OSU Students Interned During WW II
On May 31, 2007, Governor Kulongoski signed House Bill 2823 that allows state institutions of higher education to award honorary post-secondary degrees to person ordered to internment camps during the Second World War. Persons who in 1942 were registered as students at Oregon State College (as Oregon State University was known at that time) and who satisfy the qualifications described in the law (below) are invited to contact the Registrar’s Office to initiate the process of possibly obtaining an honorary degree.
You may contact us by mail at:
Registrar's Office
Oregon State University
102 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR 97331
You may contact us by phone at: 541-737-4048
Please be prepared to give us your name as it was when you attended OSU in 1942, your current address, phone number and e-mail address.
Oregon State University welcomes your inquiries.
74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY—2007 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2823
Ordered by the House March 27
Including House Amendments dated March 27
Sponsored by Representatives CLEM, KOTEK; Representative BUCKLEY
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to internment camps.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
- As used in this section, 'internment camp ' means a relocation center to which persons were ordered evacuated by Presidential Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942.
- A person who meets the requirements of subsection (4) of this section may request a state institution of higher education listed in ORS 352.002 to award the person an honorary post-secondary degree.
- A representative of a deceased person who meets the requirements of subsection (4) of this section may request a state institution of higher education listed in ORS 352.002 to award an honorary post-secondary degree on behalf of the deceased person.
- Notwithstanding the requirements for a post-secondary degree established by a state institution of higher education or by the State Board of Higher Education, a state institution of higher education that receives a request under subsection (2) or (3) of this section may award an honorary post-secondary degree to a person, or on behalf of a deceased person, who:
- Was a student at the state institution of higher education in 1942; and
- Did not graduate from the institution because the person was ordered to an internment camp.
