Search

You searched for: Start Over Topic Commencement ceremonies Remove constraint Topic: Commencement ceremonies Local Collection Name Harriet's Photograph Collection, 1868-1996 (P HC) Remove constraint Local Collection Name: Harriet's Photograph Collection, 1868-1996 (P HC)

Search Results

1. Herbert Jones and Alfred Taylor, two of Oregon State's first Ph.D. recipients
Herbert Jones and Alfred Taylor, two of Oregon State's first Ph.D. recipients
Description
Herbert L. Jones (left) and Alfred Taylor were two of four recipients of the first Ph.D. degrees awarded by Oregon State. Jones studied physics and Taylor studied zoology. The other recipients were Karl Kremm (chemistry) and Clarence Burnham (soils).
2. OAC President William Jasper Kerr with Ernest O. Holland, President of Washington State College
OAC President William Jasper Kerr with Ernest O. Holland, President of Washington State College
Description
Kerr and Holland were presidents of the two Pacific Northwest land-grant colleges. Kerr served as President of Oregon Agricultural College from 1907 to 1932. Holland, like Kerr, was his institution's longest serving president, guiding Washington State College from 1916 to 1944.
3. OSC student members of the Army Specialized Training Program posing with a field gun on graduation day
OSC student members of the Army Specialized Training Program posing with a field gun on graduation day
Description
The Army Specialized Training Program was implemented at twenty-two universities during World War II to help meet the increased demand for soldiers trained with technical skills.
4. Graduation portrait of Chuang Kwai Lui
Graduation portrait of Chuang Kwai Lui
Description
Lui, who was from Hong Kong, was the first woman to receive a PhD at Oregon State, earning a doctorate in physics in 1941. She also received an MS from OSC in 1937.
5. Linus Pauling honored at Oregon State Agricultural College
Linus Pauling honored at Oregon State Agricultural College
Description
Linus Pauling was bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Oregon State Agricultural College in June 1933. He was an alumni of Oregon State (Class of 1922) and later in his career a two-time Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962). The 1933 commencement program stated that Pauling was "now acclaimed among the distinguished scientists of our time." Included in the photograph (left to right) are Dr. Marvin Gordon Neale, Commencement speaker; David C. Henny, honorary degree recipient; Dr. Linus C. Pauling; Dr. William J. Kerr, Chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education and OSAC president from 1907-1932; and Charles A. Howard, honorary degree recipient.
6. First graduation in Gill Coliseum
First graduation in Gill Coliseum
Description
First commencement in Gill Coliseum in the spring of 1950. About 1,950 graduates received degrees in front of 10,000 relatives and friends. From 1914 until 1949, commencement ceremonies were held in the crowded Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall).
7. Graduating class of 1876
Graduating class of 1876
Description
From back left: Frank Cauthorn, Newton Addison Thompson, George P. Lent, and Isaac Jacobs. Addie M. Allen and Minnie M. White are the women in the photo. Addie M. Allen married Newton Addison Thompson and Minnie M. White married O.A.C. Pres. B. L. Arnold.
8. Albert D. Taylor
Albert D. Taylor
Description
A. D. Taylor received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Oregon State College in 1940. Taylor, a landscape architect from Cleveland, Ohio, revised the 1909 Olmsted campus plan in 1925 and updated his plan in 1945.
9. Albert D. Taylor
Albert D. Taylor
Description
Albert D. Taylor received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Oregon State College in 1940. Taylor, a landscape architect from Cleveland, Ohio, revised the 1909 Olmsted campus plan in 1925 and updated his plan in 1945.
10. Advanced degree graduates
Advanced degree graduates
Description
The first doctoral degrees (PhD) were awarded by Oregon State College in 1935.
Oregon State University Libraries University of Oregon Libraries