Historians record history. They are not the adiminiters of Social Justice. They are not a court of law. There is only so much Oregon History – and my kindred made most of it! Ed Ray and his four Historians are not entitled to won any of my family history to do with it what they please. I have not heard back from the President of OSU.

I will now seek a Legal Solution. In theory most of OSU is owned by the tax payer. OSU received $441 million in grants from the State and Federal Government. How much of it goes to the History Department?

I am going to write the President of the United States to see if he will champion my cause to restore the name Senator Thomas Hart Benton to Benton Hall. Unlike my kin, Robert E. Lee, Benton did not secede from the Union, and as…