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INTERNSHIP SUPPORT ‘ALL IN THE FAMILY’

Early this year, the family of longtime Oregon and Washington newspaper publisher Walter Taylor, who died December 17, established a memorial fund to support the Snowden internships. Taylor was part owner with P. Lee Irwin of the Gresham Outlook, the Newport News Times, and other community newspapers in the 1960s and 1970s.

Taylor wasn’t an alumnus of the UO, but his three children, two daughters-in-law, and a granddaughter are all graduates of the UO School of Journalism and Communication. They are Susan Taylor Wehren ’68, Thomas C. Taylor ’69, Darlene Alvstad Taylor ’69, Andrew C. Taylor ’80, Junko Yajima Taylor ’81, and Sarah Wehren Kooiker ’98, who was a Snowden intern at The Springfield News.

“During his career, our father as an owner-publisher was a key player in community journalism in the state of Oregon and was a strong supporter of higher education,” son Thomas Taylor wrote in a letter about his family’s contribution to the memorial fund.