Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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'©33(o)@2a ©IF I Professor E. G. Mason, a member of the forestry school faculty since 1920, was made assistant dean of the school to lighten Dean George W. Peavy’s burden after he became president of the college. Assistant Dean Mason Forestry Building 1917 INCE the first four students graduated in 1910, 317 men have completed the course in the School of Forestry. All but 12 of them are living, two having had professional prestige which warranted the naming of mountain peaks in their honor. Over 85% of the graduates are employed in forestry. The large majority are in the Federal Forest Service, where Oregon State men now hold positions through all the grades, including Chief of Grazing for the entire country, Assistant Regional Foresters, Supervisors, Nurserymen, District Rangers, and Junior Foresters. In research work, graduates have carved names for themselves in Mensuration, Fire Control, Economics, Silviculture, Pathology, Entomology. The U. S. Indian Service has attracted many for virtually all grades of forest work. Other men are found in Blister Rust Control, National Parks, Soil Erosion Service and Resettlement. State, County and City forestry organizations also employ Oregon State graduates. Leading Forest Schools have taken nine graduates on the staffs. OSC men hold positions in all types of forest industries. On the Bandon fire last fall 28 Oregon State foresters aided in controlling the fire. 0-7)

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Engineering Laboratory 1920 (jt |JHE School of Engineering includes five de-partments. Chemical Engineering covers application of chemical processes to a widening list of manufacturing industries. Many graduates have responsible positions in this field. Civil Engineering includes bridges, highways, hydraulics, and sanitation, for all of which complete surveys arc essential. The State Highway Department employs many graduates from this department. Electrical Engineering embraces the generation and distribution of electrical energy and its numberless applications in the home and in industry. Mechanical Engineering deals with steam, gas anti oil engines for power production and application in many fields. An increasing number of graduates in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering are employed each year by the large corporations of the Pacific Coast and the East. Industrial Arts directs the various shop courses and includes Industrial Arts Education and Administration. The larger proportion of graduates of this department become instructors in vocational training. An energetic staff in well-equipped laboratories has produced graduates who have been so successful that this school has an excellent rating. £ NMl® ®IPiIK9©®J Dean R. H. Dearborn’s appointment in 1934 as Dean of the School of Engineering culminated twenty years of successful administra- tion of the department of Electrical Engineering on the Oregon State campus. Dean Dearborn (16)

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Sympathetic with student problems, an outstanding worker and a delightful hostess, Dean Ava B. Milam inspires students by her vital personality to go out as leaders in their field. Dean Milam Home Economics Building 1914-1920 te INCE 1889 when the first few courses in home economics were offered at Oregon State college, the department has constantly increased its scope and broadened its work to its present organization which maintains an excellent national rating and reputation. Established by Dr. Margaret Snell, the work was carried on in the old administration building, later being moved to the basement of Waldo Hall. The present physical plant consists of two units of the large three-unit home economics building, two home management houses, a nursery school and a tearoom in the Memorial Union building. The curricula of the school have been built up to include all problems of home and family life, as well as those connected with professional work in the home economics field, and embraces the department of clothing; textiles and related arts; foods and nutrition; child development and household management; and institutional economics. A distinctly progressive note in home economics education is the home ec study tour which will be offered the summer of 1937 under the experienced leadership of Dean Ava B. Milam, Mrs. Stanley Chin and Miss Alma C. Fritchoff.