1923The ARRT first started testing and registering X-ray Technicians. 1925Alf Borquist was the first registered X-ray technician in Oregon. 1927Lavilla Perry was registered as an X-ray technician in Oregon. 1928Lavilla Perry and Alf Borquist were appointed to represent Oregon at the June 1928 convention of the American Society of X-ray Technicians (ASXT) in Chicago. Perry and Borquist called a meeting in October of 1928 to discuss organizing a local society. The group met again in November to approve the constitution and by-laws. They also patterned an application after the one used by the ASXT and adopted the name Oregon Technicians Society of Roentgenology.
1931The name was changed to Oregon Society of Radiographers. 1933-1934Interstate meetings were held in Centralia, WA 1938The name was changed again to Oregon Society of of X-Ray Technicians (OSXT). 1943The OSXT re-affiliated with the ASXT. 1948A banquet was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the OSXT. 1949The Oregon Technical Institute (now OIT) started its Rad Tech program, it was a technician program. 1950The state was divided into 9 districts. At this time there were 161 registered technicians in the OSXT.
1953The twenty fifth anniversary of the OSXT was held at a convention in Klamath Falls in April 1953 at the Willard Hotel and Oregon Technical Institute.
Downtown Klamath Falls - Circa 1955 The Oregon Vocational School / OTI campus 1955Alfred B. Greene, executive secretary of the American Registry of X-ray Technicians, was the principle speaker at the OSXT meeting in Eugene. 1960
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