List of Linfield College people

This is a table of notable people affiliated with Linfield College, including alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students, and professors and former professors. Some noted people are also listed in the main University article. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category.

Academics

• Joe Medicine Crow, Crow historian, last surviving Plains Indian war chief, and WWII veteran who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Raymond Culver, B.Mus. 1914, fourth president of Shimer College
• John Wesley Johnson, professor at Linfield from 1863 to 1867 and later president of the University of Oregon
• Kenneth Scott Latourette, eminent scholar of Christianity and Chinese History.^[1]
• Raemer Schreiber, '31, experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, and helped develop the atom and hydrogen bomb.^[2]
• Lynwood W. Swanson, professor of chemistry and academic dean 1968-73, co-founder and chairman (1987-2002) of FEI Company.^[3]

Sports

• Fred von Appen, retired American football coach known for his head coaching stint with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1996–1998 and for serving as an assistant coach on a number of NFL and college coaching staffs.
• Scott David Brosius, former Major League Baseball third baseman for the Oakland Athletics (1991–1997) and the New York Yankees (1998–2001) and 1998 World Series MVP
• Mark Few, American basketball coach at Gonzaga University, assistant from 1989 to 1999 and head coach since 1999. Attended Linfield before transferring to the University of Oregon, where he eventually earned his degree.
• Randy Mueller, former general manager for the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints, with over two decades of NFL front office experience, as well as a former sports analyst for ESPN.^[4]
• Ad Rutschman, head football coach, baseball coach, and athletic director of Linfield College. He is the only college coach at any level to have won national titles in both football and baseball. Currently he serves as kick-off return coach at the college.

Politics

• Phillip Bond, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Don Evans^[5][6]
• Joseph Medicine Crow, last Crow War Chief
• Albin Walter Norblad, Jr., served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a representative for one term (1935–1937), was a member of the board of trustees of Linfield College.
• Frank Grant Sawyer, Democratic Governor of Nevada from 1959 to 1966.
• George Lemuel Woods, Republican Governor of Oregon from 1866 to 1870 and Utah Territory Governor from 1871 to 1875

Law

• George Henry Burnett, the 21st Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court serving twice as chief first in 1921 to 1923, and then in 1927 when he died in office. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1911 until 1927.
• Thomas Allen McBride, 20th Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court serving three times as chief between 1913 and 1927. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1909 till his death in 1930.
• William Marion Ramsey, 43rd Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States from 1913–1915 and the first dean of Willamette University College of Law and a mayor of Salem, Oregon and McMinnville, Oregon.

Literature

• Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Kitchen God's Wife^[7]

Music

• Spencer Phillips, keyboardist for Danger Radio.
• Laura Gibson, musician.

Other

• Augustus C. Kinney, longtime physician in Astoria, Oregon, and noted expert on tuberculosis at the turn of the 20th century.^[8][9]
• Rex T. Barber, pilot in Operation Vengeance and credited with the kill of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack

Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College presidents

Presidents of McMinnville College

• 1857-60 George C. Chandler^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• 1864-67 John W. Johnson
• 1873 J. D. Robb^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• 1873-76 Mark Bailey
• 1876-77 John E. Magers
• 1877-78 Ep Roberts
• 1878-81 J. G. Burchett
• 1881-87 E.C. Anderson
• 1887-96 Truman G. Brownson
• 1896-1903 Harry L. Boardman
• 1903-05 A. M. Brumback
• 1905-06 Emanuel Northup, interim
• 1906-31 Leonard W. Riley*** (Named changed to Linfield in 1922)

Presidents of Linfield College

• 1931-32 William R. Frerichs, interim
• 1932-38 Elam J. Anderson
• 1938-43 William G. Everson
• 1943-68 Harry L. Dillin
• 1968, 1974 Winthrop W. Dolan, interim
• 1968-74 Gordon C. Bjork
• 1974-75 Cornelius Siemens, interim
• 1975-92 Charles U. Walker
• 1992-2005 Vivian A. Bull
• 2005-06 Marvin Henberg, interim
• 2006-present Thomas L. Hellie

Notes

1. Oregon became a state on Feb. 14, 1859. Thus, at the start of Chandler presidency, the college was located in the Oregon Territory. At the end of his presidency, it was located in the State of Oregon. Same location, different name.
2. Robb served Feb. 20, 1873-July 10, 1873, according to the 1938 book, Bricks Without Straw: The Story of Linfield College, by Jonas A. Jonasson.

References

• Fall 2007 Linfield Magazine

1. "Christianity's Chronicler". Time Magazine. 1962-11-16. Archived from the original on 2008-11-11. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
2. Pace, Eric (31 December 1998). "R.E. Schreiber, 88, Nuclear Bomb Physicist". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
3. "Lynwood Swanson to Receive Pittcon Heritage Award]". Chemical Heritage Foundation. 21 January 2014. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016.
4. "Parcells fires Mueller, to meet with Cameron Tuesday". espn.com news services. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
5. "President Bush to Nominate Eleven Individuals to Serve in his Administration". Office of the Press Secretary. 3 July 2001. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
6. "Senior Bush Administration Official To Speak at Houston Conference on Nanotechnology: U.S. Market for Nanotech Products & Services Expected to Reach Over $1 Trillion by 2015". Technology Administration. 21 May 2002. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
7. nzen, Robin (March 7, 1996). "Linfield Going Global". The Oregonian.
8. "Obituary". Medical sentinel. 16: 196. 1908.
9. Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 135.