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From the archives

Students & Alumni

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Reunion season is here, and OHSU alumni are coming together to celebrate. Whether it’s been 10 years since graduation or 60, there’s no better time of year to look back.

These photos, courtesy of OHSU Historical Collections & Archives, will give you a glimpse of student life through the decades. The campus, technology, fashion and faces — see how OHSU has changed over the years.

A black and white aerial photo of the 1963 OHSU Marquam Hill campus and the Willamette River running through Portland, Oregon.

OHSU campus, aerial view, 1963

A black and white photo of four young women wearing 1960s nurses uniforms sitting around a low table playing cards and laughing.

OHSU nursing students playing cards, circa 1960s

A black and white photo of two women wearing 1960s nursing uniforms walking on a tree-lined path.

Nursing students on OHSU campus, circa 1960s

A black and white photo of two young women wearing stethoscopes leaning over a third young women lying in a hospital bed and smiling.

OHSU School of Nursing Health Career Day, 1963

A yearbook photos showing individual portraits of young men and a few young women wearing white coats with the words University of Oregon Medical School, Third Year Class, 1964-65 printed in the bottom corner.

OHSU (then University of Oregon Medical School) M.D. Class of 1966 yearbook photo, 1964–65

A black and white photo of a young man and a young woman with a dental training mannequin looking at each other and smiling.

OHSU dental students with training mannequin, circa 1960s

Three young women holding books and wearing 1960s nurses uniforms stand talking in a hallway.

OHSU nursing students, 1965

A black and white photo of a group of young women in 1960s nurses uniforms stand in rows holding candles.

OHSU School of Nursing Capping Ceremony, 1967

A young women wearing a white coat with a beehive hairstyle talks to a young man in a white coat and glasses holding an umbrella.

OHSU School of Medicine students, 1968

Two young women and a young man wearing white coats with a white rabbit sitting on the grass under a tree.

OHSU School of Medicine students and rabbit, circa 1960s

A black and white photo of two young women in a classroom examining a model of a human skull.

OHSU nursing students with skull, circa 1970s

A small group of young men wearing white coats and holding clipboards sit in chairs in a semi-circle around an 1970s television showing a man leaning over a patient in a hospital bed.

OHSU School of Medicine students, circa 1970s

A black and white photo of a young woman in a dress and nurses cap holding a clipboard and touching the dials of a large machine.

OHSU nursing student, circa 1970s

A black an white photo of a man wearing plaid pants and a polka dot tie looking down at a small tool in his hands.

OHSU dental student, circa 1970s

A black and white photo of a group of young men wearing white coats sitting in an auditorium-style classroom.

Second-year OHSU medical students, class of 1973

Three women lean over patients reclining in dental chairs in an clinic decorated with a 1970s-style mustard yellow and brown floral wall mural.

OHSU Dental Hygiene Clinic, 1979

Two men and two women wearing white coats talk to each other and smile in front of a building with the words The Oregon Health Science University School of Dentistry on it.

OHSU dental students, circa 1980s

A group of four men and women look at x-rays displayed on a wall.

OHSU School of Medicine students, circa 1980s

A group of men and women wearing white coats sitting at outdoor tables with umbrellas on a deck overlooking evergreen trees.

OHSU dental students, circa 1980s

A black and white photo of a young man and two young women adding pins to a map on the wall.

OHSU medical students on Match Day, 1993

A group of young men and women standing on a beach near a large sand sculpture of a cat.

OHSU School of Dentistry D.M.D. Class of 2001 during the annual sand sculpture competition at Cannon Beach, 1997

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