Alumna Mary Jones of Corvallis graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1899 with a B.S. in Household Science. She attended OAC for 4 years from 1895/96 through 1898/99. From 1899 to 1907, she taught school in Benton County as well as near Alicel and in Silverton, Oregon. She and her sister attended the Los Angeles Normal School in 1907/08. She taught in Corvallis in 1908/09 and then in Estacada for two years. She married Lloyd Meader Yocum in 1911 and was living in Estacada in 1924.