The night that Marsh Hall burned, another spark struck at 芭乐视频.
Rich Ryan was a resident assistant in Walter Hall in 1975, when Marcia Pogue came to visit campus as a prospective student. They met in the evening, when some friends were playing cribbage, and reunited in the melee a few hours later, when the administrative center of the campus caught fire.
鈥淭here was a lot going on,鈥 Rich Ryan '78, OD '79 in 2015, around the 40th anniversary of the infamous fire.
鈥淢arcia comes up and says, 鈥榃hat鈥檚 all this?鈥
鈥淚 said, 鈥業t鈥檚 in your honor. They鈥檙e burning the school down.鈥
鈥淪he chuckled at that, and we stood there and talked and watched.鈥
Rich went on to earn his doctor of optometry degree from Pacific in 1979, and Marcia (Pogue) Ryan graduated with a degree in speech pathology the same year.
They married shortly thereafter, and had three daughters and seven grandchildren.
Marsh Hall, meanwhile, was renovated and rededicated in 1977 and remains the hub of Pacific鈥檚 Forest Grove Campus.
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