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Why a pictorial history of OSU? OSU’s sesquicentennial is in 2018 OSU’s previous pictorial history dates to 1938 A pictorial history can be an excellent
Why a pictorial history of OSU? OSUs sesquicentennial is in
2018 OSUs previous pictorial history dates to 1938 A pictorial
history can be an excellent marketing tool
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Format 12 chapters Overview, 10 thematic chapters, one quick
facts 250-275 pages; somewhere between 450 and 600 photos and
related images Each thematic chapter includes sidebars short
features on key events, people, topics To be published by the OSU
Press
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Looking at the Past to Build the Future: A Pictorial History of
Oregon State University Table of Contents Foreword (Dr. Bill
Robbins) Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1An Overview History
of Oregon State University Chapter 2Let Us Flee From Debt as From
the Grave: OSUs Early Years, 1858-1889 Chapter 3Architectural
Harmony and Function: Development of OSUs Campus Chapter 4Builders
of a Great University Chapter 5Academics at OSU: Promoting a
Liberal and Practical Education Chapter 6Producers of Knowledge:
Research Through the Decades at OSU Chapter 7Campus Life and
Culture Chapter 8It Is All About Community: Campus Organizations at
OSU Chapter 9A Culture of Excellence: Student Athletes at OSU
Chapter 10The West Point of the West Chapter 11The Best of the
Best: Prominent Faculty and Alumni Chapter 12OSU Quick Facts
Sources Afterword (Dr. Ben Mutschler) Index
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Chapter 1 -- Overview Oregon State University Name Changing
Ceremony, March 3, 1961. Governor Mark O. Hatfield signs the
legislation changing the name of Oregon State College to Oregon
State University. Left to Right: C. R. Hoyt, rep. from Benton
County; Francis Ziegler, Senator from Benton County; Richard A.
Seideman, Student Body President; Robert White '40, Senator;
President A. L. Strand; Harry Boivin, President of State Senate;
John Fenner 40, Alumni Association; Anthony Yturri, Senator.
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Chapter 2 Early History Corvallis College Building, ca. 1868.
This carte-de-visite photograph of the original Corvallis College
building, built in 1859, was taken by Corvallis photographers
Stryker & Dohse. It is the earliest known photograph of what
was to become Oregon State University. At this time, the campus was
located on 5th Street, between Madison and Monroe Avenues in
downtown Corvallis. (Harriets Collection #1344)
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Chapter 3 Campus Development Mens Dormitory, 1934. The Mens
Dormitory, now known as Weatherford Hall, was constructed in six
months in 1928. John Bennes and his partner Harry Herzog designed
this landmark residence hall. It was built as five separately named
units Cauthorn, Poling, Buxton, Hawley, Weatherford with only the
central tower unit being Weatherford. The entire building was named
Weatherford Hall in 1957. The building underwent a major renovation
in 2003-2004 to became the home of the College of Businesss Austin
Entrepreneurship Program. The building is named for James Know
Weatherford, an 1880 graduate of Oregon State and a member of the
Board of Regents from 1885 to 1929. This photograph was taken by
Portland photographer Walter Boychuk. (Harriets Collection
#57)
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Chapter 4 Presidents and Key Administrators Student Pilot A.L.
Strand, 1947. Described by his flight instructor as an apt pupil,
President Strand took his first solo flight on September 19th,
1947, 29 years to the day after his first solo flight as a US Navy
sea plan pilot during World War I. Dressed for the office, Strand
went to the Corvallis Airport regularly for an hour or so of early
morning flying in a 150-horsepower enclosed 4- passenger Stinson
Voyager. August L. Strand served as OSU president from 1942 to
1961.
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Chapter 5 -- Academics Students in Chemistry Lab, ca. 1916.
