Miles Lowell Edwards graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1924 with a degree in electrical engineering. He was a co-inventor of the first artificial heart valve.
Dean Francois A. Gilfillan viewing an inscription on a Sumerian seal that is 45 centuries old. He is using the book to aid in translating the inscription’s characters to German and then to English.
Story led the OSU cross-country team to the 1961 NCAA championship – OSU’s first team national championship. He was also the individual medalist, defeating six future Olympians while running barefoot (his trademark style) in subfreezing conditions. Story also ran track as a long distance runner, and earned All-American honors in Spring 1962 in the three-mile run. This photo appeared in the April 1962 Oregon Stater.
The OSC Mountain Club was established in 1947 to promote and sponsor skiing and mountain climbing activities. In addition to outings, it also organized instruction classes, films and lectures. One of the founders of the club was Willi Unsoeld, who became one of the first Americans to scale Mt. Everest in 1963. This photograph was used on the cover of the December 1950 Oregon Stater.
John Witte was Oregon State's first All-American wrestler, finishing second in the heavyweight division at the 1952 NCAA Championships as a freshman. He also played football, garnering All-American honors twice, and led the Beavers to the 1957 Rose Bowl game.
The two male students, marching in Bell Field, are wearing "rook lids" and sandwich boards reading: "This stadium unfair to students, alumni, visiting teams, fans and prospective athletes. Your contribution will help build the new stadium. Ask me for a pledge card." Construction on Parker Stadium was completed in 1953.
Willi Unsoeld exhibits a rappelling position. Unsoeld earned a BS in physics at Oregon State in 1951. He helped to establish the OSC Mountain Club. He taught religious studies at Oregon State in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963 he became part of the first group of mountain climbers from the U.S. to scale Mt. Everest. Unsoeld died in an accident on Mt. Rainier in 1979.
The Orange Owl was a college humor magazine published from 1920 to 1928 by the Orange Owl Chapter of the Hammer and Coffin National Honorary Society at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). The magazine includes humorous and satirical pieces as well as cartoons and pen sketches created by students.
OAC's Vigilance Committee consisted of sophomores who instructed the freshman class members in the traditions of the college. George "Gap" Powell is in the front row (kneeling) in the white shirt.
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.
At that time the tennis courts were located in the northeast corner of the Memorial Union quad. Simms is in the center of the photograph, and team captain George Speros is on the left. The 1932 squad went 3-2, defeating Willamette University twice and Reed College, but losing twice to the University of Oregon. The Home Economics Building (Milam Hall) is in the background.
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.
Carl graduated from Oregon State with an engineering degree in 1938. He was the Marine Corps' first ace in WWII, credited with 18.5 kills in the Pacific theater. He also served in Vietnam and as a record-setting test pilot. The photo is inscribed "To my old friend -- John."
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).
Dodge attended OAC in the early 1920s. He participated in the 1924 Olympics, where he finished 6th in the men's 800 metres, and the 1925 Pan American Games. He also ran for the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club.
A new armory was built to replace the 1898 armory. The new armory was touted as one of the largest in the country. The building, designed by architect John V. Bennes, is known as McAlexander Fieldhouse today.
This cafeteria served Hudson and Central Halls, which were two temporary dormitories constructed immediately after World War II to accomodate the large growth in Oregon State's enrollment, especially among men. This quonset hut eventually became the Naval ROTC armory.
McKay was a 1917 graduate of Oregon State and served as its student body president. He served as governor of Oregon from 1949 to 1952, and also served as mayor of Salem (1933-35), state senator (1935-1949), and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1953-1956). Colvig attended Oregon State in the early 1910s, and became well known as the voice of several Disney characters.
Line of cadet officers at parade rest with sabres. Columns of Benton Hall in background, stucco wall finish dates photo to after 1899. The uniforms in photo are of the pre-1908 style with soft campaign hat designs. Belted tunics with unexposed buttons. Possibly on graduation day waiting for commissioning.
In 1929-1930, Oregon State offered physical eduction classes in field hockey, as well as intramural competition. This image was taken in the library quad. Agriculture Hall (now Strand Agriculture Hall) is in the background.
