Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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iESIDENT PEAW WITHIN the covers of each Beaver is a record of an Oregon State year. Thirty-two years ago the first Oregon State annual ventured timidly on the campus. In contrast with today, what a campus! The Chem shack, Apperson hall and the old Administration building the principal instruction buildings. Two dwelling houses between the band stand and the museum building, then the Armory. Old Cauthorn hall, now Kidder, a men's dormitory out in the country. Alpha hall, housing forty young ladies. Board walks, and mud walks and no walks. No paving anywhere. Student body of eight hundred; faculty, thirty-six. Women with mutton-leg sleeves, but without cigarettes. Men with long hair and fuzzy whiskers. President Kerr, man of vision, vibrant with energy, just on his way. Looking across the open spaces, from the front campus to the west. Visioning a great educational institution, dedicated to the service of a growing state. A man to make dreams come true. Patient, determined, diplomatic. Yielding only to move forward on another front. He wrought a great work. Oregon State stands as a record of his achievement. So here we are in 1938! Students, more than 4,000; faculty, more than 434. Oregon State, an up-to-date, going concern. Touching the lives of men and women in every nook and corner of Oregon. A powerful, creative instrument of service. Ours to carry on!’ 21

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THE Oregon State Board of Higher Education, which on July 1, 1929, replaced three former boards of regents and the board of higher curricula, governs activities of Oregon State college, University of Oregon, University of Oregon Medical School, Oregon Normal School, Southern Oregon Normal and Eastern Oregon Normal school. Directors must be citizens of Oregon, are appointed by the governor with Senate consent, and hold office nine years, one retiring each year. The Board controls all records and accounts, all property, all funds, all appointments to the faculties, all curricular allocations and all relations of the sev- 20 BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION eral institutions to the legislature and the public. Inaugurating its new program of higher educational development on July 1, 1931, the Board has exercised full authority in reorganizing the work of all institutions and establishing a unified program to eliminate duplication and promote coordination throughout the state system. A chancellor and a secretary serve the Board respectively as chief administrative officer and recording agent. Board members are: Willard L. Marks, Albany, president; E. C. Pease, The Dalles, vice-president; Herman Oliver, John Day,- F. E. Callister, Albany,- Beatrice W. Sackett, Marshfield; C. A. Brand, Rose-burg,- Robert W. Ruhl, Medford; E. C. Sammons and Walter E. Pearson, Portland. Frederick M. Hunter is Chancellor, Charles D. Byrne, secretary. L

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Di.U'G- hA« K ' AS we are privileged to share in a great college enter- prise while learning what will help us to earn a better living, are we at the same time learning what it takes to live in a confused world? Are we acquiring an understanding of our neighbors' problems, nationally and internationally? Are we schooling ourselves in sympathy broad enough to take these neighbors into vital consideration? Do we have in the making the controls necessary to function in this involved situation where all that everyone does affects everyone else? If so, the years just ahead afford the rarest opportunity for big achievement and genuine personal satisfaction. ’ THE present century has brought forth discoveries which are contributing to the enlargement of human lives. Not least among these is the advancement in photography. Improved developments have made it possible to hold fast the most evanescent changes in cloud, the swift movement of the bird, and the unexpected sparkle of the eye. The present Beaver editors have made use of this art and are offering a book filled with the beautiful and the unusual on campus and in classroom. Owners of this volume will have a treasure which in years to come will help them see the beauty of things they may have taken for granted, if Browning spoke truly when he put into the mouth of Fra Lippo Lippi these words: For don't you mark? We re made so that we love first when we see them painted, things we have passed a hundred times.' ” DEAN OF MEN DEAN OF WOMEN