Linfielder Floyd McKay read from his book Reporting the Oregon Story (OSU Press) 6/7/2016 at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland.
He's a McMinnville High (1954), Linfield College (1957), Maryland (master's) and UW (Ph.D.) grad.
A former Linfield adjunct faculty member (communications), he is a professor emeritus (journalism) of Western Washington U. McKay's career includes reporting and writing a columnist for the (Salem) Oregon Statesman daily newspaper and news analyst/commentator for Portland's KGW-TV.
He read from the book in Linfield's Nichols Library in McMinnville on 5/18/2016.
McKay and his wife, Dixie (Johnson) McKay (Linfield 1957), live in Bellingham, Wash.
Mac News production in cooperation with Wildcatville.
(Note: In the 1955-1956 Linfield academic year, students Floyd McKay, Gil Stewart and Jerry Dennon are credited with handling the college athletic department sport information director duties.)
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Floyd John McKay, born 1935 in North Dakota, is a 1953 graduate of McMinnville, Oregon. High School. He:
--graduated from Linfield
in 1957 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and political science.
--was a Linfield adjunct
professor of communications, 1969-1974.--served as a member of the Linfield Board of Trustees, 1972-1978.
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Article about Floyd McKay from page 27 of Linfield Magazine
summer 2016 edition, “McKay’s book reports on the Oregon Story.” Too small to read? If so, click on image below for a larger rendition.
