FALL 2022

A Sacred & Historic Space

Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Shop was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded by the parents of UP Regent and alum Kay Dean Toran, this business and its staying power tell a story about Black history—and Black success—in Portland.

• Rosette Royale

A River Runs in It

With a raft of state-of-the-art technology, the E. L. Wiegand Environmental Laboratory will offer students unique research opportunities and supercharge UP’s Environmental Studies program.

• Cheston Knapp

A Reading Room of Her Own

How an early struggle with words—along with two heroic reading specialists—paved the way for a young educator’s teaching philosophy.

• Claire Breiholz

In the Footsteps of Basil Moreau

This summer, fifteen University of Portland faculty members embarked on a pilgrimage to the Basse-Normandie region of France. Their goal? A deeper connection to the school’s Holy Cross roots, including the order’s abiding commitment to community.

Therapist, Poet, Writer, Artist

This past summer the Buckley Center Gallery presented “Facing You,” a retrospective exhibit of artist Reed Clarke’s oil paintings.

• Amanda Waldroupe

She Persisted

Through the Moreau Center's Interns for Justice program, Anaís Larios-Maldonado '24 returned to the Oregon Child Development Coalition, a program she'd attended as a child.

• Anaís Larios-Maldonado

Where the Grass Is Always Greener

How has UP's Merlo Field twice been named the best soccer field in the country? Through the meticulous care and devotion of Kevin White.

• Cheston Knapp