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Olsen Family Papers

  • UA 7.6.3
  • Record group
  • 1947 - 1964

In the summer of 1947, Robert Olsen joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran College as a Professor of Chemistry. He and his wife Josephine (“Jo”), along with sons Richard, Robert Jr., James, and Paul moved to Tacoma from Detroit, Michigan. While in Tacoma, the family expanded to include Ruth (1951) and Timothy (1953). Professor Olsen retired from PLU in 1976.

Shortly after the Olsen family relocated to Tacoma, Professor Olsen took a series of Kodachrome slide photographs of the campus and surrounding area. Jo Olsen wrote a script to accompany the slides describing their content and providing details about the family’s new home and community. The slides and script were sent to the family’s former congregation in Detroit to be viewed as a tour of the area. The slides have been digitized and the caption written by Jo Olsen has been included with each image.

The Olsen Times was a newspaper started by 10-year-old James B. Olsen in 1951, covering family and community news. The paper was distributed to family and friends across the country. The Olsen Times was published weekly from 1951-1954 and monthly from 1954-1956. It was followed or supplemented by The Olsen Times Bulletin (1958, 1960, 1961), The Olsen News (1951-1957), and family letters (1961, 1964).

Olsen Family

Faculty and Staff Reference Files

  • UA 9.3.2
  • Record group

The University Archives Reference Files on Faculty and Staff contain information regarding PLU employees gathered from Human Resources, Marketing and Communications, and other sources. These may include newspaper clippings, press releases, biographical information, photographs, correspondence, and other content related to the employees PLU career. This content is governed by an access restriction policy.

The Hurricane

  • UA 8.10.4
  • Record group
  • 1901 - 1915

The Hurricane was a student literary journal and newsletter published by the Lyceum Student Literary Society. It included campus news, creative writing, editorials, and coverage of athletics events, debates, and theatrical performances. The publication's first several issues were handwritten before it began being printed as a small booklet.

Lyceum Student Literary Society

Knightletter

  • UA 7.2.6
  • Record group
  • 1963 - 1971

Scanned copies of the Knightletter, a weekly newsletter for faculty, administration, and staff covering personnel and campus news, such as birth announcements and event calendars.

Columbia College Records

  • UA 10.1.2
  • Record group
  • 1909-1919

This box includes records, minutes, by-laws for Columbia College.

Office of the Provost Records

  • UA 2.1.1
  • Record group
  • 1927-2008

The Office of the Provost Records contain materials from and collected by former provosts of Pacific Lutheran University, material created by the Provost Council, information regarding the search for a provost and about the university’s faculty, and the provosts’ correspondence with the American Lutheran Church. Included are meeting minutes and notes from the Provost Council and various other academic councils, correspondence from individual provosts, documents pertaining to faculty salary, credit hours, sabbaticals, and so on, and various other documents that belong to to departments headed by the Provost.

Student Clubs and Organizations Records

  • UA 8.4.1
  • Record group

Clubs and Organizations Records contain registration files (annual registration forms, recognition petitions, advisor agreements) and governing documents (constitutions and bylaws) for student groups affiliated with the Pacific Lutheran University Student Life Division. Files may also include correspondence, event information, membership lists, and other records relating student organization operations.

CHOICE Records

  • UA 4.4.1
  • Record group
  • 1967-1987

Records relating to the Center for Human Organization in Changing Environments (CHOICE), including presentations, programs, correspondence, reports, studies, and projects.

Saxifrage

  • UA 8.10.5
  • Record group
  • 1975-2004

The collection consists of 46 books of the Saxifrage from the years 1975-2019. All volumes of Saxifrage were created by PLU students and printed locally. As a creative arts publication, the content of
Saxifrage ranges from poetry and prose to art, photography, and musical compositions. All of the books are professionally printed and bound with multiple signature glue bindings and soft covers.

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