Payton, who played at OSU from 1986 to 1990 and started every game of his OSU career, is likely the greatest basketball player in OSU history. Among his honors were consensus All-American First Team (1990), Pac-10 Player of the Year (1990), Sports Illustrated Player of the Year (1990), Pac-10 Freshman of the Year (1987), Olympic gold medals for the United States team in the 1996 and 2000 games, and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2013). He is the all-time leading scorer at OSU (2,172 points) and the Pac-12’s all-time leader in assists (938) and steals (321). Professionally, he played most of his career with the Seattle Supersonics.
The natatorium, completed just before this photograph was taken, was the second phase of the recreation center. Phase one opened in 1976, and phase three was completed in 2004. The natatorium was named for George Stevens, Memorial Union director from 1963 to 1990 and a strong proponent of recreational sports at OSU.
The Spring Thaw is a logging sports competition between different colleges that was sponsored for many years by the OSU Forestry Club. This event was held at Peavy Arboretum.
USC won this game by a score of 31-7. Visible in the background at right is head football coach Dee Andros. The 1969 season marked the one-hundredth anniversary of college football, and many teams across the country marked the occasion by wearing helmets with a special decal - the numeral "100" inside a football-shaped outline.
Marcus J. Borg (1942-2015) was a professor in the OSU Philosophy Department from 1979 to 2007, and was recognized internationally as a leading scholar on Jesus as a historical figure.
Tommy Prothro coached football at Oregon State from 1955 through the 1965 Rose Bowl game. The Beavers lost the New Years Day bowl game to Michigan by a score of 34-7.
Dick Fosbury attended OSU from 1965-1969 and is remembered today as the inventor of the "Fosbury Flop" high jump technique. He won two national championships and an Olympic gold medal while revolutionizing the sport with his innovative approach to jumping higher.
The Spring Thaw is a logging sports competition between different colleges that was sponsored for many years by the OSU Forestry Club. This event was held at Peavy Arboretum.
OSU’s 3-0 win in this game against the No. 1 Trojans, along with a previous win over then No. 2 Purdue and a tie against No. 2 UCLA a week earlier, earned the 1967 Beaver football team the moniker “Giant Killers.” Oregon State finished the season with a record of 7-2-1 and ranked no. 7 in the Associated Press poll.
The Spring Thaw is a logging sports competition between different colleges that was sponsored for many years by the OSU Forestry Club. This event was held at Peavy Arboretum.
Moore is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. She came to OSU in 1975. She is an environmental philosopher, and taught many classes about humans’ place in the natural world. She co-founded and served as a senior fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. She has won many awards for her writing, including an Oregon Book Award for her 2005 work, The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World.
The lab was completed in 1990 with a grant from the Bonneville Power Administration, matched by funds from OSU. Its purpose is the study of infectious organisms of salmonids and other freshwaster fish species. The facility includes an area with stock tanks, an experimental area with more than 250 tanks of various sizes, an isolation/quarantine lab, and a multi-user lab space. Today it is known as the John L. Fryer Salmon Disease Laboratory; Dr. Fryer established OSU’s fish disease research program
The Spring Thaw is a logging sports competition between different colleges that was sponsored for many years by the OSU Forestry Club. This event was held at Peavy Arboretum.
Kelly makes use of the straddle technique used by many high jumpers prior to the full implementation of the Fosbury Flop, created and popularized by Kelly's teammate, Dick Fosbury.
Moore coached the gymnastics team from 1967 to 1975. She came to OSU as a faculty member in physical education in 1966. She served as director of women’s athletics from 1975-1977 and 1980-1982. After the men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletics programs merged, Moore served as deputy athletic director from 1983 to 1985. When Dee Andros stepped down as athletic director in 1985, Moore was named interim director of intercollegiate athletics – the first woman to have held that post at OSU.
In addition to being a Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Lubchenco is OSU’s Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology. Except for a federal appointment, she has been at OSU since 1977, where her research has focused on community ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, global change and sustainability. Lubchenco served as the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2009 to 2013, the first woman to serve in that capacity. Her awards have included McArthur and Pew fellowships, the Nirenberg Prize from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and several honorary degrees. In 1997 she served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.