Six students in lounge area (possibly Memorial Union?) in 6 button double breasted dress uniforms. Navy ROTC patch is visible on sleeves of uniforms. Photograph appears in the 1946 OSC Beaver Yearbook.
Stock photograph with marking: "this belongs to John" written in pen at bottom. Large assembly of cadets, all seated in Men's Gym. Uniforms date photograph to WWII vintage.
Posed grouping of cadets. Four seated with coed in center with five cadets standing behind. Taken in the Memorial Union lounge room. Uniform coats are the standard Pattern 1941 field jackets with ties tucked into second/third button on shirts.
Company G, OSC ROTC cadets. Cadets are all wearing garrison caps. Center subjects in front row are US Army personnel assigned to OSC for cadet training. Photo is of group seated on bleachers with wooden walkway in foreground.
Army and Navy ROTC cadet officers shaking hands. Uniform of Army cadet still has the cloth belt over the jacket which dates to prior 1955. Navy dress jacket is standard issue. The reverse notation on the photo written in pen: "Major Glenn W. Rodney (R) congratulating Mids Ens John C. Kempf (L). His platoon won platoon competition." No date is listed with caption.
Small print used for Oregon Stater magazine. Military stock photo with stamp on reverse: "Processed by Headquarters "B" Detachment 164th Signal Photographic Company APO 627." The print is also marked CT-45-23831 in pencil, possibly dating photo to 1945. Beaver Engraving Co. stamp on reverse also. Military personnel in line taking oath for field commissions are not identified. Three men are of higher non-commissioned officer ranks. Photo appears in the Oregon Stater, October 1945, page 14. Listed as Kumming China, seven men receiving field commissions. William H. Johnson ('45) is in group. Oregon Stater October 1945, page 14.
Photo marked in pen: "News Bureau Photo." Photo of cadets in line to enter Memorial Union, some holding textbooks and folders. Uniforms indicate WWII vintage with ties tucked into shirts. All men wearing folding "Cutter" caps. Photograph appears in the 1944 Oregon State Beaver Yearbook, page 202.
Photo includes August Strand with ROTC officers. Colonel on left shaking hands is wearing the late war issue "Ike" jacket dating the photo to 1944 or later. Good detail of uniforms and rank insignia. Officers are unidentified.
Photograph from Oregon State College Library Picture Collection. Presentation of a plaque to Army ROTC cadet. No identification on personnel in photograph.