G. Burton Wood served as Director of the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1966 until his retirement in 1975. Previous to this, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1951 until 1966. Pete A. H. Smith (seated, second from right) was the manager of the OSU Bookstore in the 1970s.
Frances Watts Torbeck was extension agent for Coos County from 1958-1990. Fred Hagelstein graduated from Oregon State College in 1951. He was an extension agent and Assistant to the Director, from 1951-1953, and 1958-1984.
Ben A. Newell served as Assistant County agent for Marion County, Oregon from 1944-1951. In 1951 he became chairman of the Marion County office and retired in 1973.