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."
The county experimental hop yard recruited Oregon State College coeds for a quick job of hoeing. Left to right: Alice Root, Mary Lou George, Marie Hansen, Ruby Carlos, Shirley Young, Margaret Eefsen
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gilkey, who received her bachelor's and master's degrees from OAC (1907 and 1911), was curator of the herbarium from 1918 to 1951. In 1915 she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley. She also served as professor of botany at Oregon State and was an accomplished botanical illustrator and author, best known for her research on truffles. OSU’s Herbarium was established in the early 1880s. At the time of this photo, the Herbarium was located on the third floor of what is now Strand Agriculture Hall. Today it is located in Cordley Hall, contains more than 405,000 vascular plant, bryophyte, algal and fungal specimens, and is comprised of collections from OSU, the University of Oregon, and Willamette University.
Avery Lodge was built in 1966 as a co-operative house and was named for Joseph C. Avery, one of the founders of Corvallis. It is located on Madison Avenue between 9th and 11th Streets.
Avery Lodge was built in 1966 as a co-operative house and was named for Joseph C. Avery, one of the founders of Corvallis. It is located on Madison Avenue between 9th and 11th Streets.
OSU players Craig Hanneman (63) and Ron Boley (64) force Oregon quarterback Eric Olsen to make another quick pass. OSU won this Civil War contest 41-19. It was played at Parker Stadium.
Clinton visited OSU to campaign for the re-election of her husband, president Bill Clinton, just days before the 1996 general election. Speaking to a crowd of about 3,500 people in front of the Women's Building, Clinton spoke on several topics, including the president's plans for higher education. On the stage to Clinton's left are U.S. senator Ron Wyden, Corvallis mayor Helen Berg, OSU president Paul Risser, and U.S. representative Earl Blumenauer.
OSU's new Kerr Library was constructed in 1962 and 1963. One of the features of the building was a series of tile mosaic murals throughout the building. OSU art faculty member Nelson Sandgren created the murals. The mural in this photo was located on the third floor of the library. Parts of this mural remain on the third floor of the Valley Library.
Phi Kappa Phi, an all-discipline honorary society, established a chapter at Oregon Agricultural College in 1924. Initial inductees included President William Jasper Kerr and long-time Board of Regents member James K. Weatherford. The group is standing in front of the College Library (now Kidder Hall).
The mothers are standing in front of the fountain in the courtyard of the building. Co-ed Cottage was an OSU women's cooperative house from 1956 to 1984.
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.'"
This fire destroyed half the building, including most of Printing and Mailing Services' facilities and equipment. The Industrial Building was originally constructed in 1947 to house the Forest Products Lab. The destroyed portion was reconstructed and the entire building was renamed Cascade Hall.
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.
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.
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.
The 1943-44 OSC Band poses on the steps of the Memorial Union. Band director Harry "Cap" Beard is on the far right of the front row. The membership of the band was composed mostly of ASTU students.
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).
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).
Aitken was participating in the Waldo Girls versus Town Girls track and field meet. This competition was a precursor to OSU's intramural sports program, which began in 1916.
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.
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.
This group of graduates posed on the lawn in front of the Administration Building (Benton Hall) -- women forming the apostrophe and the "1", and the men forming the "0."
According to the OAC catalog, this class was "a course designed to give advanced students of Home Economics training in application of principles of cookery to conditions found in the camp."
Seated left to right: Earl Aldrup, Marie Kittredge, Myrton Moore, J. K. Weatherford Jr., Elsie Jacobson, Ethel Swarts, "Bill" North, Florence Gradon, Edgar Copple, unidentified. Standing left to right: Mrs. John Loehr, John Loehr, Charles Cook, Beryl Jarmon, Evelyn Ragsdale, Olga Pauline Brucher, Miles Lowell Edwards, Agnes Margaret Behrens, Ruth Millicent Wilson, Thomas Griffith Cowgill, Harry J. Swarm, Velma Josephine Hylton, Alice Mary Wood, Catherine Ellen Barhyte, unidentified, unidentified, Hallie Margaret Jenks, Fred Arnold Wimer, unidentified, John Ralph Pubols, unidentified., The class was enjoying its annual breakfast at a park by the Marys River.
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.
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.
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.
Galvani, born in Russia, worked as a civil engineer and surveyor in Oregon. He bequeathed his personal library amd map colleciton to the OSC Library in 1947.
Class members included Rosa Jacobs (front row center), John B. Elgin (front row right), James K. Weatherford (top row right), Thomas C. Alexander, and Alonzo J. Locke.
Harvey L. McAllister, known as "Pap Hayseed," graduated from OAC in 1897 with a degree in agriculture. He served in the Spanish-American war and then worked as a farmer in Lexington, Oregon. Thomas Edward Palmer was a 1900 graduate of OAC in electrical engineering and served as the leader of the cadet band his senior year.
Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig studied art at Oregon Agricultural College from 1911-1913. Colvig illustrated cartoons for the 1913 Beaver Yearbook and worked with silent films. Colvig was known for his performances as Bozo the Clown and Disney character voices, including Goofy, Grumpy and Sleeping from Snow White, and the munchkins of Wizard of Oz.
Burkhart was a member of the Corvallis College Class of 1871 and was from Lebanon, Oregon. He was elected as the Alumni Association’s first vice president after its founding in early 1873. He also served on the college’s board of trustees in 1887 and 1888.
Blacksmithing courses were offered at OAC for "those who desire to learn how to make simple repairs and improvements about the farm and shop" (1909-10 catalog).
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.