Forrest "Spike" Gathercoal was an emeritus professor and Assistant Dean for the School of Education. Gathercoal was a member of the Triad Club and taught courses in educational psychology and law.
Left to Right: E. E. Grimm, Prof. of Ag; Mrs. Ida Callahan, Assist. in Prep; B. L. Arnold, President; B. J. Hawthorn, Professor of Languages, Dr. Joseph Emery, Prof. of Math and Natural Sciences; W. W. Briston. Benjamin L. Arnold served as the President of Oregon Agricultural College from 1872-1892. Arnold constructed a curriculum structure, dividing studies into two departments, Literary and Scientific. Each department contained specific corresponding schools.
Esther Taskerud (back row, second from right) and other Extension officials and student delegation to the National 4-H Club Congress. Photo part of the Extension Oral History Project.
From left: Garnet Best, Wallowa County, vice president; O. E. Mikesell, Linn County, president; and Don Rasmussen, Marion County, secretary. O.E. Mikesell was a faculty member for the Albany Extension Service for 40 years. After serving as a 4-H Agent from 1934-1943, Mikesell became an Agricultural Agent from 1943-1974.
Left to right: L. J. Allen, state club leader; and assistant state club leaders: Esther Taskerud; Burton Hutton; Winnifred Gillen; Geraldine Danzl; and Cal Monroe. Photo part of the Extension Oral History Project. Esther Taskerud became the Assistant State 4-H Club Leader in November of 1947. Taskerud later served as the head of Home Economics from 1963-1969, retiring in 1970.
President A. L. Strand on the left with Charlie Peterson who was the Billiard Fancy-Shot National Champion. August LeRoy Strand served as president of Oregon State University from 1942-1961. Strand helped create the Oregon State College Foundation in 1947 and introduced the idea of an OSU golf course.
Professor A. W. Oliver, Oregon State College, is showing a group of Polk County farm people how to get the professional butcher shop cuts out of a lamb carcass in a demonstration sponsored by the Extension Service.