Norman R. Brandenburg was a Graduate Assistant at the Engineering Experiment Station from September 1948-June 1949. He was a courtesy Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural Engineer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1950-1984.
Dr. Bertha Brainard was an Assistant Physician for Oregon State College’s Student Health Services in 1940. Brainard was born in 1894, in Anamosa, Iowa. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1916, and her Bachelor of Arts in medicine in 1929. She completed her M.D. at the University of Chicago in 1931. She previously had a private medical practice, and worked in student health services at Jamestown College prior to joining OSC. She was 46 when she was hired at OSC, which meant there were concerns she was too old to work long enough to collect retirement benefits. She was hired on an annual basis in 1940, so the Board of Education would not have to be responsible for providing retirement annuity. Her annual salary was $2,700.