Marjorie Wilson

Title: Marjorie Wilson
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Marjorie Ann Wilson was a part-time instructor in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts in 1946. She was born in 1922 in Lebanon, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics, with additional study in education, from OSC in 1943, where Dean Milam referred to her work as “outstanding.” She then became a part-time typist in the School of Home Economics, but this position was temporary. In summer of 1946, she was hired at $780 for the academic year, at 1/3 time. In the fall, her hours were increased to two-thirds. She was Vice-President of the Mortar Board, and a member of the honoraries Kappa Delta Pi, Omicron Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi. She was also a member of the social fraternity Kappa Kappa Gamma. She had tuberculosis and a temporarily collapsed lung at the time of her appointment.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1946
Identifier: P092:0664
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