November 9, 2016
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The community is invited to an open house on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus,
705 N. Killingsworth St., on Tuesday, Nov. 15. from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to tour its newly remolded library
(above) and celebrate the completion of other new services and resources as part of a multi-year,
$58 million construction project.
Cascade Transformed
Library completes PCC campus expansion
M ETRO
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Portland Community College’s
Cascade Campus has finished its
second major expansion over the
past two decades and is inviting
friends and neighbors to join them
to celebrate the transformation.
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m., a Community Open
House will take place in the new
Cascade Campus Library, 705 N.
Killingsworth. The open house
will mark the official inauguration
of a completely remolded library
and complete a 2008 PCC bond
construction program that also
added two new buildings, an un-
derground parking structure, and
made extensive renovations and
upgrades to virtually every build-
ing on the campus which serves
north and northeast Portland.
“Thanks to the public invest-
ment in PCC, we can offer new
services and resources to our com-
munity while inspiring students
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The new library at Portland Com-
munity College’s Cascade Campus
in north Portland will be the future
home of the Evelyn Crowell Center
for African American Community
History, to be curated and installed
in the coming year.
The center will tell the rich
and vibrant story of the African
American community in north and
northeast Portland, from its early
days through the Vanport flood
and on to the present day.
Evelyn “Evie” Crowell, a resi-
dent of north Portland since 1942,
exemplifies the contributions
made by African Americans to
the history of Portland. The first
member of her family to attend
college, and a member of Portland
State University’s third graduat-
ing class, Crowell spent several
decades at PSU inspiring students
as a beloved teacher and librarian.
She has deep roots in the Hum-
boldt Neighborhood surrounding
the Cascade Campus, where she
purchased her home as a single
Evelyn “Evie’ Crowell
woman in her 20s, raised her son
and daughter and lived for more
than 55 years. She served on the
Portland School Board and the
Oregon State Library Board of
Trustees, as well as on the boards
of Portland Center Stage and the
Oregon Symphony. She became
the first African-American board
president to lead the YWCA of
Greater Portland, and has been
an active member of the Portland
Chapter of The LINKS and the
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
A lifelong champion of educa-
tion, Crowell has given more than
$109,000 of her personal wealth
to the PCC Foundation, establish-
ing an endowed scholarship in her
name and annual and endowed
scholarships for students enrolled
in technical programs at PCC’s
Swan Island Trades Center.
“The Evelyn Crowell Center
for African American Communi-
ty History will be a fitting way to
ensure that Evie’s legacy – as well
as the history of African Ameri-
cans in this part of the city – will
be remembered for generations to
come,” said Karin Edwards, pres-
ident of the Cascade Campus. “I
hope the whole neighborhood is
able to turn out to help us cele-
brate our beautiful campus and the
life of this exceptional woman.”