In Memoriam: Melody Oldfield
Melody Oldfield, who helped promote Beaver Nation for 24 years, died Jan. 21 at her home in North Carolina. She was 60. Melody joined Oregon State University in 1999, serving as director of University Marketing and as an assistant vice president for University Relations and Marketing from 2013 until her retirement in 2023. She helped build an award-winning marketing team and led development of Oregon State’s Powered by Orange and Out There creative campaigns, among others.