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101. John L. Osborn

Description: Zoology, 1923-1945

102. Sara Prentiss

Description: Sara Watt Prentiss was a Professor of Child Development and Parent Education from 1930 and Head of Household Administration from 1936 until her retirement in 1952. She was born in 1886 in Sarnia Ontario, Canada. At age eight, her family moved to Tillamook County, Oregon, where her father hoped to succeed in the timber industry. After she graduated high school, she earned money teaching in schools, which put her through her first year as a pharmacy student at the University of Washington. By the end of her freshman year, “this enterprising girl” was engaged to her physiology professor, Dr. Charles W. Prentiss. They married in the spring of her sophomore year, and spent the summer visiting his family and friends in Vermont, and briefly lived in Washington D.C. In February, they moved to Chicago, where her husband began work as a professor of microscopic anatomy at Northwestern University Medical School. They had three sons, but the first passed away at 15 months. After seven years of marriage, her husband passed away in 1915 from complications from a surgery for appendicitis. Her sons, Robert and Donald, were four and two years old each at the time. She had two options: return to her parents, as she was expected to, or support her family herself. She chose the latter. Prentiss hoped that her early chemistry training might make her employable as a laboratory technician. One of her husband’s friends discouraged this, and recommended she talk with the head of the home economics department at the University of Chicago. This person strongly advised her to study home economics at OSC, although at the time Prentiss “hardly knew what home economics meant.” She decided to go to OSC, as it was close to her parents, but intended to return to Chicago to receive her Bachelor of Science. After two years and a summer session, she received a Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1917, and accepted a teaching position. Prentiss was described as someone of “dignity and poise [whose] white hair and calm, assuring personality command the respect and admiration of her many friends.” Ava B. Milam recommended her appointment to the faculty, and wrote that she considered Prentiss to be “one of the strongest graduates” of the Home Economics Department, a “woman of broad experience,” and well-suited to handle child care for the department. Prentiss taught the first course in child care ever offered at OSU--a one credit course in fall of 1917 entitled “Mothercraft,” which mostly discussed the “physical care of the child.” As demand increased, she had more opportunities to teach varied courses: on child development, behavior problems, parent education, and family relationships, occasionally making use of a nursery school laboratory. She initially taught courses concerning nutrition, but eventually devoted most of her time to the newly-established nursery school. In 1930, she was made a full professor of Child Development and Parent Education. Soon after, the National Research Council offered her a fellowship in child development. She studied at Merrill-Palmer, and the Universities of Minnesota, Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1930, she received her master’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Scholarship. She worked with UC Berkeley’s extension service, as a parent education specialist from 1934-36. In 1936, she returned to OSC to become head of the Department of Household Administration. She reached retirement age in 1951, but they retained her on a part-time basis for the summer session, in order to teach seminar readings in Child Development and Family Relationships. Upon her retirement, she was given Emeritus status. Upon her first hire, she made $810 fro a 10 month term, and upon her retirement in 1951 she was earning $7000 a year. As for her sons, Robert graduated OSC in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in the field of entomology. He was a member of the “record-beating relay hurdle team in his senior year,” and after completing graduate school, lived in Salem with two children. Donald attended OSC for three years as a science major and member of Phi Kappa Phi, and thereafter attended the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Both had two sons, but Donald passed away shortly before Prentiss’ retirement. She took in his children until her daughter-in-law, Marion, finished her education. She died at age 68 on August 1st, 1954. She co-authored an article titled “the Observation of Food Habits in Young Children” with Dr. Mary C Jones, which was published in the seventh volume of Childhood Education. She was a member of numerous learned societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the American Association of University Professors. As a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, she was nominated for a Women of Achievement award in 1956. She was also a member of the Presbyterian church.

103. Garth L. Putnam

Garth L. Putnam

Description: Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, 1946

104. Ivan Pratt

Description: Zoology, 1945-1961

105. Dan Poling

Description: Dean of Men, hired 1924

106. Eva Seen

Description: 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.

