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- Jeanette Alice Brauns Dixon was a physical education instructor at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1973. She previously worked at Bosse High, in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 she took administrative leave from OSC to become an instructor for the National Red Cross Aquatic School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Battle Creek College in 1930, and her Master of Science from Oregon State in 1940. Her initial salary was $1,800 for ten months. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1943, with an annual salary of $2,400. She was married to James Dixon without children when she came to work for OSC. She took sabbatical leave from OSC in 1947 to complete a study on swimming, and later published a book called, “Simplified Swimming”. In 1967, she was granted indefinite tenure and promotion to an Associate Professor. She was born in 1907, in Evansville, Indiana.
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- Beatrice Beebe worked as an English instructor at OSC from 1934 to 1952. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Illinois, Boston University Law School, the University of Washington, and she received her L.L.B. from the University of Oregon Law School in 1912. She received her Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1925. She was born in 1886, in Chicago, Illinois. She listed her son, William Beebe, as her beneficiary. Before coming to OSC she had worked on various school boards throughout Washington and Oregon, from as early as 1911. She was a member of the National Writers Club and the American Poetry League. She also taught English and math at various high schools in Oregon. She published articles, poems, and translated plays in her spare time. Before her retirement, she was promoted to assistant professor. Her beginning wage was $195 a month and grew to $3920 a year.
3. Jane Dale
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- Jane Catherine Dale was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1947. She was paid an annual salary of $2,000. She had previously worked as a supervisor of teaching at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth from 1939 to 1946. She came to OSC because she wanted to teach English. She received her undergraduate education from James Milikin University and the University of Delaware and George Washington University from 1927 to 1932. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938 and her Master of Arts in English in 1939 from the University of Wisconsin. She was unmarried when she came to work at OSC, and listed her friend, Miss Ruth Elizabeth Lautenbach, as her beneficiary. She resigned in 1947 to take another position elsewhere with a higher rank and salary. She was born in 1907, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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- Dora May Himmelsbach Costello was a reference assistant at the Oregon State College library off and on from 1923 to 1925, then from 1938 to 1943, and from 1945 to 1948. Her annual salary was $1,920. She was twenty-nine years old when she came to work at OSC in 1923. She had previously worked as an English instructor at an Idaho high school. She received her Bachelor of Education in 1921, and her Bachelor of Library Science in 1923 from the University of Washington. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. From 1926 to 1937, she worked as a library assistant at Louisiana State University, California State University, and at Yakima Public Library. She came back to work at Oregon State College in 1938 because she wanted a permanent position. From 1943 to 1945, she took a leave of absence for military service to join the Women’s Army Corps. At this time, OSC’s library was already suffering from staff shortages due to the war, but her leave was granted. She resigned in 1948. She was born in 1894, in Crookston, Minnesota.
5. Emma S. Coe
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- Emma S. Coe was a secretary for the Department of Housing and Employment for Men at OSC from 1941 to 1945. Coe was born in 1888, in Niverville, Manitoba, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1915. Previously, she had been a high school and substitute teacher and worked for several newspapers in North Dakota. She also published an article titled “History of Crary, North Dakota and Southern Ramsey County”, which was published to the North Dakota State Historical Collections. Coe moved to Corvallis in 1936. Before coming to OSC, she was a housewife, and she explained on her job application that she wanted to help the family income. She was paid an annual salary of $1,200.
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- Laura Cornelia McAllester was an Assistant Professor and Chairman of Physical Education. She was born in 1883 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She began at OSC in 1926, at a salary of $2,200. She received a certificate from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1906, and completed further undergraduate work at Wellesley College. In 1932, she received her Bachelor of Science from OSC. Before coming to OSC, she spent seven years as the Director of Physical Education at North Carolina College for Women. She was the director of a high school in Rochester, New York, did physiotherapy at a private office for four years in Sacramento, and spent two years doing health corrective work at a private school. After starting as an instructor at OSC in 1926, she became Chairman of the Department in 1932, and an Assistant Professor in 1935. She took sabbatical for winter term of 1945 to conduct a survey of new methods and procedures in body mechanics, particularly as they related to posture and relaxation. She planned to conduct this work in either San Francisco or New York, in order to contact resident leaders in the field. She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi and the Episcopal church.
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- Gayle Corinne Timmons was an instructor in Foods and Nutrition from 1946 to 1949. She was born in 1925, in Eureka, California. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education from OSC in 1946. She married and changed her name to Gayle C. Merlin in 1947. By 1948, while working as a part-time instructor, she finished off all the requirements for her Master’s degree. When a colleague, Miss Riedesel, fell ill, Merklin went full-time to cover her classes. By the next year, she was given a 5% raise for her able teaching, as well as her “real flare for food preparation.” She began in 1946 at a salary of $850 for part-time teaching, and resigned in 1949 at a full-time salary of $2,835.
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- 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.
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- Florence L. Hupprich was an Assistant Professor of Physical Education for Women at Oregon State College from 1937 to 1958. Hupprich was born in 1901, in Highwood, Illinois. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1923 and her master’s degree in 1926 from the University of Wisconsin. She was brought on to work as an instructor in physical education in 1937. In 1944, she requested a leave of absence to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. She was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor in 1945. She went on to receive her Ph.D. in education from the University of Oregon in 1949. After receiving her Ph.D., Hupprich began discussing the issue of receiving tenure with the director of the Department of Physical Education for Women, Dr. Eva Seen. Hupprich was not afraid to point out the inequality of the situation to Dr. Seen. She stated that members of the Department of Physical Education for Men had already received tenure by 1949, while only two members of the Department of Education for Women had received tenure, Dr. Seen being one of those two women. Dr. Seen remained opposed to granting tenure status to her staff until 1952, when she finally began granting tenure to certain staff members. Hupprich did not receive tenure, however, and went to President A.L. Strand to discuss promotion policies. At this time, academic policy stated that those who worked at an institution of higher education for seven years were entitled to tenure. Having worked at Oregon State for thirteen years, she felt she had earned the right to tenured status. Dr. Seen did not agree with Dr. Hupprich on this issue, and she took decisive action against her. At the end of the 1952 school year, Hupprich was notified by Dr. Seen that her position with the department would be terminated the following year. Dr. Seen did not give any reason for this termination. At fifty-two years old, Hupprich worried that if she did not obtain tenure from Oregon State, her teaching career would be over. Hupprich got an attorney and requested a hearing at the Faculty Committee on Review and Appeals. Her hearing was long delayed and Hupprich was not able to gain knowledge of any claims Dr. Seen had made against her as to why she was terminated. The committee did state, however, that since she had been working at Oregon State for thirteen years, she was long overdue to receive tenured status. Hupprich wrote a letter to the American Association of University Professors explaining her situation. In this time, she was allowed to keep working at Oregon State until 1954 by President Strand. Strand was contacted by the association in 1954 to discuss a review of Hupprich’s case, particularly the cause for her termination and her contentious relationship with Dr. Seen. At this time, Dr. Seen wrote to Strand explaining Hupprich’s termination. She claimed she was not an engaging professor and did not go beyond what was required of her. However, the review revealed that Dr. Seen had some failings as an administrator. Evidence suggested the two women had been feuding as far back as 1945 over low salaries and differences in teaching methods. Hupprich was described by some students and faculty as being “too exacting and detailed with beginning students” but it was concluded that this was not enough grounds for her termination. At the same time, she was still described as “a good teacher”. Hupprich claimed Dr. Seen practiced favoritism in granting promotions and salary increases. Hupprich was also known among staff in her department to occasionally stand up to Dr. Seen’s “autocratic procedures”. There was also evidence Seen had been encouraging Hupprich to find employment elsewhere since 1945. In 1955, the American Association of University Professors concluded that Hupprich was unfairly terminated and was entitled to indefinite tenure. This was granted by President Strand. But this was not the end of her case. In 1957, the Faculty Committee on Review and Appeals reconsidered Hupprich’s case after another associate professor from the Department of Physical Education for Women, Betty Thompson, requested a hearing from the committee regarding her mistreatment. Thompson and Hupprich’s case revealed a significant problem within Oregon State’s Department of Physical Education for Women. For decades, the department had been denying older women faculty members tenure out of a rationale that an aging staff of women would be unable to meet desired performance levels. The case also revealed clear displays of favoritism by Dr. Seen in promotion decisions and salary raises. The committee found that this was an issue seemingly unique to the Department of Physical Education for Women. The committee ultimately suggested departmental reforms. Hupprich remained at Oregon State until her retirement in 1966. She returned to work part time for a few years afterwards.
10. Bertha Herse
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- Bertha Emma Herse was a reference librarian at Oregon State College off and on, from 1910-1912, 1916-1922, and from 1924-1957. Herse was born in 1891, in West Point, Nebraska. She received a bachelor’s degree in 1910 and another in 1928 from Oregon Agricultural College, which would later become Oregon State College. She also received a Bachelor of Liberal Studies from New York State Library School in 1924. She was brought on to work at Oregon Agricultural College in 1910 as a loan desk assistant, but in 1912, she had to resign due to a serious knee injury. She returned in 1916 as a half-time library assistant, where she was in charge of book binding. In 1922, she requested a leave of absence to obtain her degree from the New York State Library School. She returned in 1924 and was appointed a Reference Librarian with an annual salary of $2,000. Herse was offered a library position at Bellingham State Normal School in 1929 at a salary of $2,500, but declined the offer to stay at OSC. This prompted the Oregon State library to request a pay raise for Herse to keep her on their faculty. Herse’s salary rose to $2,500 by the end of 1929. Herse requested a leave of absence in 1944 due to more troubles with her knee. She returned to work in 1945. Toward the end of her career with the library, Herse became the focus of resentment for some of the library faculty due to her salary. An anonymous letter written to President A.L. Strand claimed Herse was one of the best paid staff members in the library, yet contributed very little and carried few responsibilities. However, this letter did not hurt her career, and she retired in 1957. Herse spoke to President Strand about her unhappiness in the library during the last years of her service, but she also spoke fondly of notable librarians Ida Kidder and Lucy Lewis, who she worked with throughout her career.
