Cadet band member Eileen Morency Eason
- Title
- Cadet band member Eileen Morency Eason
- LC Subject
- Women Military bands Musicians
- Repository
- Oregon State University. Libraries
- Collector
- Reed, Edwin Thomas, 1872-1948
- Description
- Eason broke the gender barrier to become the first female member of the cadet band. However, by 1935, the band returned to its male- only status. Co-eds formed their own band in 1937; this band merged with the cadet band in 1946. The basketball pep band did not allow women members until 1973.
- Inscription
- "Eileen Morency Eason. First woman to ever wear the uniform of Oregon State's crack military cadet band. Oregon State Monthly, Feb 1932, pg 26."
- Work Type
- negatives (photographs) photographs
- Location
- Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1932
- Identifier
- HC2958
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Harriet's Photograph Collection, 1868-1996 (P HC)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Is Part Of
- This image appears in "A School for the People: A Pictorial History of Oregon State University," page 202.
- Institution
- Oregon State University
