You may recall some time ago a question about Rhodes Scholars from Salem. Here are some brief notes on a few.
100 years ago Frank Cudworth Flint was announced as a winner of a special prize, first in the Portland papers and then it was picked up here.
He had a couple of years earlier won the scholarship. He had come to Salem in 1908 and graduated from Salem High in 1914, then attending Willamette for a year before transferring to Reed.
He secured a position on the faculty at Dartmouth and periodically returned to Salem for reunions.
He seems to be best known for a booklet on Amy Lowell.
When he died in 1971, the alumni magazine printed an elegy.
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First stanza, Dartmouth Magazine, May 1971
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The very first Rhodes Scholar with a Salem connection is likely Paul T. Homan of Willamette. He was a longtime professor of economics at Cornell.
Another is William Arthur Rosebraugh, who seems to have been a lawyer. He moved around, but graduated from Salem High.
He may have been a spy! His last name is listed as Roseborough in the Rhodes Scholar database and there is a match with a spy during World War II.
A generation later there is Thomas Bartlett. He may be the one with the deepest roots here. A note from 1939 suggests he attended Brush College elementary school. He graduated from Salem High, went to Willamette and then transferred to Stanford.
Maybe others will turn up another time. I counted 91 identified from "Oregon" in the database through 2021. It's very possible there are more who graduated from Salem high schools or attended Willamette.
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Thomas Bartlett has a wiki entry, which I missed.
Also, the typesetters were totally hungover on December 26th! It's really striking how many typos are in the papers on the 26th in 1922. So much more than the usual baseline. The piece on Frank Cudworth Flint says "Grank Curworth Flint." And that's only the start...
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