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- Lora F. Kelts (nee Ives) was born in 1909. She worked at OSU from 1944 to 1973, beginning as a part-time Assistant Librarian in both the Serials and Reference departments. She eventually rose to the rank of Professor and Head Agriculture-Forestry Librarian, ending with a salary of $16,300 (roughly equivalent to $97,624, adjusted for inflation). She received her Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Los Angeles, in botany and zoology; and her librarianship certificate from University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Previously, she worked as a Junior Assistant in the reference department at U.C. College of Agriculture in Davis, California, but had to find other work when the college closed down due to the war. For a short time after, she was employed as a Junior Assistant in the reference department of Sacramento City Library, but felt her skills would be more useful in an agricultural college. She was highly respected for her work caliber and experience, so much so that the U.C. Davis Library offered her a posting and a salary increase after the war was over, which OSU was forced to match. She married Donald Kelts in 1957.
12. Vivian E. Gilkey
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- Vivian E. Gilkey was an English instructor at Oregon State College in 1946. Gilkey was born in 1912, in Butte, Montana. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Oregon in 1935, and as a graduate, she studied the violin at Columbia University, Juilliard, and the American Conservatory. She was a recipient of the Phi Beta Violin Scholarship, and even played for the Houston Symphony in 1942. Before coming to OSC, she taught at various grade schools in Roseburg, Oregon and Oakland, California. She was married when she came to OSC. She was hired on a ten-month term basis, at a salary of $2,200.
13. Florence Euren
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- Florence Euren was a librarian at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1972. Euren was born in 1906, in Moorhead, Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Science in Education from the State Teachers College, and received her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Minnesota. She began as an assistant circulation librarian in 1946 with an annual salary of $2,620. She left in 1949 to accept a job as a Bookmobile Librarian in Washington. She came back in 1957 as a librarian with an annual pay of $5,000. She retired in 1972.
14. Shirley A. Drawz
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- 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.
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- Martha Moore was an instructor in institution economics, and an assistant in the dormitories from 1946 through 1947. She earned $3,000 plus meals (valued at $310 per year) on a ten month basis.
16. Caroline Martin
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- Library, 1946-1948
17. K. Hughes Osborn
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- Katherine Hughes was a science librarian from 1939 to 1971. She was born in 1906 in Bellingham, Washington. She received a Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Washington in 1928, and her Master of Arts from OSC in 1939. At the time an assistant science librarian, she took a leave of absence from October 1938 to June 1939 to study for her master’s degree in science at OSC. Before coming to OSC, she was an assistant at the Seattle Public Library for three years. She began at OSC as a reference assistant in 1929, and then was promoted to the Head of Science Reference Room, with the rank of assistant professor, in 1941. In 1965, she became the Chief Science and Technology Librarian, with associate professor rank, indefinite tenure, and a salary of $11,160 per year. She was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 1970, and then received Emeritus status after her retirement in 1972. After reaching the mandatory retirement age in 1971, Osborn requested an extension that enabled her to work up to her 70th birthday (5 years past mandatory retirement age). She only desired to work six more months, and submitted her resignation after that. She was hired at $1,500 per year, and resigned in 1971 at a salary of $12,675. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Sigma. She was also a member of numerous associations, including the Pacific Northwest Library Association, the Oregon Library Association ,ad the Oregon Academy of Science. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. She married John L. Osborn, who was born in 1881. Their wedding took place on March 24, 1955, and she soon changed her name to Katherine Hughes Osborn.
18. Bertha Stutz
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- Bertha Whillook Stutz held a number of positions in secretarial training at OSC, and was employed at OSC for 36 years. She retired an Associate Professor of Secretarial Science. She was born in 1888 in Humansville, Missouri. She studied at Missouri State Teachers College and Oregon State University, receiving her Bachelor of Science from the latter in 1918. She then went on to study graduate work at Columbia University and OSC, receiving her Master of Science from the latter in 1927. After graduating, she taught secretarial training at OSC, and taught summer sessions at the University of California and the University of Southern California. While employed at OSC, she took a leave of absence from January-September of 1921, with the understanding that there would be “no guarantee as to salary” should she resume her work the next September. She taught part-time in 1933, but enrollment reached 28% excess of their facilities, so she and one other half-time professor were increased to full-time work. This year also saw a 20% increase in students from other majors registering for secretarial science classes. She took sabbatical leave from March-June 1945, on full salary. She used this to visit secondary schools, junior colleges, colleges, and universities to study methods and techniques. She was faculty advisor of PHi Chi Theta at OSC. She was a member of the Eastern Star, the Methodist Church, and was the National Treasurer of Sigma Kappa for at least six years.
19. Elzie Herbert
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- Elzie Herbert was an orders librarian at Oregon State College from 1920 to 1952. Herbert was born in 1887, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Before coming to work at Oregon State, she taught an introduction class to stenography at Vance Business College, and was an office manager at Black Planing Mill Co. in Pennsylvania. She was brought on as a stenographer at Oregon State in 1920 at an annual salary of $1,300. She was widowed with one daughter when she came to work at Oregon State. She was soon appointed to secretary and order clerk at the library. In 1927, she was promoted to head of the Library Order Department. She retained this position until her retirement in 1952. She passed away in 1971.
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- Miriam Elizabeth Macpherson Holman was a Foods and Nutrition instructor at Oregon State College from 1944 to 1950. Holman was born in 1916, in Corvallis, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education from Oregon State College in 1937, and her Master of Arts in Foods and Nutrition from New York Teachers College in 1939. Before coming to work at Oregon State, Holman taught foods and nutrition at New York State Agriculture and Technical Institute. She was appointed as an instructor at Oregon State in 1944 at an annual salary of $2,400. Holman married Lenn C. Holman in 1950, and resigned from her position at Oregon State to join him in Portland.
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.
31. Joan Patterson
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- Joan Patterson was a Professor of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts from 1940 to 1956. She was born in 1907 in Baker, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1931, and later went on to obtain her graduate degree from UO in art appreciation and sociology in 1934. For her professional degree, her thesis discussed three interior design problems: oriental library, aviation waiting room, and one complete home. Before applying to be a professor, she was an extension agent in home furnishings at OSC, and previously worked as an instructor and research assistant at the University of Oregon. She also had been employed as an assistant decorator at the Meier and Frank Company in Portland, Oregon. She was said to have been “under observation” by OSC’s home economics department for a long time, which considered her very favorable for the home management specialist position. She published at least 24 articles in her field, including those on such subjects as “Color and its use in the home,” “Curtaining the home,” and “Home-made rugs--how to design and make them.” She served as the extension specialist in home furnishing for four years and was a member of the faculty for 29 years. She was an instructor until 1937, assistant professor in 1938, associate professor in 1940, and full professor in 1951. She served as acting head of the Clothing, Textiles and Related Arts Department in 1961-62. In 1949, she was appointed to Associate Textile Specialist in the Experiment Station in the Department of Home Economics, at an annual salary of $4,578 for ten months of service. She worked in experiment station research with the Oregon Flax and Linen Board, wrote bulletins for the extension service and agricultural experiment station, and was an advisor for at least thirteen master's theses. As an extension agent, she aided community members in furnishing their homes and public buildings, and made an important cultural contribution with her design of woven fabrics. She took sabbatical leave twice in her career at OSC. The first was from January to September of 1948 to do advanced study in Cranbrook, Michigan, for which she received a half-salary. When her sabbatical ran out, she took a leave of absence in 1949-50 in order to continue her research. She studied the “utilisation of flax yarn, principally from Oregon fiber, in upholstery and drapery fabrics.” This project held the promise of a “new market outlet” for Oregon flax. The Flax and Linen Board understood the research conducted by Patterson to be of “fundamental importance…to the Oregon flax industry.” Thus, they awarded her $500 for signing a memorandum of understanding between herself and the Flax and Linen Board, $50,000 upon submission of a report to the Board, and $1000 to reimburse her for purchase of materials and services rendered. She took another sabbatical in 1957 from March to June, when she visited craft centers and industry centers of textile design for inspiration in teaching and information, visited colleges and universities to study teaching, and designing textiles she normally did not have the time to do. In 1953, she was named one of five Oregon “Women of Achievement” for her contribution to “industrial development in Oregon.” An article was written about her recognition in the Gazette-Times. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority and the Episcopal Church.
