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PCC 50th Anniversary Digital Photo Collection

In preparation for the 50th Anniversary, the historical photos from the Records Center were digitized. These photos help describe the rich history of the college, and the hard work it took to get PCC where it is today. This digital repository was created by the Records Center in collaboration with the Library.

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  • Collection: PCC 50th Anniversary Digital Photo Collection
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Hugh McGilvra, Board Member (1968-1979), Zone 7

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Hugh McGilurn dances with a companion.

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Hugh Brock, Diesel Service Mechanics Instructor, in the Diesel Shop at Rock Creek.

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"It was in 1961 that Portland Community College was launched by Portland School Board members Howard Cherry, R.W. "Bill" deWeese, Ted Yaw, Mary Rieke, Edmund Jordan, William Wyse, and William Hutchinson. The Portland superintendent of schools at the time was Melvin Barnes. The school board members had varying ideas about what the infant college should or would be. But few of them foresaw that what they were creating would grow into what PCC has become. Leading the board into the community college age were deWesse and Cherry." -- p. 106 from the book "They Just Did It"

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"It was in 1961 that Portland Community College was launched by Portland School Board members Howard Cherry, R.W. "Bill" deWeese, Ted Yaw, Mary Rieke, Edmund Jordan, William Wyse, and William Hutchinson. The Portland superintendent of schools at the time was Melvin Barnes. The school board members had varying ideas about what the infant college should or would be. But few of them foresaw that what they were creating would grow into what PCC has become. Leading the board into the community college age were deWesse and Cherry." -- p. 106 from the book "They Just Did It"

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Howard Cherry, Board Member (1968-85)

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A home economics class, when feminism was still a new word for an ancient challenge.

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The Public Night School began offering classes in old Portland High School from November 11, 1889. This is the first public school building. The image was printed in the Sunday Oregonian, Picture Page, March 31, 1963. In 1921, the Public Night School became the Vocational and Adult Education Division of Portland Public Schools, which was later established as Portland Community College in 1961.

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Photo from a scrapbook dedicated to the Health Record Programs, 1984, page 22.

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"By 1964 community college business was taking too much of the Portland School Board's time, and the board named an advisory council to help steer the fast-growing college and to recommend policies for the college. The advisory council continued to function until 1968-69 when the college was separated from the school district and got its own elected board of directors." -- p. 108, from the book, "They Just Did It" Harry A. Thompson served on the first advisory council.