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2601. Mable G. Buttars

Mable G. Buttars

Description: 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.

2602. August Leroy Strand

August Leroy Strand

Description: President of OSU, 1942-1961

2603. Earl Peisner

Description: Education and Psychology, 1950-1954

2604. Jean Morrison Button

Jean Morrison Button

Description: Residence Hall Counselor, August 1, 1947-September 1, 1947

2605. Boyd F. Huff

Description: History Instructor

2606. Karl Goldner

Description: Pharmacy

2607. Ruth McCorkle

Description: Ruth McCorkle was an instructor in English for a year in 1946-47 and then again from 1956 to 1961. She was born in 1898 in Tygh Valley, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1931 in the field of home economics and English, received a diploma from Oregon Normal School in 1923 (now known as Western Oregon University), and received an Master of Arts in Education and Anthropology from University of Washington in 1950. Her thesis was titled “Plan for Teaching Speed Reading to Young Adults.” She previously worked as home demonstration agent at Chewama High School, and was discharged from the army in 1946. In between her first and second appointments at OSC, she worked in high schools, some of which were in Alaska. She was a published writer, having published one short professional article in the Normal Instructor in 1925, one short story in Oregon Farmer in 1933, and a poem in Mothers Activities. One of her poems was set to music and published by Westmore Music Company in Portland. She was an active member the American Legion Veterans Association, the American Association of University Women, the Cosmopolitan Club, and a group called the Phratares. She was a class advisor, a school librarian for six years, the assistant director for several school plays, and assistant dean of girls at Nestucca High School. She returned to OSC as a temporary part-time replacement in 1956. However, enrollment at OSC significantly increased in 1957, bringing composition classes up to about 30 students per section, and literature classes up to 60. The head of the English department, Herbert B Nelson, asserted that composition classes should never be more than 25, and literature classes never more than 40. He campaigned for two new part-time positions to take up the increased enrollment, one of which was Professor McCorkle. It was quickly decided to shift her to full-time. Professor McCorkle was said to be very kind and courteous. A visiting professor of a local high school wrote to President Strand to express his appreciation for Professor McCorkle having gone out of her way to help him get his bearings on campus. In 1961, she was granted the rank of senior instructor, after eight years. However, for unknown reasons, her record was flagged with a “failure to receive increase in rank.” She began at a salary of $2,300 in 1946 and resigned in 1961 at a salary of $5,400.

2608. Kathryn V. H. Smith

Kathryn V. H. Smith

Description: Kathryn Veneta Haskin Smith was a part-time instructor in education for a year in 1951, and rejoined the faculty as Director of the Teacher Placement Service in 1955, where she stayed until 1969. She was born in 1904. She studied at Central State College, Humbolt State College, Southern Oregon College, and the University of Oregon, graduating from the latter in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Science and Education. She earned her Master of Education from OSC in 1952, and worked as a part-time instructor in education during that time. She was hired at $2000 for a ten month term in 1951. After she graduated, she worked as an instructor and assistant professor at Southern Oregon College and General Extension Division. In 1955, she rejoined the faculty as an Assistant Professor and Director of Teacher Placement for $5400 per year. In 1965, she took the rank of Associate Professor. She took sabbatical leave from September 1964 to January of 1965 to travel, research, and study. She took full salary for this leave, as she had been in the state system of higher education for thirteen years and had never had a sabbatical leave before. Her report of her sabbatical leave was found excellent enough that it was circulated among other members of the faculty by President James H. Jensen. She retired in 1969, upon which she was awarded Emeritus status. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, treasurer of Delta Kappa Gamma, and had been President of the Ashland Teachers Association. She served as President of the Soroptimist International Group for a year, and was on the board of Directors for another three. She was a Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and was a member of the Republican State Committee.

2609. Irene Butts

Description: Irene Butts was an English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1964. She was born in 1899, in Minnewahkon, North Dakota. She received her undergraduate education at North Dakota State University from 1936 to 1939, and received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Oregon State College in 1946. She listed her daughter, Jayce LaRayn Butts, as her beneficiary in her job application to OSC. However, she did not mention if she was single, married, or widowed. In 1951, she had to take sick leave, as she fell ill with pneumonia. In 1953, the Oregon Federation of Women’s Club wrote a letter about the Oregon State College Board of Trustees loan of $200 to Irene Butts in 1946, which was still not fully paid off. She made one payment in 1953, which made the balance $173.90, but afterwards, she was difficult to reach. The letter mentions the many difficulties Butts had faced over the years in paying back her loan. Butts later revealed in an apology letter that she had many medical expenses that made it difficult to pay off her loan. She retired in 1964, after 18 years of service to Oregon State.

