Bryan was a junior college All-American diver prior to coming to OSU, and participated in the 1969 NCAA Championships. Men’s intercollegiate swimming and diving began in 1922 and was eliminated in the mid-1970s.
"The Competitor" is a 1920 bronze casting by Robert Tait McKenzie. It was one of the first pieces of public art to be installed at Oregon Agricultural College.
Campus buildings shown from the left are: Men's Gymnasium (now Langton Hall), Forestry Building (now Moreland Hall) Poultry Building, and Fairbanks Hall to the far right.