Marian A. Wiggenhorn

Title: Marian A. Wiggenhorn
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Family Life
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Miriam Augusta Wiggenhorn was an assistant professor and assistant director of the nursery school from 1946 to 1958, and then of Family Life from 1965 to 1970. She was born in 1908 in Ashland, Nebraska. She attended Pine Manor and University of Nebraska, graduating from the latter in 1931 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, History, and German. She attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Columbia University Teachers College, graduating from the latter in 1936 with a Master of Arts in Education, with additional study in child psychology. She had experience as a substitute teacher, and worked as Director of Nursery School for seven years at the National College of Education. She also spent three years as a teacher and assistant principal of the nursery school at the University of Chicago. For the 1945 summer session, she directed OSC’s nursery school. By the time she came to OSC, she had published a monograph, “The Survey of Public Schools
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1952/1961
Identifier: P092:0721
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