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Description: In 1929-1930, Oregon State offered physical eduction classes in field hockey, as well as intramural competition. This image was taken in the library quad. Agriculture Hall (now Strand Agriculture Hall) is in the background.

Description: Standing in front of the entrance to the Women's Building. 1st row: Jim Morehouse, Marie Boarman, Mary Ann Steele, Tom Tillman, Dave Phelps, Don Megale, Dale Thomas, Carol Soleau. 2nd row: Pat Ingram, Velda Brust, Kathy Heath, Charlotte Lambert, Winnie Wyckoff, Dow Poling, Sandy Simowitz, Jancy Limpert. 3rd row: Dean Maksud, Gene Tanselli, Karl Drlica, Astric Hancock, Betty Albin, John Dunn, Norm Martinson, Gordon Anderson. 4th row: Kathy Kerr, Jay Masilionis, Chuck Dailey, Lois Pye-Petersen, Art Koski, Bill Anderman, Chuck McNeil, Don Martin, Stan Porter.

Description: Students in a women's physical education class develop their volleyball skills using an "oversized" ball. The Weatherford Hall tower is visible behind the trees.

Description: William Arthur (Art) Koski graduated from Oregon State College in 1949 with a BS degree in Science. Koski completed his MS at the University of Michigan in 1950. He returned to Oregon State in 1950 as an instructor in the Department of Physical Education for Men and completed his EdD in 1954. He also completed a MPH at the University of California at Berkeley in 1959. In 1963-1964, Koski had a Fulbright Fellowship as a lecturer in physical education at the School of Education in Jyvaskyla, Finland. He served as chair of the Public Health Department as well as Assistant Dean and Head Advisor of the School of Health and Physical Education. Koski retired from Oregon State University in 1984 and died in 1991.

Description: Jeanette Alice Brauns Dixon was a physical education instructor at Oregon State College from 1930 to 1973. She previously worked at Bosse High, in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 she took administrative leave from OSC to become an instructor for the National Red Cross Aquatic School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Battle Creek College in 1930, and her Master of Science from Oregon State in 1940. Her initial salary was $1,800 for ten months. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1943, with an annual salary of $2,400. She was married to James Dixon without children when she came to work for OSC. She took sabbatical leave from OSC in 1947 to complete a study on swimming, and later published a book called, “Simplified Swimming”. In 1967, she was granted indefinite tenure and promotion to an Associate Professor. She was born in 1907, in Evansville, Indiana.

Description: Laura Cornelia McAllester was an Assistant Professor and Chairman of Physical Education. She was born in 1883 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She began at OSC in 1926, at a salary of $2,200. She received a certificate from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1906, and completed further undergraduate work at Wellesley College. In 1932, she received her Bachelor of Science from OSC. Before coming to OSC, she spent seven years as the Director of Physical Education at North Carolina College for Women. She was the director of a high school in Rochester, New York, did physiotherapy at a private office for four years in Sacramento, and spent two years doing health corrective work at a private school. After starting as an instructor at OSC in 1926, she became Chairman of the Department in 1932, and an Assistant Professor in 1935. She took sabbatical for winter term of 1945 to conduct a survey of new methods and procedures in body mechanics, particularly as they related to posture and relaxation. She planned to conduct this work in either San Francisco or New York, in order to contact resident leaders in the field. She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi and the Episcopal church.