The Crams live on the edge of the little country town of Yamhill overlooking the very beautiful farm land surrounding it.  This little town sports quite a large, well maintained school campus which includes the grade and high school.  This school district for Yamhill-Carlton draws the population from the large, rural Yamhill County.

Don was born in Redmond but grew up and went to school in Madras, OR.  Robyn moved to the Madras area when she was in the fifth grade so she and Don are childhood sweethearts.  They were married in Madras.

After high school Don spent two years at a little Baptist Community College where, as a long distance runner, he ran track and cross country for them.

Then he and Robyn both attended Portland State.  Don’s degrees are in Math and Education.  Robyn’s degree is in Criminal Justice but time and experience took her in a different direction.  She became interested in Abuse Prevention for Women and Children and has volunteered in this area for many years.

Don’s first teaching and coaching position was in Paisley, a southern Oregon town of about one hundred people.  Robyn worked near at the Lakeview High School library and pursued her volunteer work.  They lived here seven years.

Finally deciding Paisley was just fifty miles too far from everywhere, groceries, doctors, everything, Don and Robyn came back to this area so Don could get his Master’s Degree.  He taught math and coached at Valley Catholic School for two years, and then moved to Dilley and taught at Yamhill-Carlton High School.  From there Robyn has worked twenty years for the Forest Grove Library

When Bryn was born in 1987, they decide they needed to be in the Yamhill School district and so, after years of renting; they bought their first home here.

They chose Mt. Olive Church for its location and had already visited other churches but felt most comfortable here.

Bryn is eighteen years old and just graduated from High School.  She was born Dec. 30, 1987.  Now she will attend Prescott College located in the middle of Arizona.  She will study Environmental Biology which, fortunately, requires a lot of field work and outdoor research.  Her hobby is writing, fantasy fiction novels and she has actually completed a rough draft of one for a project.  She also plays the flute and from first grade has been a avid soccer enthusiast.

Leah is almost fourteen years old, born July 14, 1992, and will be just starting High School.  She plays the Oboe, a musical instrument whose sound is very unique and she plays in Yamhill’s concert band.  She is also involved in soccer, baseball, and Girl Scouts.

Don’t hobbies are SPORTS, watching them, reading about them, and participating.  He has been involved, since the girls started school, as a youth coach.  He also still goes on his yearly deer hunting trip with his brother and fishes locally for trout.

Robyn’s hobbies, of course, are reading, and until this past year she completed twelve years of teaching Sunday School.  She still teaches Vacation Bible School and helps with the Christmas program.  She has been involved with Girl Scouts for six years progressing from 75 girls at day camp in McMinnville to a 10-day camperee in Corvalles, to next year and a travel Jamboree to Minnesota.

And, finally, there are critters:  two dogs, a cat and fish.

(prepared by Annie Jarrell)