Seattle 
Times May 5, 1953
Times May 5, 1953
Franklinite Wins Dartmouth Award
A four-year scholarship to Dartmouth College has been
awarded to Gordon Carl Bjork, a Franklin High School senior. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Bjork, 3110 33rd Av.
Bjork is one of 20 to receive the Daniel Webster National
Scholarship to Dartmouth. At Franklin he is a member of the debate club,
dramatic club, orchestra, and ski club. He is secretary of the Lettermen’s
Club, having played varsity tennis and intramural basketball, football and
baseball.
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Seattle Times July 21, 1968
Seattle Native to Head Linfield
Special to The Times
McMINNVILLE, Ore. – Dr. Gordon Carl Bjork, 32, a Seattle
native, was named president of Linfield College yesterday at a meeting of the
school’s board of trustees.
Bjork, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Bjork, 2208 Barlow Ave.
N, Seattle, has been teaching at Columbia University.
The election ends a nation-wide search for a president,
began last October when Dr. Harry L. Dillin, Linfield president for 25 years,
announced his retirement.
Bjork graduated from Franklin High School and later returned
to Seattle to obtain his doctor’s degree in economics in 1963 at the University
of Washington.
He has been teaching at the Columbia Graduate School of
Business. Before that he taught in Canada. Bjork received his bachelor of arts
degree from Dartmouth College, N. H., where he was an honor student.
He then became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where
he received his maters of arts degree.
Bjork is married and has three small daughters. He is a
member of The First Baptist Church, Seattle.
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History of the The Rotary Club of McMinnville #922 includes:
“1-31-69 The President of Linfield, and new Rotarian, Dr.
Gordon C. Bjork, gave his vocational talk. Boyhood reflections included
admiration of his great-uncle, Dr. Elam J. Anderson, who had also been
President of Linfield, and a former member of the Rotary Club of McMinnville.
Linfield offered him a $100 scholarship when he graduated from high school, but
Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth offered full scholarships, he said — he chose
Dartmouth. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met his wife, Susan. He
returned to the U. S. in 1959, and toyed with the idea of running for Congress,
but his real desire was to come to the West Coast and become an educator. So he
came to McMinnville, and was the successor of Harry Dillin.”
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Photo (Gordon C. Bjork, associate professor) from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in Spring
1968, Student Directory.
