“Equipment of a Northwest Ice Machine Company at work in the Food Products Industries Department at Oregon State College. Frozen foods for experimental purposes are being kept in this unit at zero degrees Fahrenheit.”
Graf and Gleeson demonstrate the strength and durability of a wood beam using the Engineering Lab's "nutcracker." Today the Engineering Lab is Graf Hall.
Front row (L-R) -- Grant Swan, Amory T. "Slats" Gill, Jim Dixon, and Hal Moe. Back row -- Carl Lodell, Lon Stiner. They are standing at the entrance to the Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall).
Oregon State Agricultural College's varsity golf team included ___Wey, Robert Taylor, Robert McCook, ____Fitzgerald, and Walter Manville. Coach Tony Sottovia is on the right.
Buildings included in or around the quad are the Bandstand, Agriculture Hall (now Strand Agriculture Hall), the Dairy Building (now Gilkey Hall) and the Library (now Kidder Hall).
Hawkins was the Pacific Coast middleweight champion in 1942. Boxing began as a minor intercollegiate sport at Oregon State in 1937 and ended in 1942 with the outbreak of World War II.
Despite the darkness of the sun in this 1930s print, it is neither a negative print nor an infrared print. The effect was made by using a long exposure, effectively 'burning out' the portion of the exposure where the sun appears.
The Horticulture class was on a class trip to the Southern Oregon Experiment Station. Frank Charles Reimer was the Superintendent of the Southern Oregon Experiment Station. One of his focuses was locating pear trees that were resistant to Fireblight.
The roof of what is now McAlexander Fieldhouse was painted by a group of Corvallis Boy Scouts in 1929. The diagonal arrow points to the Grant Street airport, which was located one mile to the northeast of campus.
The woman pictured third from right is Ruth Nomura. Ruth Nomura, born in Portland in 1907, was one of the first Japanese Americans to be born in Oregon. She was also the first Nisei woman from Portland to attend Oregon State Agricultural College. Enrolling in 1926, Nomura graduated in 1930 with a B.S. in Home Economics.
Ulysses Grant Dubach was a Professor and Chair of Government and Business Law at OAC, and also the college's first Dean of Men. Frank Abbott Magruder was, in addition to Dubach, the second of two faculty members in what came to be known as Political Science at OAC. Magruder was the author of the textbook, "American Government: A Consideration of the Problems of Democracy," which was used in collegiate political science classes for several decades.
Pictured at center left is Evelyn Burleson, instructor of civilian pilot training. Oregon State offered civilian pilot training to men and women in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The training took place at the Albany airport.
Theta Sigma Phi is a national professional society for women in journalism and communications. Oregon State’s Alpha Eta chapter was established in 1924, replacing a predecessor organization called The Scribe. The national organization, now known as the Association for Women in Communications, allowed men to become members in 1972.
Herbert L. Jones (left) and Alfred Taylor were two of four recipients of the first Ph.D. degrees awarded by Oregon State. Jones studied physics and Taylor studied zoology. The other recipients were Karl Kremm (chemistry) and Clarence Burnham (soils).
Zelta Feike Rodenwold was Director of the Home Economics Extension radio programs. Rodenwold became the first female editor at the Barometer and founded the "OAC Alumnus" magazine.
Known as the OSU Folk Club today, the College Folk Club was established in 1908 as a social and service club for OAC’s faculty wives and female faculty members. This image is likely set within the Women's Building.
John B. Horner taught English and history at Oregon Agricultural College from 1891 until his death in 1933; founded the college museum; and wrote extensively on Oregon history and literature. He married Isabelle Skimpton on September 5, 1880.
William Arthur Jensen (1881 -1945) served as executive secretary for presidents Kerr and Peavy and was a member of the college's administrative council. He came to OAC in 1907. After President Kerr was in an auto accident and needed nearly a year to recover, Jensen served as the de facto president of OAC during Kerr's hiatus. The campus gates were dedicated to Jensen for his strong support of WPA art projects on campus during the 1930s.
Mahlon Ellwood Smith was an English Professor, Dean of Basic Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the Lower Division for Oregon Agricultural College from 1919 until his retirement in 1949. He was an authority on the English fable and published extensively in philological and educational journals.
The Engineering Laboratory (Graf Hall) included a lab for the study of internal combustion engines. The Engineering Experiment Station’s publications included research conducted in the lab, such as the analysis of exhaust gasses.
Kate M. Jameson, Dean of Women from 1924-1941, added many programs to the purview of the office, including the Associated Women Students, Mortar Board, and other honorary societies.
U. G. Dubach was Dean of Men (far left), Kate Jameson was Dean of Women (fourth from left, wearing glasses), and Herbert T. Vance (far right) was the head of the Secretarial Science department.
Marian Field was an art instructor at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1951. Field was born in 1885, in Oakes, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Oregon in 1930 and did graduate work from 1931-1933. From 1929 to 1933, Field was also an assistant in the university's art and architecture library. Before coming to OSC, she was head of the art department at the University of North Dakota from 1905-1909. She also owned and managed an art shop for several years. She published “Oregon Trees and Shrubs in Winter” in 1937 and “Outdoor Living and Learning” in 1938. She was brought on to work at Oregon State at an annual salary of $1,750. In 1946, Field was promoted to assistant professor and an annual salary of $3,000. She retired in 1951.
Jim Dixon, an alum with the Class of 1926, wrestled and played football while a student at OAC. He later served as assistant football coach and head wrestling coach for his alma mater. Dixon Recreation Center is named in his honor.
