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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the
Oregon State University Extension Service Faculty and Staff Oral History
Collection 
<date encodinganalog="date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2007/2009">2007-2009</date></titleproper>
        <titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Oregon
State University Extension Service Faculty and taff Oral History
Collection</titleproper>
        <author encodinganalog="creator">Finding aid
prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen.</author>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Oregon State University Libraries,
University Archives</publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2009">2009</date>
        <address>
          <addressline>121 The Valley Library</addressline>
          <addressline>Oregon State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Corvallis,
OR 97331-4501</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone: 541-737-2165</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: archives@oregonstate.edu</addressline>
          <addressline>Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives</addressline>
        </address>
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aid encoded by Elizabeth Nielsen. 
<date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2009">2009</date></creation>
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Archives</subarea>
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          <addressline>121 The Valley
Library</addressline>
          <addressline>Oregon State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Corvallis, OR 97331-4501</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone:
541-737-2165</addressline>
          <addressline>Email:
archives@oregonstate.edu</addressline>
          <addressline>Web:
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives</addressline>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oregon State University Extension
Service Faculty and Staff Oral History Collection</unittitle>
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and 87 document files</extent>
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Gbytes</extent>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The Oregon State University Extension
Service Faculty and Staff Oral History Collection consists of digital
recordings of oral history interviews with retired and emeritus Extension
Service faculty and staff, transcripts, photographs, and related
documentation. These oral histories document the programs and activities
of the Extension Service in Oregon from the 1940s through the 1990s.
</abstract>
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    <bioghist encodinganalog="5450_">
      <head>Biographical Note:</head>
      <p>Roberta C. Frasier was appointed Family Life Specialist with the Oregon
State University Extension Service in 1959, a position she held until her
retirement in 1974. She trained Extension and 4-H educators and project
leaders on a variety of topics pertaining to families, child development,
aging, and communications within families; developed curriculum; and wrote
guides and publications. In 1972, she married Peter Rictor Anderson and
began using the name Roberta Frasier Anderson.</p>
      <p>Leonard J. Calvert was first appointed as the Information Specialist
for the Extension Service in 1961. From 1965 to 1969, he worked for the
Economic Opportunity Program at the University of Oregon. He returned to
the Extension Service in 1969 and was responsible for news releases and
for writing and overseeing the completion of several publications. Calvert
retired in 1995.</p>
      <p>W. Dean Frischknecht was hired by the Extension Service in 1956 as a
Livestock Specialist; he worked with the livestock industry of Oregon,
focusing on beef cattle improvement. Frishknecht retired in 1985.</p>
      <p>N. John Hansen began his work for the Extension Service in 1943 in Linn
County with responsiblity for the county's 4-H program. From 1949 until
1972, he was Staff Chair in Polk County. Hansen served as an area water
resource specialist in Salem for 18 months prior to his retirement at the
end of 1973.</p>
      <p>Robert W. Jacobson joined the Extension Service in 1967 as a Marine
Extension Agent, a position he held until his retirement in 1995. He
relocated to Newport, Oregon, in 1968 when the Marine Science Extension
Center opened and remained in Newport through the establishment and
expansion of marine extension services through Oregon Sea Grant.</p>
      <p>Duane Johnson began his Oregon State career as the Extension Agent for
Multnomah County and held various positions until his retirement in 2000,
including Specialist with the animal science and horticulture programs,
4-H Youth Development Specialist, Assistant Director for state 4-H
program, and State 4-H Leader.</p>
      <p>Alberta Johnston joined the Oregon Extension Service as a Home
Management Specialist in 1963; in addition to home economics, she was
active in consumer education and finances. Johnston served as the
Extension Area Supervisor for Northwestern Oregon, Assistant Director for
County Programs, Associate Director, and Deputy Director of the Extension
Service before her retirement in 1990.</p>
      <p>Harold Kerr began working for the Extension Service in Crook County as
a County Extension Agent in 1960, working primarily with the 4-H program.
