Tommy Prothro coached football at Oregon State from 1955 through the 1965 Rose Bowl game. The Beavers lost the New Years Day bowl game to Michigan by a score of 34-7.
Dick Fosbury attended OSU from 1965-1969 and is remembered today as the inventor of the "Fosbury Flop" high jump technique. He won two national championships and an Olympic gold medal while revolutionizing the sport with his innovative approach to jumping higher.
Field hockey was one of the few intercollegiate sports available to women at OSU prior to the passage of Title IX. OSU women began playing intercollegiate field hockey as early as 1938, and in the mid-1970s it became a varsity sport. In this photo OSU player Linda Sims (front left) works against an unidentified opponent. During the 1967 season OSU compiled a record of eight wins, two losses and one tie, which included two wins over the University of Oregon. Field hockey was eliminated as an intercollegiate sport in about 1978.
The hats promote the Ford Caravan of Music, which on this occasion was sponsoring performances by The Lively Ones, the Serendipity Singers, and the Oscar Peterson Trio on February 4, 1965.
Like several OSU buildings through the years, Cordley Hall was built in stages. It has housed several of the college’s science and agriculture departments, including Zoology, Botany & Plant Pathology, Microbiology and Entomology.
Abed (Class of 1962) was the first international student to serve as president of ASOSU. After graduating from OSU, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a longtime official with the International Monetary Fund, and served as director of its Middle Eastern Department from July 2002 to December 2003. He later served as the chairman of the Palestine Monetary Authority and most recently as the Institute of International Finance as a senior counselor and director for Africa and the Middle East.
OSU football coach Tommy Prothro shaking hands with Oregon coach Len Casanova. Standing in the middle is OSU quarterback and Heisman Trophy-winner Terry Baker.
The Associated Women Students (AWS) organization was established in 1924 for the purpose of furthering the educational, social and cultural aims of women. It served as an umbrella group for Oregon State’s women’s living groups, honorary societies and clubs. AWS sponsored a variety of activities, such as war bond and stamp fundraising drives during World War II. The Dean of Women served as the organization’s adviser and liaison to the college’s administration. The AWS became inactive in June 1970.
Edward Christopher Allworth (1895-1966) was a decorated veteran of World War I who joined the College faculty in 1925 as secretary of the Alumni Association, secretary of the Memorial Union Board of Governors, and manager of the Memorial Union. Known to students as "The Major," he was instrumental in planning and fundraising for the Memorial Union and served as the building's manager for 38 years until his retirement in 1963. George Stevens succeeded Allworth, serving as director of the Memorial Union from 1963 until his retirement in 1990.
Carlson served as university librarian from 1945 to 1965. He began advocating for a new library in the early 1950s, and the Oregon legislature approved the building in 1961. On September 5, 1963, Carlson led a procession of library staff and students, each carrying a few volumes, into the new building, where the books were placed on the shelves in call number order.
Terry Baker (b. 1941) is among the most accomplished and celebrated athletes in Oregon State history. Winner of the 1962 Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding college football player, Baker's Oregon State basketball team also reached the Final Four of the 1963 NCAA tournament. That same year, Baker was named "Sportsman of the Year" by Sports Illustrated magazine. Baker graduated from OSU in 1963 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Following a brief stint in professional football, Baker earned a law degree and enjoyed a successful career practicing in the Portland area
This meet, against the University of Oregon, was the first to be run on a new course at Corvallis’ Avery Park. Although the UO edged out OSU on this occasion, the Beavers went on to a tie for sixth place at the NCAA Championships.
Provides a penetrating account of a once-rich steelhead trout stream threatened by careless logging practices. Focusing on Oregon's North Umpqua River Basin, the film portrays the impact of clearcut logging on the small tributary streams where most of the rivers's steelhead are spawned and reared. The subtle interdependence of land and water, and the disruption of the aquatic environment caused by stream-clogging debris and warming water are dramatically presented. Hal Riney and Dick Snider, two weekend fishermen, produced the film and donated it to Oregon State University. It was widely distributed and viewed in Oregon and throughout the United States through the 1970s.
Detroit Dam, on Oregon's North Santiam River has a dual purpose of providing flood control and hydro electric power for the Northwest power grid. The lake formed behind the dam also provides a popular recreation area for boating, fishing and camping. This scene shows the upper side of the dam and part of the lake, located 50 miles east of Salem, Oregon, on Highway 22.