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.
Estalished in 1911, this club was the fist campus organization for international students and among the first to promote diversity. Seated in the front row at center in OAC Librarian Ida Kidder. To her left is Professor of Bacteriology Theodore D. Beckwith.
Lucy M. Lewis was the University Librarian from 1920-1945. During her 25 years, Lewis established the Friends of the Library and helped Oregon State College's library become the second at a land grant institution in the nation to change classification systems from Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress.
