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The magazine of Willamette University Spring 2017
1938 A new library building is completed, and University House — a former private residence — moves to campus, where it serves as the president’s home and later as offices. In 1995, to make way for the Organ majors had lessons on the Olin Science Building, it moves off-campus again to become part of aorgan City of Salem redevelopment practice until they wereproject.
1937 The university purchases the old Salem Post Office to house the law school. The 2,000-ton building (now Gatke Hall) is moved inch by inch up State Street to its new location.
sufficiently advanced to move to the then-new Aeolian-Skinner organ at 1946 The College of Law is admitted as a where they would 1948 The new Bruce First Methodist, member of the Association of American R. Baxter Residence present their junior and senior recitals. Law Schools.
1950 McCulloch Stadium is built.
Hall opens for Willamette men.
955 New buildings on campus nclude the Charles P. and Fannie Kay Bishop Memorial Health Center, the G. Herbert Smith Auditorium and the Doney Residence Hall for women.
A 10-acre tract of land on Bush’s Pasture
I'm sorry to think that Willamette now is acquired for a new athletic field. has only a single student studying organ (according to the magazine) but very glad that the facilities have 1960 The Lucy Anna Lee and 1959 The College improvedEmily for new of J. Yorkgenerations Residence Halls for of Law’s Moot students. women I sendopen. my congratulations Court team wins Student-athlete Ken Ashley ’63 wins the national and best wishes to Mr. Duell and want the NAIA outdoor track and field championship. to assure him that there arejump. some organ championship in the high alumni out there who wish him every success!
1974 The George H. Atkinson 1974 The Lestle J. Sparks — Thomas J. Mathiesen ’68 Graduate School of Athletic Center is completed. Administration is established Sparks ’19 was a long time s a long-ago graduate of the (changed to School of Willamette faculty member and athletics coach. College of Music with a major inManagement in 1980). udos for such a great timeline of
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organ and (I think) one of only two or three College of Music alums to be honored with the Distinguished Alumni Citation, I was very pleased to see the article on Zach Duell and the Cone Chapel organ in the spring 2017 issue of Willamette magazine.
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I also enjoyed the short video of him describing and playing the organ. He plays very well, and I hope many of your readers have watched the video. (willamette.edu/go/organ_music) Josef Schnelker (1911-85), Willamette’s organ/music theory/music history professor from 1946 to 1976, would have loved that instrument, but there was nothing likedean it on campus during his Former of students, Oregon Senator O. chapel Hatfield ’43 speakswas at theold 1960and tenure.Mark The organ Republican convention. inoperative, and there was only a tiny practice organ in the basement of the Music Building, a Wurlitzer in the Fine Arts Auditorium (with which he would have nothing to do) and the old organ from the First Methodist Church lying around in pieces in the attic of the Music Building.
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events at Willamette (“A Bold Vision,” Willamette magazine, spring 1980 Student-athlete Steve to 2017, p. 8). We read it from start Kogo ’82 wins the NAIA finish, proudswimming of all of the accolades championship in the freestyle, and Dawn received and100-yard events that have occurred Lien ’82 claims the AIAW title in since we graduated in 1962. the 200-yard butterfly. But what was especially noteworthy was that Tufton Beamish graduated a year before us — another stellar member of the class of 1961, which always finished ahead of us in Glee. We swam three times, and that blasted Tufton was always the leader at rubbing it in. Oh well .... — Marian ’62 and Phil Thom ’62
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hanks to Willamette for a grand Alumni Eclipse Weekend in August. Among the many news organizations reporting on the August 21 total eclipse from the Willamette campus, Japan’s public television, NHK, was also there. — Barry Duell ’74 Editor’s Note: Turn to our feature on page 26 for more coverage of the university’s eclipse experience.
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FALL 2017
1941 Members of Willamette’s football team, in Hawaii during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, help on a ship bringing the wounded back to the mainland. We couldn’t celebrate the key moments in
Where’s Tufton?
Willamette history without including Tufton Beamish. Louise Rinehart Brantley ’72 was 1943 A College Navy the first of several readers toTraining spot Tufton on Program (V-12) is established on p. 11 of the spring issue, the campus, with under Lausanne Halltimeline entry for 1961. serving as the “ship” for those being trained from July 1943 through November 1945.
1965 Willam sister-colleg Internationa and Econom known as To University).
1961 The James T. Matthews and Lewis F. Belknap Residence Halls for men open, and Tufton Beamish graduates from the university.
1970 The George Putnam University Center is dedicated. Where’s Tufton hiding in this issue? Send
your sightings to magazine@willamette.edu.
1983 The Grace Goudy Distinguished Artists Series, which brings worldmagazine@willamette.edu renowned musicians to campus or send letters tofor performances and residencies, begins.
1986 The Mark O. Hatfield Library to the alumnus and former Oregon senator, opens, along with the Bist The Atkinson Lecture Series, kicks presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winn Goodman.
University Communications Willamette University 900 State Street, Salem OR 97301. 1989 Tokyo International University of America is completed.
Published correspondence may beand rededicated. Waller Hall is renovated edited for length and clarity. The Hatfield Fountain is dedicated and soon becomes a popular campus landmark.
1990 Chemistry professor Frances Chapple is selected Oregon Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundatio for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for th Advancement and Support of Higher Education. Ten other faculty members go on to receive this award.