Mary Martin, community advocate, dies Dec 7, 2021 in McMinnville

 Mary Martin, community advocate, dies

By Starla Pointer, McMinnville N-R/News-Register 12/10/2021. Photo of Mary Martin taken in McMinnville by Mac News on Aug. 26, 2013.

 Mary Martin, a businesswoman and community advocate in McMinnville for 65 years, died Tuesday in Willamette Valley Medical Center. She was 85.

Services are pending under the direction of Macy & Son Funeral Directors. 

“We will miss her big laugh, her warm embrace, her prophetic critique of injustice, her encouraging, challenging, generous spirit, and her wishes for a ‘Happy Day!’ even on the hardest of days,” said First Baptist Church pastor Erika Marksbury in announcing Martin’s passing to fellow members of the congregation.

The church “lost another saint this week,” the pastor said.

Until shortly before her death, Martin was still taking an active role in helping people less fortunate in the community. She served breakfast at the church a couple times a week and stood up for homeless people at city council meetings and other events. She advocated for restrooms, storage lockers and shower facilities for people in need.

She didn’t like how others portrayed those without homes, she said in a 2017 News-Register story. “I see in our a town a division that is them and us, and it is a very unhappy thought,” she said.

She disagreed that meal programs and other services only enabled the homeless. “These are human beings” who need a place where they are safe and welcome, she said. “If we could just find some place for them to be, how different our outlook might be about them.”

Martin stood up for other causes, as well. In October, she walked with her daughter-in-law, Cheryl, in the McMinnville reproductive rights rally.

She told the News-Register she was “devastated” by the continual need to fight for women’s rights yet again. Still, she said, such rallies “may wake up a few people who are sleeping. I hope.”

Martin was named McMinnville’s Woman of the Year in the 2017 Distinguished Service Awards.

She was humble about the honor. The positive things she’s done in McMinnville hadn’t been that special, she told the News-Register; they just needed doing, and she was available.

Everyone who knew her disagreed. Past winners of the award noted Martin’s professional accomplishments in business and real estate and her extensive community service, which ranged from supporting the library to helping get the Gospel Rescue Mission prepared to host Linfield international students.

Martin was “an enormously effective bridge across a cultural divide,” a fellow woman of the year winner said.

She was a great friend, said Cassie Sollars, another past Woman of the Year. When both worked at Willamette West Real Estate, the shared books and loved discussing what they’d read.

“Mary devoured books. She read voraciously,” Sollars recalled. “I loved her dearly.”

What made Martin different than some philanthropists, said attorney Dave Haugeberg, was that she was hands-on.

“She was there with her shirtsleeves rolled up, working hard to make a difference,” he said. “She was right there, being part of things.”

Martin said her parents set an example of community service when she was growing up on the Southern Oregon Coast.

Her husband, the late Noel Martin, shared her concern for others. They came to McMinnville so he could attend Linfield; he joined the Linfield Research Institute after graduating.

They soon had four children, Noel Paul, John, Stacy and Robert.

“This town and our church took care of us,” she said. “It was a good place for us to land.”

In the early 1970s, Martin joined Lois Gilmore, Marilyn Crousser, Beverly Trenneman and Rosemary Moore to buy The Book Shop, now called Third Street Books.

US Bank offered the five women a loan, letting them sign for it themselves, rather than requiring their husbands’ signatures.

“That was very unusual then, and a very fine thing,” Martin said of the all-female venture in another News-Register story. Once again, she said, “this town was good to us.”

Martin liked being in business, but she had always dreamed of a career selling houses. Her friend Marilyn Dell Worrix, an agent and broker at Willamette West, guided her in earning a real estate license. She spent the next four decades in the industry and was named Realtor of the Year in 1995.

She helped her daughter become an agent as well.

Stacy Martin said Wednesday that she had received numerous messages of condolence from the community. For instance, Sylla McClelan wrote that she’d seen Mary recently and “was marveling at her ability to be out and about and chatting away with folks.”

