Helen Sellie Hazard

Title: Helen Sellie Hazard
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service
Description: Helen Sellie Hazard was a home demonstration agent for Tillamook County at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1954. Sellie was born in 1913, in Cathay, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from Concordia College in 1935. She received some graduate education at the University of Minnesota, the University of Idaho, and Oregon State College. Before becoming a home demonstration agent at Oregon State, Hazard taught home economics at a junior high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She also worked as an assistant for the Memorial Union Dining Services. She started out at an annual salary of $2,604. In 1950, Hazard was transferred to work in Benton County so she could be closer to her church. She left Oregon State in 1952 to become a home demonstration agent in Virginia, but returned a year later. In 1953, she was appointed to serve in Columbia County with the rank of Assistant Professor and married Frank Hazard that same year. She resigned in 1954 to move with her husband to Virginia.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1938
Identifier: P092:0017
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