Marian Field was an art instructor at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1951. Field was born in 1885, in Oakes, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Oregon in 1930 and did graduate work from 1931-1933. From 1929 to 1933, Field was also an assistant in the university's art and architecture library. Before coming to OSC, she was head of the art department at the University of North Dakota from 1905-1909. She also owned and managed an art shop for several years. She published “Oregon Trees and Shrubs in Winter” in 1937 and “Outdoor Living and Learning” in 1938. She was brought on to work at Oregon State at an annual salary of $1,750. In 1946, Field was promoted to assistant professor and an annual salary of $3,000. She retired in 1951.
Eleanor Trindle was a home demonstration agent in Marion County and Assistant State Leader of Home Economics Extension from 1945 to 1956. She was born in 1915 in Salem, Oregon. She attended Willamette University and OSC, gaining her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from the latter in 1937. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school home economics teacher for roughly six years. She also spent a year as an Army Hostess with the US Army, where she worked in a headquarters service club cafeteria. Right before applying to OSC, she spent a year as a caseworker in Marion County so she could live at home with her parents. She was hired at $4400 per year as Emergency Assistant in Marion County. In 1950, she was transferred to become a State Extension Agent. She took the rank of assistant professor in 1946, and of associate professor in 1949. In 1950, she was transferred to become a State Extension Agent. She took a sabbatical from September 1954 to July of 1955, to study for her master’s degree, for which she took half salary. During this period, she earned a Master of Arts from Columbia University Teachers’ College with a major in Federal Cooperative Extension. While there, she was invited to Pi Lamba Theta, a honor society for women in education, and lived in an international house. She visited a number of nearby cities and universities, and traveled through Europe and North Africa. In 1956, she passed away from leukemia, after having been on staff for eleven years.
Eva N. Seen was Head of the Department of Physical Education for Women from 1935 to 1963. She was born in 1900 in Sandoval, Illinois. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Knox College in 1922, in the field of economics with minors in psychology and philosophy. She earned her Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin in 1926, and completed an additional year and summer school in addition. She completed one year of graduate work at New York University for her doctoral degree, which she anticipated finalizing in the following year. Before coming to OSC, Seen was Director of Physical Education for Women at Wisconsin Central State Teachers College, and an instructor in physical education at Illinois State Teachers Normal School. She also had experience as a Director of the Rural Recreation Institute, the Director of City Recreation, the Director of Daily Vacation Bible School, and a camp counselor. She was hired to OSC in 1935 as Department Head at $3500 for a ten month term. She was recommended by Wisconsin colleagues which described her as a woman of “delightful personality, high standards and ideals,” who did not smoke or drink. She was described as “peculiarly qualified” to join Oregon State. She was awarded indefinite tenure in 1939. In her career, she published a number of articles in various journals, on subjects such as “Physical Education in the Elementary Grades,” and “Co-recreation Planning.” She was a member of numerous professional societies and honoraries, including the American Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation (serving as vice-president and president-elect of the Northwest Section) and the Oregon State Education Association. She was President of the Oregon State Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation, and vice-president of the Wisconsin P.E. Association. She took sabbatical from October 1941 to January 1942 in order to travel and observe college programs in health and physical education, with full salary. She took another sabbatical leave from March-June 1952, in order to travel and visit professional schools of physical education. She took additional sabbatical leave from March--June 1961 for the purpose of travel and studying other universities, as well as new procedures in major programs for professional preparation of teachers, on full salary. She served on the Board of Trustees at the Good Samaritan Hospital. She was a member of the Federated Church. She retired in 1963, at which point she was earning $13,200 at professor rank.
Jeanette Alice Brauns Dixon was a physical education instructor at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1973. She previously worked at Bosse High, in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 she took administrative leave from OSC to become an instructor for the National Red Cross Aquatic School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Battle Creek College in 1930, and her Master of Science from Oregon State in 1940. Her initial salary was $1,800 for ten months. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1943, with an annual salary of $2,400. She was married to James Dixon without children when she came to work for OSC. She took sabbatical leave from OSC in 1947 to complete a study on swimming, and later published a book called, “Simplified Swimming”. In 1967, she was granted indefinite tenure and promotion to an Associate Professor. She was born in 1907, in Evansville, Indiana.
