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Almanac: March
- This is St. David's Day. David (or Dewi), a sixth-century Welsh abbot, is the patron saint of Wales.
- In March of 1949 the student government at the University formally adopted the name, Associated Students of the University of Portland, and began using the acronym ASUP. The first student body president under the new constitution was Kevin Collins, who later served as acting dean of students for the University.
- This was the birthday in 1810 of the Polish composer and pianist Frederick Chopin, and the birthday in 1837 of the American novelist and editor (founder of the Atlantic Monthly and first editor of the works of Thomas Wolfe) William Dean Howells. It was also the birthday in 1914 of the African-American writer Ralph Waldo Ellison (The Invisible Man), in 1917 of the New England poet Robert Lowell, in 1920 of US poet-laureate Richard Wilbur, and in 1925 of Israeli prime minister and Nobel-Peace-Prize winner Yitzak Rabin. And on this day in 1847 the State of Michigan became the first English-speaking jurisdiction to banish the death penalty.
- In 1978 University president Paul E. Waldschmidt, C.S.C., was ordained a bishop at a ceremony in Civic Auditorium.
- Father William Botzum, C.S.C., died on this date in 2006 at the age of 92. He completed doctoral studies in psychology at the University of Chicago before coming to the University of Portland in 1951. In addition to his position on the faculty he lived in the residence halls where he conducted a personal ministry among students. He left Portland in 1964 to pursue post-doctoral studies at Stanford. After 1966 he served on the faculty and as an administrator at the University of Notre Dame. He had a lifelong interest in the game of Bridge and returned occasionally to Portland to participate in masters' tournaments.
- Father James Norton, C.S.C., died on this date in 1979 at age 72. He had served at the University from 1958 to 1968, from 1962 to 1968 as dean of students.
- This date in 1991 marked the inauguration of the Reverend David T. Tyson, C.S.C., as eighteenth president of the University. Prior to his election by the Board of Regents, Father Tyson served as the vice president for student services at the University of Notre Dame, where he also held an appointment to the faculty of the School of Business Administration.
- Brother Ernest Ryan, C.S.C., died on this date in 1963 at age 65. He had served at the University from 1938 to 1943 as a member of the faculty in English. In 1940 he founded Dujarie Press to publish inspirational religious novels and lives of the saints for young readers. He himself had published four novels by 1943, and by 1960 he had authored some 124 books: novels, biographies, poetry, and textbooks on methodology. By 1964 Dujarie Press had published 350 fictionalized biographies of saints, artists, scientists, explorers, and musicians. Herbert Heywood, an artist on the faculty at the University of Portland, provided some of the illustrations for these books.
- On this date in 1943, fifty University of Portland members of the army enlisted reserves were called to active duty and departed for Ft. Lewis.
- The University of Portland Almanac presently offers no specific entry for this date. If you wish to suggest material that would appropriately be listed under this date, please contact the editor.
- Father James G. Anderson, C.S.C., died in Portland on this date in 1985. He first came to the campus as a high school freshman in 1925. He departed for studies at Notre Dame in 1929 and returned to Portland in 1946 with a doctorate in chemistry to serve on the faculty. Over the next forty years he served as a professor in chemistry, and, at various times, as chairman of that department, dean of the College of Science, vice president of the University, chairman of the Academic Senate, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, superior of the local Holy Cross community, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, president of the local chapter of the American Chemical Society, and dean of the Graduate School. His careful stewardship of the chapel fund over some thirty years made possible the construction of the Chapel of Christ the Teacher.
- On this date in 1957 the Beacon reported the installation of the first private telephone in a student room on campus. Donald E. Gorger, a sophomore from Pendleton, Oregon, then living in room 24 in Christie Hall, paid Bell Telephone for the installation of the private line. The Beacon reported the event on its first page as "a history-making event, which should . . . be set down in the annals of the university for all posterity's sake . . . ."
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- This was the date of the inauguration in 1979 of Brother Raphael Wilson, C.S.C., as sixteenth president of the University. He had served as professor of biology prior to becoming president. In 1982 he left the University and in 1996 was ordained a priest for the diocese of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, was first published on this date in 1818.
- George Berkeley (1685-1753) was born on this day. He was the first (?) to say that Newton's House of Calculus was built on a foundation of sand. In The Analyst Berkeley writes: “And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?” Present-day mathematicians would say that the sand was not replaced by rock until the 19th century by Cauchy, Weierstrass, and Riemann.
- Another mathematician, Louis Joel Mordell, died on this day in 1972. He had been born in Philadelphia on January 28, 1888, but studied and worked in England, He studied rational solutions to equations, saying at one point early in his career, "Indeterminate equations have never been very popular in England (except perhaps in the 17th and 18th centuries); though they have been the subject of many papers by most of the greatest mathematicians in the world: and hosts of lesser ones..." Mordell's most well-known result is that the group of rational points of an elliptic curve is finitely generated.
- At Oxford, England, this date in 1879 saw the felling of a row of poplar trees that inspired Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, "Binsey Poplars," which reveals an ecological sensitivity we associate with a later era.
- On this date in 1936 The Beacon reported the recent planting on campus of twenty-five English holly trees.
- Father James P. Doll, C.S.C, who taught biology at the University from 1962 to 1967, died on this date in 1972 at the age of 52.
- On this date in 2004 Pope John Paul II became the second-longest reigning successor of St. Peter. Pius IX, elected in 1846, died in 1878 after a pontificate of more than 31 years. His successor, Leo XIII, pope for more than 25 years, had the second longest reign until this day.
