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21. Margaret Field
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- Margaret Muriel Field was an Engineering Reference Librarian at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1950. She was born in 1895, in Anoka, Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1919 and her Master of Arts from the University of California in 1933. She worked as an assistant librarian at Modesta Junior College and at the Lewiston Public Library in Idaho before coming to OSC. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. She developed an extensive knowledge of engineering literature while working at OSC, and also compiled a bibliography on the electrical heating of houses in 1946, which was published by the Bonneville Power Administration. She passed away in 1950 of a sudden stroke.
22. Mary E. Lewis
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- Mary Eunice Lewis was an Associate Professor of Modern Languages, specializing in Germanic languages, and was employed at OSC from 1928 to 1951. She was born in 1887 in Georgetown, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Science in 1906 from Pacific College, her Bachelor of Arts in 1907 from Penn College, and an Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. She was head of the German Department at Pacific College from 1910-1937, until she left to spend a year of travel in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland. She returned to the United States too late to secure university employment, so she taught at Silverton High School, in Silverton, Oregon, for a year, until she was brought onto the OSC staff. After teaching here for eight years, Professor Lewis took a sabbatical leave to undertake graduate study at the University of Washington, with a teaching fellowship in German. This enabled her to attain her doctorate. In 1937, she was involved in a brief legal dispute. Years before, in 1932, a colleague by the name of Professor Bach became ill, and Professor Lewis took over the bulk of his classes. Later, Professor Lewis sought compensation for the extra work she undertook, and initiated a legal suit, although they ended up settling out of court. In 1950, with a peak salary of $4,600, she reached compulsory retirement age, but continued teaching half-time throughout the next year. Upon her retirement, she received Emeritus status.
23. Sara Prentiss
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- Sara Watt Prentiss was a Professor of Child Development and Parent Education from 1930 and Head of Household Administration from 1936 until her retirement in 1952. She was born in 1886 in Sarnia Ontario, Canada. At age eight, her family moved to Tillamook County, Oregon, where her father hoped to succeed in the timber industry. After she graduated high school, she earned money teaching in schools, which put her through her first year as a pharmacy student at the University of Washington. By the end of her freshman year, “this enterprising girl” was engaged to her physiology professor, Dr. Charles W. Prentiss. They married in the spring of her sophomore year, and spent the summer visiting his family and friends in Vermont, and briefly lived in Washington D.C. In February, they moved to Chicago, where her husband began work as a professor of microscopic anatomy at Northwestern University Medical School. They had three sons, but the first passed away at 15 months. After seven years of marriage, her husband passed away in 1915 from complications from a surgery for appendicitis. Her sons, Robert and Donald, were four and two years old each at the time. She had two options: return to her parents, as she was expected to, or support her family herself. She chose the latter. Prentiss hoped that her early chemistry training might make her employable as a laboratory technician. One of her husband’s friends discouraged this, and recommended she talk with the head of the home economics department at the University of Chicago. This person strongly advised her to study home economics at OSC, although at the time Prentiss “hardly knew what home economics meant.” She decided to go to OSC, as it was close to her parents, but intended to return to Chicago to receive her Bachelor of Science. After two years and a summer session, she received a Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1917, and accepted a teaching position. Prentiss was described as someone of “dignity and poise [whose] white hair and calm, assuring personality command the respect and admiration of her many friends.” Ava B. Milam recommended her appointment to the faculty, and wrote that she considered Prentiss to be “one of the strongest graduates” of the Home Economics Department, a “woman of broad experience,” and well-suited to handle child care for the department. Prentiss taught the first course in child care ever offered at OSU--a one credit course in fall of 1917 entitled “Mothercraft,” which mostly discussed the “physical care of the child.” As demand increased, she had more opportunities to teach varied courses: on child development, behavior problems, parent education, and family relationships, occasionally making use of a nursery school laboratory. She initially taught courses concerning nutrition, but eventually devoted most of her time to the newly-established nursery school. In 1930, she was made a full professor of Child Development and Parent Education. Soon after, the National Research Council offered her a fellowship in child development. She studied at Merrill-Palmer, and the Universities of Minnesota, Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1930, she received her master’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Scholarship. She worked with UC Berkeley’s extension service, as a parent education specialist from 1934-36. In 1936, she returned to OSC to become head of the Department of Household Administration. She reached retirement age in 1951, but they retained her on a part-time basis for the summer session, in order to teach seminar readings in Child Development and Family Relationships. Upon her retirement, she was given Emeritus status. Upon her first hire, she made $810 fro a 10 month term, and upon her retirement in 1951 she was earning $7000 a year. As for her sons, Robert graduated OSC in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in the field of entomology. He was a member of the “record-beating relay hurdle team in his senior year,” and after completing graduate school, lived in Salem with two children. Donald attended OSC for three years as a science major and member of Phi Kappa Phi, and thereafter attended the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Both had two sons, but Donald passed away shortly before Prentiss’ retirement. She took in his children until her daughter-in-law, Marion, finished her education. She died at age 68 on August 1st, 1954. She co-authored an article titled “the Observation of Food Habits in Young Children” with Dr. Mary C Jones, which was published in the seventh volume of Childhood Education. She was a member of numerous learned societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the American Association of University Professors. As a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, she was nominated for a Women of Achievement award in 1956. She was also a member of the Presbyterian church.
