Ola Fay Nichols

Title: Ola Fay Nichols
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Home economics Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service
Description: Ola Faye Nichols was an extension agent for Washington County from 1941 to 1955. She was born in 1912 in Alexander, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Science from Colorado State College in 1940 in the field of home economics, with a major in teaching. There she also minored in English, science, and clothing, and graduated with a scholarship rating of B+. Before coming to OSC, she was a home demonstration agent for a year with the University of Missouri, where she worked entirely in promoting leadership and teaching groups of men and women how to carry out community projects. She wished to move to a more progressive state, and was hired at $2,100 per annum. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1945, and associate professor in 1949. She took a year of sabbatical leave in 1953, which she spent studying the education and social sciences fields at Washington University, St. Louis. She was a member of the Home Economics Association and the American Association of University Women. In 1955, after a period of ill health, she resigned to return home to Texas and spend more time with her family. She resigned at a salary of $5,588.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Identifier: P092:0735
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