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Marilyn Couture M.A. is a sixth generation Oregonian and descendant of Tabitha Brown (who founded Pacific University). Her passion, as a cultural anthropologist, was to record the culture history and ethnobotany of the Burns Paiute Indians. Marilyn taught summer field-anthropology courses at Linfield College for decades; her field notes, tapes, slides of work with Paiute Indians (1975-78) are archived at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. She was a member of Maui Master Gardeners’ Association and… Marilyn is spending her retirement contributing to research in grafting and pomology, and as an educator in the Washington State School System.
TABITHA BROWN
Tabitha Moffatt Brown was an American pioneer colonist who traveled the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. There she assisted in the founding of Tualatin Academy, which would grow to become Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Brown was honored in 1987 by the Oregon Legislature as the "Mother of Oregon”. Pacific University originated from a school established in 1842 by the Reverend and Mrs. Harvey Clark at Glencoe, a tiny settlement north of Forest Grove, to serve Native American children. Being a private institution in the public service has characterized Pacific ever since. In 1846, a remarkable 66-year-old widow completed a rugged trip west with her family to live in the Oregon Territory. Tabitha Moffatt Brown finally made it to Oregon, but not before undergoing much hardship. At one point on the journey by wagon train, she was left alone on the trail in the bitter cold with her ailing 77-year-old brother-in-law. She pulled them through, despite being near starvation, and they reached the temperate Willamette Valley on Christmas Day. Tabitha Brown and the Clarks, concerned for the welfare of the many orphans in the area, made arrangements for using a local meeting house as an orphan school, and by 1848, Mrs. Brown was "house-mother" to the students and had become a driving force behind the school. In the summer of 1848, the Rev. George H. Atkinson came to Oregon, commissioned by the Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church Association to "found an academy that shall grow into a college... on the New England model." Atkinson and Clark drew up plans for a new educational institution, based on the orphan school. In September of 1849, the Territorial Legislature gave its official sanction to the new school, establishing by charter the Tualatin Academy. By 1854 a new charter had been granted, establishing "Tualatin Academy and Pacific University." Pacific University awarded its first baccalaureate degree in 1863 - one of the first awarded in the western United States. Harvey W. Scott, recipient of the degree, went on to become editor of The Portland Oregonian -- now the state's largest daily newspaper -- and later established himself as an influential political figure. Scott's legacy at Pacific is honored in the Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library, built in 1967. The growth of a local public high school caused the Tualatin Academy to be closed in 1915 and Pacific University stood on its own -- a pioneer institution of higher education. Congregational missionaries in the West were key leaders in the establishment and growth of the University, and that legacy is still regarded as an important influence within it
RETENTION
GROWTH
VALUE
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Life’s Work
MA Portland State University, 1978, Anthropology, Northern Great Basin Ethnobotany/Ethnohistory. 1979-1998 Adjunct Instructor Anthropology, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. 1989-1992 Field Scholar for the Burns Paiute in The First Oregonians heritage program, Oregon Council for Humanities, NEH. 1973-1998 Cultural Resource specialist. Northern Great Basin culture history, ethnography, ethnobotany. BLM, USFS, USFWS, U S Public Defender, The Oregon Chautauqua, Oregon Council for Humanities, and Hawaii Committee for Humanities. 1996 Ethnographic Survey of the Burns Paiute Indians, Marilyn Couture, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, USDA, LaGrande, OR. 1992 Advisor and contributor to The First Oregonians (publication and video). Oregon Council for Humanities, Portland, OR. 1992 "The Great Basin" IN The First Oregonians. C. Melvin Aikens and Marilyn Couture, Oregon Council for Humanities, Portland, OR. 1986 "Foraging Behavior of a Contemporary Northern Great Basin Population", Marilyn D. Couture, Mary F. Ricks, and Lucile Housley, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Vol. 8, No. 2. 1986 "Human Impact on Wild Food Resources in the Northern Great Basin". NSF Research Proposal. Cited in C.M. Aikens. Archaeology of the Northern Great Basin. IN Handbook of the North American Indians. W. C. Sturtevant (general editor). Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 1984 Cited in C.M. Aikens Contribution to Archaeology of Oregon, for BLM, Portland, Oregon. 1982 GBAC, Reno, NV. "Biological Foraging Models in the Northern Great Basin Seasonal Round: Optimal Foraging Theory." with L. Housley and M. Ricks. Couture Symposium organizer. 1981 NWAC, Portland, OR. "Viewing a Northern Great Basin Seasonal Round: Optimal Foraging Theory". Redaction, Selected papers, PSU, Portland, OR. 1979 NWAC, Eugene, OR. "Harney Valley Paiute Basketry - An Almost Lost Skill". 1979 Advisor and liaison with Burns Paiute in production of film: The Earth is Our Home, Oregon Council for Humanities and Oregon Public Broadcasting. 1978 NWAC, Pullman, WA. "The Status of Recent Foraging Practices Among the Harney Valley Paiute - A Progress Report”. In Abstracts of Papers, NARN, Vol. 12, #12, UI, Moscow, ID. 1978 Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of the Harney Valley Paiute, Marilyn Couture, P.S.U. Masters Thesis.
