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Description: Nellie Catherine Lyle was a Home Demonstration Agent from 1939 to 1947. She was born in 1913 in Glendale, Arizona. After completing work at University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and OSC, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from the Arizona State Teacher’s College in 1936. She received her Master of Science from OSC in 1939 in household administration. Her thesis was titled Normative Study of Growth and Development of 1938-1939 Oregon State College Home Management House Infants. During her final year of school, she worked as a graduate assistant in the Home Management House. In addition, she had five years’ cumulative experience teaching elementary school and home making in Arizona. She also co-led a 4-H home economics club. In 1947, her superiors at OSU planned to arrange sabbatical leave for her so she could take on research in additional areas, thereby allowing her to become an extension specialist in housing or home management, as they expected rural families’ needs for housing information to increase considerably. They expressed that she showed a “marked ability” for the field. Instead, she chose to resign later in the year to be married, at which point she was earning a salary of $3,456.

Description: Kathleen Jean McCrae was a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large from 1939 to 1941, with a salary of $2,100. She was born in 1914, in Florence, Oregon. After completing work at Oregon Normal School, San Francisco Teacher’s College, and OSC, she received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education and Physical Education from the lattermost in 1938. Before coming to OSC, she was a home economics and physical education teacher in Prineville, Oregon. Before that, she spent four years teaching at rural schools in Oregon. She sought a position at OSC because she reportedly desired to work with adults and enjoy farm life. She was a member of the Oregon State Teachers Association, Omicron Nu at OSC, and the Presbyterian Church. She transferred to Washington County in 1940. In 1941, she resigned to be married.

Description: M. Irene Leach was an Assistant Professor and home demonstration agent as OSC from 1940 to 1941, for a salary of $2,400. She was born in 1906, in Minot, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education and institutional management from Montana State College in 1930. She attended Colorado State College summer session of 1933, and Oregon State College summer sessions 1936, 1939, and 1940 to receive her Master’s degree in Home Economics. The topic of her master’s thesis was “Housing in High School.” Before coming to OSC, she spent a cumulative ten years as Head of Home Economics departments in Oregon and Montana. She published an article titled “Apprentice Teaching at Oregon City” for Forecast Magazine in December of 1939. She also had experience teaching in rural environments, and was a former waitress for three summers. In 1941, she resigned to be married.

Description: Helen Sellie Hazard was a home demonstration agent for Tillamook County at Oregon State College from 1946 to 1954. Sellie was born in 1913, in Cathay, North Dakota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from Concordia College in 1935. She received some graduate education at the University of Minnesota, the University of Idaho, and Oregon State College. Before becoming a home demonstration agent at Oregon State, Hazard taught home economics at a junior high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She also worked as an assistant for the Memorial Union Dining Services. She started out at an annual salary of $2,604. In 1950, Hazard was transferred to work in Benton County so she could be closer to her church. She left Oregon State in 1952 to become a home demonstration agent in Virginia, but returned a year later. In 1953, she was appointed to serve in Columbia County with the rank of Assistant Professor and married Frank Hazard that same year. She resigned in 1954 to move with her husband to Virginia.