- This was the birthday in 1879 of Albert Einstein at Ulm in Germany. Einstein, who is best known for the development of his theories of relativity, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1921 for his explanation of photoelectric effect. After renouncing his German citizenship in 1933, he moved to Princeton, New Jersey, to participate in the Institute for Advanced Study. He died there in 1955.
- In 1883 Karl Marx died on this date in London.
- Brother Pius Leising, C.S.C., died on this date in 1987 at Dujarie House, Notre Dame, Indiana, at age 83. He had been sacristan for the University chapels from 1942 to 1979.
- This is the Ides of March according to the ancient Roman calendar. The dates within the month were identified not by counting forward from the first day but backward from the first day of the following month. Consequently the ides fell on the fifteenth day (by modern computation) of months with thirty-one days (January, March, May, July, August, October, and December) and on the thirteenth day of months with thirty days. On this date in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate.
- On this date in 1973 the center span of the Fremont Bridge was raised into place in what the Oregonian called "the biggest bridge lift in U.S. history." The 6,000 ton steel arch span was assembled on a barge on the Willamette River and floated into position where hydraulic jacks turned nuts attached to four long threaded bolts and raised the span into place. The raising took approximately twenty-four hours and captured the attention of the city.
- Father Walter J. O'Donnell, C.S.C., died on this date in 1963 at the age of 78. He had taught at the University from 1908 to 1911 and later from 1924 to 1926. He later served in Hispanic parishes in Texas.
- Father William J. Marr, C.S.C., died on this date in 1916, at age 43. He was one of the founding Holy Cross religious who arrived on The Bluff in 1902.
- This is the feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem (315-386), doctor of the Church.
- On this date in 1949 fire destroyed a portion of Howard Hall.
- Father Thomas J. Kelly, C.S.C., professor of classical languages from 1955 until his retirement in 1972, died on this date in 1976 the death at age 75.
- Father James J. Leahy, C.S.C., who taught philosophy at the University from 1954 to 1967, died on this date in 1988 at age 77.
- This is the birthday of two men who were each to become editor of the Lampoon, the Harvard University humor magazine. George Plimpton was born on this date in New York City in 1927. He later became publisher of the Paris Review, but was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, his account of his own amateur experience with the Detroit Lions football team. John Updike, the novelist, was born on this date in 1932 in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania. His novel Rabbit, Run first appeared in 1960.
- This is the solemnity of St. Joseph, husband of Mary the Mother of Jesus and patron of the Brothers of Holy Cross.
- This is the first day of spring, established by the sun's being exactly equidistant from the North and South Poles of the Earth.
- B. F. Skinner was born on this day in 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. He was to become famous as the founder of the school of psychology known as behaviorism.
- In Eisenach in Saxony, this was the birthday in 1685 of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose reputation within the Western musical tradition places him among the greatest composers of all time. He came from a family of musicians and produced a family of composers. His career took him to the service of Prince Leopold of Anhalt, first at Weimar and later at Cöthen, but in 1723 he became music director of the church of St. Thomas at Leipzig, where he remained until his death in 1750.
- Father Dominic O'Malley, C.S.C., died on this date in 1933 at age 56. From 1912 to 1915 he taught religion at Portland and served as prefect in the senior dormitory.
- The University of Portland Almanac presently offers no specific entry for this date. If you wish to suggest material that would appropriately be listed under this date, please contact the editor.
- In 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born on this date in Yonkers, New York. After World War II Ferlinghetti would open the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, which was to become the center of a cultural and literary movement known as the Beat Generation with such celebrities as Alan Ginsberg. Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was first published in the United States by Ferlinghetti.
- In the church calendar this is the solemnity of the Annunciation, a celebration of the Angel Gabriel's announcing to Mary that she would become the mother of Jesus. The feast has been celebrated on this date from very early times, probably in association with the spring equinox (which from antiquity until the seventeenth century was regarded as the beginning of the year). The observance of this feast may be older than that of Christmas. In medieval times it was commonly believed that this was also the anniversary in the Roman calendar of the death of the Lord. A propensity for symmetry led also the popular belief that the creation of the world narrated in Genesis was begun on this day and that the Second Coming and end of the world would occur on this date.
- Bro. Wilfred Schreiber, C.S.C., one of the first Holy Cross religious to arrive at the University in 1902, died on this date in 1951, at age 76. He had served at the University until 1933.
March 27
- Father Barry Hagan, C.S.C., died on this date in 2002 at Notre Dame, Indiana, at the age of 70. Born in Glendive, Montana, he had come to the University in 1949 and joined the Congregation of Holy Cross upon graduating in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in history. He returned to Portland in 1961 as a member of the faculty. He gained a reputation among his students for his mastery of the details of American history, and applied his skills in research on the American frontier. He served for many years as the archivist of the University.
- Father William S. Scandlon, C.S.C., died on this date in 1951 at Notre Dame, Indiana, at the age of 44. He had served at the University from 1934 to 1945 when he was transferred to the newly founded King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. An athletic facility named in his honor now stands on the campus there. He had returned to Portland in 1950 as vice president of the University and dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
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- On this date in 1968 Senator Robert Kennedy made a surprise visit to the University campus while campaigning in Oregon for the Democratic nomination for president. Despite short notice for the visit, nearly one thousand persons gathered in the University Commons to listen to him according to an estimate by the Beacon. He was assassinated in Los Angeles a little more than two months later, on June 6, after winning the California primary. A few days earlier he had lost the Democratic primary in Oregon to Senator Eugene McCarthy.
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