The class of 1888 was the last to graduate from the old Corvallis College. Top row, left to right: Mary Newton (Slayton); Annie Lilly (Robbins), Gertrude Davis (Strange), Jessie Groves (Kittredge), Lilly Groves, Jennie Lilly (Mason). Front row: William W. Hall; James H. Collins; William Stock; Ira E. Allen.
Top left to right: Tommie Jones '89; Robert J. Wilson '86; James H. Collins '88; Allen Addison '90; Laura Korthauer '87; Carrie Baldwin 1882/1883; Archie Horning 1882/1883; E. E. Wilson '89; Hattie Hanna '80; Ira E. Allen '88.
Leroy Garfield Mattley, from Lewisville in Polk County, Oregon, studied agriculture and mechanical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College and graduated in 1902. Mattley died on August 17, 1905.
John Eliphalet Smith was born on January 24, 1878 near McCoy in Polk County, Oregon. In 1902 Smith received his B.S. from OAC. His first wife was Julia McCullock of Salem, Oregon, who passed away in May 1930. He married a second time to Willetta Moor of Eugene, Oregon on August 30, 1932. Smith taught at OSC during the post-war period. He was one of the founders of the Benton County Pioneer Historical Society, and wrote a book and many articles on various historical subjects. Smith was also a Professor of Geology at many universities including the University of North Carolina (1912-1917) and Iowa State College (1917-1937).
Born in Dallas, Oregon, in 1904, Ruby Stafrin entered Oregon Agricultural College, with her sister Mildred, in 1923. Enrolled in the three-year Pharmacy degree program, Ruby married fellow pharmacy student Andrew Irwin in her sophomore year. After graduation, Ruby, Andrew, and Mildred (who was also enrolled in the pharmacy program with Ruby) worked, for the remainder of their lives, in the Dallas drug store established by Ruby's father.
Front row (left to right): J. K. Weatherford '72; William H. Holman '83; William Y. Masters '82. Back row: James H. Collins '88; W. J. Gilstrap '98; John Fulton '92; Newton A. Thompson '76.
Oregon Agricultural College alumni who graduated in 1904-1907 returned to campus in June, 1926. The objects of interest at this reunion tent are "old time pictures and mementoes". Left to right: A. G. Bouquet, Anne Ewing Wayson, Harry Auld, Minette Phillips Espy, Phillip Gearhart, Madeline Nichold, Sam Graf, Fred Roth, Floyd Rowland, Harold G. Rumbraugh, Letha Rickard Porter, Fred Ewing. Photo was used in the OAC Alumnus, June 1926, p. 227.