Whitworth College Ragged RidgeProgram Records 1973-1977

Whitworth College

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Whitworth College was founded officially on February 19, 1890. During the years 1987 and 1988 plans were made to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Of course, this celebration, all during the 1989 year, was an opportune time for a fund drive. (Timothy R. Eaton, B .A. ’74) was commissioned to produce a motion picture film, “Whitworth College” for promotion of the financial campaign. This file includes the many film clips used to make the film and the final product in various formats. Fr...

Warner, Jack

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Lindaman, Edward B.

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Biographical NoteEdward B. Lindaman (1920-1982) became president of Whitworth College in 1970 and retired in 1980. He came to Whitworth from North American Rockwell where he was director of programming for the Apollo space project. He was largely self-educated (he held an Associate in Arts degree from Mesabi Junior College, Eveleth, Minnesota, 1938) through extensive reading and study in many fields from theology and philosophy to science, technology and ⁰́₋futuristics.⁰́₊ His decade of administ...

Prater, Merle P.

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Whitworth College Ragged Ridge Program.

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Ragged Ridge, located in the Thompson Creek drainage of the main watershed for Newman Lake, Idaho, is abundant with wildlife and was used by the Indians as a hunting ground. A meadow was cleared and a house built on the site by a homesteader in about 1915. A fire in 1910 burned part of the property which resulted in natural recovery with a growth of a thick stand of lodgepole pine. Jack Warner, a retired local CPA began purchasing property in the area in about 1936. In 1973 he donate 720 acres t...