107. Joselyn R. Skinner

Joselyn R. Skinner

Description: Jocelyn Rea Skinner was an instructor in Household Administration from 1946 to 1949. She was born Jocelyn Ann Rea in 1917 in Toronto, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Toronto in 1938, and her Master of Arts in Psychology, with a special emphasis on child psychology, from the same institution in 1940. Her thesis for her master’s degree was titled “A systematic analysis of the content of the children’s stories.” Before coming to OSC, she worked as Acting Director of Mary B. Eyre Nursery School at Scripps College. She also had experience as a supervisor at other nursery schools throughout Ontario, and had served as a director of a wartime day nursery. She worked as a camp counselor for four summers. When Wartime Programme was started in Ontario, she was chosen to open the first school as a “demonstration school for the province.” She had complete responsibility to plan and organize this project, ad went on to train and supervise staff in 28 schools. Dean Milam interviewed her in Los Angeles and recommended her for the appointment. She was hired at $2600 for a ten month term. On December 17, 1948, she married Charles S. Skinner, a graduate assistant in Biology with the Botany Department. She resigned in 1949, as her husband's work needed them to move out of Oregon. She was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority and the American Camping Association.

108. Herbert R. Sinnard

Herbert R. Sinnard

Description: Agricultural Engineering, 1935-1957

109. Ethel Allen

Description: Ethel Allen worked as an assistant professor and assistant editor at Oregon State’s publications office from 1917 to 1948 and then from 1950 to 1955. She received her undergraduate education from Oregon Agricultural College in 1916. Initially, she worked in the library, but was promoted to Assistant in Office Publications in 1923 and in 1931 she was promoted to Assistant Editor of Publications. She was born in 1883, in Rickreall, Oregon. Before working at OSU, she was a rural school teacher, and taught in Independence, Oregon. Her annual salary was $2200. Before she retired, she made $2600. She was a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. After working at OSU for 20 years, she took sabbatical leave in 1937. Ethel Allen came to OSU because there was a shortage of staff in the library, as one of the employees was helping an ailing mother and was getting engaged, which meant she would not be working anymore. Allen was hired onto the library staff, working seven hours a day for $38 a month. She initially made about $600 a year. Ida Kidder wrote a letter to President Kerr in 1917 to ask for a rise in the wages of her library staff, pointing to the rise in living expenses, and recommended that Allen’s wages be raised to $720 a year. Kerr granted the salary increase. She retired in 1948, but came back in 1950 to work part time. Her previously held position was difficult to fill, as women often left to have babies, get married, or they found a better-paying job. Initially, she was only supposed to work for a year, but the rate of turnover for female staff was so great that she stayed on until 1955. Other faculty frequently said she was extremely skilled and experienced.

110. Leonard J. Allen

Leonard J. Allen

Description: State Club Leader, 1915-1946

111. Vernon H. Cheldelin

Vernon H. Cheldelin

Description: Dr. Vernon H. Cheldelin was a Professor of Chemistry from 1942-1967 and served as the Director of the Science Research Institute.

112. Willard M. Craig

Willard M. Craig

Description: Business Administration, 1937-1967

113. Frances F. Allen

Frances F. Allen

Description: Assistant Circulation Librarian, 1946-1949

114. Charles E. Allen

Charles E. Allen

Description: Electrical Engineering, 1945

115. Otis L. Church

Description: Physics, 1943

116. Herman C. Forslund

Herman C. Forslund

Description: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 1947-1960

117. Margaret Fincke

Margaret Fincke

Description: Dr. Margaret Fincke was a home economics nutritionist at Oregon State College from 1935 to 1968. She was born in 1900, in Astoria, New York. Fincke received her A.B. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1921. She received her master’s degree from Columbia University in 1932, and her Ph.D. in 1935. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. was titled, “The Availability of Calcium from some Typical Foods”. She was also a member of the American Institute of Nutrition and the American Home Economics Association. Prior to coming to OSC, Fincke worked as an assistant researcher at the Chemistry Department at Columbia University. She began at OSC as an Associate Professor of Foods and Nutrition in 1935, becoming the first Ph.D. on the School of Home Economics staff. By 1943, she was promoted to the rank of professor. She became the head of the Foods and Nutrition Department in 1944. During World War Two, Fincke served on the Benton County Civil Defense Committee and was a nutrition chairman of the Benton County Red Cross. In 1955, she was nominated to become a consultant in Home Economics in Thailand for six months, following the contract formed between Oregon State and Kasetsart University. In the summer of 1961, she participated in the International Congress of Biochemistry in Moscow, Russia. She became Acting Dean of the School of Home Economics from 1963 to 1964 following the former Dean Scholl taking a sabbatical leave. Toward the end of her career, Fincke became president of the Oregon Dietetic Association. In 1966, she was nominated for the Oregon State University Alumni Association’s Distinguished Professor Award. She retired in 1968. By the end of her career, Fincke was an internationally recognized nutritionist, with significant contributions to the field of home economics and nutrition.