Stacy said she marveled at her mother, too. “She never met a stranger,” she said.

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Getting to know Charlie and Cherie Walker of McMinnville

CHARLIE and CHERIE WALKER

Getting to Know Our First Baptist Church Family

 

By Gloria LaFata - Membership Highlight, December 2021 edition, FBC Tidings newsletter of First Baptist Church (FBC), McMinnville, Oregon. Some minor edits were made by the poster.

 

I had the joy and the privilege of interviewing Charlie and Cherie Walker recently. They have been married for 62 years and I believe the title of this marriage could be "Loving Partnership" or as Cherie suggested, "Travels with Charlie!" Here is their story.

 

Cherie, an only child, was born in McCook, Nebraska. Her father died when she was only 9 months old, leaving her mom a single working mother. Without family support, and working as a secretary, they moved often - to Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Utah and eventually, San Francisco.

 

Consequently, Cherie was in Boarding Schools until 8th grade, when she and her mom started living together in an apartment in Salt Lake City. Summers were spent in Nebraska with an aunt.

 

She took her first job at 14, working in a San Francisco flower shop, after school and weekends. In College at San Francisco State, she worked part time in the Admissions Office. (Johnny Mathis was a fellow student!) From there, she went to New York City to get her MA at Columbia. She was secretary to the female head of her department. It was at Columbia that she met Charlie.

 

Charlie, an only child, was born in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. His mom died when he was 6 years old, so he lived with his grandparents. His first job was in 9th grade, working in a grocery store after school, packing potatoes in bags by the peck, earning 5o cents every Saturday.

 

In his Senior year he got a job writing for a small town newspaper. Benefits included his own phone, a free newspaper and he was paid 11 cents an inch! In his high school graduation class of 18, 3 of them went off to college, including Charlie. He commuted 6o miles, each way, to the U. of Pittsburgh.

 

In his Junior year of College, he decided his small town needed an Appliance Store. He got the collateral, rented space, contracted with Westinghouse and hired a blind man to mind the store when he was at college. It all worked out well and Charlie learned a lot about blind people and how to run a small business.

 

After graduation, Charlie got a job teaching Junior High in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. While there, he was called into the Army for two years, the Army Signal Corp. After his two-year commitment, he went back to his old job that they had held for him, where he stayed two more years.

 

When his grandfather died, he inherited a little money, so decided to go to Columbia University in New York to earn his MA. There he met Cherie. At Columbia he had two part time jobs: mentoring an African-American youth, who had no male figure in his life, and working at a YMCA as an Activities Manager for Youth.

 

He finished his MA in one year and went on to Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, as Dean of Men, Director of Placement, Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Tennis Coach (something he had to teach himself). After a year, Cherie joined him there and they married. They stayed two more years and Cherie worked as a District Director with the Girl Scouts in Rockford.

 

Their next move was to Stanford for Charlie's Doctorate, where he studied higher education and Latin American Studies. Cherie worked as District Director of Girl Scouts in Redwood City, California. While working on his PhD, Charlie taught two classes at Menlo College and patrolled the dorms, enabling them to get a rent free apartment and save money for a trip they were planning!

 

After Charlie got his PhD, they took a 3-month trip on a freighter to South America, stopping at all the Central American ports along the way. After this trip, it was on to Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Charlie was Academic Dean for 6 years. It was there they adopted their two children, Douglas and Christy. Because of the way she was raised, Cherie wanted to be the one to raise their children so that was the end of her Professional career. Her Unprofessional career as hostess began then, for the many guests Charlie invited into their home.

Their next move was to Troy, New York, for five years where Charlie was President of Russell Sage College, a women's college. Since it wasn't a great fit, they searched for a new opportunity, which brought them to McMinnville and Linfield College.

 

It was 1975 when Charlie became President of Linfield. His first order of business was to get Linfield on solid financial ground. He established the International Exchange Program and started the RN Program.

