The Bacteriology Department worked closely with other OAC departments, such as Dairy Husbandry and Poultry Husbandry, on Experiment Station reserch projects. Beckwith served on the OAC faculty from 1912 to 1919, and later served as chair of UCLA's Department of Bacteriology.
Estalished in 1911, this club was the fist campus organization for international students and among the first to promote diversity. Seated in the front row at center in OAC Librarian Ida Kidder. To her left is Professor of Bacteriology Theodore D. Beckwith.