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In this interview, Laura Cleaveland discusses her career in home economics and her involvement with Oregon State University. She talks about attending Iowa State College and receiving her bachelor’s degree in home economics education in 1930,…

In this interview, Taskerud recalls her experiences as a young adult attending college during the Great Depression and working in various home economics jobs during World War II and in the following years. She opens with an anecdote about how she…

In this interview, Tower discusses her family life, her experiences at Oregon State University during the 1960s, and her accomplishments over the years as an employee of the university. She begins by describing how her parents met in the Salem,…

Betty Hawthorne begins this interview by speaking about her early childhood, which was spent in Seattle, Washington and Kobe, Japan until she was about seven years old. Hawthorne later attended the University of Washington, earning a degree in…

In this interview, Clara Storvick discusses her professional life doing research at Oregon State University. She is accompanied by her colleague, Dr. Margaret Fincke, who also participates in the interview.

Storvick begins by briefly discussing…

In this interview, James K. Weatherford, Jr. and his daughter, Charlotte Weatherford Allen, discuss their extensive family connections to Oregon State University. Weatherford's grandfather and namesake moved to Oregon in 1864 where he settled and…

In this interview, Shirley Tacheron discusses many aspects of student life on the Oregon State College campus that she knew while an undergraduate. Tacheron begins by noting that her attendance at OSC was basically predetermined because it was…

In this interview, Margaret Milliken recount her early years, noting that her father was a grocer and that her maternal grandfather established the first grocery store in Oregon City during the early period of white settlement along the Willamette…

In this interview, Helen Hansen first discusses her life in Nora, Nebraska, a town so small that she and her three siblings made up half of her primary school. When her family had to sell their land due to several droughts in the area, they moved to…

In this interview, Carol Menken-Schaudt discusses her atypical journey from being a nonathletic teenager to becoming a basketball Olympian by her twenties. She stresses that she did not play basketball as a child and that her parents never really…