Earl Leroy Packard (1885-1983) taught geology and paleontology at Oregon State College from 1932 to 1950, serving as Dean of the School of Science from 1932 to 1938.
Oregon State College "Ironman" Bill Tomsheck. As a left guard on the legendary OSC "Ironmen" football team of 1933, Bill Tomsheck inspired the kind of fear in his opponents that helped the team to defeat top-ranked USC in 1933.
Photo is illustrating the commercial value of various strains of squash and of squash canned at various stages of maturity. Ernest Wiegand is in the middle and Arthur G. B. Bouquet is on the left.
Forestry graduate students and faculty, 1932. Seated (l to r): Fred Schreiner (Instructor in Logging Engineering), H.R. ("Pat") Patterson (Professor of Logging Engineering), Dean George W. Peavy, T.J. Starker (Professor of Forestry), and Richard S. Kearns (graduate student and Assistant in Forest Products). Standing (l to r): William J. Baker (Assistant Professor of Lumber Manufacture), Harry Fowells (graduate student), Merle S. Lowden (graduate student), and Vern H. McDaniel (graduate student and Forest Nurseryman).
Walter S. Brown was an Oregon State College faculty member from 1913-1942. Brown was the first Extension Horticulturalist and became the head of the Horticulture department in 1920. Brown was an expert on fruits and vegetables native to the Northwest.
Better known for his 599 wins over 36 seasons as Oregon State's basketball coach, Gill was also the baseball coach from 1932-1937 while Ralph Coleman concentrated on other duties in the school's Division of Physical Education. Gill's teams were 56-70 during his six years as coach.
Howard Maple played from 1927-1929 and was from Corvallis. Howard lettered in football at Oregon State from 1926-1928. He was a second team All-American quarterback as a senior. He earned All-Coast recognition twice. Knute Rockne called him "the ideal quarterback." He went on to play pro football for the Chicago Cardinals and baseball for the Washington Senators in 1932. An arm injury he suffered playing football cut short his major league baseball career. Maple was inducted into the State of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the OSU athletic hall of fame in 1991.
Home Game, Chancellor Fredrick M. Hunter, head of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, opens the Northern Division of the Pacific Coast conference baseball season by throwing out the first ball for the Oregon State-Oregon game at Corvallis which the latter won 7-1. The opening celebration honored Carl Lodell, second from left, who was retiring from the graduate managership after 16 years of service. Behind Dr. Huner is Percy Locey, former Olympic club coach, who later became an OSC faculty member. Opening day records were broken with 2000 fans attending. The photo was published in the 1938 Beaver Yearbook, page 198. Note: There are a couple of other pictures in the database that go with this one. Also, pictures of the opening day parade are also probably part of this sequence.
Home Game, 1937/1938 Oregon State College baseball team: Front row: L to R: Roger Coe Morey, Arthur Dittmar Merryman, Rudy Phillip Kappel, Ralph Takami, Gerald Ellis Mason. Second row: Lloyd Arthur Chatterton, Arnold Carl Fenger, Frederick Karl Cramer, Otto Houdek, Fred William Soller. Third Row: Coach A. T. "Slats" Gill, Edmund James Dooley, Bernard Leo Orell, William Markin Kalibak, Earl Sanford Younce, Charles Eldon Hutchinson. This picture can also be found in the 1938 Beaver Yearbook, page 195. Photo was taken in spring of 1937.
Even though Ralph Coleman wasn't coaching baseball during the early 1930s, he did give some batting tips to these boys attending the 4-H summer school on the OSC campus.
1933-1934 Football team. Front row: Charles Woodrow "Woody" Joslin, Adolph Schwammel, Clyde Devine, William Tomsheck, Harry Field, Victor Curtin. Back row: Vernon Wedin, Harold Joslin, Norman "Red" Franklin, James "Pierre" Bowman, Harold Pangle.
OSC president William J. Kerr and 3 regents who helped elect him. In photo are B. F. Irvine; E. E. Wilson, 1889, President Kerr, and J. K. Weatherford.
The building was originally built as Snell Hall, a women's dorm. It later became Extension Hall around 1958. Today it is known as Ballard Extension Hall.
President George Peavy is shown at a desk in the library room donated by Mrs. Mary J. L. McDonald, a patron of forestry. George Wilcox Peavy was the first Dean of Forestry from 1913-1940 and president of Oregon State College from 1932-1940. Peavy founded an arboretum that would act as a laboratory for forestry students.
The pyramid play, used in blocking kicks, originated as a prank at an OAC football practice, according to Bill Tomsheck, a player on the 1933 football team. To the amazement of the pranksters, the play worked. It did not escape Coach Lon Stiner's attention and subsequently it developed into an authorized play. The play consisted of hoisting the 6'5" center, Clyde Devine, onto the shoulders of 6'2" tackles Harry Fields and Ade Schwammel, from which point he could reach out and knock down any ball headed for the goal posts. The first official use of the play was successfully executed against the University of Oregon in Multnomah Stadium (now Civic Stadium) in Portland. According to Tomsheck, "In that era of college football, a place kick was infrequent. We had no audible signal to call this defensive play. When an opponent went into a place kicking formation, eye contact or the nod of the head was all that was necessary." This photograph of the first official attempt was made by Oregon Journal photographer, Ralph Vincent. It was not until the film was developed that Vincent realized he had recorded history. The photograph was published in the Saturday Evening Post and the play became nationally renowned. For the remainder of the season, the OAC players reproduced it for the media in railroad stations, on the street, at hotels, and during practice sessions. The Pyramid was banned by the NCAA rules committee within a year.