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Follow on Google News | Portland Mayor Tom Potter proclaims April 1, 2008 as "Lola Baldwin Centennial Day in Portland"Portland Mayor Tom Potter proclaims April 1, 2008 as "Lola Greene Baldwin Centennial Day" to coincide with PSU Friends of History's salute to America's First Policewoman.
will kickoff its centennial salute to Lola Green Baldwin on April 1, 2008; 100 years to the day that she took the "police service" oath of office given to her by then Mayor Harry Lane at Portland's City Hall. Starting at 7:30pm, there will be a reading of the proclamation just issued by current Portland Mayor Tom Potter declaring "April 1, Lola Greene Baldwin Centennial Day in Portland," then historian Gloria E. Myers will give a free presentation: World: Policing Vice in Post-Victorian Portland." A free reception and exhibits honoring early female police officers and crime detection in the West will be on display in the Vanport Room (Room 338) of PSU's Smith Memorial Center beginning at 7:00pm. The City of Portland is understandably proud of its adopted daughter, a native of Elmira, New York and a former schoolteacher from Lincoln, Nebraska, who made rescuing and rehabilitating runaway girls and vulnerable women from a life of vice; the main focus of her career. In addition to the Mayor's proclamation, Baldwin's portrait and achievements are prominently posted on the historical timeline on portlandonline.com, the official website for the City of Portland. "In 1908, the Portland crusader against vice became America's first policewoman, leading the ragtime drive for 'social hygiene' in Stumptown," wrote Jonathan Nicholas in his "Luminaries: of 'Em column" for the Oregonian newspaper. An exhibit of Lola's logbooks and artifacts from her years of police service are on display at the Portland Police Museum located on the 16th floor of the Justice Center at 1111 SW 2nd Ave in downtown Portland. The Portland Police Museum and the Wells Fargo History Museum are co-sponsors of the April 1 tribute to Lola Baldwin and the American policewomen who followed in her footsteps. This Friends of History event is one of several free events they present at Portland State University including panel discussions, commemorations, symposiums and the April 17 Endowed Lecture with Iranian expert Ervand Abrahamian for the education of the students and the general public. Parking is free in the PSU parking structures after 7pm. For more information on this event or other Friends of History events please call KC Piccard at (503)725-5473. Website: www.history.pdx.edu/ End
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