Clackamas County Historical Society Newsletter September – December 2012 MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Do You Remember the Columbus Day Storm? Bring your memories & photos to the CCHS Autumn Quarterly Meeting, for an informal session of story-telling where YOU are the featured speaker! ThursDAy, Sept. 27 7 p.m. Share your personal recollections of the “Big Blow” with the CCHS community as we approach the 50 year anniversary of the NW’s most powerful & destructive cyclone. www.clackamashistory.org (503) 655-5574 Conde MCullough The 1922 Arch Bridge, spanning the Willamette River from Oregon City to West Linn, has nearly reached completion of its 2-year restoration. The Willamette Falls Heritage Area Coalition will celebrate its rededication October 12, Arch Bridge Re-Dedication Programs at MOOT Pearl Harbor Day The events of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, changed the world order of the 20th Century. This December 7th, at 7 p.m. CCHS will again commemorate what FDR called “the date that will live in infamy.” This year’s focus is on the struggles of Japanese Americans, and their monumental contributions to the war effort. Award winning novelist Kristina McMorris (“Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”) presents the perspective of survivors of West- Coast internment camps. We will again host exhibits of local period collectors and museums, including NORDPAC’s WWII era radio-controlled model tanks, which will “do battle” before the talks. An evening of education and entertainment is assured. 13, & 14 with the Willamette Festival of the Falls, featuring public events at the Arch Bridge, downtown, & at the Museum of the Oregon Territory. The bridge will open to pedestrian and bike traffic that weekend. Festivities include strolling musicians, art and artisans, Fun-athalon Race, Geo Caching, Wedding Vow Renewal, Trolley Heritage Tour, Grande Ronde Tribal Demonstrations, an evening firework display, and more. At MOOT on Saturday, October 13th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., several interesting speakers will highlight the creative and structural challenges of building and restoring the bridge, including Judy Fleagle (Author, “McCullough’s Coastal Bridges”), Robert W. Hadlow, PhD (ODOT Sr. Historian), Chris Leedam, PE (ODOT Structural Engineer), and Matt Love (Author/Historian, Legends of the Arch Bridge). Conde McCullough, Civil Engineer for ODOT in the 1920’s, designed the Arch bridge and 600 others. In 2005 the Arch Bridge, with its Art Deco piers and McCullough’s “signature” obelisk pylons, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Clackamas County Historical Society Newsletter
September – December 2012
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Do You Remember
the Columbus
Day Storm?
Bring your memories & photos to the
CCHS Autumn Quarterly
Meeting, for an informal session of story-telling where YOU are
the featured speaker!
ThursDAy,
Sept. 27
7 p.m.
Share your personal
recollections of the “Big Blow” with the CCHS
community as we approach the 50 year anniversary of the NW’s most
powerful & destructive
cyclone.
www.clackamashistory.org (503) 655-5574
Conde MCullough
The 1922 Arch Bridge,
spanning the Willamette
River from Oregon City to
West Linn, has nearly
reached completion of its
2-year restoration.
The Willamette Falls
Heritage Area Coalition
will celebrate its
rededication October 12,
Arch Bridge Re-Dedication Programs at MOOT
Pearl Harbor Day The events of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan
attacked the U.S. Pacific Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii,
changed the world order of the 20th Century. This
December 7th, at 7 p.m. CCHS will again commemorate
what FDR called “the date that will live in infamy.”
This year’s focus is on the struggles of Japanese Americans,
and their monumental contributions to the war effort.
Award winning novelist Kristina McMorris (“Bridge of Scarlet
Leaves”) presents the perspective of survivors of West-
Coast internment camps.
We will again host exhibits of local period collectors and
museums, including NORDPAC’s WWII era radio-controlled
model tanks, which will “do battle” before the talks. An evening of education and entertainment is assured.
September Wednesday, Sept. 5 @ 6:30 p.m. The Smokin’ Fish Movie – OR Premier “Salmon Nation” Native American Fish Preservation Documentary, 80 min. Saturday, Sept.15 @ 1 p.m. The “Antique” Pharmacy w/John & Dick Kaegi & OSU’s Dr.Mark Zabriskie Thursday, Sept. 27 @ 7 P.M. CCHS Quarterly Membership Meeting: Columbus Day Storm Stories
October Saturday, Oct. 6 @ 1 p.m.
OR Humanities Conversation Project: Life After War: Coming Home
Friday, Oct. 12 6-9 p.m.
