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MSS
CampusClub
McDole, Robert E.
Campus Club Alumni
Collection
1962-2009
1987-2009
0.35 cubic foot, including 45
photographs
1 box
The Campus Club Alumni Collection
consists of materials documenting the activities of Oregon State alumni
who resided in the Campus Club men's cooperative during their student
years as well as reunions of those former residents. The Campus Club was
established in 1940 and served as a cooperative residence for men until
1966, when the remaining residents moved into the new Avery Lodge
cooperative house.
Materials in English.
Historical Note:
The Campus Club was established as a men's cooperative residence at
Oregon State College in 1940; the cooperative was active through spring of
1966. In fall of 1966, the remaining 20 members of the Campus Club moved
into the newly constructed Avery Lodge cooperative. Reunions of former
residents of the Campus Club began in 1987.
Campus Club was on the only men's cooperative that remained open during
World War II. The Kupono Cooperative House was established about the same
time as Campus Club, but closed in the spring of 1943. Several former
Kupono residents joined the Campus Club when they returned to Oregon State
after the war.
Robert E. McDole lived in the Campus Club during his student years at
Oregon State and graduated with a BS in soils in 1952. He has been
instrumental in organizing reunions of former residents and served as
editor of the
Campus Club Alumni Newsletter.
The Campus Club Alumni Collection consists of materials created and
assembled by alumnus Robert E. McDole that document the activities of
Oregon State alumni who resided in the Campus Club men's cooperative
during their student years as well as reunions of former residents. The
collection includes lists of former residents ("alumni") of the Campus
Club, newsletters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, essays,
photographs, and publications. The materials include biographical
information and updated details of former residents' activities since
graduating from Oregon State.
The correspondence includes recollections and reminiscences written by
the alumni of their student years at Oregon State College. The collection
includes a chapter on the Campus Club written in 2003 by Donald L.
Stettler as part of his life story,
From the Mud of the Great Depression.
Stettler lived at Campus Club in the mid-1950s. Notes about the
connections between the Campus Club and the Kupono Cooperative House are
also included.
Two books written by Campus Club alumni are part of the collection:
A Manger in My Rabbit: Memoirs of an Oregon
Veterinarian by Robert Whittaker and SuperParenting: Child Rearing for the New
Millennium by William Maxwell and others.
The collection includes 4 photographic prints of alumni and reunion
events as a well as a photograph album of 41 digital prints of group
photographs of Campus Club and Avery Lodge members in 1962-1966. These
were primarily taken at house dances and other social events. The album
also includes copies of newspaper articles featuring Club residents and an
itinerary for the 1966 Campus Club beach trip. Most of the individuals in
the digital prints are not identified, with the exception of Ivan Harold
Zimmerman and Mrs. Thornton (perhaps the Club's housemother).
Collection is open for research.
Campus Club Alumni Collection, Oregon State University Archives,
Corvallis, Oregon.
The materials were donated to the Archives by Robert E. McDole in
2010.
The
University
Housing and Dining Services Records (RG 145) document residence
halls and dormitories as well as student life and activities at Oregon
State. The
Kupono
Cooperative House Scrapbook documents the membership and
activities of another housing cooperative for men students at Oregon State
College that was active from 1939 to 1943. Other collections that document
men's housing clubs at Oregon State are the
Associated
Men's Halls Scrapbook (for 1934-1940), the
Cauthorn
Club Records (for 1893-1940), and the
Poling
Hall Club Records (for 1926-1971). The Robert E. McDole Papers
document McDole's student experience at Oregon State College and career as
an Extension soils specialist in Idaho.
Oregon State
College--Students.
Oregon State
College--Student housing.
Oregon State
University--Alumni and alumnae.
Oregon State
University--Students.
Oregon State
University--Student housing.
Campus Club
(Oregon State College)
Campus Club
(Oregon State University)
Clubs--Oregon--Corvallis.
College
students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Housing,
Cooperative--Oregon--Corvallis.
Men--Oregon--Corvallis--Societies and clubs.
Student
activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
Student
housing--Oregon--Corvallis.
Digital
prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographic
prints.
Colleges and
Universities
Student Life
Oregon
Corvallis
Photographs