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1. View of OAC from Lower Campus, 1909
View of OAC from Lower Campus, 1909
Description
This view shows several early campus buildings, including (from left) Waldo Hall, the Armory and Gymnasium, Agriculture Hall (now Furman Hall), Benton Hall, and the Mechanical Building (now Kearney Hall).
2. Pioneering horticulturists gathering at OAC
Pioneering horticulturists gathering at OAC
Description
Taken during the visit of Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Included are James Withycombe (seated far left), E. R. Lake (standing center with hands in pockets), James Robert Cardwell (seated center with white vest), Dr. Bailey (to Cardwell's left), and A. B. Cordley (to Bailey's left. Also in the photo are OAC station chemist Abraham Lincoln Knisely and horticulturists E. L. Prince, E. I. Smith and D. M. Williamson.
3. R. J. Nichols
R. J. Nichols
Description
Richard Jeffrey Nichols was the librarian at Oregon Agricultural College from 1902 to 1908. A native Oregonian, Nichols was the first librarian not educated at OAC, earning his degree from Willamette University.
4. An OAC Civil Engineering class learning surveying techniques
An OAC Civil Engineering class learning surveying techniques
Description
Science Hall (later Education Hall and now Furman Hall) is seen in the background.
5. Members of the Class of 1904 taking a hayride on Senior Flunk Day
Members of the Class of 1904 taking a hayride on Senior Flunk Day
Description
Note that the students utilized a steam-powered tractor, “the latest in hayride conveyances,” to pull their wagons on this outing.
6. E.E. Wilson and T.A. Jones
E.E. Wilson and T.A. Jones
Description
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He died in 1961.
7. Juliet Greer
Juliet Greer
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Greer succeeded Margaret Snell as head of the Department of Domestic Science and Art in 1908, and was named the first dean as a result of President Kerr’s academic reorganization of the college. She served until spring 1911. Greer was a graduate of Vassar College and spent ten years as an instructor at New York’s Pratt Institute prior to coming to OAC.
8. Scott Edwin Harris
Scott Edwin Harris
Description
Harris was the first OAC graduate in Pharmacy, completing his degree in 1901.
9. Senior portrait of Frederick Steiwer
Senior portrait of Frederick Steiwer
Description
Fred Steiwer graduated from OAC in 1902 with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1938.
10. Elizabeth Hoover Bowerman
Elizabeth Hoover Bowerman
Description
Hoover, an OAC graduate in the Class of 1901, married Jay Bowerman, a future governor of Oregon, and was the mother of University of Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. While at OAC, she played on the women’s basketball team. She returned to OAC to earn a second degree in home economics in 1916, and taught school for a number of years.
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