The Administrative Council was established by the Board of Regents in 1908, soon after President Kerr assumed office. The council advised the president on administrative and policy issues. It consisted of the president, the academic deans, director of Extension and other top college administrators such as the registrar and deans of men and women. This may have been the last meeting of the Administrative Council prior to President Peavy’s retirement. This photo appeared in the 1940 yearbook
After a distinguished career with the Oregon State College Extension Service, Frank Llewellyn Ballard was appointed as the college's eighth president in 1940. He served less than a year because of illness and returned to the Extension Service administration. Ballard was the first OSC alumnus to serve as president.
Albert Davis Taylor (left) was a Cleveland, Ohio, landscape architect who developed Oregon State's 1926 and 145 campus plans. August L. Strand was president of Oregon State from 1942 to 1961.
Wrought iron gates for the entrance to Oregon State College were constructed in Portland under the supervision of O. B. Dawson as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and completed in the late 1930s. A successful campaign was conducted in the spring of 1940 to raise $1500 for installation of the gates; the gates were installed at 10th and Madison in 1940 and dedicated in May 1941. In 1953, the gates were moved to 11th and Campus Way. Formerly the president of Oregon State College, William J. Kerr was retired by the time this presentation was made. Seated to Kerr's left are E. C. Sammons of the State Board of higher Education; Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education; and Albert D. Taylor, who developed Oregon State's 1926 and 1945 campus plans.
Francois Archibald Gilfillan's (1893-1983) career at Oregon State spanned over sixty years as a student (B.S. Pharmacy, 1918), a professor of chemistry (1927-1939), acting president (1941-1942), and dean of science (1939-1962).
Wrought iron gates for the entrance to Oregon State College were constructed in Portland under the supervision of O. B. Dawson as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and completed in the late 1930s. A successful campaign was conducted in the spring of 1940 to raise $1500 for installation of the gates; the gates were installed at 10th and Madison in 1940 and dedicated in May 1941. In 1953, the gates were moved to 11th and Campus Way. Formerly the president of Oregon State College, William J. Kerr was retired by the time this presentation was made. Seated to Kerr's left are E. C. Sammons of the State Board of higher Education; Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education; and Albert D. Taylor, who developed Oregon State's 1926 and 1945 campus plans.