Born in 1903, Letitia Mae Shamhart was raised in Merrill, Oregon, attending high school in both Merrill and in Heppner, Oregon. She attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1921-1925, studying pharmacy. At some point following her college years, she married Lowell P. Dunn.
Lilly Magnhild Elsa Nordgren, from Aberdeen, Washington, also attended Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in the early 1920s and earned a BS in commerce in 1924. She became an instructor in office training and secretarial science upon graduation and continued as an instructor until the mid-1930s. In 1929-1932, she took several graduate courses at OAC and completed a MA in education at Stanford University in 1931. Her thesis was An Experimental Comparison of Beginning Students Writing of Standard and Noiseless Typewriters. Nordgren married Floyed Marven Edwards in 1932.
Eleanor May (born June 4, 1902) and Frances Miriam (born Sept 6, 1900) were born in Echo, Oregon, and attended Echo High School. Eleanor May and Frances Miriam attended Oregon Agricultural College and earned BS degrees in home economics in 1925. Eleanor subsequently earned an MS in Household Administration from Oregon State College in 1933; Eleanor was Associate Professor and Director of the Home Management Houses from the mid-1930s until the mid-1940s. Frances completed an MS in Foods and Nutrition at Oregon State in 1936.
Born in Brownsville, Oregon in 1906, James Callaway attended OAC from 1921 to 1925, graduating with a degree in business. After college, Callaway found employment in the grocery trade in Salem, Oregon, and served during World War II, later becoming the President of a local chapter of the Patriotic Orders. Callaway died in Salem in 1969.