MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
40,000 Degrees Are
Conferred by OSU
During 93 Years
THURSDAY. AUGUST t, 1SS3
Corvallis - The number of
degrees conferred by Oregon
State university has passed
the 40.000 mark and a de
gree report prepared by
Assistant Registrar Eva
Blackwell points up the
growth of higher education
in recent years.
Two-thirds of the 40,268
degrees conferred by OSU
since 1870 have come in the
past 25 years, Miss Black
well notes.
And two-thirds of all mas
ter's and doctor's degrees
awarded during the 93 years
have been conferred in the
last 10 years.
Two-thirds plus of all de
grees over the years have
gone to men, she pointed out,
but women graduates are
now gaining ground each
year.
A breakdown of the 40,
268 degree total shows 34,
695 bachelor's degres, 4,744
master's degrees, 617 doctor
of philosophy degrees, 89
doctor of education degrees,
64 professional engineering
degrees, and 59 honorary de
grees. Degrees Conferred
The degrees have been con
ferred on 28,352 men and
11,018 women, the report
shows. A total of 898 students
have received two degrees
from OSU.
Despite record enrollments
each year now, the record
for the largest graduating
class still belongs to the vet
eran packed class of 1950.
That year, 1,968 degrees
were conferred.
Last year, 1,835 degrees
were conferred and the 1950
record will probably be
passed next June, university
officials expect.
OSU, which is Oregon's
oldest state-supported institu
tion of higher learning, con
ferred its first three degrees
in 1870. It was not until 1888
that the graduating class num
bered more than 10 and the
number of degrees conferred
from 1870 to 1900 totaled
only 349.
The first master's degrees
were given in 1906, one to
a graduate of Allahabad uni
versity, India, who had come
to OSU for advanced study.
The Arctic tern is the cham
pion long distance bird, cov
ering an annual 20,000 miles
from its breeding grounds in
the north to its wintering
quarters in the southern seas.
Math Teachers to
Meet in Eugene
Eugene - The 23rd summer
meeting of the National Coun
cil of Teachers of Mathemat
ics will be held at the Univer
sity of Oregon Aug. 22, 23
and 24.
Dr. George Polya of Stan
ford university will present
the opening address, "Choos
ing Instructive Problems."
The Friday general session ad
dress will be presented by
Andrew M. Gleason of Har
vard university on "Informa
tion Theory." On Saturday,
Raymond H. Wilson of the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration will speak on
"The Importance of Mathe
matics in the Space Age."
Approximately 50 section
meetings are planned. There
will be meetings of general
interest to elementary, junior
high, senior high, and college
teachers, administrators and
supervisors.
Basic Research by Scientists May Help Control Forest Beetle
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Corvallis-Basic research be
ing done by Oregon State uni
versity forest entomologists
may open the door to practi
cal control of the Douglas-fir
beetle, the insect which peri
o d i c a 1 1 y ravages Pacific
Northwest forests.
The work being done at
OSU has taken on new impor
tance this year in the face of
an expected bark beetle "pop
ulation explosion" next spring
due to the large amount of
timber toppled by the Colum
bus Day windstorm. Downed
timber less than a year old is
the favorite breeding place of
the beetles.
Although scientists will be
helpless to stop next year's
expected outbreak, they are
hopeful that some control
method can be found before
Israel Repertory
Group To Visit U.S.
New York - IUPII - Israel's
national Habimah theater, the
country's oldest repertory
group, will play 18 weeks in
the United States beginning
in February, 1964. At least
half of the period will be in
New York city, with key cit
ies being visited on a subse
quent tour.
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the stage is set for another
epidemic. The last outbreak
following severe winds in
1930 and 1951 destroyed some
three billion feet of standing
timber before the population
returned to "normal" in 1956.
Now in Eighth Year
Dr. J. A. Rudinsky, forest
entomologist in the OSU Agri
cultural Experiment Station,
is now in the eighth year of
concentrated study on the
biology and behavior of bark
beetles. Work is supported by
two grants from the National
Science Foundation.
