After high school he attended Willamette University in Salem , Oregon , where he majored in economics . Bunn paid for much of the tuition to the small liberal arts school with the funds he earned raising hogs . He served as a page at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco , which led to an internship with Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield in Washington , DC . During his internship Bunn tutored inner city kids there , which helped shape his political views . " I believed until then that anybody could bootstrap themselves , but I came to believe that the social problems we face need to be dealt with by government . " Bunn graduated from Willamette in 1969 with a bachelor of arts degree and then enrolled at Willamette 's law school
1964 Republican National Convention
1964 Republican National Convention
Stan Bunn