Linfielder Howard Graves is Unaclipper

Note: Howard Graves attended, but did not graduate from Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore. He's a member of the college's Class of 1951.

Associated Press “Cleartime”

Winter 2004

The Unaclipper

By Steve Elliott

Deputy Director for Content Development

Newspaper & New Media Markets

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — There’s no computer, no e-mail, no fax machine at 670 Dragonfly Drive. Yet Howard Graves is connected to AP bureaus around the world.

Since retiring in 1993 as Honolulu chief of bureau, Graves has become a celebrity to many AP staffers using the seemingly forgotten medium of the U.S. mail.

He sends tearsheets from his home.

He sends tearsheets while on vacation.

He even sends tearsheets from newspapers his neighbors bring back from vacation.

To bureaus as near as Phoenix and as far away as Jakarta, Indonesia, envelopes bearing Graves’ typewritten return address carry tearsheets from The Arizona Republic, The Daily Courier of Prescott and New Mexico’s Gallup Independent, among other newspapers.

“We’ve gone from asking ‘How’d it play in Peoria?’ to ‘How’d it play in Prescott?’” said John Shurr, chief of bureau in Columbia, S.C. “Howard Graves is the man with the answer for us and dozens of other bureaus.”

Lindel G. Hutson, chief of bureau in Oklahoma City, said, “I was handing out some Howard clips last week and one of the veterans quipped to a new staffer that you know you’ve arrived in the AP when you get a byline from Arizona.”

That validation comes from the mile-high community of Prescott (it’s pronounced press’-kit, not press’-kot, he’ll remind you), about 90 miles north of Phoenix. It’s here, amid the pines on a summer afternoon, that we catch up with the man who calls himself “The Unaclipper.”

Returning from our lunch, Graves crosses the street to the mailbox and then picks up the Courier — an afternoon newspaper — from the driveway before heading inside.

“I’ll be darned,” he says, holding up a letter. It’s from Foster Klug, a staffer in the Baltimore bureau. Klug thanks Graves for a tearsheet on a travel piece he wrote from Japan. Graves smiles. This will go into a stack of thank you cards and letters, several inches thick, in his office.

He then opens the Courier on the kitchen counter. An AP story from Idaho is a brief on page one. That’ll go to Chief of Bureau Bill Beecham in Salt Lake City. A wildfire story with byline and photo will go to the Helena, Mont., bureau.

The Athens bureau will receive a tearsheet with a lengthy story on an inside page — Chief of Bureau Brian Murphy sends delightful thank you letters, Graves says.

With that aside, Graves sits down to face an obvious question from a grateful news agency.

Why?

“It’s cheaper than playing golf,” he laughs.

But seriously, it’s because Graves remembers the uncertainty of sending wire stories into the void and the thrill staffers get from seeing their work in print.

“You just never know where these stories are going to get used and why they’re going to use them,” he says.

What started out as sending tearsheets to writers he knew has become over the past several years a hobby taking up five or six hours a week and requiring not-insignificant expenditure s to the U.S. Postal Service.

Graves sends tearsheets to 25-30 domestic bureaus and around 20 international bureaus.

What keeps him expanding this enterprise of tearing, stamping and mailing? The answer seems to lie in that stack of thank you notes.

There are letters, cards and postcards from Taipei and Nashville, Salt Lake City and Geneva, New Delhi and Minneapolis. Jakarta sent a baseball cap. Omaha sent envelopes and mailing labels. Many bureaus send stamps.

He pulls out a handwritten note from Angela K. Brown, correspondent in Fort Worth, Texas. “Thank you so much for sending me copies of newspapers that run my stories,” she says. “I rarely get to see where my stories go.”

“This is what a lot of the letters say,” Graves says.  “They’re so pleased someone is thinking of them.”

It’s a fitting hobby for Graves, who turns 77 in November. He began his journalism career at a weekly newspaper in his hometown of Robinson, Ill., and spent more than 40 years with AP. His AP posts included chief of bureau in Portland, Ore., and Albuquerque, as well as more than a decade in Honolulu, where he supervised coverage of Hawaii and the central Pacific. He is a past national president of the Society of Professional Journalists.

His office is a portal of sorts back to Honolulu, where a Smith Corona typewriter similar to the one on Graves’ desk once conveyed praise and blame to this reporter.

He has no computer and insists he never will. As long as he can buy ribbons, the staccato of his typing will ring through the house he shares with Audrey, his wife of 48 years.

On the desk, behind the typewriter and next to a scale and a photocopy showing current postal rates by the ounce, there are a half dozen or so open envelopes containing tearsheets. It’s the beginning of the clipping cycle, it turns out. Graves mailed 20 envelopes the day before.

Graves opens a desk drawer containing stamps and envelopes sent by bureaus. He keeps them sorted by bureau and uses each bureau’s stamps to send its tearsheets. If a bureau sends addressed envelopes, he’ll take them on his vacations and mail tearsheets from the road.

He returns to the thank you notes. Nordic & Baltic News Editor Matt Moore recently sent a one-and-a-half page letter catching Graves up on AP operations in that region.

A note from Denver Chief of Bureau George Garties, who also sent stamps, says, “Please keep them coming. We love it.”

It’s clear that he savors each one. “That’s what it’s all about.”

—     --Steve Elliott was bureau chief in Arizona when he wrote this story.

Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds: 1912 - 2003

Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
1912 - 2003

A memorial service for widely acclaimed Linfield professor emeritus and author Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds was held 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004, in the activity room at Hillside Manor, 900 N.W. Hill Road, McMinnville.

