At the approach of the University's 50th anniversary, we are proud to award a Presidential Citation to Monroe Mark Sweetland, one of the founders of Portland State University. As a freshman member of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1953, Mr. Sweetland participated in the struggle to transform a temporary extension center into a permanent-four-year institution PRESIDENTIAL CITATION MONROE MARK SWEETLAND called Portland State College, a struggle that was finally won in 1955. As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, he was instrumental in passing crucial legislation for the construction of library and classroom buildings. In 1959, he personally sponsored a joint Senate resolution to establish Portland State's School of Social Work. 8 The University could have had no finer guardian in its first critical years than Monroe Sweetland. A man of great dedication and energy, we thank him for his vision, and we honor him as a legislator, publisher, civil rights advocate, world traveler, and Portland State's foremost educational citizen.
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