Students taking chemistry courses at OAC in the 1910s through the
1930s used this lab in the Science Building or Chem Shack as it was
affectionately known. Linus Pauling undoubtedly spent many hours in
this lab. The Science Building today is Furman Hall, home of the
College of Education. (Harriets Collection #947)
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Chapter 6 - Research Helen Gilkey and students in the Botany
Lab, circa 1915. Gilkey received her masters degree from Oregon
Agricultural College in 1911. She was a botany faculty member and
served as the curator of the Herbarium for thirty-three years, from
1918 until 1951. Gilkey added approximately 50,000 plant specimens
to the Herbarium during that time. Gilkey was also a botanical
illustrator and was the author of 44 publications during her
career, including Tuberales of North America and Weeds of the
Pacific Northwest. (Harriets Collection #946)
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Chapter 7 Student life Burning of the Green, freshman hat
burning ceremony, circa 1955. For several decades in the 20th
century, OSU freshman men were required to wear green beanies, or
rook lids, and freshman women were required to wear green ribbons.
At the end of their freshman year, many of the students
participated in the Burning of the Green ceremony and committed
their hats and ribbons to the flames. Waldo Hall is in the
background. (Alumni Association Photograph Collection,
P017:759)
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Chapter 8 Student Organizations OSU Powwow dancers, October 29,
1977. Miss Warm Springs, Miss Indian Northwest and two other young
Indian women await the dance competition at the OSU Powwow. This
was the first powwow held at OSU, sponsored by the Native American
Club. (News & Communication Services Photograph Collection,
P057:5455)
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Chapter 9 -- Athletics OSU womens basketball player Carol
Menken goes up for a shot, 1981. Menken is considered the greatest
womens basketball player to come out of OSU. A first team Kodak
All-American in 1981, she led the nation in scoring and field goal
shooting percentage (.750) that year. She was the first basketball
player (mens or womens) to score 2,000 points during a career, and
holds the single game scoring record (51 points against
Alaska-Anchorage during the 1979-80 season). She played on the gold
medal winning 1984 U.S. Olympic womens basketball team, and played
professionally in Italy. (Oregon State University Historical
Photographs, P025:3120)
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Chapter 10 West Point of the West OAC cadet battalion in front
of the Administration Building (Benton Hall), ca. 1889. This is one
of the earliest photographs showing cadets on the grounds of the
college farm. The cadets are in formation near the south entrance
of the Administration Building (Benton Hall). The cadets uniforms
were gray in color and they wore the traditional 19 th century
campaign hats. The cadet officer in front of the company on the
left is E. E. Eddy Wilson (Class of 1889), who later became a
prominent Corvallis lawyer and businessman, and served for many
years on the colleges Board of Regents. (HC 85)
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Chapter 11 Notable Faculty and Alumni Bernard Malamud selecting
a volume from his office bookcase, 1959. Prize winning novelist
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) was a member of Oregon States English
Department faculty from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote
many of his famous works, including The Natural (1952), The Magic
Barrel (1956, winner of the National Book Award), The Assistant
(1957), and A New Life (1961). The latter is a novel loosely based
on his experiences here; the books Cascadia College and city of
Eastchester are thinly veiled representations of Oregon State
College and Corvallis in the 1950s. (Gwil Evans Photograph
Collection, P082:035 #2421)
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Chapter 12 OSU Quick Facts Presidents of Oregon State,
1865-2014 Members of the Corvallis College Board of Trustees
Members of the Oregon Agricultural College Board of Regents
Presidents of the OAC Student Assembly/Associated Students of OSU
Rhodes Scholars Pulitzer Prize winners Academy/Emmy/Tony/Grammy
Award winners American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows Distinguished Faculty Honorary Degree recipients OSU
Olympians
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Lessons Learned OSU has a long photographic tradition that
dates back to the early 1890s Incredible photographic resources
available to draw from Verifying minor details takes the most time
This often includes rectifying contradictory sources Explore
technology available MS Word not the best for creating chapters Use
a reference management tool such as Zotero Indexing software