8 ForOregonState.org/Stater l e t t e R s FALL 2023 TRADITIONS ISSUE FALL 2023 PLANT ING HOPE Master Gardeners help cancer survivors cultivate healthy habits and community. p. 24 RESER RENEWED An inside look at the stadium’s evolution. p. 32 THOSE IRON, STRENGTH YIELD. WILL NEVER THEIR OF OSU! O L D HAILTO HAIL! HAIL! HAIL! HAIL! LD! CELEBRATING TRADITIONS The fall issue’s wraparound cover — with its lively representation of Oregon State’s fight song alongside retro and modern Benny Beavers — struck a chord with alumni and friends besieged by media coverage of the dissolution of the Pac-12. (We even received a touching request from one family asking to use the cover for a memorial service invitation.) Many readers wrote to ask how they could get a poster. Your wish is our command. If you’d like to see Benny on your wall, make a donation of $25 or more to the OSUAA Oregon Stater fund at Give. ForOregonState.org with a note requesting a poster. Kudos and Memories I always look forward to reading the Oregon Stater. The article “The Ghost of Waldo Hall” [in “Becoming Beavers”] caught my attention, as I resided there as a freshman and sophomore from 1962 to 1964. The article states that Waldo housed women for 60 years, having opened in 1907. I don’t know when it changed to men, but I can assure you it did, as the testosterone level was pretty high when I was there. I had a room on the fourth floor and loved it. We were saddened when it was closed and our fun group dispersed to alternate housing options. If there had been ghosts, they must have been in hiding during my stay. —WALT BAMMANN, ’ 66 As an alum of OSU, I really enjoyed the fall issue of the Stater. Excellent stories — well written, great graphics. [“Becoming Beavers”] brought back wonderful memories of my education there. Thank you! —PENNY SILAGI ZEGA, ’ 77 My mother, Jackie Moss Murdoch, ’74, passed earlier this year, and it was terrific to see her name listed in the “In Memoriam” section after a coworker who graduated from OSU shared the magazine with me. We had talked about the cover, which was striking, and piqued my interest in the Master Gardener program article. That led me to the excellent profile of Nick Daschel,which kept me reading to the back of the book, which leads us here. You have a terrific magazine, and I will look forward to borrowing it from my coworker in the future. —TAYLOR L.M. MURDOCH [In “Becoming Beavers”], it states that Benny’s costume changed in 1964. It actually changed in 1965. Sue Wiesner Kofel, the head of the Rally Squad, asked me to wear the costume when the person she had picked talked too much. I found the costume too warm to wear for an entire game, so the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity — a service fraternity to
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