Editing Pinto Colvig (section)

== Early life ==
Colvig was born Vance DeBar Colvig in [[Jacksonville, Oregon]], the youngest of seven children of William Mason "Judge" Colvig (1845–1936)<ref>{{cite web |title=William M. Colvig |url=https://www.truwe.sohs.org/files/colvig.html |website=Medford Pioneers |publisher=truwe.sohs.org |access-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref> and his wife, Adelaide ({{nee}} Birdseye) Colvig (1856–1912).<ref name="Truwe-Colvig">{{cite web |last1=Truwe |first1=Ben |title=Medford Pioneers: William M. Colvig |url=http://id.mind.net/~truwe/tina/colvig.html |website=Southern Oregon History, Revised |access-date=September 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907174604/http://id.mind.net/~truwe/tina/colvig.html
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William Colvig was a pioneer, an attorney and a distinguished Oregonian; he was never actually a judge. Pinto attended but did not graduate from Medford High School. Pinto was accepted and attended, sporadically from 1910 to 1913,<ref name="Pinto Notes">{{cite web |url=http://truwe.sohs.org/files/pinto%20notes.html|title=Pinto Notes}}</ref> [[Oregon State University]], in Corvallis,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/colvig_vance_debar_pinto_1892_1967_/|title = Vance DeBar (Pinto) Colvig (1892-1967)}}</ref> where he took art classes and played clarinet in the band.<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto">{{cite web |title=Colvig, Pinto |url=https://www.sohs.org/content/colvig-pinto |website=Southern Oregon Historical Society Library |access-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831230657/https://www.sohs.org/content/colvig-pinto |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Southern Oregon Historical Society|title=William Colvig home interior |url=https://digital.sou.edu/digital/collection/p15013coll2/id/544/rec/1 |website=Southern Oregon Digital Archives |access-date=August 31, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> He drew cartoons for the Oregon Agricultural College Barometer newspaper, and the yearbook.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://offbeatoregon.com/1310b-pinto-colvig-pioneer-animator-showbiz-legend.html|title=Goofy, Bluto, Bozo were all Oregon's "Pinto" Colvig &#124; Offbeat Oregon History &#124; #ORhistory}}</ref>

<blockquote>I was born in Jacksonville and named Vance DeBar Colvig. At age 7 (because of too many freckles, and goony antics) I was nicknamed 'Pinto the Village Clown' (which I have used professionally during my circus and other show business activities, besides occasional jobs as a newspaper cartoonist.<br />— "'Pinto' Colvig Writes About Names, History of Clowning", ''Medford Mail Tribune'', July 12, 1961.<ref>{{cite web |title=Notes on Pinto Colvig |url=https://www.truwe.sohs.org/files/pinto%20notes.html |website=sohs |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref></blockquote>