Mrs. Dirks-Edmunds died Dec. 29, 2003, in Hillside Retirement Community. She was 91.

The youngest of 10 children, she was born June 9, 1912, in Baxter County in the Arkansas Ozarks, daughter of Peter B. and Lydia Gates Dirks. When she was about 6 months old, the family moved to Kansas and lived in several areas of the state. In 1924, the Dirks family moved to the Puget Sound area in Washington, then to the Umpqua Valley in Oregon the following year.

To that point, she had attended at least eight primarily one-room schools. She entered Roseburg High School and graduated in 1930. She then worked two years in the Douglas National Bank in Roseburg before enrolling at Linfield College in McMinnville in 1932. She graduated magna cum laude in 1937 with a bachelor's degree in biology.

She enrolled as a graduate assistant in zoology at the University of Illinois and four years later completed studies for a doctorate in the department of zoology, with a specialization in ecology.

With that, she became in 1941 one of Linfield's first two women graduates to receive doctoral degrees. That fall, at registration time, she responded to a request from Linfield to join the faculty as an instructor in biology and assistant to the registrar, thus becoming the first woman to hold a doctorate on the faculty. It remained that way for 33 years until she retired in 1974 as professor of biology, emerita.

She and Milton Ray Edmunds married Aug. 11, 1944, while she was on a leave of absence from Linfield to teach at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash. She returned to McMinnville, and after a leave of a year, started teaching again at Linfield in 1946 as an assistant professor in the biology department.

Mrs. Dirks-Edmunds said of her husband: "His knowledge of forestry and interest in ecology was of invaluable assistance in my research and teaching. We shared many delightful experiences, as well as trials and tribulations."

They lived their entire married life in McMinnville. He preceded her in death in 1983.

A love of nature began in childhood for Mrs. Dirks-Edmunds. She said she became fascinated by the majestic ancient forests she found in the Northwest after moving west in 1924. She studied in the Sonora Desert in Arizona in 1967 and again in 1972, and also had a brief introduction to the ecology of Guatemala's Lake Atitlan and tropical forest. 

After retiring, she traveled to the Swiss Alps and other places in Europe; New York City and Shelter Island, N.Y.; Bar Harbor, Belfast and Orono, Maine; the Tall Grass Prairie of the Midwest as well as other sites, including many in Oregon.

She found writing, aside from teaching, her most cherished activity. She wrote a variety of short essays and poems, scientific papers and lectures. She listed her major contributions as her book, "Not Just Trees," the story of her research and life experiences in forest ecology; "Roots, Visions and Mission," the 125-year history of the First Baptist Church of McMinnville, written in 1992 at the request of the church's anniversary committee; and her doctoral thesis, "A Comparison of Biotic Communities of the Cedar-Hemlock and Oak-Hickory Associations," published in Ecological Monographs for July 1947.

She had been a member of the McMinnville First Baptist Church since 1944, and was a member of the scientific honorary, Sigma XI; a charter member of the Oregon Academy of Science; and an emeritus member of the Ecological Society of Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, Save-the-Redwoods League and Defenders of Wildlife. For a number of years she was listed in "American Men and Women of Science."

Mrs. Dirks-Edmunds is survived by three sisters, Myrtle Hartley of McMinnville, Dorothy Voodell of Ashland and Alice Beck of El Dorado Springs, Mo.; 11 nieces and nephews and numerous grand- and great-grandnieces and nephews, as well as numerous friends and loyal former students.

Memorial contributions may be sent to the Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Lectureship at Linfield College, the McMinnville Baptist Church, The Ocean Conservancy and The Wilderness Society. Disposition was by cremation at Little Chapel of the Chimes, Portland.

Kathy Steinbach Haack, Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame

Kathy Steinbach Haack, Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame

Oct 31, 2002 McMinnville N-R/News-Register

Editor's Note: All nine individuals and the one team being inducted into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame will be highlighted prior to the Nov. 16 ceremony.

Athletics have always been a major part of Nancy Steinbach Haack's life. Whether competing, coaching or encouraging, her love of sport has never wavered.

A 1969 Linfield graduate, Haack's athletic career began when she was 6 years old. Her father, Tye Steinbach, was Nancy's first coach and inspiration. His life was dedicated to coaching young swimmers at the Aero Club of Portland and the McMinnville Swim Club. Swimming for her father was one of Nancy's greatest joys. She loved his spirit, enthusiasm and his love for his athletes.

Nancy, and her older sister, Kathy Steinbach Washburn, swam AAU age-group competitions for Wilson High School in Portland, maintaining a four-year state-title winning streak. At Linfield, they competed in swimming for Coach Ken Holmes, Linfield history professor, who praised the Steinbach sisters for their recruiting and encouragement of others. At Linfield, the sisters broke several collegiate national records. Nancy established records in the 40-yard freestyle (1966,1967), 40 butterfly (1967), 100 freestyle (1966), and 160 individual medley (1966).

Reluctantly, Haack turned out for the Wildcat field hockey team. But reluctance soon gave way to excitement when the first game started. During the first match, she was moved from defender to halfback to center forward and then stayed there for four seasons. For three seasons she was selected all-conference and led the team in scoring.

"I just had to be where you could score and win the game," she said.

In track and field, Haack placed in the district meet for all four seasons in the 100-meter, 220, long jump and shot put.

