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1. Roy Young, Ivan Pratt, Louis Slegel, Ed Smith, Esther Noll, Bill McKalip, Jack McDermid, and Margaret Lawrence at 25 Year Club initiation, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May 21, 1970
Roy Young, Ivan Pratt, Louis Slegel, Ed Smith, Esther Noll, Bill McKalip, Jack McDermid, and Margaret Lawrence at 25 Year Club initiation, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May 21, 1970
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President Roy A. Young (left). Ivan Pratt (second from left). Louis Slegel (third from left). Ed Smith (fourth from left). Esther Noll (fourth from right). William McKalip (third from right). Jack McDermid (second from right). Margaret L. Lawrence (right).
2. Oregon State University 25 Year Club members Bill McKalip, Jack McDermid and Margaret L. Lawrence, Corvallis, Oregon, circa 1970
Oregon State University 25 Year Club members Bill McKalip, Jack McDermid and Margaret L. Lawrence, Corvallis, Oregon, circa 1970
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William McKalip was an Associate Professor of Physical Education at Oregon State from 1937-1942 and 1953-1973. Jack McDermid (center) was the Superintendent for the Sherman County Experiment Station from 1946-1964 and Extension Agent from 1943-1944. Margaret L. Lawrence (right) was Assistant Professor of English at Oregon State from 1945-1974. Note on slide states that Jack McDermid and Margaret Lawrence were married.
3. Margaret L. Lawrence
Margaret L. Lawrence
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Margaret Lucille Lawrence was an Assistant Professor in English. She was born in 1912 in Oelwein, Iowa. She was married to Gilbert N. Lawrence, and they had at least one son, named Richard, born in May, 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Latin, with additional study in Library Science, from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1933, which she attended on scholarship and graduated maxima cum laude. She went on to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida State College for Women, from 1937-1943, working towards a Master of Arts in English and Latin. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Limited Extent of the Influence of Plautus on the Comedy of Ben Jonson: A Study in J’s Independence.” She was hired as an Instructor in English in 1945, at a salary of $2,270. In the next year, she was promoted to Assistant Professor, and her salary was raised to $7,225. Before coming to OSC, she was an Instructor in English at Florida State College for Women, in Tallahassee, for two years, until her husband was stationed in Corvallis. She was also an high school instructor of Latin and English in Iowa for about seven years, teaching at Toledo Public High School and Dallas Public High School. She was part of the American Association of University Women, where she was the secretary elect from 1945-46. In 1970, she was named the first director of OSC’s new Writing Clinic, at the time housed in the English department, where she was tasked with teaching students grammatical proficiency. She created an “English Diagnostic Test” which was administered to Writing 121 students, which she used to identify struggling students and encourage them to visit the Writing Clinic. She was on numerous university and departmental committees, including the Writing Clinic Committee, of which she was chairman. She was a performer and director in Little Theater productions in both Corvallis and Albany, and was an active member of the Corvallis Women’s Civic Chorus. After working at OSC for 29 years, she retired in 1974, at a salary of $14,278, and was awarded the title of “Emeritus” upon retirement.
4. Margaret L. Lawrence
Margaret L. Lawrence
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Margaret Lucille Lawrence was an Assistant Professor in English. She was born in 1912 in Oelwein, Iowa. She was married to Gilbert N. Lawrence, and they had at least one son, named Richard, born in May, 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Latin, with additional study in Library Science, from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1933, which she attended on scholarship and graduated maxima cum laude. She went on to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida State College for Women, from 1937-1943, working towards a Master of Arts in English and Latin. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Limited Extent of the Influence of Plautus on the Comedy of Ben Jonson: A Study in J’s Independence.” She was hired as an Instructor in English in 1945, at a salary of $2,270. In the next year, she was promoted to Assistant Professor, and her salary was raised to $7,225. Before coming to OSC, she was an Instructor in English at Florida State College for Women, in Tallahassee, for two years, until her husband was stationed in Corvallis. She was also an high school instructor of Latin and English in Iowa for about seven years, teaching at Toledo Public High School and Dallas Public High School. She was part of the American Association of University Women, where she was the secretary elect from 1945-46. In 1970, she was named the first director of OSC’s new Writing Clinic, at the time housed in the English department, where she was tasked with teaching students grammatical proficiency. She created an “English Diagnostic Test” which was administered to Writing 121 students, which she used to identify struggling students and encourage them to visit the Writing Clinic. She was on numerous university and departmental committees, including the Writing Clinic Committee, of which she was chairman. She was a performer and director in Little Theater productions in both Corvallis and Albany, and was an active member of the Corvallis Women’s Civic Chorus. After working at OSC for 29 years, she retired in 1974, at a salary of $14,278, and was awarded the title of “Emeritus” upon retirement.
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