Jessup earned a BFA in graphic design at OSU in 1976. After receiving an MFA from Stanford in 1978, he worked for Korty Films, Lucasfilm, and Industrial Light and Magic. While at ILM, he received an Academy Award for special effects work on the film Innerspace and a nomination for Hook. In 1996 he joined Pixar, where he worked on many of successful films including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and Ratatouille. For the latter he received an ANNIE award for Production Design in an Animated Feature.
Esther Taskerud became the Assistant State 4-H Club Leader in November of 1947. Taskerud later served as the head of Home Economics from 1963-1969, retiring in 1970.
Russell O. Sinnhuber was a founder in 1965 of a successful research program at OSU and retired as emeritus professor of Food Science and Technology in 1981. Professor Sinnhuber was among one of the first scientists anywhere to recognize the potential of the rainbow trout as a sensitive, low-cost non-mammalian model for cancer research.
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.
Alice L. Edwards was an instructor in Zoology and Entomology at Oregon Agricultural College from 1909 to 1915. She later bacame the the Dean of Home Economics at Mary Washington College at the University of Virginia in Fredericksburg, a position she held until her retirement from academic life in 1951.
Charles Buren Mitchell (1886-1955) joined the faculty of Oregon Agricultural College in 1920 to head the new Department of Speech. As department head, he established and developed the dramatics and forensics programs at Oregon State. More than 200 plays were produced under his administration. Mitchell retired in 1952; the College Playhouse was renamed in his honor as the Mitchell Playhouse in 1961.
William Arthur Jensen (1881 -1945) served as executive secretary for presidents Kerr and Peavy and was a member of the college's administrative council. He came to OAC in 1907. After President Kerr was in an auto accident and needed nearly a year to recover, Jensen served as the de facto president of OAC during Kerr's hiatus. The campus gates were dedicated to Jensen for his strong support of WPA art projects on campus during the 1930s.
Mahlon Ellwood Smith was an English Professor, Dean of Basic Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the Lower Division for Oregon Agricultural College from 1919 until his retirement in 1949. He was an authority on the English fable and published extensively in philological and educational journals.