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Daisy Newhouse's 1914 Pacific College graduation dress.
Daisy married Harold S. Read in 1943. She taught primary grades in Oregon for 41 years, 34 of which were spent teaching 1st grade in the Portland School District, before retiring in 1958. Daisy is the author of Springbrook — A Cooperative Community — Then and Now and My College Years: Memories of Long Ago (1978), a booklet in which she recalls her life at Pacific Academy and Pacific College. She lived at Friendsview Manor, and was the oldest George Fox alumna when she passed away in 1991.
Graduation Dress
Graduation Dress
Mrs. Daisy Newhouse Read was born in Minnesota in 1892. Her family moved to Oregon in 1894 and Daisy attended Pacific Academy from 1907-1910. Afterwards she attended Pacific College, graduating June 10, 1914 with a bachelor of arts degree in education with a specialization in History. As a student, Daisy spent seven years walking two miles on the often muddy railroad tracks from her Springbrook home to campus. This was an occasion for her first rain-repellent coat.
Tuition was an expensive $50 a semester, so Daisy took great care of her best dress: one of her mother’s dresses refashioned for her. Daisy reports that this store-bought dress was very special. She wore it for her graduation from Pacific Academy and then it was updated for her 1914 college graduation.
Daisy Newhouse (front left) was honored to be in Pacific College's Young Women's Christian Association cabinet for 1912-1913.
Also pictured in Front row: Elma (Paulsen) Hadley, Myrtle (Mills) Franzen, Mildred Benson
Back row: Florence (Kaufman) Harris, Esther (Miles) Haworth, Vera York, Mary (Jones) DesBrisay, Violet (Craw) Jones.
Daisy Newhouse in her Pacific College graduation dress in 1914.
Daisy Newhouse Read's graduation dress in the Museum Collection as of 2018.
Details of the lace paneling on Daisy's dress, which she donated among other artifacts to George Fox University's Brougher Museum.
Mrs. Read at the 1989 George Fox Homecoming, where she received George Fox College's 75-Year Anniversary Award.
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