After a two-year leave to attend graduate school, he worked as an agent
and staff chair in Morrow County. Kerr transferred to Wasco County in 1980
and in 1982 relocated to the Corvallis to become the Associate Director
for Extension Services. He retired in 1990; Kerr passed away on October
16, 2009.</p>
      <p>Glenn Klein joined the Extension Service in 1953 as Jackson County 4-H
Extension Agent. From 1960 to 1968, Klein was State 4-H Specialist and in
1968-1982 was Leadership Development Specialist. Klein retired from his
Extension Service appointment in 1982.</p>
      <p>Linda Modrell worked in Extension Service administration from the early
1960s through the 1980s, beginning as a secretary and becoming Business
Services Manager for the Extension Service. During the 1990s, she worked
on health policy, most notably on the team that developed Oregon's Health
Plan. Modrell was elected Benton County (Oregon) Commissioner in 1999 and
re-elected in 2002 and 2006.</p>
      <p>Owen D. Osborne began his career as an Assistant Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University in 1971;
through his research and work with the federal and state legislatures, he
helped start the Energy Extension program in Oregon. In 1977, he became
the part-time Information Coordinator for the newly established Energy
Extension Program and was full-time by 1978. Osborne left Oregon State
from 1982 to 1990, when he returned as Associate Director of Programs for
the Extension Service, a position he held until his retirement in
1998.</p>
      <p>Jack Ross joined the Oregon State Extension Service as an Extension
Seed Certification Specialist after graduating from Oregon State College
in 1951. In 1952, he became the Jefferson County Extension Agent and held
several positions with the Extension Service until his retirement in 1975,
including Farm Crops Specialist, Area Supervistor, Community Development
Specialist, and Assistant Director.</p>
      <p>Jane Foster Schroeder served as a County Extension Agent, specializing
in home economics, in Wasco, Jefferson, and Deschutes Counties in central
Oregon from 1952 until her retirement in 1980.</p>
      <p>Walter G. Schroeder began his Extension Service career in 1949 as
Agriculture Agent in Coos County. He later worked at the Lane County
Extension office in Florence until the office closed in 1962, at which
time he transferred to Corvallis and became an Extension Agent-at-Large
developing 4-H campus and training of future extension agents. Schroeder
transferred to Washington County in 1956 and to Curry County in 1967. He
became Curry County staff chair in 1977, a poisition he held until his
retirement in 1983.</p>
      <p>Gregory Tillson began his Extension Service career as an Extension
Agent-At-Large in Bend in 1970. In 1972 he transferred to Marion County to
work in community development and land use planning efforts for Marion,
Polk, and Yamhill Counties. Tillson became state coordinator of the Family
Community Leadership Project, funded bey the Kellogg Foundation, in 1981
and was appointed Extension Volunteer Management Specialist in 1987.
Tillson retired in 2004.</p>
      <p>Thomas G. Zinn joined the Extension Service in 1962 as a County
Extension Agent for Columbia County and was transferred to Gilliam County
in 1965. After a leave of absence to work as a Wheat Specialist in Ankara,
Turkey, and complete his graduate degree in ceral production, Zinn served
as an Extension Agent in Wasco County focusing on livestock and crops. He
moved to Corvallis in 1980 to become a supervisor and, later, Associate
Director. Zinn retired from the Extension Service in 1993.</p>
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    <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202_">
      <p>The Oregon State University Extension Service Faculty and Staff Oral
History Collection documents oral history interviews of retired and
emeritus Extension Service faculty and staff that were coordinated by the
Oregon State University Archives in collaboration with the Extension
Service. The collection includes digital sound recordings, transcripts of
nine interviews in electronic form, interview questions, signed releases,
biographical and background information, digital photographs, and related
documentation and correspondence. All of the interviews were conducted in
2007-2008 with the exception of the interview of Linda Modrell, which was
done in June 2009.</p>
      <p>Interviews of the following 16 individuals are included in the
collection: Roberta Frasier Anderson, Len Calvert, Dean Frischknecht, John
Hansen, Bob Jacobson, Duane Johnson, Alberta Johnston, Harold Kerr, Glenn
Klein, Linda Modrell, Owen Osborn, Jack Ross, Jane Schroeder, Walt
Schroeder, Greg Tillson, and Tom Zinn. Harold Kerr and Tom Zinn were
interviewed together.</p>
      <p>The interviews address a variety of topics pertaining to the full range
of extension programs in home economics, marine resources, energy, and
agriculture as well as 4-H youth programs and extension communications.