 

Something that was really important to him was bringing outstanding, world renowned people to Linfield and inviting the community to hear them speak. He wanted to unite the college and the community. Speakers included Henry Kissinger, President Gerald Ford, President Jimmy Carter, Beverly Sills, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, etc. Each speaker was invited into their home for dinner, along with other guests. Cherie says it was definitely challenging, but such an honor to meet so many outstanding and famous people.

 

Cherie and Charlie, upon arrival, searched for a church. They chose FBC because of the friendly people, Bernie Turner, and the wonderful Children's Program, where Cherie team-taught with Roz Turner and Mary Martin.

When Charlie retired in 1992, the couple moved to Neskowin, on the Oregon coast, because they love the ocean. Charlie was instrumental in starting a Library and developing the Neskowin Chamber Music Series. Cherie volunteered at the Tillamook County Health Department and started her own business, creating and making wedge-shaped placemats when none could be found for their round table. They were so popular that in 1994 she got a contract with Norm Thompson's Solutions Catalog. She loved every minute even though it was a steep learning curve.

 

The Walkers moved back to McMinnville in 2014, and have been active in our church ever since. Charlie on the Endowment Committee, Deferred Maintenance Committee, the 150th Anniversary Committee, the Board, etc., and Cherie with Buildings and Grounds, the Winter Shelter, and Sew & Sews.

 

The Walkers have two children. Their son Douglas is in Atlanta, soon to be in Portland, and their daughter Christy is in Kansas with her two children, the Walkers’ grandchildren.

 

Cherie and Charlie love the ocean, ships, their Delightful Dinner Group, trips to Ashland for Shakespeare plays, traveling, entertaining, reading, music, the Walking Group and Charlie loves to make Ice Cream and Homemade Soup! They've had wonderful trips from a simple overnight double round trip on a Lake Michigan Car Ferry, to Europe to South America to Australia to the elegant trip across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II and so many more. "Travels with Charlie!" indeed.

 

We are so fortunate to have Cherie and Charlie in our community and our church, sharing their wisdom, talents and generosity with us all. What a privilege to call them friends. Thank You!

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Huberd's Shoe Grease Co. history in Jan. 31, 1983, Oregonian story

 

Paper cranes of peace at First Baptist Church

Paper cranes of peace at First Baptist Church

Raising funds for the WFC/World Friendship Center, a peace organization in Hiroshima, Japan, is focus of a Peace & Joy art exhibit and concert at McMinnville’s First Baptist Church.

Some 1,000 colorful paper peace cranes – made by church members and others – are hanging from the church’s sanctuary ceiling. They will be hand-delivered by church member Malachi Nelson to the WFC’s Children’s Memorial.

Nelson will soon become WFC assistant director. He will serve for two years. JoAnn Sims, church member and event chair, and her husband, Larry Sims, are former WFC directors.

JoAnn Sims said the Peace & Joy events are reflective of the 20^th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the U.S. east coast and “because little acts can add up to make a big difference.”

The Peace & Joy art exhibit will be held 1-5 p.m., Thur. Oct. 14 through Sun., Oct 17, in the church’s chapel Room.

Sanctuary of the church, 125 S. E. Cowls St., will be site of the Peace & Joy concert featuring singer/songwriter Michael Stern. The concert will take place 7-9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 16.

Guitarist/singer Stern, Seattle, incorporates lyrical themes of “peace, diversity and spirituality” in his presentations, said Sims.

Joining Stern will be banjo player/vocalist William Jolliff, Newberg. He mixes his presentations with songs and commentary.

Their music will lighten our spirits (and) inspire us to be peace-makers,” said JoAnn Sims.

During the concert, a free will offering will be taken. Funds will be given to the WFC, one of the church’s international missions.

McMINNVILLE N-R/NEWS-REGISTER Oct. 12, 2021:

“Peace and Joy Concert and Art Exhibit, McMinnville First Baptist Church, 125 S. E. Cowls St., Sat., Oct. 16, 2021, 7-9 p.m. with musician Mike Stern; free will offering accepted. Art show runs Oct. 14-17, 1-5 p.m. daily, featuring local artists.”