2610. Chester Arents

Description: Mechanical Engineering, 1945-1946

2611. Edmund Walter Matrejek

Edmund Walter Matrejek

Description: Engineering, 1947-1948

2612. Charles Lynn

Description: Civil Engineering, 1947

2613. Joane S. Wohlgenaut

Joane S. Wohlgenaut

Description: Joane Sophia Wohlgenaut was an instructor in home economics education from 1956 to 1962. She was born in 1925 in Miles City, Montana. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Montana State College in 1948 in home economics, with additional study in biology. She then earned her Master of Education in Home Economics Education from Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1956. Before coming to OSC, she worked as a homemaking teacher throughout Montana, and was a Supervising Teacher for the Home Economics Department of Montana State College at Helena Senior High School. She was chairman of an evaluation committee to evaluate the Montana Home Economics Curriculum Guide, and was an advisor for the pacific region of the National Executive Council of Future Homemakers. She was also Supervising Teacher on the Program Planning Committee for the Pacific Region. She attended several conferences, including the Pacific Regional Home Economics Education Conference in 1953 and 1954, and the National Future Homemakers Conference, representing the State Advisor in 1953. At OSC, Wohlgenaut was hired for $4,500 for a ten month term, coming recommended by Dr. Dubois and by the State Board. She became an assistant professor in 1961. In 1962 she resigned, at a salary of $6,900, to accept a position in the Home Economics Education Department at Washington State University. She was a member, Chairman, and Councilor of the Montana chapter of the American Home Economics Association,; Vice President representing Home Economics with the American Vocational Association; and was a member of the National Education Association. She was also a member of the American Association of University Women and the Business and Professional Women’s Club.

2614. Alma Frances Tapscott

Alma Frances Tapscott

Description: Alma Frances Tapscott was an Assistant Professor of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts in 1946. She was born in 1909 in Lima, Ohio. She attended Ohio Northern University, Bowling Green College, and Ohio State University, receiving her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics, with additional study in elementary education, from the latter in 1936. She received her Master of Arts from Teachers’ College, Columbia University in Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts. Before coming to OSC, she spent eleven years teaching high school and one year as a spectroscopist in private industry. She was hired at $2800 for a ten month term. She resigned in 1948, at which point she was making a salary of $3,360.

2615. John P. Schroeder

John P. Schroeder

Description: Assistant County Agent, Union County

2616. Henry Scheffe

Description: Mathematics, Spring 1936

2617. Horace Schorling

Horace Schorling

Description: Industrial Engineering, Summer 1948

2618. Joseph Schulein

Joseph Schulein

Description: Chemical Engineer, 1942-1958

2619. James W. Ferguson

James W. Ferguson

Description: Chemistry, 1936-1942

2620. Gordon Byron Stirland

Gordon Byron Stirland

Description: Pharmacy

2621. Warren Kronstad harvesting barley, Obregón, Mexico

Warren Kronstad harvesting barley, Obregón, Mexico

Description: Warren E. Kronstad was a faculty member in the Crop and Soil Science department from 1959-1998. Kronstad lead the Wheat Breeding Project, which created new varieties of wheat. Kronstad received the Oregon State University Distinguished Professor Award.

2622. Margaret L. Lawrence

Margaret L. Lawrence

Description: Margaret Lucille Lawrence was an Assistant Professor in English. She was born in 1912 in Oelwein, Iowa. She was married to Gilbert N. Lawrence, and they had at least one son, named Richard, born in May, 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Latin, with additional study in Library Science, from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1933, which she attended on scholarship and graduated maxima cum laude. She went on to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida State College for Women, from 1937-1943, working towards a Master of Arts in English and Latin. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Limited Extent of the Influence of Plautus on the Comedy of Ben Jonson: A Study in J’s Independence.” She was hired as an Instructor in English in 1945, at a salary of $2,270. In the next year, she was promoted to Assistant Professor, and her salary was raised to $7,225. Before coming to OSC, she was an Instructor in English at Florida State College for Women, in Tallahassee, for two years, until her husband was stationed in Corvallis. She was also an high school instructor of Latin and English in Iowa for about seven years, teaching at Toledo Public High School and Dallas Public High School. She was part of the American Association of University Women, where she was the secretary elect from 1945-46. In 1970, she was named the first director of OSC’s new Writing Clinic, at the time housed in the English department, where she was tasked with teaching students grammatical proficiency. She created an “English Diagnostic Test” which was administered to Writing 121 students, which she used to identify struggling students and encourage them to visit the Writing Clinic. She was on numerous university and departmental committees, including the Writing Clinic Committee, of which she was chairman. She was a performer and director in Little Theater productions in both Corvallis and Albany, and was an active member of the Corvallis Women’s Civic Chorus. After working at OSC for 29 years, she retired in 1974, at a salary of $14,278, and was awarded the title of “Emeritus” upon retirement.

