Ava Milam Clark was the Dean of the School of Home Economics for over 30 years, and through her frequent visits abroad, was instrumental to the development of home economics in multiple countries.
Greer succeeded Margaret Snell as head of the Department of Domestic Science and Art in 1908, and was named the first dean as a result of President Kerr’s academic reorganization of the college. She served until spring 1911. Greer was a graduate of Vassar College and spent ten years as an instructor at New York’s Pratt Institute prior to coming to OAC.
Hoover, an OAC graduate in the Class of 1901, married Jay Bowerman, a future governor of Oregon, and was the mother of University of Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. While at OAC, she played on the women’s basketball team. She returned to OAC to earn a second degree in home economics in 1916, and taught school for a number of years.
Oregon Agricultural College students taking a House Sanitation course repair faucets in the Laundry Laboratory of the Home Economics Building (now Milam Hall).
Home Economics Home Management House, named the Withycombe House, was donated to the college by the James Withycombe family. Jacqueline Brier is the person at the top left back.
Extension Home Demonstration staff at Oregon State Agricultural College. Includes Dean Ava Milam, lower left, and Mabel Mack, standing second from left.
Margaret Comstock Snell became the first Professor of Household Economy and Hygiene in 1889. Snell was known as the "Apostle of fresh air", for her love of walks and open windows, and taught courses in sewing, cooking, entertaining, and conversation. Snell expanded the Home Economics department and retired in 1908.