Mary I. Bash

Title: Mary I. Bash
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Deans (Education)
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Mary Iola Bash was the Assistant Dean of Women from 1946 to 1953. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914 from the University of Washington. She was born in 1891, in Port Townsend, Washington. As a child, she traveled between China and New York often, due to her father’s work in railroads. He built the first railroads in China. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school teacher and worked for the YMCA. She was also a manager of student housing at the University of Washington. Her friend Grace W. Carman was listed as her beneficiary. Carman was notified by the Good Samaritan Hospital that the College Administration Council made a gift of $15 to the Mary Bash memorial following Bash’s death. Her annual salary was initially $3000. A parent of a female student who visited with Bash in 1948 said this of her: “She has vision and foresight concerning girls problems, with a directness for action, plus a sincere, interested intent, with a most friendly manner, with guidance definitely the keynote.” When she became the acting dean of women in 1948, her salary rose to $4,400 a year. She was affiliated with the National Association of Deans of Women. She died in 1953.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1946/1953
Identifier: P092:0058
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