Alma C. Fritchoff

Title: Alma C. Fritchoff
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Home Economics Education
Description: Alma Catherine Fritchoff was a clothing and textiles instructor at Oregon State College from 1918 to 1948. She was born in 1883, in Cambridge, Illinois. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska. Before coming to OSC, Fritchoff worked as a rural teacher, a grade school teacher and a high school teacher in Nebraska. She also taught home economics at Nebraska State for two years. She came to work as a clothing and textiles instructor for the Household Art Department at OSC in 1918, at an annual salary of $1,500. She left OSC in 1922 to obtain her Master of Arts from the Teacher’s College of Columbia in 1925, and to teach at the University of Nebraska from 1923 to 1925. She then returned to OSC in 1925. In 1930, Fritchoff was promoted to the head of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, at an annual salary of $3,200. She retired in 1948. She died in November of 1969 in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 86.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Identifier: P092:0728
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