Wildcatville blog, posted 6/2/2021
Linfield has a street
on its campus named for A. M. (Arthur Marion) Brumback (born 1869, died 1916),
who was Linfield (then McMinnville College) president (1903-1905), faculty
member and football coach (1896-1900).
Photos here taken
6/2/2021 show two Brumback Street signs on the Linfield campus, one
intersecting with Lever Street and the others intersecting with Renshaw Avenue.
*“Soon, a two-block
private road on the Linfield University McMinnville Campus will have a new name.
What has been known as Brumback Street will instead become Lakamas Lane in an
effort to better honor the history of Linfield, the surrounding area and the
Native American community.
*“The Board of
Trustees approved the resolution to change the name on May 1, 2021.
*“A committee of
students, faculty and staff has been working through the spring semester to
consider a new name for the road. After months of meetings and research, the
group proposed the new name.”
*Source: Jill King
story posted at Linfield website 5/3/2021.
An ‘Inside Linfield’
story says, “The Linfield University Board of Trustees passed a resolution in
November 2020 requesting a committee of students, faculty and staff to consider
a new name.” It also says, “The new name will take effect as soon as is
reasonably possible, before July 1, 2021. “
The new name for
Brumback Street is Lakamas Street.
Said ‘Inside
Linfield,’ “The committee reached out to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
early in its deliberations, asking for guidance about whether Linfield might
consider a name of historic significance to the geography and indigenous
peoples of the McMinnville area. A representative from Grand Ronde then worked
with the committee through the spring to consider six alternatives, before the
group eventually settled upon Lakamas Lane.”
Why will there no
longer be a street named for Brumback on the Linfield campus?
A “Dear Linfield
community” message posted 11/16/2020 by Kathy Foss sent on behalf of Linfield
President Miles Davis, explains, “The road is named after former faculty member
A.M. Brumback, who served briefly as president and who published an article in
1900 in which he discussed what would today be considered the desecration and
theft of human remains and artifacts from Native American burial grounds.”
Sources
for this post include:
=‘Lakamas Lane on the McMinnville campus’ posted on May 3,
2021 by Jill King
https://www.linfield.edu/linfield-news/lakamas-lane-on-the-mcminnville-campus
=Inside Linfield - Lakamas Lane/ The New Lakamas Lane On the
McMinnville Campus
https://inside.linfield.edu/lakamas-lane/index.html
=‘Board of Trustees November meeting updates ‘ posted on
November 16, 2020 by Kathy Foss. Message sent on behalf of Miles K. Davis,
President of Linfield University https://www.linfield.edu/linfield-news/bot-nov-updates
….
Information
of possible interest:
=April 29, 2022
McMinnville N-R/News-Register
Plans
to create the first Camas Fest on the Linfield campus (May 6, 2022) began
in November 2020 “when the university began investigating a new name for a
two-block street on the McMinnville campus. The search led the university to
the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, and together, the groups chose
Lakamas Lane, located a block north of Keck Drive. Lakamas is the word for
camas in the Chinuk Wawa language. Plans soon developed to celebrate camas,
which grows in large numbers on campus.”
=In 2014, Wildcatville blog
(http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2013/10/100-candles-on-linfield-football.html)
wrote “Coach of the Linfield teams for its first five seasons (1896-1900) was
A. M. Brumback. If his name seems familiar, it's because there's a Brumback
Street … on campus near Linfield Football's Maxwell Field. However, the street
honors not his football, gymnastics or track & field coaching at Linfield.
It's because he was the college's president, 1903-05. Some information about
Brumback calls him ‘Arthur Brumback’ or ‘Arthur M. Brumback.’ For the record,
his full name was Arthur Marion Brumback.”
=In 2008, Wildcatville blog
(http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2008/10/linfield-campus-streets-have-football.html)
wrote “BRUMBACK STREET …Brumback Street intersects with Renshaw Avenue … On one
end of the street is the Linfield softball field (Del Smith Stadium), which is
across the street from Renshaw Hall, now home of the college's Mass
Communications Department. Player/coach A.M. (Arthur M.) Brumback organized
Linfield's first football team in 1896. He coached for five seasons before
being appointed college president in 1903, a position he held for two years
(1903-1905). Brumback taught natural sciences at the college. According to one
write-up, "Brumback had a passion for sport, playing center on and
coaching the college’s first football team. While enormously popular with
students" he was not successful in dealing with Linfield's financial
crisis. He left Linfield in 1905, to take a position at his alma mater, Denison
College, in Ohio. At Denison, he was that college's first chemistry professor.”
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