OSU faculty member Ray S. Hewitt was a professor of English from 1953 until his retirement in 1978. Railroading and train travel were his life-long hobbies and he authored various magazine articles on railroading.
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.