1943 President Lloyd L. Ruff

Lloyd L. Ruff was born August 6, 1905, on a farm in Ness County, Kansas. He attended rural school through nine grades and in 1925 was graduated from Ness City High School, where he participated in one year of debate, two years of football and two years of track. Until coming to Oregon in September 1928 he worked on farm and as helper-clerk for the Santa Fe Railroad.

LLOYD L. RUFF

From 1928 until 1932 he attended the University of Oregon at Eugene, from which he was graduated with a B.S. degree in geology, and to which he returned as graduate student in geography and anthropology, and later as instructor in geology. He left the University in 1938 to accept a position as geologist with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and is now (1951) head of the Geology Section in the Engineering Division of that agency in Portland.

Mr. Ruff is past chairman of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; a member of the Geological Society of America and the Oregon Academy of Science; past president of the Oregon Agate and Mineral Society and the Oregon Numismatic Society; also a member of the Condon Club and Sigma XI. He is Curator of Geology of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and a member of its Board of Trustees. He also holds membership in the Oregon Stamp Society and the Oregon Archaeological Society.

Mr. Ruff was married on January 13, 1940, to Margaret Shaw of Portland, Oregon. They have two children, Judith Ann and David Alan.