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McCall, Tom, 1913-1983

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  • Person
  • 1913-1983

Thomas Lawson McCall was born March 22, 1913, in Egypt, Massachusetts. He moved with his parents to Portland, Oregon, in 1919 and soon after to a ranch near Prineville. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism in 1936, and went on to work at newspapers in Moscow, Idaho, and at the Oregonian in Portland. He and Audrey Owen married in 1939, and they later had two sons. McCall served as a war correspondent in the U.S. Navy during World War II, then worked in broadcasting until 1964, hosting a radio talk show on Portland station KEX. He became involved in politics as early as 1949, when he worked as Governor Thomas McKay's assistant. He ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954, but lost to Edith Green. He later served as Oregon secretary of state from 1965 to 1967, when he began his first term as Oregon governor. He served two terms, from 1967 to 1975. McCall's progressive Republican administration was known for its attention to public concerns and the quality of life in the state. He promoted strong land use laws and environmental regulations, and he sought, unsuccessfully, to limit growth. After leaving office, he returned to broadcast journalism and continued his environmental advocacy. In 1978 he was defeated in a bid for the governorship by Victor Atiyeh. McCall died in 1983.

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  • Person
  • 1929-2018

Ursula K. Le Guin, nee Kroeber, was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. In 1951, she earned a bachelor's degree in Renaissance French and Italian literature from Radcliffe College, which is now part of Harvard. In 1952, she earned a master's degree in French from Columbia University. She began working toward a Ph.D. in French, but discontinued her studies after her marriage to Charles Le Guin in 1953; they later had three children. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1959. Between 1959 and 2018, she published over twenty novels and 100 short stories. She also published several poems and children's books. She won the Hugo and Nebula awards, each more than once. Some of her best-known works include the Earthsea novels and "The Left Hand of Darkness." Le Guin died in 2018.

White, Minor

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  • Person
  • 1908-1976

American photographer Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 9, 1908. After graduating from the University of Minneapolis with a degree in botany, White began pursuing photography. In 1937, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he joined the Oregon Camera Club. Within the year, White began a photography club at the YMCA. Shortly after his arrival in Portland, White was offered a position in the Works Progress Administration as a creative photographer for the Oregon Art Project. White spent the next several months photographing the Portland waterfront and the city's soon-to-be demolished cast-iron buildings. This project was completed in 1939, and the next year, White left Portland for La Grande, Oregon, to teach photography through another WPA assignment. Minor White photographed a great deal of natural scenery during this time. In 1942, White briefly returned to Portland, photographing the Knapp-Lindley and Dolph-Jacobs residences in a project commissioned by the Portland Art Museum. In April 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army.

After his return from World War II in 1945, White moved to San Francisco upon the invitation of fellow photographer Ansel Adams to teach at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1952, with the help of Adams and several others, White created Aperture, a magazine dedicated to creating a forum in which photographers could share their work and opinions. The following year, White moved to Rochester, New York, to continue his teaching career at the Rochester Institute of Technology. From 1959 to 1965, White returned to Portland annually to teach summer workshops that were known for their intensity and dedication to White's signature teaching of photography as a spiritual experience. In 1966, White moved to Boston, where he finished his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He died on June 24, 1976, at the age of 67.

White was perhaps best known for his expansion on the symbolist idea of photographic equivalents. Equivalent photographs (earlier espoused by Alfred Steiglitz) depict abstract images that are meant to suggest specific human emotions. For White, equivalents were a means to show the spiritual nature of photography.

Dodds, Linda S.

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Linda Sue Dodds, nee Paisley, was born in Astoria, Oregon, in 1945. A short time later, her family moved to the Eugene, Oregon, area. She studied journalism at the University of Oregon. In the late 1970s, she continued her college education at Portland State University and earned a bachelor's degree. She also co-authored a book on the history of Cedar Mill, Oregon, where she resided. In 1979, she became the oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society. After leaving the historical society in 1982, she continued to do contract work as a historian, and also co-authored additional history books. In the 1990s, she earned a master's degree from Oregon State University.

She married twice, first to John Stuart Brody, with whom she had two children, in 1966. She worked professionally under the name Linda S. Brody until 1982, when she married Gordon B. Dodds.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Dodds in her interview.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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  • Person
  • 1882-1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, in 1882. He served as governor of New York from 1929 to 1932, and as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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  • Person
  • 1917-1963

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1917. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 with a bachelor of arts degree in government. He served in the U.S. Navy as a patrol torpedo boat commander in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he worked briefly as a reporter for Hearst Newspapers. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented the 11th district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. In 1952, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and the next year he and Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier were married. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1960. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

Conner, John T., 1927-

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  • Person
  • 1927-

Reverend John Thomas Conner was born in Carroll, Iowa, in 1927. In 1950, he graduated from the University of Iowa, and in 1953, he graduated from McCormick Seminary. In 1951, he and Kathryn Huber were married; they later had three children. He served as a pastor at a Presbyterian church in Detroit, Michigan. In 1957, the family moved to New Mexico. In the 1960s, they moved to Oregon, and Conner served as the campus minister at Westminster House at Oregon State University. He was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in 1977. He died in 1983.

Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011

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  • Person
  • 1922-2011

Mark Odom Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon, in 1922. He graduated from Willamette University in 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II and was among the first U.S. forces to enter Hiroshima, Japan, after the atomic bombing of the city by the United States, an event that deeply affected his views on war. After his discharge, he returned to Willamette University to study law. After a year, he decided instead to focus on political science and transferred to Stanford University, where he earned his master's degree in 1948. He and Antoinette Kuzmanich were married in 1958; they later had four children. Hatfield was a liberal Republican and represented Marion County in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1951 to 1955, and in the Oregon Senate from 1955 to 1957. He served as Oregon secretary of state from 1957 to 1959, and as Oregon governor from 1959 to 1967. He represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate from 1967 to 1997, serving as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997. He died in 2011.

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