Lisle “Bill” Meloy--1981 In Memoriam: Lisle “Bill” Meloy, 1916-2017 isle “Bill” Meloy, who served Portland State University as Director of Facilities, died December 24. He was 100 years old. Mr. Meloy was born November 15, 1916, in Musselshell, Montana, to Frank and Iva (Carner) Meloy. The family moved to Oregon in 1929. After graduating from high school in Wilbur, a community about eight miles north of Roseburg, he joined the U.S. Army, served in World War II, and was honorably discharged in 1945. Mr. Meloy was married to Helen Adams on September 15, 1941, in Grants Pass. They had two children, Diane and Rita. Mrs. Meloy died in 1985. After the war, Mr. Meloy found work as a miner, then began a career in construction that included building houses in Grants Pass and establishing a general contracting company in Salem. He capped his career at Portland State, from which he retired in 1983. Last November the Gresham Outlook published an article marking Mr. Meloy’s 100th birthday. He reminisced about his boyhood, growing up in the Great Depression, and the hard winters when everyone in the family—including his brothers, Robert and Bert, his sister, Verda, and his Uncle Bob—would sleep in the kitchen, then wake up in the morning to snow banked around the corners of the bed. He also recalled how Roseburg seemed like a metropolis because the Rose Motel had a neon sign and the local elementary school had separate classrooms for each grade. In retirement Mr. Meloy returned to carpentry, a long-time passion that he developed as a boy in Montana. According to the Outlook article, in his early 90s he started crafting handmade ukuleles, an activity that evoked the many trips he and his wife made to Hawaii. His interests also included old radios, history, gardening, and wildlife. Mr. Meloy is survived by his daughters, Diane Young and Rita Hamlin, nine grandchildren, and 15 greatgrandchildren. A celebration of life was held on January 15 in Gresham. Mr. Meloy was laid to rest with his wife at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Grants Pass. RAPS extends sincere condolences to the Meloy family. --Doug Swanson --Photograph from the Portland State University Archives Digital Gallery Thank You to RAPS Scholarship Contributors! e would like to thank those who donated to RAPS scholarships during 2016. Recent contributions were received by the PSU Foundation from the following donors between December 20 and December 31, 2016: Barbara Alberty Steven Brenner Scott Burns Nancy Chapman Mary Constans Brent Schauer—In honor of Steve Brannan and Mary Gordon Brannan Pati Sluys 6 L W
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