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- Elvera C. Horrell was an extension statistician and secretary for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1928 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1968. Horrell was born in 1906, in Portland, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education in business administration from Oregon State College from 1927 to 1937. She was brought on to work at Oregon State in 1928 as a stenographer for the Department of Agricultural Economics at $100 per month. Horrell was promoted to secretary of the office of Agricultural Economics in 1935. She resigned in 1937 to join her husband, Everett Horrell, in Eastern Oregon. She returned to work at OSC in 1939 as a secretary. In 1942, she was promoted to Junior Extension Statistician, at an annual salary of $1,800. In her new position, Horrell handled statistical questions for the County Agricultural program. She prepared statistical reports and handled special requests for her department’s statistical data. She was promoted to Agricultural Economist in 1965. She retired in 1968 with the rank of Assistant Professor.
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- Mabel Clair Mack was a home demonstration agent, Extension Nutritionalist, Professor, and Assistant Director in the School of Home Economics from 1928 to 1967. She was born in 1897 in Aldrich, Missouri, and grew up on a farm in Linn County, Oregon where she attended Lincoln High School in Portland. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1928. She completed graduate work at OSC and Cornell University, eventually receiving her Master of Science from OSC in 1940. She published an article titled “After the Growing Comes the Harvest” in the Agricultural Bulletin, of the Oregon State Department of Agriculture in September 1944. She was a member of the Christian Church and many honorary societies and clubs, such as the Oregon Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Omicron Nu, and the Oregon Home Economics Association. She began as a home extension specialist in Clackamas County, and was briefly transferred to the Central Office in 1934 to cover for a colleague’s leave of absence. In 1943, she took a leave of absence to work with the Federal Cooperative Nutrition project during the World War 2, and was made Assistant State Supervisor a year later. In 1945, she transferred back to the extension project in home management, where she supervised the activity of emergency assistants. She took sabbatical leave during Spring term of 1938 to do graduate work at OSC. She was made Acting Specialist in Nutrition in 1940, hoping to develop projects in family financial planning in addition to nutrition work. However, to meet the demands of the national defense program in nutrition, she was appointed to the newly-created Specialist in Nutrition in 1941 during the war. Later, her titled was changed to “Extension Nutritionist.” She received a Farm Foundation Extension Scholarship in 1948 to spend a year studying at the University of Chicago, in the Division of Social Sciences of the Department of Education, on half salary. She was appointed to the instructional staff of the School of Home Economics in 1956 on a part-time basis to assist in teaching coursework on home economics extension to prospective extension workers. In 1963, at a salary of $13,632, she announced her retirement. Her friends and colleagues declared this date an “important one in the history of the Extension service as it marks the termination of a distinguished career in Extension from both state and national standpoints.” They referred to her as one of the “ablest” home extension agents in the entire country, claiming that she had done so well in Oregon that her services were eagerly sought on a broader scale, and threw her an inter-departmental goodbye party. In 1966, OSU requested permission to employ her on a part-time basis, hoping to use her assistance in organizing and conducting special training conferences.
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- Frances Ann Clinton Hall was a home demonstration agent at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1964. Hall was born in 1903, in Adna, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Science from the College of Puget Sound in 1925, and her Master of Science from Oregon State College in 1930. She was brought on to work at OSC as an extension agent at-large at an annual rate of $2,400. During her time as a home demonstration agent at-large, Hall served in various places in Oregon, such as Portland, Yamhill and Union County. Hall also worked on a wide array of projects in 1930. She helped revise nutrition extension material, prepared radio service material, and prepared the extension service’s exhibit at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition of 1930, as well as the State Fair. She also assisted with social service programs in Portland, such as Diets for Dependent Families. In 1931, she was assigned to serve in Multnomah County. Hall later became Assistant State Leader of Home Economics Extension in 1944, and in 1952, she became State Leader. She resigned in 1958 and got married and became a homemaker for a few years, but was soon widowed. She returned in 1961, and became an extension agent for Klamath County. She resigned in 1964.