Ken Williams, college registrar emeritus and Linfield Hall of Fame member, said Haack's "excellence in academics, athletics and leadership at the college earned her a place in the Hall." Her involvement included: Dean's List, Cap and Gown, Spurs, Associated Women Students' Vice President, Intersorority Council Vice President, Judicial Board Chairman, Senior Class Secretary, and Rally. She received recognition as Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities and Outstanding College Athletes in America, 1969.

"My years at Linfield were such a positive stage in my life, as the opportunities for personal growth were limitless. It was the time when education and sense of purpose became intertwined with personal values. It was a time when lasting friendships were established and memories were made," said Haack.

After Linfield, Haack's athletic spark was rekindled when she competed in triathlons for seven years during the 1980s, winning many honors: Northwest Master's Champion, age-group winner in the United States Triathlon for two years, undefeated in age-group competition and consistently placing in the top five overall. "Triathlons exposed me to the mental aspect of competition. All of my events, up until triathlons, had been sprints where you hardly had time to think; with triathlons, which last over two hours, you need to be able to use your mind to control your race. I found that my strongest athletic asset was my mental toughness," she said.

Haack has coached various sports over the years including swimming, diving, gymnastics, cross country and track and field. During the past five years, she has taught physical education, health and aerobics at Century High School in Hillsboro. Named to the 2002 Who's Who Among American Teachers, she retired from teaching in June 2002.

Nancy has other Wildcat sport connections. Her husband, Bob, (1965-69), and son, Ryan (1992-95), both received all-conference honors in football and competed in the national finals. Daughter, Shannon, competed in track at Occidental College in Los Angeles and ran on a national championship relay team.

Nancy and Bob moved to Beaverton to be closer to their three granddaughters. Bob, a retired Oregon National Guard colonel, teaches at Forest Grove High School. Nancy will be instructing and encouraging the next generation of athletes as a "nanny" for her 1-year-old granddaughter.

Wildcat Dewey Dye, 1928-2002

Dewey L. "Sonny" Dye 

June 11, 2002, Longview, Wash., Daily News

Former area coach Dewey L. Dye, 74, of Kelso, died June 7, 2002, at the Hospice Care Center.

He was born Feb. 16, 1928, in Newberg, Ore., to Charles and Ophia (Allen) Dye. He was a 1946 graduate of Kelso High School who lettered in football, baseball and basketball. He was all league in baseball.

He worked two years at a local mill before enrolling at Lower Columbia Junior College, where he lettered twice in each of his three favorite sports. He was an all-star in football and baseball. He was a member of the Junior College grid club when they won the Washington Junior College title in 1948. 

He transferred to Linfield College on a football scholarship, playing defensive safety and quarterback, making the all-conference team as a defensive safety both years.

Mr. Dye served in the Navy on the aircraft carrier USS Essex during the Korean War. He returned to college in the spring of 1956, receiving his bachelor of science degree in 1956 and his master of education in 1957.

He was known as "Coach" to the many men who played on his football, basketball, baseball and track teams throughout his teaching and coaching career at Gold Beach, Clatskanie, Quincy-Mayger, Springfield, Ore., and Kalama school districts. After his retirement, he worked as a substitute teacher. 

He was a member of the Longview-Kelso Elks, Veterans of Foreign War, Longview Eagles and Longview Moose Clubs. He was a Mariners fan and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren were his pride and joy.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley, at home; two daughters, Danita Dieter of Longview and Lisa Pinard of Castle Rock; three sons Craig Dye of Kelso and Scott Dye of Keizer, Ore., and Dr. Richard Schwarz of Salem; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death was a stepdaughter, Michelle Schwarz.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Green Hills Cemetery in Kelso with pastor Jon Dieter officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Home Health and Hospice, P.O. Box 2067, Longview, WA 98632.

Arrangements are by Dahl-McVicker Funeral Home.

Wildcat Dewey Dye, 1938-2002

Dewey L. "Sonny" Dye 

June 11, 2002, Longview, Wash., Daily News

Former area coach Dewey L. Dye, 74, of Kelso, died June 7, 2002, at the Hospice Care Center.

He was born Feb. 16, 1928, in Newberg, Ore., to Charles and Ophia (Allen) Dye. He was a 1946 graduate of Kelso High School who lettered in football, baseball and basketball. He was all league in baseball.

He worked two years at a local mill before enrolling at Lower Columbia Junior College, where he lettered twice in each of his three favorite sports. He was an all-star in football and baseball. He was a member of the Junior College grid club when they won the Washington Junior College title in 1948. 

He transferred to Linfield College on a football scholarship, playing defensive safety and quarterback, making the all-conference team as a defensive safety both years.

Mr. Dye served in the Navy on the aircraft carrier USS Essex during the Korean War. He returned to college in the spring of 1956, receiving his bachelor of science degree in 1956 and his master of education in 1957.

He was known as "Coach" to the many men who played on his football, basketball, baseball and track teams throughout his teaching and coaching career at Gold Beach, Clatskanie, Quincy-Mayger, Springfield, Ore., and Kalama school districts. After his retirement, he worked as a substitute teacher. He was a member of the Longview-Kelso Elks, Veterans of Foreign War, Longview Eagles and Longview Moose Clubs. He was a Mariners fan and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren were his pride and joy.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley, at home; two daughters, Danita Dieter of Longview and Lisa Pinard of Castle Rock; three sons Craig Dye of Kelso and Scott Dye of Keizer, Ore., and Dr. Richard Schwarz of Salem; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death was a stepdaughter, Michelle Schwarz.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Green Hills Cemetery in Kelso with pastor Jon Dieter officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Home Health and Hospice, P.O. Box 2067, Longview, WA 98632.

