Almanac: July

July 1

• On this day in 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the German philosopher and logician who developed integral and differential calculus, was born in Leipzig, Germany.  Historians now believe that Newton developed his calculus before Leibniz interested himself in the subject, but Leibniz was the first to publish the discoveries he had come upon independently.
  
  
• In 1971 Father Henry A. Geuss, C.S.C., died on this date at age 59.  From 1939 to 1949 he taught Latin at Columbia Prep and from 1949 to 1955 to students at the University.

• In 1935 the death at age 65 of Father William A. Maloney, C.S.C, who served at the University from 1907 to 1909.
  

July 3

• Father Joseph J. Boyle, C.S.C., president of the University, died on this date in 1936 in Mason City, Iowa, where he had gone to visit family.  He had been appointed the eighth president of the institution in 1934 and was still serving in that position when he died at the age of 54.

July 4

• Independence Day.  On this date in 1776 the body that styled itself "the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled" unanimously adopted the resolution now known as the Declaration of Independence stating that the thirteen British colonies they represented were, "and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States."

July 5

• The University of Portland Almanac attempts to present for each day of the year information particular to that date from the history of the University and its constituent membership, or information, still particular to the date, regarding persons and topics connected with the University’s academic interests, or other matters of general interest and appropriate to this site. We presently offer no specific entry for this date. If you wish to suggest material that would appropriately be listed under this date, or corrections, please contact the editor.

July 6

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July 7

• Father James A. Fogarty, C.S.C., died on this date in 1965 at age 66   He had served at the University from 1926 to 1964 as a professor of economics.  He was still living in Christie Hall at the time of his death.  Some years earlier he had established from his personal patrimony and from other gifts a fund to be used for the building of a chapel at the University.  It was his idea that the proper investment of even a small fund could in time grow to sufficient size and value to make the construction of a chapel possible.  His dream was realized in 1986 when his successor as trustee of the fund, Father James Anderson, C.S.C., laid before the President of the University, Father Thomas Oddo, C.S.C., an account of the fund's value in excess of $600,000.  The Board of Regents authorized shortly thereafter the building of the Chapel of Christ the Teacher.

July 8

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July 9

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July 10

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July 11

• This is the feast of St. Benedict, founder of western monasticism.  Until the establishment of the first universities in the twelfth century the preservation and development of all forms of learning in Western civilization were largely due to the followers of St. Benedict.

July 12

• In Parral, Chile, in 1904, this was the birthday of Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, known later under the name he adopted as a poet, Pablo Neruda, the winner in 1971 of the Nobel Prize in literature.  Born into a working-class family, he was fortunate to have as a teacher Gabriela Mistral, herself a gifted poet later to receive the Nobel prize.  He published two books of poems by the time he was twenty.  The next few years were spent in south-east Asia, Argentina, and Europe, where he frequently served as a diplomat for his native country.  His sympathies for Communist principles began in Spain during the civil war and grew after his exile from Chile in the 1940's.  He returned to Chile in the 50's and 60's and briefly served as his country's ambassador to France.  He died in Santiago on September 23, 1973, only a few days after the fall from power of his friend, Salvador Allende.

July 13

• This date in 1964 saw the death, at age 74, of Brother Ferdinand Moser, C.S.C. He had come to the University in 1933 and became, in addition to his teaching, the University's first landscape architect, establishing the beginnings of a remarkable collection of varieties of camellias as well as rhododendrons, azaleas, holly, and other plantings, especially the tall sequoias (S. gigantea) that now tower over the campus.

July 14

• This is Bastille Day in France, the anniversary of the day, in 1789, when a mob attacked the ancient fortress and prison that had become a symbol of repression.  It was the beginning of the French Revolution.
   
• In Leoncin, Poland, this was the birthday in 1904 of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who was to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978 for his stories of Jewish life in Poland and in America.  He emigrated to the United States in 1935 and died on July 24, 1991, at his home in Florida.
   
• In Uppsala, Sweden, in 1918, ths was the birthday of Ingmar Bergman, who was to become famous as a director and producer of films.  He made more than thirty films (among them The Seventh Seal, 1956; Wild Strawberries, 1957; Cries and Whispers, 1972),  many of which captured the imagination of a film-going generation and set a standard for the serious examination of moral issues.

July 15

• This is the feast of St. Bonaventure, O.F.M., Doctor of the Church and Professor of the University of Paris.  The first of the noted Franciscan theologians, he lived from 1221 to 1274, a contemporary of the Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas.
  
  
• On this date in 1820 at Rouille in France, Father James Dujarie founded the Brothers of Saint Joseph, a group that would later become integrated into the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1835.
  
