Welcome aboard!  You're now on deck of the website of the Oregon State University Naval ROTC Alumni Group.  Our mission is to rally the remote legions of Marine and Navy officers whose service began in OSU Naval ROTC.  Our greater mission is to Save Our Past.

To keep current with what's going on with Beaver Battalion, check out OSU NROTC on Facebook and Instagram.  To keep current with us, check the Alumni Group on Facebook or Linkedin.  Of course, any breaking news of broad interest will be posted here on the website.  See below.      

But our more significant mission is to "fashion" an historical record of NROTC at Oregon State.  No such record (archive) now exists.  This website will help us gather material to build that archive.  If you don't chip in (with your input), this Save Our Past project will fail.

Where's the upside of failing?  Where's the upside of not having a rich and accessible record of 74 years of Oregon State NROTC?  By "your input," we mean photos you have and recollections waiting to be told of your days as midshipmen.  That's exactly what we need.                   

This alumni website will reflect in full your collective degree of interest in having an alumni group, in connecting to each other, in helping to guide and inspire OSU NROTC midshipmen today, and in contributing funds to give some of the most deserving help in tuition, etc.

A fairly recent great example is Coby Sillers' ('68) absorbing "update" from Hawaii.  This appeared in our December 2022 newsletter thanks to editor Ken Collyer.  BZ, Coby and BZ, Ken.  We all have interesting stories from the past and present.  Don't hold back on us.             

Time does what time does, which is slowly turn the future into the present and reshape us into older and wiser versions of who we were.  But what does not change is the bond we shared during our years at Oregon State.  Time passing need not weaken that.

The bond we share was our resolve to serve locked into the nature of our experience as NROTC midshipmen at Oregon State.  This is a precious and timeless bond, a truth that defines and affirms so much about how we grew into the people we are.

As midshipmen, we earned the right over our four tough years to be trusted to lead Marines and Sailors.  We strove to be worthy of those who relied on us.  We strove to measure up.  We lived within and worked within the focus and burden of "the mission." 

Wars and combat came and went.  Too many of our classmates and comrades were killed or died or hurt on missions in Harm's Way.  We honor them and we cherish them.  So many lives and limbs sacrificed in far places.  So much lost yet so much won.

Our bond across the years is given force and effect by our common dedication to doing the Right Thing.  Our reward is the bounty of each other, our families, and our pride in serving.  Our mission now is to lead and to mentor.  WE SERVE.  It's who we are.

Since Naval ROTC was instituted at Oregon State in 1946, some 2,500 young men and women have been part of the program.  As noted, our first class graduated in 1950.  Here we are, 71 classes down the road. BIG number; BIG challenge.  No worries.  We're on it.

Our goal is to acquire, frame, and present to you items that reconnect you to your midshipmen days at OSU. Our hope is to "re-bond" you to your days in Corvallis.  Our appeal is to your desire to help us gather photos and collect stories to share on the website.                 

NOTE: the "badges" below are links you can click (or tap) to be taken to that particular page.  Each class is set into a group set within a decade.  Each class will have the news, photos, and stories that you provide us.  Questions?  Comments?  Let's hear 'em.               

This website will never be finished.  It will never be done.  Could it ever be done like a statue is done?  Some 2,500 Midshipmen have come into the program since the first group in 1946 that graduated in 1950.  And so, 72 classes and 2,500 stories.  Does that end?  Never.