Arrangements are by Dahl-McVicker Funeral Home.

Train Swap in Pullman, 22 March 2009

Via Hewlett-Packard gift/purchase in 1998, Linfield McMinnville campus expanded from 78 acres to 193 (May 24, 2001 story)

Linfield develops former Hewlett-Packard property

May 24, 2001 Daily Journal of Commerce Oregon, Portland

It’s not often that a college campus can double in size virtually overnight.

That’s precisely what happened at Linfield College in McMinnville in 1998. The private Christian college expanded from 78 acres to 193, the result of a gift and purchase agreement with neighboring Hewlett-Packard Co.

Today, Linfield is in the midst of an ambitious capital campaign, “Linfield – The Defining Moment.” The $65 million capital campaign earmarks $43.7 million for renovation and construction projects that will provide additional space for existing programs and bump the student population up from 1,550 students to 1,750.

Plans center around a 17-acre developed section of the former Hewlett-Packard property – named the Keck Campus – that contains 106,000 square feet of existing building space. The four buildings on the Keck Campus will be remodeled, in addition to new construction.

The decade-long project consists of three phases, beginning with remodeling of two adjoining buildings for the art department, currently underway.

The second phase will entail expansion of the library and the theater; the third phase will be construction of a new music department facility

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Carl Vance, vice president for finance and administration at Linfield, anticipates completion of all phases by 2009. The construction and endowment campaign, underway for several years, should be completed in 2002, Vance said.

“We’d love all construction to be finished as soon as possible,” said Vance, “but it’s really in the hands of fund raisers and in how quickly we can obtain the necessary monies.”

So far, donations keep pouring in, including a $2.3 million gift from James F. Miller, a retired Portland stockbroker and philanthropist. Miller, who received an honorary doctorate degree from Linfield in 1998, “has been a friend of the college over the last decade,” said Lee Howard, vice president for college relations. In his honor, Linfield will name the new fine arts facility the James F. Miller Arts Center.

Currently, two adjoining buildings on the Keck Campus, totaling 15,400 square feet, are being remodeled to provide larger space for arts instruction and exhibitions by Linfield art students and faculty.

Pence/Kelly Contractors is in charge of the renovation, which is 60 percent finished and on schedule for completion by July 15. The facility will be open for use in the fall.

“The new fine arts center will enhance the learning environment by providing, for the first time, separate studios for such media as drawing, sculpture, painting and printmaking,” said Linfield President Vivian A. Bull. “Faculty and student interaction outside of the classroom will also be improved by locating faculty office-studios directly in the midst of student work areas.”

The heart of the new arts facility will be a 1,400-square-foot gallery for student and faculty shows as well as traveling exhibits. Designed as a raw space with ultimate flexibility, the area will provide an outstanding display environment and will serve as an appropriate place for receptions and visiting artists’ functions. A smaller gallery will provide 500 square feet of flexible exhibition space dedicated to student work. An outdoor courtyard at the entrance will provide additional exhibit space, and will serve as an important gathering place for the Keck Campus.

The arts facility will include an all-night café and study area where students can study, socialize or relax. A new electronic media lab shared by the Department of Art and the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts will accommodate 12 work stations specifically equipped with hardware and software to support the graphic design needs of those departments’ curricula. An additional all-night general college computer lab, with 18 work stations, is planned near the café.

Once completed, the new art department facilities will be the first phase of the Arts Quadrangle, which will anchor the Keck Campus. New facilities for the $14.7 million library and Theatre and Communication Arts Department will be housed in the largest building on the property.

Phase three, a new $10 million music building, will complete the quadrangle. Currently, the art and music departments share a building.

No contractor has been selected for the second or third phases of the project, Howard said.

According to Howard, Hewlett-Packard in 1998 closed its McMinnville plant and moved its medical instruments manufacturing facility to New York. The high-tech company donated about 81 acres of vacant property worth $7.9 million; Linfield paid $8.4 million for the remaining 34 acres of property and buildings.

Virtually all of the improvements are being funded from private donations, alumni, foundations, corporations and trustees. The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles donated $5 million toward purchase of the 17 improved acres that are now referred to as the Keck Campus.

The college is still raising funds before the library and theater renovation work can begin.

The buildings on the Keck Campus are about 25 years old and are in good shape, according to Vance. Hewlett-Packard used them for research and development.

“I really don’t know of a higher education institution that has had the opportunity to more than double its size with property adjacent to it,” said Howard. “We’re not creating new programs, but are providing improvements for programs that are already excellent, but the facilities are less than desirable.”

Linfield College, with its American Baptist roots, was chartered in 1858. The gracefully aging campus has already completed a number of other projects, recently dedicating five new, high-tech residence halls for upperclassmen. The college also completed a new commons building and converted the observatory into a convenience store.

“The opportunity is for the next 100 years but it has to be paid for now. It’s something we simply could not afford not to do,” Howard said.

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NOTE: The "basketball trip to Alaska Dec. 9-10" in 1966 was to Fairbanks

Players Suspended 

 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Wednesday, December 21, 1966 Page 10

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) - Linfield College suspended seven varsity basketball players for the season yesterday, including a number of starters.

The school's announcement did not disclose the reasons for the suspension, saying only that it was for discipline. 

Coach Ted Wilson said it involved conduct of the players on a basketball trip to Alaska Dec. 9-10.

Among those suspended was junior Ed Griffin, Hartford, Conn., an all-conference selection last year. 

Junior Roger Baker, Hood River, and senior John Lee, Hartford, Conn., also have been starters since the season began.

