Graduation Reception; 1998. A reception for special guests and faculty participating in the 1998 Graduation at WSU Vancouver. Sam Smith, Meredith Newman, Carolyn Long, Ed Little,Jim Zuiches, Nancy YouldenLeonore Simon, Hal Dengerink, Desiree Hellegers, Jack Swearengen, Gretchen Bataille,Liz LeCuyer, Jane Cote, Trish Kellogg, Carol Siegel, Mylon Winn, Brent Steel, Doug Baker, Gale Sullenberger, Jon Shroyer, Lynda Dezellem, Maureen Moris, Sherry Vaughan.

Photographs in the collection were accumulated from marketing campaigns over the years since the 1980s.These include both candid and staged photographs of students using campus facilities. Other photographs were collected to document graduation ceremonies and special events. A small number of photographs of faculty, staff and administration are also included in the collection.

Publications in the collection consist of academic programs and commencement programs as well as campus community reports issued between 1992 and 2004. Publications were often collected as samples of public relations communications between the campus and general community. These include the WSU Vancouver MEMO and Notes for Neighbors. Other publications like the Higher Education Access for Southwest Washington were collected to document WSU Vancouver's participation towards higher education in the region.

A number of ephemera is present in the collection. Copies of flyers and brochures for marketing campaigns as well as advertisements for previous events, dedications and memorials are indexed in the collection.

VHS videocassettes of recordings from WSU Vancouver's lecture hall are included in the collection. These tapes consist of guest speakers and forums captured by Vancouver's community television broadcast station CVTV-23. Topics include NAFTA, globalization, the endangered salmon and regional geology. A video of Professor Lori Irving's memorial and the dedication of Pillars of Fulfillment sculpture are also included in the collection. Audio in the collection consists of two radio advertisements for WSU Vancouver for broadcast of KUFO and KKJZ.