2623. Marie Ledbetter

Marie Ledbetter

Description: Nellie Marie Ledbetter, who preferred to be addressed by her middle name, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts. She was born in 1909, in Alicel, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics and Social Science from Willamette University in 1934. Before coming to OSC, she was a home economics teacher in La Grande, Oregon. She began as a part-time instructor in both the Department of CTRA and Household Administration, but ultimately continued in only the first. While an Associate Professor at OSC, she completed her Master of Science in Home Economics, but due to university policy, professors of associate rank or higher could not receive a degree from the university. To circumvent this, she was temporarily reduced in rank to instructor and received her Master of Science in 1950. For the school year of 1961-62, Professor Ledbetter went on sabbatical leave, primarily for the purpose of writing a manual which would be used in the introductory clothing construction classes, which she hoped to have published with the Burgess Publishing Company. She worked closely during this time with the former head of the OSU CTRA department, Dr. Florence Petzel, who was now employed at the University of Texas. She retired in 1975, after working at OSU for 29 years, and was awarded Emeritus status upon her retirement. She continued teaching part-time in 1977. She was an advisor to the Mortar Board and served on many of the school’s committees, including the Scholarship, Honors, and Awards Committees. She was also active in the Fashion Group of Portland and the Oregon Consumer League.

2624. Kenneth Peabody

Kenneth Peabody

Description: Industrial Arts

2625. Gayle Timmons

Description: Gayle Timmons was a part-time instructor in Foods and Nutriiton from 1946 to 1947. She made $850 for a nine month term. This position was extended in 1947 to a part-time position with yearly tenure.

