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Roy Alvick, ’24, Feb. 20, Vancouver, Wash. William M. Higby, ’24, ’26, Feb. 24, Hillsboro. Katharine Bayley Bell, ’25, May 29, Wheeler. CW Ferne Bandy Wagner, ’27, Feb. 18, Nampa, Idaho. Myrtle Klamp Drew, ’27, Jan. 31, Bellevue, Wash. DZ G. Ashton Foerst Sr., ’28, ’41, April 9, Grants Pass. Carlo Piluso, ’28, Nov. 29, 2000, Gresham. SFE Alvina Voge Hohl, ’29, Feb. 12, Rensselaer, N.Y. DZ C. Kenneth Beach, ’29, Feb. 9, Mt. Angel. SP Velva Jackson Bechdolt, ’29, Feb. 16, Vancouver, Wash. Margaret Jenkinson Hoffman, ’30, April 14, Oak View, Calif. KD Ruth McGrath Burlingham, ’31, Escalon, Calif. AGD Margaret Eckelman McKeen, ’31, ’37, Jan. 14, 2001, Sherwood. DDD Arthur J. Porter, ’32, Feb. 15, Portland. FGD Laurel Reimers Rizzi, ’33, Ripen, Calif. AGD Maxine Peterson Ott, ’34, Feb. 7, Bridgewater, N.J. Kenneth E. Weaver, ’35, March 5, Newberg. CF Walter J. Langlois, ’36, April 16, Vancouver, Wash. QC June Hanson Lofgren, ’36, ’40, Mar. 31, Portland. Scott P. Samsel, ’36, March 31, Portland. Arvella Kubin Melis, ’38, Jan. 20, Woodburn. SK Frank R. Burr, ’38, Oct. 25, 1999, Willamina. DU John A. Prideaux, ’39, June 19, Lyons. Leonard W. Rice, ’40, Feb. 6, Springfield. Marjorie Flint Walker, ’40, June, 2000, Seattle. William S. Schroeder, ’40, ’41, Sept. 11, 2001, Toledo. KS Berwick L. Wood, ’41, Jan. 3, Lake Oswego. Maribeth Gragg Chandler, ’41, March 7, Baker City. Robert L. Stockman, ’41, February, Portland. Clark Nattkemper, ’41, May 22, Santa Rosa, Calif. Betty Ross Vincent, ’42, Sacramento, Calif. Robert D. Johnson, ’42, March 8, Portland. DY Walter L. Smith, ’42, March 31, Stayton. Margaret Blauvelt Estes, ’43, April 8, Charleston Heights, S.C. Ginger Carl Peterson, ’44, April 7, Bend. AXD Lorraine Termeer Wolfe, ’44, Feb. 13, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Marie Hunt Ousterhout, ’44, March 17, Ridgeland, Miss. Richard G. McReynolds, ’44, April 4, Portland. FDQ Esther Schroeder Kechter, ’45, May 2, Salem. June Van Crane, ’45, April 9, Corning, Calif. DDD Lloyd Fretwell, ’45, Nov. 6, 1999, Rockford, Tenn. George E. Weniger, ’47, Jan. 29, Bend. Jerold E. Herburger, ’47, Jan. 21, Rockaway Beach. AGR L. Mryl Hines, ’47, Feb. 6, Keizer. WilliamL. Burgess, ’47, Feb. 17, San Diego, Calif. Howard Marvin Adams, ’48, April 12, Portland. AGR Mary Jean Wetherbee, ’48, Feb. 28, Los Angeles, Calif. Richard E. Anderson, ’48, April 17, Portland. FDQ Wanda Hartzog Whitcomb, ’48, April 13, Milwaukie. William C. Johnson, ’48, Feb. 22, Klamath Falls. William N. Young Jr., ’48, June 15, Salem. LCA Donald E. Martin Sr., ’49, May 4, Tualatin. Donald O. Stapleton, ’49, Dec. 31, 2001, Roseburg. Edmund J. Watson, ’49, Feb. 8, Escondido, Calif. Harry L. Hawkins, ’49, March 4, Toledo. Joanne McKinney Swanson, ’49, March 19, Bothell, Wash. AXD Thomas B. Jackson, ’49, March 13, Albany. FGD Charles E. DeMonnin, ’50, Feb. 14, Portland. Donald E. Copper, ’50, Feb. 4, Hood River. William F. Kostur, ’50, June 16, Beaverton. Edward F. Coles, ’50, Feb. 27, Portland. Harold H. Muchow, ’50, March 19, Portland. Jeanette Holroyd Baldwin, ’50, April 12, Hot Springs Village, Ariz. SK Glenn D. Lindley, ’50, April 19, Bellevue, Wash. BQP Wesley B. Miller, ’50, Dec. 9, 2000, Vancouver, Wash. Gerhard Hubbe, ’51, Eugene. FKT S. Wendell Waldon, ’51, March 6, Corvallis. Earl W. Lyda, ’52, Feb. 7, Corvallis. Norma Miller Andrews, ’52, March 27, Calistoga, Calif. AXD Phyllis Fleischman Dentel, ’52, March 30, Oakridge. Andrew N. Urbanc, ’52, May 