor va11is Portland Portland Portland The Dalles Spokane, Wash. 0 Joseph Union Boise, Idaho Salem Portland