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Rich Schmidt | Director of Archives and Resource Sharing | (503) 883-2734

Abby Ambrose | Oregon Wine History Archive Intern

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Today we had the opportunity to sit down with Morgan White of Amaterra and hear about her journey to the Oregon wine industry. From grill cook to brewer to winemaker, Davis Palmer has seen just about every side of production at McMenamin’s since 1995. Update! After a career working in government policy and public relations, John Platt needed something else to focus his time on. He and his wife Elizabeth had friends in the Helvetia area, so they purchased their first 40 acres of agricultural land there in 1980. After a visit from an extension officer in 1982, John and Elizabeth were advised to plant grapes. What would you do if you knew you wanted to be a geologist when you were 10 years old? (Who even knows what a geologist is when they’re 10 years old?) Kevin Pogue never wavered from his desire to understand the world through its natural formations, and followed the path from his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky to graduate school at Idaho State and then a PhD program at Oregon State, finally ending up as a longtime faculty member at Whitman College. Tim and Kathy O’Leary met when they lived in the same dormitory at Stanford, and farming wine grapes was the furthest thing from their minds. After graduation, Kathy worked on the practical side of industrial engineering, traveling around the world working on specific for companies of all types. Tim went to law school and worked in corporate law for Hewlett-Packard and a number of other tech companies.
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