20, Fallbrook, Calif. Clifford W. Wirfs, ’53, ’66, Feb. 13, Corvallis. Verlin K. Hermann, ’53, Feb. 21, Broadbent. LCA Marion Wrigglesworth White, ’56, April 3, Mill City. Albert Moore, ’57, March 23, Eugene. F. Dean Maddox, ’57, April 6, Veneta. His wife, Kay Season Maddox, ’57, died June 21. Dennis J. McCarty, ’57, Jan. 29, Boring. Donald W. Franzwa, ’58, March 26, Eugene. George A. Dubinski, ’58, April 5, Portland. Gerald R. Jennings, ’58, April 11, Wilsonville. DU Walter R. Dickson, ’58, Feb. 26, Spokane, Wash. Larry C. Oglesby, ’58, Claremont, Calif. LCA James V. Lacy Jr., ’59, June 16, Portland. Lyle E. Schlavin, ’59, ’67, June 12, Portland. KS Sunny Thompson Beach, ’59,June 26, Junction City. Richard W. Mickelson, ’59, Jan. 27, Tigard. Lola S. Bowen, ’59, June 28, Philomath. Evelyn Parker Perkins, ’60, Feb. 8, Eugene. Dale P. Hern, ’60, June 26, Portland. DSF John Lloyd Neal, ’60, ’63, ’68, Jan. 30, Blacksburg, Va. Barbara Plass Kokich, ’61, Feb. 26, Hillsboro. DZ Philip E. Shultz, ’61, Feb. 3, Troutdale. DTD G. Edmund Robinson Jr., ’62, April 9, Portland. SN Phillip Schiller, ’62, Dec. 8, 2000, Lincoln City. Russell D. Hendricks, ’62, Feb. 18, Pleasant Hill. ATW Katherine Jill Matthies, ’63, Feb. 8, Beaverton. GFB Marvin ‘Wayne’ Lowell, ’63, June 16, Albany. Patricia Angove Del Gianni, ’63, Feb. 26, Olympia, Wash. ZTA R. Kent Cooper, ’64, May 6, Portland. Keith H. Wrolstad, ’65, ’79, March 12, Missouri City, Texas. CF Suzan Bennett Staton, ’66, Jan. 14, Tustin, Calif. DDD Donald A. Arnt, ’67, ’70, April 25, Sweet Home. Donald J. DeMars, ’67, March 22, Juneau, Alaska. Vera Maurine Barry, ’67, Jan. 23, Albany. William L. Forster, ’67, Feb. 9, Enterprise. Dennis L. Pournelle, ’68, Nov. 11, 2000, Salem. Steven Fletcher, ’68, Jan. 31, Baker City. Janie Davis Gassoway Barton, ’69, April 21, La Grande. John C. Shea, ’70, Sept. 21, 1999, Lufkin, Texas. Jerry G. Lemert, ’70, June 20, Salem. Douglas E. Marcy, ’74, April 20, Portland. Larry G. Rice, ’74, March 16, Springfield. Marylynn Marple Waite, ’74, Feb. 6, Smithdale, Miss. Barbara Byam Zerr, ’75, April 8, Salem. C. "Kelly" Carpenter, ’76, Feb. 24, Spokane, Wash. Ronald J. Taylor, ’78, June 14, Newberg. Victoria Lane Iverson, ’80, April 14, Woodburn. Walter A. DePuy Jr., ’80, March 25, Springfield. Kirk H. Bishop, ’83, March 14, Tucson, Ariz. John E. Shibley, ’85, Feb. 6, Juneau, Alaska. Karen Fawbush, ’89, Feb. 15, St. George, Utah. Laura Ingram-Vuksich, ’00, Feb. 16, Canby. Kevin K. Shannon, ’00, June 10, Eugene.FACULTY AND FRIENDS Ethel Burton Allyn, Feb. 23, Tigard. PBF Donald W. Anderson, March 4, Philomath. He worked for the OSU department of housing. Ben B. Atwood, March 18, Junction City. Catherine Miller Banks, Feb. 18, Barrington, Ill. CW Dorothy Cook Barclay, June 11, Alsea. She worked for OSU Food Services. Mildred Weeks Beardsley, April 2, Salem. ADP Hazel ‘Chappie’ Chapman Beery, March 22, Corvallis. She worked for the OSU health services department. A.‘Gene’ Bench, June 22, Corvallis. He was a Marine Officer instructor at OSU in 1963 and was awarded 21 medals for military service. Maurice W. Buxton, April 13, Silverton. ATW Mona Sehl Conn, April 21, San Jose, Calif. KAQ Allen N. Davis, March 4, Portland. Robert C. Denney, May 9, Gresham. Ivan A. Dent, March 30, Willamina. Robert N. De Prez, Feb. 19, Portland. DU Nadine Pepin Duff, March 21, Milwaukie. Charles R. Ebelmesser, Feb. 13 Portland. Violet Kuhn Ford, Feb. 15, 1999, Portland. Yvonne Marcelin Fossum, March 26, Corvallis. She worked in the OSU