A May Day pageant was one of OAC's traditions in the early 20th century. The queen and king of this May Day celebration were Marie Cathey and Charles Watts, seen in the center of the photograph. The pageants were typically held on the lawn to the southeast of the Administration Building (Benton Hall).
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).
Rockefeller, Hatfield and Strand were watching an ROTC review during the halftime of the OSC-Stanford football game. Rockefeller was in the early stages of his bid for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. According to the December 1959 Oregon Stater, "President Strand welcomed the dark horse presidential hopeful to the stadium while the Beaver band played 'The Sidewalks of New York.'"
Carlson graduated from OSC in 1950 with a BS in General Science. From 1952 to 1963, he served as Assistant Alumni Director and Editor of the "Oregon Stater." From 1963 until his retirement in 1990, he held a joint appointment with OSU's Department of Information and Journalism Department.
Barbara Peck is seated, second from left. Barbara Peck graduated from Oregon State College in 1932 with a degree in Home Economics. While at college, she married Norton Peck, the son of Landscape Architecture Professor Arthur Peck. After graduation, Barbara involved herself in the American Home Economics Association and the Oregon Home Economics Association.
Raised in Salem, Oregon, Coons studied agriculture at Oregon State College and graduated in 1939. In addition to playing for the football team, Coons was a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and involved in the Thanes and Blue Key service groups.
Beulah Gilkey earned a BS degree from Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in 1910. She worked as an assistant in the OAC Registrar's Office form 1910 until 1917, when she returned to school at OAC to prepare for teaching. She earned a second BS degree in 1918. She taught school in Corvallis and Portland and worked again at Oregon State College as a clerical assistant in the summers of 1943 and 1944. Beulah Gilkey was born in Washington in 1890 and her family moved to Corvallis in 1903. She died in 1977 in Corvallis. Her older sister was Helen Gilkey.
Edith Whitelock was born January 14, 1902 in Ontario, Canada. She moved to Oregon with her parents soon afterwards. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Portland, and entered Oregon Agricultural College in the fall of 1920. She graduated from OAC in 1924 with a bachelor's degree in Home Economics.
Alumna Alice Jones graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1905 with a degree in Household Science. She was from Corvallis, Oregon, and attended OAC for four academic years (1901-02 - 1904-05). She was a member of the Feronian Literary Society, Associate Editor of the June 1905 souvenir edition of the "College Barometer", and salutatorian of the Class of 1905. Jones taught in Oregon and California; graduated from Columbia University in 1921 with a degree in home economics; and worked for the YWCA in Hawaii and Richmond, Virginia. In the late 1920s, she married Lloyd Brant Thomas. They lived in California during the 1930s and 1940s and by 1955 had moved to Portland, Oregon.
Graduating in 1897 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Clarence Lee Bump lived and worked as a farmer and teacher in Airlie, Oregon. Two members of his family, Chester Allen and Jessie (his wife?), also attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1920s.
Charles Mason MacDougall Rice was born on April 28, 1898 in Snohomish, Washington. He had an early interest in photography and the industrial arts and began his teaching career in 1921 in the elementary and secondary schools of Everett, Washington. During this time he earned a BA in Fine Arts (1936) and a Masters in Education (1939) from Washington State College. Rice earned an Ed.D degree from Oregon State College in 1958, with a major in Education and minors in Industrial Arts (Industrial Education) and Fine Arts. He was an instructor in the Art Department during the 1946-1947 year. Rice died in Seattle in 1993.
Halftime stunt during 1939 Homecoming football game against California. Doug Chambers is in the beaver suit, commissioned by the Rally Squad for $10. The suit was used for at least three games in 1939 and 1940 and had a four-foot tail that was "stiff as a board." The costume is the earliest known beaver costumed used at Oregon State, though it is not considered part of Benny Beaver's lineage.
Appeared on page 9 in the May 1950 issue of The Oregon Stater with the caption "Freshmen proved their muscle in the traditional tug-o'-war by laying the sophomores low." The Rooks beat the sophomores in the annual contest held on first annual Senior Day (April 14-16), a day in which High School seniors crowded campus. Senior Day replaced Junior Weekend and maintained many of the Junior Weekend activities.