118. Cecil C. Callarman

Cecil C. Callarman

Description: Secretarial Science, 1941-1956

119. Elvera C. Horrell

Elvera C. Horrell

Description: Elvera C. Horrell was an extension statistician and secretary for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1928 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1968. Horrell was born in 1906, in Portland, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education in business administration from Oregon State College from 1927 to 1937. She was brought on to work at Oregon State in 1928 as a stenographer for the Department of Agricultural Economics at $100 per month. Horrell was promoted to secretary of the office of Agricultural Economics in 1935. She resigned in 1937 to join her husband, Everett Horrell, in Eastern Oregon. She returned to work at OSC in 1939 as a secretary. In 1942, she was promoted to Junior Extension Statistician, at an annual salary of $1,800. In her new position, Horrell handled statistical questions for the County Agricultural program. She prepared statistical reports and handled special requests for her department’s statistical data. She was promoted to Agricultural Economist in 1965. She retired in 1968 with the rank of Assistant Professor.

120. Ervin F. Kurth

Description: Wood Chemistry, 1944-1959+

121. Ruth McCorkle

Description: Ruth McCorkle was an instructor in English for a year in 1946-47 and then again from 1956 to 1961. She was born in 1898 in Tygh Valley, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from OSC in 1931 in the field of home economics and English, received a diploma from Oregon Normal School in 1923 (now known as Western Oregon University), and received an Master of Arts in Education and Anthropology from University of Washington in 1950. Her thesis was titled “Plan for Teaching Speed Reading to Young Adults.” She previously worked as home demonstration agent at Chewama High School, and was discharged from the army in 1946. In between her first and second appointments at OSC, she worked in high schools, some of which were in Alaska. She was a published writer, having published one short professional article in the Normal Instructor in 1925, one short story in Oregon Farmer in 1933, and a poem in Mothers Activities. One of her poems was set to music and published by Westmore Music Company in Portland. She was an active member the American Legion Veterans Association, the American Association of University Women, the Cosmopolitan Club, and a group called the Phratares. She was a class advisor, a school librarian for six years, the assistant director for several school plays, and assistant dean of girls at Nestucca High School. She returned to OSC as a temporary part-time replacement in 1956. However, enrollment at OSC significantly increased in 1957, bringing composition classes up to about 30 students per section, and literature classes up to 60. The head of the English department, Herbert B Nelson, asserted that composition classes should never be more than 25, and literature classes never more than 40. He campaigned for two new part-time positions to take up the increased enrollment, one of which was Professor McCorkle. It was quickly decided to shift her to full-time. Professor McCorkle was said to be very kind and courteous. A visiting professor of a local high school wrote to President Strand to express his appreciation for Professor McCorkle having gone out of her way to help him get his bearings on campus. In 1961, she was granted the rank of senior instructor, after eight years. However, for unknown reasons, her record was flagged with a “failure to receive increase in rank.” She began at a salary of $2,300 in 1946 and resigned in 1961 at a salary of $5,400.

122. Alice Mitchell

Description: Alice Maxine Headland was an instructor in English from 1946 to 1950. She was hired to replace Kenneth Mumford, and was reportedly offered three additional positions as instructor of English, one which was higher-paying than OSC’s offer. She married Alan George Mitchell in December of 1929, and changed her name to Alice Maxine Mitchell. She was hired at a salary of $2,400, and resigned in 1950 at a salary of $3,300.

