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71. 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.
72. Erma H. Little
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- Erma Holliday Little was a specialist in family relationships with OSC’s Home Extension service in 1946. She was born in 1911, in Milan, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics and Social Science from the State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri, in 1940; and her Master of Science in Family Relationships and Sociology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1944. Her thesis subject was “A Study of the Dominative and Integrative Practices of a Group of Parents in Relation to their Preschool Children.” Before coming to OSC, she was a teacher of family life at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, from 1944-1946. She and her husband left because he wished to move west and work with rural people. She was also formerly a high school home economics teacher, a home management supervisor for farm security in Missouri, and frequently taught in rural schools. She was married to Dr. James Little.
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- Katherine Monahan was a home demonstration agent in Morrow and Umatilla Counties from 1946-1952. She was born in 1913 in Condon, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1942, and her graduate degree in the same field from Eastern Oregon College of Education in 1934. Before finding employment with OSU, she was an elementary school teacher for six years in Gilliam and Sherman Counties. She then spent two years assisting her parents on their sheep ranch in Condon. She prepared for extension work by taking summer classes at OSC, focusing on housing and extension methods. In Morrow County, she carried on a full program in home economics extension work and helped to double the 4-H enrollment in the county. However, Morrow County found itself in financial difficulty and could not afford to continue supporting extension work there. She was transferred to Umatilla County in 1947, which came with an increase in rank to assistant professor and an increase in salary to $3,336 with indefinite tenure. She resigned at the start of 1952 to take care of her parents. She was hired at a yearly salary of $2,700 and departed at a salary of $4,356.
74. 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.
75. 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.
76. Margaret Simpson
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- Margaret Simpson was an assistant in the engineering and technology reference room from 1944 to 1945. She was born in 1910 in Rayton, Ohio. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English, with additional study in French and German, from Bowling Green State University in 1943. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Library Science from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1946, where she studied reference methods. Before coming to OSC, she was employed for two years as a junior assistant in the Bowling Green Public library. She also worked as Chairman of Circulation in the Bowling Green State University. She was the recipient of a library scholarship at Bowling Green State University, where she was given $300 a year for two years, working 25 hours a week in the college library. She was hired at $1800 per year, and resigned in 1945, as she “did not adjust herself very well to work in our library.” Simpson accepted a position with the Clackamas County Library to oversee bookmobile services to rural areas.
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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.
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- Constance Marie Hampton was an assistant county 4-H Club agent for Oregon State College from 1946 to 1948. Hampton was born in 1921, in Lyons, Oregon. She was married to Earl Hampton when she began working at OSC. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Oregon State College in 1942. During her studies, Hampton was secretary of Oregon State College’s branch of Omicron Nu, a home economics honor society. She came to work as a club agent for Marion County in 1946 at an annual salary of $2,400. She resigned in 1948 when her husband completed his degree at Willamette University and accepted a teaching position at Pendleton High School.
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- Virginia Florence Harrison was a physical education instructor for women at Oregon State College from 1948 to 1959. Harrison was born in 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin in 1940, and her Master of Arts from the Teachers College of Columbia University. She wrote and published an article called “Posture in Motion” for the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation News Bulletin in 1945. Harrison was a member of the National Association of Physical Education for College Women. Before coming to OSC, she was an Assistant Professor of Physical Education for the University of Virginia. She was brought on to work at Oregon State at an annual salary of $3,800. She resigned in 1959.
80. Jessie D. Hinton
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- Jessie D. Hinton was a home demonstration agent for Oregon State College from 1942 to 1943. Hinton was born in 1907, in Gaston, Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Purdue University in 1929, and her Master of Science from Iowa State College. Her master’s thesis was titled, “The Problem of Savings and Investments in Relation to the Farmers’ Scale of Living”. Before coming to OSC, Hinton worked as a demonstration agent in Minnesota and Maryland. She was appointed to serve as a home demonstration agent in Multnomah County in 1942, at an annual salary of $2,400. She resigned in 1943 to be married and devote her time to home making.