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1. Members of the OSC Mike Club performing, 1949.
Members of the OSC Mike Club performing, 1949.
2. A member of the OSC Mountain Club, 1949.
A member of the OSC Mountain Club, 1949.
3. Class of 1897: Golden Jubilee Reunion. Clarence L. Bump is located front row, second from left.
Class of 1897: Golden Jubilee Reunion. Clarence L. Bump is located front row, second from left.
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Graduating in 1897 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Clarence Lee Bump lived and worked as a farmer and teacher in Airlie, Oregon. Two members of his family, Chester Allen and Jessie (his wife?), also attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1920s.
4. Donald G. Jefferys, 1940.
Donald G. Jefferys, 1940.
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Donald Goman Jefferys was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1918, the son of Thomas and Winifred Goman Jefferys. His family moved to Albany, Oregon in 1929. Donald Goman Jefferys attended Oregon State College from fall term of 1937 through fall 1940. From 1937-1939, Jefferys studied in the School of Music, and in September 1939, he transferred to the School of Education. Jefferys married Meridee Brown in 1942. After college, he worked with his family's turkey farm until 1950 and farmed until 1953. In 1953, he began a 30-year career as a clerk with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Jefferys died in 2009.
5. KOAC assists in flood response, 1943.
KOAC assists in flood response, 1943.
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During the Willamette Valley flood emergency of January 1943, KOAC stayed on the air broadcasting information and assisting in the evacuation of flood refugees. Burton Hutton (left) and Grant B. Feikert provided hourly readings of the rising river, allowing farmers to save irreplaceable machinery and valuable livestock.
6. Josephine Hutchens, 1941.
Josephine Hutchens, 1941.
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Alice Josephine Hutchens attended Oregon State College from 1938 until 1941, when she earned a BS in Secretarial Science. Prior to her enrollment at Oregon State, Hutchens attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She was born in Forest Grove on January 21, 1917 and attended high school there. Hutchens married Andrew Johson Browning, Jr.; Alice Josephine Browning died in 2011.
7. August Rauch, 1941.
August Rauch, 1941.
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August Henry (Augy) Rauch was born in Echo, Oregon, on August 9, 1919; grew up on his family's farm; and graduated from Pine City High School, in Echo. Rauch attended Oregon Agricultural College from September 1937 through December 1941 and received a BS degree in Forestry, majoring in Wood Products, in June 1942. He completed a senior forestry paper, Pres-to-log Production, in 1941. Rauch worked at the U.S. Plywood Corporation plant in Lebanon, Oregon, in the 1960s and 1970s.
8. New transmitter building, 1941. Located on the college experimental farm at Granger (about seven miles north of campus), this new transmitter house and two new 325-foot radio towers (in rear) were required in order for KOAC to increase the station power from 1000 to 5000 watts. The Granger site provided sufficient room for a ground system of 66 miles of copper wire buried two feet deep. The KOAC transmitter is a familiar landmark on Hwy. 20 to commuters between Corvallis and Albany and is on the Benton County Register of Historic Resources.
New transmitter building, 1941. Located on the college experimental farm at Granger (about seven miles north of campus), this new transmitter house and two new 325-foot radio towers (in rear) were required in order for KOAC to increase the station power from 1000 to 5000 watts. The Granger site provided sufficient room for a ground system of 66 miles of copper wire buried two feet deep. The KOAC transmitter is a familiar landmark on Hwy. 20 to commuters between Corvallis and Albany and is on the Benton County Register of Historic Resources.
9. T. Y. and H. H. Hsiao
T. Y. and H. H. Hsiao
10. Sadie Hawkins Day
Sadie Hawkins Day