Virginia F. Harrison

Title: Virginia F. Harrison
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Physical education and training
Description: Virginia Florence Harrison was a physical education instructor for women at Oregon State College from 1948 to 1959. Harrison was born in 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin in 1940, and her Master of Arts from the Teachers College of Columbia University. She wrote and published an article called “Posture in Motion” for the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation News Bulletin in 1945. Harrison was a member of the National Association of Physical Education for College Women. Before coming to OSC, she was an Assistant Professor of Physical Education for the University of Virginia. She was brought on to work at Oregon State at an annual salary of $3,800. She resigned in 1959.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1946-12
Identifier: P092:0011
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University