The interviewees describe their 4-H experiences as children and youth,
education, and professional activities leading them to extension work.</p>
      <p>The digital sound recordings will be made available to patrons upon
request. The sound recordings are in *.wma and *.mp3 formats. Each
interview consists of multiple sound files.</p>
      <p>Transcripts are available in electronic form for nine of the
interviews: Roberta Frasier Anderson, Len Calvert, Dean Frischknecht, Bob
Jacobsen, Duane Johnson, Alberta Johnston, Owen Osborn, Walt Schroeder,
and Harold Kerr and Tom Zinn. Questions for the interview with Linda
Modrell are also part of the collection.</p>
      <p>The collection includes digital photographs depicting all of the
subjects at the time the interviews were conducted.</p>
      <p>The interviews were conducted by Elizabeth Uhlig.</p>
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      <p>Collection is open for research.</p>
    </accessrestrict>
    <prefercite encodinganalog="524">
      <p>Oregon State University Extension Service Faculty and Staff Oral
History Collection (OH 14), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.</p>
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    <processinfo encodinganalog="583">
      <p>This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.</p>
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      <p>Additions to the collection are expected.</p>
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      <p>Oral histories of other Extension Service faculty are part of the 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv25531">College
of Home Economics Oral Histories (OH 11)</extref> [Esther Taskerud] and
the 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv92456">Oregon
Emergency Farm Labor Service Oral History Collection (OH 08)</extref>
[O.E. Mikesell]. The 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv31128">Extension
Service Records (RG 111)</extref> provide extensive documentation of the
extension administration and programs; images of extension programs and
staff are part of the Extension and Experiment Station Communications
Photographs (P 120), 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv82098">Extension
Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection (P 020)</extref>, Extension
Service Photographs (P 062), and other collections. Photos of some of the
interviewees are available 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/archives/">online</extref>
in the Best of the Archives digital collection. The Archives' collections
include the records of several Extension organizations and the papers of
many Extension faculty and administrators, including the 
<extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv27381">Roberta
Frasier Anderson Papers</extref>. A DVD featuring moving images and still
photographs of a 1959 wagon trek of Jackson County 4-H members that was
organized by 4-H agent, Glenn Klein, is part of the 4-H Moving Images
Collection (FV P 146).</p>
    </relatedmaterial>
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        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Frasier,
Roberta C.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Calvert,
Leonard.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Frischknecht, W. Dean.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="dacs">Hansen, N.
John (Niels John), 1918-</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Jacobson,
Robert W. (Robert Warren)</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="aacr2">Johnson,
Duane P.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Johnston,
Alberta B.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="aacr2">Kerr,
Harold (Harold Edward), 1935-</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="aacr2">Klein,
Glenn A.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Modrell,
Linda.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Osborne,
Owen D.</persname>
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Jackson Weaver, 1920-</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="dacs">Schroeder,
Jane F. (Jane Foster)</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" source="lcnaf">Schroeder,
Walt.</persname>
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Gregory D.</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="interviewee" rules="aacr2">Zinn,
Thomas G.</persname>
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Elizabeth M.</persname>
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        <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" source="lcnaf">Oregon State
College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service.</corpname>
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University. Extension Service.</corpname>
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work--Oregon.</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Agricultural extension
workers--Oregon.</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Agriculture--Oregon.</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Home economics extension
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        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Home economics extension
workers--Oregon.</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Rural
development--Oregon.</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Rural
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        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Children and Youth</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Colleges and
Universities</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Home and Family</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Women</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Oregon</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Corvallis</subject>
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