Cascade's first classes, first leaders and first graduates, 1994 to 1997.
Opening ceremonies in the courtyard, August 1994. The crowd included many Columbia Christian alumni on campus for a reunion.Early administrators Kevin Jacobs, Don Gardner, Mickey Banister and Arlis Wood (left to right).Dr. Don Gardner, who helped get Cascade College off to a good start.Members of the Cascade Board of Advancement and the Columbia Christian board, who built support for the new college across the Northwest.His Heirs members from the transition year: Stephanie Sellers, Jeff Williams, Kaelea Coy, Cody Harrod and Ike Graul, all Columbia Christian students in Cascade's first student body.Chapel in the Rehearsal Hall in the early years, with Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Lynn singing along.Early Cascade students April Reed, Cherri Brondstetter and Aaron Redlesperger on their way to class.Lindsey Hoffman, a Columbia Christian student who graduated from Cascade.Cascade's first graduates. Back row: Jason Hill, Andy Williams, Marty Fenton, Chad Enos, John House, Troy Wagner and Ike Graul. Front row: Deborah Musselman, Alicia Banister, Tiffany Dierdorff, Lindsay Hoffman, Stephanie Sellers and Kaelea Graul. Not pictured: Scott Koopman.The 1996–97 women's volleyball team with coach Lori Zielke and assistant coach Christa Hill.Breaking ground for Bristol Hall. On the shovels: Dennis Lynn, Gene Hinds, Paul Hinds, Randy Young and Lyle Harms.Bristol Hall under construction, 1996. The new residence hall opened to students the following spring.Lyle Harms, who gave his time and expertise to the Bristol Hall project.
The campus
91st and Burnside: the buildings, the courtyard and the fountains.
The Cascade College campus.The sign at the Burnside Street entrance.The Womack Fountain, considered the center of campus.Students studying by the fountain on a sunny afternoon.The fountain between the gymnasium and Sanders Hall.The original fountain.The new fountain.The fountain on a rare day below freezing.Bristol Hall: ten suites, each with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a living room.Hartzog Hall, the upperclass women's residence hall, getting new siding and windows in 2006.The soccer field on the west side of campus.The refurnished Student Center, with new couches and computers for students.The Cascade College campus in the fall.The former street sign at 82nd and Burnside pointing the way to Cascade College.The sign for Bristol Hall.The newly updated Cascade College sign.The updated Cascade College sign from a second angle.A campus courtyard, with the Cascade mountain line set into the pavement.
Student life
Chapel, choir, teams, formals, trips and the rest of it.
The all-school photo, 1999–2000.Daily chapel.Chapel back in the Rehearsal Hall during Cascade's final year.The Concert Choir, which performed locally and toured the western US each spring.Heirs, a touring vocal group: Jason Preuit, Ali-Ca Madison, Aimee Nissilla, Heather Nutter and Steve Maxwell.Cascade's first Witness members at the 50th Anniversary Jubilee: Nick Rucker, Aimee Jo (Evans) Martin, Andrew Martin and Jill (Dodson) Zuniga.A drama performance. Theater was part of campus life throughout Cascade's history.24-Hour Theater.The Faculty/Staff Band at the Fall Welcome Back Show.Cheerleaders at a home basketball game.Staff members Loy Ginn-Forsberg, Mary Horton, Kaelea Graul and Kathy Cundiff entertaining the crowd at a home basketball game.Intramural flag football.Heading up Mt. Hood. Skiing and snowboarding counted for P.E. credit.Students at Camp Yamhill, a favorite retreat spot.Freshman orientation at Twin Rocks.A Summit Society round-table lunch.Tim Stuart.Dr. Jones with students in the courtyard: Jeb Bristow-Hanna, Shawn Jones, Amy Fennell and Rici Eyre.Shirley Johnson and Cody Hill walking with Dr. Tucker.Bill Hunt talking with students in the breezeway.Mike Griffith with a student in the Student Center.Winter Formal: Landon Lynn, Ashley Amburn, Tanya Watson, James DuPey, Natalie Wilson and Dave DuPey.The Kingsmen at Winter Formal 2004.Service From The Start: students, faculty and staff clearing concrete from a park stream.Santa (Dave Astin) and his elves Saryl Case, Porscha Ducat, Kat Wanek and Natasha Kippenhan at a holiday party for young cancer patients and their families.Sung Kyu Park, Wes Scott, Adalberto Angulo, Kevin Youatt and Stephen Valverde at the Department of Defense National Case Study Competition.Dr. Jones, Dr. Steele and Dr. Williamson in a Civil War-era portrait studio on the class trip to Gettysburg.The 2007 European study abroad group, led by Shawn and Nancy Jones, at the Colosseum in Rome.Dr. Ee with 2004 graduates Anna Tabor and Randy Rice.
Saying goodbye, 2009
Cascade's closing weekend, when the campus family gathered to celebrate the college's final 69 graduates.
"Saying goodbye," The Christian Chronicle's two-page spread on Cascade's closing weekend, June 2009.
Faculty and staff, 2007–08.Cascade faculty at graduation, 2003.Administrators Shawn Jones, Brenda Smith, Bill Hunt, Stephen Eck, Dennis Lynn, Clint LaRue, Craig Moody and Jimmy Young.Dr. William Goad, Cascade's final president.Brian Simmons.Gary Tandy, charter faculty member and author of The Northwest Corner of Heaven.Kate Parker.John Fletcher.Lee Rogers.Dave and Betty Astin.Jeff Shewmaker.Edna Ruth and Duncan Fields.Dennis and Debby Lynn.Brenda Smith.June Breninger.Shawn Jones.Pearl (Parsons) Howarth.JP and Gloria Sanders. Dr. Sanders was president of Columbia Christian College from 1974 to 1981.
