Folk dancers performed during the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1950.

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Four young men who will be performing during the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1950 pose in the stairwell in the gymnasium.

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Three students are at work in the Science Hall at Pacific Lutheran College with skeletons and a microscope.

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ca. 1955. Pacific Lutheran College's Memorial Gymnasium. Although already in the planning stages, its construction became a necessity when the old gym burned to the ground in June of 1946. The new gymnasium, designed by Lea, Pearson & Richards, was dedicated December of 1947. It was built of reinforced concrete. The interior was 134 x 142 feet and held 3,500 (or 2,500 spectators in bleachers with a 50 x 90 foot playing floor.) The building also had classrooms and dressing rooms and showers for men and women. A 46 x 50 foot addition was available for use by the Varsity football team. The cost of the gym was $250,000 and was built debt free.

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Pacific Lutheran College's May Festival. Eight formally attired couples perform a circle dance. The student orchestra looks on, as does the grandstand seating as the couples, some with hands on hips, put their best foot forward in the dance. The program for May Festival included a demonstration of folk art, such as dancing, from the countries of Lithuania, Sweden, Russia, German, Spain and the U.S. The entertainment also included music played by the band with vocal accompaniment. (The 1956 yearbook "Saga")

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ca. 1954. The 47 piece Pacific Lutheran College Band, attired in their black and gold uniforms and photographed with their instruments in the Band Room of the Music/Chapel Building. The band was under the direction of Dr. Robert Larson. The band played at all football games as well as performing a number of concerts throughout the year. They played the last concert of the three day Omnibus of Arts, the student cultural festival, with the PLC chorus on the Parkland campus. (1954 PLC yearbook "The Saga," TNT 2/21/1954, pg. D-7- see yearbook for names)

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ca. 1956. Housemother Freda Rouze shows the "sign out" book to Nancy Iverson at Pacific Lutheran College's newest dorm, West Hall. Another coed, Katherine Almgren, checks her mail at the dorm mailboxes. West hall was completed in the fall of 1956 and housed 151 freshman and sophomore women. It had much the same plan as the college's North Hall, and offered a main lounge, kitchen for student use, study lounges on every floor and a self service laundry. (1957 "Saga" & TNT 10/19/1956, pg. B-2)

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Queen Vivian Lunde, the 1939 Pacific Lutheran College May Day Queen, and her court pose on a rustic bridge on the campus. They are, left to right, Ann Lassen, Dickie Svare, Carolyn Hoff, Mary Olson, Queen Vivian, Barbara de Berry, Carol Haavik, Constance Hanson and Aagot Gerde. Queen Vivian was a senior at PLC and was studying to be a teacher. (T. Times 5/2/1939, pg. 1)

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Library Building at Pacific Lutheran College, now Xavier Hall. Building designed by Tacoma Architect Emanuel J. Bresemann, firm of Heath, Gove and Bell, in 1937. The college broke ground on the building on May 1, 1937 and it was dedicated two years later. (T.Times, 5/2/1939, p. 4)

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ca. 1959. A science class at Pacific Lutheran College. The class sits at two person lab tables, with scales. They intently listen to the professor who stands at the front of the group with a globe. Math inscriptions are chalked on the board. Sinks line the counters on either side. An almost completed addition to the Science Hall greeted the returning students in the fall of 1959. Soon the addition was opened, offering additional laboratory and classroom space as well as a new science library. The laboratory, classrooms, office and library for the physics and math departments occupied the first floor. Biology was on the second and Chemistry on the third. The wing was built of steel, masonry, concrete, wood and glass, designed by Lea, Pearson and Richards. (TNT 4-7-1959, pg. C-9)

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Pacific Lutheran College's 1959 May Day Queen and some of her Court. Queen Carolee Chindgren poses in the center of the group. The second row, left to right, are Linda Bloomquist, freshman, Margery Krueger, sophomore, Janice Snyder, junior and Janet Gullekson, freshman. This was the college's 26th annual May Festival. The celebration would be highlighted by gay spring music, colorful folk art and dancing and the coronation of the May Queen. Over 2,000 people attended the celebration. (TNT 4/28/1959, pg. 13, 5/3/1959, pg. D-11)

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Pacific Lutheran College 1939 May Day festivities. Queen Vivian Lunde pictured on her throne surrounded by her court. Queen Vivian was a member of the graduating class of the Normal department of the college. The throne faced the entrance of the college. It was a traditional silver chair backed by a lattice of spring flowers with tall baskets of Dogwood, Apple blossoms, lilac and palms. Included in the Queen's court were High school attendants Barbara Xavier and Betty Jo Forster, Freshmen Anne Lassen and Lenore Rasmussen, Sophomores Carol Haavik and Caroline Hoff and Seniors Ruth Downton and Aagot Gerde. (T. Times 4/20/1939, pg.3; 5/2/1939, pg. 1)

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Pacific Lutheran College's 1939 May Day Queen, Vivian Lunde, on her throne surrounded by her Court. On ground level are, left to right, Student Body president Roy Schmandt, High school attendants (not in order) Barbara Xavier and Betty Jo Forster, and speaker Dr. P.O. Bersell of Minneapolis, president of the Augustana synod. Queen Vivian I's junior attendants are (not in order) Barbara De Berry, Mary Olson, Constance Hanson and Dickie Svare. The back row is the Queen's Court (not in order) Freshmen Anne Lassen & Lenore Rasmussen, Sophomores Carol Haavik and Caroline Hoff and Seniors Ruth Downton and Aagot Gerde. (T. Times 5/2/1939, pg 1)

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Pacific Lutheran College offered classes in biology, chemistry, physics and botany, the new science building housed these departments. View of student working on his science assignment at the new PLC lab, he appears to be weighing a beaker of chemicals on an analytical balance. (Saga, 1948).

