SOM, previously Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is a Chicago-based architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings. In 1939, they were joined by engineer John O. Merrill. The firm opened its second office, in New York City, in 1937 and has since expanded, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seattle, and Dubai.
Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
The music of Oregon reflects the diverse array of styles present in the music of the United States, from Native American music to the contemporary genres of rock and roll, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, pop, electronic music, and hip hop. However, throughout most of its history, the state has been relatively isolated from the cultural forces shaping American music. Much of modern popular music traces its roots to the emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s. African American musicians borrowed elements of European and Indigenous musics to create new American forms. As Oregon's population was more homogeneous and more white than the United States as a whole, the state did not play a significant role in this history.
Philip Hampson Knight is an American billionaire business magnate who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO. As of December 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $45.0 billion. He is also the owner of the stop motion film production company Laika. Knight is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was part of the track and field club under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon with whom he would later co-found Nike.
Marylhurst University was a private applied liberal arts and business university in Marylhurst, Oregon. Marylhurst was founded as St. Mary's College in 1893 and run for many years by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The former campus is located about nine miles south of Portland, Oregon on the Willamette River. Although Marylhurst University was a Roman Catholic school, it served students of all faiths and backgrounds.
Leonard Samuel Shoen was an American entrepreneur who founded the U-Haul truck and trailer organization in Ridgefield, Washington. After growing up in the farm belt during the Great Depression, he envisioned the market for rental vehicles for families who wished to avoid the expense of professional transfer and storage companies and move around the country.
The Art Gym was a nonprofit, noncollecting contemporary arts gallery at Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. The gallery had been permanently moved to the Portland Art Museum in 2018, as Marylhurst University closed at the end of 2018.
Jackie Winters was an American Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served as a state senator, representing the 10th district in Salem. She was Senate Minority Leader. She died of lung cancer on May 29, 2019.
Madeline DeFrees was an American poet, teacher, and Roman Catholic nun.
The Valley Library is the primary library of Oregon State University and is located at the school's main campus in Corvallis in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1887, the library was placed in its own building for the first time in 1918, what is now Kidder Hall. The current building opened in 1963 as the William Jasper Kerr Library and was expanded and renamed in 1999 as The Valley Library. The library is named for philanthropist F. Wayne Valley, who played football for Oregon State.
Marylhurst, Oregon is the location of a U.S. Post Office, ZIP Code 97036, in southern Lake Oswego, Oregon on the campus of Marylhurst University.
The 1996 United States Senate special election in Oregon was held on January 30, 1996, to fill the seat vacated by Republican Bob Packwood, who had resigned from the Senate due to sexual misconduct allegations. Governor at the time John Kitzhaber did not appoint anyone to temporarily fill in Packwood's shoes and called for a special election on January 30, 1996.
Melody Rose became the 15th president of Marylhurst University in 2014. Prior to her Marylhurst presidency, Rose was the first female Chancellor of the Oregon University System (OUS).
The B.P. John Administrative Building is a building on the now defunct Marylhurst University campus, in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. It was designed by Joseph Jacobberger and completed in 1929. The building originally housed the entire college, and included an auditorium, a bakery and cafeteria, a chapel, classrooms, a gymnasium, a library, and a swimming pool. The second floor originally had living areas for the Sisters of the Holy Names. The 100-seat music venue Wiegand Hall was added during the 1990s. In 2013, the building's chapel was renovated. The university closed in late 2018.
Flavia Hall is a building on the now defunct Marylhurst University campus, in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. It was designed by architects Joseph Jacobberger and Alfred H. Smith, and completed c. 1937. The building originally served as a dormitory, and was later converted into an office building. The university closed in late 2018.
Sisters' Cemetery, also known as Holy Names Cemetery, is a cemetery adjacent to the Marylhurst University campus, in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (SNJM), U.S.-Ontario Province and maintained by the SNJM Oregon Regional Office.
Aquinas Hall is a building on the now defunct Marylhurst University campus in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. The building was designed by Joseph Jacobberger and Alfred Smith, and completed c. 1930. Aquinas Hall exhibits the Mediterranean architectural style, and was used as student housing, and later administrative offices until the university closed in late 2018.
St. Catherine Hall, original known as St. Rose's Residence Hall, is a building on the now defunct Marylhurst University campus in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. It was built during the 1930s. The university closed in late 2018.
