College Origins
How a research institute on a timber baron's estate became Oakridge College — the founders, first students, and the stories of those early winters.
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Agnes Corliss
Agnes CorlissAgnes Corliss enrolled at the Institute in 1919, the year after it opened, as one of its first women students.
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Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences
Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land SciencesIn 1918, after seven years of argument over the will, the town's trust opened a forestry school on the old Hartwell estate: the Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences.