Dr. Morgan S. Odell was the first president of Lewis & Clark College (1942-1960) following the institution's move to Portland, Oregon and renaming from Albany College, established in 1867. As a young man, Odell served with the US Army Ambulance Service (USAAS) in Italy at the end of WWI. This collection includes selected documents from the Odell papers held by Lewis & Clark Special Collections which document this experience.
Odell's person diary kept during his training in the Army Ambulance Service in Allentown Pennsylvania, through his appointment and arrival in Italy, June 1918.
1918
Exhibition catalog from an exhibit at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College
2015