Colleges and Universities

Scott Hall, formerly called the Harvey Scott Library, opened on the Pacific University campus in Forest Grove, Oregon in 1967. This small collection of material created on campus that year was in a time capsule that was opened 50 years later.

Collection consists of one scrapbook created by Eleanor Peterson while a student at Pacific University in 1917 and 1918.

A collection of photographs and postcards documenting the life Frances Sorensen Prideaux while attending Pacific University from 1903-1906 and afterwards living in Forest Grove.

Collection consists of a photograph album and other materials related to Mildred Scobee Reeher, a 1919 graduate of Pacific University, and the Reeher family.

This collection is chiefly comprised of instructional manuals for radio and television production written by Fred Scheller, was a Professor of Communications and the Director of Media Services at Pacific University in the 1970s.

The collection consists primarily of biographical materials, including images, of Harvey Whitefield Scott and various members of his family. Scott was an 1863 graduate of Pacific University and long-time editor of the Oregonian newspaper (Portland).

Collection consists of one scrapbook created by Esther Silverman during her senior year (1908) at Pacific University.

Theta Nu Alpha is a Pacific University sorority which was founded in 1921. This collection includes newsletters, photographs, alumni records, a banquet invitation, and other material. Although the material all dates from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, information about earlier members is included in the Alumni Records section.

Tim (Khiem) and Cathy (Thuy) Tran were international students from South Vietnam who attended Pacific University from 1970-1972. In 2017, they established an endowment for the Pacific University Libraries, and the Forest Grove campus library was renamed in their honor. This collection includes the handmade camp stove that they used while living in a refugee camp in Malaysia, as well as copies of news articles and photographs related to their life story.