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

The John Froschauer Photographs is comprised of digital photographs of PLU Campus Photographer John Froschauer, who has served in that capacity since 2010. Descriptions of the images are from a legacy system and are considered unverified.

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.

The Jurgensen Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, photo albums, scrapbooks, ephemera, and textiles related to three generations of the family.

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.

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.

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).

Contains records from the Department of History including departmental correspondence and meeting minutes and documents related to classes and conferences.

Contains records from the Department of Psychology. Included are departmental correspondence, information regarding classes, faculty, and psychology alumni.

The Department of Political Science Records include departmental correspondence, class syllabi, faculty information, and other papers.