Alice Josephine Hutchens attended Oregon State College from 1938 until 1941, when she earned a BS in Secretarial Science. Prior to her enrollment at Oregon State, Hutchens attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She was born in Forest Grove on January 21, 1917 and attended high school there. Hutchens married Andrew Johson Browning, Jr.; Alice Josephine Browning died in 2011.
August Henry (Augy) Rauch was born in Echo, Oregon, on August 9, 1919; grew up on his family's farm; and graduated from Pine City High School, in Echo. Rauch attended Oregon Agricultural College from September 1937 through December 1941 and received a BS degree in Forestry, majoring in Wood Products, in June 1942. He completed a senior forestry paper, Pres-to-log Production, in 1941. Rauch worked at the U.S. Plywood Corporation plant in Lebanon, Oregon, in the 1960s and 1970s.