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George Fox University News Release
A Piece of George Fox Campus History from Postwar Years Uncovered in Demolition of a Nearly-Forgotten Building
September 04, 2001

NEWBERG, Ore. -- Something about the old, one-story wooden structure in south Newberg seemed vaguely familiar to Dick Cadd. The 77-year-old Newberg resident had passed by it occasionally. Each time, he thought it sure looked a lot like a building he had seen on his college campus five decades ago.

But it wasn't until about two weeks ago that Cadd learned why the structure seemed almost to be part of his past.
It was.
He'd even painted a sign on its roof at one time. And it was still there. Just uncovered from underneath some newly removed shingles.
"I couldn't believe it," Cadd said. "I didn't know that building was still around."

The long forgotten building and sign is sparking memories for Cadd and several others associated with what was Pacific College, now George Fox University.

It is part of a rediscovery of the university's past ù a rediscovery that has drawn Oregon Historical Society interest. The old dilapidated building at Everest and Third streets in south Newberg is being torn down by the Newberg chapter of Habitat for Humanity, to make way for several new homes.

It turns out the building was the east end of the former library at George Fox, moved to its current location in the 1960s and nearly forgotten as it became a farm shed and was covered by berry vines. But the building also had an even earlier move. It started its life at Camp Adair Naval Hospital in the Corvallis area, and was relocated to the Newberg campus in 1946-47. The Oregon Historical Society has already taken a section of the old building's floor, to preserve part of Oregon's history.
The old building was familiar to Cadd because he had helped dismantle and move some of the Camp Adair buildings to the college, and later had painted a student body election campaign sign on the library's roof.
Harlow Ankeny, 73, of Dundee, Ore., and a former classmate of Cadd, informed him of the recent discovery. Ankeny, who is a member of the local Habitat board, gaped with awe as he saw the big letters ù or actually, about half of them ù that had been painted all those years ago. Removal of the shingles revealed in large white letters, with a shadowed outline, the word "HADLEY," followed by "FOR" in smaller black lettering. The rest of the campaign message ù the word "PRESIDENT" ù had apparently been lost in the early 1960s when the west end of the building was torn down after a newer library was built.

"HADLEY" referred to Norval Hadley, who as a junior won the spring 1947 campus contest for the student body presidency. Cadd, who was Hadley's running mate, was elected vice president that year.
"When I saw the sign, I thought, 'My goodness! It couldn't be anybody but Norval," said Ankeny. "So I called him back in Denver to tell him about it."

Hadley, who lives near the Colorado capital, responded with amazement at the discovery and identified Cadd as the sign's painter.
The building was one of several barracks and officers' lounges the federal government offered for free to the college, as long as the labor to dismantle and move them was provided by the school. That provided work for Cadd, Ankeny and other students at the Quaker college who normally wouldn't have spent much time at a military facility.

As a result, the college got not only a library to replace the crowded one-room facility inside Wood-Mar Hall on campus, but also obtained a kitchen and dining hall, a science building and student housing facilities. One of those buildings, the science hall, is still on campus today as Brougher Hall.

Loyde Osburn, who served as the university's librarian from 1946 to 1949, is age 92 today and lives in Newberg. Researching some yellowed copies of the campus newspaper, Osburn determined that Cadd painted the sign on the sheathing boards before the final
shingles were applied to the leak-prone roof. The sign was painted before the final election,which was held the third Monday of March 1947.

The library was located south of Kanyon Hall, the historic structure now known as Minthorn Hall. Cadd won't claim that the rooftop sign was the deciding factor in the election that year, but it certainly helped the Hadley campaign's visibility, he said.
"As the (college's) kids came out every meal, they came out directly to see that sign, because the library was about 100 feet in front of the dining hall. It was glaring right in their faces three times a day.

"They hadn't yet put the (full) roof on. We knew it would be coming on there eventually, so we thought it would be OK to paint the sign.
"But," he added with a grin, "I don't think we asked permission."
They indeed didn't, Osburn confirmed, also with a smile.

It's been almost five and a half decades since then, and a lot has happened in those intervening years. For Hadley, the sign was a reminder of one of his early connections with Cadd. The two, along with Ankeny and fellow student Ron Crecelius, eventually spent more than 15 years in the regionally and nationally renowned men's quartet "The Four Flats" and as international singing ambassadors for the Christian relief agency World Vision.

Hadley later worked as a Friends pastor and in administration at the U.S. headquarters of World Vision, and is now executive director of Evangelical Friends Mission. Cadd spent 32 years as a missionary in the Philippines. Ankeny was general manager at the Friends affiliated Barclay Press in Newberg for 17 years and then executive director of Twin Rocks Friends Camp and Conference Center on the Oregon coast for 14. Osburn was associate secretary for the American Friends Service Committee's North Pacific region and also worked 17 years in administration at Tektronix, Inc., in Oregon.

While sometimes the number of years seems large indeed to them, it doesn't take much to make the years suddenly seem so much shorter. Such as the rediscovery of a hand lettered sign atop an old wooden building.
"The time went fast," Cadd said, wistfully.

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