Buena Margason Maris Mockmore Steinmetz was born in Salem, Oregon on 2 August 1898. She attended the University of Oregon and George Washington University for a short time. She attended the University of Puget Sound, receiving a BA degree in 1936. She taught school in Tacoma for a year before coming to Oregon State College, where she earned a MS degree in Home Economics in 1939. Steinmetz taught at OSU before becoming Dean of Women in 1941, serving in that capacity until 1948. In 1943 she took a leave of absence to work in the highest woman's job at the Hanford atomic project for the DuPont Co., returning to OSC in 1944. Steinmetz received a War Department citation for her work. She was active in the American Association of University Women. On 18 December 1967 she passed away in Portland.
Dairy husbandry professor P. M. Brandt served on the Oregon State College faculty as head of the Dairy Husbandry Department from 1917 until his retirement in 1957. He was born in Missouri and received his B.S. and A.M. degrees in agriculture from the University of Missouri in 1910 and 1913. Brandt fostered research related to both dairy production and dairy processing and was known for his advancement of the dairy industry in Oregon. He served as president of the Oregon Dairy Council and on numerous committees of the American Dairy Science Association. He was a member of the Corvallis City Council from 1924 to 1933, Mayor of Corvallis in 1933-34, and served on various state committees.
Harry August Schoth received his B. S. in 1914 and M.S. in 1917 from the Oregon Agricultural College. Schoth was a Fellow from 1914-1916, then became an instructor in Farm Crops in 1924. Schoth worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1917-1961 and received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service to Agriculture in 1962.
A. B. Cordley joined the faculty of Oregon Agricultural College in 1895 as Professor of Zoology and Entomology. He became the first Dean of the School of Agriculture in 1908, a position he held until his retirement in 1931. Cordley worked as an entomologist at Michigan Agricultural College, the Vermont Experiment Station, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture before moving to Oregon. A native of Michigan, Cordley earned his BS degree at Michigan Agricultural College.
Mark Clyde Phillips, a lifelong resident of Corvallis, was born February 10, 1877. He entered Oregon Agricultural College in 1892 and studied mechanical engineering. He played on the 1894 and 1895 football teams. Phillips received a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering degree in 1896. The next year he was hired as an instructor of mechanical engineering at OAC, and taught until 1947. He also served as superintendent of the college heating plant from 1910-1947 and superintendent of the physical plant from 1937-1947. Phillips was a member of the Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He married Mary Alice Crawford in 1922; she died in 1961. Mark Clyde Phillips died in 1965.
Frederick Earl Price was an Agriculture Engineer for the Agriculture Experiment Station, and served as dean of the School of Agriculture from 1950 to 1965.