Oregon State University Military Photographs Collection 1875-1975 1915-1965

Oregon State university

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Oregon Agricultural College

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Martin, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1863-1946

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Governor of Oregon, 1935-1939. From the description of Speech, 1937 Dec. 6. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23265047 Charles H. Martin was a United States (U.S.) Army officer and government official from Oregon. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), West Point, in the Class of 1887 and was a 1st lieutenant with the 14th Infantry Regiment (1898). Martin saw service in the Philippines and with the China Relief Expedition (1899-1901). He beca...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Military Science.

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Courses in Military Science and Tactics were first taught at Oregon State in 1872. In 1873 Captain Benjamin D. Boswell was appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics (1873-1876), the first U.S. Army officer on active duty to hold such a position in any land grant college in the West. The first cadet uniforms, worn at all times by male students, were gray with caps of the Civil War type. The more familiar blue uniforms were adopted in 1893. ROTC at Oregon State University is made up of t...

United States. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

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Princeton University's Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program was started in 1946 amidst a wave of enthusiasm for the ROTC that followed World War II. It joined the Army ROTC unit on campus, which had operated since 1919, and was followed by the formation of an Air Force ROTC unit in 1951. By the 1950s however, faculty opposition to the degree-credit granting programs had risen high enough to merit their reformation, and special University-taught courses were added to the curricula....

Peavy, George Wilcox, 1869-1951

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George Wilcox Peavy was born 12 November 1869 in Howell, Michigan. He received his Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts at the University of Michigan. He obtained his Master of Science degree in Forestry at his alma mater. After receiving his M.S. degree in Forestry in 1905, he entered the United States Forest Service, during which time he traveled throughout the United States and Europe, observing and writing about forestry use and practices. In 1910 Peavy was selected to become the head of the ne...

United States. Army. Students’ Army Training Corps.

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The establishment of Students' Army Training Corps units was authorized by the Selective Service Act of 1917. The Students' Army Training Corps utilized the facilities, equipment, and faculty of colleges and universities to select and train officer candidates and and provide technical and vocational training during World War I. The unit at Oregon Agricutural College (OAC) formed in early 1918 and included officer trainees as well as draftees to be trained as toolmakers, foundrymen, ...

Oregon State University. Dept. of Air Force Studies.

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Oregon Agricultural College. Cadet Corps.

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Sprague, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1887-1969

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Charles Arthur Sprague, the twenty-second governor of Oregon (1939-1943) was born in Lawrence, Kansas on November 12, 1887. From the guide to the Charles A. Sprague papers, 1895-1969, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Charles Arthur Sprague, the twenty-second governor of Oregon (1939-1943) was born in Lawrence, Kansas on November 12, 1887. From his early beginnings, Charles Sprague was dedicated to education. After graduating from Monmouth...

Strand, A. L. (August Leroy), 1894-

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Oregon State College

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Sprague, Charles Arthur, Governor, November 12, 1887 – March 13, 1969

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Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)

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Unit 3900 of the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) was established by the War Department at Oregon State College in March 1943. The program provided training for high grade technicians and specialists needed by the Army for the war effort. Most of the instruction was provided by regular Oregon State College faculty; E.B. Lemon, as Dean of Administration, was Coordinator of the ASTP for Oregon State. Enrollment peaked in the summer of 1943 with more than 1300 ASTP students at Oregon State ...

Kerr, William Jasper, 1863-1947

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United States. Air Force ROTC

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The Air Force ROTC unit at Oregon State University was established in 1949. The goal of the Apollo Project at Oregon State University was to construct a three-man space simulator and train a crew for a final 48-hour simulated flight. According to a report in the 16 January 1962 Barometer, the crew would conduct test flights during which they would apply navigation principles to maintain a prescribed course of flight. The simulator was constructed of aluminum and plywood. From the des...

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps

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The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919. The school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. In January 1916, then University of Oregon, (UO) president Prince Lucien Cambell, established a ROTC curriculum led by LTC John Leader, a retired British officer. Over 100 students participated in the first drill in March 1916, le...

McAlexander, Ulysses Grant, 1864-1936

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Ulysses Grant McAlexander (b. Aug. 30, 1864, Dundas, Minnesota-d. Sept. 18, 1936, Portland, Oregon), Major General in the U.S. Army, graduated from West Point in 1887 and served for several periods as an instructor in military science and tactics. He saw action during the Spanish-American War and in the Philippines. During World War I, he commanded the 18th Infantry, served on the Inspector General's staff, and was then given command of the 38th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division, on the Marne Rive...