Attendees at the 1968 Luau

Title

Attendees at the 1968 Luau

Description

Attendees near the dinner tables at Pacific University's annual Lu'au in 1968. Those pictured here may be performers and/or the parents of students who put on the Lu'au, possibly assisting with arrangements before the audience arrives. Based on other images of this event, the man wearing a blue aloha shirt may have been an announcer of the Lu'au dance performances.

Pacific University began hosting an annual Lu'au in 1961. Student members of Na Haumana O Hawai'i (Hawaiian Club) organized and performed in the event, raising money for scholarships. The Lu'au included a dinner, sales of leis and other products flown in from Hawai'i, and performances of Pacific island dances. The Lu'au is normally held on the second Saturday in April in Washburne Hall. The name of the event was changed to Lu'au and Ho'ike in 2019.

Identifier

PUA_LuauSlides_564

Date

1968

Subject

Luaus

Student Activities

Pacific University

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Format

slides

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Source

Pacific University Archives

Date Created

Apr. 20, 1968