Alice L. Edwards was an instructor in Zoology and Entomology at Oregon Agricultural College from 1909 to 1915. She later bacame the the Dean of Home Economics at Mary Washington College at the University of Virginia in Fredericksburg, a position she held until her retirement from academic life in 1951.
This class was taught by Herman Scullen and may have been a component of a rehabilitation program for World War I veterans. Scullen taught beekeeping and entomoloy at Oregon State from 1920 to 1953.
Arthur Burton Cordley joined the faculty of Oregon Agricultural College in 1895 as a Professor of Zoology and Entomology. He became the first Dean of the School of Agriculture in 1908, a position he held until his retirement in 1931. Cordley worked as an entomologist at Michigan Agricultural College, the Vermont Experiment Station, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture before moving to Oregon.