Hildred Rice

Title: Hildred Rice
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits English
Description: Hildred Atkinson Rice was a half-time English instructor from 1946 to 1952. She was born in 1907 in Portland, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1931 in English, commerce, French, with additional study in Sociology. She attended graduate school at the University of Oregon Extension Center, and continued attending graduate school at OSC while she was employed part-time. Before she came to OSC, she worked in the Home Service Department with the American Red Cross in Portland, until her husband returned from service. She had stenographer experience with Bonneville Power Administration, where she was in charge of office and engineering equipment inventory for about 200 employees and also handled correspondence. She was secretary at Eastern Oregon College of Education, where she was in charge of a newspaper staff of about 25 students. She was involved with the Trails Club of Oregon, where she worked as the Business Manager and was also a reporter. While attending graduate courses, she applied to OSC as a part-time English instructor. She was hired at $1000 per year for a ten month term, part time. After fall term of her first year, she was increased to three-quarters time. In 1952, she resigned due to ill health, at which time she was earning $1700 for part-time work. During the summer of 1936 she traveled through England, Scotland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. She was once President and District Deputy of the Daughters of St. George.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1946/1952
Identifier: P092:0501
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