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Photos/video clip:

Frosty Lay works with paper cranes in McMinnville First Baptist Church sanctuary on 10/12/2021 morning. Photos/video by Mac News on Oct. 12, 2021. Photo of FBC readerboard, Oct.8, 2021.

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Below are Mac News photos taken Oct. 15, 2021, near or in the McMinnville FBC chapel. 

  

=Olga Santiago's "Balsamroot and Lupines" providing a view "perched high about the Columbia River Gorge at Rowena Crest."

=JoAnn Sims, Peace & Joy art exhibit and concert organizer, with her painting depicting the Yaquina Bay Bridge on the Oregon coast in Newport. 

=An illuminated Japanese lantern made by Kyle Sims, son of JoAnn and Larry Sims.

 

 

On July 2, 2021, a shed was moved

 A shed was moved on July 2, 2021

From:XXX

Subject:XXX  Activity

Date: June 30, 2021

 

Hi Everyone,

Some months ago I decided to put a small building in my back yard/patio.  It is finally complete and ready for delivery.  The company who built this “she shed” is delivering it on Friday, July 2nd.  A semi and a crane will be in the XXX area for a while that morning.  They expect to arrive about 10 AM with the “drop” to my back yard about 11:30. I don’t have any idea about how much XXX  space  they will be needing and using.  They have been here a couple of times so know that there drive ways and people come and go…..but I am just trying to do a “heads up.”  Maybe, xxx” folks know they will have to go somewhere; they might park a little down the street, just to be safe.  The big vehicles (crane and semi) shouldn’t be here much past the “drop” time while the rest of the folks from the company stay and complete work in my back yard.  

I thought about selling tickets….. (What a money maker, huh?)…..but, of course, if this kind of thing is fascinating to you, find a spot on the sidewalk and watch the action!

Thanks for your patience.  

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HUDSON’S WAS A CAFÉ (with iconic curved window) ON McMINNVILLE DOWNTOWN THIRD STREET

HUDSON’S WAS A CAFÉ ON McMINNVILLE DOWNTOWN THIRD STREET.

(Doing research, the café is called Hudson’s Café and Hudson Café.

This posting, for the most part, uses Hudson’s.)

From Hillsboro (and a HilHi 1950 grad) Ad Rutschman entered Linfield College in fall of 1950. He was a Linfield student 1950-1954. In 1954, he earned a Linfield bachelor's degree in physical education. In 1958, he earned a Linfield Master of Education degree.

He went on to coaching success and fame at for both the HilHi Spartans (for whom he starred as an athlete) and the Linfield Wildcats (ditto, for whom he starred as an athlete.)

Did you know that while he was a Linfield student – and an outstanding student-athlete for the Linfield Wildcats in football, basketball and baseball -- he worked in downtown McMinnville at Hudson’s Café?

The café was on Third Street near the Mack Theater. “At noon, I peeled potatoes for my lunch. Then, at 10 o'clock at night, I mopped, waxed and buffed the floor for my dinner,” he told Wildcatville in November 2020 and January 2024.

With an iconic curved front window, Hudson’s exists today at 522 NE 3rd St. as Mes Amies, a McMinnville women’s clothing store/boutique. (See photos.)

Asked if he (Ad Rutschman) or his folks ever had a Hudson (no relation to Hudson's Cafe apparently) automobile? No, he said, they owned a Graham. Read more about Graham automobiles here: https://auto.howstuffworks.com/graham-cars.htm

About Hudson’s Café:

=History of the Rotary Club of McMinnville includes this about changes to the club, 1946-1951: World War II was over and the club was “beginning to change. After years of membership hovering between 30 and 35 members, the club started to grow in the 40s, and expanded in size to around 60 members. The old-timers began dropping out of the club. Club officers and directors were now largely from members joining after 1940. The club meeting room changed (Aug. 8, 1947) from the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Wright Building, to a new meeting room in Hudson’s Cafe, on Third Street. When the club moved its meeting place to Hudson’s Cafe in 1947, it of course, discontinued the practice of buying the groceries and hiring the cooks to prepare meals for the meeting …”