123. Charles B. Mitchell

Charles B. Mitchell

Description: English, 1920-1952

124. Louise M. Miligan

Louise M. Miligan

Description: Catalog Librarian, 1946-1962

125. Horace H. Millsap

Horace H. Millsap

Description: Research Assistant, Botany

126. William E. Milne

William E. Milne

Description: Mathematics

127. Joan Patterson

Description: Joan Patterson was a Professor of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts from 1940 to 1956. She was born in 1907 in Baker, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1931, and later went on to obtain her graduate degree from UO in art appreciation and sociology in 1934. For her professional degree, her thesis discussed three interior design problems: oriental library, aviation waiting room, and one complete home. Before applying to be a professor, she was an extension agent in home furnishings at OSC, and previously worked as an instructor and research assistant at the University of Oregon. She also had been employed as an assistant decorator at the Meier and Frank Company in Portland, Oregon. She was said to have been “under observation” by OSC’s home economics department for a long time, which considered her very favorable for the home management specialist position. She published at least 24 articles in her field, including those on such subjects as “Color and its use in the home,” “Curtaining the home,” and “Home-made rugs--how to design and make them.” She served as the extension specialist in home furnishing for four years and was a member of the faculty for 29 years. She was an instructor until 1937, assistant professor in 1938, associate professor in 1940, and full professor in 1951. She served as acting head of the Clothing, Textiles and Related Arts Department in 1961-62. In 1949, she was appointed to Associate Textile Specialist in the Experiment Station in the Department of Home Economics, at an annual salary of $4,578 for ten months of service. She worked in experiment station research with the Oregon Flax and Linen Board, wrote bulletins for the extension service and agricultural experiment station, and was an advisor for at least thirteen master's theses. As an extension agent, she aided community members in furnishing their homes and public buildings, and made an important cultural contribution with her design of woven fabrics. She took sabbatical leave twice in her career at OSC. The first was from January to September of 1948 to do advanced study in Cranbrook, Michigan, for which she received a half-salary. When her sabbatical ran out, she took a leave of absence in 1949-50 in order to continue her research. She studied the “utilisation of flax yarn, principally from Oregon fiber, in upholstery and drapery fabrics.” This project held the promise of a “new market outlet” for Oregon flax. The Flax and Linen Board understood the research conducted by Patterson to be of “fundamental importance…to the Oregon flax industry.” Thus, they awarded her $500 for signing a memorandum of understanding between herself and the Flax and Linen Board, $50,000 upon submission of a report to the Board, and $1000 to reimburse her for purchase of materials and services rendered. She took another sabbatical in 1957 from March to June, when she visited craft centers and industry centers of textile design for inspiration in teaching and information, visited colleges and universities to study teaching, and designing textiles she normally did not have the time to do. In 1953, she was named one of five Oregon “Women of Achievement” for her contribution to “industrial development in Oregon.” An article was written about her recognition in the Gazette-Times. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority and the Episcopal Church.

128. Georgia C. Bibee

Georgia C. Bibee

Description: Foods and Nutrition, 1926-1954

129. Charles S. Pease

Charles S. Pease

Description: Chemistry, 1925-1962

130. Reginald H. Robinson

Reginald H. Robinson

Description: Chemistry, 1911-1946

131. Grace Scully

Description: Grace Mary Scully was a Professor of Physical Education for Women from 1946 to 1957. She was born in 1915 in El Reno, Oklahoma. She studied at Eastern Oregon College, University of Washington, and University of Oregon, graduating from the latter in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and Biological Science. She earned her Master of Science in 1946 from University of Oregon, in health and physical education. For her thesis, she studied flexibility. While attending University of Oregon, she was a graduate assistant and briefly an instructor. She also had experience teaching elementary and secondary school, supervising health and physical education at University High School in Eugene, Oregon, and had been a director of a summer playground program and camp counselor. OSC hired her at $2400 for a ten month term. She became an assistant professor in 1950. She took sabbatical leave from 1954-55, on half salary, to get her doctorate from Columbia University Teachers’ College. After this, she requested an an additional leave of absence to complete her dissertation. Her work was funded by the Ford Foundation and “some Carnegie money.” The organization supervising her work was the Greater New York Council for Foreign Students. She felt that, though her subject might at first glance seem unrelated to her work at OSC, she was learning more about people foreign and domestic, which she considered “basic to the excellent teaching of anything.” In June 1956, she received her PhD. in Guidance and Student Personnel Administration, with additional study in counseling. Her doctoral thesis was titled “A Study of Students from Abroad Who Do Not Wish to Return Home.” Unlike her study subjects, Scully was anxious to return to her “beloved Oregon.” She wrote two separate, very similar letters announcing her graduation to President Strand, who teased her for already developing “professorial absent-mindedness.” Apparently she had forgotten to sign the first by hand, and so she wrote another, but could not retrieve the first from the postal service. In 1957, she accepted a position as Associate Professor at Northern Illinois State College at De Kalb, where she taught dance education, in addition to counseling, and guiding a number of graduate students. She made it clear she had “made every effort to stay in this state.” President Strand apologized she had “come to the decision she did,” and chalked it up to a “personality conflict.” Professor Scully responded that the issue was not due to personality conflict and was instead because others were “firstest with the mostest”--a famous Southern phrase which essentially means that one group got there first, with greater numbers, and dominated the scene thereafter. Dr Seen attributed her decision to leave to the fact that Professor Scully wished to teach dance, but OSC already had a dance education professor. After Illinois, she became Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Student Personnel Services at Paterson State College. She was president of Phi Beta Sigma, and a member of Sigma Alpha Chi and Kappa Delta Pi.

