Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The new Linfield University seal

On the evening of 6/29/2021, Scott Bernard Nelson, Chief Marketing Officer/Associate Vice President at Linfield University and Owner/Partner at Relium Media, LLC, posted two comments about the new Linfield University seal. He also posted the photo shown here.

The first comment included, “… You posted the new logo, but not the new Linfield University seal.”



The second comment says, “It features the Old Oak, with three primary root systems beneath — representing learning, life and community. The radiating lines from behind the Oak are meant to symbolize the hope and the promise of higher education, helping to enlighten the world.”

Linfield College felt pennant sold (perhaps in 1950s) by Linfield Bookstore

 Linfield College felt pennant sold by Linfield Bookstore, perhaps in the 1950s.






This is about seals of McMinnville College, Linfield College and Linfield University

Linfield, located in McMinnville, Oregon, was founded Jan. 30, 1858, as Baptist College at McMinnville. It became known as McMinnville College.

(At its founding, McMinnville was in the Oregon Territory. Oregon did not become a state until Feb. 14, 1859.)

--On Jan. 30, 1858, what became known as McMinnville College, came to life. Its seal has the letter "M" in the middle.

--On June 6, 1922, McMinnville College became Linfield College. There were at least two Linfield College seals. One shows an open book. The other, which debuted in 2010, featured an acorn. See two versions of the open book version. The first may be the first used when McMinnville College became Linfield College. The second appears to be a version with more graphic clarity than the first.  See yet another version. The Linfield College seal appeared on a cardinal colored felt pennant sold by the Linfield College bookstore. Cardinal and purple are Linfield's school colors.

--On July 1, 2020, Linfield College became Linfield University. The university’s seal has the letter "L" on a shield in the middle. It features the Old Oak.





 


Same Linfield College seals, but different versions

Linfield College seal -- perhaps the version first created when McMinnville College became Linfield College in 1922 -- is shown on the left. On the right is a more "recent" version. 



 


Linfield College seal, white on cardinal

Linfield College seal appearing on a felt cardinal pennant sold by Linfield College Bookstore. Linfield school colors are cardinal and purple. 



Seals: McMINNVILLE COLLEGE, LINFIELD COLLEGE, LINFIELD UNIVERSITY

Linfield, located in McMinnville, Oregon, was founded Jan. 30, 1858, as Baptist College at McMinnville. It became known as McMinnville College.

(At its founding, McMinnville was in the Oregon Territory. Oregon did not become a state until Feb. 14, 1859.)

--On Jan. 30, 1858, what became known as McMinnville College, came to life. Its seal has the letter "M" in the middle.

--On June 6, 1922, McMinnville College became Linfield College. There were at least two Linfield College seals. One shows an open book. The other, which debuted in 2010, featured an acorn.

--On July 1, 2020, Linfield College became Linfield University. The university’s seal has the letter "L" on a shield in the middle. It features the Old Oak.

 






 

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Did you know about Rogers Ishizu and his Corvette in June 1967?


For two summers, Linfield College student/Wildcat football player Rogers Ishizu (B.S. 1967, M.Ed. 1968) from Hawaii (Maui) worked in McMinnville at the Norwest Fabrics, Inc., woolen mill.

From the money earned in the Norwest job, Rogers bought a 1959 turquoise (color officially named “Crown Sapphire,” according to General Motors) and white Corvette from Willie Chang, a 1965 Linfield grad and former Wildcat football player from Hawaii (Oahu).

In June 1967, Linfield student Rogers was driving his Corvette from McMinnville en route to a National Guard weekend drills meeting in the Portland area. But, tired from his summer job, Rogers fell asleep at the wheel and the car ran off the road in Tigard and crashed. He found himself suspended upside down, secured by his safety belt. He unbuckled and got away from the wreck. Luckily, Rogers had only a broken nose and black eyes. But, the Corvette was destroyed.

His auto insurance agent John E. Seeborg’s State Farm Insurance office was across the street (South Baker, 99W) from the Linfield campus. John, an avid supporter of Linfield athletics, had a color snapshot photo of the wrecked Corvette on a wall in his State Farm.


Photo posted here is of a 1959 Corvette, but it's not the one which was owned by Willie and Rogers.

 

Advertisement from Aug. 31, 1969, Linfield College ‘back to school’ tab in McMinnville N-R/News-Register

John E. Seeborg’s State Farm Insurance office was across the street (South Baker, 99W) from the Linfield campus. John, an avid supporter of Linfield athletics.

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JOHN EDWIN SEEBORG

Born in Jan. 12, 1918, in Kelso, Wash., John Edwin Seeborg died at age 84 on Nov. 10, 2002 in McMinnville. His obituary said he moved from Astoria to McMinnville in 1962. He was a State Farm Insurance agent in McMinnville for about 25 years, retiring in 1986.” And, it said he was an “avid supporter of McMinnville High School basketball and Linfield College athletics…”

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20902949/john-edwin-seeborg

JANE SEEBORG, widow of John Edwin Seeborg:

https://www.dailyastorian.com/obituaries/obituaries-sallie-jane-seeborg/article_0c3205e9-0933-5fba-a432-9989951f91da.html


Ad from Aug. 31, 1968, Linfield "back to school" tab of McMinnville N-R/News-Register.

Friday, June 04, 2021

Amazing Linfield College Wildcats football 🏈fact

Amazing Linfield College Wildcats football 🏈fact: 

Gene “Ace” Forman and Bob “Igor” Haack wore the same uniform #76.

 Ace (photo left) lettered 1964 and 1965. Igor (drawing right) lettered 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968. 

There much, much more to the Forman and Haack connection. 

Ask Bob to elaborate!

But, in case you haven't asked Bob, here's what he told Wildcatville on 6/4/2021:

—Ace and I shared the same #76! I asked Ace if I could wear his #, during many visits. He told me, "He'd be honored." That meant everything to me! I told him, I'd do my best to play at his level and help the Team to return to The National Championships & this time:  WIN! Our loss to St. John's was a REAL Wakeup & Challenge, esp. for many underclassmen!


—I believe I shared his experience with prior . . .  Aceman is also The Godfather to our son Ryan (Linfield Def End) w/ Rutsch his redshirt Frosh tr. & 4 yrs. w/ Langsdorf! Ace is my Best Friend. He was represented by my father at our wedding, as my best man!


—And and Ace is our three grandsons' Great Godfather! Go Wildcats!




Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Why a street named for a former Linfield (then McMinnville College) president is being changed to Lakamas Lane

 


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

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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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