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Alumni Magazine, 1912-2014

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Oregon State University. Alumni Association.
Title
Alumni Magazine
Dates
1912-2014 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.50 cubic feet, (8 boxes, including 5 oversize boxes)
Collection Number
PUB 003-11a
Summary
The Alumni Magazine is published by the Alumni Association for distribution to alumni and friends of Oregon State University.  The magazine provides information  on campus activities, research and teaching, athletics, and news of the lives and activities of alumni.  Regular publication began with the first issue of the OAC Alumnus in 1915.  All issues of the Alumni Magazine are available online in Oregon Digital.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

The Alumni Association was founded in February 1873 and the first permananent officers were chosen in June of that year: Hugh M. Finley, President; George F. Burkhart, Vice President; W.F. Herrin, Secretary; and Oscar L. Ison, Treasurer. A list of "Alumni et Alumnae" and current addresses was included in each edition of the college catalogue. In 1914 a formal constitution was adopted that provided for a five-member board. E.B. Lemon became the first regular alumni secretary in 1915 and started the alumni magazine, the OAC Alumnus. In 1929, the alumni magazine became the Oregon State Monthly; it was renamed the Oregon Stater in 1940 and has retained that title since.

In 1929, the alumni office was moved from the Commerce Building to the newly completed Memorial Union. The CH2M Hill Alumni Center was completed on campus in 1997; it was built as a conference and meeting center and as the home of OSU Alumni Association events and administrative offices.

The magazine is currrently published three times per year in spring, fall, and winter.

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Content Description

The Alumni Magazine is published by the Alumni Association for distribution to alumni and friends of Oregon State University.  It contains information on campus activities, research and teaching, athletics, and news of the lives and activities of alumni.  The magazine has been published under several titles:  OAC Alumnus (1915-1929); Oregon State Monthly (1929-1937); and the Oregon Stater (beginning in 1940).

The collection also includes the Alumni Annual, a 4-page news-sheet issued in the summer or fall of 1912.  This one-time publication preceded the initial issue of the OAC Alumnus by 3 years.

The alumni magazine has been published at least several times per year since its inception and for a period was issued monthly during the academic year (10 issues per year).  From 1972 through the September 1999 issue, the Oregon Stater was published 4-6 times per year as a tabloid-type publication.  Beginning with the December 1999 issue, the Stater has been published 3-4 times per year as a 4-color magazine.

From the fall of 1937 through the summer of 1940, alumni news was published as a weekly news supplement to the Barometer campus newspaper.  These 1937-1940 issues are available as part of the Barometer.  Photocopies of all issues and a bound volume of issues from October 1939 through May 1940 are part of this collection.

An annual report of giving to the OSU Foundation was published regularly as part of the Oregon Stater in the 1960s-1970s.

This archival collection ends with the 2014 issues of the magazine.  Later issues are available in the History of Oregon State University (HistOSU) Collection and online in the Alumni Magazine digital collection in Oregon Digital.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Alumni Magazine (PUB 03-11a), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The Alumni Magazine is arranged in 4 series: 1.  OAC Alumnus, 1912-1927; 2. Oregon State Monthly, 1930-1936; 3. Weekly Alumni News Section in the Barometer, 1937-1940; and 4. Oregon Stater, 1941-2014.

Acquisition Information

The alumni magazine was received on distribution by the University Archives and the Special Collections and Archives Research Center beginning in the 1960s.

Related Materials

Editorial records of the alumni magazine are part of the Alumni Relations Records (RG 035) and photographs (both published and unpublished) taken or assembled by the magazine staff are in the Oregon Stater Photograph Collection (P 195) and the Alumni Relations Photographs (P 017). Collections of the professional papers of two former editors -- Chuck Boice (1969-1986) and George Edmonston, Jr. (1986-2005) and are also held by the Special Collections and Archives Research Center.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Class reunions--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • College environment--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • College sports--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Fund raising--Oregon.
  • Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Universities and colleges--Public relations--Oregon--Corvallis.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon Agricultural College--Alumni and alumnae.
  • Oregon Agricultural College--Faculty.
  • Oregon State College--Alumni and Alumnae.
  • Oregon State College--Faculty.
  • Oregon State University--Alumni and alumnae.
  • Oregon State University--Faculty.
  • Oregon State University--History.
  • Oregon State University. Alumni Association.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Boice, Charles Allan. (creator)
    • Edmonston, George P. (creator)

Finding Aid Authors: Elizabeth Nielsen.
2017

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