132. Lois Sather

Description: Lois Ann Sather (nee Young) was Assistant Food Technologist. She was born in 1923 in Wilsonville, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from OSC in 1945. She joined OSC in 1945 as a research assistant with the Food Technology Department, with a salary of $1800 per year. She left in 1948, and returned to the same position in 1952. After two years, she became Assistant Food Technologist with the rank of assistant professor in 1954, where she was in charge of the Flavorium, Food and Dairy Tech Department. She was also in charge of several significant flavor studies, studying the formulation of commercial food products and researched which factors influence consumer preferences for beef. Her lab developed new recipes for using dried apples, dried green beans, and dried cherries. Her work was considered expedient by the university, who felt that the “tremendous increase in the number of insecticides and fungicides,” made it necessary for the “Food Technology Department… to make numerous tests on the effect of these materials on flavor of crops treated with [pesticides].” Sather was a member of the National IFT committee on Flavor Evaluation Procedures, and published numerous publications, with titles such as “Flavor Studies of Ice Cream vs. Ice Milk by Student Flavor Panels,” and “Building Convenience into Green Beans.” She was a member of the Institute of Food Technologists and the American Home Economics Association, as well as Kappa Delta Sorority Alumnae Association, the Eastern Star, and Corvallis Parent-Teachers Association. She was married to Glenn V Sather in 1946, who owned and managed a Corvallis laundry and dry cleaning business. By 1958 they had three children: Craig (10), Ronald (8), and Larry (7).

133. Carl Salser

Description: Dean of Education, 1929-1960

134. Herman A. Scullen

Herman A. Scullen

Description: Science, 1920-1964

135. Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1952-1953

Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1952-1953

Description: Robert Walls, Director

136. Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1953-1954

Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1953-1954

Description: Robert Walls, Director

137. Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1951-1952

Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1951-1952

Description: Robert Walls, Director

138. Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1952-1953

Choralaires on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1952-1953

Description: Robert Walls, Director

139. Robert D. Harris

Robert D. Harris

Description: Psychology, 1947-1951

140. Lucia Haley

Description: Lucia Haley was an assistant librarian at Oregon State from 1921 to 1952. Haley was born in 1887, in Fryeburg, Maine. She received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 1911 from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (B.L.S.) from Pratt Institute. Before coming to work at Oregon State, Haley was a cataloger for the Seattle Public Library, and for the Oregon State Library, and as a librarian for the University of Montana. She was also an active member in the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Haley took sabbatical leave in 1929 in order to travel to other libraries across the United States and Europe to learn how to improve Oregon State’s library. She also used this time to improve her French and German so she could translate periodical literature. In 1937, Haley attended a summer session at the University of California to learn Russian. Haley had noticed a growing trend in materials coming into the library from the Soviet Union that were in Russian, where they had previously been written in English, German, or French. Haley understood the importance of being able to translate these documents, especially Soviet research in soils, horticulture, and farm crops, for Oregon State, so she took it upon herself to learn Russian. She retired in 1952, after 31 years of service. OSC awarded her with emeritus status upon her retirement for her contributions to the college. She passed away in 1975.

141. Elmer Hansen

Description: Dr. Elmer Hansen graduated from OSU in 1934 and completed an M.S. in Horticulture in 1935. He served as a graduate research assistant, and later professor and horticulturist focused on pear storage for the extension service. He died in 1996.

142. Charles N. Harris

Charles N. Harris

Description: Speech, 1947-1953+

143. Charles V. Hume

Charles V. Hume

Description: Speech, 1946-1948

144. Laurel E. Holcomb

Laurel E. Holcomb

Description: Library Reference Assistant, 1945-1947

145. Ingomar M. Hostetter

Ingomar M. Hostetter

Description: Mathematics, 1941-1960

146. Florence S. Bakkum

Florence S. Bakkum

Description: Florence S. Bakkum was an Acting Instructor in Mathematics at Oregon State from 1942 to 1951 and then from 1954 until her death in 1983. She received her bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College in 1916 and her master’s degree from Cornell in 1924. She was born in Fairville, Iowa, in 1893. Before working at OSC, she was a homemaker. She was still married when she began working for OSC. She was well traveled, having gone to many European countries. She received $700 per term to teach mathematics. She initially was brought on on a term-by-term basis, as the university may have been losing faculty who left for war service. By the end of her first winter term at OSC, they approved for her to work spring term as well. By 1943, she was listed as a mathematics instructor in the military program. By 1945, she was given a raise to $800 for fall term. It seems as though she had retired in 1951 but was brought out of retirement to help the expanding science department. By 1955, she was making $4,020 for 10 months. In 1956, that was raised to $4,220 for 10 months. In 1957, it was raised to $5,300 for 10 months. By the time she died, she had been promoted to Assistant Professor.