2626. Fred Meyer

Description: Art

2627. Max W. de Laubenfels

Max W. de Laubenfels

Description: Business Administration

2628. Frederick McKenzie

Frederick McKenzie

Description: Animal Husbandry, 1944-1960

2629. Frank H. Smith

Description: Biology and Botany, 1935

2630. Robert D. Stalley

Robert D. Stalley

Description: Mathematics, Graduate Assistant

2631. Robert Wayne Nelson

Robert Wayne Nelson

Description: Business Administration

2632. Adelaide V. Lake

Adelaide V. Lake

Description: Journalism, 1940-1963

2633. Willis G. Pagel

Willis G. Pagel

Description: Accounting, 1948-1950

2634. David Pomeroy

Description: Mathematics

2635. Kenneth L. Gordon

Kenneth L. Gordon

Description: Zoology

2636. Edward Erick Adams

Edward Erick Adams

2637. Edward Raymond Lind

Edward Raymond Lind

2638. Gilbert McFadden

Gilbert McFadden

2639. Derald Eugene Miller

Derald Eugene Miller

Description: Industrial Engineering, 1947

2640. Margaret Lumpkin

Margaret Lumpkin

Description: Dr. Margaret Catherine Lumpkin was an Assistant Professor in the Women’s College of Physical Education, and a Professor for the College of Education from 1948 to 1984. She was born in 1924 in Franklin, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Woman’s College of U.N.C. in 1944; and her Master pf Science in Physical Education from Wellesley college in 1945. After working in OSU’s Department of Women’s Physical Education for twelve years, she transferred to the College of Education in 1955 as a part-time instructor, to work on her Doctor of Education degree. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1961, associate professor in 1967, and full professor in 1970. While working as a physical education instructor, she served as interim Assistant to the Dean in 1954 when the former Dean of Women, Dean Bash, passed away. During her time as acting Assistant to the Dean of Women, she made one promotion trip each year for OSU. In doing so, she observed significant issues in OSU’s promotional and informational programs, and compiled a letter of recommendations to the university. Throughout her tenure at OSU, Professor Lumpkin was a source of critical improvement for many programs. She additionally served on a committee to evaluate OSU’s programs on child and adolescent psychology, although she felt her suggestions from this process were ignored. She frequently expressed frustration at how rarely university officials took her suggestions. Before coming to OSU, she was an instructor at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, and an instructor at Dana Hall School, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was also an experienced camp counselor, and spent many years with Camp Sherwood, a camp for underprivileged children. At various other camps, she often held titles including Head of Tennis, Head of Waterfront, or Director of Training for Counselors. She was a member of numerous women’s athletic clubs, and was an instructor for American Red Cross Swimming. She took sabbatical leave three times in her career at OSU. The first was fall term of 1963, which she took to complete a post-doctoral study in Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of North Carolina, for which she took full salary. Then, again, in the winter and spring terms of 1969-70, for which she received 2/3rd of her current salary. Finally, she took sabbatical leave winter and spring terms of the 1976-77 school year, to travel to South America and Australia, for the purpose of observing cultural and educational differences in adolescence. She also took this time to co-author a Consumer’s Guide to Educational Materials for use in public schools. Additionally, she attended workshops and conferences on psychological aspects of adolescence, civil rights in education, and textbook selection procedures. For this final sabbatical, she took 5/8 salary. While at OSU, she was involved in numerous committees. She was on the board of Sunflower House, was the acting Chairperson of Oregon Women in Higher Education, and was part of Oregon Women’s Political Caucus. She was deeply involved in women’s advocacy groups, such as the Women’s Alliance for Passage of Equal Rights Amendment, a counselor at the Women’s Study Center, and served on the Advisory Committee for the Women’s Study Center. She assisted in GED tutoring for high school dropouts, and was also on the Advisory Committee to the Office of Women’s Studies. She was recognized in writing by the burgeoning Women’s Studies program as having donated significant time and energy to the genesis of the program. In 1977, she became the Coordinator of Support and Special Services, although she had to resign from this position due to an overloaded schedule. In late 1982, she underwent major surgery, and took the rest of the year at half-time sick leave at her doctor’s recommendation. In 1982, she retired at a salary of $31,005, and returned at half-time for the next two years. She received Emeritus status in 1984.

2641. Charlotte Meller

Charlotte Meller

Description: Charlotte Louise Meller was an Assistant Physician at Student Health Services from 1942 to 1943, and then again from 1954 to 1961. She was born in Fargo, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Science in Medicine in 1935, her Bachelor of Medicine in 1937, and her Master of Arts in 1938 from the University of Minnesota, studying neuropsychiatry. Before coming to OSC, she was a resident in neuropsychiatry at several hospitals, and a psychiatrist at a federal reformatory for women in Texas. She published a report on “The Case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Psychosis” in the Minnesota Medicine in 1940, and “Treatment of Ten Cases of Paralysis Agitones with Vitamina B6” in the same journal. She was a member of Alpha Epsilon Iota, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association of University Professors, and the Oregon Academy of Science. After a year as Assistant Physician at OSC, she left for a position in the Hawaiian Islands where she married a contractor and builder named C.E. Biddle. She maintained the name “Meller” as her professional name. They had a son, Charles Edward Junior, and a daughter, Charlotte Leilani. They moved back to Corvallis in 1954, where Dr. Meller began to work with SHS again. She reached the rank of full professor in 1958, and was the only full-time psychiatrist on staff at SHS for some time. In January of 1961, a colleague at the Testing Center named Dr. Charles Kremer began to criticize Dr. Meller’s service. He lobbied to have her employed 2/3rds of the time at the Testing Center, and 1/3rd of the time at SHS. He argued that it was unnecessary to maintain a psychiatrist full time. He also felt that she gave substandard care to her patients and ordered unnecessary laboratory work and X-ray tests, which he felt was an unnecessary strain on their technicians, and occupied resources which might be needed by other doctors. At the same time, Dr. Kremer was involved in a legal dispute with Dr. Meller’s husband, Mr. Biddle, who was suing him “for payment for the building of his house.” Dr. Meller felt that Dr. Kremer’s proposed position change was a way of indirectly dissolving her tenure to put her in a terminable position. As the tension between them grew, Dr. Kremer began to ask that she instead be fired as soon as possible, even sooner than the standard one year’s warning. She initiated legal proceedings to have her case heard by the Board. In the end, it was decided that she would resign at the end of the 1961-62 school year. Per their agreement, Dr. Kremer was obliged not to reply to letters concerning her, and he asked that she refrain from making derogatory comments about him and the Health Service. She began at a salary of $3,000 for 10 months in 1942, and resigned in 1961 at $10,158.

