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Title: Vera Garrison Collection, 1935-1939

ID: MSS Garrison

Primary Creator: Garrison, Vera Evelyn (1917-1971)

Extent: 0.2 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Vera Garrison Collection consists of student memorabilia assembled by Vera Garrison and John Olsen during their student years at Oregon State College in 1935-1939. The collection reflects their membership in the Delta Zeta sorority and Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity and attendance and participation in dances, concerts and performances, and athletic events.

The Vera Garrison Collection consists of student memorabilia assembled by Garrison and John Olsen during their student years at Oregon State College in 1935-1939. The collection includes correspondence and greetings cards, concert and game programs, dance cards, student handbooks, newsletters, newspaper clippings, broadsides, ticket stubs and ephemera, commencement programs, and a map with the locations of sorority and fraternity houses. The items document their student experience at Oregon State, especially involvement in a sorority and fraternity and attendance and participation in dances, concerts and performances, and athletic events on campus.

Vera Evelyn Garrison attended Oregon State College from 1935 to 1939 and earned a BS in Secretarial Science in 1939. She was a member of the Delta Zeta sorority and served as chapter president. Garrison was born in Nyssa, Oregon, on November 29, 1917 and died in Boise, Idaho, on September 10, 1971. John William Olsen also attended Oregon State from 1935 to 1939 and completed a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1939. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity and was a diving champion for the Oregon State College swim team. Olsen was born January 19, 1917, in Baker, Oregon, and died November 27, 2008, in Nyssa, Oregon. Garrison and Olsen were married soon after graduation from Oregon State and lived in Nyssa, Oregon.

More Extent Information: 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The materials were donated to the Archives in 2009 by Garrison and Olsen's children.

Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center includes many collections of student memorabilia and ephemera. Several other collections that include materials from the late 1930s are the James A. Blodgett Photographs and Ephemera (MSS Blodgett), Daniel P. and Doris Dow Murphy Papers (MSS Murphy), and the Jayne Walters Scrapbook (MSS Walters).

Preferred Citation: Vera Garrison Collection (MSS Garrison), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Garrison, Vera Evelyn (1917-1971)
Olsen, John William (1917-2008)

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Garrison, Vera Evelyn, 1917-1971
Greek letter societies--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon State College--Students.
Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History

Dance cards.
Ephemera (general object genre)