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Mar 13, 20154 min read

Lessons from Dave Frohnmayer

A FEW YEARS AGO, Dave Frohnmayer and I were speaking at Northwest Christian University on the subject of leadership when he shared an...

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May 2, 20143 min read

EDITOR’S NOTE: When Cade Welch, our first grandson, was born in 2005, I began a ritual of writing a once-a-year letter to him in The...

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Feb 12, 20143 min read

They say if you want to make money in the writing business you find a niche and go to that place again and again. In other words, if the...

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Sep 1, 20122 min read

Pacific Continental Bank in my home town of Eugene has an interesting requirement for all new employees going through their orientation:...

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Jul 10, 20104 min read

“Remember to wrap the plastic around the candy before you bury the treasure,” my first mate suggested as, shovel in hand, I prepared to...

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Jun 20, 20107 min read

Last month, after an Oregon baseball game, fans were allowed on the field to watch the movie “Sandlot” on the big screen. It bought to...

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When Dick Fosbury’s agent told me Monday morning (March 13, 2022) that lymphoma had claimed the 76-year-old man who’d won an Olympic gold...

Editor’s note: This is the Jim Bartko obituary that appeared in The Register-Guard March 19, 2020. Jim Bartko, a former University of...

Daughter-in-law Deena, here with our son, Jason, and their three boys. When a foul ball flies toward you, a spectator, there’s not much...