Do you have any information about a certain student/faculty member from Pacific?

Probably! Sources of information include:

The Pacific University Catalogue (also called the Bulletin):

• • Contains the names of each student who attended Pacific University and Tualatin Academy from about 1867-1930s, as well as the names of professors, administrators and trustees. This is the only reliable source of information about who attended Pacific and when, for pre-1940s. Neither the Alumni Office nor the Registrar's Office maintains pre-1940s student records. 

  • Includes the name of each student, which class they were in, which degree program they were in, and (usually) their home town; for professors it usually includes their degrees, what they and what they taught. 

  • Access:
    1863-2007: bound volumes are shelved above Eva's desk
    1868-1921: most issues are also available online via HathiTrust
    2008+:  digital versions are linked on the Past Catalogs page of pacificu.edu
    
    

The Alumni Directories on the shelves underneath the plaster eagles.

• Provides directory information about students who attended Pacific between the 1930s-1990s. Because these were intended to be contact/address books, they only included students who were still alive when the directory was published. 

• Includes: student names; year of graduation; address as of the date when the directory was published; and cross-references to maiden names for women alumni of students 

• This is a good first place to look for information when all you have is a name, but no other information about years of attendance, etc. Once you know which years a student attended, you can move on to other sources like the Catalogue, Yearbook, etc.
  
  

The Heart of Oak, aka the Yearbook, shelved in the back storage room

• • Yearbooks exist for most years in between the 1910s-1970s. Before and after those years, they are patchy. No yearbooks were published after the mid-1990s. 

  • Use the Directories or the Catalogue to find the years when the student/professor attended; then use the Yearbook to get a photograph. The sports and clubs pages may give additional information or photos.
    
    

The Index, aka the Newspaper, shelved near the door to the Archives

• • Covers 1896-present

  • Best source of information on sports, parties, fraternity/sorority activities and other events. The newspaper is not indexed, so you will need to know an approximate date, and then check through manually.
    
    

Other sources

• • Historic Images on WashingtonCountyHeritage.org: Good chance of finding images of students and alumni from about 1860-1910; also fairly good for the 1940s-1960s. Poor coverage after 1970.

  • Archival collections: Check ArchivesSpace. Former faculty are likely to have original records related to them somewhere in our collection. Students are less likely to be represented. 

  • Biographical files: Some students/faculty have a biographical reference file in the file cabinets.

  • Ancestry.com : This is a paid subscription database. Eva has a personal account and can look up information such as birth and death dates, places of residence, etc.