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Inspired Pragmatism: An Illustrated History of Linfield College, by Marvin Henberg, Ph.D., Barbara Seidman, Ph.D., ed.
Linfield College is proud to announce a new, richly illustrated coffee-table book, Inspired Pragmatism: An Illustrated History of Linfield College. This book, available online and through the college bookstore, commemorates the institution's Sesquicentennial. You will want to own your personal copy and present it as a lasting gift to family and friends.
Join us as Linfield College celebrates 150 years.
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Price: $50/$8.50 s/h
• Hardbound edition
• 11-3/4" x 9-5/8"
• 144 pages
• Approximately 160 full-color and quadtone black and white photos and 50,000 words of text, photo captions and sidebar vignettes
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Chartered in 1858 by the territory of Oregon, Linfield College is celebrating 150 years of educational history in McMinnville, Oregon. To its original Baptist founders, the college's charter served as an act of hope and inspiration. To those who later inherited responsibility for Linfield, keeping the college alive proved an exercise in pragmatism in the highest and best sense. For anyone alive today concerned with the welfare of the state and nation it serves, Linfield's history commands interest as a study in inspired pragmatism.
By way of historical narrative and a series of thematic vignettes, author Marvin Henberg traces the story of Linfield College from its origins to the eve of its Sesquicentennial celebration on January 30, 2008. In the pages of
Inspired Pragmatism, An Illustrated History of Linfield College, you will meet many men and women who have not only shaped Linfield, but played important roles elsewhere in Oregon, the Northwest, and the nation.
Woven together in a rich array of photographs and documents, the compelling text and vibrant illustrations show how Linfield's leaders and graduates have served the public while responding to external challenges over the past century and a half. With its substantial commitment to global studies over the past fifty years, Linfield enters the 21st century poised to leave its mark internationally as well, a point detailed in the afterword penned by Barbara Seidman, dean of faculty at Linfield College.
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Author Marvin Henberg, Ph.D., came to Linfield in 1994 and served 11 years as dean of faculty and briefly as interim president before becoming a full-time faculty member in philosophy and environmental studies in 2006. He and his wife Laurie reside in McMinnville and are avid readers, hikers, skiers, scuba divers, and whitewater rafters.