Helen R. Snipper

Title: Helen R. Snipper
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits English
Description: Helen Robinson Snipper was an instructor in English from 1947 to 1951. She was born in 1919 in Stamford, Connecticut. She earned her Associate of Arts from Los Angeles City College in 1941, and her Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in 1943 in the field of Spanish, with additional study in English and journalism. She went on to earn her Master of Education from the University of Oregon in 1947 in the field of education, with additional study in Spanish and English. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Individualized Teaching of Spanish in the High School.” At Los Angeles City College, she held office in the German Club and the Girls’ German chorus. She also organized and maintained the Spanish club, German chorus, hiking club, newspaper in Spanish, school newspaper, and school annual. She had been a private secretary and weaver for an interior designer in Hollywood, California, as she owned a loom and weaving was her hobby. Before starting at OSC she was a teacher of Spanish and English at St. Helens Hall in Portland, but relocated as her husband was given a fellowship at OSC. She was hired at $2400 for a ten month term in 1947. She planned to resign in December of 1951, but circumstances forced her to leave in September instead, at which point she was earning $3300 for a ten month term. She was a member of the American Association of University Women.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947/1951
Identifier: P092:0593
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