John V. Byrne came to Oregon State University as an Associate Professor of Marine Geology in 1961, becoming the Chairman of the Oceanography Department in 1968. Byrne was the OSU president from 1984-1995.
John Glenn Hogg, from Salem, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1917 to 1922 and earned a BS in agriculture in 1922. He was a member of the Alpha Zeta agriculture honor society. Hogg was the son of a Salem farmer who bred prize-winning pigs; he returned to Salem after graduation. Hogg died in Salem in 1985.