=According to an issue of the McMinnville N-R/News-Register in about October 1953, a luncheon was held in Hudson's Cafe to honor three former Linfield coaches, Henry Lever, Morris Pettit and Wayne Harn. Pettit related that the college gym was in the building that later became the science hall and then an apartment house known as Newby Hall. He also noted that he had ushered the return of football to Linfield in 1922 after it had been dropped about the turn of the century. A lot of games in the '20s were played against area high school teams, he said.

=An article by Starla Pointer in the McMinnville N-R in 1999 said in the 1950s, McMinnville Kiwanis Club had about 100 members - more than twice as many as today. The club met in Hudson's Cafe, then moved to the Palm Cafe, the Westward Ho, the Bayou Golf Club, the top of the 1893 building and Michelbook Country Club before settling in its current location, the McMinnville Community Center. Paul Durham, Linfield College football coach, was the president when Alan Jones became a member in 1953. Durham was one of several Linfield professors in the club then. Business owners frequently joined the club, as did men in all lines of work. Jones was employed by McMinnville Water & Light, later becoming manager of the utility.

=In the Aug 14, 1948, Salem Capital Journal it was reported American Association of University Women was to hold a state board meeting Aug 21 in McMinnville. The meeting was to assemble in the students' lounge of Pioneer Hall on the Linfield College campus, at 9:30 o'clock In the morning. Later a luncheon would be held at Hudson's.

=There will be a formal recognition of Armistice Day on Sunday, Nov. 11. At 8 a.m. on Sunday morning there will be a veterans' breakfast at Hudson's cafe, as announced by Don Jones, commander of the local American Legion post and William Butler, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, according to the Nov. 5, 1951, Salem Capital Journal.

= ‘Linfield College Fund Raising Under Way’ said a headline in the Feb. 20, 1948, Salem Oregon Statesman. In McMinnville’s Hudson café on Feb. 18 evening was site of campaign to raise $250,000 for Linfield college development.

=According to ‘Pasero Says’ sports column in the Sept. 25, 1958, Portland Oregon Journal: Linfield Boosters to Honor Durham “… How time flies … Proud Linfield boosters Saturday will honor Coach Paul Durham, who is starting his 11^th year as Wildcat boss … Durham, in the post war years, coached at Franklin before being lured back to his alma mater where he’s been highly successful. Marv Flitcroft, former Linfield athlete and now coach at Dayton, is in charge of a reception for Durham at Hudson’s café in McMinnville at 4:30 pm Saturday.”

=A story in the Portland Oregon Journal of Dec 12, 1957, says a Dec. 16 meeting of the Yamhill County Association of Insurance Agents will be held in the Dawn Room of Hudson’s Café.

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Photos posted here include one found by McMinnville historian Ruben Contreras, Jr., in the Salem Public Library “Oregon Historic Photograph Collections.” (There’s a cropped version of the photo, too.) Taken in 1952, the photo shows Salem Cherrians – a Salem booster group similar to the Portland Royal Roasarians -- posing on McMinnville’s Third Street in 1951 in front of Hudson’s Cafe. On the right hand side, look at the window. You see signage for “Hudson Café.” The Cherrians were in McMinnville to march in the parade launching 1952 McMinnville Shodeo, a horse show and rodeo held from 1943 to 1962. Other photos by Mac News.

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'Mac News' photos and video clips below from August 2023. 

All except one photo taken Aug. 24, 2023.

 

 

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Advertisement below from the 1956 Polk City Directory

 

Linfielder KEN ROGERS, Class of 1951

 

=KENNETH DEAN ROGERS

Ken earned B.S. in education degree from Linfield College in 1951 and a M.Ed. (Master of Education) degree from Linfield in 1953.

