Portland State Magazine Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 29 FIFTY years ago, the first dorm opened at Portland State College. The Viking Residence Hall, known today as the Ondine, was owned by the Dan Davis Corporation, which built it to capitalize on the shortage of student housing at PSC. At first it was co-educational, but in 1968 it became a women- only residence and was renamed the Ondine—likely inspired by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s Undine , a German romance novella. Bryman Schools, a for-profit career college, had space in the building from 1970 to around 1985. The Ondine was purchased by Portland State University in 1976 and is again co-educational, with first-year students living on the lower floors and upperclassmen and transfer students on floors 7-15. Photo from the 1967 Viking yearbook.  Dorm life in Looking Back 1967