147. Mary I. Bash

Description: Mary Iola Bash was the Assistant Dean of Women from 1946 to 1953. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914 from the University of Washington. She was born in 1891, in Port Townsend, Washington. As a child, she traveled between China and New York often, due to her father’s work in railroads. He built the first railroads in China. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school teacher and worked for the YMCA. She was also a manager of student housing at the University of Washington. Her friend Grace W. Carman was listed as her beneficiary. Carman was notified by the Good Samaritan Hospital that the College Administration Council made a gift of $15 to the Mary Bash memorial following Bash’s death. Her annual salary was initially $3000. A parent of a female student who visited with Bash in 1948 said this of her: “She has vision and foresight concerning girls problems, with a directness for action, plus a sincere, interested intent, with a most friendly manner, with guidance definitely the keynote.” When she became the acting dean of women in 1948, her salary rose to $4,400 a year. She was affiliated with the National Association of Deans of Women. She died in 1953.

148. James Ralph Beck

James Ralph Beck

Description: Director of Extension, 1922-1960

149. Leroy Breithaupt

Leroy Breithaupt

Description: Extension Agricultural Economist, 1912-1957

150. James J. Brady

Description: Science, 1937-1959

151. William C. Caldwell

William C. Caldwell

Description: Chemistry, 1930-1960s

152. Gerhard R. Flood

Gerhard R. Flood

Description: Physical Education

153. Cleo C. Byers

Description: Physics, 1946-1951

154. Lois Criswell

Description: Lois Criswell was a catalog assistant at the Oregon State College library from 1943 to 1953. Her annual pay was $2,160. She had previously worked as a librarian and cataloger at the University of California, the University of Idaho, and the Oregon College of Education. She worked at the Oregon College of Education for nearly twenty years before coming to OSC due to budget cuts to her salary. She was single with no children when she came to work at OSC. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington in 1921, and received some graduate education from the University of Illinois Library School. She was a member of the American Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. She was set to retire by the end of 1953, but fell ill and passed away in October, 1952. She was born in 1887, in Ottumwa, Iowa.

155. Robert W. Every

Robert W. Every

Description: Entomology Specialist, Extension, 1946-1956+

156. Harold P. Ewalt

Harold P. Ewalt

Description: Dairy Husbandry, 1937-

157. Willis P. Duruz

Willis P. Duruz

Description: Horticulture, 1929-1951

158. Melva Boon Kennen

Melva Boon Kennen

Description: Melva Boon Kennen was born in 1924, in Mohler, Oregon. She was employed at OSC from 1947-49, first as Assistant Teacher in the College Nursery, and later as a part-time instructor in the Department of Household Administration. Previously, she worked at the Fruit and Flower Day Nursery in Portland, Oregon, but moved to Corvallis with her fiance, who was to begin attending Oregon State. In 1948, she rose to head teacher at the Orchard Street School Nursery, and received a salary as a part-time instructor of $2,250. She married her husband December 30th, 1946.

159. Dale E. Kirk

Description: Dale Kirk was a Professor of Biology and Ecological Engineering from 1942-1983.

160. Julia B. Peebles

Julia B. Peebles

Description: English, 1946-1947+

161. Robert M. Kidd

Description: English, 1946+

162. Emily Johnson

Description: Emily Johnson was a part-time instructor for the Department of Art and Architecture at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1948. Johnson was born in 1923, in Pocatello, Idaho. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Design from the University of Washington in 1945. She was a member of the American Red Cross. Before coming to work at OSC, Johnson designed advertising layouts for the Pocatello Tribune. She was married to Clarence E. Johnson when she came to work at Oregon State. She was hired as an art instructor at Oregon State at an annual salary of $2,400. Johnson was responsible for teaching three art classes during her time at Oregon State. She resigned in 1948 when her husband obtained his master’s degree from Oregon State College.

