College of Liberal ArtsRecords 1952-2008 1960-2004

Wolfson, Murray

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Oregon State University. Dept. of History.

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Nuclear research and education began at OSU soon after World War II. In the 1950s, the first classes in nuclear physics and radiochemistry were taught, and in 1955 a cyclotron was constructed. A graduate program in nuclear engineering was established in 1959. In the early 1960s, a committee recommended that a research lab be established to house nuclear and radiation facilities. Funding was secured in the fall of 1962, and construction began in early 1964. The labs were occupied in ...

Summer Conference on Science Writing (1965 : Oregon State University)

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Oregon State University. College of Liberal Arts

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At the time that it gained land grant status in 1868, Oregon State University (then Corvallis College) was a typical liberal arts college of the day. As the college's curriculum expanded into the sciences and technology in the early 20th century, the liberal arts were de-emphasized; they were grouped in to the Division of Service Departments. In 1919, the division was renamed the School of Basic Arts and Sciences. With the reorganization of Oregon's public higher education in 1932, the liberal a...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Art.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Sociology.

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Gilkey, Gordon

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Gordon Waverly Gilkey (1912-2000) was a gifted etcher and printmaker. Gilkey was born in Albany, Oregon, and during the 1930s he served as a student art teacher at Albany College. In 1936, he graduated from the University of Oregon with a Master's of Fine Arts degree, and in 1937, Gilkey was selected to document the 1939 World’s Fair in New York as its official artist. During World War II, Gilkey was assigned command of a military unit that attemped to minimize the theft and destruction of Europ...

Oregon State University. Dept. of English.

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Novelist Bernard Malamud was an English professor at Oregon State College from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote three novels: The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and A New Life (1961) as well as a collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel (1959) for which he received the National Book Award. He was presented OSU's Distinguished Service Award in 1969. English has been part of the curriculum since the founding of the University in 1868. In the 1960s, the English Department became ...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Anthropology.

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The Emergency Farm Labor Service in Oregon was sponsored by the Oregon State College Extension Service to ensure an adequate farm labor supply during World War II and the years immediately after. Between 1943 and 1947, Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service assisted with over 900,000 placements on the state's farms, trained thousands of workers of all ages, and managed nine farm labor camps. Farm laborers included urban youth and women, soldiers, white collar professionals, displaced Japanese- Am...

Oregon State university

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McMullen, B. Starr, 1951-

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Ligon, J. Frank (John Frank), 1917-

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Wilkins, Billy Hughel, 1931-

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Bill Wilkins was a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State University from 1961 until his retirement in 1994. He was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department in 1961 and served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1982 to 1994. A native of Texas, Wilkins earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas A & I University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. His college education was interrupted by four years of active duty in the Air Force, inclu...

Oregon State College

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Oregon State Penitentiary

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Oregon State University. School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Vars, R. Charles.

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Harter, Lafayette G.

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Warnke, Paul C., 1920-

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Paul Culliton Warnke (1920-2001) was a lawyer and government official. He was general counsel at the Department of Defense from 1966 to 1967, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1967 to 1969. He was director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to 1978, and chief U.S. arms control negotiator from 1977 to 1978. He was a member of the Presidential Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy from 1995 to 1996, and was a member of the Arms ...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Economics.

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