Sold!
However, the end of
World War I in i'HH
I’mmd these Associate*
Students in serious financial
trouble. I hcv were forced to sell the
bookstore to cover an extended
football contrai l lot their Rose howl
winning coach, Hugo He/dek I he
fledgling bookstore was sold to
druggist Sidney Allen! For the next
two years, and only during that
Students were the creators of
the first U of O bookstore. It
happened in the spring of 1916 in a
small, rented house where we are
today. These ASUO members had a
goal to provide a convenient, eco
nomical center for distribution of
books and supplies. And toward that
goal, they loaned $4000 from their
general fund for their new bookstore
enterprise. On September 15th. 1916
the doors opened for business.
Original Bookstore Board Member*.
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Growth. Expansion.
Relocation.
The next several years
brought all all of these
for the now incorporated
University of Oregon Book
store, along with World War II
and the Korean War. GI’s
using their benefits increased
University enrollment, motivat
ing the Bookstore in 1961 to
buy the College Side Inn build
ing at 13th fk Kincaid, and
construct in phases, its final
home.
Growth. Expansion.
Relocation.
aby Boomers kept growth going in the sixties. Sales at tin1
bookstore rose from $1,580,000 in 1966 to $6,324,000 in
1984. Major store remodeling and addition of a warehouse put the
bookstore in step with these times. Bv the eighties, the bookstore
had evolved from its simple beginnings a house storing books tor
students, to a large 36,000 square foot, multi service book and
supply store.
Prince Lucien Campbell,
fourth President of the U of O
invested $500 of his own
money to buy stock in the
U of O Cooperative Store.
found faculty and students setting up a more organized, coopera
live bookstore—complete with By laws and Articles of Association. A line
of credit from stationer J.K. Gill of the J.K. Gill Company in Portland, a
fast friend of the University, enabled the bookstore to reopen as The
University of Oregon Cooperative Store.
As the store grew and J.K. Gill Company could no longer meet their credit
needs. The University Supply Company was created to nuance tin* co op.
1000 shares of stock were issued and purchased primarily by faculty
members at $100 per share*.
Portland became the site ol the first branch
store in 1989. At the request of the University,
the bookstore opened the Portland Center
Store to help the U of O meet the needs of a large number ot alumni and friends in Portland.
University sportswear and emblematic gifts are featured there.
This expansion was followed in 1991 by creation of a branch store in Liwrence Hall to improve
art material supply for Architecture and Allied Arts students and faculty.
The same year, the Athletic Department asked for a branch store in the newly built Casanova
Center. The attractive Duck Shop offers University sportswear and emblematic items to fans at
Autzen Stadium
Now the Co-op could directly contact
publishers and manufacturers, saving
members money and building a helpful
surplus ol stock in tin* inflated twenties.
By 1933. the store was successful enough
to purchase all remaining stock and was
financially on its own!
Marion McClain, the first General Manager
of the U of O Cooperative Store from 1820-1847,
personally signed a loan to start op the bookstore
by investing in the University Supply Company.
Gerald Henson, Bookstore General Manager from
1947-1976. began as a shelf Stocker at the book
store. He was known for his honesty and character.