32. Grace Scully
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- Grace Mary Scully was a Professor of Physical Education for Women from 1946 to 1957. She was born in 1915 in El Reno, Oklahoma. She studied at Eastern Oregon College, University of Washington, and University of Oregon, graduating from the latter in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and Biological Science. She earned her Master of Science in 1946 from University of Oregon, in health and physical education. For her thesis, she studied flexibility. While attending University of Oregon, she was a graduate assistant and briefly an instructor. She also had experience teaching elementary and secondary school, supervising health and physical education at University High School in Eugene, Oregon, and had been a director of a summer playground program and camp counselor. OSC hired her at $2400 for a ten month term. She became an assistant professor in 1950. She took sabbatical leave from 1954-55, on half salary, to get her doctorate from Columbia University Teachers’ College. After this, she requested an an additional leave of absence to complete her dissertation. Her work was funded by the Ford Foundation and “some Carnegie money.” The organization supervising her work was the Greater New York Council for Foreign Students. She felt that, though her subject might at first glance seem unrelated to her work at OSC, she was learning more about people foreign and domestic, which she considered “basic to the excellent teaching of anything.” In June 1956, she received her PhD. in Guidance and Student Personnel Administration, with additional study in counseling. Her doctoral thesis was titled “A Study of Students from Abroad Who Do Not Wish to Return Home.” Unlike her study subjects, Scully was anxious to return to her “beloved Oregon.” She wrote two separate, very similar letters announcing her graduation to President Strand, who teased her for already developing “professorial absent-mindedness.” Apparently she had forgotten to sign the first by hand, and so she wrote another, but could not retrieve the first from the postal service. In 1957, she accepted a position as Associate Professor at Northern Illinois State College at De Kalb, where she taught dance education, in addition to counseling, and guiding a number of graduate students. She made it clear she had “made every effort to stay in this state.” President Strand apologized she had “come to the decision she did,” and chalked it up to a “personality conflict.” Professor Scully responded that the issue was not due to personality conflict and was instead because others were “firstest with the mostest”--a famous Southern phrase which essentially means that one group got there first, with greater numbers, and dominated the scene thereafter. Dr Seen attributed her decision to leave to the fact that Professor Scully wished to teach dance, but OSC already had a dance education professor. After Illinois, she became Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Student Personnel Services at Paterson State College. She was president of Phi Beta Sigma, and a member of Sigma Alpha Chi and Kappa Delta Pi.
33. Lois Sather
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- Lois Ann Sather (nee Young) was Assistant Food Technologist. She was born in 1923 in Wilsonville, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1945. She joined OSC in 1945 as a research assistant with the Food Technology Department, with a salary of $1800 per year. She left in 1948, and returned to the same position in 1952. After two years, she became Assistant Food Technologist with the rank of assistant professor in 1954, where she was in charge of the Flavorium, Food and Dairy Tech Department. She was also in charge of several significant flavor studies, studying the formulation of commercial food products and researched which factors influence consumer preferences for beef. Her lab developed new recipes for using dried apples, dried green beans, and dried cherries. Her work was considered expedient by the university, who felt that the “tremendous increase in the number of insecticides and fungicides,” made it necessary for the “Food Technology Department… to make numerous tests on the effect of these materials on flavor of crops treated with [pesticides].” Sather was a member of the National IFT committee on Flavor Evaluation Procedures, and published numerous publications, with titles such as “Flavor Studies of Ice Cream vs. Ice Milk by Student Flavor Panels,” and “Building Convenience into Green Beans.” She was a member of the Institute of Food Technologists and the American Home Economics Association, as well as Kappa Delta Sorority Alumnae Association, the Eastern Star, and Corvallis Parent-Teachers Association. She was married to Glenn V Sather in 1946, who owned and managed a Corvallis laundry and dry cleaning business. By 1958 they had three children: Craig (10), Ronald (8), and Larry (7).
34. Lucia Haley
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- Lucia Haley was an assistant librarian at Oregon State from 1921 to 1952. Haley was born in 1887, in Fryeburg, Maine. She received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 1911 from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (B.L.S.) from Pratt Institute. Before coming to work at Oregon State, Haley was a cataloger for the Seattle Public Library, and for the Oregon State Library, and as a librarian for the University of Montana. She was also an active member in the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Haley took sabbatical leave in 1929 in order to travel to other libraries across the United States and Europe to learn how to improve Oregon State’s library. She also used this time to improve her French and German so she could translate periodical literature. In 1937, Haley attended a summer session at the University of California to learn Russian. Haley had noticed a growing trend in materials coming into the library from the Soviet Union that were in Russian, where they had previously been written in English, German, or French. Haley understood the importance of being able to translate these documents, especially Soviet research in soils, horticulture, and farm crops, for Oregon State, so she took it upon herself to learn Russian. She retired in 1952, after 31 years of service. OSC awarded her with emeritus status upon her retirement for her contributions to the college. She passed away in 1975.
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- Florence S. Bakkum was an Acting Instructor in Mathematics at Oregon State from 1942 to 1951 and then from 1954 until her death in 1983. She received her bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College in 1916 and her master’s degree from Cornell in 1924. She was born in Fairville, Iowa, in 1893. Before working at OSC, she was a homemaker. She was still married when she began working for OSC. She was well traveled, having gone to many European countries. She received $700 per term to teach mathematics. She initially was brought on on a term-by-term basis, as the university may have been losing faculty who left for war service. By the end of her first winter term at OSC, they approved for her to work spring term as well. By 1943, she was listed as a mathematics instructor in the military program. By 1945, she was given a raise to $800 for fall term. It seems as though she had retired in 1951 but was brought out of retirement to help the expanding science department. By 1955, she was making $4,020 for 10 months. In 1956, that was raised to $4,220 for 10 months. In 1957, it was raised to $5,300 for 10 months. By the time she died, she had been promoted to Assistant Professor.
36. Mary I. Bash
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- Mary Iola Bash was the Assistant Dean of Women from 1946 to 1953. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914 from the University of Washington. She was born in 1891, in Port Townsend, Washington. As a child, she traveled between China and New York often, due to her father’s work in railroads. He built the first railroads in China. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school teacher and worked for the YMCA. She was also a manager of student housing at the University of Washington. Her friend Grace W. Carman was listed as her beneficiary. Carman was notified by the Good Samaritan Hospital that the College Administration Council made a gift of $15 to the Mary Bash memorial following Bash’s death. Her annual salary was initially $3000. A parent of a female student who visited with Bash in 1948 said this of her: “She has vision and foresight concerning girls problems, with a directness for action, plus a sincere, interested intent, with a most friendly manner, with guidance definitely the keynote.” When she became the acting dean of women in 1948, her salary rose to $4,400 a year. She was affiliated with the National Association of Deans of Women. She died in 1953.
37. Lois Criswell
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- Lois Criswell was a catalog assistant at the Oregon State College library from 1943 to 1953. Her annual pay was $2,160. She had previously worked as a librarian and cataloger at the University of California, the University of Idaho, and the Oregon College of Education. She worked at the Oregon College of Education for nearly twenty years before coming to OSC due to budget cuts to her salary. She was single with no children when she came to work at OSC. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington in 1921, and received some graduate education from the University of Illinois Library School. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. She was set to retire by the end of 1953, but fell ill and passed away in October, 1952. She was born in 1887, in Ottumwa, Iowa.
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- Melva Boon Kennen was born in 1924, in Mohler, Oregon. She was employed at OSC from 1947-49, first as Assistant Teacher in the College Nursery, and later as a part-time instructor in the Department of Household Administration. Previously, she worked at the Fruit and Flower Day Nursery in Portland, Oregon, but moved to Corvallis with her fiance, who was to begin attending Oregon State. In 1948, she rose to head teacher at the Orchard Street School Nursery, and received a salary as a part-time instructor of $2,250. She married her husband December 30th, 1946.
39. Emily Johnson
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- Emily Johnson was a part-time instructor for the Department of Art and Architecture at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1948. Johnson was born in 1923, in Pocatello, Idaho. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Design from the University of Washington in 1945. She was a member of the American Red Cross. Before coming to work at OSC, Johnson designed advertising layouts for the Pocatello Tribune. She was married to Clarence E. Johnson when she came to work at Oregon State. She was hired as an art instructor at Oregon State at an annual salary of $2,400. Johnson was responsible for teaching three art classes during her time at Oregon State. She resigned in 1948 when her husband obtained his master’s degree from Oregon State College.
40. Henrietta Morris
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- Henrietta Morris was an Associate Professor of Hygiene from 1935 to 1959. She was born in 1902 in Charleston, West Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in Baltimore in 1923, and her PhD. in Hygiene from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1927. She took summer courses at the Teachers College of Columbia University for the 1928-29 school year. Before coming to OSC, she was a Nutrition Instructor in New Jersey Public Schools, a health education instructor with the University of Oregon Medical School Department of Nursing Education, and an instructor in Personal Hygiene at St. Helens Hall Junior College in Portland. She also worked as the Health Education Director with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association, where her duties included performing lectures for parents, teachers, and others; performing health advisory services for schools; running university extension courses in Health Education; teaching a community hygiene course at Linfield College; working with the editing department of Health Education, Oregon Education Journal; and giving radio talks on health topics. She continued working with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association for at least the duration of her first year at OSC. Since the college found itself in desperate need of an additional physical education instructor on short notice, the Oregon Tuberculosis Association itself facilitated her employment there. She began at OSC as a part-time associate professor, earning $660 total for the months January to June. She spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday “forenoons” with the college, and continued to be employed with the State Tuberculosis Association otherwise. The next year, she was a full-time associate professor, and remained so for the next twenty-three years. She taught hygiene in both the men’s and women’s departments of physical hygiene, as well as a course in education, and at one point spent 4% of her time in bacteriology. She took sabbatical leave on full salary from April to June 1944 to write a textbook on health education. She passed away in 1959, at which point she was earning $7,900 on a ten month basis.
41. Erna M. Plageman
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- 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.
