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Title
Jeff Clawson Oral History Interview
Description
Jeff Clawson has worked for the Department of Food Science and Technology as the research brewery and food processing manager since 1993. In his interview, Clawson talks about growing up in Davis, California, where his father was a University of California Extension Agent and his mom worked as a department admin assistant. He also shares his early memories of Davis, thoughts on campus and city culture, and his decision to move to Oregon to attend Eastern Oregon College (now Eastern Oregon University) in LaGrande, where he studied Agribusiness. It was in college that Clawson took a class in brewing, which became a personal hobby and ultimately led to a career. He talks about transferring to OSU to finish his BS, adding a food science minor and working with Mina McDaniel on sensory analysis; about working for NORPAC Foods in Stayton after graduation; about returning to OSU for graduate school in 1991 to study Rangeland Resources and Water Quality; and finally about returning to the food sciences in 1993. Clawson talks about the gift from James Bernau that facilitated building the pilot research brewery and establishing the Nor'Wester endowed professorship, the evolution of the program, and the future of brewing education at OSU.
Creator
Jeff Clawson
Source
Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives Oral History Collection
Publisher
Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries
Date
February 27, 2017
Contributor
Tiah Edmunson-Morton
Format
Born Digital
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
OH35-clawson-jeff-20170227
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Tiah Edmunson-Morton
Interviewee
Jeff Clawson
Location
Valley Library, Oregon State University
Original Format
Born Digital
Duration
2:17:31
OHMS Object
Interview Format
video