Leaders of the 1944 Freshman class are from left: Bill Gibson, Portland, president; Patricia Northrup, Portland, vice-president; Edward Yada, Salem, sergeant-at-arms; Elma Hutton, Silverton, secretary; Bryce Brisbin, Corvallis, treasurer. The group directed the activities of the 1600 members of the class of 1944.
Ava Milam and foreign Home Economics students at the coast near Bandon, Oregon. Ava B. Milam came to OAC in 1911 and was appointed the Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917, serving for 33 years. She was primarily interested in the study of home economics within Asian cultures. During WWI she was appointed as the Home Economics director for Oregon.
Bernard Kalei Chang was an OSC student in Civil Engineering from Waimea, Hawaii. He lived in Hawley Hall during the 1941-1942 academic year. The Photo is used in the 1942 yearbook, page 265.
For cannery pea harvesting operations in Umatilla county, Mexican labor was a major factor in the successful harvesting operations. Note the 12 pea viners in operation, with trucks bringing in cannery peas from the surrounding fields.
Harvesting the early potato crop in Malheur county was made possible by the presence of the Mexicans. One example is this digger at work on the Roy Holmes farm.
Alphonso Hernandez trims the tops off the crate of cauliflower near Gresham, Oregon. He has nearly 20 acres of cauliflower and brussel sprouts. He estimates a yield of 400 crates of cauliflower to an acre with 9 to 12 heads per crate.
Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, nurse at Athena and Milton Freewater farm labor camps, dispenses cough medicine to Zamora Heriberto Perez. She stands at the door of the trailer dispensary.
Mrs. Dorothy Burleson, Walla Walla nurse at Athena and Milton-Freewater farm labor camps, treats a Mexican National in a trailer dispensary at the Athena camp.