Category: Members of the Month

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,

May 2022 ~ When you’re the first, you’ll always be the first. And that’s one of the first things Patrice Woods (Benson, 1992) thinks about when she reflects on her

May 2022 ~ In Nate Moreland’s (Jackson, 1979) dictionary, the word “define” is followed by the word “yourself.” Defining himself is what the PIL Hall of Famer from Jackson High

April 2022 ~ The 1980-81 winter sports season was over, and Wilson High freshman Sharon Otterstedt (Wilson, 1984) wasn’t planning to run anywhere in the spring, except maybe to the

April 2022 ~ You come to the United States at age 10 not knowing English and having never seen a football game. You try out for football in 1984 as