Obit
online in McMinnville N-R/News-Register and in the N-R’s print editions of
Tue., March 29, 2022, and Fri., April 1, 2022.
Dennis C. Anderson, 1937-2022
Dennis C. Anderson, of McMinnville, Oregon,
whose research discovered Linfield’s streak of consecutive winning football
seasons, died January 12, 2022,
in Salem.
He was 84.
A member of Linfield College’s Class of 1958 and
the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame (meritorious service), he moved from
Hawai'i to McMinnville in 2005. As a Linfield student from 1954 to 1955, he
played football, was Linfield Review student newspaper sports editor,
athletics’ sports information director, baseball team official scorekeeper and
Theta Chi fraternity member.
Dennis Carlton Anderson was born in San
Francisco and graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School in California.
In a career of more than 50 years as a
journalist, he was a reporter and editor for newspapers in California and
Hawai'i. In 1987, he created the Honolulu Advertiser daily newspaper’s popular
“Hawai'i Homegrown Report,” in which he reported on the thousands of
student-athletes from Hawai'i at Mainland colleges, including Linfield.
For 10 years, using vacation time from his
Honolulu newspaper job, he was a volunteer Linfield Athletics administrative
assistant. While assisting Ad Rutschman, Linfield Athletic Director and coach,
his research discovered Linfield's streak of consecutive winning football
seasons. After moving to McMinnville, he assisted Scott Carnahan, Linfield
Athletic Director and coach.
Dennis Anderson is survived by his son, Bryant,
a Linfield grad; grandson, Dylan, an engineering major at Oregon State
University; and his ex-wife, Dee.
His body was cremated and his ashes will be
scattered off Lanikai Beach, Kailua, (Oahu), Hawai'i.
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