William C. Lawrence III
William C. Lawrence III was born in Portland in 1933 and attended Ainsworth Elementary, Lincoln High, and Stanford University. He returned to Portland in 1957 to work in the George Lawrence Company, the family leather goods manufacturing and wholesale business, founded in 1857. While attending one of the Old Church’s free Wednesday sack lunch concerts in the early 1970s, he noticed the grass was overgrown. They accepted his offer to cut it and immediately put him on the board of directors, where he served as a most dedicated and hard-working member until his retirement in 2007.
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The Old Church Concert Hall
In 1882, fifty Presbyterians organized a new Portland congregation. They engaged architect Warren H. Williams to design a structure combining the spare simplicity of their denomination with the grandeur of their aspirations. Williams' rendering of classic ecclesiastical forms in wood produced a striking example of "Carpenter Gothic" architecture. A year …
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