The 1959 Wrestling Court was created as a promotional stunt by then OSC Wrestling coach Dale Thomas. The court members posed for a series of publicity photographs taken by Hise Studio in Corvallis. Some of the photos, such as this one, were picked up by national news organizations including the Associated Press. Another of the photographs appeared in Life magazine.
Lowell Stockman (1901-1962) was a wheat farmer and 1922 graduate of OAC who represented Oregon's 2nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943-1953. Claude F. Palmer, also a graduate with the Class of 1922, was a past president of both the OSC Alumni Association and the OSC Foundation. Phil Small was an alumnus who owned and operated a local men's clothing store.
Scabbard and Blade is a national collegiate military honor society founded in 1904. The OAC chapter was established on April 17, 1920, and has included members from the Army and Navy ROTC detachments. For many years OSU’s Scabbard and Blade society hosted an annual Military Ball. Arnold Air Society, the Air Force ROTC honor society, was formed at OSC in 1951.
Roelandt was from Franklin High School, Portland, Oregon, and played in 1943 and 1947-1949. He also played basketball. Photo was published in the March 1947 Oregon Stater (page 9). A print of the image is available at P17:1032.
Eleanor Trindle was a home demonstration agent in Marion County and Assistant State Leader of Home Economics Extension from 1945 to 1956. She was born in 1915 in Salem, Oregon. She attended Willamette University and OSC, gaining her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from the latter in 1937. Before coming to OSC, she was a high school home economics teacher for roughly six years. She also spent a year as an Army Hostess with the US Army, where she worked in a headquarters service club cafeteria. Right before applying to OSC, she spent a year as a caseworker in Marion County so she could live at home with her parents. She was hired at $4400 per year as Emergency Assistant in Marion County. In 1950, she was transferred to become a State Extension Agent. She took the rank of assistant professor in 1946, and of associate professor in 1949. In 1950, she was transferred to become a State Extension Agent. She took a sabbatical from September 1954 to July of 1955, to study for her master’s degree, for which she took half salary. During this period, she earned a Master of Arts from Columbia University Teachers’ College with a major in Federal Cooperative Extension. While there, she was invited to Pi Lamba Theta, a honor society for women in education, and lived in an international house. She visited a number of nearby cities and universities, and traveled through Europe and North Africa. In 1956, she passed away from leukemia, after having been on staff for eleven years.
