Maxine Alice Dull was an assistant in the library orders department at Oregon State College from 1944 to 1946. Dull was born in 1914, in Kremlin, Montana. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California in 1943 and received her Certificate in Librarianship from the University of California in 1944. When she came to OSC, she listed Los Angeles as her permanent address. She was single with no kids when she came to OSC. She was hired at an annual salary was $1,900. She resigned in 1946 to work at a Safeway Stores Library in Oakland, California, where she would receive higher pay. The OSC director of libraries W.H. Carlson mentioned in a letter the increasing competitiveness of industrial libraries with public and college libraries over professional librarians when Dull announced her resignation.
Hazel Kelsey Westcott was a secretary in the executive office from 1926 to 1958. She was born in 1890 in Columbia City, Indiana, as one of three daughters to George W. and S. Ellen Kelsey. She had two sisters. She married James C. Westcott on July 31, 1924. They lived in Oroville, California until 1926, when they moved to Corvallis. Before starting college, she spent several years with General Electric Company and a law firm in Portland. She earned a commercial certificate from International Business College, Fort Wayne, and her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1920, and worked as a stenographer and secretary for a number of years, and worked as a high school instructor of commercial subjects and home economics in Peoria, Arizona, and at Princeton and Roseland, California for four years. She was an executive secretary-statistician in the President’s Office of OAC, promoted to administrative assistant in 1930, and given assistant professor rank with indefinite tenure in 1937. On March 16, 1932, her husband suffered an injury to his knee that kept him from returning to work. Westcott was then the primary breadwinner, and sought assurance from OSC that her position would be continued through the next year. She reached retirement age in 1956 but continued working for two years. She resigned from her position in the President's Office in 1921, and was appointed the next year as executive secretary. She retired in 1958 after 32 years of service. Her husband died in 1961. She was the secretary of Omicron Nu, and a member of social fraternity Alpha Delta Pi and Eastern Star.
Philis Louise Parsons was a laboratory assistant in the Department of Art and Architecture in 1946. She was born in 1912 in Twin Falls, Idaho. She was divorced with four children, who ranged in age from 14 to 8 at the time of her hire at OSC. She attended undergraduate college at Chapman College in Los Angeles, and then received her degree in arts and crafts, with additional study in painting, from Oregon State in 1945. Before coming to OSC, she was the Arts and Skills Coordinator for the Camp Adair Navy Hospital. She also had experience teaching art in an eighth grade country school on a volunteer basis, and lived for two years in Alaska. At OSC, she was hired at $1,500 on a nine-month basis. She worked from nine to five every weekday with instructors and their classes, taking care of supplies and equipment, and organizing materials for “demonstration and reference.” As a recent student at OSC, she was familiar with the classes. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Alpha, as well as the secretary of the Valley Rangers, an amateur riding club.
Erna Marguerite Plagemen was the supervising nurse and then Assistant Director for Student Health Services from 1929 until her death in 1964. She was born in 1902 in Columbus, Nebraska. She received her Registered Nurse degree from University of Michigan School of Nursing in 1926. Before coming to OSC, she spent three years working as a nurse with the Health Service at the University of Michigan. OSC hired her at $1800 per year for a 10 month appointment in 1929. The next year, she received a $200 raise out of appreciation for her ability and responsibilities. As the supervising nurse, she was responsible for all the other nurses, all supplies, office records, and the “care and cleanliness of both the Health Service and the Hospital,” in addition to her routine nursing duties. She was given faculty status upon her hire, but in 1954 her rank was changed to civil service, though she gained the position of Assistant Director. This was because her position and work did not fall under what qualified for academic status, as it did not include teaching, research, extension, or counseling. Plagemen hoped to regain academic status and indefinite tenure, as she thought it would come with a “recovery of prestige.” She pointed out that she was involved in a research project exploring the effect of academic probation on physical and mental illness, which involved student counseling. The Director of Student Health Services, Charles E. Kremer, helped lobby for her to regain academic status, and spoke highly of her “professional character.” In 1961, she was granted an Assistant Professorship. In 1963, after 34 years with OSC, she took several months off work due to a serious illness. Due to her exemplary work and dedication, her supervisor Kremer suggested that she be granted “the most generous terms of sick leave possible,” which was granted. She had accrued significant sick leave, although it was acknowledged that she was not expected to live much longer. She passed away from cancer January 26, 1964. At the time of her death, she was earning $4,776 yearly. Her service was held at Zion Lutheran Church in Corvallis. Her memorial pamphlet quoted the 23rd Psalm, and listed Dr. Kremer as an honorary bearer.
Shirley A. Drawz was an order assistant at the Oregon State College library in 1946. She was born in 1922, in Superior, Wisconsin. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the College of St. Scholactica in 1944, and her A.B.L.S. from the University of Michigan in 1946. She had previously worked as an assistant at the circulations department at the University of Michigan library before coming to OSC. She was hired for a twelve month period, with an annual salary of $2,000.