"Jack" Graham was student body president his senior year at OSU. Jackson Graham chose the Army Corps of Engineers as a career. He served with two engineer combat units in Europe during World War II and commanded two engineer aviation groups in the Korean conflict. He later was district engineer in Portland and then Brigadier General in charge of all civil and military construction for 14 states. He became a two-star Major General in 1966 and retired in 1967 after 30 years of often dangerous and always demanding active duty. Within a month of retirement, General Graham was named General Manager of the Washington, DC, Metro Transit Authority, a multi-billion-dollar project that succeeded largely because of his tremendous skills as an administrator and his determination to overcome technical, financial, and political obstacles. His second retirement began in 1976. A year later OSU accorded him its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award.

Degrees

• B.S. Civil Engineering, 1936