Three of the other four also have been starters in some of the games as Linfield compiled a 4-2 record.

The others suspended: Bob Daggett, Portland; Jack Forde, Medford; Tom Leatherwood, Coquille; and Larry Sapp, Tigard. Sapp is a sophomore. Daggett is a senior and the other two are juniors. 

Linfield President Harry Dillin said the athletes were suspended from the squad, but not from the school.

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Say hello to 'Sparky' of Linfield football

A revised version of this, adding Catball player Mikaela 'Sparky' Viloria, was posted on 5/21/2015

Originally posted Dec. 11, 2011
Sparky? Linfield football?

Meet Marcus "Sparky" Gonzales, a Wildcat defensive end from Honolulu (St. Louis School). He lettered for the ‘Cats in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. In the photo, he’s with his mother after a 2011 game on Maxwell Field.

Also, greet Steve "Sparky" Davis, who lettered in football for Linfield in the 1969, 1970 and 1971 seasons. In his photo, he's wearing a Linfield football uniform.

How did Sparky Gonzalez get his nickname? “I … remember … always being called Sparky,” he said. “I asked my parents how I got the name and they tell me that it was kind of an evolution of names. My real name is Marcus, so I guess in the child's (way) of saying my name it went from Marcus to Marky, then from Marky to Sparky and it stuck…”

The highlight of Gonzalez’s time as a Linfield football player was creating “friendships with my teammates that I now consider brothers,” he said.

It was “awesome” to have a successful Linfield football career, he said. “I (enjoyed being among) my ‘brothers’ for countless hours a week, putting in the time to get better and continue the Linfield legacy … The bonds (between us) will last forever…I couldn’t be any happier with the success I've shared with them.”

For the ‘Cats, Sparky Davis was a linebacker in the 1968 and 1969 seasons and a kicker after that. His straight-ahead kicking made him Linfield's leading football scorer in the 1970 season. During it he “booted” a 33-yard field goal with nine seconds left to beat PLU, 16-13, on Franklin Pierce High School field in Parkland (Tacoma area), Wash.

Davis, who lives in McMinnville, is a 1968 graduate of North Salem, Ore., High School and earned a Linfield bachelor of science degree in business. His vital behind-the-scenes role in Wildcat football is honored by his enshrinement in the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame.What are the roots of Davis' "Sparky" nickname?

He was among Linfield students who lived in the McMinnville Fire Department downtown for room and board. In return, he was a volunteer firefighter.

Dalmatian dogs are commonly associated with fire departments as being faithful companions of firefighters. The nation's #1 fire department Dalmatian is "Sparky" the fire dog. Steve's fellow McMinnville firefighters gave him the nickname.

There’s another Sparky Davis angle, too. The Davis family has a long history of being electricians and in the electrical supply contracting trade. Sparks are associated with electricity. But, as Steve points out, there are no sparks “if you do it right!”

Biggest blown Linfield football leads

In the record book; three road games which were not kind to the Wildcats

The two biggest leads Linfield has blown in its football history were both against Californian Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif., at Cal Luth’s Mt. Clef Stadium.

• The first was at the end of the 1977 season. On Nov. 19, 1977, in the NAIA playoffs, Linfield lost, 29-28. In this game, Linfield’s biggest lead – in the second quarter -- was by 21 points when the score was 21-0. It also led by 21-3 and 28-10 scores.
  
  
• The second was the 2010 season opener. In a non-conference game on Sept. 11, 2010, Linfield lost, 47-42. Linfield's biggest lead was 21 points at 28-7 with 5:23 left in the first half.
  

In summary, the Linfield Wildcats led the Cal Luth Kingsmen by at many as 21 points in their 1977 and 2010 games, but lost.

For the record, the third biggest blown lead for Linfield was in the Sept 29, 2007, Northwest Conference game in Salem, Ore., at Willamette. Linfield’s Wildcats lost, 33-32, to the Willamette Bearcats. In this game, Linfield’s biggest lead was by 19 points when the score was 19-0, at 14:40 in the second quarter after the Wildcats scored a touchdown but failed on a points-after-touchdown conversion run.

Research work in progress,Linfield football blowouts

+ At CLU in 1977 Linfield led 21-0 (also 21-3 and 28-10)

+ The two biggest leads Linfield has blown in its football history were both against Cal Lutheran, 1977 and 2010.

+ Third biggest was 19 against Willamette in 2007.:::::


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==Research needed on Linfield football BLOWN LEADS, not Blowout Losses.

==Notable blowout losses would be such as Linfield's 0-54 and 0-56 losses to George Fox and Pacific in 1896 or the 71-0 loss to Whitman in 1929.
==Dictionary definitions of blowout include:
(informal) an easy victory in a sporting contest or an election: they had lost seven
games—four by blowouts and three by slim margins.

==Three most notable blown leads include 21 points vs. Cal Lutheran in 2010,
21 vs. Cal Lutheran in 1977 – need to confirm this was the case, did Linfield have a 21 point lead in the 19777 game? -- and Linfield’s 19-point lead against Willamette in 2007.

==List below does not show how large the Linfield leads were. in 1977 CalLu game, list below shows Linfield leading by 18 at halftime and Linfield sports info advance on the Linfield at Cal Luth 2010 game said Linfield led 28-10 in third quarter (also 18), but the lead might have been 21-0 earlier in 1st half.

==List text on 2007 Willamette game never shows Linfield ahead by more than 13, but 2007 season review in 2008 football guide shows a 19 point lead in the second quarter.

