Death of Linfielder Dennis Anderson, died Jan. 12, 2022
His research discovered “The Streak”
DENNIS ANDERSON, McMinnville resident and Linfield College Class of 1958 member and Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame member died at age 84 on 1/12/2022 in Salem, Ore. Played football for Linfield in the 1954 season.
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MORE ABOUT DENNIS ANDERSON
Full name: Dennis Carlton Anderson
Born: Feb 24, 1937 San Francisco
Died Jan 12, 2022, age 84, Salem, Ore.
What Dennis Anderson posted about himself at Linkedln. What’s
posted here was copied 5/14/2020
Dennis Anderson
Retired journalist (6 newspapers in California and Hawai'i)
Residence: McMinnville, Oregon
Retired to Oregon in 2005 after 55 years (starting at age 13) as
a reporter and editor at newspapers in California (24 years) and Hawai'i (31
years). ~~~ 14 years on city desk (11 as city editor) were bracketed by 41
wonderful years in sports, most of it reporting on high school sports.
My most satisfying accomplishment: Giving positive recognition
to deserving student-athletes, especially 17 years writing a weekly feature
called Homegrown Report on the thousands of student-athletes from Hawai'i at
Mainland colleges.
Newspapers I worked at, in chronological order: in California --
Palo Alto Times (1950-54), Redwood City Tribune (1950-74, city editor 1966-74),
Menlo Park Recorder (1951-58); Hawai'i -- Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1974-81, city
editor 1977-79), Sun Press (1981), Honolulu Advertiser (1981-2003).
It is perhaps notable, given the current state of newspapers in
the United States, that NONE of those papers exists as a separate entity today
(The Advertiser and Star-Bulletin are merged).
I also worked as a correspondent or part-time for the San
Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and
San Mateo Times in California and the McMinnville News-Register in Oregon.
Next to the years of providing positive recognition to
student-athletes and ahead of the numerous awards and citations won by the
Redwood City Tribune while I was city editor, the most fulfilling experiences
of my working years were the more than 100 weeks -- over 10 years -- that I
volunteered as an unpaid administrative assistant (go-fer) in the Linfield
College Athletic Department.
While I was a college drop-out and played on a losing team, my
son Bryant compensated. He made significant contributions to Linfield's 1986
NAIA national football championship on special teams and graduated in 1990 with
a degree in communications!
Experience
* Retired journalist
6 newspapers that have closed or merged
2005 – Present (15 years)
Reporter, city editor/assistant, copy editor, sports
editor/assistant
Retired volunteer administrative assistant (go-fer)
Linfield College
1988 – 2006 (18 years)
Go-fer. Handled paper work so coaches could coach.
* Information Director
Hawai'i High School Athletic Association
Aug 2003 – Jul 2005 (2 years)
Hawaiian Islands
Responsible for web page content, reporting results of every
contest in every varsity sport for every high school in the state. Such
comprehensive reporting had never been done before -- or since. Hawai'i had
state championships in more sports than any other state in USA.
* Reporter
The Honolulu Advertiser
1981 – 2003 (22 years)
Section design editor 1981-1988; In charge of high school sports
coverage 1989-2003, started and wrote Hawai'i Homegrown Report 1987-2003.
City Editor when left. Sports reporter or correspondent
previously.
Redwood City Tribune
Sep 1950 – Oct 1974 (24 years 2 months)
Redwood City, California
Hired as high-school freshman to be sports stringer
(correspondent).
Went full time 8 years later when my college class graduated
(but I didn't).
Promoted from sports department to city editor 8 years later, in
1966.
Burned out, as city editors are wont to do, and moved to Hawai'i
in 1974.
Education
* Sequoia High School, Menlo-Atherton High School (grad. 1954),
San Jose State, College of San Mateo
1950 – 1958
Activities and Societies: Football, basketball, baseball,
student newspapers
Journalism major
* Linfield College. Oregon
Journalism
1954 – 1955
Activities and Societies: Football, sports editor of school
newspaper, student sports information director in spring, baseball official
scorekeeper, Theta Chi fraternity.
Languages
* English Full professional proficiency
*
Hawaiian Pidgin Limited working proficiency