  
• Father Thomas P. Jones, C.S.C., who taught theology at the University from 1948 to 1961, died on this date in 1981 at age 72.

July 16

• Father Archibald M. McDowell, C.S.C., who served at the University from 1949 to 1959, died on this date in 1994 at age 89.
  
  
• Father Regis H. Riter, C.S.C., who served at the University from 1940 to 1950, died on this date in 1962 at age 57.

July 17

• On this day in 1902, Willis Carrier, a 25-year-old engineer for Buffalo Forge, installed "the world's first scientific air conditioning system" at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Co. of Brooklyn according to The Washington Post.

July 18

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July 19

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July 20

• On this date in 1901, Alexander Christie, Archbishop of Oregon City, entered into an agreement to purchase from the University Land Co. a building and twenty-eight acres of land on Waud's Bluff under the conditions that "a school be conducted and a major building erected within ten years" (James Covert, Point of Pride, p. 33).
   
• On this date in 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon, followed closely by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.  The University conferred an honorary doctorate of science on Aldrin at the commencement exercises on May 10, 1970.

July 21

• This is the feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, O.F.M. Cap., (1559-1619) Doctor of the Church.  Although he spent much of his life in other ecclesiastical assignments, he had first attracted notice as a student of languages at the University of Padua.
   
• Father Philip Sopke, C.S.C., died in Portland on this date in 2004.  He had served at the University from 1991 to 1998, early on as director of the office of Volunteer Services, later as director of campus ministry.  He was 49 years old at the time of his death.
   
• In what is now Oak Park, Illinois, this was the birthday in 1899 of Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel laureate in literature for 1954.

July 22

• On this date in 1901 the portion of the present campus that had formed the old Portland University became the property of the Archdiocese of Oregon City under the title of Columbia University.  The Archdiocese later ceded the same property to the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which continued to operate the institution under the Columbia University name until 1935 when the name was changed to the University of Portland.  In 1968 the Indiana Province turned the assets of the University over to the newly formed Board of Regents, which has since governed and operated it.

July 23

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July 24

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July 25

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July 26

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July 27

• Patricia Chadwick, Professor of Nursing at the University for nearly forty years, Dean of the School of Nursing from 1974 to 1996, and Dean of the Graduate School from 2001 to 2006, died on this date in 2006 at the age of 71.  Under her leadership the School of Nursing increased its size, the range of its academic offerings, and the credentials of its faculty.  The school won a series of grants that allowed the creation of a master of nursing degree program operating essentially as a part of summer school.  The program brought nursing scholars from around the country and assisted many holding bachelor's degrees in nursing to move into leadership positions in the profession.  In her long history she became identified with the University and its mission.
  
  
• Father Joseph Donahue, C.S.C., sixth president of the University, died on this date in 1928 at Notre Dame.  He was 39 years old at the time of his death.  He had come to Portland in 1921 and was appointed President in 1925.  A portrait of Father Donohue painted by artist-in-residence at the University, Emil Jacques, may be seen on the third floor of Waldschmidt Hall.
   
• In Paris, France, in 1870, this was the birthday of Hilaire Belloc, who was to become a well-known English poet, essayist, and novelist. He is particularly remembered for his witty lyrics, such as "The Hippopotamus": 
  
  I shoot the hippopotamus
  With bullets made of platinum,
  Because if I use leaden ones
  His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

July 28

• In Stratford, in the county of Essex, England, in 1844, this was the birthday of Gerard Manley Hopkins, who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest poets to write in English.  While studying at Oxford in 1866 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by John Henry Newman.  Two years later he entered the Jesuits and wrote some of his most well known poems while studying in Wales. Ordained to the priesthood in 1877, he was assigned to various teaching positions, coming in 1884 to Dublin, to teach at University College.  He died in Dublin in 1885, his major poems still unpublished.  His old Oxford classmate, Robert Bridges, by then poet laureate of England, published much of Hopkins poetry in 1918, but it was only after a second edition had appeared in 1930 that Hopkins became recognized widely for his talent and originality.

July 29

• Father J. Bernard Clark, C.S.C., died unexpectedly in his rooms in Shipstad Hall on this date in 1989.  He had come to the University only the year before to work in campus ministry and to teach medieval history.  He was 56 at the time of his death.

July 30

• The Church today celebrates the feast of St. Peter Chrysologus (380-450), bishop of Ravenna and Doctor of the Church.
  
  
• Near Dearborn, Michigan, in 1863, this was the birthday of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
  
  
• In Yorkshire, England, in 1818, this was the birthday of Emily Brontë, the author of Wuthering Heights.

July 31

• This is the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, S.J., who founded the Society of Jesus at the University of Paris in 1534.