Vi I lard Builders Leave Time Capsule
By DAVID BUTLER
Feature Editor
The Oregon State Seal has
rarely been used as a time cap
sule. But in 1886. that's exactly
how a seal on Villard Hall was
used.
In early January, 1886, work
men hung two carefully-carved
State Seals above the east and
west entrances to Villard as final
touches for the new state Uni
versity.
For 80 years the seals rotted
above the entrances; the Univer
sity grew larger, and changes
were made in Villard.
The University Theatre was
added in the 1950's. Under the
heavy cement paint on the seals,
the wood continued to rot.
80 Years
Finally, early fall term this
year, University Theatre person
nel noticed the seal above the UT
addition on the west side of Vil
lard was beginning to fall.
With vague plans of refinishing
the seal and hanging it in the
University Pocket Theatre, UT
workers and speech instructors
took the seal down. It was 80
years to the month from when
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The research committee had
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one which would ask that a com
mission be set up to study the
feasibility of the proposed Mill
race development.
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the seal was put up until Howard
Helm, shop foreman for the
theatre, began to restore it.
Sealed Bottle
By chance. Helm opened up
the layered, domed seal.
When Helm opened the almost
rotten seal in early January, he
chanced on a four-inch bottle em
bedded in the soft wood.
Stuffed with scraps of paper,
the sealed bottle had been
trapped in the wood for almost
a century before it had been
accidentally discovered.
Instructors in the speech de
partment opened the bottle and
discovered a collection of notes,
newspaper clippings, and names
that had been planted by work
men in 1886.
The papers, now being kept
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for University archives, are all
dated 1886 and earlier, and point
out that the seal was placed on
Villard Jan 10, 1886.
Found inside the bottle was:
• an envelope, cancellation
date illegible, with a scrawled
return address
• a Steamship Columbia meal |
ticket dated Jan. 17. 1883 for table ;
one to T. A. Brown. 30.
• a slip of paper stating W. T
Campbell, born Sept. 25, 1852, |
was one of the workmen that j
built the building
• a newspaper clipping report |
ing English author George El .
liot’s funeral Elliot was a pen i
name for Mary Ann Evans.
• several jokes
• a poem of "The Bachelor’s
Last Hours.”
Anthony Kadlec, assistant pro j
fessor of speech, is holding the j
notes for University archives.
Kadlec said of the seal, ‘Til
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truly bet if you wont around nnd
got into these seals you would
(ind more of these things.”
Since the notes were found
last month, the seal has been
totally restored and repainted.
UT personnel have hung the re
stored seal above the stage in
the Pocket theatre in a remodel
ing project that eventually will
center around the seal. Kadlec
calls it "American-ViCtorian."
The other state seal erected at
the same time as the newly-re
stored seal is still above the east
entrance to Vlllard. The weather,
too, has taken Its toll of that sent.
Perhaps, said Kadlec, that seal,
also, has a similar "time capsule"
embedded In it
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