24. Eva Seen
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- Eva N. Seen was Head of the Department of Physical Education for Women from 1935 to 1963. She was born in 1900 in Sandoval, Illinois. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Knox College in 1922, in the field of economics with minors in psychology and philosophy. She earned her Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin in 1926, and completed an additional year and summer school in addition. She completed one year of graduate work at New York University for her doctoral degree, which she anticipated finalizing in the following year. Before coming to OSC, Seen was Director of Physical Education for Women at Wisconsin Central State Teachers College, and an instructor in physical education at Illinois State Teachers Normal School. She also had experience as a Director of the Rural Recreation Institute, the Director of City Recreation, the Director of Daily Vacation Bible School, and a camp counselor. She was hired to OSC in 1935 as Department Head at $3500 for a ten month term. She was recommended by Wisconsin colleagues which described her as a woman of “delightful personality, high standards and ideals,” who did not smoke or drink. She was described as “peculiarly qualified” to join Oregon State. She was awarded indefinite tenure in 1939. In her career, she published a number of articles in various journals, on subjects such as “Physical Education in the Elementary Grades,” and “Co-recreation Planning.” She was a member of numerous professional societies and honoraries, including the American Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation (serving as vice-president and president-elect of the Northwest Section) and the Oregon State Education Association. She was President of the Oregon State Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation, and vice-president of the Wisconsin P.E. Association. She took sabbatical from October 1941 to January 1942 in order to travel and observe college programs in health and physical education, with full salary. She took another sabbatical leave from March-June 1952, in order to travel and visit professional schools of physical education. She took additional sabbatical leave from March--June 1961 for the purpose of travel and studying other universities, as well as new procedures in major programs for professional preparation of teachers, on full salary. She served on the Board of Trustees at the Good Samaritan Hospital. She was a member of the Federated Church. She retired in 1963, at which point she was earning $13,200 at professor rank.
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- Jocelyn Rea Skinner was an instructor in Household Administration from 1946 to 1949. She was born Jocelyn Ann Rea in 1917 in Toronto, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Toronto in 1938, and her Master of Arts in Psychology, with a special emphasis on child psychology, from the same institution in 1940. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “A systematic analysis of the content of the children’s stories.” Before coming to OSC, she worked as Acting Director of Mary B. Eyre Nursery School at Scripps College. She also had experience as a supervisor at other nursery schools throughout Ontario, and had served as a director of a wartime day nursery. She worked as a camp counselor for four summers. When Wartime Programme was started in Ontario, she was chosen to open the first school as a “demonstration school for the province.” She had complete responsibility to plan and organize this project, ad went on to train and supervise staff in 28 schools. Dean Milam interviewed her in Los Angeles and recommended her for the appointment. She was hired at $2600 for a ten month term. On December 17, 1948, she married Charles S. Skinner, a graduate assistant in Biology with the Botany Department. She resigned in 1949, as her husband's work needed them to move out of Oregon. She was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority and the American Camping Association.
26. Ethel Allen
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- Ethel Allen worked as an assistant professor and assistant editor at Oregon State’s publications office from 1917 to 1948 and then from 1950 to 1955. She received her undergraduate education from Oregon Agricultural College in 1916. Initially, she worked in the library, but was promoted to Assistant in Office Publications in 1923 and in 1931 she was promoted to Assistant Editor of Publications. She was born in 1883, in Rickreall, Oregon. Before working at OSU, she was a rural school teacher, and taught in Independence, Oregon. Her annual salary was $2200. Before she retired, she made $2600. She was a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. After working at OSU for 20 years, she took sabbatical leave in 1937. Ethel Allen came to OSU because there was a shortage of staff in the library, as one of the employees was helping an ailing mother and was getting engaged, which meant she would not be working anymore. Allen was hired onto the library staff, working seven hours a day for $38 a month. She initially made about $600 a year. Ida Kidder wrote a letter to President Kerr in 1917 to ask for a rise in the wages of her library staff, pointing to the rise in living expenses, and recommended that Allen’s wages be raised to $720 a year. Kerr granted the salary increase. She retired in 1948, but came back in 1950 to work part time. Her previously held position was difficult to fill, as women often left to have babies, get married, or they found a better-paying job. Initially, she was only supposed to work for a year, but the rate of turnover for female staff was so great that she stayed on until 1955. Other faculty frequently said she was extremely skilled and experienced.
