From among the hundreds of pairs of pajamas of every kind and color that paraded at the annual girls' pajama party at 4-H club summer school at Oregon State this year these were tops. Because there are so many girls this year, several separate parties were held. Each of the dormitories had a party and the "sorority girls" held several, with two or three houses combining for each. The best pair of store-made and the best pair of home-made p.j.'s were selected at each party. Front row, from left-- Clara Wenzel, Harney county; Patricia Geil, Clackamas; Lillian Poletich, Multnomah; Jane French, Sherman; Norma Arnold, Lake; All home-made pajamas; Violet Schwab, Columbia; Virginia Ott, Coos; Daisy Wharton, Jefferson; Store-Made Pajamas. Back row, from left-- Hazel Mckay, Lincoln; Jacqueline Morton, Lane; Doris Michel, Douglas; Verna Froehlich, Marion; All home made; Geralding Peters, Wasco; Pearl Burk, Linn; Margeret Kaseberg, Marion; All store made.
President George W. Peavy received a flag as a gift from the Junior Class at the Junior Weekend Convention from Frank Chown, chairman of the weekend committee.
Edwin Thomas Reed was born in River Falls, Wisconsin on September 15, 1872. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1895 with a B.S. He then studied composition and literature at Harvard, earning a B.A. Reed spent a number of years at newspaper and teaching jobs and was the English Department chair at Moorhead State Teachers College. At Moorhead, Reed also supervised the library, directed the college's publications program, and had published two volumes of his poetry. He married Katharine May Hartwell in 1909. They two daughters and a son. Reed moved to Corvallis in 1911. Reed was asked by Kerr, the College's president, in the spring of 1912 to become the College's Editor of Publications. Reed served in this position until his retirement in 1943. He also served as Editor of Publications for the Oregon State System of Higher Education from 1932-1943. Many of his poems were published in magazines. Reed died at his home in Corvallis on August 25, 1948.
Buena Margason Maris Mockmore Steinmetz was born in Salem, Oregon on 2 August 1898. She attended the University of Oregon and George Washington University for a short time. She attended the University of Puget Sound, receiving a BA degree in 1936. She taught school in Tacoma for a year before coming to Oregon State College, where she earned a MS degree in Home Economics in 1939. Steinmetz taught at OSU before becoming Dean of Women in 1941, serving in that capacity until 1948. In 1943 she took a leave of absence to work in the highest woman's job at the Hanford atomic project for the DuPont Co., returning to OSC in 1944. Steinmetz received a War Department citation for her work. She was active in the American Association of University Women. On 18 December 1967 she passed away in Portland.
Mark Clyde Phillips, a lifelong resident of Corvallis, was born February 10, 1877. He entered Oregon Agricultural College in 1892 and studied mechanical engineering. He played on the 1894 and 1895 football teams. Phillips received a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering degree in 1896. The next year he was hired as an instructor of mechanical engineering at OAC, and taught until 1947. He also served as superintendent of the college heating plant from 1910-1947 and superintendent of the physical plant from 1937-1947. Phillips was a member of the Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He married Mary Alice Crawford in 1922; she died in 1961. Mark Clyde Phillips died in 1965.
Slats Gill at his testimonial banquet. He was the Beaver head basketball coach for 35 years and later became the athletic director. He was a basketball player for OSC and became the head coach in 1929. His teams won 599 games and lost 392 while he was the coach. He lead the Beavers to the NCAA final four twice, in 1949 and 1963 and they won or shared five Pacific Coast Conference titles.