42. Dawn Shreve
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- Dawn Loraine Bates was a Serials Assistant in charge of binding in the library from 1946 to 1947. She was born in 1921 in Orange, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Library Work from Willamette University in 1943, and her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Denver in 1945. Before coming to OSC, she worked as circulation librarian in the Salem Public Library. She was hired at OSC for $2200 per year. She was married December 27, 1946, and took the surname “Shreve.” In 1947, she resigned to “devote her whole attentions to the duties of a housewife and mother.” She was a member of the American Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the Oregon Library Association.
43. Irene L. Craft
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- Irene L. Craft was a serials assistant at the Oregon State College Library from 1943 to 1970. She was born in 1904, in Wyne, Kansas. She made an annual salary of $3,000. She was single when she came to work at OSC. In 1944, she took a leave of absence, but returned in 1946. By 1949, she was promoted to assistant librarian with a salary raise to $4,000. In 1950, she became an assistant professor with no pay raise. By 1952, her salary rose to $5,000, due to increased responsibilities because of another staff member’s resignation. She resigned in 1970. Her final salary was $13,632. She was granted the status of Associate Professor Emeritus, which assured her life membership on the university faculty, and distinguished her as “one who has earned distinction and respect through many years of dedicated and effective service”.
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- Gertrude Geraldine Ellison was a part-time English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1957. She was married to Joseph Waldo Ellison with no children when she came to OSC. She was born in 1901, in Centralia, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington in 1921 and received some graduate education from the University of California in 1925. She had previously taught at high schools in Montana and Washington throughout the 1920s. She filed for retirement in 1957.
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- Percy Margaret GIll was a physical education instructor for women at OSC from 1945 to 1962. Gill was born in 1909, in Glencoe, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education from the University of California in 1931. Before coming to work at OSC, Gill worked for the American Red Cross. Before World War Two, she was an instructor in physical education at the College of Holy Names in Oakland, California. Once hired at Oregon State, she started at an annual salary of $2,400. She received her Master of Arts in Physical Education in 1948 while still working at OSC. In 1950, Gill was promoted to Assistant Professor and to Associate Professor in 1955. In 1957, she took sabbatical leave to pursue her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She resigned in 1962.
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- Lyda Mae LaPalombara was born Lyda Mae Ecke in 1924, in Chicago, Illinois. She worked at OSC as an Instructor of English from 1946 to 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Illinois in 1945, where she minored in education and music. She completed some of a graduate degree at the University of Illinois, where she also concentrated in English and music. She taught freshman composition at the University of Illinois for one year before coming to OSC. In 1947, she married Joseph Guido La Palombara, and resigned in 1950 at a salary of $3,100.
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- Frances Ann Clinton Hall was a home demonstration agent at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1964. Hall was born in 1903, in Adna, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Science from the College of Puget Sound in 1925, and her Master of Science from Oregon State College in 1930. She was brought on to work at OSC as an extension agent at-large at an annual rate of $2,400. During her time as a home demonstration agent at-large, Hall served in various places in Oregon, such as Portland, Yamhill and Union County. Hall also worked on a wide array of projects in 1930. She helped revise nutrition extension material, prepared radio service material, and prepared the extension service’s exhibit at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition of 1930, as well as the State Fair. She also assisted with social service programs in Portland, such as Diets for Dependent Families. In 1931, she was assigned to serve in Multnomah County. Hall later became Assistant State Leader of Home Economics Extension in 1944, and in 1952, she became State Leader. She resigned in 1958 and got married and became a homemaker for a few years, but was soon widowed. She returned in 1961, and became an extension agent for Klamath County. She resigned in 1964.
48. Ada Euren
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- Ada Fedja Euren was an assistant librarian for the Circulation Department at Oregon State College from 1943 to 1951. She was born in 1916, in Rugby, North Dakota. She was married to Frank G. Euren with no children. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Concordia College in 1938. She had previously been an instructor at a high school and middle school. Her annual salary was $1,200. She was promoted to reserve assistant in 1945 and to a reserve librarian in 1946 with an annual pay of $1,900. She resigned in 1951.
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- Margaret Lucille Lawrence was an Assistant Professor in English. She was born in 1912 in Oelwein, Iowa. She was married to Gilbert N. Lawrence, and they had at least one son, named Richard, born in May, 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Latin, with additional study in Library Science, from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1933, which she attended on scholarship and graduated maxima cum laude. She went on to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida State College for Women, from 1937-1943, working towards a Master of Arts in English and Latin. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Limited Extent of the Influence of Plautus on the Comedy of Ben Jonson: A Study in J’s Independence.” She was hired as an Instructor in English in 1945, at a salary of $2,270. In the next year, she was promoted to Assistant Professor, and her salary was raised to $7,225. Before coming to OSC, she was an Instructor in English at Florida State College for Women, in Tallahassee, for two years, until her husband was stationed in Corvallis. She was also an high school instructor of Latin and English in Iowa for about seven years, teaching at Toledo Public High School and Dallas Public High School. She was part of the American Association of University Women, where she was the secretary elect from 1945-46. In 1970, she was named the first director of OSC’s new Writing Clinic, at the time housed in the English department, where she was tasked with teaching students grammatical proficiency. She created an “English Diagnostic Test” which was administered to Writing 121 students, which she used to identify struggling students and encourage them to visit the Writing Clinic. She was on numerous university and departmental committees, including the Writing Clinic Committee, of which she was chairman. She was a performer and director in Little Theater productions in both Corvallis and Albany, and was an active member of the Corvallis Women’s Civic Chorus. After working at OSC for 29 years, she retired in 1974, at a salary of $14,278, and was awarded the title of “Emeritus” upon retirement.
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- Julianne Wise was a home demonstration agent in Union County, and later an Assistant Professor in Household Administration from 1943 to 1952. She was born in 1913 in Jerome, Idaho. She was single when she came to OSC. She attended University of Idaho and received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1941. She then went on to earn her Master of Science from OSC in 1943, in Household Administration and Home Economics Education. Her thesis was titled “The Development of a Rating Scale for Girls Living.” Before applying to OSC, she was an elementary school teacher in Idaho for five years. She also worked as an instructor in home economics for two years at West Virginia University. There, she helped remodel an old house into a home management/nursery house. When OSC offered her a position, West Virginia University offered her a raise and an assistant professorship. But, since Wise was a “Western girl,” she chose to come to OSC at a yearly salary slightly lower than what West Virginia had offered. She succeeded Miss Marjorie Elleworth, who left to work as a dietitian in an army hospital. In 1945, there was confusion as to the appointment of Wise. Upon apparent recommendation of Dean Milam, Wise was appointed Assistant Professor in Household Administration. At the same time, she was also approved to continue her position as Union County Home Demonstration Agent. Both these positions were announced at the same time to the State Board of Higher Education, resulting in a “somewhat confused press announcement [indicating she] had been appointed to both positions.” In 1949, Wise, who lived in a House Management House at the time, found her workload too burdensome to continue living there. She applied for sabbatical leave, which was initially granted, although it was later rescinded in favor of having her continue to supervise the Home Management House, instructing her classes as usual, and helping “modernize” two Home Economics units, while helping plan the third unit of the Home Economics building. The next year, she applied for sabbatical leave again, to do research in the field of functional housing. She had also applied for a Fulbright award and for “work of a service nature” abroad. If neither application was accepted, she hoped to study high school curricula in housing and house management. Between 1949 and 1950, Wise appeared to have been married, and taken the surname Phinney. In 1952, she resigned from OSC to “go with her husband to his place of employment.” She resigned at at a yearly salary of $4400. She was a member of Omicron Nu, the National Home Economics Association, and the American Association of University Women.
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- Markie Annette Runckel (nee Weatherford) was an Instructor of Home Economics in 1946. She was born in 1923 in The Dalles, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics, Clothing and Textiles, with additional study in education, from OSC in 1945. She then worked as an instructor of freshman clothing for a term at OSC. She went on to earn her Master of Science in Retailing from New York University in 1946. Her thesis for her master’s degree was “Two comprehensive store reports.” She had experience in department stores in Portland and New York City. She was hired for $2000 for a ten month term. In December, she reduced her teaching load to two-thirds. She married on December 19, 1946, and took the name Markie Weatherford Runckel.
52. Dorothy Fox
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- Dorothy Fox was an instructor in Art and Architecture at Oregon State College from 1928 to 1971. She was born in 1901, in San Francisco, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from California School of Arts and Crafts in 1925. She was married to Nelson H. Fox when she came to OSC. Her initial annual salary was $1,700. In 1946, she was promoted to associate professor and became the acting chairman of art courses for OSC. Her annual salary increased to $3,500. Although she qualified for retirement when she turned 65 in 1966, she requested to stay on to work for as long as she could, stating that she was in excellent health. In 1971, Oregon State University informed her that they could no longer employ her, given her age. She was designated “Associate Professor Emeritus” in 1971 for her contributions to Oregon State.
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- Anna May Carlson Freed was a research assistant for the Oregon State College Agricultural Experiment Station from 1943 to 1946. She was born in 1920, in the Aland Islands, Finland. She was married to Virgil H. Freed in 1944. She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Oregon State College in 1943 and was employed by OSC as a graduate research assistant, with an annual salary was $700. In 1944, she was promoted to a research assistant with instructor rank, with an annual salary of $2,000.
