Curtis Murayama: Yamanaka has been a gift for Isle athletes, a godsend for Oregon
What happened
I recently reconnected with an administrator I met while I was in college. And what transpired was a conversation with a man who is living a wonderful philanthropic life. Herb Yamanaka was an events manager at the University of Oregon back in the mid-1970s. He used to call me “Pineapple,” an inside joke between two people from Hawaii. We’d bump into each other at the UO athletic department ...
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