Lena Currier Emerson was the secretary to the Dean of Lower Division at Oregon State College from 1943 to 1952. She was single without children when she came to work at OSC. Previously, she worked as a secretary to the president at Nebraska State Teachers College from 1925 to 1943. She decided to work at Oregon State to be closer to her parents, who lived in California. She received her degree from Columbus Commercial College. She was born in 1890, in Waterloo, Nebraska. Her annual salary was $1,920. She resigned in 1952 to work in Salem.
Cecile F. Bolin was a library catalog assistant at OSC from 1941 to 1942. Bolin was born in 1915, in San Rafael, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937, and her certificate in library studies in 1938. As a graduate, she received her teaching credentials in library administration from U.C. Berkeley in 1938. Before working at Oregon State, Bolin worked as a cataloger at the University of Colorado Library. She was hired by OSC at a starting salary of $1,630. Bolin resigned in 1942 to pursue graduate studies.