Ava Milam and foreign Home Economics students at the coast near Bandon, Oregon. Ava B. Milam came to OAC in 1911 and was appointed the Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917, serving for 33 years. She was primarily interested in the study of home economics within Asian cultures. During WWI she was appointed as the Home Economics director for Oregon.
The man is holding wire bags full of broken Japanese oyster shells. Photo was used in "Native oyster investigations of Yaquina Bay, Oregon : Progress report II" by R. E. Dimick, George Egland, and J.B. Long overing the period July 4, 1939 to September 30, 1941. (Figure 26)
4-H club members leave Powers on Speeders furnished by Albert Powers and lumber companies to visit cattle ranches owned by Mr. Powers and Ellis Dement.