Teacher, Scout leader, friend

By Starla Pointer, McMinnville N-R/News-Register May 13, 2014

(Photo taken in 2012 by Wildcatville.)

When a couple of past Man of the Year winners visited Ken Rogers’ house to tell him he’s this year’s recipient of a Distinguished Service Award, he told them they were mistaken. “You must have the wrong house,” the longtime educator said.

Although they convinced him he actually had been named McMinnville’s 59th Man of the Year, he still thinks he doesn’t deserve the honor, at least not all on his own. Anyone who is in a position to affect others’ lives also has been influenced and helped by others, he said.

In his case, he said, many people deserve a share of the honor. Fellow Boy Scout leaders, other educators and especially his family: His late wife, Anita, and his children, Gordon, Gail and Gregg, kept things together at home while he spent many hours and took overnight trips with the Boy Scouts.

“They deserve credit,” he said of his family members. “They didn’t ever complain.”

His family, by the way, includes two previous Distinguished Service Award winners. Anita Rogers was the 1990 Woman of the Year. Gregg Rogers was the Jaycee of the Year during one of the years when the McMinnville Jaycees ran the DSA awards.

A native of Idaho, Rogers has lived in McMinnville since 1948. He served with the Army Air Corps/Air Force as part of the occupation forces in Japan, and then started school at Linfield College.

He earned his education degree in three years, even though he was busy with many activities besides school: working to support his wife and new baby; participating in the Delta Psi Delta fraternity; playing football for the Wildcats until he injured his knee.

He also coached and helped teach health classes at St. James School during his college years. St. James served grades K through 8 at the time, and he coached teams that competed with other small schools from around the county.

Later, he would coach Little League baseball and serve as president of the then-new Babe Ruth group. He taught hunter safety classes, as well.

After he graduated from Linfield, McMinnville School Superintendent Fred Patton hired him to teach and coach at Cook Elementary School. He went on to the junior high, then to McMinnville High School in 1956. He coached wrestling, football, basketball and baseball over the years, and taught with P.E., health, social studies and English.

His name often led to teasing. Students would ask him about “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” or, upon finding out his first name, ask him to sing “The Gambler,” “Lucille” or other Kenny Rogers’ songs.

“I’m not musical,” he said. “I played harmonica, and I whistle, but that’s it.”

The last 20 years of his career, before he retired in 1990, were spent in the counseling department. He was the career counselor, assisting students in job exploration and work experience programs.

The career programs were important and beneficial, said Rogers, who wishes they hadn’t been phased out. The programs “taught kids how to get along with people, how to work and go to school and still be part of things,” he said. “The students learned money management, interviewing skills, and they were graded like in any class.”

In the mid-1970s, he said, job programs gave way to a push for all students to continue their education beyond high school. He became Mac High’s college counselor and started the annual Yamhill County College Fair.

“My philosophy is that what you do with your education counts,” he said. “The trades are very important. You don’t necessarily have to go to college.”

When Rogers was first hired to teach at Columbus, he discovered the job came with an unofficial extra duty: He was expected to volunteer as leader of the school’s Cub Scout pack.

He readily agreed. “I’ve always been able to get along with youth and kids,” he said.

He continued working with Cub and Boy Scouts as he moved from school to school. He was on the local Boy Scout committee by the time his sons were ready to join the program.

Rogers remained active with scouting for 56 years, as a club leader, board member and representative to the Boy Scouts from his church, First Baptist.

“It’s a very, very valuable program,” he said. “Any kid, even if they don’t go on to become an Eagle, gains something from scouting — responsibility, health benefits, the ability to get along with other people.”

He enjoyed working with the other adults in the program, too, men such as Don Boudon. He worked with many of the other Scoutmasters for 10, 15 or 20 years, he said.

Among the highlights of his Boy Scout years were attending two national jamborees, one on the old Navy base in Farragut, Idaho, in 1967 and the other in Valley Forge, Penn., in 1964.

