Linfield campus’ BRUMBACK STREET — named for A. M. (Arthur Marion) Brumback, McMinnville College 1903-1905 president — was changed in 2021.
Reason for Linfield making the change is detailed in this story …
https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2021/07/08/linfield-university-renames-street-in-honor-of-native-american-first-food
With that as precedent, EVERSON STREET, named for William Graham Everson, Linfield College 1939-1943 president, should be changed, too.
Why?
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=Source:
Story in July 8, 2021, Smoke Signals newspaper of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
After learning that a private two-block street on its campus was named after a former science professor who had stolen Native American burial artifacts, Linfield University chose to right a wrong.
In November 2020, the Board of Trustees recommended removing the name of A.M. Brumback from the campus street and creating a commission to discuss replacement names.
(Note: The story does not mention that in his career at Linfield U (then McMinnville College) Brumback was president, 1903-1903.)
=Source:
Biographical posting at Wikipedia under subhead “Later career”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Everson
During World War II, he was chairman of the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which conducted hearings for non-citizen Japanese residents of Oregon who were detained as possible security risks and made determinations as to whether their detainments should continue. [19]
19 Footnote:
Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board Arrives,
The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, Feb. 2, 1942
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-missoulian-oregon-alien-enemy-hearin/25647009
Reason for Linfield making the change is detailed in this story …
https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2021/07/08/linfield-university-renames-street-in-honor-of-native-american-first-food
With that as precedent, EVERSON STREET, named for William Graham Everson, Linfield College 1939-1943 president, should be changed, too.
Why?
Go to his Wikipedia listing ...
… find the “Later career” section. Read the paragraph starting with “During World War II.”:::::::::::::::::::::
=Source:
Story in July 8, 2021, Smoke Signals newspaper of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
In November 2020, the Board of Trustees recommended removing the name of A.M. Brumback from the campus street and creating a commission to discuss replacement names.
(Note: The story does not mention that in his career at Linfield U (then McMinnville College) Brumback was president, 1903-1903.)
=Source:
Biographical posting at Wikipedia under subhead “Later career”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Everson
During World War II, he was chairman of the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which conducted hearings for non-citizen Japanese residents of Oregon who were detained as possible security risks and made determinations as to whether their detainments should continue. [19]
19 Footnote:
Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board Arrives,
The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, Feb. 2, 1942
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-missoulian-oregon-alien-enemy-hearin/25647009
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Photo taken 3/23/2024
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Some sources
say the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board led during World War II by
Linfield College President William G. Everson played a:
- “role in the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, despite a lack of evidence against them.”
- “significant and often adversarial role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans and other ‘enemy aliens’ during WWII, rather than being a mere formality.”
