Portland Trail Blazer’s founder and decorated WWII veteran, Harry Glickman will be the honored guest at The Mighty Endeavor’s Night at the Museum event on Saturday, Nov. 9. Harry Glickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and is a graduate of Lincoln High School and the University of Oregon. During WWII, he served for…
Harry Glickman, founder of the Portland Trail Blazers and a 1948 graduate of the University of Oregon, will be honored with the UO Pioneer Award this month. The fundraising event begins at 5:30 pm, May 19, at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave. The event helps top students from Oregon attend the UO…
When the Oregon Historical Society honored Harry Glickman for career accomplishments in September, they added a prize to his long list of illustrious and well-deserved awards. Inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and the inaugural class of the Oregon Jewish Sports Hall…
Harry Glickman – one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, the team’s president from 1987-94 and now president emeritus– is one of many local athletes and sports promoters featured in the Oregon Jewish Museum’s blockbuster summer exhibit In the Game: Oregon Jews/Oregon Sports. The exhibit closes on Sept. 30. A new exhibit by…
