Novelist Bernard Malamud was an English professor at Oregon State College from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote three novels: The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and A New Life (1961) as well as a collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel (1959) for which he received the National Book Award. He was presented OSU's Distinguished Service Award in 1969.
Beatrice Beebe worked as an English instructor at OSC from 1934 to 1952. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Illinois, Boston University Law School, the University of Washington, and she received her L.L.B. from the University of Oregon Law School in 1912. She received her Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1925. She was born in 1886, in Chicago, Illinois. She listed her son, William Beebe, as her beneficiary. Before coming to OSC she had worked on various school boards throughout Washington and Oregon, from as early as 1911. She was a member of the National Writers Club and the American Poetry League. She also taught English and math at various high schools in Oregon. She published articles, poems, and translated plays in her spare time. Before her retirement, she was promoted to assistant professor. Her beginning wage was $195 a month and grew to $3920 a year.
Jane Catherine Dale was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1947. She was paid an annual salary of $2,000. She had previously worked as a supervisor of teaching at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth from 1939 to 1946. She came to OSC because she wanted to teach English. She received her undergraduate education from James Milikin University and the University of Delaware and George Washington University from 1927 to 1932. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938 and her Master of Arts in English in 1939 from the University of Wisconsin. She was unmarried when she came to work at OSC, and listed her friend, Miss Ruth Elizabeth Lautenbach, as her beneficiary. She resigned in 1947 to take another position elsewhere with a higher rank and salary. She was born in 1907, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Louise Lieurance Daniels was an English instructor for Oregon State College in 1947. She was born in 1924, in Wilmington, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Miami University in 1946. She was married to Robert Daniels with no children when she was hired to OSC. She had previously worked as a clerk at the Oregon State library before becoming an instructor. She was appointed as an instructor due to a severe staff shortage in 1947. Her annual salary was $2,000. Daniels was initially brought on for the winter and spring terms of 1947, but was given the opportunity to continue as an instructor for the 1947-1948 school year due to the resignation of another instructor. However, her appointment was terminated June 30th, 1947.
Eileen Johnson was an English instructor at Oregon State College in 1946. Johnson was born in 1922, in Salem, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in secretarial science from Oregon State in 1943. Before coming to work at Oregon State, she was a secretary to an assistant state highway engineer in Salem. She also spent the summer of 1945 instructing Mexican workers in English in Salem. She worked at Oregon State under a ten-month term basis, at an annual salary of $2,000. She was married when she came to work at OSC.
