Jean Elizabeth McElhinny was a home demonstration agent in Yamhill County from 1943 to 1946. She was born in 1915, in Roseburg, Oregon. She studied for a year at Willamette University, and then transferred to OSC, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics in 1939. Before coming to OSC, she was a home economics teacher in Heppner, Oregon, but sought a change to advance her professional career. She also attended the National Convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco in 1940. She resigned in 1946 to be married. She was said to be “attractive in manner, in appearance, and a person of high ideals,” and was probably a member of the Presbyterian church and Phi Beta Kappa.
Myrtle Mae Carter was a home demonstration agent for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1957. She was born in 1906, in Grants Pass, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education from Bahnke Walker Business college in 1928, and her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Oregon State University in 1940. She received her Master of Science from Oregon State College in 1942, and as a graduate, she also attended Columbia Teachers College. Her master’s thesis was titled, “Study of the Household Management Practices of Married H. Ec. Graduates of O.S.C. between the Years of 1925-29 and 1935-39”. Before becoming a demonstration agent, Carter worked as a supervisor at the Withycomb House at Oregon State and was a graduate assistant in the Household Administration in 1941. She was hired as an extension agent in 1942 and represented Umatilla County. Her annual salary was $2,694. Carter was also listed as a widow in 1942. In 1944, she became a home demonstration agent at-large.
Viola Brainerd Shaffer was a Polk County home demonstration agent from 1946 to 1948. She was born in 1898, in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1939 in family relations and sociology, with additional study in clothing and manual arts. She did further study at Columbia University, Kansas State, and Chicago Technical Normal School, studying family economics. She was widowed when she came to OSC, with one 15-year-old son. She had five years of experience as a high school food and clothing teacher, and also had experience as a rural branch librarian. She maintained twenty-six rural branch libraries in two counties, and organized reading groups in connection with Home Department Extension Service in California. She also served as a Farm Security County Supervisor, District and Area Supervisor, and State Director of Home Management Supervisors in Oregon. She was a personal friend of Azalea Sager, who vouched for Shaffer’s work. She took a significant pay cut from her Farm Security work in joining OSC staff as an extension agent, but preferred this work so she could spend more than with her son. She was hired at $3300 per year. She resigned in 1948 to be married, at which point she took the name Mrs. Wells.
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.
Mable G. Buttars was a home demonstration agent in Hood River County for Oregon State College from 1946 to 1947. She was born in 1911, in Clarkston, Utah. Buttars received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from the University of Utah in 1934 and her graduate education from the University of Idaho in 1935 and Utah State College in 1946. She previously worked as a senior auditor at the General Accounting Office in Los Angeles before coming to OSC. She was hired at Oregon State at an annual salary of $3,000. Buttars resigned in 1947 because she did not think the climate in Hood River was good for her health, and she relocated to Hawaii.