Beatrice Beebe worked as an English instructor at OSC from 1934 to 1952. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Illinois, Boston University Law School, the University of Washington, and she received her L.L.B. from the University of Oregon Law School in 1912. She received her Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1925. She was born in 1886, in Chicago, Illinois. She listed her son, William Beebe, as her beneficiary. Before coming to OSC she had worked on various school boards throughout Washington and Oregon, from as early as 1911. She was a member of the National Writers Club and the American Poetry League. She also taught English and math at various high schools in Oregon. She published articles, poems, and translated plays in her spare time. Before her retirement, she was promoted to assistant professor. Her beginning wage was $195 a month and grew to $3920 a year.
Violet Baskam was an instructor in the Music Department at OSC from 1948 to 1952. She received her undergraduate education in music from the University of Michigan in 1943 and received her Master’s degree in 1944. She also studied at Juilliard from 1944 to 1945 and Columbia University from 1945 to 1946. She was born in 1921, in Highland Park, Michigan. She was married while working at OSC. She came to work at OSC in order to be with her husband. Before coming to work at OSC, she worked at the music department at Hendrix College. Her initial salary was $3000. She resigned from OSU in 1952.
Jane Catherine Dale was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1947. She was paid an annual salary of $2,000. She had previously worked as a supervisor of teaching at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth from 1939 to 1946. She came to OSC because she wanted to teach English. She received her undergraduate education from James Milikin University and the University of Delaware and George Washington University from 1927 to 1932. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938 and her Master of Arts in English in 1939 from the University of Wisconsin. She was unmarried when she came to work at OSC, and listed her friend, Miss Ruth Elizabeth Lautenbach, as her beneficiary. She resigned in 1947 to take another position elsewhere with a higher rank and salary. She was born in 1907, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Dora May Himmelsbach Costello was a reference assistant at the Oregon State College library off and on from 1923 to 1925, then from 1938 to 1943, and from 1945 to 1948. Her annual salary was $1,920. She was twenty-nine years old when she came to work at OSC in 1923. She had previously worked as an English instructor at an Idaho high school. She received her Bachelor of Education in 1921, and her Bachelor of Library Science in 1923 from the University of Washington. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. From 1926 to 1937, she worked as a library assistant at Louisiana State University, California State University, and at Yakima Public Library. She came back to work at Oregon State College in 1938 because she wanted a permanent position. From 1943 to 1945, she took a leave of absence for military service to join the Women’s Army Corps. At this time, OSC’s library was already suffering from staff shortages due to the war, but her leave was granted. She resigned in 1948. She was born in 1894, in Crookston, Minnesota.
Emma S. Coe was a secretary for the Department of Housing and Employment for Men at OSC from 1941 to 1945. Coe was born in 1888, in Niverville, Manitoba, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1915. Previously, she had been a high school and substitute teacher and worked for several newspapers in North Dakota. She also published an article titled “History of Crary, North Dakota and Southern Ramsey County”, which was published to the North Dakota State Historical Collections. Coe moved to Corvallis in 1936. Before coming to OSC, she was a housewife, and she explained on her job application that she wanted to help the family income. She was paid an annual salary of $1,200.
Louise Lieurance Daniels was an English instructor for Oregon State College in 1947. She was born in 1924, in Wilmington, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Miami University in 1946. She was married to Robert Daniels with no children when she was hired to OSC. She had previously worked as a clerk at the Oregon State library before becoming an instructor. She was appointed as an instructor due to a severe staff shortage in 1947. Her annual salary was $2,000. Daniels was initially brought on for the winter and spring terms of 1947, but was given the opportunity to continue as an instructor for the 1947-1948 school year due to the resignation of another instructor. However, her appointment was terminated June 30th, 1947.
Commery Wallace Coleman was an instructor in home economics at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1948. Coleman was born in 1916, in Portland, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Oregon State College in 1941. Before working at OSC, she worked at at various high schools throughout Oregon, including Philomath High School and Children’s Farm Home School. Her annual salary as an instructor at Oregon State was $2,400. She resigned in 1948 because she got engaged.
Jane White Jensen was a catalog assistant at the Oregon State College library from 1949 to 1951. She was born Jane White in 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947, and her Master of Science in Library Science and history from the University of Illinois Library School in 1949. She was also a member of the American Library Association. Before coming to OSC, she worked as a cataloger at the University of Pittsburgh. She was hired at Oregon State at an annual salary of $3,100. She married Thorkel H. Jensen, a fellow assistant librarian at Oregon State, in 1950 and became Jane Jensen. In 1951, the married couple both resigned from Oregon State. Mr. Jensen planned to attend the University of Chicago and Jane Jensen accompanied him.
Eileen Johnson was an English instructor at Oregon State College in 1946. Johnson was born in 1922, in Salem, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in secretarial science from Oregon State in 1943. Before coming to work at Oregon State, she was a secretary to an assistant state highway engineer in Salem. She also spent the summer of 1945 instructing Mexican workers in English in Salem. She worked at Oregon State under a ten-month term basis, at an annual salary of $2,000. She was married when she came to work at OSC.
Laura Cornelia McAllester was an Assistant Professor and Chairman of Physical Education. She was born in 1883 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She began at OSC in 1926, at a salary of $2,200. She received a certificate from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1906, and completed further undergraduate work at Wellesley College. In 1932, she received her Bachelor of Science from OSC. Before coming to OSC, she spent seven years as the Director of Physical Education at North Carolina College for Women. She was the director of a high school in Rochester, New York, did physiotherapy at a private office for four years in Sacramento, and spent two years doing health corrective work at a private school. After starting as an instructor at OSC in 1926, she became Chairman of the Department in 1932, and an Assistant Professor in 1935. She took sabbatical for winter term of 1945 to conduct a survey of new methods and procedures in body mechanics, particularly as they related to posture and relaxation. She planned to conduct this work in either San Francisco or New York, in order to contact resident leaders in the field. She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi and the Episcopal church.