Dorothy Reeves

Title: Dorothy Reeves
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Secretarial Science
Creator: Chidnoff, Irving
Description: Dorothy Mae Reeves was an Assistant Professor of Secretarial Science from 1950 to 1952. She was born in 1909 in Aurora, Nebraska. She earned a diploma from the Van Sant School of Business in 1928 in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Commerce, with additional study in English and psychology, from Iowa State Teachers College in 1934. She earned a Master of Arts in Business Education and Personnel Work, with additional study in guidance and administration in higher education, from New York University in 1946. She completed all the requirements for her PhD. at New York by 1950. Her doctoral thesis was titled “A Comparative Analysis of Candidates for Position as to Attitude, Level of Competency, and Goals.” She worked as the Chairman of the Secretarial Department at Farleigh Dickinson College for three years, and as the Director of Placement for one. At Farleigh, she established job clinics and the college placement bureau. She also received a citation for “Service Beyond the call of duty”. She was also a member of the evaluating committee for the Middle States Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges in 1949. She taught for four years at Berkeley School as head of the English Department, Director of Student Problems, and as a shorthand teacher. She had numerous years of experience as a shorthand teacher, private and executive secretary, and as a teacher at Bryant and Stratton Naval Training School. She published a number of monographs and articles, with titles such as “Placement as a Function of Guidance,” “What about Follow-up?” and co-wrote a filing manual for secretaries. She was a member numerous societies and organizations, such as Delta Pi Epsilon, the American Association of University Professors, the American Association of University Women, and National Business Teachers Associations. She applied to OSC because she wished to be able to finish her doctorate and “get away from the load I have now of 33 hours of teaching plus managing the placement bureau.” She was hired at $3600 salary for ten months’ service with yearly tenure. She resigned in 1952. In her resignation letter she highly praised her employer, Dr. Yerian, whom she considered to be the best employer she had ever had, and Miss Hay, who Reeves thought must be “more popular than any of the staff and that the service she renders is greater.” She also expressed pleased surprised at the fact that a “college as large as this” had “so many democratic principles” in effect. She left to accept a “most challenging and remunerative administration position” in the fashion field in New York. At her resignation, she was earning $4400 on a ten months’ basis.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1949-03
Identifier: P092:0496
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