Loretta Gaylord Fisher

Title: Loretta Gaylord Fisher
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Academic libraries Library employees
Creator: Chidnoff, Irving
Description: Loretta G. Fisher was a reference librarian at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1942 and from 1968 to 1972. Fisher was born in 1908, in Albany, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Willamette University in 1930, and her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from Columbia University in 1938. She came to Oregon State in 1930 and held various clerical positions until she received her degree in Library Science. That same year, she became a reference librarian with an annual salary of $1,400. She remained at Oregon State until 1942, when she resigned to work as an assistant state librarian. She returned as a reference librarian at Oregon State in 1968 with an annual salary of $7,737. Fisher also served as a member of the Convocations and Lectures Committee, where she helped with university policy regarding student services. She retired in 1972. She was granted the title “Instructor Emeritus” from Oregon State University before her retirement.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1941/1942
Identifier: P092:0737
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