Pictured at center left is Evelyn Burleson, instructor of civilian pilot training. Oregon State offered civilian pilot training to men and women in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The training took place at the Albany airport.
August L. Strand was president of Oregon State from 1942 to 1961. During his presidency, Strand took up flying, and took his first private solo flight on September 19, 1947, twenty-nine years to the day after his first solo flight as a United States Navy sea plane pilot in World War I.