The sing began in 1936 as a part of the college's homecoming festivities and was held in the MU Lounge. In 1951 it was opened to include sororities, moved to Gill Coliseum, and became part of Mom's Weekend in the spring.
Group portrait of Gamma Tau Beta fraternity members, Oregon Agricultural College around 1918. Top row from left to right: Larence Hamilton, Harold Bumbough, Linus Pauling, Theodore Bryant, Stephen Nye, William Wightman. Second row: George Wait, Harold Branrud, Guy Butler, Leonard Freeman, James Torrence Gaither, Lloyd Raab, Newton Strahl, Elmer Ramsay. Third row: William Eilertsen, Irving Mather, Ralph Coleman, Harold M. Tennant, Charles Beatie, Robert Kyle, and Robert Watt.
The fraternity was for men who were or had been members of the Boy Scouts of America. Included was William Tebeau (back row, third from right), Oregon State's first male African-American graduate.