Welcome to MLCAlumni.com, a website devoted to the history of the Metropolitan Learning Center, founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1968.

The site is a virtual living museum, an archive and active repository for information and images. We want to give you access to a selection of what we dig up and assemble relevant to MLC’s origins, early years, decades of existence, people, legacy, significance, impact, and present day.

The site is also a way for us to actively seek the history that is in your heads. Please read the SHARE YOUR HISTORY tab for details. We like to call this quest the MLC HISTORY PROJECT.

Posts here are organized into six categories: Stories, Photos+Video, People, History, Scholarship, and News+Events.

There are four subcategories under People: Founders, Teachers+Staff, Alumni, and In Memoriam (for those no longer with us).

To be easily scrollable, the home page shows just a few posts. To see more posts per page in any category, all at once, use the buttons, or the NAVIGATE THIS SITE bar. To see every post in the order they were created, go to Latest Posts and scroll through the pages.

We hope you find it easy enough to get around; if you have suggestions for improvement please let us know! We love our Lithuania-based web company, Hostinger, but unfortunately they do not yet offer site searchability. We'll do our best to make what you're looking for easy to find.

Most links to other pages or sites will be underlined, highlighted, and/or in color; hover your cursor to check whether it is a link.

Please use the following links to other active sites that offer current news and activity:

Portland Public Schools' site for current MLC information: www.pps.net/mlc
The excellent MLC Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) site for meetings, events, and fundraising: www.mlcptsa.org/
The MLC Community Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/MLCPDX
The MLC Alumni Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/2219242971

The MLC History Project was conceived by Alisa Welch, then PTSA Chair, in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary celebration held at MLC in September 2018—of which she was also the main organizer. Ideas were sifted at meetings in 2019 attended by Alisa Welch, Lisa Abramovic, Karl Abramovic, Sarah Berry, and Sam Lowry. Developing the website was attempted several times by Sam Lowry before eventual success in 2025, thanks to Hostinger and advances in web-builder user-friendliness.