Jeanette Alice Brauns Dixon was a physical education instructor at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1973. She previously worked at Bosse High, in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 she took administrative leave from OSC to become an instructor for the National Red Cross Aquatic School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Battle Creek College in 1930, and her Master of Science from Oregon State in 1940. Her initial salary was $1,800 for ten months. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1943, with an annual salary of $2,400. She was married to James Dixon without children when she came to work for OSC. She took sabbatical leave from OSC in 1947 to complete a study on swimming, and later published a book called, “Simplified Swimming”. In 1967, she was granted indefinite tenure and promotion to an Associate Professor. She was born in 1907, in Evansville, Indiana.
Roland Dimick completed a Bachelor of Science at Oregon Agricultural College in 1926 and a Master of Science in 1931. He was a Professor of Fisheries and Entomology from 1929-1966.
Nellie Catherine Lyle was a Home Demonstration Agent from 1939 to 1947. She was born in 1913 in Glendale, Arizona. After completing work at University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and OSC, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from the Arizona State Teacher’s College in 1936. She received her Master of Science from OSC in 1939 in household administration. Her thesis was titled Normative Study of Growth and Development of 1938-1939 Oregon State College Home Management House Infants. During her final year of school, she worked as a graduate assistant in the Home Management House. In addition, she had five years’ cumulative experience teaching elementary school and home making in Arizona. She also co-led a 4-H home economics club. In 1947, her superiors at OSU planned to arrange sabbatical leave for her so she could take on research in additional areas, thereby allowing her to become an extension specialist in housing or home management, as they expected rural families’ needs for housing information to increase considerably. They expressed that she showed a “marked ability” for the field. Instead, she chose to resign later in the year to be married, at which point she was earning a salary of $3,456.
Kathleen Jean McCrae was a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large from 1939 to 1941, with a salary of $2,100. She was born in 1914, in Florence, Oregon. After completing work at Oregon Normal School, San Francisco Teacher’s College, and OSC, she received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education and Physical Education from the lattermost in 1938. Before coming to OSC, she was a home economics and physical education teacher in Prineville, Oregon. Before that, she spent four years teaching at rural schools in Oregon. She sought a position at OSC because she reportedly desired to work with adults and enjoy farm life. She was a member of the Oregon State Teachers Association, Omicron Nu at OSC, and the Presbyterian Church. She transferred to Washington County in 1940. In 1941, she resigned to be married.
