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11. E. R. Lake
E. R. Lake
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Edward Ralph Lake was a former Head of Botany at Oregon Agricultural College.
12. Botany laboratory
Botany laboratory
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Dr. Helen Gilkey with students. Helen Margaret Gilkey received her Master's degree in Botany from Oregon Agricultural College in 1911. She served as the Curator of the Herbarium for 33 years, introducing about 50,000 new plant specimen.
13. Helen Gilkey, circa 1940
Helen Gilkey, circa 1940
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Helen Margaret Gilkey was born on March 6, 1886, in Montesano, Washington. She moved with her family to Corvallis in 1903. She received her MA at Oregon Agricultural College in 1911 and her PhD at University of California at Berkeley in 1915. From 1915 until 1918, she worked as a scientific illustrator at Berkeley. Curator of the herbarium at OAC from 1918 until 1951, Gilkey was also a Professor of Botany. She had 44 publications to her credit, 10 on vascular plant taxonomy and 10 on Tuberales. Gilkey died in 1972.
14. Illustration of a squash seed found in Victor's class notes, circa 1920
Illustration of a squash seed found in Victor's class notes, circa 1920
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Arthur Earl Victor, of May View, Washington, attended Oregon Agricultural College during the 1919-1920 academic year as an optional student. Optional students were those who met the freshman class entrance requirements and were "of mature years", but were unable because of health or outside business or professional duties to carry a normal amount of coursework.
15. Price list and manual for botanical products and chemicals, April 1947
Price list and manual for botanical products and chemicals, April 1947
16. George L. Crookham, 1967
George L. Crookham, 1967
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George L. Crookham (1907-1999) studied botany and plant breeding at Oregon State College intermittently during the years 1927-1931. In 1929, he and a friend, Don Baldridge, purchased Crookham Seed Company in Caldwell, Idaho (now known as Crookham Company) from Crookham's father; his college studies were interspersed with business and crop responsibilities. In addition to his business activities, Crookham served as mayor of Caldwell, Idaho; an Idaho state legislator (1955-1961); and first Chairman of the Idaho Water Resources Board in 1968. Crookham was a candidate for Idaho governor in 1962 and was instrumental in the adoption of a sales tax in Idaho. The George L. Crookham Memorial Scholarship was established in 2001 by Crookham's daughter, Judith C. Krueger, as an award for a student in horticulture at Oregon State University with an interest in plant breeding.
17. Image from Kareen Peiffer's Botany 101 lab notebook, circa 1930
Image from Kareen Peiffer's Botany 101 lab notebook, circa 1930
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Kareen Peiffer, of Portland, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1930-1931 and 1933-34 academic years and earned a BS degree in education in 1934. She married Morris Vennewitz, also an Oregon State graduate in 1934, and lived in Portland. Kareen Vennewitz died in 1997.
18. John R. Hardison
John R. Hardison
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John R. Hardison was a Research Pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Corvallis from 1944 until 1980. In 1950-1955, he had a joint appointment with the USDA and the Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1981, he was appointed to a part-time research faculty position in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Hardison earned his BS in 1939 from Washington State College and his MS (1940) and Ph.D. (1942) from the University of Michigan. Hardison's research on field burning as a means to control diseases in grass seed production began in the 1940s and continued until the early 1980s.
19. Te May Ching
Te May Ching
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Te May Ching was a professor of seed physiology in the OSU Crop Science Department from 1956 until her retirement in 1988. She earned her BS from Central University in China in 1944 and her MS and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1950 and 1954.
20. William Evans Lawrence
William Evans Lawrence
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William Evans Lawrence was born April 15, 1883 in Randolph County, Indiana. He earned a B.S. from Earlham College (Indiana) in 1904 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Oregon Agricultural College in 1910 as a botany instructor, he taught at Michigan State College in 1906 and Oklahoma A&M from 1907-1909. Lawrence was an associate professor of plant ecology at the time of his death. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and held membership in the Botanical and Ecological Societies of America, the American Association of University Professors, and the Sigma Xi honor society.
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