Category: Members of the Month

March 2023 ~ It’s a story she is reluctant to tell. But the truth is, a whole lot of baseball players, former and current, can relate to Wendy (Peterson) Ingraham’s

March 2023 ~ There’s an old wrestling tournament bracket adorning a wall in Marlin Grahn’s (Madison, 1965) house from back in his grappling days at Madison High School. It’s a

September 2022 ~ She followed a tried and true path to the PIL Hall of Fame, and she’s been devoted to Portland Public Schools. “I’m PPS through and through,” she

September 2022 ~ A few things seem constant in the life of Jeff Owens (Marshall, 1975): Wanting the ball in his hands, literally or figuratively. Big games or big game,

August 2022 ~ Virginia May Enos (Grant, 1950) bursts out in a hearty laugh when asked for details of her early life and days as a star swimmer for Grant

August 2022 ~ Blair Pomeroy (Benson, 1970) always had a lot of athletic ability. When he was sixth-grader in the mid-1960s at Woodstock Elementary School, he found out just how

July 2022 ~ One day in the mid-1950s, after playing sandlot football and baseball in Northeast Portland with her big brother and his friends, young Linda Vollstedt (Madison, 1964) in

July 2022 ~ Portland had a lot of outstanding youth and high school baseball in the 1950s and ’60s, to name a decade or two. And the boys of Rose

June 2022 ~ “Swim team tryouts at the MAC.” Lauren Thies (Lincoln, 1997) remembers getting the notification letter when she was 7 of 8 years old. Her parents, Multnomah Athletic

June 2022 ~ Butch Lumby (Grant, 1962) found out he was built for speed as a boy growing up in a great era for Grant High. Sixty years after graduating,