chemistry department. Elbert A. Gardner, Feb. 22, Albany. LCA Kenneth C. Graham, April 29, Salem. Charles G. Gavin, Aug. 28, 2000, Joseph. Chuck D. Hansen, Feb. 21, Baker City. John S. Hanson, Jan. 21, Redmond. SN Richard A. Homchick, Feb. 14, Encinitas, Calif. SC Amy Dunlap Horn-Gilmore, May 14, McMinnville. James R. Huber, April 25, Provo, Utah. He was an OSU Extension Agent in Union County. Lester L. Hukari, Jan. 28, Hood River. John G. Jensen, March 6, Corvallis. He was founder of the OSU department of natural resources, now the department of geography. Jerry Justice, March 13, Wilsonville. PKA Viona Haugen Lacy, Feb. 7, Hillsboro. Donald S. Laird, March 1, Kennewick, Wash. QC Ruth Erkel LeMaster, April 18, Corvallis. Robert ‘Bob’ Loney, May 24, Walla Walla, Wash. SN Opal Benedict Macon, March 29, Aberdeen, Wash. Melissa Loeding Martinson, May 6, Houston, Texas. June Stone Meeker, March 23, Portland. DDD William H. McCaskey, July 17, 2000, Longview, Wash. Edith McDougall, ’30, March 13, Corvallis. She worked in the electrical engineering department. Henry ‘Bill’ Miller, June 14, Walla Walla, Wash. ATW Shirley Erlandson Ferrell Molatore, June 16, Klamath Falls. AGD Jeanne Toy Morris, June 21, Lake Oswego. KS Lois Bernard Nagel, Jan. 15, Portland. Elsie Anderson Nygren, May 12, Millerstown, Pa. Franklyn G. Oberst, Feb. 7, Seattle, Wash. Margaret Meier Ragland, April 10, Corvallis. Barbara Olson Rohde, April 6, Corvallis. Barbara Leighton Rutledge, May 3, Portland. Merton ‘Jim’ Sahnow, Feb. 6, Forest Grove. AGR Margherita Scarpelli, May 7, Portland. Phillip ‘Mick’ Schiller, Dec. 8, 2000, Salem. Daniel A. Schack, March 14, Silverton. Richard W. Shafer, April 27, Albany. He was an OSU professor of naval science and golf coach. Ralph K. Skoubo, April 11, Vancouver, Wash. Thelma Conner Smith, March 15, Salem. She worked at OSU from 1958 through 1974. Norman C. Stephens, Feb. 17, Penn Valley, Calif. DC Tony M. Suty, April 28, 1999, Merrill. QC Bessie Skaale Taylor, ’32, March 16, King City. She was secretary to the home economics dean for 12 years. Shirley Tucker Thompson, March 23, Sandy. Donald C. Toye, Feb. 28, Roseburg. FDQ Robert R. Urban, Feb. 11, Corvallis. Vivian Davis Vehring, April 9, Fountain Hills, Ariz. Thurley Ernest Voll, April 6, Oceanside, Calif. SK Ramona Feike Ware, May 24, Tigard. ACW Lloyd M. Wickett, April 9, Jefferson. He was an All-American football player on the 1942 Rose Bowl team. FSK Orris W. Willard, Jan. 15, San Francisco, Calif. CF Doris McCallister Coiner Williams, ’36, ’42, Oct. 28, 2000, Hayward, Wis. She was an employee and supervisor at OSU Food Services for 25 years, and was affiliated with the Music Department. DDD Peyton R. Winn, May 31, Walla Walla, Wash. LCA Clifford E. Yarnell, Cheshire. QX Harry Zollman, Mission Viejo, Calif.
Peter Copek, June 13, Corvallis. He was a professor of
English and director of the Center for the Humanities at OSU since its
inception in 1984. He helped to raise more than $2 million in funding
and endowments to keep the center secure and support the 10 residential