The Serpentine Dance makes a brief comeback after OSC won the Civil War football game, clinching the 1942 Rose Bowl berth. Another view is shown on the cover of the January, 1942 issue of The Oregon Stater (Vol II, No 4). The photograph is taken from the Memorial Union balcony. Milam Hall sits on the left, with a view of Gilkey and Strand Agricultural Halls to its right.
Beatrice Thompson graduated from Oregon State College with a degree in human biology in 1948. Thompson served as a U.S. Army nurse for 25 years until her retirement in 1979 as Colonel. Thompson received the Legion of Merit Medal in 1979.
The students in the canoes are: Jim Dunn, Phyllis Brown Kraffe, William B. Palmer, and Mirian Garland. Photo was used on the cover of the Oregon Stater, May, 1950
Student body elections "Do nothing" party, with Donna Enos ('59), Harold Lack ('56), and George McNeal ('57). Photo was used on the cover of the May 1956 Stater.
Top row: Gordon Rowe, Stan Czech, Bill Halvorson, Orville Zielaskowski, Boyd Clement, Lloyd Wickett, Joe Day, Frank Parker, Bill McInnis, Richard McReynolds, Marvin Markman. Second row: Don Durdan, Bud Forrester, Lee Gustafson, Lewis Shelton, Martin Chaves, Quentin Greenough, Norm Newman, Jim Busch. Front Row: Bob Saunders, Hal Moe, Dr. Waldo Ball, Jim Dixon, Lon Stiner, Percy Locey, D. I. Allman, Bill Robertson, C. V. Ruzek.
Munford '34 was the first director of the OSU Press. J. Kenneth Munford received a degree in Education in 1934 from Oregon State College. From 1939-1941, Munford was an instructor for the English Department. In 1948, Munford became an editor for the Office of Publications, later being promoted to Director of Publications in 1956. Munford helped lead the founding of OSU Press in 1961.
Wesley Foundation members on steps of Corvallis First Methodist Church. Front row: Mel Anderson, Tom Riggs, Jesse Bunch (pastor of First Methodist Church), and Dr S.M. Zeller. Middle row: Gladys Beckendorf; Cleo Wakefield, and Maxine Broehl. Back row: Carol Thornton and Sybil Tucker (Director of Student Activities/Direct or Religious Education). Published in 1945 Beaver yearbook, p. 190.
Charlie White, 6'4" forward guard for the Beavers, was from Detroit, Michigan. He was a 1966 All American and was the 1966 team MVP. White was All-Pac-8 Conference as a senior.
Lee Harman was a 6 foot tall guard for the Oregon State Beavers and was from Los Angeles, California. The photo was used in the Oregon Stater, January 1957, page 8.
Mercedes Bates at the Alumni Centennial Awards. Mercedes Bates graduated in 1936 with a degree in Food and Nutrition. In 1967, Bates was appointed the Vice President of the General Mills Betty Crocker Division, becoming the first female corporate officer of General Mills. Bates created the Mercedes A. Bates Family Study Center in 1992, the first center to study entire lifespans of families. Bates has received the Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Alumni Award.
Photo was taken during the Alumni Association trans-Panama Canal cruise in February of 1995. Robert "Bob" Loomis graduated with a general science degree in 1956 and served as the medical director for PacificSource Health Plans. Loomis was also president of the Oregon Medical Association. Loomis has been involved in the OSU Alumni Association Board, OSU Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Beaver Athletic Student Fund. Loomis received the Martin Chaves Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Photo was used in the Summer 1956 Oregon Stater. Norbert Wellman graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in physical education in 1954 and 1958. Wellman was the starting pitcher on the first Beaver baseball team to make it to the College World Series in 1952. Wellman was president of the OSU Foundation Board and participated in the fundraising committee for Goss Stadium. Wellman received the Lifetime Trustee Award in 2007 and is co-founder of Ferguson Wellman Capital Management.