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tower at the southeast corner of Cascade Hall is graced by a bust
of Thomas Condon (1822-1907) in hammered sheet copper by Wayne
Chabre (1990). Condon came to Oregon in 1852 as a Congregational
missionary first in St. Helens, then Forest Grove, and finally
the Dalles. His pioneering collections of plant and mammal fossils
from central Oregon made him an early champion of Darwin’s
theory of evolution. He was appointed as a foundation professor
in Natural Sciences of the University of Oregon in 1876. Thomas
Condon could be considered the founding father of Oregon geology.
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