54. Mary C. Byers
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- Born Mary Caroline Sweeney, Byers was an instructor of physical education for women at Oregon State College from 1943 to 1949. Byers was born in 1917, in Sioux City, Iowa. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Reed College in 1939, and her Master of Science in Physical Education from Wellesley College in 1941. Her master’s thesis was titled, “A Study of Adult Recreation in the City of Boston”. She worked as a lifeguard at Reed College and a Physical Education teacher for girls at a YMCA in Portland, Oregon. Before coming to OSC, she was a recreation director for the city of Portland. Oregon State hired her as an instructor in 1943 at $2,070 a year. Her last name changed to Byers in 1947. She resigned in 1949 to “assume family responsibilities”. Byers reached out to Oregon State in 1970 to verify her work history, as she was pursuing a teaching certificate from the New Mexico Department of Education. She was living in Los Alamos, New Mexico by this time.
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- Ruth Mary Nitchals was born in 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She worked as a County Extension Agent and Assistant Professor at OSC from 1948-1950. She got married in 1949 and changed her name to Ruth Nitchals Klippstein. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from University of Cincinnati in 1944, where she held the highest scholastic average of the 1944 Home Economics class. She was a member of Omicron Nu, a home economics honorary society, where she served as treasurer, and Iota Sigma Pi, a women’s chemistry honorary society. She received her Master of Science in Physiology from Michigan State College in 1946. Her graduate thesis centered on blood studies on the effect of antibiotics in rats. Following this, she went directly to Washington, D.C, to work as a nutrition chemist with the United States Department of Agriculture. There she worked over a year in the Bureau of Nutrition and Home Economics, and then came to OSC to work on the Western Regional Research Project as a nutritional chemist. This unit was soon transferred to California, but Prof. Klippstein preferred Oregon, so she began work at OSC as a home extension agent. She resigned from OSC in February of 1950 (at a salary of $4,080) to remain at home. Soon thereafter, she had her first child, Richard, who was born in April, 1950, and her daughter Marjorie, who was born in March, 1953. During her time as a homemaker, she was active in the 4-H Club program, took an interest in the local extension unit, and taught summer classes for the recreation district of Springfield. She returned to Oregon State College in 1956 at a salary of $5,508, as she and her husband wished to buy a farm. In 1957, she was transferred as a Nutrition Specialist and Associate Professor at a salary of $6,840. She resigned in 1961 (at which point she earned $9,348 annually) to accept a position as Nutrition Specialist at Cornell University, who offered her a salary of $10,200. She was an active member of the Calvin Presbyterian Church of Corvallis, Oregon. Professor Klippstein was said to be a person of “unusual personal qualities in addition to her excellent training and experience,” Although she considered herself a regular “Cub scout mom, neighborhood chauffeur, and puller of the flower bed weeds.”
56. Helen Mulhern
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- Helen Mulhern was a manager of food service and Professor of Institional Management, employed at OSC from 1945 to 1962. She was born in 1901 in Brookfield, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science in Institutional Management and Nutrition from the University of Washington in 1925, and her Master of Science in Institutional Management and Nutrition from UW in 1931. Her thesis was titled “A Study of the B Factor as it Affected Lactation in the Albino Rat.” Before coming to OSC, she was a teacher and management at the St. Nicholas School for Girls in Seattle. She also spent time in institutional management at the University of Washington and Indiana University. She began at OSU as a teacher in the Department of Institutional Economics during the summer session of 1944, and indicated she would like to become supervisor of the kitchen and dining service and Waldo Hall. She was hired at $3,200 for twelve months service. This was higher than the amount listed in the budget for her position, at time when OSU was struggling to find a well-trained person to fill the position. She was an assistant of Miss Bibee. In 1944, she became Assistant Professor and Supervisor of Memorial Dining Services, replacing Miss Bibee, who was promoted to Director of Dormitories and Head of Institutional Economics. In 1948, she became the Acting Head of the Department of Institutional Economics, again replacing Miss Bibee, who resigned. Here she split her time between managing the department and the dormitories. In 1951, she also became the Manager of the Women’s Food Service. In 1955, she became the Chairman of Institutional Management, and remained in charge of the Women’s Food Service. In 1962, at a salary of $8,640 she resigned “due to a situation out of [her] control.”
57. Marian Murray
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- Marian Murray was an instructor in the Department of Home Economics Education in 1946. She was born in 1924, in College Place, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics and Education from OSC in 1946. She was the Secretary of the OSC’s Mortar Board chapter, and was the editor of OSC Omicron Nu, and was also a member of both the American Home Economics Association and the American Association of University Women. She was hired to cover for Miss May Du Bois’s sabbatical leave, and was hired at $2,400 for ten months of service. She was also to do the secretarial work for the department. Dean Milam (who Murray listed as a reference on her application) later requested some of Murray’s labor be used in the School of Home Economics for winter term. The Department of Home Economics Education instead employed an assistant for part of Murray’s duties, allowing her to spend 28% of her time helping Dean Milam.
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- Hazel Gusline Quasdorf was a science reference assistant from 1944 to 1967. She was born in 1898 in Iowa. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Science from Cornell College in Iowa in 1920, and her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois in 1928. Before coming to OSC, she was an assistant librarian with the Southern Branch of the University of Iowa for fifteen years. She also had experience working at the Pocatello Public Library in Idaho, but sought employment elsewhere because she found the working conditions unfavorable. She was hired at $1900 per year in 1944. In 1966, she was given the position of Assistant Science Librarian and rank of assistant professor for a yearly salary of $8280. She reached mandatory retirement age in 1967, at which point she was awarded Emeritus status. She continued working fulltime under a special agreement, as it was difficult to find librarians at the time, and even more difficult to find those with experience in science and technology. She also was said to have an invaluable working relationship with Ms. Osborn, with whom she developed and administered science resources. She was approved to continue working on to age 70, and thereafter the agreement was subject to annual review. She was also a member of the non-profit service club Altrusa.
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- Laura Belle Smith was an Assistant Professor in Art and in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts intermittently from 1946 to 1967. She was born in 1904 in Toronto, Canada. She studied at the School of Architecture of the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University, graduating from the latter in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and Watercolor Painting. She earned her Master of Arts from Ohio State University in the same field in 1934. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “New Materials in Interior Design.” She went on to attend the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chouinard Art Institute, and University of California in Los Angeles for further study. Before coming to OSC, she taught art at various universities in Texas, Kansas, and California. While an employee at Texas State College for Women, she was on the advisory committee for the completion of the new Student Union building. She selected furniture and completed the decorations. She was also in charge of a new demonstration house, where she “directed the interior section.” While interior design and watercolor painting were her two major fields of interest, she occasionally taught classes in fundamental and advanced design, house planning, and mechanical drawing. She was married when she came to OSC. In 1946, he was hired at $2400 for a ten month term in 1946 as an Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture. She resigned from this post the next year, and then temporarily took work in the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts as a substitute for teachers on sabbatical leave. For roughly the next two decades, she was appointed to temporary positions in the CTRA department as permanent staff members resigned, while OSC worked to fill their positions. They considered this a great help, and thought of her as an “able person and good teacher.” As her husband was already on staff at OSC, Smith could not be put on permanent staff herself. Furthermore, as she only taught one area, this made scheduling difficult, and they wished to have more versatile employees on permanent staff.
60. Erma M. Weir
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- Erma Marion Weir was an instructor in the Women’s Physical Education Department from 1945 to 1974. She was born in 1908 in Wolverton, Minnesota, to Frederick Christofer Weir and Nellie Sigfreda Nelson. She received her Bachelor of Education from State Teachers College in 1936 in physical education, with additional study in geography and social studies. She earned her Master of Science from the University of Washington in 1941, in physical education with additional study in health education and civics. Her thesis for her master’s degree was the “Status of the Course Requirements in Health Education for Certification of Teachers of the Elementary and Secondary Schools of the U.S.” Before coming to OSC, she taught as an instructor for about nine years at State Teachers College, was a junior high teacher for one year, and a high school teacher for three years. Weir was hired for $2400 for a ten month term. She was the instructor of the Advanced American Folk Dance group. She became an assistant professor in 1949, associate professor in 1952, and full professor in 1966. She took sabbatical for a year in 1953 to observe physical education programs across the country, and to complete a term of school work at Columbia University and University of California, Los Angeles. However, she had to undergo surgery at this time, so her plans to attend universities in the Midwest were pushed back. Later, she took another sabbatical leave for a year in 1962 to travel in Europe to study physical education and teacher training programs, as well as to visit folk dance clubs and leaders to make contacts whenever she could. In 1965, she was named Acting Department Head of Physical Education for Women when Dr. Seen retired. When the Men’s and Women’s departments combined, Weir was chosen to be head of the women’s service program. She developed a program for beginners of folk and square dance, and began a performance club named the Promenaders, which she sponsored for thirty-five years. They performed throughout the Northwest, put on a huge number of of workshops, and introduced a large number of people to folk and square dance. Weir also traveled four to five nights a week to teach and call dances all over Oregon. She was a member of the Western Society of Physical Education for College Women, Physical Education and Recreation, The Oregon Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, the Northwest District and the American Association for Health. She was named Professor Emeritus of Physical Education upon her retirement in 1974.
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- 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.
