Theme: Secretarial Science
June McCallister Oral History Interview
Life history interview conducted by Mike Dicianna and Chris Petersen.
July 3, 2014
June (Geil) McCallister (1919-2016) was the matriarch of a five-generation Oregon
State family. A 1940 OSC graduate in Secretarial Science, McCallister married into
a lineage that traced back to William A. Finley, the first president of Corvallis
College, as well as Hugh M. Finley, co-founder and first president of the school's
Alumni Association. She was also mother to three children, all of whom graduated
from OSU, as well as nine grandchildren, many of them Beaver alumni. Her interview
focuses on her memories of undergraduate life at Oregon State College in the 1930s
as well as her family's extraordinary connection to the university, which dates back
to the 1860s.