Hosted by the Department of English, the Ofstad Visiting Scholar Program is available thanks to the generosity and vision of Odessa Ofstad in creating Truman’s first-ever endowed chair. Odessa worked at Truman from 1967-1993. During her career, she served as the cataloger, head cataloger, music and curriculum librarian, archivist and special collections librarian. She retired as Special Collections Librarian Emerita. Her husband, Clayton B. Ofstad, joined the Language and Literature Department at Truman in 1967, where he taught until his retirement in 1987. He passed away in 1994.