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“Beemer for B&T Senator” campaign sign, ca. 1972

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1. Literary Societies Picnic, May 30, 1910
2. Class reunion attendees, June 1926 Class reunion attendees, June 1926. Class reunions became popular in the 1920s, and were often planned to be close to commencement. This reunion tent hosted members of graduating classes from 1904 through 1907. They were viewing “old time pictures and mementoes.” The alumni included (from left) A.G. Bouquet, Anne Ewing Wayson, Harry Auld, Minette Phillips Espy, Phillip Gearhart, Madeline Nichold, Sam Graf, Fred Roth, Floyd Rowland, Harold G. Rumbraugh, Letha Rickard Porter, and Fred Ewing. The Golden Jubilee Reunion, the Alumni Association’s primary reunion, brings together members of the graduating class from fifty years ago. (HC 1102)
3. Theta Sigma Phi Members Performing a Stunt in Front of the Memorial Union, 1938 Theta Sigma Phi members performing a stunt in front of the Memorial Union, 1938. Theta Sigma Phi is a national professional society for women in journalism and communications. It was created in 1909 by female journalism students at the University of Washington. Oregon State’s Alpha Eta chapter was established in 1924, replacing a predecessor organization called The Scribe. The national organization, now known as the Association for Women in Communications, allowed men to become members in 1972. (HC 1182)
4. Delta Zeta Sorority Members on a Jeep, 1943
5. Oregon State Housemothers, ca. 1950 Oregon State Housemothers, ca. 1950. Greek houses and housing co-operatives employed housemothers, who served “in loco parentis” for those living groups, acting as administrator, supervisor, social coordinator, and sometime confidante. One of the most famous housemothers affiliated with Oregon State was Florence Kincaid Naismith, widow of James Naismith, who is credited with inventing the game of basketball in 1892. She served as housemother for the Delta Delta Delta sorority from 1941 to 1947. Housemothers also had their own organization – the Resident Hostess Club of Oregon State College. It was created in 1948, and the members met monthly to discuss common issues and problems at the living groups, and to plan social events for the residents. The club had a close connection with the Dean of Women. The club disbanded about 1968. (P25:2715)
6. “Beaver Machine” Homecoming Display, 1951
7. Oregon Governor Tom McCall confers with OSU symphony conductor Bernard Gilmore, Feb. 12, 1969
8. “Beemer for B&T Senator” campaign sign, ca. 1972
9. Delta Upsilon fraternity’s 60th anniversary celebration invitation, January 1982
10. Wilma Mankiller with the Officers of the OSU Native American Student Association, Fall 1988 Wilma Mankiller with the officers of the OSU Native American Student Association, Fall 1988. The Native American Student Association sponsors the OSU Powwow. Mankiller, third from the right, was the chief of the Cherokee Nation, a position she held from 1985 to 1995. She was on campus in the Fall of 1988 to lecture and attend the OSU Powwow. She returned to lecture again at OSU in April 2007. (P94, Accession 97:100)

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1. Larry Bielenberg, ca. 1975
2. Raul Hernandez, 1971
3. Shirley Lagastee, Winter 1975 Shirley Lagastee drives around a defender to the basket, winter 1975. Lagastee was OSU’s leading scorer that season. OSU split its two game series with the Oregon Ducks, winning the second contest in 97-32 blowout. Basketball became an intercollegiate sport for women at OSU in 1972. Lagastee was a four-sport athlete at OSU – she also played field hockey and softball, and was on the track and field team. (P57:4937)
4. A Sea of Umbrellas, Parker Stadium, ca. 1971
5. Ski Team, 1971
6. OSU administration, 1973 OSU administration, 1973. OSU’s top administrators gathered by this Rolls Royce outside of Education Hall (now Furman Hall). From left: Milosh Popovich, Dean of Administration; Robert W. Chick, Dean of Students; Robert W. MacVicar, President; Stuart E. Knapp, Dean of Undergraduate Studies; David B. Nicodemus, Dean of Faculty; and Roy A. Young, Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies. The car may have belonged to G. Burton Wood, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and a collector of classic cars. (HC 1496)
7. OSU Antarctic Station, 1974 OSU Antarctic Station, 1974. OSU oceanographers studied Antarctic under-ice water temperature, currents and salinity as part of a National Science Foundation research grant. The four-member team lived in one of the ten feet by twelve feet huts in the photo; the other served as their workspace. In September and October 1974, the crew experienced air temperatures with a wind chill of more than minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This photo first appeared in the January 1975 Oregon Stater. (P57:4948)
8. “Beemer for B&T Senator” campaign sign, ca. 1972