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<\/a><\/p>\nThe treasures this time were woodcut faces of past Deans, 3-D though you can’t tell.<\/p>\n
This is Karl’s story.<\/p>\n
The fence along Benton Place was long and impenetrable. If my mission<\/em> As I surveyed the spoils to be added to the Library\u2019s Special Collections, my<\/em> Collections Archivist Karl McCreary has had a crazy summer, bringing in scrapbooks from the closing Co-ops and slides from the relocating\u00a0School of Design and Human Environment, but I admit that this is the strangest thing since we accessioned a keg. The treasures this time were woodcut faces of past Deans, 3-D though you can’t tell. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n were to succeed I would need to negotiate the bushy dark wilderness<\/em>
\n skirting Kidder Hall. Emerging from the thicket, I came before the temple of\u00a0<\/em>Business, known to the locals as \u201cBexell Hall.\u201d The task at hand required<\/em>
\n tact and precision, as I passed by the ancient wood murals on the wall to<\/em>
\n the inner sanctum. Moments later, the harsh summer sun blinded my eyes<\/em>
\n as I re-emerged with an armful of history salvaged from the temple.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n eyes felt the gazes of others upon me. Then I noticed the wooden faces of<\/em>
\n Deans Clifford Maser and Earl Goddard staring up from the library cart and\u00a0<\/em>into my soul. \u201cThese were the guardians of the temple\u201d I muttered to myself,\u00a0<\/em>long histories of service to the college and revered in those halls of Bexell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"