After a distinguished career with the Oregon State College Extension Service, Frank Llewellyn Ballard was appointed as the college's eighth president in 1940. He served less than a year because of illness and returned to the Extension Service administration. Ballard was the first OSC alumnus to serve as president.
From left to right: Lon Stiner, Jim Dixon, Harold Moe, and William McKalip. Alonzo "Lon" Stiner served as head football coach at Oregon State from 1933-1948, following a four-year stint as assistant coach. He compiled an overall record of 74-49-17 and was undefeated in three bowl game appearances. Jim Dixon, an alumni with the Class of 1926, later served as assistant football coach and head wrestling coach for his alma mater. Dixon Recreation Center is named in his honor.
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. He graduated in 1889. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He twice served on the OAC board of regents -- from 1906 to 1915 and from 1924 to 1929. Wilson died in 1961.
The shop was located in the 1889 section of the original Mechanical Hall. This, along with other shops, served as the labs for students studying mechanics and mechanical engineering.
John Fulton (Class of 1892), who taught chemistry at Oregon State for several decades, is standing, center-right, wearing a cap. F. L. Washburn taught zoology and entomology classes in the 1890s. Many of the zoological specimens in this photograph later became part of the collections of the Horner Museum.