62. Edna Van Horn
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- Edna Marjorie Van Horn was an assistant professor in Household Arts for a year in 1939, and then from 1944 to 1963. She was born in 1902 in Grand Junction, Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College in 1933 in economics and sociology, and her Master of Arts from Teachers College at Columbia University in foods and cookery. She attended further study at the Teachers College as she worked towards her doctorate. At the time of her application to OSC in 1939, she was working on a study of the social conditioning of the consumer market. Before coming to OSC, she was an assistant in household arts at Columbia University. She was also a home economist at Kellogg Company and Better Homes and Gardens, spending a period of roughly fifteen years writing and editing publicity, advertising, and other commercial materials. She prepared many booklets for Kellogg customers and Better Homes & Gardens readers, including nutrition leaflets and recipe services, including a 200-page cookbook. She wrote one article per week for four years, released by Kellogg’s for newspaper publicity. She was hired at $1666 at two-thirds time. Dean Milam knew her at Teachers’ College and supported her hire. She was soon increased to full time and her salary was made $2400 for a ten month term. In 1940, Van Horn left for a higher salary, and later rejoined OSC faculty in 1944. In Withycombe House, they were unable to find a graduate assistant to live there, so Professor Van Horn took up a position there for winter and spring terms of 1944. They added $440 to her salary for directing the house, bumping her to $2400 for the year. She was given indefinite tenure after less than two years’ service in 1944. They were highly interested in retaining her due to the “emergency situation,” in addition to Dean Milam’s high satisfaction in her work. Van Horn took a leave of absence in 1949, on half pay, to complete her doctoral thesis at Teachers College. In 1957, she took another sabbatical to travel to other universities and research centers, in order to develop her doctoral dissertation for publication. She took full salary for this period. She became a full professor in 1961, and retired in 1963, at which point she was earning $10,200.
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- Rebecca Elaine Emily Spencer (nee Haslop) was an instructor in chemistry and mathematics from 1946 to 1947. She was born in 1919 in Portland, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Linfield College in 1940. She then attended graduate school at the University of Oregon Med School, where she studied biochemistry, and then went on to the University of Maine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied organic chemistry and mathematics. Her thesis for her doctoral dissertation was on “The preparation of Strontium D- and L- Xylonates, and some related compounds.” It was titled “Sugar Chemistry-Derivatives of Teylonic Acid.” Before coming to OSC, she worked as a research assistant, Teaching Fellow, and Lab Assistant at various universities. During the summer of 1941, she was an assistant in potato research at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. She planned to publish a portion of her thesis in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. She was married with one child when she came to OSC, and planned to receive her PhD. in Chemistry at MIT in the summer of 1947. For the fall term of 1946, she was helping as a temporary instructor on an hourly basis, but wished to be put on salary. She was put on salary at $800 for the winter term. As the enrollment of spring term was expected to increase, she was kept for the remainder of the year. In 1947, her position in the Chemistry Department looked as if it would expire, so she applied to be an instructor in Mathematics. She was hired again at $800 for fall term only. She was a member of Phi Kappa Gamma, a local Linfield scholastic honorary fraternity, and the American Chemical Society.
64. Rosalind Wulzen
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- Rosalind Wulzen was a Professor of Zoology, employed at OSC from 1933 to 1954. She was born in 1882 in Oakland, California. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904, her Master of Science from UC Berkeley in 1910, and her PhD. in 1914. In 1943, after a long and impressive career, the University of Oregon granted her an honorary Doctor of Science degree. She was the Department Head of Biology at Mills College in California from 1909-1913. She then was Instructor of Physiology at the University of California for fourteen years. Then, she became Instructor and Assistant Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Oregon, in 1928. In 1933, a professor at the University of Oregon named Dr. Moore accepted a Visiting Professorship in Japan. In order to carry on his work, Dr. Wulzen was chosen to commute between Eugene and Corvallis, to take charge of the courses in Physiology on both campuses. If Dr. Moore were to return, it was loosely agreed that he would return to the University of Oregon, and Dr. Wulzen would remain full-time at OSC; if he did not, Dr. Wulzen would return full-time to the University of Oregon. After two years, Dr. Wulzen requested to be returned to her full-time position at the University of Oregon, as it was now apparent that Dr. Moore would not return from Japan, and she did not wish to continue her commute indefinitely. However, the University of Oregon wished to prioritize instruction over research, and felt Wulzen was too focused on her research to carry the heavy teaching load they needed from Moore’s replacement. Therefore, she took a full-time position at OSC instead. She took sabbatical for a full year in 1941, on half salary, to conduct research on campus. She received grants from the Research Corporation of New York and the General Research Council of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, totalling $3500. When she received her honorary doctorate of science in 1943, she recommended that OSC return the favor to a faculty member at UO. However, they expected to bestow no such honorary degrees until after the war. She received became a full professor in 1945. She retired in July of 1948 and was given Emeritus status upon her retirement. The next year she returned part time to replace a faculty member who resigned and remained until 1954. While a student, she was Secretary and then President of Sigma Xu, President of Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of several other honoraries and societies. She was also a member of the Presbyterian Church.
65. May Workinger
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- Clytie May Workinger was a secretary in the School of Agriculture and Vocational Education, and an Appointment Secretary. She was employed at OSC from 1910 to 1955. She was born in 1889 in Shedds, Oregon. She began at OAC in 1910 as a stenographer for $600 per year. She took a number of other positions as secretary, including in the Office of the Dean and Director of Agriculture, and with the School of Agriculture. She took the position of Secretary of the School of Vocational Education in 1918, for $1400 per year. In 1923, she was given the rank of Assistant Professor, despite the fact that she did not have a bachelor’s degree. She joined the Placement Office in 1928, where she remained for the next 27 years. In 1927, she took a leave of absence to stay in Arizona. She had contracted tuberculosis and her physician advised her that with rest, diet, and heliotherapy for several months she could get the disease under control. While on leave, she kept in touch with her office, visited schools where OAC students were teaching, and visited schools where she thought she could place teacher graduates the following year. Many people expressed their appreciation for Workinger’s work. L.B. Mayfield, Assistant Superintendent of City Schools, wrote that she was always available and ready to help to the point that she “appeared to be on a twenty-four hour day.” Her help directed them to “think of Oregon State first in filling our vacancies.” H.E. Summers, Chief of the Bureau of Readjustment Education, wrote that she was a “true ambassadress of good will and the ideal for which Oregon State College stands.” She retired in 1955 as an Assistant Professor Emeritus of Education. She was a member of the American Association of Appointment Secretaries, the OSTA, and the College Folk Club. She was also a member of the the United Presbyterian Church.
66. May Workinger
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- Clytie May Workinger was a secretary in the School of Agriculture and Vocational Education, and an Appointment Secretary. She was employed at OSC from 1910 to 1955. She was born in 1889 in Shedds, Oregon. She began at OAC in 1910 as a stenographer for $600 per year. She took a number of other positions as secretary, including in the Office of the Dean and Director of Agriculture, and with the School of Agriculture. She took the position of Secretary of the School of Vocational Education in 1918, for $1400 per year. In 1923, she was given the rank of Assistant Professor, despite the fact that she did not have a bachelor’s degree. She joined the Placement Office in 1928, where she remained for the next 27 years. In 1927, she took a leave of absence to stay in Arizona. She had contracted tuberculosis and her physician advised her that with rest, diet, and heliotherapy for several months she could get the disease under control. While on leave, she kept in touch with her office, visited schools where OAC students were teaching, and visited schools where she thought she could place teacher graduates the following year. Many people expressed their appreciation for Workinger’s work. L.B. Mayfield, Assistant Superintendent of City Schools, wrote that she was always available and ready to help to the point that she “appeared to be on a twenty-four hour day.” Her help directed them to “think of Oregon State first in filling our vacancies.” H.E. Summers, Chief of the Bureau of Readjustment Education, wrote that she was a “true ambassadress of good will and the ideal for which Oregon State College stands.” She retired in 1955 as an Assistant Professor Emeritus of Education. She was a member of the American Association of Appointment Secretaries, the OSTA, and the College Folk Club. She was also a member of the the United Presbyterian Church.
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- Miriam Augusta Wiggenhorn was an assistant professor and assistant director of the nursery school from 1946 to 1958, and then of Family Life from 1965 to 1970. She was born in 1908 in Ashland, Nebraska. She attended Pine Manor and University of Nebraska, graduating from the latter in 1931 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, History, and German. She attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Columbia University Teachers College, graduating from the latter in 1936 with a Master of Arts in Education, with additional study in child psychology. She had experience as a substitute teacher, and worked as Director of Nursery School for seven years at the National College of Education. She also spent three years as a teacher and assistant principal of the nursery school at the University of Chicago. For the 1945 summer session, she directed OSC’s nursery school. By the time she came to OSC, she had published a monograph, “The Survey of Public Schools
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- Clara A Storvick was a Professor in Foods & Nutrition and Chairman of Home Economics Research in the Experiment Station, from 1945 to 1972. She was born in 1906 in Emmons, Minnesota. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from St. Olaf College in 1929 in physiology and biology, her Master of Science from Iowa State University in 1933, and her PhD. from Cornell in 1941 in nutrition, physiology, and biochemistry. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Effect of the ingestion of coffee on the calcium metabolism of the albino rat.” For her doctoral dissertation, her thesis was titled “Ascorbic acid metabolism studies in human beings.” In 1945, she came to OSC as she wanted to devote more of her time to research. She was said to be an inspiring and challenging teacher. In her research work, she was considered “imaginative, thorough, careful and scholarly.” She was interested in “fundamental investigations on man and his nutritive requirements.” She worked with ascorbic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin B6 metabolism. She was considered a national leader in research on Vitamin B in the blood. In cooperative research she made “outstanding contributions.” Five states in the West, including Oregon, had previously done cooperative research on an informal basis with no budget, but she was the first to administer the regional funds available in the Research and Marketing Act. She led a group of twenty-two workers in the field and laboratory, and set an example for all the other Western states in studying nutritional status and dental care. She was a member of the American Institute of Nutrition, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Home Economics Association, among others. She held offices in the OSU chapter of Sigma Xi as secretary, vice president, and president. She was also Chairman of the Sabbatical Leave Committee of the American Association of University Professors. She received the Borden Award from the American Home Economics Association in 1952, the Distinguished alumni award from St. Olaf College in 1954, and the Sigma Xi lectureship from Oregon State University in 1953. She could write and speak Norwegian, and examined graduate students in Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish. She was named Associate Professor in 1945, and full Professor in 1948. In 1948, Storvick was offered a professorship at Cornell. In response, OSC raised her salary to $5565 per year. She took sabbatical leave in 1952 on half salary to study blood thiamine at Columbia University and nutrients in blood at the University of Copenhagen. She took another sabbatical leave for a few months in 1959, to participate in research on “enzymes, coenzymes, and vitamins” at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Her next sabbatical leave was for January-August in 1966, which she used to do research at the Cancer Research Hospital at the University of Wisconsin. In 1972, she became Director of the Nutrition Research Institute and Chairman of Home Economics Research. She was author or co-author of 71 publications on mineral, vitamin, and amino acid metabolism and relationship of nutrition to dental health. She was awarded emeritus status upon her retirement in 1972. She was employed on a part-time emergency basis the following summer.
