Scenes from grand opening ceremonies at senior citizen housing. City and civic leaders joined potential occupants at the dedication ceremonies of a newly completed senior citizens 77-unit apartment building located at 12th & "M" Sts. on November 24, 1968. They are pictured gathered in the building's community room that had been just been dedicated in the memory of longtime Bethlehem Baptist Church pastor, Rev. E.B. Wilson. Standing on the far left is Tacoma mayor A.L. Rasmussen. Shiloh Baptist pastor E.S.Brazill is believed to be standing in foreground holding a pamphlet. Photograph ordered by Riconoscuito Advertising. (TNT 11-24-68, B-17, D-8)

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Grand opening of senior housing building. The newly completed senior citizens apartment building at So. 12th and "M" was dedicated on November 24, 1968. It was built under the sponsorship of the Tacoma Housing Authority and Senior Centers, Inc. The building's community room was named in memory of the late Rev. E.B. Wilson. For 50 years Rev. Wilson had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church and its pastor for 25 of those years. Gerrit VanderEnde, chairman of the board of Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan and chairman of the Tacoma Housing Authority, smiling held one end of the plaque honoring Rev. Wilson which will hang in the community room. The woman sharing the plaque with Mr VanderEnde is believed to be one of the two daughters of the late Rev. Wilson present at the dedication, Mrs. Sadie Armstead and Mrs. Rex Jones of Seattle. The other man in the foreground is believed to be Rev. E.S. Brazill, longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church. City Manager David Rowlands is standing in background at the right. Photograph ordered by Riconoscuito Advertising. (TNT 11-24-68, D-8)

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Dedications. City Manager David Rowlands is flanked by Mrs. S. David Hunter and Mrs. Willie E. Crawford, members of the Civic & Progressive Club that sponsored the naming of the community room at the newly completed 77-unit senior citizens apartment building at So. 12th & "M," on November 24, 1968. Mr. Rowlands is holding the plaque honoring the late Rev. E.B. Wilson, longtime Bethlehem Baptist Church member and minister, after whom the community room will be named. Another member of the Civic & Progressive Club, Mrs. Franklin D. Burgess, is believed to be standing second to the right. Photograph ordered by Riconoscuito Advertising. (TNT 11-24-68, B-17, D-8)

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Scenes from grand opening ceremonies at senior citizens apartment building. The community room of the soon-to-be occupied senior citizens apartment building at 12th & "M" was dedicated on November 24, 1968, in memory of Rev. E.B. Wilson, a 50-year member of Bethlehem Baptist Church and for 25 of those years, its pastor. Tacoma Mayor A.L. Rasmussen, holding plaque honoring Rev. Wilson, is pictured with several adults and children. They are believed to be the families of Rev. Wilson's two daughters: Mrs. Sadie Armstead and Mrs. Rex Jones. Photograph ordered by Riconoscuito Advertising. (TNT 11-24-68, B-17, D-8)

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