Natalie Ann Smith

Title: Natalie Ann Smith
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Household Administration
Creator: Jesten-Miller Studio
Description: Natalie Ann Smith was an instructor in Household Administration and head teacher in Park Terrace Nursery School from 1949-1951.She was born in 1918 in Oakland, California. She was divorced with one child when she came to OSC. She studied at Willamette University and OSC, graduating from the latter with a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics and Education in 1942. She attended further graduate school at OSC, studying child development and nursery school education. She had worked as nursery school assistant at OSC in 1942, and taught at middle schools, kindergarten, and nursery schools throughout Portland. She was hired at $2700 per year, replacing Jocelyn Skinner. When hired she had not yet had enough experience to warrant Skinner’s salary, but she had the potential. In Spring term of 1951, she took on additional teaching responsibilities during a colleague’s leave of absence.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1949-05
Identifier: P092:0597
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