History of Oregon State University OralHistories and Sound Recordings 1956-1980 1956-1969

Oregon State University. University Archives.

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The University Archives was established at Oregon State University in 1961 as a department of the Library. From the early 1970s until 2000, the Archives was part of the OSU central administration. In 2000, the Archives became a department of the University Libraries and moved into the Valley Library in 2003. The Archives had a short-lived oral history program in 1980 and acquired recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Oregon State students and faculty beginning in the...

Jensen, J. Granville (John Granville), 1911-2001

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Hansell, Lora Maud.

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Oregon State College. Memorial Union.

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Hartman, Henry, 1889-

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Oregon State University. Library

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Oregon State College

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Davis, Bertha

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Besse, Ralph S. (Ralph Stephen), 1887-

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Ralph S. Besse joined the Oregon Agricultural College faculty in 1922 as farm management extension specialist. In 1932, he became Assistant Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station; he served as Associate Director of the Station from 1949 until his retirement in 1953. Besse earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Missouri. From the description of Ralph S. Besse thesis, 1913. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 173275786 Ralph S. Besse joined the O...

Bouquet, A. G. B. (Arthur George Bristow), 1885-

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Allworth, Edward C.

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Educational Opportunities Program (Oregon State University)

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The Educational Opportunities Program was created at Oregon State University in 1969 to provide support for non-traditional students. These include students of color, older than average students, students with disabilities, single parents, low-income students, and students who have been rurally isolated. From the description of Educational Opportunities Program records, 1983-1999. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 73821681 The Educational Opportunitie...

Kerr, William Jasper, 1863-1947

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Gatch, Thomas M.

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Fry, Ilona June.

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Williams, Jessamine C.

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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...

Lemon, E. B. (Erwin Bertran), 1889-1979.

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Born in Sherman County, Oregon, in 1889, Erwin Bertran Lemon graduated with a degree in Business from OAC in 1911. That same year, Lemon's longtime association with the University continued with his appointment as a part-time instructor of accounting. Teaching for the School of Commerce until 1943, Lemon also held the post of University Registrar for 21 years (1922 to 1943) during this period. From 1943 until his retirement from the University in 1959, Lemon served as Dean of Administration. Out...

Matthews, Oliver Vincent, 1892-1979

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Dendrologist and self-described "botanical tramp". Oliver Matthews traveled all parts of Oregon for more than 40 years in pursuit of trees, particularly the biggest of each species. Matthews graduated from Willamette University in 1913 and later received teacher training as a post-graduate at Oregon College of Education, but had no formal training as a botanist. He served in Europe during World War I and worked as a carpenter and an extra in the silent film industry in Hollywood after the war. H...

Strickland, Gertrude.

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Orzech, Miriam Weitz, 1931-

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Snell, Margaret Comstock, 1843-1923

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Van Loan, Lillian Schroeder.

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Lillian Schroeder Van Loan conducted oral histories of Oregon State faculty and administrators for her doctoral dissertation, Historical Perspective of Oregon State College, submitted in 1959. Van Loan completed her Ed.D. degree at Oregon State College in 1959. An oral history program was established within the Oregon State University Archives in 1970 with Ilona Fry as oral historian. The initial focus of the oral history program was the development of the liberal arts a...

Sherburne, James W. (James Wilson), 1905-

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Beaty, Edward Benjamin.

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Clark, Ava Milam, 1884-1976

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Home economics Dean Ava Bertha Milam was born on November 27, 1884 in Macon Missouri, one of 5 daughters of Ancil and Louisa Milam. She taught at the Blees Military Academy from 1904 to 1907 and came to Oregon Agricultural College in 1911 as professor and head of the Department of Foods and Nutrition. She was appointed Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917 and served in that capacity until her retirement in 1950. In 1948, she acted as a consultant in home economics colleges in Korea and C...

Ruzek, C. V. (Charles Vladis), 1887-1968

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Oregon State university

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Geography.

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Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which provided grants of $15,000 to each U.S. state and territory for experimentation in the "principles and applications of agricultural science." Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888 under Edgar Grimm, the Station's first director, and in 1889 state legislation was approved formally establishing the Experiment Station. That year, the Station pub...

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

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Born in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 1901. Died on 19 August 1994. Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State College (1922), Ph.D., Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1926 National Research Council; 1926-1927 Universities of Münich, Zürich, and Copenhagen; 1922-1969 California Institute of Technology; 1969- Stanford University; 1973-1979 Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. From the descr...