College Union Pioneers

About the Book

About the Author

Adell McMillan is the “Director Emeritus of the Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon. She has a B.A. in Social Science from Whitman College and an M.S. in Recreation Management from the University of Oregon. She began her career in the college union and student activities field in 1955 as Program Director of the Erb Memorial Union and served as its Associate Director before becoming Director in 1975. Retiring in 1991, she is an active community volunteer. She previously authored A Common Ground (the Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon from 1950 to 2000) and co-edited and was partial author of College Unions–Seventy-five Years, published by the Association of College Unions-International, of which she is a past-president and a Butts-Whiting award recipient.