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by Bill Hansell
Umatilla County Commissioner
Member of the Oregon 150 Board of Directors
Pendleton, OR
I was an eight grader at Athena Grade School when the 100th birthday of Oregon rolled around. While my memories are 50 years old, I recall several things about the centennial for me. I kept a scrap book, my grandmother embroidered [...]

Cenntennial Celebration Memories: a little girl lost

Judy Collins
Portland

by Judy Collins
Eugene, OR
I was five years old when Oregon celebrated her 100th anniversary of statehood. There was a big Expo up in Portland, just north of the Portland Meadows racetrack. My parents took all of us to see many things. When we got to the animal barns, I wanted to stay [...]

Susan Lindsay’s Oregon Story

Susan Lindsay
Portland

Listen to Susan Lindsay’s Oregon Story, as told to Jill Severson on Statehood Day, February 14th, 2009.

Reflections on Oregon’s 150th Birthday

Karlyn Mattsson Campbell
Salem

By Karlyn Mattsson Campbell
Salem, OR
This year will be a year of celebration of Oregon’s 150th year of statehood.
My personal story is a remembrance of Oregon’s Centennial Year. At that time, I was privileged to be selected as Miss Oregon (part of the Miss America program) and also carried the title of Miss Oregon Centennial.

The [...]

From 10 to 60 in no time flat

Ron Allen
Portland

by Ron Allen
Portland, OR
Our parents loaded my three brothers, our older sister, and me into our 1957 Ford station wagon and headed for the world’s largest log cabin; also known as the Forestry Building in Portland.
It was 1959, I was 10 years old and Oregon was celebrating it’s centennial. It’s difficult to believe that [...]

Land of the Empire Builders

Elizabeth McCallum
St Helens Oregon

by Elizabeth McCallum
Gresham, OR
For Oregon’s Centennial in 1959, McBride Grade School in St. Helens, Columbia County, Oregon, taught the first graders the song, “Land of the Empire Builders.” We dressed in “Indian” garb and sang our hearts out. I wore my grandmother’s Girl Guide dress of homespun with leather fringe and beads.

Old Days

Judy Rice
Lake Oswego

by Judy Rice
West Linn, OR

I sit here at my computer trying to write something about a place where my family has lived for 5 generations. There are over 15 members of our family buried in the Oswego Pioneer Cemetery. I can remember when Lake Oswego was just plain Oswego. All of the [...]

Memorabilia

Cheryl Nelson
Portland, OR

by Cheryl Nelson
Sacramento, CA

We have this commemorative plate of Oregon’s 100th birthday. I believe it came down to us through my in-laws who were married in Portland a decade earlier. They moved to Seattle to raise their kids, but obviously held on to their wonderful memories of Oregon.
Happy Birthday Oregon!

1959 Centennial Photo

Sydney Hart
Albany

by Sydney Hart
Portland, OR
The Piper family lived in Albany, Oregon and father, Richard, grew a beard to commemorate the 1959 Centennial celebration.

Photo was taken in February 1959
(L-R) Sydney (Piper) Hart, Richard Piper, Douglas Piper (current President of the Portland WinterHawks)

Yugoslav House

Norm Gholston
Portland

by Norm Gholston
Portland, OR

Even having been born in 1962, February 17, 1959 was a date known to my siblings and myself as if it was one of our birthdays. My parents attended the Oregon Centennial Exposition the year they were married. My father, willing to buy just about anything if it was “a good deal”, [...]

Daddy Celebrated the Oregon Centennial

Joyce DeMonnin
Portland

by Joyce DeMonnin
Portland, OR

For the Oregon Centennial, the entire DeMonnin family got into the festivities. I don’t remember too much except my grandmother made my sister and me a “pioneer” dress with matching caps, matching a dress she made herself. My dad, Charles DeMonnin, got into the act as well growing a handle bar mustache [...]