Utilizing both laboratory
and field studies, Rudinsky is
concentrating this year on
flight patterns of the beetles
as well as the attractant
which brings them together in
a localized area.
Rudinsky and research as
sistants, Orlo Jantz and Gary
Daterman, are studying beetle
behavior in the field in a
forest plot high on the eastern
slope of Marys Peak. Using
sampling nets, field olfactom
eters and other research tools,
they are studying the flight
patterns of the insects and the
factors which influence their
movement.
Through observation and
use of the mechanical devices,
the researchers hope to learn
more about temperature, light,
wind and other conditions
which affect dispersal flights
of the beetles from their
breeding grounds to new
areas.
Scientists already know that
the beetles will not fly when
the wind blows continuously
at more than 5 mph. They also
know that a certain tempera
t u r e Is required for flight.
They are now more clearly
pinpointing the necessary con
ditions for the dispersal
flights.
Last year, Rudinsky found
that beetles are drawn to new
areas by an "attractive" sub
stance produced by sexually
mature, u n m at e d females
when they first invade a new
log. The attractant produced
by the "pioneers" causes mass
invasions of beetles in a par
ticular forest area.
The substance is produced
by the "pioneers" only when
they invade Douglas-fir. Fe
males do not produce the sub
stance once they mate. The
power of the attractant is im
portant, he pointed out, be
cause it is the key factor in
concentrating beetle population.
Breaks Resistance
This helps explain why the
Douglas-fir beetle can "break"
the resistance of a healthy
standing tree within a few
hours. Dr. Rudinsky said. Al
though normally resistant to
beetle invasion, the healthy
Douglas-fir can be killed when
large numbers of beetles re
spond to the attractant pro
duced by the invading pio
neers. OSU researchers have been
successful in isolating the at
tractive substance in alcohol
and then using it as "bait" in
the field olfactometers to learn
how long it takes beetles to
react and invade. The baited
olfactometers are able to suc
cessfully compete with nat
urally occurring attraction
centers which indicates their
usefulness in bark beetle control.
In the laboratory, female
beetles are being studied in an
attempt to find exactly which
part of the body produces the
attractive substance. When
this is learned, Rudinsky is
hopeful biochemists can chart
the exact composition of the
substance and perhaps dupli
cate it in a synthetic creation
which can be used in control
ling the beetle population.
Companion Study
A companion study, under
the supervision of Dr. William
Nagel, assistant professor of
forest entomology, is being
made of the natural predators
of the Douglas-fir beetle.
Eventually, Rudinsky is
hopeful that the work being
done at OSU will provide a
practical, economical way to
control the bark beetles. No
practical chemical control is
now possible as the insecticide
docs not reach the beetle
which lives under the bark.
It may be possible in the
future to set-up traps baited
with the species attractant to
lure the beetles to their death
and to prevent the severe tim
ber loss which comes with
periodic outbreaks, he said.
Resistant lo Invasion
Since Douglas-fir beetles
prefer freshly downed timber
and healthy, standing trees
are normally resistant to inva
sion, forest conditions work
against population explosions
of the bark beetle, the scien
tist explained. The competi
tion for food causes many of
the beetle larvae, to die of
starvation before they emerge
from the downed logs.
However, the tremendous
amount of windfall of the
forest floor this year means
plenty of food for the expand
ing population which will
emerge in the spring of 1964,
he continued. The beetles can
be expected to invade healthy
standing timber in their ef
forts to find food.
In the last outbreak, the
Douglas-fir beetle population
remained high until the nat
ural resistance of the trees
plus predators and other fac
tors finally brought the popu
lation back to normal.
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Ashland - The American
Political Science association
has invited Dr. Marshall E.
Woodell, director of graduate
studies at Southern Oregon
college, to participate in the
Western Regional Seminar on
Political Science for the Six-
ties" which will be held at
the University of Nevada in
Reno Aug. 18-24.
The seminar is financially
supported by the Ford Foun
dation and will bring together
about SO representative pro
fessors of political science
from the western region of
the country.
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