==In the 2010 Linfield at Cal Luth game, Linfield led 28-7 in the second quarter.

==List includes some notable Linfield comebacks from deficits, but not the two largest: from down 27-9 (18 points) to winning 30-27 at Menlo in 2001 and the legendary rally against Northwestern of Iowa in 1984 NAIA final (down 22-0 late in the third quarter to winning 33-22).


Linfield football blowout losses as of 9/14/2010

Sept 11, 2010
Linfield at California Lutheran
Thousand Oaks, Calif., at CLU’s Mt. Clef Stadium
http://www.linfield.edu/sports/stats/fb/clu0911.htm
Halftime, Linf ahead 28-14
Linf outscored 33-14 in second half:
--outscored 9-0 in 3rd qtr
--outscored 24-14 in 4th
Final score, CLU 47-42
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Sept 29, 2007
Linfield at Willamette
http://www.linfield.edu/sports/records/fb/2007/wu0929.htm
End of first quarter, Linf ahead 13-0
Second quarter, Linf outscored 20-9
Halftime, Linf ahead 22-20
Second half, Linf outscored 13-10
Final score, WU 33-32
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SHOULD THIS GAME BE LISTED?
Nov 20, 1993
Central Washington at Linfield
Halftime, Linf trailed 21-7
In second half, Linf outscored CWU 19-7
Final score, CWU 28, Linf 26
C 14 7 0 7 -28
L 0 7 6 13-26
In Sunday O 11/21/1993
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Nov 6, 1993
Linfield at Willamette
Halftime, Linf trailed 21-7
In second half, Linf outscored WU 21-10
Final score, WU 31, Linf 28
L 0 7 14 7 – 28
W 6 15 3 7 – 31
In Sunday O 11/7/1993
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Nov 11, 1989
Western Washington at Linfield
After 1 qtr, Linf led 14-7
Halftime, Linf led 24-14
Second half (all in 3rd qtr) WWU outscored Linf 13-0
Final score, WWU 27, Linf 24
W 7 7 13 0 – 27
L 14 10 0 0 – 24
In Sunday O 11/12/1989
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Sept 17, 1983
Linfield at Southern Oregon, Ashland
Halftime, Linf led 13-7 at halftime
Game tied 21-21 after three qtrs
Final score, SOSC 38, Linf 29
L 7 6 8 8 – 29
S 0 7 14 17 – 38
In Sunday O 9/18/1983
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Nov 19, 1977
Linfield at California Lutheran
Thousand Oaks, Calif., at CLU’s Mt. Clef Stadium, NAIA playoffs
Halftime, Linf led 21-3
Third qtr, Cal Luth outscored Linf 7-0
3th qtr., Cal Luth outscored Linf 19-7
Final score, Cal Luth 29, Linf 28
L 14 7 0 7 – 28
C 0 3 7 19 – 29

Note:
Linfield’s Larry Doty scored three first half touchdowns. Oregonian story says he left the game with a hip pointer midway through the 3rd quarter. At that point, the story said, Linfield had a 21-10 lead. Based on Oregonian story, the following has two errors… the game was Saturday Nov. 19, rather than Friday Nov. 18. Doty did play after halftime. However, he left the game in the third quarter due to a hip pointer, rather than due to a back injury. (Indeed, Larry may have left due to a back injury and says that. I’m just providing what the Oregonian reported.)

http://www.linfield.edu/sports/release.php?id=3199
The Series Series tied 1-1…on Nov. 18, 1977, the Kingsmen won 29-28 in the NAIA playoffs at Thousand Oaks, Calif…Larry Doty scored three first-half touchdowns but sat out the second half with a back injury…the

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Oct 24, 1953
Linfield at Southern Oregon, Ashland
Halftime, Linf led 7-0 and led 13-0 in 3rd qtr
Third qtr, S Oregon outscored Linf 14-6
Fourth qtr, both teams got TDs and PAT 1 pointers (scoring 7-7)
Final score, S Oregon 21-Linf 20
In Sunday O 11/25/1953
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Oct 6, 1951
Linfield at College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
C of I trailed 26-14 in the game
C of l trailed 7-0 after 1st qtr
Halftime: C of I led 14-13
C of I outscored Linf 13-6 in 4th qtr
Final score, C of I 27, Linf 26
In Sunday O 10/5/1951
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SHOULD THIS GAME BE LISTED?
Oct 22, 1949
Linfield at College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
Halftime, C of I led 14-0
After 3 qtrs of play, C of I led 14-7
Final score, L&C 20, Linf 10
L 0 0 7 0 – 7
C 7 7 0 7 – 21
In Sunday O 10/23/1949

From the Boise State College "Arbiter" student newspaper in 1968

Friday, Sept. 20, 1968, 'Wildcats Set To Test Bronco Crunchability'

http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2549&context=student_newspapers
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Friday, Sept. 27, 1968, 'Linfield Spoils BSC Opener'

http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2550&context=student_newspapers

On Saturday night, Sept. 21, 1968, before 6,300 fans in Boise State College Broncos' first football game as a four-year school (it has been a two-year junior college), the Linfield Wildcats won, 17-7. Boise State coached by Tony Knap and Linfield by Ad Rutschman. Both were in their first game coaching football at their respective colleges. The game was played in Boise State's (first) Bronco Stadium.


