Oregon State Hospital Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and writer Kay Folger Jacobs were commissioned by "The Pennsylvania Gazette" to do a story on the hospital. Mark and Folger spent over a month living in a security ward amongst female patients, chronicled in "Ward 81," a collection of photographs published by Mark. Research resources Photographs Oregon State Hospital Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem. Founded in 1862 and constructed in the Kirkbride Plan design in 1883, it is the oldest operating
Oregon State University Army ROTC Oregon State University Army ROTC Oregon State University Army ROTC is an ROTC Battalion assigned to Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Its mission is to train Cadets in basic military leadership and commission them as 2nd Lieutenants upon the completion of a bachelor's degree. Founded in 1873, the ROTC Battalion has continued to serve the nation and US Army Cadet Command and was given the nickname, "The West Point of the West" after it produced more commissioned officers than any other ROTC Battalion in the USA during World War II. Prior to the American Civil War, the small number