2642. Virginia Weiser

Virginia Weiser

Description: Home Economics, Extension, 1949-1952

2643. Clifford L. Smith

Clifford L. Smith

Description: State Extension Agent, 1931

2644. Gordon Caldecott Smith

Gordon Caldecott Smith

Description: English Department, September 15-16, 1946

2645. Donald J. Martel

Donald J. Martel

Description: Head of Landscape Architecture, circa 1940-1960

2646. Elizabeth Smith Owen

Elizabeth Smith Owen

Description: Elizabeth Smith Owen worked as a half-time assistant in the Catalog Department from October 1, 1943 to July 15, 1944. She was born in 1920 in Detroit, Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History, focusing on American History, with additional study in sociology and Spanish from Wayne University in 1942. Before coming to OSC, she worked in a civil service position at Torney General Hospital in Palm Springs, California, from April 1943 to July 1943. She also spent two years as an office clerk and secretary. She was married to a student in the Army Specialized Training Program at OSC. Later, when he was transferred to another military camp in Missouri as part of the 70th Infantry Division, she accompanied him, resigning from OSC in 1944.

2647. William A. Nail

William A. Nail

Description: Speech

2648. Corinne McTaggart

Corinne McTaggart

Description: Corinne Harpham McTaggart was a home demonstration agent for Douglas County from 1948 to 1951. She was born in 1921 in Prineville, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1944 in the field of professional home economics. She married Holden McTaggart during her junior year, who was a member of the army. After graduation, they went to Texas, where she taught high school, and Washington, D.C. where she supervised the cafeteria for the War Department. For two years before coming to OSC, she was a high school home economics teacher in Roseburg, Oregon. She resigned in 1951 at a salary of $3,900 to give full time to homemaking.

2649. Raymond George Nebelung

Raymond George Nebelung

Description: Hygiene

2650. Earl F. Meeker

Description: Speech, 1947

2651. Jesse S. Walton

Jesse S. Walton

Description: Chemical Engineer, 1953-1959

2652. Elian Leo Waian

Elian Leo Waian

Description: Education

2653. Richard Pierson

Richard Pierson

2654. Walter T. Lund

Description: Botany, hired 1930

2655. Ida M. Matsen

Description: Ida Martha Matsen was a Professor of Art from 1927 to 1948. She was born in 1894 in Bickleton, Washington. She studied for two years at the Chicago Art Institute, and then graduated from the Normal Art Department of Pratt Institute, New York in 1920. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1925, and an Master of Arts in Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1926. Before coming to OSC, she was an art instructor for a cumulative seven years in high schools across Washington and California, and also performed clerical work for the Department of Labor in Washington, DC, in 1918. She was involved in an annual exhibition of the Northwest Artists’ Association in Seattle, and received two honorable mentions in water color painting. In 1927, she reached out to Oregon Agricultural College offering her services as an instructor of art, and, as officials at OSAC found it difficult to find her, most of her appointment negotiations were conducted by telegram. Those who recommended her said she was of excellent character, a pleasing personality, but not a “strong disciplinarian” with elementary children. She became an assistant professor in 1934 and an associate professor in 1937, and was consistently underpaid for her rank. OSAC was grateful to find such a well-trained teacher on such a low salary, although in 1928 she successfully leveraged her position at OSAC to receive a raise of $100. She took sabbatical leave once for three months in 1939 in order to travel and study the teaching of art throughout colleges and art schools in California and Washington. This request was conditional on Professor Fairbanks resuming his work in the department. For the year of 1946-47 she also took sabbatical leave to study, teach, and rest. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She submitted her resignation in 1948, wishing to spend the remaining years of her life focusing on her own art, health, and family. On the advice of administration she instead took a leave of absence, intending to postpone official retirement until 1951, at which point she would reach official retirement age and be granted a service allowance. Superiors at OSC intended to grant her the rank of professor, but chose not do so until her official retirement. She planned to spend her first year on leave on Whidby Island, in an art colony of northwest artists, and to have a studio workshop in the future. Unfortunately, she passed away in 1949. She was hired at $1,800 in 1927 and resigned at a salary of $4,410.