Aug 16, 2009, 'The Story Of A Bronco Legend' from BroncoCountry.com

http://jcfootball.scout.com/2/884980.html

"Hal Zimmerman was their quarterback and he led a team that had no seniors against the strong NAIA Linfield team.  The very young Broncos lost the game at Bronco Stadium 21 to 7.  The offense struggled and many fans were concerned that the Broncos would have a losing season in their first year as a four year school...   Coach Knap went on to win eight games against two losses in his inaugural season as the Bronco coach including a big win over in-state rival Idaho State."


(BroncoCountry apologizing for BSC loss to Linfield. Boise's team was "very young" and it played and lost to Linfield, "the strong NAIA team." For the first two years Boise was in four-year football it was an NAIA team, too, playing as an independent. BroncoCountry wrong about score:  17-7, not 21-7.)

'Dewey beats Stassen: Republicans hold a real debate' by Linfield 1957 grad Floyd McKay

This story was written by 1957 Linfield grad Floyd McKay at Crosscut.com, a nonprofit, online newspaper based in Seattle.

http://crosscut.com/2011/12/dewey-beats-stassen-republicans-hold-real-debate

Tuesday 27 December 2011

"The little man on the wedding cake" returns to his home base. Sometimes it seemed they would never end, and at times as if their prime contribution was to provide laugh lines for late-night comedians.

But the string of Republican debates leading to January’s caucuses and elections has already set a record for television viewership (7.63 million for the Dec. 10 ABC debate) and helped winnow the huge field of wannabe nominees.

The debates have elevated Newt Gingrich from hapless trailer to frontrunner, revealed Rick Perry’s ignorance and Herman Cain’s shallow grasp of issues, and raised the prospect of an independent run for Ron Paul. And despite complaints that low-polling candidates weren’t showcased, a Washington Post study showed they actually got more air time than they deserved. Increasingly, however, pundits have come to consider the debates only a secondary factor after the overwhelming influence of Fox News, which has become an unofficial Republican cable outlet.

One conservative pundit, George Will, had enough of the clown show. “Because the very idea of an eight-sided debate is absurd,” he wrote, “and because such a televised event is survival of the briefest, the format discourages the drawing of sensible distinctions.”

Instead, Will called for a “debate of substance” on just two topics, Iraq and the Supreme Court. Actually, there was once just such a Republican primary debate, and it may have turned the tides of fortune for the participants. New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen faced off on May 17, 1948 in Portland, Oregon, in the first and only radio debate between primary contenders.

Broadcast nationally, it drew somewhere between 40 million and 80 million listeners. Radio was the hot news medium of the day. During World War II the broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow and other foreign correspondents drew big audiences across the nation, and for a few years afterward radio remained the most powerful news force in America.

And Oregon’s direct presidential primary, a keystone of its progressive tradition, was one of the few such contest in the country; in most states national convention delegates were chosen at meetings of party activists. Stassen, the “boy governor of Minnesota,” would become a laughingstock in later years by refusing to give up his presidential ambitions.

But in 1948 he was one of the nation’s most popular politicians in the country, a successful governor in the progressive mold and clearly a man with a political future. Dewey, serving his second term as New York governor, had built a reputation as a crime-busting prosecutor and run in 1944 against President Roosevelt. But he was on the ropes in his second bid for the GOP nomination; Stassen had won primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska and was looking and feeling confident.

Dewey needed to stop a growing Stassen wave. “Stassen is coolly self-confident, lacking any apparent awareness of an audience and calmly deliberate in decision and action,” columnist Joseph Alsop wrote on the eve of the Oregon vote. “Dewey, on the other hand, is always aware of his audience. He plainly calculates his efforts. He makes a show of his briskness and decisiveness, which, although real, seem also intended to impress. Stassen, one suspects, has always ruled those around him without effort.

Dewey has always had to assert himself in order to dominate his environment. It is this visible effort to be master that causes so many people to be put off by Dewey.” The governor of New York was a small, trim man with a brush mustache; his critics likened him to “the little man on the wedding cake.”

The governor of Minnesota was large and gregarious, and held liberal views on foreign policy and most domestic issues. Both were to the left of the Grand Old Party grandees, who favored Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio. Stassen had campaigned in Oregon in March and gained considerable press coverage, most of it favorable.

But he was forced to return to Oregon when Dewey announced he would spend an unprecedented three weeks in the state, with only 12 delegates at stake but a national media spotlight aimed squarely at the two governors. Taft and other hopefuls were not competing in Oregon. Dewey had put a good face on his two primary losses, but knew he could not survive a third.

He told reporters he was headed west for three weeks of “good old campaigning, which I love.” “No stunt was too corny for the Governor of New York to participate in,” writes Dewey’s biographer Richard Norton Smith. “At Coos Bay, he allowed the local Pirates Club to prick his arm and draw blood with which he might sign their guestbook. At Grants Pass, Dewey gnawed on a bone handed to him by a cavorting group of half-naked ‘cave men.’ . . . He managed a look of delight when someone handed him a bushel of dripping razor clams. At Salem, his bus ran over a dog and the candidate immediately wired ‘my profound regrets’ to its owners, who, within twenty-four hours, were presented a new cocker spaniel, promptly named Dewey.”

“Dewey hated all the hoopla, but he kept at it gamely, knowing that he was closing Stassen’s lead with every day he remained in the state,” Smith noted. In addition to the campaign-trail hoopla, Dewey injected a record amount of money into his blitz; radio stations were saturated with his commercials and the Oregonian ran five Dewey ads a day.

The contenders agreed on many issues but sharply disagreed on a key one: whether to outlaw communism in the United States. The Cold War was already emerging on the international scene, and a war-weary nation saw or imagined growing Red threats, both from Russia and from within. Stassen, moving to his right, wanted to outlaw the Communist Party of the United States; his traveling party included a very junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy, who was on the cusp of his national anticommunist crusade.

