#doyle owl

[doylesrevenge]

Going to College, Reed College Bulletin, 1929, written specifically for "prospies" with illustrations inside of the campus

[reedienews]

Is it a rugby scrum? Is it a gridiron formation? No, it is all-out frenzy over the Doyle Owl!

We hear it is a big weekend for something called the SuperbOwl, but we’re partial to the Doyle Owl, our unofficial mascot.

Read more about the capture of the original garden sculpture and the ensuing mythology, er scrappy tussles, that followed.

Image: The Doyle Owl in the middle of a scrum in 1968. Student James Mirel ‘69 is at the center. Special Collections & Archives at Reed College.

[mothmytb]

Sadly, the Doyle Owl has been stolen.

God speed to its captors.

[reedienews]

Did someone say something about a SuperbOwl? We’re partial to Doyle Owl, our unofficial mascot!

Read more about the capture of the original garden sculpture and the ensuing mythology, er scrappy tussles, that followed.

Image: The Doyle Owl with residents of House F, later renamed the Doyle Dormitory, in 1920. Special Collections & Archives at Reed College.

[nina-vision]

Collaborated with the Center for Life Beyond Reed to give students professional headshots for their LinkedIn profiles. We also had a little bit of fun while we were there.

[factsaboutreed]

The Doyle Owl is not actually kept by anyone over the year.  It just appears once annually, then disappears into the mist Brigadoon style.

[factsaboutreed]

After their yard owl was stolen, the Portland family stole a Reedie from the Doyle dorm in hopes they would be able to initiate a trade. Unfortunately, the student was particularly disliked in his dorm, and the other students preferred living with the stone owl. The student continued to live with the family until his death in 1986.

[reedienews]

In the winter of 1996–97, a band of Reed students including Justin Campbell ’99 and Colin McCluney ’99 took the Doyle Owl on a road trip to California. On a whim, they stopped by Steve Jobs' house in Palo Alto and rang the bell. They were floored when Steve emerged, admired the Owl, talked about Reed, and posed for this photo in Justin’s parents’ minivan. “He was really nice about it,” Justin says.

(from Reed's Sallyportal blog: http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2013/steve-and-the-owl.html )