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1. University Day Program, September 16, 1997

University Day Program, September 16, 1997

2. University Day Program, September 18, 1995

University Day Program, September 18, 1995

3. Robert C. and Patricia Wilson, 1983

Robert C. and Patricia Wilson, 1983

Description: Image extracted from a pamphlet titled "Robert C. Wilson, General Contractor: The Construction Years." Starting his career at OSC as a student assistant in the Industrial Engineering and Industrial Arts Department in 1946, Robert Claude Wilson began to teach in the Manufacturing Engineering Department as an Instructor in 1949. The study of wood marquetry was one of Wilson's specialties. He became Assistant Professor Emeritus in 1980. Soon after Wilson's retirement, the Manufacturing Engineering program was eliminated. He died in 2004.

4. Ida Callahan

Description: Ida Callahan was an alumni and faculty member of OAC. She graduated as part of the class of 1881. She then joined the OAC faculty for 42 uninterrupted years, mostly teaching english.

5. Willibald Weniger in an experimental x-ray laboratory, 1936

Willibald Weniger in an experimental x-ray laboratory, 1936

Description: Willibald Weniger was born on 20 June 1884 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weniger received B.A. (1905), M.S. (1906), and Ph.D. (1908) degrees from the University of Wisconsin. In 1908, he came to Oregon Agricultural College to organize and head the Physics Department. Weniger left the College in 1914 to work as a physicist in the Nela Research Laboratories of General Electric in Cleveland. During World War I he studied the relative merits of monocular and binocular field glasses for all except field artillery purposes. Weniger returned to OAC in 1920 as Physics Department head. In 1933 he became Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division and later served as Associate Dean and Dean before his return to the Physics Department in 1949. Weniger married Myrtle Elizabeth Knepper, a librarian, in 1918; their son, George Edward, was born in 1919. Weniger invented a transluscent blackboard and a typewriter attachment for typing Greek letters and mathematical symnbols. He died 14 March 1959 in Corvallis, Oregon. The Physics Building, completed that same year was named Weniger Hall in his honor.

6. Ava B. Milam Clark

Ava B. Milam Clark

Description: Ava B. Milam came to OAC in 1911 and was appointed the Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917, serving for 33 years. She was primarily interested in the study of home economics within Asian cultures. During WWI she was appointed as the Home Economics director for Oregon.

7. Peter Copek, circa 1970

Peter Copek, circa 1970

Description: Joining the OSU English Department in 1972 as an Assistant Professor, Peter Copek helped to found the Humanities Development Program in 1975 and wrote the NEH Grant that established the Center for the Humanities in 1984. Copek served as Director of the Humanities Development Program and, later, also headed the Center when the mission and framework of the Program was absorbed by that of the newly formed Center. Specializing in the study of British literature and film, Copek also created and managed the International Film Series as Center Director. He died in 2001.

8. N. Scott Urquhart, OSU statistics professor, circa 2000

N. Scott Urquhart, OSU statistics professor, circa 2000

Description: Image extracted from Oregon's Agricultural Progress, Spring/Summer 2000.

9. Image from an article titled "Sheer Number" by Carol Savonen

Image from an article titled "Sheer Number" by Carol Savonen

Description: Image from an article titled "Sheer Number" by Carol Savonen. Photo caption reads: "Morris, left, works with Giovannoni to remove water from a metal sampling canister they lowered into the Pacific Ocean. Back on the OSU campus, they'll try to isolate, reproduce and study microbes in the water sample to learn about their role in ocean ecosystems."