Ruth Thayer Raymond ("Teddy") graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1919 with a BS degreee in home economics. She graduated from Raymond (Washington) High School in 1915. Raymond taught domestic science and arts at the South Bend High School (Washington) from 1919 until the early 1930s and then taught home economics in Tacoma, Washington, through the early 1950s. In 1921/22, she taught home economics in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Raymond returned to OAC for graduate study in 1925/26 and also attended the 1938 summer session.
Froduald Harelimana came to OSU from Rwanda in 1992 on a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a doctorate in Education. Having gone back to Rwanda in January 1994 to attend to his ailing wife, Harelimana found himself trapped in a country engulfed in civil war and fled Rwanda with his son. After receiving an appeal from Harelimana for help in getting back to the U.S., Irma Delson, Jodi Engel and others at OSU started a campaign to raise funds for Harelimana and his son's safe transport. Finding ample support in the local community, the campaign was successful and Harelimana and his son, Symphorien, flew to the U.S. in July 1994. After receiving his doctorate, Harelimana eventually settled in Missouri.
Graduating from Oregon Agricultural College in 1915 with a degree in Home Economics, Thurza married Joseph Russell, a fellow alumnus, and lived in Corvallis after college. Beth Russell is Thurza's daughter.
Receiving a MS in Soil Science from OSU in 1980, Bill Rogers began to work for the OSU Extension Service as a County Agent in Lincoln County that same year. In addition to holding adjunct faculty status in three different departments (Crop and Soil Science, Horticulture, and Forest Sciences), Rogers also worked for the 4-H Program as an aspect of his position with the Extension Service. In 1994 Rogers was promoted to the rank of Professor. He retired in 2003.
Alumnus and conservationist John Scharff was a founder of the E. R. Jackman Institute (later the E. R. Jackman Foundation) and was president of its board for the first fourteen years of its existence. He was manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge from 1935 until his retirement in 1971. In 1971 he received Distinguished Service Awards from both OSU and the Department of the Interior. Scharff died June 11, 1998 in Burns, Oregon.
Larry Brown was born in Walla Walla, Washington, on April 1, 1928. He graduated from Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, and served in the U.S. Navy for two years before enrolling at Oregon State. Lawrence Leroy (Larry) Brown attended Oregon State College from 1948 until 1952, when he completed a BS degree in geology. Brown was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and remained active in alumni activities after his graduation. He married Frances Robson in 1953 and worked as a mineralogist and economic geologist with the Bureau of Mines in Albany, Oregon, until his retirement in 1988. Brown died in Albany, Oregon, on November 3, 2003.
Merlin S. Eltzroth was born in Philadelphia in 1922, grew up in Ohio, and graduated from Ohio University in 1947. He married Elsie K. Eltzroth in June 1943. Eltzroth moved to Corvallis in 1971 and earned a BS degree in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University in 1974. He specialized in non-game bird biology and was a volunteer in wild bird rehabilitation and protection. In 1985, he was instrumental in the passage of Oregon laws to protect all native non-game bird species and received honors from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for his work. In 2005, he received the first Homer Campbell Award for conservation and the environment from the Audubon Society of Corvallis. Eltzroth retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1971 after serving in both World War II and the Vietnam War. Eltzroth died in Corvallis on October 7, 2005.
G. Burton Wood served as Director of the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1966 until his retirement in 1975. Previous to this, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1951 until 1966.
G. Burton Wood served as Director of the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1966 until his retirement in 1975. Previous to this, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1951 until 1966. Wood earned a BS degree from the University of Oregon, an MS from Oregon State College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
G. Burton Wood served as Director of the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1966 until his retirement in 1975. Previous to this, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1951 until 1966. Wood earned a BS degree from the University of Oregon, an MS from Oregon State College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.