Joselyn R. Skinner

Title: Joselyn R. Skinner
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Household Administration
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Jocelyn Rea Skinner was an instructor in Household Administration from 1946 to 1949. She was born Jocelyn Ann Rea in 1917 in Toronto, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Toronto in 1938, and her Master of Arts in Psychology, with a special emphasis on child psychology, from the same institution in 1940. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “A systematic analysis of the content of the children’s stories.” Before coming to OSC, she worked as Acting Director of Mary B. Eyre Nursery School at Scripps College. She also had experience as a supervisor at other nursery schools throughout Ontario, and had served as a director of a wartime day nursery. She worked as a camp counselor for four summers. When Wartime Programme was started in Ontario, she was chosen to open the first school as a “demonstration school for the province.” She had complete responsibility to plan and organize this project, ad went on to train and supervise staff in 28 schools. Dean Milam interviewed her in Los Angeles and recommended her for the appointment. She was hired at $2600 for a ten month term. On December 17, 1948, she married Charles S. Skinner, a graduate assistant in Biology with the Botany Department. She resigned in 1949, as her husband's work needed them to move out of Oregon. She was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority and the American Camping Association.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0569
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