Attending the latter jamboree was an amazing experience, he said. He was part of a group of more than 200 scouts and leaders leaving Portland for a grand, 30-day train trip across the country, stopping in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities along the way.

Rogers, who worked as a substitute counselor for a dozen years after retiring, remains active with education and young people. This month, he is helping at the Yamhill Valley Heritage Center’s Pioneer Days for fourth-graders from around the county.

“I teach them leathercraft,” he said. He joked, “It used to be a hobby, but I’ve forgotten more than I used to know.”

He also spends time with friends. He has coffee six mornings a week with them and frequently sees former students, as well.

And, of course, he enjoys seeing his children, seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandkids.

Linfielder SHELLY SORENSEN SANDERLIN, Class of 1983

SHELLY GWYN SORENSEN SANDERLIN

Shelly earned earned B.A. degree in mass communications from Linfield College in 1983.

(Photo from August 2021 McMinnville FBC “The Tidings”

August 2021 issue of “The Tidings” newsletter of McMinnville First Baptist Church includes about Shelly Sorensen Sanderlin includes:

--She was “born in Oakland, CA where her parents were in the Navy. They decided to move to McMinnville when Shelly was just turning one, and because they didn’t have electricity, they ate tuna fish sandwiches on her first birthday, or so the story goes! In the first few weeks they were in town, Shelly’s mom was visited by Anita Rogers, a Welcome Wagon associate, who introduced them to FBC which they soon decided to join. Shelly was put on what was called the ‘Cradle Roll’ until she was old enough to join the church as a member herself. She attended Newby and Cook elementary schools, the ‘old’ Junior High, and McMinnville High School. Her working career started in third grade when she was picked up in a bus driven by FBCer Nancy Singletary to pick strawberries during the summer. Shelly was involved in the high school theater and music programs. While in high school she also worked at the Thrifty Grill (which was in the building where Pura Vida Restaurant is currently located) and at the Rocket Café which was owned by her dad. As a student at Linfield, Shelly was a Mass Communication major and she had an internship at the News[1]Register at the classified ads desk. She played flute in the concert band, bass guitar in the Jazz band and sang in the choir. “

 

Jan 10, 2008, story McMinnville N-R/News-Register about the “Old Oak” crashing to its death on the Linfield College campus includes:

--“Workers in the (Linfield College President’s Office) heard the crash, momentarily mistaking it for thunder. One floor below, in the basement of Melrose Hall, 1983 graduate Shelley Sanderlin though she was hearing thunder or the rumble of a truck on Highway 99W.”

 

 

LOOKING AT LINFIELD AND NEAR LINFIELD ON MAPS

Before GPS made some people consider paper maps antiquated, one of the means to figure out where you were and how to get to where you wanted to go was paper maps.

With this posting are parts of three paper maps.

 

Map 1: One map (in color) has a 99W sign rimmed in black on the lower left hand side. On the right lower side is “Sue Buel Elementary School (Opens 9/08).”

 

Map 2: Another map (also in color) had a purple line with the letters “F” and “F” cutting vertically through the center of the map.

 

Map 3: The third map is in black & white.

 

= On Map 1 notice “Taft Street” in a neighborhood adjoining Linfield. It’s a horizontal line. One of the intersecting streets is “Blaine Street.” Another street, this on the Linfield campus is represented by a vertical line. It’s Renshaw Avenue. A story "For whom is McMinnville’s Blaine Street named?" looks at the naming of Blaine Street and Taft Street. Link to the story: https://mac97128news.blogspot.com/2019/01/for-whom-is-mcminnvilles-blaine-street.html?m=0

= On Map 2, on the far left side, note “SW Cozine Lane.” There is a “Cozine Way” on the Linfield campus. It’s on Linfield maps, but the cropped Linfield map (Map 3) shown here cropped out that Cozine. Now, remembering where Renshaw Avenue is located from Map 1, look for it in Map 2. It’s there, but it’s called “Observatory Way.”

= Map 3 is the easiest to see/read map of the three here. That’s enough reason to include it here.

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