research fellowships awarded yearly. Legendary coach Ralph Miller dies Ralph Miller, who coached Oregon State to four Pac-10 basketball championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances, died May 15, at age 82, at his home at Black Butte Ranch. Miller retired in 1989 with 674 victories, the sixth-most victories for a division 1 coach. His teams had only three losing seasons in 38 years. "Oregon State University has lost a true giant," athletic director Mitch Barnhart said. The 1988 Hall of Fame coach compiled a record of 359-186 in 19 seasons at Oregon State, beginning in 1971. He coached at Wichita State for 13 seasons (1951-1964) and for six seasons at Iowa (1964-70.) Miller led the 1981 team to the nation’s No.1 ranking for nine weeks, and five of his teams were ranked in the top 10. In addition to conference titles and NCAA appearances, his teams made three trips to the NIT and won seven Far West Classic titles. Miller was also two-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year. Miller is survived by his wife, Jean; a son, Paul Miller of Black Butte Ranch; daughters, Susan Langer of Vancouver, Wash., and Shannon Jakosky of Balboa, Calif.; two sisters; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. For more tributes to Ralph Miller-, see Lagniappe and page 50 of this issue, as well as the December 2000 issue of the Oregon Stater, which contains a feature article. Also the Beaver Eclips archives (http://alumni.orst.edu/eclips/archive/may18_2001.html) has links to tributes published by other news organizations. Alumni Association saddened with passing of Jean Eggers ’52 By George Edmonston Jr. The OSU Alumni Association lost a dear friend when Elizabeth Jean Pickens Eggers, who graduated from Oregon State in 1952 with a degree in business education, died June 2 at her home in Corvallis after a short battle with cancer. Many alumni remember Jean as the wife of longtime OSU Sports Information Director John Eggers of the class of 1950. John, who died in July 1992, is generally credited with engineering the public relations campaign that netted OSU quarterback Terry Baker the Heisman Trophy. But here at the Association, we also know that as busy as her life with John and (eventually) three sons must have been, she had another interest that consumed almost half of her 70 years. For almost 30 years, or from about 1965 to 1993, it was Jean who kept the OSU alumni family connected. As editor of "News from Classmates and Friends" under four Oregon Stater editors, it was Jean who routinely faced the mountain of newspaper clippings, phone messages, letters, post cards and the like — each one a birth announcement or news of a promotion or transfer or marriage or, as was often the case, sad news of the passing of another Oregon Stater — and it was Jean who somehow knew how to cram all that information into her manual typewriter and have it make sense when it spilled out the other end. Jean started her long "News from Classmates" career, she said in a December 1989 story in the Oregon Stater, by helping friend Joan Wenstrom gather newspaper articles about OSU alumni for reporting in the Stater. Joan’s husband, Chuck, was editor of the publication at the time and appreciated Jean’s help, since Joan, according to what Jean remembered, was "getting a bit tired of the job." Jean liked the job and liked the working conditions. For each issue of the Stater, she would pack everything up and head home to her typewriter, where she could also be with her boys as they were growing up. In no time, Chuck approached Jean to ask her if she wanted the job on a permanent basis. She accepted. For three decades, Jean was near perfect in the accuracy of her reporting. Computed to a baseball batting average, her performance would have been around a .987. Rare was the mistake that came off Jean’s typewriter, so rare in fact that she could remember almost every mistake she had ever made, especially the real