Henrietta Morris

Title: Henrietta Morris
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Physical education and training
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Henrietta Morris was an Associate Professor of Hygiene from 1935 to 1959. She was born in 1902 in Charleston, West Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in Baltimore in 1923, and her PhD. in Hygiene from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1927. She took summer courses at the Teachers College of Columbia University for the 1928-29 school year. Before coming to OSC, she was a Nutrition Instructor in New Jersey Public Schools, a health education instructor with the University of Oregon Medical School Department of Nursing Education, and an instructor in Personal Hygiene at St. Helens Hall Junior College in Portland. She also worked as the Health Education Director with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association, where her duties included performing lectures for parents, teachers, and others; performing health advisory services for schools; running university extension courses in Health Education; teaching a community hygiene course at Linfield College; working with the editing department of Health Education, Oregon Education Journal; and giving radio talks on health topics. She continued working with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association for at least the duration of her first year at OSC. Since the college found itself in desperate need of an additional physical education instructor on short notice, the Oregon Tuberculosis Association itself facilitated her employment there. She began at OSC as a part-time associate professor, earning $660 total for the months January to June. She spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday “forenoons” with the college, and continued to be employed with the State Tuberculosis Association otherwise. The next year, she was a full-time associate professor, and remained so for the next twenty-three years. She taught hygiene in both the men’s and women’s departments of physical hygiene, as well as a course in education, and at one point spent 4% of her time in bacteriology. She took sabbatical leave on full salary from April to June 1944 to write a textbook on health education. She passed away in 1959, at which point she was earning $7,900 on a ten month basis.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0352
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