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- 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.
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- 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.