The roof of what is now McAlexander Fieldhouse was painted by a group of Corvallis Boy Scouts in 1929. The diagonal arrow points to the Grant Street airport, which was located one mile to the northeast of campus.
The woman pictured third from right is Ruth Nomura. Ruth Nomura, born in Portland in 1907, was one of the first Japanese Americans to be born in Oregon. She was also the first Nisei woman from Portland to attend Oregon State Agricultural College. Enrolling in 1926, Nomura graduated in 1930 with a B.S. in Home Economics.
Ulysses Grant Dubach was a Professor and Chair of Government and Business Law at OAC, and also the college's first Dean of Men. Frank Abbott Magruder was, in addition to Dubach, the second of two faculty members in what came to be known as Political Science at OAC. Magruder was the author of the textbook, "American Government: A Consideration of the Problems of Democracy," which was used in collegiate political science classes for several decades.
Pictured at center left is Evelyn Burleson, instructor of civilian pilot training. Oregon State offered civilian pilot training to men and women in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The training took place at the Albany airport.