(Bios of the founding fathers)

LARRY LEONARD

(Editor-in-chief of The Orphanage Press, Editorial Director of Oregon Magazine)

Advertising\marketing

1962 - newspaper retail ad sales (Coos Bay, OR, WORLD, a daily)
1964 - newspaper classified mgr. (Beaverton, OR, TIMES)
1965 - ad agency copywriter (U-HAUL house agency)
          (+ Editor: U-Haul News, a company publication)
1968 - ad agency copy chief (Dawson, Turner & Jenkins, Portland)
1969 - ad agency creative director (Lennen & Newell, Seattle office)
1971 to 1973  PacNW Creative Director, Alaska/WA/OR (RSR&M, the agency
        chain formed by the purchase of L&N's West Coast division)
 

A partial list of advertising clients:

Simpson Timber, Boise Cascade, U-Haul International, The Bank of  Washington, The Bank of Alaska, David Brown Tractor Company of  Britain (the folks who make the Aston Martin, incidentally), SafeCo Ins., Taco Time, BlueBell, Hewlett-Packard, Peterbilt and
Alaska Airlines.  (The Alaska Airlines eskimo logo is his creation.)

A partial list of advertising awards:

FAN (national First Agency Network) Best Consumer Campaign, Best Campaign of Show; ALASKA AD CLUB Best TV Spot of the Year (Alaska Airlines); PORTLAND ADVERTISING FEDERATION First Place/Collateral Promotion (Boise Cascade collateral); ANPA Best Special Section (community newspaper section) and SEATTLE ART DIRECTORS Gold Medal/Corporate Image (Smyth Van Lines\Greyhound Transportation Lines merger).
 

Freelance adv\publications\books

1973 - freelance (Adv/Mag/Nspr, Contributing Ed: Oregon Magazine)
1982 - Associate Editor: Pacific Business Magazine
1984 - THE MEANEST FISH ON EARTH (book/fishsciencefiction)
1986 - STURGEON FISHING (book/non-fiction)
1988 - FAR WALKER (hardcover book/parable)
1991 -  "   "     (Dell paperback)
1993 - FISHING THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER (book/non-fiction)
1997 - KRUSE SCANNER GUIDE (book/scanner frequency guide)
2000 - GUNDERSON, INC. (book/corporate history, 1999 publication)
2001 - Editorial Director, OREGON MAGAZINE
 

A partial freelance publications list:

Writer's Digest, Sports Afield, Salmon/Trout Steelheader, AlaskaFest (inflight magazine), Pacific Northwest Magazine, Oregon Magazine, Northwest Magazine (Oregonian newspaper Sunday supplement), The Woodsman, This Week, Portland Living, The Lunker Gazette (Fenwick fishng tackle company publication), The Journal of Oregon Council of Teachers of English.

Some interview subjects:

Steve Allen (entertainer, originator of The Tonight Show), Arnold Palmer (golfer), Bruce Jenner (Olympic champion), Gary Marshall (series television writer/producer of Happy Days, among others), Linus Pauling (genetic biologist and two-time Nobel laureate -- for genetic studies and the peace prize), Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear author), Walt Morey (Gentle Ben author), Ken Kesey (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest author), Bob Straub (governor, OR), Vic Atiyeh (governor, OR), Mark Hatfield (U.S. Senator, retired), plus shuttle astronauts, Indianapolis 500 race drivers, jet pilots, rodeo cowboys and a hundred others.

General Skills summary:

     Writing/direction/production skills include: print media, television, multi-media presentations, collateral, light technical, speechwriting, ghostwriting and editing, PR/editorial, industrial film and video, political campaigns, fiction and non- fiction books.  He also writes and edits corporate histories.

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PAUL PINTARICH

(Contributing Editor, Oregon Magazine)

Paul Pintarich is a Portland, Oregon free-lance writer, editor and journalist; a third-generation Oregonian whose family has lived in the city (Portland) since the (19th to 20th) turn of the century.

Paul was born in 1938.  After leaving high school  he worked as a  towboat deckhand on the Columbia River, served in the Navy as a hospital corpsman, and later was graduated from Portland State University.  For nearly thirty years he was a reporter and later book review editor for the Oregonian, the Northwest's largest newspaper.

He left the paper in 1995 to pursue a free-lance career, and still lives in Portland.  In 1992 Pintarich was honored by the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts for his long and ongoing support and encouragement of Northwest  writers and the region's literature.

Pintarich is the author of "History by the Glass, Portland's Past and Present saloons, bars & Taverns" (Bianco Publishing, 1996, which was a regional best seller in the Northwest, and "The Boys Up North, Dick Erath and the Early Oregon Winemakers" (graphic Arts, 1998).

Note from the Editor in Chief:  Paul Pintarich is, in my opinion, the most versatile, the most naturally gifted writer in this part of the world.  His non-fiction work is on a par with the best done anywhere. He has served on the PhD Lit. board of his college, has great analytical depth in the field of poetry, and, as the long time book reviewer at his paper, is as well read in modern American letters (from history to biography to mainstream fiction ) as any man alive.

To read his latest review, click here.  Oregon Magazine Arts&Lettres