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(Photo from Portland Public Schools)ĭespite his education, discriminatory hiring practices made it so he was unable to get a job with Portland Public Schools. McDaniel (left) jokes around in the 1980 Madison High yearbook. He attended Lincoln High School and graduated from Portland State in 1975. After the flood, his family moved to a public housing project in Northwest Portland. Richard “Dick” Bogle (1930–2010) - Oregon Encyclopediaĭick Bogle, pioneering African American journalist and Portland commissioner, dead at 79 - The Oregonian Leodis McDaniel ‘57 - groundbreaking high school principal In 2008, he volunteered for the Portland Police Cold Case Homicide Unit. He continued his interest in jazz-hosting a show on cable news and writing music reviews-and also delved into photography. On his final day as commissioner he said: "I promised I would work to make Portland a city my grandchildren would be proud of. In 1984, Bogle became the second Black person elected to Portland’s City Council where he was known as a progressive voice. In 1968, he was hired by KATU and became the Northwest’s first Black television news reporter. Over the course of his career he wore many hats–insurance fraud investigator, police officer, sports reporter, jazz reviewer among them. (Photo from the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, originally published in the Skanner News)īogle attended Washington High School, Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) and the Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University). organized a “City of Unity Rainbow Rally” in Portland Pioneer Square following the killing of Black college student Mulugeta Seraw in 1988. City Commissioner Richard "Dick" Bogle Jr.