69. Evelyn Thurman
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- Evelyn Louise Thurman was an instructor in mathematics in 1946. She was born in 1923 in Ontario, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from OSC in 1944, with additional study in physics and German. Before coming to OSC as a employee, she was employed in the Yale University Alumni Office, where she worked on war records. In 1946, enrollment in the mathematics department at OSC was higher than anticipated. Thurman was hired on a term-by-term basis at $700 per term, as she had been working for the past two years as a part-time instructor. She was married with no children when she took on this new position.
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- Bessie Gyneth Tressler was a librarian from 1946 to 1969. She was born in 1903 in Emporia, Kansas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the College of Emporia in 1926, where she studied music. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois in 1930, and attended further study at the University of Chicago. Before coming to OSC, she had sixteen years of experience in library work, having been a cataloger and assistant librarian in several different libraries. She was hired as an Order Assistant at $2,400 per year. Since most of her training was in cataloging, her supervisors planned to transfer her to the Catalog Department as soon as there was an opening. She became an assistant professor in 1948, an associate professor in 1953, and became the Head Order Librarian in 1965. In 1967, she was appointed as the Head of Acquisitions Department. She took sabbatical leave from January-April of 1957, which she used to explore college and university libraries throughout New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, in addition to visiting agents, publishers, out-of-print dealers ad magazine agents in New York City and Boston. She was earning $13,020 at time of her retirement in 1969. She was given Emeritus status, after spending 23 years at OSC, for her contributions to the library. She was a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of University Women.
71. Ethel Sanborn
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- Ethel Ida Sanborn was a Professor of Botany from 1914 to 1948. She was born in 1882 in Goodwin, South Dakota. She earned her Bachelor of Science from South Dakota State College in 1903, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Dakota in 1904, her Master of Arts from the University of South Dakota in 1907, and her PhD. from Stanford in 1928. She attended further graduate school at the University of Oregon and the Puget Sound Biological Station Friday Harbor. Before coming to OSC, she had extensive experience teaching botany at the University of Oregon, where she spent 18 years. She began at OSC in 1932 as an Assistant Professor of Botany, and graduated to Associate Professor the next year. She authored and co-authored several articles on Oregon botany, with titles such as “The Goshen Flora of west central Oregon,” and the “Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of western Oregon.” She took sabbatical leave at least four times during her career, for a year in 1919, 1923, and 1927. In 1940, she took another for the period April-July 1940 on full salary, conducting research, writing, and attending the International Botalian Congress at Stockholm. She worked with Max Doty conducting research on marine algae. After having worked at OSC for 34 years, she was given Emeritus status at her retirement in 1948, in recognition of her “able teaching” and outstanding work in paleobotany. Her research on algae at the Institute of Marine Biology since it opened in 1925 “[was] known all over the Pacific Coast.” She was a member of several societies, such as Phi Sigma, and the American Association for Advanced Science, and the Paleontological Society of America. She was also a member of the DAR, the Baptist Church, and lifetime member of the American Association of University Women.
72. Harriet Warner
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- Harriet Janet Warner was First Assistant in the Reference Department from 1930 to 1961. She was born in 1895 in Mason City, Iowa. She studied at Cornell College and the University of California at Berkeley, earning her Bachelor of Arts from the latter in 1919 in English Literature. For the next five years she taught at high schools in Idaho and California, and for the next four years was a librarian of the high school and junior college library in Reedley, California. She then spent a year with the Palo Alto Public Library as a member of the circulation department. She returned to school and studied at the University of California School of Librarianship, where she showed “ability and interest… particularly in the courses in reference materials.” Of the eight courses she took she received four A’s and four B’s, and was described as “alert, capable, and energetic…unhesitatingly recommended.” She was hired by OSC as First Assistant in the Reference Department, for $1700 per year. She was a substitute for Evangeline Thurber, who was on leave for the time period. She continued in this position for some time, periodically taking charge as Acting Head of the Reference Department when the permanent Head took leaves of absence. In 1943, Circulation Librarian Ruth Krueger took leave of absence to run her family farm in the summers, as her father had recently passed and her brother was drafted into the army. Warner was transferred to supervise the Circulation Department, due to her experience as periodic Acting Head of Reference. For this increase in work, her salary was raised from $1800 to $2000. Warner took sabbatical from March 1--June 30 1949 to rest, travel, and visit libraries throughout the southwestern states and Mexico, for which she took full salary. She retired in 1961, at which point she was earning $6695, and was given emeritus status. She passed away in 1982. She was a member of the American Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the Oregon LIbrary Association. She was described as active in community work, popular among faculty and students, and “Extremely loyal to the interests” of OSC.
73. Jean A. Williams
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- Jean Alyce Williams was a recreation specialist with the extension service from 1946 to __. She was born in 1910 in LaGrande, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1931, in the field of English, drama, and speech. She attended graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Washington, and American University, studying drama, music, and physical education. She spent thirteen years as a high school teacher in Cove and LeGrande, Oregon, specializing in programs, plays, and operas. She was a recreation worker with the American Red Cross from 1943-45, where she worked overseas in France and England in clubs and hospitals. She used this experience to give at least 25 speeches on various occasions on her “Experiences Overseas with the American Red Cross.” She wrote several unpublished one-act plays and radio skits, which she used for “special occasions.” She was a member of the AAUW, National Collegiate Players, Sigma Alpha Chi, Young Women’s Educational Auxiliary, and the Recreation Director of Campfire GIrls in Portland. She was hired as a Specialist in Community Social Organization, with the rank of assistant professor, at $3204 per year. Her salary was later reduced to $2808 per year.
74. Marjorie Wilson
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- Marjorie Ann Wilson was a part-time instructor in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts in 1946. She was born in 1922 in Lebanon, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics, with additional study in education, from OSC in 1943, where Dean Milam referred to her work as “outstanding.” She then became a part-time typist in the School of Home Economics, but this position was temporary. In summer of 1946, she was hired at $780 for the academic year, at 1/3 time. In the fall, her hours were increased to two-thirds. She was Vice-President of the Mortar Board, and a member of the honoraries Kappa Delta Pi, Omicron Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi. She was also a member of the social fraternity Kappa Kappa Gamma. She had tuberculosis and a temporarily collapsed lung at the time of her appointment.
75. Jean Williams
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- Jean Alyce Williams was a recreation specialist with the extension service from 1946 to __. She was born in 1910 in LaGrande, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1931, in the field of English, drama, and speech. She attended graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Washington, and American University, studying drama, music, and physical education. She spent thirteen years as a high school teacher in Cove and LeGrande, Oregon, specializing in programs, plays, and operas. She was a recreation worker with the American Red Cross from 1943-45, where she worked overseas in France and England in clubs and hospitals. She used this experience to give at least 25 speeches on various occasions on her “Experiences Overseas with the American Red Cross.” She wrote several unpublished one-act plays and radio skits, which she used for “special occasions.” She was a member of the AAUW, National Collegiate Players, Sigma Alpha Chi, Young Women’s Educational Auxiliary, and the Recreation Director of Campfire GIrls in Portland. She was hired as a Specialist in Community Social Organization, with the rank of assistant professor, at $3204 per year. Her salary was later reduced to $2808 per year.
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- June Harriet Sullivan was a research assistant from 1946 to 1949. She was born in 1917 in Sioux City, Iowa. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Bacteriology, with additional study in physiology and chemistry, in 1938 from the University of Tennessee. She earned her Master of Science from the same institution in 1939 in bacteriology and nutrition, with additional study in physiology. She did graduate work at Cornell. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “A Comparison of the Diagnostic Tests for Pullorum disease in chickens
77. Marian Field
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- Marian Field was an art instructor at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1951. Field was born in 1885, in Oakes, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Oregon in 1930 and did graduate work from 1931-1933. From 1929 to 1933, Field was also an assistant in the university's art and architecture library. Before coming to OSC, she was head of the art department at the University of North Dakota from 1905-1909. She also owned and managed an art shop for several years. She published “Oregon Trees and Shrubs in Winter” in 1937 and “Outdoor Living and Learning” in 1938. She was brought on to work at Oregon State at an annual salary of $1,750. In 1946, Field was promoted to assistant professor and an annual salary of $3,000. She retired in 1951.
78. Maxine Dull
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- 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.
