Jeanette Dixon (Brauns)
- Title
- Jeanette Dixon (Brauns)
- LC Subject
- Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Physical education and training
- Creator
- Hise Studio
- Description
- Jeanette Alice Brauns Dixon was a physical education instructor at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1973. She previously worked at Bosse High, in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 she took administrative leave from OSC to become an instructor for the National Red Cross Aquatic School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Battle Creek College in 1930, and her Master of Science from Oregon State in 1940. Her initial salary was $1,800 for ten months. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1943, with an annual salary of $2,400. She was married to James Dixon without children when she came to work for OSC. She took sabbatical leave from OSC in 1947 to complete a study on swimming, and later published a book called, “Simplified Swimming”. In 1967, she was granted indefinite tenure and promotion to an Associate Professor. She was born in 1907, in Evansville, Indiana.
- Work Type
- photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
- Date
- 1930/1959
- Identifier
- P092:0092
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Institution
- Oregon State University