Grand Ronde Tribe Salmon Dinner Locks Benefit~ $50
1 p.m. ~ ODOT & The Arch Bridge 3 p.m. ~ Legends of the Arch Bridge
Saturday, Oct. 20 @ 1 p.m.
OR Humanities Conversation Project: Uniquely Oregon: Native American Art
November Saturday, Nov. 3 @ 1 p.m. OR Humanities Conversation Project: The Ties That Bind: Women Interweaving Domestic & Civil Life Friday, Nov. 16 @ 1 p.m. What’s Suffrage Got to Do With It? Town Hall Debate & Performance Century of Change Exhibit: Women & the Vote
December Saturday, Dec. 1st
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Christmas Open House
Stevens Crawford Heritage House
Friday, Dec. 7th @ 7 p.m. Pearl Harbor Day Program
Museum of the Oregon Territory September - December 2012 PROGRAMS
••••••CCHS welcomes new Board member Larry McIntyre, former Mayor of West Linn, shown transcribing a morse code message telegraphed by his granddaughter, in the History For Kids Summer Series.
CCHS
Celebrating
60 Years
~ Since 1952 ~
Coming in October to the
Murdock Gallery:
Clackamas County’s
WWI & WWII Artifacts &
Photographs
DR. William “BILL”
PYrch
We would like to recognize the passing of Dr. William Pyrch. “It is a great loss to CCHS and the community,” states Board President Craig Danielson. “Bill was an exceptional supporter of CCHS over the years. He was a member of the Board, one of the point-people in raising funds for the MOOT building, and led the CCHS Golf Tournament Fundraiser for many years.” Dr. Pyrch passed away peacefully in his home on July 27th, at the age of 93. Widely known as a wonderful and caring family physician, Bill was born in 1919 on a farm in Alberta, Canada. He knew he was going to be a doctor by the age of 5. Following pre-medical studies, Bill served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the outbreak
Experience “The Antique Pharmacy,” Saturday, September 15th from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Oregon Territory. The program honors the contributions of John and Richard Kaegi, OSU Icons of Pharmacy, and highlights the museum’s rededicated Kaegi Antique Pharmacy Exhibit.
The public and Oregon’s pharmacy professionals are invited to explore this extensive exhibit of antique pharmaceutical products, relics and gadgets donated by the Kaegi family to the Clackamas County Historical Society. It’s a unique opportunity to discuss the collection with a gathering of retirees from the field.
All are welcome to join in a roundtable discussion on the Changing Role of the Pharmacist in History, following a keynote address from Dr. Mark Zabriskie, Dean of the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy.
The Kaegis ran neighborhood drug stores in Portland and Wilsonville for over 6 decades. Their father, who graduated from OSU’s College of Pharmacy in 1921, started his career in the days when druggists custom-ground herbs with a mortar and pestle, often concocting and testing original formulas on themselves.
Brothers John and Dick worked together until 1989, witnessing the pharmacy’s evolution towards today’s “barcoded" and pre-manufactured medications. Now the Kaegi
brothers are great supporters of the preservation of historic pharmacies, and pharmaceutical education.
Refreshments will be served. Exploring the collection’s rare and interesting contents will earn participants small prizes, reminiscent of drug store days-gone-by.
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contributions to the community, Bill was named Oregon City’s Private Citizen of the Year in 1992, and 1998 Oregon City Sr. Citizen of the Year. He was a founder and leading Board member of the Willamette Falls Community Hospital, Wm. Falls YMCA, Oregon & Clackamas County’s Medical Education Foundations, the West Linn School Board, Physicians Association of Clackamas County, and President of the Oregon American Cancer Society. A very affable man, Bill Pyrch also founded the 50-year “Nickel and Dime" Poker Club. Bill will be remembered for his strength of character, integrity, sincerity, and compassion. His wife of 66 years, Paddy, died three years prior. Dr. Pyrch is survived by a large family, who will miss his “unconditional support, guidance, and very evident love.”
~ Kaegi Antique Pharmacy Rededication ~
of World War II. There, he met Patricia "Paddy" Bernice Baine, a parachute packer. Married in 1943, they immigrated to the U.S. so Bill could attend the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. After graduating, Bill and Paddy moved to Oregon City, and eventually settled in West Linn, the family home for nearly 60 years. Bill had a family practice in Oregon City for over 4 decades, and a reputation for treating every patient with dignity. Dr. Pyrch was known as “an old-fashioned country doctor,” who made house calls and became a meaningful part of families’ lives for multiple generations. He delivered 3,000 babies, and performed physicals on the Trail Blazers for twenty years. Because of his many enduring
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