Hazel K. Westcott

Title: Hazel K. Westcott
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Employees Portraits
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Hazel Kelsey Westcott was a secretary in the executive office from 1926 to 1958. She was born in 1890 in Columbia City, Indiana, as one of three daughters to George W. and S. Ellen Kelsey. She had two sisters. She married James C. Westcott on July 31, 1924. They lived in Oroville, California until 1926, when they moved to Corvallis. Before starting college, she spent several years with General Electric Company and a law firm in Portland. She earned a commercial certificate from International Business College, Fort Wayne, and her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1920, and worked as a stenographer and secretary for a number of years, and worked as a high school instructor of commercial subjects and home economics in Peoria, Arizona, and at Princeton and Roseland, California for four years. She was an executive secretary-statistician in the President’s Office of OAC, promoted to administrative assistant in 1930, and given assistant professor rank with indefinite tenure in 1937. On March 16, 1932, her husband suffered an injury to his knee that kept him from returning to work. Westcott was then the primary breadwinner, and sought assurance from OSC that her position would be continued through the next year. She reached retirement age in 1956 but continued working for two years. She resigned from her position in the President's Office in 1921, and was appointed the next year as executive secretary. She retired in 1958 after 32 years of service. Her husband died in 1961. She was the secretary of Omicron Nu, and a member of social fraternity Alpha Delta Pi and Eastern Star.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0710
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