Jean W. Scheel Photographs, 1945-1983

Title: Jean W. Scheel Photographs, 1945-1983

Predominant Dates: 1960-1975

ID: P 279

Primary Creator: Scheel, Jean W.

Extent: 0.35 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Jean W. Scheel Photographs consist of images, primarily color slides, taken by Scheel documenting his Extension Service career and Rotary Club activities; his wife, Ada Scheel's participation in local and national garden clubs; and Oregon landscapes. Scheel worked for the Oregon State University Extension Service from 1946 until his retirement in 1971.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

The Jean W. Scheel Photographs consist of images taken and assembled by Scheel documenting his Extension Service career and Rotary Club activities; his wife, Ada Scheel's participation in local and national garden clubs; and Oregon landscapes.

The collection includes portrait photographs; an image depicting Scheel's World War II service in the Army Signal Corps; group photographs of Extension Service workers; and images of a meeting of the Northwest Association of Extension Agents meeting in Missoula, Montana. Photos of Rotary Club meetings and conferences as well as regional and national garden club conventions, including the Oregon Federation of Garden Clubs, the National Council of State Garden Clubs, and the western regional meeting in Alaska in 1967 are part of the collection. Images of the Scheels' garden and residence; trees, flowers, flowering shrubs, and gardens; and a flower arrangement symposium are included. Oregon landscape photographs include the Oregon Coast (Ecola and Shore Acres); central Oregon; snow in the Willamette Valley and central Oregon; and elk hunting trips with the Silvies Hunting Club. The collection also includes several images of the Corvallis Arts Center in Central Park taken in 1972.

The photographs consist primarily of color slides (730); the collection also includes 39 prints and 1 negative. Newspaper clippings, certificates, invitations, and other ephemeral items pertaining the Scheels' involvement in the Rotary Club are also included.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Jean W. Scheel joined the Oregon State College Extension Service in 1946 as an information specialist. Within a year, he was re-assigned as Assistant to the Director, a position he held until his retirement in 1971. Prior to his appointment at Oregon State, he was an Extension Editor at Kansas State University from 1934 until 1942 and served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1942 until 1946.

Scheel was an active member of the Rotary International. He joined the Corvallis Rotary Club in 1950, served as President of the club in 1966-1967, and was the District Governor for southern Oregon and northern California in 1974-1975. Scheel was a member of the Silvies Hunting Club and continued hunting into his early 90s.

Jean Willard Scheel was born in Emporia, Kansas, on July 1, 1911 and died in Albany, Oregon, at the age of 96, on February 19, 2008.

More Extent Information: 730 photographs; 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The photographs were donated to the Archives in 2009 by a friend and fellow Rotarian of Scheel.

Related Materials: Scheel's career with the Oregon State Extension Service is documented in the Extension Service Records (RG 111). The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include several other collections of color slides taken during this time period, including those of Robert W. Henderson Photograph Collection (P 098) and the Wilson H. Foote Photographs (P 268).

Preferred Citation: Jean W. Scheel Photographs (P 279), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Processing Information: This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.

Scheel, Jean W.

Agricultural extension workers--Oregon.
Clubs--Oregon--Corvallis.
Corvallis (Or.)
Elk--Oregon.
Flower gardening--Oregon--Corvallis.
Gardening--Societies, etc.
Local History
Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service
Oregon State University. Extension Service
Pacific Coast (Or.)
Rotary International
Scheel, Jean W.
University History

Film negatives.
Photographic prints.
Slides (photographs).