History of Oregon State University oral histories and sound recordings, 1956-1980 (bulk 1956-1969).

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History of Oregon State University oral histories and sound recordings, 1956-1980 (bulk 1956-1969).

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The History of Oregon State University Oral Histories and Sound Recordings consist of 22 oral history interviews and 5 other sound recordings. The components of the collection are individually number OH03a:01 thru OH03a:20 and OH03b:01 thru OH03b:05. Sound recordings and transcripts are available for all components of the collection except two tape recordings of the Library dedication (OH03a:21). The bulk of the oral histories were conducted by Lillian Van Loan in 1956 (16 interviews) and Ilona Fry in 1980 (4 interviews). Van Loan interviewed the following Oregon State faculty, administrators, and alumni: Major E.C. Allworth, E.B. Beaty, Ralph Besse, Arthur G.B. Bouquet, Ava B. Milam Clark, Bertha Davis, Melissa Martin Dawes, Henry Hartman, Helen Holgate, E.B. Lemon, Lora Lemon, C.V. Ruzek, J.W. Sherburne, Gertrude Strickland, E.W. Warrington, Jessamine Williams, and May Workinger. The interviews address a variety of topics including the development of academic programs at Oregon State; campus buildings and facilities; college presidents, especially William Jasper Kerr and Thomas M. Gatch; programs and activities during World War II; agricultural research and the Experiment Station; the establishment and growth of the Memorial Union; and student activities. Ilona Fry interviewed four Oregon State alumni, faculty, and administrators in 1980: Gordon W. Gilkey, J. Granville Jensen, Miriam Orzech, and Linus Pauling. The interview of Gordon Gilkey documents Gilkey's work with the restitution of artworks in Europe after World War II, his years as a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State, and the development of humanities and social science academic programs. Jensen's interview provides information about the geography and natural resources academic programs at Oregon State; the relationship between the geography departments at OSU and the University of Oregon; international programs; and geography faculty. The Orzech interview is focused on the Educational Opportunities Program and academic support services for minority students at Oregon State; Orzech discusses the Chicano Student Union, Black Student Union, and Native American Students Association as well asracial prejudice in Corvallis. Pauling discusses a variety of topics in his interview, including his Nobel Prizes, the effects of Vitamin C, his student years at Oregon Agricultural College, his peace activities and protests against nuclear testing, and his chemistry research. Two of the oral histories in the collection were conducted by other interviewers. The interview of Oliver V. Matthews was conducted in 1959 by Dean McCulloch and Charlies Ross and addresses Matthews' explorations and study of Oregon trees. The interview of Nona Snell was conducted by Veronica Sitton; Snell dicusses her husband's aunt, Margaret Snell, the homes that Snell built on Monroe Avenue, and her involvement with the Village Improvement Society and the planting of trees in Corvallis. The collection includes several other sound recordings, including a lecture by Ava Milam Clark in 1963 on her personal philosophy and the early history of home economics at Oregon State; farewell speeches by the wives of Oregon State Presidents, James H. Jensen and A.L. Strand, on the occasion of the Jensens' departure from Oregon State in 1969; and This is OSU recorded in 1962 for the Voice of America. A recording of students in the Air Force Cadet Moonflight Simulator is included as well as two audiotapes of the Library dedication. The Library dedication tapes are undated, but are likely of the 1963 dedication of the new Kerr Library building.

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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...

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...

Strickland, Gertrude.

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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...

Davis, Bertha, 1910-

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Bertha Davis seems to have been a sewing teacher. From the description of Notebook, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007734 ...

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...

Gatch, Thomas L., 1925-1974

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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...

Oregon State university

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Oregon State University. Library

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Fry, Ilona June.

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Beaty, Edward Benjamin.

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Oregon State College. Memorial Union.

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

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Kerr, William Jasper, 1863-1947

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Snell, Margaret Comstock, 1843-1923

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Hartman, Henry, 1889-1966

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

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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...

Allworth, Edward C.

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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...

Oregon State College

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

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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...

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 at Oregon State Universit...

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

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Orzech, Miriam Weitz, 1931-

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Geography.

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Williams, Jessamine 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...

Hansell, Lora

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Lora Maud Lemon was born Lora Maud Hansell on May 23, 1889 in The Dalles, Oregon. Her parents, William R. Hansell and Anne L. Moore Hansell, moved the family to Corvallis when Lora was seven years old. Lora enrolled in Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in September 1904 and graduated in 1908 with a BS in Literary Commerce. Immediately after graduating from OAC, Lemon was hired as a teacher at Corvallis High School. Lora married Erwin Bertran (E.B.) Lemon on December 20, 1911 in Corvallis. E.B. L...