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6911. Corinne McTaggart
Corinne McTaggart
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Corinne Harpham McTaggart was a home demonstration agent for Douglas County from 1948 to 1951. She was born in 1921 in Prineville, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1944 in the field of professional home economics. She married Holden McTaggart during her junior year, who was a member of the army. After graduation, they went to Texas, where she taught high school, and Washington, D.C. where she supervised the cafeteria for the War Department. For two years before coming to OSC, she was a high school home economics teacher in Roseburg, Oregon. She resigned in 1951 at a salary of $3,900 to give full time to homemaking.
6912. Raymond George Nebelung
Raymond George Nebelung
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Hygiene
6913. Earl F. Meeker
Earl F. Meeker
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Speech, 1947
6914. Jesse S. Walton
Jesse S. Walton
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Chemical Engineer, 1953-1959
6915. Elian Leo Waian
Elian Leo Waian
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Education
6916. Richard Pierson
Richard Pierson
6917. Walter T. Lund
Walter T. Lund
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Botany, hired 1930
6918. Ida M. Matsen
Ida M. Matsen
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Ida Martha Matsen was a Professor of Art from 1927 to 1948. She was born in 1894 in Bickleton, Washington. She studied for two years at the Chicago Art Institute, and then graduated from the Normal Art Department of Pratt Institute, New York in 1920. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1925, and an Master of Arts in Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1926. Before coming to OSC, she was an art instructor for a cumulative seven years in high schools across Washington and California, and also performed clerical work for the Department of Labor in Washington, DC, in 1918. She was involved in an annual exhibition of the Northwest Artists’ Association in Seattle, and received two honorable mentions in water color painting. In 1927, she reached out to Oregon Agricultural College offering her services as an instructor of art, and, as officials at OSAC found it difficult to find her, most of her appointment negotiations were conducted by telegram. Those who recommended her said she was of excellent character, a pleasing personality, but not a “strong disciplinarian” with elementary children. She became an assistant professor in 1934 and an associate professor in 1937, and was consistently underpaid for her rank. OSAC was grateful to find such a well-trained teacher on such a low salary, although in 1928 she successfully leveraged her position at OSAC to receive a raise of $100. She took sabbatical leave once for three months in 1939 in order to travel and study the teaching of art throughout colleges and art schools in California and Washington. This request was conditional on Professor Fairbanks resuming his work in the department. For the year of 1946-47 she also took sabbatical leave to study, teach, and rest. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She submitted her resignation in 1948, wishing to spend the remaining years of her life focusing on her own art, health, and family. On the advice of administration she instead took a leave of absence, intending to postpone official retirement until 1951, at which point she would reach official retirement age and be granted a service allowance. Superiors at OSC intended to grant her the rank of professor, but chose not do so until her official retirement. She planned to spend her first year on leave on Whidby Island, in an art colony of northwest artists, and to have a studio workshop in the future. Unfortunately, she passed away in 1949. She was hired at $1,800 in 1927 and resigned at a salary of $4,410.
6919. Rhoda Manning
Rhoda Manning
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Dr. Rhoda Manning was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at OSC from 1941 to 1955. She was born in 1912, in Palo Alto, California, and was the daughter of another prominent mathematician, Dr. W.A. Manning of Stanford. She was educated at Stanford, where she received her Bachelor of Arts with great distinction in 1935, her Master of Science in 1937, and her PhD. in 1941 in Mathematics and Biochemistry. She was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta, where she was keeper of the records. For her master’s thesis, she wrote “On the Limit of the Degree of Simply Transitive Groups of Class Eighteen.” For her doctorate, she wrote “On the Derivates of the Sections of Bonded Power Series.” Before coming to OSC, she was a teaching assistant at Stanford. In 1942, after only one year of teaching, Mount Holyoke endeavored to draw Dr. Manning to join their faculty. They offered her a salary of $2,300--an increase of $400. Her head of department, Dr. W.E. Milne, recommended they match the salary offer, and wrote a letter to President Gilfillan expressing that Manning was “irreplacable,” and “the only member of the staff about whose teaching there has not been a single word of criticism.” Mount Holyoke increased their offer to $2,600, but Manning chose to remain at OSU for a lower salary. She expressed that she felt she best did her duty during the war emergency by helping to train engineers, and she felt loyal to OSU. In 1946, Dr. Manning became seriously ill. Through fall term, her father carried her course load, and she thereafter took a leave of absence for the next two terms. The next year, she requested another leave of absence for 1947-48 to pursue research in group theory under the direction of her father at Stanford. Concerned about burdening her with a heavy teaching load and reigniting her illness, her supervisors granted her request in order to ensure her recovery was stable. In 1955, Dr. Manning resigned in order to be married. She was hired at a salary of $1,900 and resigned at a salary of $5,800.
6920. Virginia Olsen
Virginia Olsen
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Virginia Elizabeth Olsen was a Library Circulation Assistant from 1943-45. She was born in 1915 in Portland, Oregon. She received a certification from St. Helen’s Hall Junior College in 1935, where she was the chairman of the International Relations Club, and Master of Archery. She went on to achieve her Bachelor of Arts from University of Oregon in 1937, where she worked on the staff of the class yearbook. At both these institutions, she studied English literature and history. She received her certificate of librarianship from U.C. Berkeley in 1941. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school teacher and librarian throughout Oregon for six years, but eventually decided she wanted to work with older students. She was hired as circulation assistant at a salary of $1,800. She submitted a resignation in 1945 to begin war work with the Red Cross, but soon learned that OSC was now granting leaves of absence for Red Cross work. She requested to be put on a leave of absence, instead. Although her superiors said she was “not one of the strongest staff members,” they felt she did very well working face-to-face with users of the library, and granted this request. Olsen was part of the Library Association of Portland, the Women's Faculty Club, and the Episcopal Church. She attended the National Convention of Pi Lambda Theta in 1937, and traveled throughout Central and Western Canada.
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