TABITHA BROWN
Tabitha Moffatt Brown was an American pioneer colonist who traveled the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. There she assisted in the founding of Tualatin Academy, which would grow to become Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Brown was honored in 1987 by the Oregon Legislature as the "Mother of Oregon”. Pacific University originated from a school established in 1842 by the Reverend and Mrs. Harvey Clark at Glencoe, a tiny settlement north of Forest Grove, to serve Native American children. Being a private institution in the public service has characterized Pacific ever since. In 1846, a remarkable 66-year-old widow completed a rugged trip west with her family to live in the Oregon Territory. Tabitha Moffatt Brown finally made it to Oregon, but not before undergoing much hardship. At one point on the journey by wagon train, she was left alone on the trail in the bitter cold with her ailing 77-year-old brother-in-law. She pulled them through, despite being near starvation, and they reached the temperate Willamette Valley on Christmas Day. Tabitha Brown and the Clarks, concerned for the welfare of the many orphans in the area, made arrangements for using a local meeting house as an orphan school, and by 1848, Mrs. Brown was "house-mother" to the students and had become a driving force behind the school. In the summer of 1848, the Rev. George H. Atkinson came to Oregon, commissioned by the Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church Association to "found an academy that shall grow into a college... on the New England model." Atkinson and Clark drew up plans for a new educational institution, based on the orphan school. In September of 1849, the Territorial Legislature gave its official sanction to the new school, establishing by charter the Tualatin Academy. By 1854 a new charter had been granted, establishing "Tualatin Academy and Pacific University." Pacific University awarded its first baccalaureate degree in 1863 - one of the first awarded in the western United States. Harvey W. Scott, recipient of the degree, went on to become editor of The Portland Oregonian -- now the state's largest daily newspaper -- and later established himself as an influential political figure. Scott's legacy at Pacific is honored in the Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library, built in 1967. The growth of a local public high school caused the Tualatin Academy to be closed in 1915 and Pacific University stood on its own -- a pioneer institution of higher education. Congregational missionaries in the West were key leaders in the establishment and growth of the University, and that legacy is still regarded as an important influence within it
PHOTO GALLERY
Life’s Work
MA Portland State University, 1978, Anthropology, Northern Great Basin Ethnobotany/Ethnohistory. 1979-1998 Adjunct Instructor Anthropology, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. 1989-1992 Field Scholar for the Burns Paiute in The First Oregonians heritage program, Oregon Council for Humanities, NEH. 1973-1998 Cultural Resource specialist. Northern Great Basin culture history, ethnography, ethnobotany. BLM, USFS, USFWS, U S Public Defender, The Oregon Chautauqua, Oregon Council for Humanities, and Hawaii Committee for Humanities. 1996 Ethnographic Survey of the Burns Paiute Indians, Marilyn Couture, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, USDA, LaGrande, OR. 1992 Advisor and contributor to The First Oregonians (publication and video). Oregon Council for Humanities, Portland, OR. 1992 "The Great Basin" IN The First Oregonians. C. Melvin Aikens and Marilyn Couture, Oregon Council for Humanities, Portland, OR. 1986 "Foraging Behavior of a Contemporary Northern Great Basin Population", Marilyn D. Couture, Mary F. Ricks, and Lucile Housley, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Vol. 8, No. 2. 1986 "Human Impact on Wild Food Resources in the Northern Great Basin". NSF Research Proposal. Cited in C.M. Aikens. Archaeology of the Northern Great Basin. IN Handbook of the North American Indians. W. C. Sturtevant (general editor). Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 1984 Cited in C.M. Aikens Contribution to Archaeology of Oregon, for BLM, Portland, Oregon. 1982 GBAC, Reno, NV. "Biological Foraging Models in the Northern Great Basin Seasonal Round: Optimal Foraging Theory." with L. Housley and M. Ricks. Couture Symposium organizer. 1981 NWAC, Portland, OR. "Viewing a Northern Great Basin Seasonal Round: Optimal Foraging Theory". Redaction, Selected papers, PSU, Portland, OR. 1979 NWAC, Eugene, OR. "Harney Valley Paiute Basketry - An Almost Lost Skill". 1979 Advisor and liaison with Burns Paiute in production of film: The Earth is Our Home, Oregon Council for Humanities and Oregon Public Broadcasting. 1978 NWAC, Pullman, WA. "The Status of Recent Foraging Practices Among the Harney Valley Paiute - A Progress Report”. In Abstracts of Papers, NARN, Vol. 12, #12, UI, Moscow, ID. 1978 Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of the Harney Valley Paiute, Marilyn Couture, P.S.U. Masters Thesis.RETENTION
GROWTH
VALUE
WELCOME
Marilyn Couture M.A. is a sixth generation Oregonian and descendant of Tabitha Brown (who founded Pacific University). Her passion, as a cultural anthropologist, was to record the culture history and ethnobotany of the Burns Paiute Indians. Marilyn taught summer field- anthropology courses at Linfield College for decades; her field notes, tapes, slides of work with Paiute Indians (1975-78) are archived at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. She was a member of Maui Master Gardeners’ Association and… Marilyn is spending her retirement contributing to research in grafting and pomology, and as an educator in the Washington State School System.
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