163. J. Shirley Jones

J. Shirley Jones

Description: Agricultural Chemistry, 1919-1945

164. Henrietta Morris

Henrietta Morris

Description: Henrietta Morris was an Associate Professor of Hygiene from 1935 to 1959. She was born in 1902 in Charleston, West Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in Baltimore in 1923, and her PhD. in Hygiene from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1927. She took summer courses at the Teachers College of Columbia University for the 1928-29 school year. Before coming to OSC, she was a Nutrition Instructor in New Jersey Public Schools, a health education instructor with the University of Oregon Medical School Department of Nursing Education, and an instructor in Personal Hygiene at St. Helens Hall Junior College in Portland. She also worked as the Health Education Director with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association, where her duties included performing lectures for parents, teachers, and others; performing health advisory services for schools; running university extension courses in Health Education; teaching a community hygiene course at Linfield College; working with the editing department of Health Education, Oregon Education Journal; and giving radio talks on health topics. She continued working with the Oregon Tuberculosis Association for at least the duration of her first year at OSC. Since the college found itself in desperate need of an additional physical education instructor on short notice, the Oregon Tuberculosis Association itself facilitated her employment there. She began at OSC as a part-time associate professor, earning $660 total for the months January to June. She spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday “forenoons” with the college, and continued to be employed with the State Tuberculosis Association otherwise. The next year, she was a full-time associate professor, and remained so for the next twenty-three years. She taught hygiene in both the men’s and women’s departments of physical hygiene, as well as a course in education, and at one point spent 4% of her time in bacteriology. She took sabbatical leave on full salary from April to June 1944 to write a textbook on health education. She passed away in 1959, at which point she was earning $7,900 on a ten month basis.

165. Ruth Maser

Description: Clothing and Textiles, hired 1947

166. Erna M. Plageman

Erna M. Plageman

Description: Erna Marguerite Plagemen was the supervising nurse and then Assistant Director for Student Health Services from 1929 until her death in 1964. She was born in 1902 in Columbus, Nebraska. She received her Registered Nurse degree from University of Michigan School of Nursing in 1926. Before coming to OSC, she spent three years working as a nurse with the Health Service at the University of Michigan. OSC hired her at $1800 per year for a 10 month appointment in 1929. The next year, she received a $200 raise out of appreciation for her ability and responsibilities. As the supervising nurse, she was responsible for all the other nurses, all supplies, office records, and the “care and cleanliness of both the Health Service and the Hospital,” in addition to her routine nursing duties. She was given faculty status upon her hire, but in 1954 her rank was changed to civil service, though she gained the position of Assistant Director. This was because her position and work did not fall under what qualified for academic status, as it did not include teaching, research, extension, or counseling. Plagemen hoped to regain academic status and indefinite tenure, as she thought it would come with a “recovery of prestige.” She pointed out that she was involved in a research project exploring the effect of academic probation on physical and mental illness, which involved student counseling. The Director of Student Health Services, Charles E. Kremer, helped lobby for her to regain academic status, and spoke highly of her “professional character.” In 1961, she was granted an Assistant Professorship. In 1963, after 34 years with OSC, she took several months off work due to a serious illness. Due to her exemplary work and dedication, her supervisor Kremer suggested that she be granted “the most generous terms of sick leave possible,” which was granted. She had accrued significant sick leave, although it was acknowledged that she was not expected to live much longer. She passed away from cancer January 26, 1964. At the time of her death, she was earning $4,776 yearly. Her service was held at Zion Lutheran Church in Corvallis. Her memorial pamphlet quoted the 23rd Psalm, and listed Dr. Kremer as an honorary bearer.

167. Howard Raabe

Description: Physical Education, 1931-1957

168. Dawn Shreve

Description: Dawn Loraine Bates was a Serials Assistant in charge of binding in the library from 1946 to 1947. She was born in 1921 in Orange, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Library Work from Willamette University in 1943, and her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Denver in 1945. Before coming to OSC, she worked as circulation librarian in the Salem Public Library. She was hired at OSC for $2200 per year. She was married December 27, 1946, and took the surname “Shreve.” In 1947, she resigned to “devote her whole attentions to the duties of a housewife and mother.” She was a member of the American Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the Oregon Library Association.