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- Elma Marshall Bemis began working at OSC as an Assistant Instructor in the Circulation Department at the library from 1944 to 1961. She received her Bachelor of Science in 1917 from Phillips University, and her Master of Arts in 1942 from the Colorado State College of Education. She also received a Bachelor of Science from the Denver University Library School in 1944. As an undergraduate and graduate student she studied English. She was born in 1896, in Mankato, Minnesota. Before coming to OSC, she was a teaching fellow at Colorado University and an Assistant in English at Phillips University, as well as a high school teacher. By the time she came to work at OSC, she was widowed with one child. She received a letter in 1954 from the director of libraries explaining that despite being due for a promotion, she would remain an instructor, as she had been for the previous six years. The director explained that given the workload in the department, she needed to stay on as an instructor, despite taking on an increase of work. In 1944, she received $1,800 a year for her salary. By 1961, she was listed as a senior instructor, with a $5,472 yearly salary. She died in 1973.
80. Mildred Riedesel
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- Mildred Riedesel was an instructor in Foods and Nutrition from 1946 to 1948. She was born in 1916 in Ames, Iowa. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education from Iowa State College in 1939, and her Master of Science in Foods and Institution Management in 1946. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Palatability of Frozen Pork as Influenced by Defrosting and Cooking Methods
81. Carolyn Sullivan
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- Carolyn G Sullivan was an English instructor from 1942 to 1947, and was a graduate nursery school assistant for three years before that. She was born in 1912 in Corvallis, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1937 in home economics and education. By 1940 she had completed all requirements or an Master of Science except a thesis. Her graduate field was household administration and child development, with additional study in education and psychology. Her thesis subject was “An Analysis of the Family Life Problems of 137 Freshmen.” She worked as a graduate assistant with State College Nursery School at OSC. Before coming to OSC in 1942, she gained experience as a home economics teacher at Independence High School, where she also was responsible for freshman English and the school library. She was also an English and typing instructor at Coos River High School in 1942. She spent some time as a clerical assistant and reference department page at the Oregon State College Library. In 1944, Sullivan had spent two years being hired by the term. She had been a civilian professor for some time and had been recently entrusted with responsibility for the Army Program. She requested a year’s contract for job security. She was then put on a yearly 10 month contract at a salary of $2270 per year. In 1947, she resigned to accept a position with the Long Beach City School System in California, which she hoped to use to further herself professionally and gain experience in a metropolitan area. She was married to J. A. Sullivan, with whom she had at least one child. She was a member of Delta Zeta, PEO Sisterhood, and the Methodist Episcopal Church.
82. Lillian Olsen
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- Dr. Lillian S. Olsen was an instructor in chemistry from 1946-47. She was born in 1914 in Napa, California. She received a certificate in home economics, chemistry, and biochemistry from Sacramento Junior College in 1936. She received a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley in 1939, and her Ph.D from UC Berkeley in 1944, in the fields of nutrition, physiology, histology, and chemistry. She was a member of Sigma Xi, and her thesis for her doctorate was titled “Utilization of Carotene and Vitamin A.” Before coming to OSC, she worked at UC Berkeley as a teaching and research assistant, and then as an assistant professor at Washington State College. Her husband was transferred, so they moved to Oregon. At the time, OSC considered its organic chemistry department to be seriously understaffed, and so they hired Olsen on a temporary basis. She was hired as temporary instructor in chemistry for the fall and winter terms at a salary of $900 per term, and extended her employment through spring term.
83. Minta E. Duncan
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- Minta Estella Duncan was an English instructor at Oregon State College in 1946. She was married to Fred W. H. Duncan with two children when she came to OSC. She was born in 1892, in Marshalltown, Iowa. She had previously been a housewife. When asked why she wanted to work at Oregon State, she said, “I feel that I have a contribution to make.” She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Cotuer College in 1917. She received her graduate education at the University of Nebraska from 1924 to 1925, and from Stanford University in 1929. She had previously worked as the head of the English department at York College from 1926 to 1928. She spent five and a half years in India from 1918 to 1924, where she learned the Hindi language and studied Urdu. She was hired for a ten month period with a $2,000 salary.
84. Rose Combellack
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- Dr. Clare Rose Comebellack was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1954. Her annual salary was $2,700. She was previously an English instructor at the University of Oregon. She also worked as a high school and middle school teacher at various schools in California. She was listed as married with no children when she came to work at OSC. She received her undergraduate education from San Jose State Teachers College and the University of California from 1924 to 1927. She received her Bachelor of Arts in 1928 and Master of Arts in 1930 from Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California in 1937. Her master’s thesis was titled, “The Marvelous in the Earlier Middle English Metrical Romances”, and her doctoral thesis was titled, “The Husband’s Return: A Study in Medieval Fiction”. She had published an article called, “Root, Eye, and Mind”, in The American Mercury in 1941. She also received a letter from President A.L. Strand complimenting her on an article she published in the American Journal in 1948, titled “The Identity and Origin of Eurychus in the Ships' Catalogue of Hyginus” This article is still available through jstor.com. Combellack requested sabbatical leave from the university in 1953 after working for six years, but was told that she did not qualify because she had been hired on a temporary basis, with annually renewed contracts for six years. She was also informed that since she would not be granted a permanent, tenured position within the English department, she would have to be terminated due to State Board policy. Her employment with the university was terminated in 1954. She was born in 1907, in Kennett, California.
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- Frances Ann Clinton Hall was a home demonstration agent at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1964. Hall was born in 1903, in Adna, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Science from the College of Puget Sound in 1925, and her Master of Science from Oregon State College in 1930. She was brought on to work at OSC as an extension agent at-large at an annual rate of $2,400. During her time as a home demonstration agent at-large, Hall served in various places in Oregon, such as Portland, Yamhill and Union County. Hall also worked on a wide array of projects in 1930. She helped revise nutrition extension material, prepared radio service material, and prepared the extension service’s exhibit at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition of 1930, as well as the State Fair. She also assisted with social service programs in Portland, such as Diets for Dependent Families. In 1931, she was assigned to serve in Multnomah County. Hall later became Assistant State Leader of Home Economics Extension in 1944, and in 1952, she became State Leader. She resigned in 1958 and got married and became a homemaker for a few years, but was soon widowed. She returned in 1961, and became an extension agent for Klamath County. She resigned in 1964.
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- Dr. Florence E. Blazier was an Associate Professor of Home Economics from 1924 to 1949. Blazier was born on September 24th, 1888, in Springfield, Indiana. She received her undergraduate education from the University of Chicago and the University of Indiana. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1932. Blazier had previously taught home economics in various grade schools and high schools throughout the 1910’s. She then taught home economics at Indiana University. She became the head of the Department of Home Economics Education in 1925 and held that position until her retirement. She was paid $2800 a year initially for this position, but by 1945, her salary had risen to $3770. She retired in 1949 due to an illness. Blazier tried to come back to work part-time when her health began improving, but she passed away in 1951.
87. Irene Butts
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- Irene Butts was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1964. She was born in 1899, in Minnewahkon, North Dakota. She received her undergraduate education at North Dakota State University from 1936 to 1939, and received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Oregon State College in 1946. She listed her daughter, Jayce LaRayn Butts, as her beneficiary in her job application to OSC. However, she did not mention if she was single, married, or widowed. In 1951, she had to take sick leave, as she fell ill with pneumonia. In 1953, the Oregon Federation of Women’s Club wrote a letter about the Oregon State College Board of Trustees loan of $200 to Irene Butts in 1946, which was still not fully paid off. She made one payment in 1953, which made the balance $173.90, but afterwards, she was difficult to reach. The letter mentions the many difficulties Butts had faced over the years in paying back her loan. Butts later revealed in an apology letter that she had many medical expenses that made it difficult to pay off her loan. She retired in 1964, after 18 years of service to Oregon State.
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- Alma Frances Tapscott was an Assistant Professor of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts in 1946. She was born in 1909 in Lima, Ohio. She attended Ohio Northern University, Bowling Green College, and Ohio State University, receiving her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics, with additional study in elementary education, from the latter in 1936. She received her Master of Arts from Teachers’ College, Columbia University in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts. Before coming to OSC, she spent eleven years teaching high school and one year as a spectroscopist in private industry. She was hired at $2800 for a ten month term. She resigned in 1948, at which point she was making a salary of $3,360.
89. Marie Ledbetter
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- Nellie Marie Ledbetter, who preferred to be addressed by her middle name, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts. She was born in 1909, in Alicel, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics and Social Science from Willamette University in 1934. Before coming to OSC, she was a home economics teacher in La Grande, Oregon. She began as a part-time instructor in both the Department of CTRA and Household Administration, but ultimately continued in only the first. While an Associate Professor at OSC, she completed her Master of Science in Home Economics, but due to university policy, professors of associate rank or higher could not receive a degree from the university. To circumvent this, she was temporarily reduced in rank to instructor and received her Master of Science in 1950. For the school year of 1961-62, Professor Ledbetter went on sabbatical leave, primarily for the purpose of writing a manual which would be used in the introductory clothing construction classes, which she hoped to have published with the Burgess Publishing Company. She worked closely during this time with the former head of the OSU CTRA department, Dr. Florence Petzel, who was now employed at the University of Texas. She retired in 1975, after working at OSU for 29 years, and was awarded Emeritus status upon her retirement. She continued teaching part-time in 1977. She was an advisor to the Mortar Board and served on many of the school’s committees, including the Scholarship, Honors, and Awards Committees. She was also active in the Fashion Group of Portland and the Oregon Consumer League.
