“Willamette University’s first archivist puts a face on history”
Posted by orarchives on September 21, 2007
<<from the Statesman Journal>>
Amid the Wallulah yearbooks, the old senior theses, reel-to-reel tapes and the plastic seal balancing a gold dollar sign on its nose, Mary McKay is in her own kind of heaven.
“The most fun part of my job is you get sucked in,” said Willamette University’s first archivist.
“You just get to explore and learn.
“I get to work with history on the back end.”
The West’s oldest university, founded officially in 1842, is a treasure trove of history, but the Salem school only got serious about the past when it hired someone from the present, McKay, who joined Willamette a year and a half ago, as its first real historian.
<<full article at the SJ>>