169. Clifford L. Smith

Clifford L. Smith

Description: State Extension Agent, 1931

170. Cairns K. Smith

Cairns K. Smith

Description: History

171. Acappella choir on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1948-1950

Acappella choir on the steps leading into the Memorial Union Lounge, 1948-1950

172. 26th Annual Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 3-15, 1947

26th Annual Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 3-15, 1947

173. Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 4-16, 1946

Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 4-16, 1946

174. 27th Annual Frozen Food Packers' School, February 9-14, 1948

27th Annual Frozen Food Packers' School, February 9-14, 1948

175. 27th Annual Canners' School, February 2-7, 1948

27th Annual Canners' School, February 2-7, 1948

176. Annual Frozen Food Packers' School, February 11-16, 1946

Annual Frozen Food Packers' School, February 11-16, 1946

177. 26th Annual Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 3-15, 1947

26th Annual Canners' and Frozen Food Packers' School, February 3-15, 1947

178. Irene L. Craft

Description: Irene L. Craft was a serials assistant at the Oregon State College Library from 1943 to 1970. She was born in 1904, in Wyne, Kansas. She made an annual salary of $3,000. She was single when she came to work at OSC. In 1944, she took a leave of absence, but returned in 1946. By 1949, she was promoted to assistant librarian with a salary raise to $4,000. In 1950, she became an assistant professor with no pay raise. By 1952, her salary rose to $5,000, due to increased responsibilities because of another staff member’s resignation. She resigned in 1970. Her final salary was $13,632. She was granted the status of Associate Professor Emeritus, which assured her life membership on the university faculty, and distinguished her as “one who has earned distinction and respect through many years of dedicated and effective service”.

179. Gertrude G. Ellison

Gertrude G. Ellison

Description: Gertrude Geraldine Ellison was a part-time English instructor at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1957. She was married to Joseph Waldo Ellison with no children when she came to OSC. She was born in 1901, in Centralia, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington in 1921 and received some graduate education from the University of California in 1925. She had previously taught at high schools in Montana and Washington throughout the 1920s. She filed for retirement in 1957.

180. Percy Margaret Gill

Percy Margaret Gill

Description: Percy Margaret GIll was a physical education instructor for women at OSC from 1945 to 1962. Gill was born in 1909, in Glencoe, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education from the University of California in 1931. Before coming to work at OSC, Gill worked for the American Red Cross. Before World War Two, she was an instructor in physical education at the College of Holy Names in Oakland, California. Once hired at Oregon State, she started at an annual salary of $2,400. She received her Master of Arts in Physical Education in 1948 while still working at OSC. In 1950, Gill was promoted to Assistant Professor and to Associate Professor in 1955. In 1957, she took sabbatical leave to pursue her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She resigned in 1962.

181. Earl C. Gilbert

Earl C. Gilbert

Description: Chemistry, 1917-1963

182. John A. Day

Description: Physics Research, 1946-1956

183. John F. Fulton

Description: Chemistry, 1893-1940

184. Agnes M. Kolshorn

Agnes M. Kolshorn

Description: Foods and Nutrition, 1929-1958

185. Lyda Mae La Palombara

Lyda Mae La Palombara

Description: Lyda Mae LaPalombara was born Lyda Mae Ecke in 1924, in Chicago, Illinois. She worked at OSC as an Instructor of English from 1946 to 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Illinois in 1945, where she minored in education and music. She completed some of a graduate degree at the University of Illinois, where she also concentrated in English and music. She taught freshman composition at the University of Illinois for one year before coming to OSC. In 1947, she married Joseph Guido La Palombara, and resigned in 1950 at a salary of $3,100.

186. William M. Langan

William M. Langan

Description: William (Bill) M. Langan was an associate professor and Head Advisor in the School of Agriculture from 1935-1971.

187. L. Quenderbilt Larse

L. Quenderbilt Larse

Description: Secretarial Science, 1940-1954

188. Clair V. Langton

Clair V. Langton

Description: Physical Education for Men, 1928-1961

189. Fred Merryfield

Fred Merryfield

Description: Civil Engineer, 1930-1961+

190. John A. Milbrath

John A. Milbrath

Description: Botany, 1935-1945+

191. Philip Cooper Magnusson

Philip Cooper Magnusson

Description: Electrical Engineer, 1946-1958+

192. Fred O. McMillan

Fred O. McMillan

Description: Fred O. McMilan was head of the Electrical Engineering department and consulting engineer for KOAC.

193. Edward Bourbousson

Edward Bourbousson

Description: French, 15 years

194. Arthur L. Albert

Arthur L. Albert

Description: Electrical Engineer, 41 Years

195. Ivan Pratt

Description: Zoology, 1945-1961

196. Arthur L. Albert

Arthur L. Albert

Description: Electrical Engineer, 41 Years

197. Albert R. Poole

Albert R. Poole

Description: Mathematics, 1946-1963

198. Madrigal Club, 1949-1950

Madrigal Club, 1949-1950

199. "Oklahoma," November 28-December 1, 1956

"Oklahoma," November 28-December 1, 1956

200. "Oklahoma," November 28-December 1, 1956

"Oklahoma," November 28-December 1, 1956

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