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								Literary societies picnic, May 30, 1910. Members of the Pierian (women) and Jeffersonian (men) literary societies gathered for this picnic at the end of the 1909-10 school year. Although membership in the societies was segregated by gender, they conducted occasional joint meetings and social events. (P116:12) 
								 
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								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) 
								 
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								Delta Zeta sorority members on a Jeep, 1943. The sorority was the second-place winner in a campus war bond contest. Oregon State’s Chi chapter of Delta Zeta was installed in 1919 and went inactive in 1977. Its members included Mercedes Bates, who became a vice president of General Mills. (P25:2008) 
								 
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								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, superviser, 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) 
								 
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								“Beaver Machine” Homecoming display, 1951. OSU’s Greek community has been a major participants in OSU’s Homecoming festivities for many decades. On of their traditions has been the creation of signs and displays in front of their houses -- some of them were elaborate feats of engineering. (P125:1) 
								 
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								Oregon Governor Tom McCall confers with OSU symphony conductor Bernard Gilmore, Feb. 12, 1969. McCall was rehearsing with the orchestra for a performance of Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. McCall was the narrator for the performance of the classic tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday. (P92:1250) 
								 
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								“Beemer for B&T Senator” campaign sign, ca. 1972. Each spring the Memorial Union and Library quads sprout dozens of campaign signs for candidates running for ASOSU offices. Mary Lou Beemer successfully ran to represent the School of Business and Technology. (P195) 
								 
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								Delta Upsilon fraternity’s 60th anniversary celebration invitation, January 1982. Linus Pauling was the keynote speaker for the fraternity’s celebration. Pauling was a member of the fraternity during his student days at OAC. The OAC chapter was chartered on Jan. 14, 1922. (MC–Delta Upsilon) 
								 
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								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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								OAC Professor of Bacteriology Theodore Beckwith in his lab, ca. 1913. The Bacteriology Department worked closely with other departments, such as Dairy Husbandry and Poultry Husbandry, on Experiment Station research projects. Beckwith was a member of the OAC faculty and chair of the Bacteriology Department from 1912 to 1919. He authored several Extension and Experiment Station publications. He later served as chair of UCLA’s Department of Bacteriology. (HC 949) 
								 
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								Canning berries in the Horticultural Products canning lab, ca. 1920. The second floor of the Horticultural Products Building included this seventy-two foot long canning room. An addition to the building in 1924 provided a new space of nearly 2,800 square feet for the canning lab and included two complete lines of canning machinery. (HC 936) 
								 
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								School of Forestry Tree Nursery, 1925. The School of Forestry established this tree nursery soon after the Forestry Building (Moreland Hall) was built in 1917. In 1925 the nursery contained nearly 100 species. Many of the trees in the large grove south of Moreland Hall are remnants of this nursery. (HC 849) 
								 
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									Brush Mower Developed by the School of Forestry, ca. 1939 
								 
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								Brush mower developed by the School of Forestry, ca. 1939. Practical labor saving devices, such as this modified truck made into an early “brush hog,” were important research projects, especially during World War II when Oregon experienced a severe labor shortage in both industry and agriculture. (HC 849) 
								 
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									Participants in the Oregon Dairy Industries Meeting at Oregon State College Judging Ice Cream, February 1953 
								 
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									Physics Professors David Nicodemus and Richard R. Dempster Work with OSC’s Cyclotron, ca. 1954 
								 
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								Physics Professors David Nicodemus and Richard R. Dempster work with OSC’s cyclotron, ca. 1954. Nicodemus joined the Oregon State faculty in 1950 after receiving his doctorate at Stanford, where he worked on establishing its cyclotron. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and participated in the detonation of the first nuclear device at the Trinity site in 1945. Dempster came to Oregon State in 1944 after earning his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. While at Cal, Dempster worked in Ernest O. Lawrence’s Radiation Lab. Lawrence developed the first cyclotron at the University of California in 1932. (P25:2888) 
								 
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								Biochemist Wil Gamble in the lab, ca. 1965. Gamble came to OSU in 1962 and joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department. He became part of the newly created Biochemistry and Biophysics Department when it was established in 1967. Gamble’s research focused on atherosclerosis, a form of arteriosclerosis. He won College of Science and university awards for his student advising work. (P82:203) 
								 
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								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) 
								 
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								Oceanography Building, July 1965. Built in 1964, the building was the home of OSU’s rapidly growing oceanography department. It was named Burt Hall in 1987 after Wayne Burt, who was instrumental in establishing OSU’s oceanography program in the 1950s. (P57:3680b) 
								 
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								Clearing snow on campus, January 1969. OSU rarely shuts down due to snowfall. This is due in part to the work of campus crews to keep sidewalks, parking lots and roadways clear of snow and ice. This front loader was clearing snow on Monroe Avenue after a major snowstorm in late January 1969. (P3:1711) 
								 
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								Students sunbathing on the roof of Snell Hall, ca. 1962. OSU students to this day “catch some rays” on the first warm and sunny days in the spring. Snell Hall was used as a women’s residence hall from 1958 to 1973. (P57:1152) 
								 
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								New Kerr Library and the old Bandstand, 1963. This photograph depicts the “old” and “new” OSU – the bandstand, which was a class gift and built in 1910, and the new library, which opened in 1963, representing the modern research university. The bandstand was demolished soon after this photograph was taken. (P82:45 #2814) 
								 
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								Fred Burgess at the Corvallis wastewater treatment plant, ca. 1960. Burgess came to OSU in 1953 as an instructor, and served as department chair of civil engineering from 1966 to 1971 and dean of engineering from 1970 to 1989. He specialized in environmental engineering, waste treatment and water pollution control. Burgess was instrumental in securing funding for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (Owens Hall), the last building constructed at OSU entirely with state funds. He became a member of the OSU Engineering Hall of Fame in 1998. (P82:510) 
								 
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								Associate registrar Eva Blackwell prepares diplomas for commencement, 1963. Blackwell (Class of 1924), worked in Oregon State’s Registrar’s Office for more than forty years. When she retired in 1965 she had worked in that office longer than anyone else. OSU still maintains the tradition of handing out each graduate’s actual diploma at the graduation exercises. (P82:65 #2794) 
								 
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