Orville Kofoid was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1909. Kofoid graduated from Oregon State College in 1932 with a BS in civil engineering. He worked for the Oregon State Highway Department from 1932 until 1939; during that time, he was assigned occasional projects at Oregon State College. From 1940 to 1946, Kofoid worked for the 13th Naval District Headquarters in Seattle. He returned to Corvallis in 1947 as an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, a post he held until 1966. Kofoid died in King County, Washington, in 1994.
Entering Oregon State College in 1934, Donald Snyder studied engineering and was a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity. Snyder graduated with a BS in 1938.
Willetta Moore, from Eugene, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1913 until 1916, when she earned a BS degree in home economics. After working for the Eugene School Board, she was an instructor in foods and nutrition at Iowa State College and earned an MS degree in foods and nutrition from Iowa State in 1925. Moore returned to Oregon and served as an instructor in foods and nutrition from 1925 to 1932 and again in the mid-1940s. Moore married John E. Smith in 1932; she died in Corvallis in 1977.