Shirley Walker

Title: Shirley Walker
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts
Description: Shirley Eileen Walker was an instructor of in the Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts from 1949 to 1951. She was born in 1917 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. She studied for two years at Victoria College from 1933-1935, and earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics and Teaching from the University of Washington in 1939. She earned her Master of Arts in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1948. She had some experience in office work, and was a home economics senior teacher with the Greater Victoria School Board. She taught in several smaller towns in British Columbia, including Revelstoke and the Okanagan Valley, where she participated in many community activities, whether professional, sports, or church. She was a member of the Canadian Home Economics Association, president of the Victoria Home Economics Association in 1949, and held an executive position in the Greater Victoria Teachers Association for two years. She was also involved in church organizations, badminton and golf clubs, the Red Cross, and the Women’s Committee of the Victoria Symphony Society. She was hired as an instructor for $3,600 per year and resigned in 1951.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1949
Identifier: P092:0736
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