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1. A student working in the Language Lab
A student working in the Language Lab
2. Raul Hernandez playing tennis
Raul Hernandez playing tennis
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Hernandez was an international student from El Salvador. Men's tennis was a varsity sport at OSU from 1921 to 1975.
3. Jack Dymond and John Corliss with the Alvin submersible
Jack Dymond and John Corliss with the Alvin submersible
Description
The two researchers used the submarine to make dives of 9,200 feet off the coast of Ecuador. The dives were featured in the October 1977 issue of National Geographic. The Alvin was also used for dives off of the Oregon coast in the mid 1980s. This photograph appeared in the December 1978 Oregon Stater.
4. OSU Antarctic Station
OSU Antarctic Station
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OSU oceanographers studied Antarctic under-ice water temperature, currents and salinity as part of a National Science Foundation research grant. The four-member team lived in one of the ten feet by twelve feet huts in the photo; the other served as their workspace. In September and October 1974, the crew experienced air temperatures with a wind chill of more than minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This photo first appeared in the January 1975 Oregon Stater.
5. Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson
Description
Steve Johnson was a star post player for the OSU basketball team from 1977 to 1981. He was drafted number 7 overall in the 1981 NBA draft and played professionally for ten years.
6. Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods
Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods
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Wagner coached both OSU athletes at the Pan American games in Mexico City, where they both won gold medals. He coached at OSU from 1966 to 1975, compiling a dual meet record of 49-24. He led OSU to four top six finishes at the NCAA Championships, where the 1969 squad finished second. Nine of his athletes won individual NCAA titles, and fifteen athletes won twenty-three All-American honors. Tom Woods was a four-time All-American in the high jump and captured the 1972 NCAA title. Huntley competed at OSU in 1975 and participated on two U.S. Olympic teams. In the early 1970s, OSU was called the “high jump capital of the world” by some sportswriters due to the success of Dick Fosbury, Woods, Huntley and other Beaver high jumpers.
7. Chris Johns, OSU freshman class president
Chris Johns, OSU freshman class president
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Johns attended OSU from 1970 to 1974. Though he came to OSU to study agriculture, he discovered a passion for photography. After graduating from Oregon State and earning a master’s degree at the University of Minnesota, Johns embarked on a successful career as a photojournalist. He was named the National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1979. After a number of years as a freelance photographer, he joined National Geographic’s staff in 1995. In 2003 he became editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine. That same year he was also named as one of the twenty-five most important photographers in the world. Johns was OSU’s 2005 commencement speaker.
8. Karen Carsini of OSU’s Outdoor Program tunes up skis
Karen Carsini of OSU’s Outdoor Program tunes up skis
Description
The Outdoor Program offered equipment rentals for outdoor activities to the OSU community, sponsored ski and rafting trips, and hosted lectures and clinics pertaining to outdoor activities. The program was located in a quonset hut near Moreland Hall for several years. Today similar equipment and programs are available through the Dixon Recreation Center’s Adventure Leadership Institute, which also offers bicycle, ski, and snowboard repair.
9. Members of OSU's Astonomical Society posing with a telescope
Members of OSU's Astonomical Society posing with a telescope
10. Gene Alexander at the OSU Energy Fair
Gene Alexander at the OSU Energy Fair
Description
Gene Alexander explains how water heated by the parabolic reflector could be used to vaporize freon to produce electricity at the OSU Energy Fair, held in the Memorial Union quad. At the time, Alexander was a senior in Mechanical Engineering.
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