What's Your Willamette Story?
We’re already working on the next issue of The Scene, and we’d like to have alumni readers contribute to it.
From the Laurie Monnes Anderson ‘68 archive
Please send in your memories of the “good old days” — when Mark Hatfield ran across the street from the capitol to teach a class, when a live bear visited a fraternity, when the university first got email, or whatever else stands out in your mind about Willamette. Help show us how things have changed — and how they have stayed the same.
Email your story submissions to scene@willamette.edu, and please limit them to 500 words. If you’d like to mail your submission, send to:
The Scene
Alumni Relations
Willamette University
900 State St.
Salem, OR 97301
Behind the Scenes: images of the past
Do you recognize these photographs?
Remember some of these people?
If so, we’d like to know about it. Please send recollections or comments to the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@willamette.edu or call 503-375-5304. We’ll incorporate your feedback into the university’s records. We’ll also share what we learn in a future edition of The Scene.
Winter 2009 Reader Responses
Miriam (Day) Wicks ’46 was the first to respond to last issue’s photos, informing us that it was Lorlei (Blatchford) Cayton ’22 who sat (second from the left) smiling among the other white-clad women in the top picture. Harlan Wilson ’64 picked out Jim Booth ’64 and Dan Kessler ’65 in the middle-left picture, and Robert Foster ’72, MBA’76 helped explain the ’70s-era spiral staircase shot: It was Putnam University Center’s original staircase. The furniture in the picture, he says, “did not arrive for 1–2 months after the building’s opening, supposedly because the train it was on derailed and the car fell into the Mississippi River.”
