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1. Jack Dymond and John Corliss with the Alvin submersible

Jack Dymond and John Corliss with the Alvin submersible

Description: The two researchers used the submarine to make dives of 9,200 feet off the coast of Ecuador. The dives were featured in the October 1977 issue of National Geographic. The Alvin was also used for dives off of the Oregon coast in the mid 1980s. This photograph appeared in the December 1978 Oregon Stater.

2. OSU Antarctic Station

OSU Antarctic Station

Description: OSU oceanographers studied Antarctic under-ice water temperature, currents and salinity as part of a National Science Foundation research grant. The four-member team lived in one of the ten feet by twelve feet huts in the photo; the other served as their workspace. In September and October 1974, the crew experienced air temperatures with a wind chill of more than minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This photo first appeared in the January 1975 Oregon Stater.

3. Steve Johnson

Description: Steve Johnson was a star post player for the OSU basketball team from 1977 to 1981. He was drafted number 7 overall in the 1981 NBA draft and played professionally for ten years.

4. Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods

Track coach Berny Wagner and high jumpers Joni Huntley and Tom Woods

Description: Wagner coached both OSU athletes at the Pan American games in Mexico City, where they both won gold medals. He coached at OSU from 1966 to 1975, compiling a dual meet record of 49-24. He led OSU to four top six finishes at the NCAA Championships, where the 1969 squad finished second. Nine of his athletes won individual NCAA titles, and fifteen athletes won twenty-three All-American honors. Tom Woods was a four-time All-American in the high jump and captured the 1972 NCAA title. Huntley competed at OSU in 1975 and participated on two U.S. Olympic teams. In the early 1970s, OSU was called the “high jump capital of the world” by some sportswriters due to the success of Dick Fosbury, Woods, Huntley and other Beaver high jumpers.

5. Gene Alexander at the OSU Energy Fair

Gene Alexander at the OSU Energy Fair

Description: Gene Alexander explains how water heated by the parabolic reflector could be used to vaporize freon to produce electricity at the OSU Energy Fair, held in the Memorial Union quad. At the time, Alexander was a senior in Mechanical Engineering.

6. OSU’s Steve Ericksen blocks a shot by UCLA All-American Bill Walton

OSU’s Steve Ericksen blocks a shot by UCLA All-American Bill Walton

Description: OSU defeated #1 ranked UCLA, 61-57, before 10,376 fans in Gill Coliseum. The win by the Beavers ended UCLA’s conference winning streak of 50 games. This photo, taken by student photographer Chris Johns, appeared in the March 1974 Oregon Stater. Johns tied his camera to one of the basket supports behind the backboard in order to get the photo.

7. Linus and Ava Helen Pauling during a visit to OSU

Linus and Ava Helen Pauling during a visit to OSU

Description: The Paulings are speaking with David Shoemaker, a former student and colleague of Pauling's at the California Institute of Technology, and later the chair of Chemistry at OSU.

8. Warren Hovland

Description: Warren Hovland (1918-2015) was a Professor of Philosophy and Religion from 1949 to 1986, chairing the department for virtually his entire career. Hovland Hall is named in his honor.

9. Coach Ralph Miller and the OSU bench

Coach Ralph Miller and the OSU bench

Description: Miller and the Beavers are pictured here playing against Indiana at the Far West Classic tournament in Portland. Ralph Miller was one of the most successful basketball coaches in OSU and college basketball history. His OSU record was 359-186 (1971-1989), and his career collegiate record was 657-382.

10. Nancy Wyckoff

Description: Nancy Diane Wyckoff was an OSU student who was murdered in 1972.