Elvera C. Horrell was an extension statistician and secretary for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1928 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1968. Horrell was born in 1906, in Portland, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education in business administration from Oregon State College from 1927 to 1937. She was brought on to work at Oregon State in 1928 as a stenographer for the Department of Agricultural Economics at $100 per month. Horrell was promoted to secretary of the office of Agricultural Economics in 1935. She resigned in 1937 to join her husband, Everett Horrell, in Eastern Oregon. She returned to work at OSC in 1939 as a secretary. In 1942, she was promoted to Junior Extension Statistician, at an annual salary of $1,800. In her new position, Horrell handled statistical questions for the County Agricultural program. She prepared statistical reports and handled special requests for her department’s statistical data. She was promoted to Agricultural Economist in 1965. She retired in 1968 with the rank of Assistant Professor.
Lena Currier Emerson was the secretary to the Dean of Lower Division at Oregon State College from 1943 to 1952. She was single without children when she came to work at OSC. Previously, she worked as a secretary to the president at Nebraska State Teachers College from 1925 to 1943. She decided to work at Oregon State to be closer to her parents, who lived in California. She received her degree from Columbus Commercial College. She was born in 1890, in Waterloo, Nebraska. Her annual salary was $1,920. She resigned in 1952 to work in Salem.