Military Officers Club of Corvallis
MILITARY OFFICERS CLUB OF CORVALLIS SCHOLARSHIP
The Military Officers Club of Corvallis (formerly the Retired Officers Club of Corvallis) is the local chapter of The Military Officers Association, a
national nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining a strong national defense and preserving the earned entitlements and benefits of members of the uniformed services and their families.
Members of the local chapter have served worldwide in all services, including the active duty, reserves, and National Guard. The World War II active base at Camp Adair brought many to the Willamette Valley. Local reserve and Oregon National Guard units as well as the ROTC detachments at Oregon State University brought many others to the area.
The club’s past members include OSU faculty, lawyers, doctors, a judge, a retired dean from OSU, and a retired OSU president. Its members have served their country in the military service and the community in many capacities.
Over the years, the Military Officers Club of Corvallis has sponsored an annual fundraiser with all of the proceeds going to support scholarships for the cadets, midshipmen, and officer candidates of the three ROTC detachments at OSU. Some of the proceeds from those events have been used to establish a memorial scholarship.
The scholarships recognizes the contributions of the following
departed members of the club: Dorothy E. Amport;
LtCol Ernest M. Amport, USAF; LCDR Donald Anderson,
USN; June Anderson; LTC Roy E. Anderson, USA; Dorothy
Banks; Capt Gareld B. Banta, USCG; Hazel Barnes; Blanch
Beamon; Major Eugene M. “Mitch” Beard; Col A.E. “Gene”
Bench, USMC; LtCol Richard Berne, USAF; LTC George
Beyer, USA; Margo Beyer; Col James A. Blodgett, USA; William
E. Boyd, Col, USAF; Vicky Bryant; Col Edward Burchell,
USA; Harriet G. Burull; Marjorie Burtchett; Col Donald
Carter, USA; Lucille (Bobbie) Campbell; Col Warren
Campbell, USAF; Wendie Chandler; LtCol Robert W. Chick,
USAF; Mary Conklin; LtCol Edmund G. Coomes, USAF; Lois
M. Coomes; Maj William E Detlefs; LTC Frederic H. Dickson,
USA; Capt Ray Dorrah, USA; Maj Robert Down, USAF; Maj
Charles Duncan, USA; Col Clarence Dunlap, USA; Ardyce
Earhart; Helen Fishburn; Col Thomas Fishburn, USAF;
Lorraine Forrest; CW0-4 William J. Forrest, USAF; Evonne
Friedrichsen; Marjorie Friedrichsen; 1Lt Dorothy Fulsang,
ANC; Col Ejner J. Fulsang, Jr., USA; Anna K. Gallagher; Col
John Gallagher, Jr., USA; Cmdr William A. Gerth, USN; Helen Gerth; BGen Frank W. Gillespie, USAF; Margaret Gillespie;
Col John S. Giffin, USA MD; LtCol Ivan Grimes, USAF; Verla
Grimes; Dorothy E. Halm; 1Lt Robert Hamill, AUS; Emmy
Hamill; LTC Robert C. Harper, Sr., USA; Cdr Joseph M.
Healey, USA; LTC Jack Hermann, USA; Georgia Hermann;
1Lt George Heys, AUS; Capt John Hitchcock, USN; Margaret
Hitchcock; Glen A . Hogland; LT Walter Kraft, USNR; Col
Donald C. Landon, USA; Katie Landon; Capt John F. Ligon,
USAR; Robena Ligon; Capt Albert V. Logen, USNR; Emily
Logen; LTC Stephen C. Marks, USA; Col Cecil M. MacGregor,
USA; Martha MacGregor; Dorothy Martin; Col Milton H.
Mater, AUS; Col Robert W. MacVicar, USAF; LTC Wanita S.
Millsaps, ANC; Alice M. Morse; Col Raymond J. Morse,
USAF; Marge Munford; Maj Charles S. Nardello, USA; LTC
Richard Nickerson, USMC; Patricia Nickerson; LTC Roderick
Nielson, USA; Ursala Nielson; LtCol Robert E. Osmers, USAF;
Col Louis Pearson, USAF; LtCol Jack R. Pinion, USAF; CWO
Herschel Preston, USN; Col James W. Rainey, USA; Maj
Roger M. Rickey, USAF; Capt Ellis B. Rittenhouse, USN; Maj
Orvill Rugh, USA; LTC Howard Sanders, USA; Roy A. Sefton,
LtCol, USAF; Capt Richard W. Shafer, USN; Col Clayton
Shaw, USA; Capt Douglas S. Simpson, USN; Mildred Smith;
CW# Aaron L. Sorensen, USA; CWO Donald Sylvester, USN;
Col Mark Terrel, USA; Maj James R. Trower, USAF; Shirley
A. Trower; Col Ray Vandiver, USAF; Beatrice Vandiver;
2ndLt Reider A. Waage, USAF; Capt Bryce M. Watson, USAF;
Maj Ivan W. Weikel, USA; Betty A. Whipple; Maj Burdeth
Whipple, USMC; LTC Alton G. Williams; Sue Williams; and
Maj Charles Zimmerman, USAF.