Kathryn V. H. Smith

Title: Kathryn V. H. Smith
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Teachers--Selection and appointment
Description: Kathryn Veneta Haskin Smith was a part-time instructor in education for a year in 1951, and rejoined the faculty as Director of the Teacher Placement Service in 1955, where she stayed until 1969. She was born in 1904. She studied at Central State College, Humbolt State College, Southern Oregon College, and the University of Oregon, graduating from the latter in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Science and Education. She earned her Master of Education from OSC in 1952, and worked as a part-time instructor in education during that time. She was hired at $2000 for a ten month term in 1951. After she graduated, she worked as an instructor and assistant professor at Southern Oregon College and General Extension Division. In 1955, she rejoined the faculty as an Assistant Professor and Director of Teacher Placement for $5400 per year. In 1965, she took the rank of Associate Professor. She took sabbatical leave from September 1964 to January of 1965 to travel, research, and study. She took full salary for this leave, as she had been in the state system of higher education for thirteen years and had never had a sabbatical leave before. Her report of her sabbatical leave was found excellent enough that it was circulated among other members of the faculty by President James H. Jensen. She retired in 1969, upon which she was awarded Emeritus status. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, treasurer of Delta Kappa Gamma, and had been President of the Ashland Teachers Association. She served as President of the Soroptimist International Group for a year, and was on the board of Directors for another three. She was a Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and was a member of the Republican State Committee.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1955-05
Identifier: P092:1011
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