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1. Program for Jennings Lodge School commencement ceremony and articles discussing Pacific College benefit party and W. J. Smith lecture
Program for Jennings Lodge School commencement ceremony and articles discussing Pacific College benefit party and W. J. Smith lecture
2. Female students on commencement day
Female students on commencement day
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The woman pictured third from right is Ruth Nomura. Ruth Nomura, born in Portland in 1907, was one of the first Japanese Americans to be born in Oregon. She was also the first Nisei woman from Portland to attend Oregon State Agricultural College. Enrolling in 1926, Nomura graduated in 1930 with a B.S. in Home Economics.
3. Commencement ceremonies being held in the Men's Gymnasium
Commencement ceremonies being held in the Men's Gymnasium
4. 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
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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.
5. Commencement exercises in the new Armory
Commencement exercises in the new Armory
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Commencement was held in the armory from 1910 through 1914. Starting in 1915, the newly completed Men’s Gymnasium hosted the ceremony.
6. 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
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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.
7. Graduation portrait of Chuang Kwai Lui
Graduation portrait of Chuang Kwai Lui
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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.
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