Barbara Bennett Peterson
Dr. Barbara Bennett Peterson is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Hawaii and a former Professor of History by Courtesy at Oregon State University. She was Adjunct Faculty at Portland State University when she served as President of PSU’s Friends of History. Barbara has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize seven times and has written twenty-two books. She is married to Dr. Frank L. Peterson an Emeritus Professor of Geology from UH and lives in Tigard, Oregon.
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Georgiana Burton Pittock (1845–1918)
Georgiana Burton Pittock was the founder of the Portland Rose Society and a founder of Portland’s Rose Festival. As a philanthropist, reformer, and society leader with her husband Henry Lewis Pittock, owner and publisher of the Oregonian, she inspired Portland to become the cultural and business center …
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