Elizabeth Smith Owen worked as a half-time assistant in the Catalog Department from October 1, 1943 to July 15, 1944. She was born in 1920 in Detroit, Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History, focusing on American History, with additional study in sociology and Spanish from Wayne University in 1942. Before coming to OSC, she worked in a civil service position at Torney General Hospital in Palm Springs, California, from April 1943 to July 1943. She also spent two years as an office clerk and secretary. She was married to a student in the Army Specialized Training Program at OSC. Later, when he was transferred to another military camp in Missouri as part of the 70th Infantry Division, she accompanied him, resigning from OSC in 1944.
Corinne Harpham McTaggart was a home demonstration agent for Douglas County from 1948 to 1951. She was born in 1921 in Prineville, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1944 in the field of professional home economics. She married Holden McTaggart during her junior year, who was a member of the army. After graduation, they went to Texas, where she taught high school, and Washington, D.C. where she supervised the cafeteria for the War Department. For two years before coming to OSC, she was a high school home economics teacher in Roseburg, Oregon. She resigned in 1951 at a salary of $3,900 to give full time to homemaking.