Funding made possible through the sale of Pacific Wonderland License Plates.
This Oregon State Capitol History Center Project Newsletter is being sent to you as someone who may be particularly interested in this exciting new project at your Oregon State Capitol.
In this Issue:
Tell Us What You Think
Presentation Scheduled
Capitol Trivia
Senate History
Capitol Foundation
Members
Sen Jason Atkinson*
Sen Betsy Johnson
Sen Joanne Verger
Rep Vicki Berger
Rep Brian Clem*
Rep Matt Wingard
Sandra Allen
Frankie Bell*
Kathryn Boe-Duncan
Frank Brawner
Jane Cease, Vice-Chair*
Herb Colomb*
Verne A. Duncan
Paul Hanneman
Ginny Lang
Bill Markham
Anthony Meeker
Fred Neal*
Norma Paulus
Annette Price
Norm Smith
Gerry Thompson
Fred VanNatta*, Chair
Gary Wilhelms
* Project Governance
Committee Member
The Oregon State Capitol Foundation invites you to participate in a short online survey to inform design of the State Capitol History Center. The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete and is being conducted as part of our public engagement and research phase for this important project.
Help shape the future of how history is presented and experienced in your Oregon State Capitol building.
Go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/capitol_building to complete this short survey today. Deadline for participating is February 8, 2012.
February 3rd Presentation Scheduled
Interested in learning the latest about the State Capitol History Center project? Have an idea you'd like to share? Join us on Friday, February 3rd in room HR C from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, for an informational presentation with Q and A (and opportunity for dialogue).
The presentation will be streamed live. Click here to view the presentation on February 3rd. Please plan to attend in person if you'd like to share ideas about how the Center can serve our Capitol and citizens across the state.
RM 257, prior to 1976, was the location to receive Western Union telegrams. There was an iron gate across the windowed area in front which could be opened to receive the telegrams.
Celebrating Oregon Senate History
Senator Kathryn Clarke Cloakroom: This room immediately behind the Senate Chamber is named in honor of Senator Kathryn Clarke, who in 1915 became the first woman elected to the state Senate.
Senator Kathryn Clarke: The Oregon Senate designated the room immediately behind the Senate Chamber as the “Senator Kathryn Clarke Cloakroom.” Senator Clarke became the first woman elected to the Oregon Senate by winning a special election in 1915 by 76 votes to represent the people of Douglas County. Senator Clarke was profiled in the International Woman Suffrage News and the Woman’s Journal and Suffrage News as a model for women pursuing elected office after gaining the right to vote. Thanks to items loaned by the Oregon Historical Society, the Senator Kathryn Clarke Cloakroom gives visitors a sense of what it might have felt like to step into a room in the old Capitol in 1915 before the Capitol was destroyed by fire in 1935.
