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41. Phyllis Parson
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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.
42. Hildred Rice
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- Hildred Atkinson Rice was a half-time English instructor from 1946 to 1952. She was born in 1907 in Portland, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1931 in English, commerce, French, with additional study in Sociology. She attended graduate school at the University of Oregon Extension Center, and continued attending graduate school at OSC while she was employed part-time. Before she came to OSC, she worked in the Home Service Department with the American Red Cross in Portland, until her husband returned from service. She had stenographer experience with Bonneville Power Administration, where she was in charge of office and engineering equipment inventory for about 200 employees and also handled correspondence. She was secretary at Eastern Oregon College of Education, where she was in charge of a newspaper staff of about 25 students. She was involved with the Trails Club of Oregon, where she worked as the Business Manager and was also a reporter. While attending graduate courses, she applied to OSC as a part-time English instructor. She was hired at $1000 per year for a ten month term, part time. After fall term of her first year, she was increased to three-quarters time. In 1952, she resigned due to ill health, at which time she was earning $1700 for part-time work. During the summer of 1936 she traveled through England, Scotland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. She was once President and District Deputy of the Daughters of St. George.
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- Harriet Eleanor Sisson was Associate Professor of Pharmacy, who worked at OSC from 1946 to 1986. She was born in 1916 in Duluth, Minnesota. She was married with two children when she came to OSC. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Minnesota in 1937, and her Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, with additional study in inorganic chemistry, from the same institution in 1939. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Photochemical Pharmacological study of Lygodesmia Spinosa.” Before coming to OSC, she spent five years as a pharmacist with the University of Minnesota Hospital, and then spent a year as a reader with the Oregon State College. She also had experience as a pharmacist and laboratory technician in a few other hospitals. She was hired at $1200 for a ten month term, beginning as a half-time instructor and moving to full-time in 1949. She became an Assistant Professor with indefinite tenure in 1965, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1968. While teaching at OSC, she took thesis credits at the University of Oregon for her PhD. thesis and conducted research on “motivation and achievement in PSC 319, 320, 321” for her PhD. thesis, for which she had no funding. Her dissertation advisor was Henry F Dizney of the Department of Educational Psychology, who considered working with her “one of the real rewards” of his job. She received her PhD. in Educational Psychology in 1979 from the University of Oregon, while still teaching at OSC. She continued to receive a “concerningly” low salary until the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Richard Ohvall, lobbied for a salary adjustment. In 1986, she retired. She was a very popular teacher, whom visiting alumni often asked to see. Dr. Sisson developed computer oriented courses to help students learn the computer skills that would be needed in “today’s pharmacies.” The use of computers in pharmacy was only expected to increase, and Sisson thus spent “many hours working on new programs and adapting instruction methods to better use these programs.” She was awarded Emeritus status upon her retirement for her contributions to OSU and the School of Pharmacy.
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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.
45. 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.
46. 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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- Mary Ellen Heckathorn Debunce was a home demonstration agent in Deschutes County for Oregon State College from 1941 to 1943. Her annual salary was $2,100. She had previously worked as an assistant dietitian in Hollywood and Santa Barbara, California. She received her Bachelor of Science in Foods and Nutrition from the University of Idaho in 1932, and as a graduate she studied clothing and textiles at the University of Idaho from 1935 to 1937 and Oregon State College from 1940 to 1941. Her master’s thesis was titled, “Household Administration, Home Economics Education Problems of Oregon Women Purchasing Ready-Made Dresses”. She was single when she came to work at OSC, but later married in 1942. She resigned in 1943 due to health problems. She was born in 1910, in Hartford City, Indiana.
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- Miriam Jenely Black Colford was an emergency assistant home demonstration agent in Malheur County for Oregon State College from 1945 to 1950. Her salary was $2,400 a year. She previously worked as a nutrition counselor and cafeteria manager at various navy shipyards during World War 2. She also worked as a dietitian at Washington State College. She received her Bachelor of Science in Foods from Washington State University in 1942. She married Dr. Thomas E. Colford and was promoted to assistant professor home demonstration agent in 1948. Her salary increased to $3,300 a year. She resigned in 1950 because her husband’s business moved. She was born in 1908, in Sifton, Washington.
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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.
50. 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.