Beatrice Beebe worked as an English instructor at OSC from 1934 to 1952. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Illinois, Boston University Law School, the University of Washington, and she received her L.L.B. from the University of Oregon Law School in 1912. She received her Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1925. She was born in 1886, in Chicago, Illinois. She listed her son, William Beebe, as her beneficiary. Before coming to OSC she had worked on various school boards throughout Washington and Oregon, from as early as 1911. She was a member of the National Writers Club and the American Poetry League. She also taught English and math at various high schools in Oregon. She published articles, poems, and translated plays in her spare time. Before her retirement, she was promoted to assistant professor. Her beginning wage was $195 a month and grew to $3920 a year.
Violet Baskam was an instructor in the Music Department at OSC from 1948 to 1952. She received her undergraduate education in music from the University of Michigan in 1943 and received her Master’s degree in 1944. She also studied at Juilliard from 1944 to 1945 and Columbia University from 1945 to 1946. She was born in 1921, in Highland Park, Michigan. She was married while working at OSC. She came to work at OSC in order to be with her husband. Before coming to work at OSC, she worked at the music department at Hendrix College. Her initial salary was $3000. She resigned from OSU in 1952.
Jane Catherine Dale was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1947. She was paid an annual salary of $2,000. She had previously worked as a supervisor of teaching at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth from 1939 to 1946. She came to OSC because she wanted to teach English. She received her undergraduate education from James Milikin University and the University of Delaware and George Washington University from 1927 to 1932. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938 and her Master of Arts in English in 1939 from the University of Wisconsin. She was unmarried when she came to work at OSC, and listed her friend, Miss Ruth Elizabeth Lautenbach, as her beneficiary. She resigned in 1947 to take another position elsewhere with a higher rank and salary. She was born in 1907, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Dora May Himmelsbach Costello was a reference assistant at the Oregon State College library off and on from 1923 to 1925, then from 1938 to 1943, and from 1945 to 1948. Her annual salary was $1,920. She was twenty-nine years old when she came to work at OSC in 1923. She had previously worked as an English instructor at an Idaho high school. She received her Bachelor of Education in 1921, and her Bachelor of Library Science in 1923 from the University of Washington. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. From 1926 to 1937, she worked as a library assistant at Louisiana State University, California State University, and at Yakima Public Library. She came back to work at Oregon State College in 1938 because she wanted a permanent position. From 1943 to 1945, she took a leave of absence for military service to join the Women’s Army Corps. At this time, OSC’s library was already suffering from staff shortages due to the war, but her leave was granted. She resigned in 1948. She was born in 1894, in Crookston, Minnesota.
Emma S. Coe was a secretary for the Department of Housing and Employment for Men at OSC from 1941 to 1945. Coe was born in 1888, in Niverville, Manitoba, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1915. Previously, she had been a high school and substitute teacher and worked for several newspapers in North Dakota. She also published an article titled “History of Crary, North Dakota and Southern Ramsey County”, which was published to the North Dakota State Historical Collections. Coe moved to Corvallis in 1936. Before coming to OSC, she was a housewife, and she explained on her job application that she wanted to help the family income. She was paid an annual salary of $1,200.
Louise Lieurance Daniels was an English instructor for Oregon State College in 1947. She was born in 1924, in Wilmington, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Miami University in 1946. She was married to Robert Daniels with no children when she was hired to OSC. She had previously worked as a clerk at the Oregon State library before becoming an instructor. She was appointed as an instructor due to a severe staff shortage in 1947. Her annual salary was $2,000. Daniels was initially brought on for the winter and spring terms of 1947, but was given the opportunity to continue as an instructor for the 1947-1948 school year due to the resignation of another instructor. However, her appointment was terminated June 30th, 1947.