Irene L. Craft

Title: Irene L. Craft
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Employees Portraits Academic libraries Library employees
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Irene L. Craft was a serials assistant at the Oregon State College Library from 1943 to 1970. She was born in 1904, in Wyne, Kansas. She made an annual salary of $3,000. She was single when she came to work at OSC. In 1944, she took a leave of absence, but returned in 1946. By 1949, she was promoted to assistant librarian with a salary raise to $4,000. In 1950, she became an assistant professor with no pay raise. By 1952, her salary rose to $5,000, due to increased responsibilities because of another staff member’s resignation. She resigned in 1970. Her final salary was $13,632. She was granted the status of Associate Professor Emeritus, which assured her life membership on the university faculty, and distinguished her as “one who has earned distinction and respect through many years of dedicated and effective service”.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0074
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