2656. Rhoda Manning

Description: Dr. Rhoda Manning was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at OSC from 1941 to 1955. She was born in 1912, in Palo Alto, California, and was the daughter of another prominent mathematician, Dr. W.A. Manning of Stanford. She was educated at Stanford, where she received her Bachelor of Arts with great distinction in 1935, her Master of Science in 1937, and her PhD. in 1941 in Mathematics and Biochemistry. She was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta, where she was keeper of the records. For her master’s thesis, she wrote “On the Limit of the Degree of Simply Transitive Groups of Class Eighteen.” For her doctorate, she wrote “On the Derivates of the Sections of Bonded Power Series.” Before coming to OSC, she was a teaching assistant at Stanford. In 1942, after only one year of teaching, Mount Holyoke endeavored to draw Dr. Manning to join their faculty. They offered her a salary of $2,300--an increase of $400. Her head of department, Dr. W.E. Milne, recommended they match the salary offer, and wrote a letter to President Gilfillan expressing that Manning was “irreplacable,” and “the only member of the staff about whose teaching there has not been a single word of criticism.” Mount Holyoke increased their offer to $2,600, but Manning chose to remain at OSU for a lower salary. She expressed that she felt she best did her duty during the war emergency by helping to train engineers, and she felt loyal to OSU. In 1946, Dr. Manning became seriously ill. Through fall term, her father carried her course load, and she thereafter took a leave of absence for the next two terms. The next year, she requested another leave of absence for 1947-48 to pursue research in group theory under the direction of her father at Stanford. Concerned about burdening her with a heavy teaching load and reigniting her illness, her supervisors granted her request in order to ensure her recovery was stable. In 1955, Dr. Manning resigned in order to be married. She was hired at a salary of $1,900 and resigned at a salary of $5,800.

2657. Virginia Olsen

Description: Virginia Elizabeth Olsen was a Library Circulation Assistant from 1943-45. She was born in 1915 in Portland, Oregon. She received a certification from St. Helen’s Hall Junior College in 1935, where she was the chairman of the International Relations Club, and Master of Archery. She went on to achieve her Bachelor of Arts from University of Oregon in 1937, where she worked on the staff of the class yearbook. At both these institutions, she studied English literature and history. She received her certificate of librarianship from U.C. Berkeley in 1941. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school teacher and librarian throughout Oregon for six years, but eventually decided she wanted to work with older students. She was hired as circulation assistant at a salary of $1,800. She submitted a resignation in 1945 to begin war work with the Red Cross, but soon learned that OSC was now granting leaves of absence for Red Cross work. She requested to be put on a leave of absence, instead. Although her superiors said she was “not one of the strongest staff members,” they felt she did very well working face-to-face with users of the library, and granted this request. Olsen was part of the Library Association of Portland, the Women's Faculty Club, and the Episcopal Church. She attended the National Convention of Pi Lambda Theta in 1937, and traveled throughout Central and Western Canada.

2658. Ethel Eugenia Patten

Ethel Eugenia Patten

Description: Ethel Eugenia Patten was a catalog assistant in charge of reclassification from 1939 to 1949. She was born in 1906 in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in French from Vassar College in 1926. She studied at University of Lausanne in Switzerland for a summer in 1924. She received her Bachelor of Science in Librarianship from Western Reserve University in 1930. She began to pursue her Master of Arts in 1936 at University of California, Berkeley. At the time of her hire at OSC, she had completed all the work for her M.A., except for a “special study” which she would complete away from the university. Her special study was on the subject of “the printed catalogs of some important private libraries as bibliographical tools.” By the time she came to OSC, she had spent roughly six years working in libraries as an assistant in different departments. She had served as the secretary of the East Bay Library Council, and the President of the Librarians' Association of the University of California. She was also a member of the American Library Association and the California Library Association. At OSC, she received $1800 per year, and resigned in 1949 to take another position.

2659. Henry R. Fortmann

Henry R. Fortmann

Description: Research Graduate Assistant, Farm Crops, Experiment Station, September 1, 1940-June 30,1942

2660. Edwards Vietti

Description: Secretarial Science, 1937-1947

2661. Charles Herbert Willison, Jr.

Charles Herbert Willison, Jr.

Description: Forestry, hired 1940

2662. Maxine Headlund

Maxine Headlund

2663. Oregon State University rugby team Coach Murray Dawson, circa 1965

Oregon State University rugby team Coach Murray Dawson, circa 1965

Description: Murray D. Dawson was a Professor of Soil Science and founder of the OSU Rugby Club. Dawson received the International Alumni Medal in 2006.