As a person, Paul Durham stood tall because of his
exemplary character, leadership and skills.
Lead by a group of Linfield grads calling themselves, "Team Durham," funds are being raised to honor the legendary Linfield
football coach and athletic director with a monument in his image. Standing at 8-feet
tall, it will be bigger than life. Durham was 6-foot-4.
An artist will sculpt the monument in clay, and then it
will be cast in bronze. It will be placed at a yet to be determined location on
the Linfield campus.
Durham -- a 1936 Linfield grad who was a scholar,
outstanding athlete and singer -- is the coach who started Linfield's national
football record-setting winning season "streak."
He was also an important part of the McMinnville community with efforts ranging from directing the city's summer recreation program to serving a sports editor of the McMinnville News-Register, for which he wrote a popular column, "Dodging with Durham."
Durham died at 93 in 2007.
To learn how to donate, contact David Ostrander, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Linfield College at 503-883-2495.
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Photos
from Linfield Oak Leaves yearbooks.
