Faculty group photo with President Gatch taken around 1904-1905. Front row: Helen V. Crawford, Ida B. Callahan, Thomas H. Crawford, Dennis Patrick Quinlan, Thomas Milton Gatch, Nicholas Tartar, George Coote, Emile F. Pernot, Margaret Constock Snell, ?. Middle row: Helen Louise Holgate, Ernest Chesney Hayward, Gordon Vernon Skelton, James Withycombe, Herald Taillandier, Arthur Burton Cordley, Abraham Lincoln Kinsley, Charles Leslie Johnson, Will Orian Trine, Richard Jeffery Nichols, ?, Frank E. Edwards. Back row: Thomas Bilyeu, Grant Adelbert Covell, Frederick Berchtold, Clarence Melville McKellips, Mark Clyde Phillips, Edward Ralph Lake, John Baptiste Horner, John Franklin Fulton.
Thomas M. Gatch was the fifth president of Oregon Agricultural College from 1897-1907. Gatch established a number of four year programs including electrical engineering, horticulture, and forestry. OAC experienced an increase in student enrollment during Gatch's years as president. Photo was used in the 1908 Orange, page 3.
William Jasper Kerr was chosen as the sixth president of Oregon Agricultural College in 1907 and led the college through a twenty-five-year period of tremendous growth in numbers of students and faculty, academic and research programs, and physical facilities.