News, Media and Stories | Pacific History

Gamma Sigma Group gathered in 2013
The History of Gamma Sigma Fraternity presented in a photo gallery.
  The Anxious Seat: Pacific Identity Project explores the university's past and the experiences of students today.
Boxer Tail on a brick walkway
The latest chapter in a decades-old mystery of what happened to the original Pacific University "Boxer" has been written.
Docent shares personal connection with Pacific history.
May Pole Pictured in front of Marsh Hall to celebrate May Day
May Day at Pacific University began in an outdoor flurry of flowers, song and dance in 1914, then shifted indoors in the 1950s and became more like a formal dance.
AZ Walk on Pacific University's Campus
Some 520 Pacific University students and alumni served in World War II. About 31, roughly equivalent to an entire senior class at the time, never came home.
Private First Class Shin Sato pictured in his uniform
It was spring, 1942 and there was war all over the world. The Great Depression had ended, but now the Allied nations were fighting for their lives as the second European war of the century metastasized with horrific swiftness into global conflict.

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