Dorothy Joy Lowe was an instructor and assistant at the OSU library Department of Circulation from 1944 to 1945, at a salary of $1,800. She was born in 1912 in Bison Hills, South Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English, with additional study in Latin, speech, and history from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1934; and received a Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois Library School in 1944. Before coming to OSU, she had accumulated three years’ experience teaching in high schools across South Dakota, four years’ experience as a general library assistant at Dakota Wesleyan University, and one year of experience as a part-time assistant at the University of Illinois Circulation Department. She was active in her church and frequently taught Sunday school classes. She worked with the YWCA and had published a poem in a state poetry magazine titled Payne Petals (sp?). Professor Lowe suffered a thyroid condition which “induced a high state of nervousness.” Due to this illness, her work grew less dependable, and her friends at the library--in addition to her local physician--convinced her to resign in 1945 to have a long rest and medical treatment at her home in South Dakota.
Dr. Florence E. Blazier was an Associate Professor of Home Economics from 1924 to 1949. Blazier was born on September 24th, 1888, in Springfield, Indiana. She received her undergraduate education from the University of Chicago and the University of Indiana. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1932. Blazier had previously taught home economics in various grade schools and high schools throughout the 1910’s. She then taught home economics at Indiana University. She became the head of the Department of Home Economics Education in 1925 and held that position until her retirement. She was paid $2800 a year initially for this position, but by 1945, her salary had risen to $3770. She retired in 1949 due to an illness. Blazier tried to come back to work part-time when her health began improving, but she passed away in 1951.