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Memorial

Oscar O. Thomas, professor of animal nutrition at Montana State University, died April 15, 1983. He was born February 16, 1919, in Aline, Oklahoma, a son of Cyrus Calvin and Ellen Runyan Thomas. He was active in 4-H and FFA. After graduating with a B.S. degree in Agriculture from Oklahoma State University, he served 4 years in the Veterinary Corps of the U.S. Army. He spent 2.5 years on Umnak Island in the Aleutians with the 75th Field Artillery Battalion.

He worked in Agriculture extension for a year in Oklahoma before accepting a teaching fellowship at Washington State University, where he earned the M.S. degree in animal husbandry in 1948. He continued graduate study at Oklahoma State University where he received the Ph.D. degree in animal nutrition in 1951. He joined the faculty at Montana State University that same year, where he was in charge of beef cattle nutrition research.