Alumni Section
Officers of Alumni Association
Walter C. Winslow, ’06, Salem,
president.
Mrs. L. T. Harris, ’96, Salem, first
vice-president.
Josephine Moorhead, ’15, Eugene,
second vice-president.
Earl Kilpatrick, ’09, Eugene, secre
tary.
Editor of alumni page, Earl Kil
patrick.
Material for this week’s alumni
page was gotten up by Miss Jean
Bell, of the department of journal
ism.
THEY WANT THE EMERALD
“I am very much interested in the
alumni page of the Emerald. It is
certainly a nice feature of the paper,
giving the alumni an opportunity to
keep in touch with each other, and
at the same time binding them to
their alma mater through a common
interest. If there is one fault with
this alumni page it would be due to
the fact that most of the alumni—
possibly through modesty—fail to
keep the paper informed about their
activities. It seems to me that we,
as alumni, like to read about .where
other members are and w-hat they are
doing but fail to keep the paper in
formed about ourselves. It woulid be
a good, as well as interesting thing,
if each graduate would send some
notice, in one form or another, to the
one in charge of that section of the
Emerald—thereby keeping alumni
members informed about the activ
ities of the different members. To
me it is always an inspiration to
hear from other members and pos
sibly the same may be true of
others.”—H. C. Tschanz.
‘‘I don’t want to miss a single is
sue,” Lee Hendricks, '15, city editor
of the Statesman, Salem.
“I find special interest in the
alumni notes.”—‘Joel Richardson,
’10, lawyer, La Grande.
BIRTH OF LIBRARY
TOLD BY ASSOCIATION
SECRETARY OF “78”
Radical Pamphlet Causes a
Breach and Results in Giv
ing- Collection to Societies.
A library with something like 150
volumes and worth about $1 000,
which was the beginning of the pres
ent University library, was given to
the Eutaxian and Laurean societies
by the Eugene Library association in
1878, according to William T. Camp
bell, of 444 Ninth avenue east, who
was sercretary and librarian of the
Library association at that time.
“iSome of the prominent member?
of the Laurean society then were:
Charles Whitaker, ’78, and George
Washburn, ’78, both died in 1880; R.
S. Bean, ’78, a judge in Portland
now; Claiborne Hill, ’81, now a bap
tist minister in Berkeley, California;
Claiborne Woody, ’81, also a Bap
tist minister, living in Portland
now, and John A. McQuinn, ’79, at
present a civil engineer in Portland,”
said Mr. Campbell, a few days ago,
in speaking of the beginning of the
University library.
“Why did we give the library to
the Laurean and Eutaxian societies?”
repeated Mr. Campbell. “Well it was
this way: There were only about 50
members or stockholders in the as
sociation. And some of them were
church goers and some of them were
not. An infidel newspaper called
“The Free Thinker” came to the li
brary free. And, the churchgoers
kicked and said, ‘If the library keeps
on getting this paper and does not
throw it out. we leave the associa
tion.’
“The non-churchgoers said, ‘If
this paper keeps on coming and is
thrown out, we leave the associa
tion.’ ”
“Well, the directors concluded
they would keep the paper. The
church people withdrew from the
association. Therp being only a
few stockholders to begin with, this
cut down the association consider
ably and as time went on more mem-1
bers left. So it ended that as I was
secretary and librarian of the asso
ciation, the library remained in my
hands. As there was no money in
BUT 3 MEMBERS OF
"78" GLASS LIVING
Reminiscences of the Early
Days of Oregon Are Relat
ed By Alumna.
Only three members of the class of
’78, the first graduating class of the
University, are now living. They are:
(Mrs.) Ellen Condon McCornack, a
daughter of Professor Condon, one
of the first teachers in the University
and founder of the Condon museum
now in Johnson hall, who lives a
short distance west of Eugene; Rob
ert Sharpe Bean of Portland, United
States district judge and president
of the board of regents, and Matthew
S. Wiallis, a retired accountant, who
lives at 1117 Elevent avenue west,
Eugene. The other two members of
the class. George S. Washburne and
John C. Whiteaker, son of the first
governor of Oregon, died in 18S0.
“In those days the only building
on the campus was Deadv hall, and
e^en it was not finished until after
the close of the first year,” said Mrs.
McCornack last week in speaking of
the “old days” at Oregon. “It is
around this old building that we, the
Uuiv^r^lty pioneers, hvive gathered
all our cherished memories.
‘President Johnson, the man to
whom Johnson hall was dedicated,
taught Latin and Greek in the
northern room of the first floor in
Dealdy. Professor Mary Spiller,
from whom Mary Spiller hall gets its
name, was principal of the prepara
tory school. She. with her assistant,
M'ss Mary Stone, occupied the south
si ie of the long building. Professor
Bailey, teacher of mathematics and
astronomy, and Professor Condon,
teacher of geology and natural his
tory, had a room on the second floor
of the building; while Mr. Dudley,
our janitor, made his home in the
basement.
