Jessup earned a BFA in graphic design at OSU in 1976. After receiving an MFA from Stanford in 1978, he worked for Korty Films, Lucasfilm, and Industrial Light and Magic. While at ILM, he received an Academy Award for special effects work on the film Innerspace and a nomination for Hook. In 1996 he joined Pixar, where he worked on many of successful films including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and Ratatouille. For the latter he received an ANNIE award for Production Design in an Animated Feature.
Bruns, an alum with the Class of 1939, poses at the corner of Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive at Walt Disney Studios, where he was music director for twenty-five years. One of his best known compositions for Disney was "The Ballad of Davy Crockett."
Marvin Rowley received a degree in Forestry in 1950 and became Benton County's timber manager. Rowley helped rebuild the Forestry Club Cabin after it burned to the ground in February of 1949. Rowley received the Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2003.
Photo was used in the 1927 Beaver Yearbook, page 40. Carrie Halsell graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1926 with a B.S. in commerce, becoming the first African-American graduate at OAC. Halsell became an instructor of business education at Virginia State University, later becoming a business administration faculty member at South Carolina State College in 1945.