27. Margaret Fincke
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- Dr. Margaret Fincke was a home economics nutritionist at Oregon State College from 1935 to 1968. She was born in 1900, in Astoria, New York. Fincke received her A.B. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1921. She received her master’s degree from Columbia University in 1932, and her Ph.D. in 1935. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. was titled, “The Availability of Calcium from some Typical Foods”. She was also a member of the American Institute of Nutrition and the American Home Economics Association. Prior to coming to OSC, Fincke worked as an assistant researcher at the Chemistry Department at Columbia University. She began at OSC as an Associate Professor of Foods and Nutrition in 1935, becoming the first Ph.D. on the School of Home Economics staff. By 1943, she was promoted to the rank of professor. She became the head of the Foods and Nutrition Department in 1944. During World War Two, Fincke served on the Benton County Civil Defense Committee and was a nutrition chairman of the Benton County Red Cross. In 1955, she was nominated to become a consultant in Home Economics in Thailand for six months, following the contract formed between Oregon State and Kasetsart University. In the summer of 1961, she participated in the International Congress of Biochemistry in Moscow, Russia. She became Acting Dean of the School of Home Economics from 1963 to 1964 following the former Dean Scholl taking a sabbatical leave. Toward the end of her career, Fincke became president of the Oregon Dietetic Association. In 1966, she was nominated for the Oregon State University Alumni Association’s Distinguished Professor Award. She retired in 1968. By the end of her career, Fincke was an internationally recognized nutritionist, with significant contributions to the field of home economics and nutrition.
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- Elvera C. Horrell was an extension statistician and secretary for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1928 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1968. Horrell was born in 1906, in Portland, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education in business administration from Oregon State College from 1927 to 1937. She was brought on to work at Oregon State in 1928 as a stenographer for the Department of Agricultural Economics at $100 per month. Horrell was promoted to secretary of the office of Agricultural Economics in 1935. She resigned in 1937 to join her husband, Everett Horrell, in Eastern Oregon. She returned to work at OSC in 1939 as a secretary. In 1942, she was promoted to Junior Extension Statistician, at an annual salary of $1,800. In her new position, Horrell handled statistical questions for the County Agricultural program. She prepared statistical reports and handled special requests for her department’s statistical data. She was promoted to Agricultural Economist in 1965. She retired in 1968 with the rank of Assistant Professor.
29. Ruth McCorkle
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- Ruth McCorkle was an instructor in English for a year in 1946-47 and then again from 1956 to 1961. She was born in 1898 in Tygh Valley, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1931 in the field of home economics and English, received a diploma from Oregon Normal School in 1923 (now known as Western Oregon University), and received an Master of Arts in Education and Anthropology from University of Washington in 1950. Her thesis was titled “Plan for Teaching Speed Reading to Young Adults.” She previously worked as home demonstration agent at Chewama High School, and was discharged from the army in 1946. In between her first and second appointments at OSC, she worked in high schools, some of which were in Alaska. She was a published writer, having published one short professional article in the Normal Instructor in 1925, one short story in Oregon Farmer in 1933, and a poem in Mothers Activities. One of her poems was set to music and published by Westmore Music Company in Portland. She was an active member the American Legion Veterans Association, the American Association of University Women, the Cosmopolitan Club, and a group called the Phratares. She was a class advisor, a school librarian for six years, the assistant director for several school plays, and assistant dean of girls at Nestucca High School. She returned to OSC as a temporary part-time replacement in 1956. However, enrollment at OSC significantly increased in 1957, bringing composition classes up to about 30 students per section, and literature classes up to 60. The head of the English department, Herbert B Nelson, asserted that composition classes should never be more than 25, and literature classes never more than 40. He campaigned for two new part-time positions to take up the increased enrollment, one of which was Professor McCorkle. It was quickly decided to shift her to full-time. Professor McCorkle was said to be very kind and courteous. A visiting professor of a local high school wrote to President Strand to express his appreciation for Professor McCorkle having gone out of her way to help him get his bearings on campus. In 1961, she was granted the rank of senior instructor, after eight years. However, for unknown reasons, her record was flagged with a “failure to receive increase in rank.” She began at a salary of $2,300 in 1946 and resigned in 1961 at a salary of $5,400.
30. Alice Mitchell
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- Alice Maxine Headland was an instructor in English from 1946 to 1950. She was hired to replace Kenneth Mumford, and was reportedly offered three additional positions as instructor of English, one which was higher-paying than OSC’s offer. She married Alan George Mitchell in December of 1929, and changed her name to Alice Maxine Mitchell. She was hired at a salary of $2,400, and resigned in 1950 at a salary of $3,300.