Biographical Note
Kareen Peiffer, of Portland, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural
College in the 1930-1931 and 1933-34 academic years and earned a BS degree
in education in 1934. She married Morris Vennewitz, also an Oregon State
graduate in 1934, and lived in Portland. Kareen Vennewitz died in
1997.
Content Description
The Kareen Peiffer Laboratory Notes consist of laboratory notes and
drawings made by Peiffer in three courses at Oregon State College: Botany
101, General Botany; Botany 203, Plant Identification; and Zoology 103,
General Zoology. The instructors were W.M. Atwood for Botany 101 and John
Osborn for Zoology 103. Helen Gilkey may have been the instructor for the
plant identification course.