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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 12 > Former Oregon Tech president dies at 97

Former Oregon Tech president dies at 97

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
January 12, 2009

KLAMATH FALLS — The Oregon Institute of Technology says its founding president, Winston Purvine, has died from congestive heart failure in Cary, N.C.

He died Wednesday at the age of 97.

Purvine arrived in Klamath Falls in 1947 to lead the Oregon Vocational School. The school was....

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