{"id":20439,"date":"2023-11-21T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2023-11-21T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T02:56:37","slug":"since-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/since-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Since 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Hannah Field | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

Western\u2019s average first-year student would never pass by Campbell Hall and consider that something is missing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The building blends in with the rest of the old architecture \u2014 a staple to Western\u2019s image. Before 1962, however, it had a whole section of rooms and even a bell tower that was lost to the Columbus Day Storm that wrecked the West coast \u2014 blowing in dangerous winds and torrents of rain statewide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Student Wes Luchau photographed the devastation in action, a photo blasted to national media that even ended up earning Luchau 400 dollars which would be equivalent to four thousand dollars in today\u2019s currency.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is more of this hidden history that exists in the Western archives \u2014\u00a0 residing in the library archives and passed on in stories.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to \u201cSince 1856\u2026 Historical Views of the College at Monmouth,\u201d a book kept shelved in Western\u2019s Wayne & Lynn Hamersly Library, the enrollment in 1962 was at 1200 students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The book states, \u201cThe College attracted a student body most of whom were first generation college-bound,\u201d which corresponds today with Western program SEP., specific to first-generation students, a trait Western has incorporated for over 60 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this time, Western was not yet Western Oregon University, but the Oregon College of Education, and would go by this name until the year 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sixties arranged a period of rapid growth for the college, tripling their numbers by the end of the decade. More educational programs were established, as well as programs related to the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The college underwent degree establishment requiring prerequisites for classes in elementary education, whereas previously, students could take the required classes in any order they desired, much unlike today\u2019s system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More staff were hired and more funding was given to Western so it would eventually become the school as we know it today. It was a long journey from 1962\u2019s disaster-struck college to today\u2019s successful university.<\/span><\/p>\n

More of Western\u2019s complicated history can be easily found on the Wayne & Lynn Hamersly Library\u2019s website and archival materials. Books, such as \u201cSince 1869\u2026,\u201d are easily accessible and available to be checked out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlnews@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":20440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1784,1401,1787,1786,684,39,1785],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1784","tag-campbell-hall","tag-columbus-day-storm","tag-history","tag-western","tag-wou","tag-wou-history"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}