Vanport Records 1927-1995

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Vanport Records 1927-1995

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The Vanport Records document the Vanport Extension Center, the institution that would later become Portland State University. It also includes material on the city of Vanport. Materials within the Vanport Records include: brochures, budgets, catalogs, clippings, constitutions (faculty, student, and student organizations), correspondence, committee records, course information, directories, enrollment statistics, ephemera, faculty salaries, grades, handbooks, histories, maps, memorabilia, newspapers (student and others), photographs, posters, promotional materials, reports, rosters, and scrapbooks.

3.00 ft

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Portland State University LibrarySpecial Collections & University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6370987

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Epler, Stephen Edward, 1909-

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Vanport Extension Center

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Founded in the summer of 1946, the Vanport Extension Center (VEC) brought a lower division extension college to the Portland area. Returning veterans who wanted to take advantage of the G.I. Bill found that Oregon colleges were incapable of meeting their housing needs. Stephen E. Epler, a Vanport veterans' college counselor, was intimately aware of this difficult situation and proposed the VEC as an emergency measure to take some of the burden off the state’s colleges. Rather than a...