Andrews, Roy Chester, 1885-1955.

Roy C. Andrews was a school teacher and administrator in Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Washington, and Oregon. He was a chemistry instructor at the University of Oregon from 1935 until his retirement in 1950. Andrews is noted for his photographs of one-room schoolhouses in southern Lane County, 1911-1913. Born in Doon, Iowa on March 3, 1885, Andrews attended the State Normal School in San Jose, California (now Cal State). In 1908-09 Andrews taught high school in Columbus, Texas, and the following year may have taught in Lorane, Oregon. In 1911 he became the rural school supervisor for southern Lane County, which gave him the opportunity to travel to fifty one-room schoolhouses in the area. As a diarist and amateur photographer, Andrews documented a wide variety of school buildings, classroom settings, and teachers with their students. In 1915 Andrews received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Oregon, and taught high school in Astoria, Oregon until 1917. From 1919-20 he taught at South Bend, Washington, and from 1920-34 at Jefferson High School in Portland. In 1935 he was placed in charge of the chemistry laboratory at the University of Oregon, and later began teaching on campus. Throughout his life, Roy C. Andrews was active in the Unitarian Church, the Portland Choral Society, and the Eugene hiking group, the Obsidians. Andrews died on February 3, 1955 following a brief illness.

From the description of Roy C. Andrews papers, 1902-1955. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57139351

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