“'There were no intercollegiate
football contests then, no inter-colle
giate debates, no gymnasuim and no
college dances.
“Dances were not allowed. The
sentiment against dancing was quite
strong among the faculty members.
However. I remember that as soon
as commencement exercises were
over and the University closed for
the summer, there was always a
donee -down town, and many the
students attended.
“Then, as now, one of the chief
attractions of the students was the
millrace. Although we idid not have
dances, football teams and other frol
ics which the students enjoy now,
the years we spent in college were
just as full of the joys and tragedies
of school life as those of the students
of today. We were a bright, happy,
but rather mature set of students,
fully appreciating our advantages
and earnestly enthusiastic for the fu
ture of the college. In later years I
have investigated and compared the
University’s scholastic standing then
with that of other eastern colleges at
that time and found that it was sim
ilar to that of large easern schools,
such as Harvard.
“The Laurean and Eutaxian so
cieties were already organized and
doing earnest work. It was these so
cieties which secured a library for
the University.”
the treasury to pay rent, periodicals,
books and other expenses, and as I
did not want to buy the library my
self, T decided to get rid of it. So
a meeting of the directors was held
and we decided to give it to the Bu
taxian and Laurean societies, of the
University. They in turn gave the
library to the University.”
Thus, the present library really
had its foundation from the olid Eu
gene library, which was located on
the present site of McMorran &
Washburne building, at Eighth and
Willamette streets, and some of the
books which the students use today
belonged to this organization.
“The money for this old Eugene
library was raised by a ceurse of lec
tures given bv prominent state peo
ple,’^ cdhtinued Mr. Campbell, “I re
member that one of the first speakers
3wgs Professor Condon, then teaching
at Forest Grove, who gave a lecture
on fossils every night for a week.
Other speakers were John Whiteaker,
the first governor of Oregon; Sam
Simpson, a prominent Oregon poet of
his day, and Addie Bolau, a writer.
“Some of the members of the Eu
gene Library association were: John
H. McClung. a merchant, from whom
we rented the library room, and to
whom we paid the rent if we had the
money, and jit' we didn't he let us
have the room free of charge; T. G.
Hendricks, banker; Ben F. Dorris,
the late J. J. Waldo; and the late
S. H. Friendly, and F. H. Grubbs,
then head of the Eugene public
school.”
A Song of ’99
This is what the Oregon boys of
'9 9 sang when they came home from
a successful track meet at Salem, in
the spring of '99:
Lickety, wollopy scollopy, whoop.
We chucked Willamette in the soup;
We hit Corvallis with a bat.
Anid the final score was 50 flat.
Field day cup, field day cup.
We're the lads that gobbled her up.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
St. Helens Alumni Orgnnize
An Oregon Alumni club was or
ganized at St. Helen’s last week to
boost for the University school. A
large delegation from this district is
expected to attend next year. Both
regular and summer school alumni
are eligible for this organization. The
club has about nine members. Mr.
Jesse McCord, superintendent of the
schools of Clatskaine, was chairman
of the meeting.
PERSONALS
W. Grout, ’ll, is head of the math
ematics department of Hood River
high school.
Agnes Steveson, ’08, and Emma
Waterman, M2, are supervisors in
the physical education department of
the San P'rai^cisco ipubiliic schools.
Each has 22 schools and 15,000 pu
pils under her charge. The girls
room together at 796 Pine street,
San Francisco.
Carlyle D. Geisler, ’15; Carl A.
McClan, ’06, Charles Roy Reid, ’06,
Thornton Howard, ’15, and Harlen
iPeffley, ex-’15, have entered Cornell
University, at Ithaca, New York, for
advanced degrees in engineering.
Vere Windnagle, ex-’16, has re-en
tered Cornell this year.
Herman C. Tschanz, ’13, is at
tending the University of Chicago.
His address is 6037 Ellis avenue, Chi
cago.
Edward Jasper. ’06, is farming
and raising hogs on the Sawdridge,
near Alicel, Oregon.
Howard K. Zimmerman, ’13, is
completing his law' course at Stan
ford University law school. Besides
attending school Mr. Zimmerman as
sists in the law department, does
stenographic work in a law office in
Palo Alto, and is office assistant at
the Y. M. C. A.
Other Oregon men at Stanford are:
O. C. Baker, ’14. and Waldo Miller.
’14, who are registered in the law
department. Charles Betts, Hugh
and Neal Pond are taking mechani
cal engineering.
Hazel Ralston. ’15. is teaching in
Sweet Home high school.
Joseph L. Barber, ’07. is attend
ing the North Pacific College of
Dentistry, in Portland.
Alexander Martin, 111, '13. is at
tending Boston Technical school.
Leland Hendricks. ’15, is city ed
itor of the Daily Oregon Statesman.
Melissa Martin, '12. is instructor
in the Romance language 'department
of Oregon Agricultural college.
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