George H. Keller was Dean of Research, Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies, & International Programs, and Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State from 1975-1997. Sam Stern was a faculty member and later Dean in the College of Education.
G. Burton Wood (left) was Director of the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1966-1975. Previous to this, he was head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1951-1966. Wilbur T. Cooney (right) was Professor of Poultry Science and Dean of the School of Agriculture from 1937-1980.
At far right stands Dean of Forestry Walter F. McCulloch. McCulloch was Dean of Forestry from 1955-1966. During WWII, he was Assistant State Forester of Oregon.
Ava B. Milam Clark (left) came to OAC in 1911 and was appointed the Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917, serving for 33 years. Robert W. MacVicar (center) was president of Oregon State University from 1970-1986.
Clifford Elges Maser was appointed Dean of the School of Business and Technology in 1947, at the age of 32, making him the youngest man to become Dean of a business school in the United States. Maser retired in 1966.
George Wilcox Peavy, Dean of Forestry, was appointed acting president of Oregon State College in 1932 when William J. Kerr was chosen as the first chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Peavy became Oregon State College's seventh president in 1934, the first OSC faculty member to also serve as president of the institution. He remained dean of forestry during his presidency until his retirement in 1940, upon which he was appointed as dean emeritus and president emeritus of OSC.