Martha R. Morton

Title: Martha R. Morton
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Deans (Education)
Description: Martha Ruth Morton was the Assistant Dean of Women from 1948 to 1953. She was born February 20, 1923 in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and lived in Ohio at the time of her application. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1944, where she majored in Latin and minored in education and mathematics. She earned her Master of Arts from Syracuse University in 1946 in the field of student personnel administration, where she completed a research paper relating academic success at Syracuse University and entrance test scores. Before coming to OSC, she was the head resident at Oberlin College, and a resident counselor at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina. While at Syracuse University, she participated in a specialized training for young women interested in dean work. She was a member of the National Association of Deans of Women, the North Carolina Association of Deans of Women, and a member of the executive board of the Greensboro Business and Professional Women’s Club. She was hired at $3,800 a year with tenure, and resigned in 1953.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1946-01
Identifier: P092:0349
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