Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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»» Jensen Jardine Maris Reed Departmentdl Hedds W. A. Jensen was executive secretary to President Kerr at Utah State college, and when the president came to Oregon State in 1907, he brought Mr. Jensen with him to continue in his former capacity. AFter acting in various positions with the United States department of agriculture, James T. Jardine resigned as superintendent in the forest service, where he had become a nationally known authority on grazing and range problems, to become director of the college agricultural experiment station. This work includes the directing of the research work at the home station in Corvallis and the eight branch stations advantageously located to cover the varied agricultural conditions of Oregon. Mr. Jardine was specialist in re- search and graduate ork on the land grant college survey for 1930. Paul V. Maris has also just completed work in the land grant college survey on which he was specialist on extension for the United States commission of education. He served as state county agent leader for Oregon before he was made director of the extension service of the college in 1920. This service extends Lewis Smith the benefits, advantages, and available infor- mation of the work offered by the college and the United States department of agriculture to those in all parts of the state who for any reason are unable to come to the college. Upon his graduation from the college in 1911, E. B. Lemon was on the faculty of the school of commerce as instructor in the de- partment of businss administration. In 1921 he was made registrar of the college. Lucy Lewis has risen to her position as head librarian by climbing the proverbial ladder to the top. She came to the college in 1911 as cataloguer. She was made assistant librarian, then reference librarian before being ap- pointed to her present position in 1920. E. M. Smith, like Miss Lewis, has risen within his own department from lower posi- tions. In 191 5. he started as purchasing agent for the business office, later he was chief clerk, followed by the appointment to assist- ant manager. Now he controls the destinies of the business office as its manager. The department of publications was estab- lished in 1912 by Edwin T. Reed, its present editor, who came to the institution from Moor- head Teacher ' s college in Minnesota where he was head of the English department. «21»

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—3 Rb( Cordley Beneil Peavy Ziefle Milam Smith Jewell Rogers Hance Langton Patterson Deans Instruction in scientific agriculture on the coast began at the college in 1873. Dr. A. B. Cordley, who joined the staff as entomologist in 1895, has served as dean since the depart- ment was developed into a school in 1907. Commercial courses, which were offered at the college even before it received its land grant in 1868, were organized into a school with J. A. Bexell as the first dean in 1908. George W. Peavy was made dean of for- estry when the former department of forestry became a school in 1910, courses in the sub- ject having been offered for four years pre- viously. Regular four-year work in pharmacy was not established until 1907, though the de- partment had been organized since 1898. Dean Adolph Ziefle, who came to the col- lege in 1914, was made dean in 1917. The first training in home economics in the west was offered at the college in 1889 by Dr. Margaret Snell. A steady development which has made the school an outstanding one in the country may be attributed to the leadership of Dean Ava B. Milam since 1911. Whenthevarious service departments of the college were organized as a school in 1918, Dr. M. Ellwood Smith, who had served in the department for three years was made the first dean of the new school as well as director of the summer session. A department of industrial pedagogy de- veloped, with the enactment of the Smith- Hughes act, into the school of vocational education in 1918. Dr. J. R. Jewell came to the institution as dean in 1927. The school of engineering had its beginning in 1889, the first in its field on the coast. In 1927 Dean hi. S. Rogers, who had been head of the department of civil engineering for seven years, was made dean of the school. Mining was offered as a four-year course in 1902 for the first time. Dr. J. H. Hance took over the reins as dean in 1928, having been consulting geologist and engineer to the state of Illinois. With the reorganization of the two physical education departments and the health service into one school in 1929, Dr. Clair V. Lang- ton, formerly head of physical education work for men, was made dean of health and physi- cal education. The Reserve Officers Training Corps is headed by Colonel H. R. Patterson. 20.

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HbCjC. vhAV N Cramer Dunn McCalBster 1 Reynolds Holsate Alumni Organization The Oregon State Alumni association con- sists of about 7700 graduates besides ex- students who are bound together by the in- terests of the Alma Mater. The Alumni office in the Memorial Union building is the hub around which this vast group is centered from year to year and from all parts of the world. Forty-two alumni clubs function in the United States and territories to keep alive the Beaver spirit with meetings, parties, and pro- MARK D. McAllister President ■ grams of varied nature. These clubs enable the alumni to keep in touch with the campus, renew valued friendships and cherished memories and gain contacts with alumni of every generation. The Oregon State Monthly, edited and published on the college campus, is the me- dium of contact between all clubs and mem- bers. Since its formation in 1875, five years after the first class was graduated, the associ- ation has grown until it has a large group of life members and a trust fund of over $11,000. Each spring the senior class takes more in- terest in the organization and benefits of alumni membership and a greater per cent de- clare themselves as interested alumni members. Efforts are being made to give graduates unable to attend the main campus events an opportunity to hear about the activities through the radio. Many programs are pre- pared especially for the interest of alumni, former students and friends of the college. Plans are under way for a more extensive alumni program in the coming school year. k22.