bloopers. During her tenure with the Stater, Jean watched her section double in size. She was also an important contributor to the publication during a period in the 1990s when the Stater won six regional and nine national awards. Her last issue of the Stater was in December 1993. When her husband John suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and was forced to live in a hospital in Roseburg, Jean had become active in regional and national support groups for families suffering with the disease. She became even more involved after his passing, serving for a time as regional representative for the Alzheimer’s Association. It is a tribute to Jean’s long tenure with the Stater that when someone new is hired to write the popular "Class News" section of the publication, the instruction "make the transition seamless, make sure no one knows Jean Eggers is not still writing it," is the first thing the new staffer hears. Thank you, Jean, for all you did for your alma mater and your alumni publication. You will be greatly missed by all those who knew you and who know of your contributions to the OSU alumni family. "Coach" Hal Moe (1910-2001) With the passing of Hal Moe, ’32, May 26, 2001, in Corvallis at age 91, a coaching era passed into school history. The likable Oregon Stater was the last surviving member of the coaching staff that had guided Oregon State College to a 20-16 upset of undefeated Duke in the 1942 Rose Bowl. Moe’s career in athletics at his alma mater spanned over three decades. From his hometown of Great Falls, Mont., he entered Oregon State Agricultural College (OSAC) in 1929 to play football for Paul Schissler. His playing abilities attracted scouts from professional football during his senior year, and after graduation he was drafted by the Boston Redskins. But he was destined to play for another team. Schissler, who by this point had become the coach of the Chicago Cardinals, traded a player to Boston to get his old college running back to play for him. After a year (around 1934), Moe returned to Corvallis to join new head coach Lon Stiner’s football staff, where he stayed for eight years. Right after the Beavers returned from the Rose Bowl, Moe entered the military and served in the Pacific theater during the war. In 1946, Moe returned to Oregon and in 1948 became head football coach at the University of Portland, returning to OSC two years later when UP dropped the sport. He was an assistant football coach on Kip Taylor’s staff from 1949 to 1952, was OSC track coach from 1952 to 1958, and taught golf, bowling and other physical education courses for more than 20 years. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the OSU Athletic Hall of Famed Fighter ace dies Rex T. Barber, the World War II fighter ace who claimed sole credit for shooting down the mastermind of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died July 26 at his home in Terrebonne. He attended Oregon State College in the 1940s. A detailed article about Barber will be included in the December issue of the Stater. Barber was featured as one of OSU’s distinguished alumni in the April 1999 Stater.
Alumni Association events on Web Want information on an upcoming class reunion? Interested in participating in Homecoming events, tailgaters or alumni travel trips? Scheduled Alumni Association activities and information about how to sign up for them are included on the Web at http://osu.orst.edu/dept/alumni/events.html.
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