Hail to OSC is a silent film produced by the Alumni Association and the Century Club in the late 1930s or early 1940s, and including extensive color footage of Oregon State academic programs as well as student activities. Captions were created by staff in the OSU Libraries Digital Strategies Unit.
The film includes footage of registration; engineering laboratories; forestry, including McDonald Forest
and Lake Cronemiller; agriculture, including work in a food technology laboratory brining cherries
and the creamery; secretarial science; art (painting and pottery classes); home economics
(children in nursery school, clothing design, and modeling); ROTC (artillery, engineers, infantry,
marching, and inspections); commencement; alumni events (picnics at Diamond Lake and
Jantzen Beach); campus scenes; library; homecoming bonfire construction; track; baseball game
footage; a parade; Junior Weekend; rook-soph tug-of-war; convocation; canoe tilt; crew;
homecoming noise parade, homecoming bonfire; homecoming house signs for football game
against UO; beard contest; band trip to San Francisco; military ball; and Mothers Weekend.
Item FV 048:030, digitized from film reels held in the Oregon State University Historical Motion Picture Films collection, Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
