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Description: Photo shows the Methodist Church in Corvallis, Oregon, soon after construction in 1897.

Description: The house was also known as the Nash House, Clark House, and Hogg House. It was later moved to 11th and Jefferson Street in 1907. Waldo Hall was built on the original house site.

Description: George Wilcox Peavy, Dean of Forestry, was appointed acting president of Oregon State College in 1932 when William J. Kerr was chosen as the first chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Peavy became Oregon State College's seventh president in 1934, the first OSC faculty member to also serve as president of the institution. He remained dean of forestry during his presidency until his retirement in 1940, upon which he was appointed as dean emeritus and president emeritus of OSC.

Description: Amy Vaughn, Ed Emmett, J. F. Fulton, Mildred Leuville, Bertie Leuville are identified standing in front of train in the woodlands on an excursion to the Pacific Coast.

Description: Nettie Spencer was born near Corvallis in 1861 to Oregon pioneer parents. She graduated from Corvallis College in 1882, and spent the next several years teaching and studying at various places in the U.S. and abroad, including Portland, Davenport College (North Carolina), Berlin, Paris, London, and India. She returned to Oregon in 1916 and taught at Eugene and Roseburg High Schools. Spencer received a master's degree in sociology from Oregon State in 1928. She was a charter member of the Mazamas, a Portland mountain climbing club, and in 1935 was elected president of the Oregon State Women's Press Club. Spencer died in Portland in 1953.

Description: Alumna Mary Jones of Corvallis graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1899 with a B.S. in Household Science. She attended OAC for 4 years from 1895/96 through 1898/99. From 1899 to 1907, she taught school in Benton County as well as near Alicel and in Silverton, Oregon. She and her sister attended the Los Angeles Normal School in 1907/08. She taught in Corvallis in 1908/09 and then in Estacada for two years. She married Lloyd Meader Yocum in 1911 and was living in Estacada in 1924.

Description: Milton Stemmler entered Oregon Agricultural College in 1892 and graduated with a degree in agriculture in 1895. He went on to earn a medical degree in St. Louis before returning to Oregon to settle in the town of Myrtle Point.