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Female students on commencement day. The woman pictured third from right is Ruth Nomura
Ruth Nomura, born in Portland in 1907, was one of the first Japanese Americans to be born in Oregon. She was also the first Nisei woman from Portland to attend Oregon State Agricultural College. Enrolling in 1926, Nomura graduated in 1930 with a B.S.…
OAC Cosmopolitan Club
Established in 1911, this club was the first campus organization for international students and among the first to promote diversity. Seated in the front row at center in OAC Librarian Ida Kidder. To her left is Professor of Bacteriology Theodore D.…
Margaret Carter
A native of Louisiana, Margaret Carter moved with her five children to Oregon in 1967. In 1974 she completed her masters of education in educational psychology at OSU, and became a counselor at Portland Community College, a career that lasted…
Women on a plank bridge
Mounted lantern slide of unidentified women crossing a stream on a plank bridge. Herman T. Bohlman (?) is standing at the back of the line.
Lucy M. Lewis
Lucy M. Lewis was the University Librarian from 1920-1945. During her 25 years, Lewis established the Friends of the Library and helped Oregon State College become the second land grant institution in the nation. The library's classification system…
Memorial Union viewed from Women's Building
The Women's Building was completed in 1926 and was designed by architect John V. Bennes of Portland. Bennes designed more than 20 OSU campus buildings, which were constructed during the 1910s to 1930s. t is made of brick manufactured in Monroe,…
Dr. Te May Ching in the seed lab
Te May Tsou Ching was a professor of seed physiology in the OSU Crop Science Department from 1956 until her retirement in 1988. She earned her BS from Central University in China in 1944 and her MS and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1950 and…