Hail to Old OSU

[3] Wilkins, a "one-armed trumpeter" and glee club singer, sent a copy of the tune to a musically-minded college chum, who in turn introduced it to other students.

[4] The first edition of the published score included a title page printed in the school's colors, orange and black, with two photographic views of the campus.

[4] Wilkins' friend Ralph Bower added drawings of the four major sports at the school — football, basketball, baseball, and track and field — around the border of the page.

"[4] After practicing law in Portland for ten years, Wilkins later moved to Los Angeles, where he established a lucrative business manufacturing the specialized brushes used by street sweepers.

[3] He did carefully preserve the original manuscript of the OAC fight song, however, which was presented to Oregon State's Horner Museum and put on public display in April 1941.