Emblems and keepsakes
Logos, seals and mementos from both colleges.
The Cascade College Thunderbirds logo.The Cascade College mountain-and-cross emblem.The college seal, with the mottoes Pro Deo et Patria and Lux Mundi.The Columbia wordmark.The "We Are One" postcard, celebrating 50 years of Christian education in the Pacific Northwest.A wooden photo album marking 50 years of Columbia Christian College and Cascade College.
Columbia: the early years
From a school in a church building to a college campus, 1944 to 1978.
The Central church building at 7th and Hassalo, bought in 1944, where Columbia Bible School held its first classes. Note the School Zone sign out front.The student body grew to more than 100 while classes met at the Central church.A sign announcing Columbia's plans to build on the former landfill at 90th and Glisan. The house at back left later made way for the Johnson Center.Students and friends volunteering their labor to build the new campus. Brother Dunbar and Alan Marshall face the camera in the lower row.The elementary student body on the new campus.The new classroom wing, completed in 1954. The Eastside Church of Christ was built on the north side of the auditorium in 1960.The front of the campus facing 90th Avenue.Dick Hardman, director of public relations (left), and faculty member J.V. Cardoza with plans for campus expansion in 1961.Bob Rowland looks on as A.K. York presents board member Otis Marshall with a check for Columbia's first dormitory, while Claude Guild smiles.York Hall, the first college dorm, built in 1960. The third floor and the adjoining Landreth Hall were added in 1961.Mac Lynn breaks ground for Hartzog Hall as general contractor George James (far right) and Glenn Cash (left) look on.J.P. Sanders, Rex Johnston, Glenn Cash, Paul King, C. Bruce Davis and Mac Lynn at the planned Gresham building site in 1970.The Board of Trustees at its annual meeting in the library, about 1977.Moving Day, 1978. The Development House was moved to 92nd Place to make room for the new student center.Work begins on the Johnson Center while the upper floor of York Hall gets its finishing touches.The Johnson Center under construction. Building took longer than planned as fundraising went slowly.
Columbia: the campus
90th and Glisan: the halls, the fountain, the buses and The Deck.
An aerial view of the 90th and Glisan campus: the original elementary building at lower left, York and Landreth Halls in the center, and the Administration Building, library and gym at right.The Administration Building under snow in the early 1960s, before the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 tore off the railing around its roof.The Columbia Christian College sign on Burnside Street, a landmark for students and friends.The Womack Fountain in front of the Johnson Center, a favorite spot for club initiations and the occasional bubbles.The campus sundial.The swing in the orchard behind the Rehearsal Hall, modeled on a landmark at Harding University.Glenn Cash in the new dining hall in the basement of Landreth Hall, the cafeteria from 1961 until the Johnson Center opened in 1978.Ken Swarm in the boys' dorm, 1968. The men lived on the Administration Building's upper floor until Hartzog Hall was built the next year.The Deck, the student center in the Administration Building. The college mascot was a clipper ship, hence the name.Columbia's road buses, paid for partly by Women For Columbia. The early buses were nicknamed The Whale and the later ones The Spirit.Passenger vans bought by Women For Columbia to bring students from all over Portland and Vancouver.
Columbia: student life
Chapel, Chinook Court, music groups, Homecoming and the Holiday Fair.
The Columbia Christian College class of 1957.Columbia Christian College basketball, 1958.A Columbia Christian College bus.Daily chapel in the school auditorium, required of all students.The walk to and from chapel, a constant through the decades.A fall lectureship keynote in a packed Eastside Church auditorium. The lectureships drew thousands from across the Northwest.Dr. J.P. Sanders in the classroom, one of his favorite places to be.Mr. Way and other faculty moved class outside on sunny days.The 1964 Chinook Court: Queen Cathy Leichner (center) with princesses Phyllis Banks, Beth Haven, Bonnie Gordan and Betty Speck, and escorts Gordon Klobas and Ron Lovelace.The classes of 1966 and 1967 competed to build the biggest bonfire for the first college Homecoming.One morning the Administration Building hallway turned into a parking lot for Volkswagens, drawing local news coverage.Ending a basketball game the Columbia way, with students and team joining hands to sing.The Alpine Club on the summit of Mt. Hood, 1985.Life-sized Monopoly, a 24-hour fundraiser with properties sponsored by local companies.The Women For Columbia Holiday Fair, held in the gym every year from 1966.Crowds at the Holiday Fair, with WFC chapters from Washington, Idaho, Oregon and California selling handcrafted goods.Pat Rawlins admires one of Mona Hamstreet's crocheted afghans. Mona donated everything they sold for to the school.Music professor Dick Dalzell (bottom right) with the tour chorus.Dr. Paul Piersall (bottom left), who led Columbia's music program for over a decade and took the choir on tour.The Newcomers, 1968: Paul Kennedy, Beth Haven, Dave Dalzell, Mary Harris, Craig Culver, Marcie McCredy, Carl Collins, Doug Parsons, Becky Remlinger and Vern Garretson.The Sonshine Company, who recorded several albums: John York, Greg Woods, Rick Young and Dave Martin.The instrumental music program under Keith Farris (top left).Mary Lou Boderman (far right) built wind and jazz ensembles known across Oregon.
