Marjorie McDonald

MARJORIE MCDONALD Marjorie McDonald was born on April 17, 1898 in Akron, Indiana to Albert A. and Orpha Campbell. One of 6 children, Marjorie and her family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1912. Graduating from Jefferson High, she attended Reed college for 3 years, receiving her teaching degree from University of Oregon in 1919. Her first teaching assignment was at Mt. View School in Lewisburg, where she taught for 1 year. Moving to Portland, the next 40 years were spent teaching at Washington High School. Marjorie married John McDonald in 1925. An avid fisherman, he and Marjorie spent many wonderful times in a small cabin on the Winder River before he died in 1943. At that time, Marjorie accepted a job teaching English to Russians who were in Portland shipping war material. She attended the famous language school at Middlebury, Vermont. Returning to Portland in 1944, she started the first high school Russian class in the United States. On her sabbatical leave in 1955, she studied Russian...