Dewey, moving left, said that was not in the American tradition of free speech, and wouldn’t work in any event. Hurrying back to meet Dewey’s challenge, Stassen ran into a trap. Dewey had rejected earlier Stassen challenges to debate, before Stassen began piling up primary victories. But when Tom Swafford, a producer at Portland radio station KEX, suggested a single-topic debate on outlawing the Communist Party in America, Dewey snapped up the offer. Stassen foolishly accepted all Dewey’s terms, including giving Dewey the final statement.

The debate, four days before the voting, was broadcast to to some 900 stations over the ABC and NBC radio networks. Sixty-three years later, it can still be heard via a British Pathe movie newsreel and an audio recording available for download. It was the first national debate in a presidential primary and the first—and last—broadcast solely on radio.

There were no reporter panels, no audience questions, no elaborate rules or sound-bite limits on answers. A large contingent of reporters attended; The New York Times gave the debate and subsequent voting prominent front-page coverage. Dewey, an experienced courtroom prosecutor with a deep radio voice, took what would seem an unpopular position in a nation already slipping into Cold War anticommunism: “I am unalterably, wholeheartedly, and unswervingly against any scheme to write laws outlawing people because of their religion, political, social or economic ideas,” he growled.

Stassen seemed to be caught unprepared, and could not counter the New Yorker’s appeal to Oregonians’ sense of fair play and independent spirit. Stassen’s advisors, writes scholar Richard M. Fried, saw the momentum shift. “’I think I can show you statistically where the debate cost 8000 votes,” Fried quotes Stassen’s pollster as saying. “‘Before it, Oregonians favored outlawing Communism 2 to 1; afterward they opposed it 2 to 1. Of those who heard the debate, more than 3 out of 4 thought Dewey won it.’” Stassen, Fried concludes, “failed to rebut the premise that outlawry would curb ‘freedom of speech and Democracy’ and that making ‘martyrs’ of Communists only aided them.”

Dewey won the May 21 vote, 93,644 votes to Stassen’s 87,249. Oregon editors, generally moderate Republicans, had earlier liked Stassen, but some shifted to Dewey.

“We have been won back to Dewey by his magnificent presentation of our democratic faith, which too few understand fully,” wrote William Tugman of the Eugene Register-Guard.

The Oregon Statesman‘s Charles A. Sprague, a former Republican governor, stuck with Stassen but noted presciently after the debate that “in losing Oregon, I think he loses his chance for the Republican presidential nomination.” And he took Dewey’s side against outlawing communism: “He won enough serious-minded, intelligent Republicans to turn the tide in his favor.”

At age 41, Sprague added, Stassen still had a great political future ahead of him. It didn’t turn out that way. Stassen served as president of the University of Pennsylvania and in a variety of governmental positions. But later in life he resumed running for president in an ultimately tragic effort to redress his great defeat. An overconfident Dewey meanwhile lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of the great upsets in American history.

Presidential primaries and media have both become much more complex since 1948. Two-person primary races are hard to imagine today, as are single-topic debates or debates without large audiences. Stassen himself set the pace for future primary campaigns, which until 1948 had not included the sort of intense, early, in-person campaigning he brought to Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oregon — with an organization created and directed by fellow Minnesotan Warren Burger, a future chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. “Stassen’s forthright quest for votes may end much of the traditional coyness of aspirants,” Newsweek predicted in early May 1948.

“In the future, it is thought that more candidates will frankly announce their intentions well in advance of election year and work openly for delegates to the conventions.” Today, radio is a secondary player. In 1948, only a week after the Oregon debate, New York Times reporter James A. Hagerty wrote that CBS was creating a precedent: television broadcasts of both parties’ candidates for president. The first of several interviews would be with Harold E. Stassen. This, Hagerty wrote, “almost certainly will become a new method of political campaigning—by television.”

To see footage of the 1948 Republican convention go to this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2H1qP4KVU

'Linfield Revisited' film 1972 by Homer Groenig

In 1973, Homer Groening, an award-winning filmmaker, did a 16mm film about his alma mater, Linfield College.

The film, “Linfield Revisited,” was used by Linfield Admissions and the Linfield Alumni Office.

Although the film does not have credits, it is a Homer Groening production. In fact, you can hear his voice in the film as an off-camera person who asks questions. He graduated from Linfield in 1941 and died in 1996. Homer Groening was the father of Matt Groening of Simpson’s fame.

See the film (running time 28 minutes) below.

• Were The Simpson’s based on Linfield Alumni? Linfield Review 5/2/2008


• The real people behind Homer Simpson and family Oregonian 8/1/2007


• Homer Groening, Oregonian filmmaker Oregon Movies, A to Z 2/12/2010

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Posted at YouTube with the following info:

Linfield Revisited is a 16mm color film from Homer Groening. A 1941 graduate of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, Homer Groening "revisited" the college in 1973 and produced this 28-minute color film, which he narrates. Although the college's main campus is in McMinnville, he ventures to other Linfield locations in the state of Oregon. The film was shown by the college's Admissions and Alumni Offices.

Slice of Life 1 and 2

This film provides an interesting slice of life from the college. It’s apparently from the 1971-1972 school year. Read film details here. One of those appearing in the film (see photo) is Ted Wilson. However, the film is not sports-centric. It’s a complete film, divided into two parts only for this posting.

PART 1


PART 2