Sally Malueg was a faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for 28 years, 1966-1994. From 1966-1972, Malueg taught French, her focus being literature from the French Enlightenment. Malueg became the Staff Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages in 1976, then served as the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1989-1994.
John Vincent Byrne assumed the presidency in November 1984 and served as OSU's twelfth president for eleven years until the end of 1995. Byrne began teaching at Oregon State University in 1960, and his career at the university spanned thirty-five years. He was an early leader of the OSU Sea Grant program and was the director of the Marine Science Center.
Alumnus and conservationist John Scharff was a founder of the E. R. Jackman Institute (later the E. R. Jackman Foundation) and was president of its board for the first fourteen years of its existence. He was manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge from 1935 until his retirement in 1971. In 1971 he received Distinguished Service Awards from both OSU and the Department of the Interior. Scharff died June 11, 1998 in Burns, Oregon.