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6531. Edward G. Locke
Edward G. Locke
Description
Chemical Engineering, hired 1936
6532. Anne Aileen Murdock
Anne Aileen Murdock
Description
Anne Aileen Murdock was an assistant in the circulation department from 1943 to 1944. She was born in 1905 in Evansville, Indiana. She studied at Oberlin Kindergarten Training School, Evansville College, Peabody College, and the University of Illinois Library School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, with additional study in English and science, in 1929 or 1930. She worked as a kindergarten teacher for two years, and was employed as a librarian in Evansville Indiana Public Library System at the time of her application to OSC. She had visited OSC campus before, and was interested in coming West enough to accept the sub-optimal conditions that existed during the war. She was hired at $1800 for twelve months of service. She was described as quiet but firm, with much experience in handling difficult disciplinary problems. OSC also felt that, with so many men in uniform on campus, it was important to have “women of maturity and poise at the service desks.” They felt that, provided Murdock’s experience and age of 41, that she would not need as much supervision as some other assistants. However, Murdock had moved West with her mother, with whom she lived, and whose health was adversely affected by the Oregon climate. Murdock resigned in 1944 to return to the Midwest with her mother.
6533. Edward A. Murray
Edward A. Murray
Description
Chemical Engineering, 1932-1942
6534. R. W. Schaad
R. W. Schaad
Description
Federal Cooperative Extension, 1939-1951
6535. Marion Thomas
Marion Thomas
Description
Agricultural Economist, hired 1951
6536. William M. Stone
William M. Stone
Description
Graduate Assistant in Mathematics, 1938-1939
6537. Bessie G. Tressler
Bessie G. Tressler
Description
Bessie Gyneth Tressler was a librarian from 1946 to 1969. She was born in 1903 in Emporia, Kansas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the College of Emporia in 1926, where she studied music. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois in 1930, and attended further study at the University of Chicago. Before coming to OSC, she had sixteen years of experience in library work, having been a cataloger and assistant librarian in several different libraries. She was hired as an Order Assistant at $2,400 per year. Since most of her training was in cataloging, her supervisors planned to transfer her to the Catalog Department as soon as there was an opening. She became an assistant professor in 1948, an associate professor in 1953, and became the Head Order Librarian in 1965. In 1967, she was appointed as the Head of Acquisitions Department. She took sabbatical leave from January-April of 1957, which she used to explore college and university libraries throughout New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, in addition to visiting agents, publishers, out-of-print dealers ad magazine agents in New York City and Boston. She was earning $13,020 at time of her retirement in 1969. She was given Emeritus status, after spending 23 years at OSC, for her contributions to the library. She was a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of University Women.
6538. Wilda Thompson
Wilda Thompson
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Wilda Thompson was a Serials Division library assistant, who supervised mending and binding from 1941 to 1945. She was born in 1912 in Camp Murray, Fort Lewis, Washington. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Tacoma. Her father was a former state adjutant general. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington in 1933, in the field of French language and literature, with additional study in English and European literature, history, and sociology. Two years later, she returned to attain her Bachelor of Arts in Librarianship in 1935. Before coming to OSC, she worked as a catalog assistant at the University of Idaho Library for four years. She also was a volunteer librarian at Clover Park Junior High School, where she assisted with organizing the school library and training student assistants. She was hired at $1,500 per year in 1941. During childhood, Thompson endured a severe case of diphtheria, which left her with unusually thickened vocal chords. This meant that she could only exhale a small amount of a air with each breath, limiting her to a moderate range of physical activity. She could not take part in work that necessitated much physical activity, such as running up and down stairs stacking books. She did not find this condition especially limiting in her career. Her former colleagues recommended her highly and emphasized that this physical condition did not interfere with her work. She resigned in 1945 to take a position at the University of Washington Library. In 1942, she passed after a brief illness at the age of 39. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Library Association, and the Pacific Northwest LIbrary Association, among others.
6539. Harold Prindle
Harold Prindle
Description
Extension Statistician
6540. Ethel Sanborn
Ethel Sanborn
Description
Ethel Ida Sanborn was a Professor of Botany from 1914 to 1948. She was born in 1882 in Goodwin, South Dakota. She earned her Bachelor of Science from South Dakota State College in 1903, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Dakota in 1904, her Master of Arts from the University of South Dakota in 1907, and her PhD. from Stanford in 1928. She attended further graduate school at the University of Oregon and the Puget Sound Biological Station Friday Harbor. Before coming to OSC, she had extensive experience teaching botany at the University of Oregon, where she spent 18 years. She began at OSC in 1932 as an Assistant Professor of Botany, and graduated to Associate Professor the next year. She authored and co-authored several articles on Oregon botany, with titles such as “The Goshen Flora of west central Oregon,” and the “Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of western Oregon.” She took sabbatical leave at least four times during her career, for a year in 1919, 1923, and 1927. In 1940, she took another for the period April-July 1940 on full salary, conducting research, writing, and attending the International Botalian Congress at Stockholm. She worked with Max Doty conducting research on marine algae. After having worked at OSC for 34 years, she was given Emeritus status at her retirement in 1948, in recognition of her “able teaching” and outstanding work in paleobotany. Her research on algae at the Institute of Marine Biology since it opened in 1925 “[was] known all over the Pacific Coast.” She was a member of several societies, such as Phi Sigma, and the American Association for Advanced Science, and the Paleontological Society of America. She was also a member of the DAR, the Baptist Church, and lifetime member of the American Association of University Women.
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