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Dr. Olaf M. Jordahl, Ph. D. (background) taught physics and mathematics, engineering majors usually had classes with him. Since the new Science Hall opened, students at Pacific Lutheran College had some of the most modern science equipment available to them, which made the classes better than before. View of students with test tubes and other scientific objects working on projects.

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Aerial view of campus and grounds, Pacific Lutheran College, Mrs. Nesrig. Pacific Lutheran College had built three new facilities during 1947: a three-story student union building, a gymnasium and a science hall. This elevated view shows the older and newer buildings on the expanding campus. The campus consisted of 150 acres. (TNT, 2/17/1948, p. 4-D)

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Pacific Lutheran College's library was designed in 1936, building began in 1937 and the building was dedicated in 1939. This building was designed by Emanuel J. Bresemann, a local Tacoma architect. Pacific Lutheran was planning to remodel the library during 1948, view of PLC students outside of the library, possibly between their classes or on their way to study (Saga, 1948).

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Pacific Lutheran College was a member of the American Association of Colleges, and was an accredited educational facility. Dr. Eastvold was PLC's President, in addition to the new gymnasium Pacific Lutheran College had also built a new $200,000 Science Hall in 1947. View of Pacific Lutheran College buildings, Memorial Gymnasium on left side, photo taken for PLC's Saga, the school yearbook (Saga, 1948).

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Pacific Lutheran College dedicated their new $200,000 Science Hall. PLC administrators invited Dr. Conrad Bergendoff, President of Augustana College and Seminary at Rock Island, Illinois as the guest speaker for the event. Pacific Lutheran had grown and enrollment had increased. More than 1,200 students, staff, faculty and guests gathered together to celebrate the new building (Saga, 1948).

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Pacific Lutheran College was first known as Pacific Lutheran Academy between 1898 and 1919, in 1920 they changed Academy to College. In 1944 PLC officially stated they intended to build a new gymnasium, but building was delayed until the end of World War II. Exterior view of PLC's Memorial Gymnasium, photo ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Saga, 1948).

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May Day celebration. Twelve young women in Norwegian costumes perform a folk dance for Queen Ardys Bredvold, her attendants and guests at the coronation celebration for the May festival at Pacific Lutheran college.

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A student reads from a podium on a practice stage in the new chapel-music-speech building at Pacific Lutheran College. Another student sits on the edge of the stage while several more students sit on the floor below on folding chairs. Two more students follow the progress of the reading from a sound room behind glass on the left. The Campus Radio Workshop Theater was recorded here since the facilities had been expanded with electronic equipment. (1952 SAGA yearbook)

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Four young men who performed during the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1950 show their stuff while practicing outside the gymnasium.

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Folk dancers perform during the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1950.

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Harry McLaughlin has scored a total of 996 basketball points for Pacific Lutheran College in just two short years; he was All-Winco both seasons. McLaughlin played prep basketball at Clover Park and for the Army before entering PLC; he hopes to play professional basketball after graduation. View of basketball court magician, Harry McLaughlin, rolling the ball down his arm, across his back and to the other arm (T.N.T., 12/12/48, p. B-9).

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Pacific Lutheran College administrators and board members were hosting a Christmas party for the faculty and their wives. The Christmas party would consist of a formal reception at the new student union building, a smorgasbord and student musicians to provide the entertainment. View of college faculty member, his wife and two students, one is playing the harp; decorated Christmas tree in background (T. Times, 12/13/48, p. 6).

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Pacific Lutheran's Choir of the West participated in many concerts throughout the Pacific Northwest, but they also had countless radio performances, broadcasted over KOMO radio in Seattle. The choir had over fifty of the most talented singers and a number of soloists. View of Pacific Lutheran College's Choir of the West, being conducted by Gunnar J. Malmin; student names appear in yearbook (PLC Saga, 1949).

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Pacific Lutheran College's May Festival. Eight couples perform a folk dance. The entertainment included a demonstration of folk art from Lithuania, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Spain and the U.S. The women are dressed in skirts with contrasting ribboned stripes at the bottom, short vests, white blouses and flower chains in their hair with cascading ribbons. The men are dressed in white shirts and pants with string ties and bright tied scarves at the waist. (The 1956 yearbook "Saga", TNT 4/29/1956, pg. D-2)

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ca. 1955. An exterior view of the Student Union Building at Pacific Lutheran College. This building was constructed in 1947 on the foundation of the gym that was destroyed by fire in 1946. It was designed by Lea, Pearson and Richards, Architects. During its use as the Student Union, it served as the center of student social and extra curricular activities. It contained a bookstore, coffee shop, recreation room, student lounge, auditorium, and stage. It was replaced in 1955-56 by a larger and more modern Student Union and this structure was converted to classrooms.

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The Concert Chorus at Pacific Lutheran College, posed in the Music Building. The students are attired formally, with the girls wearing evening gowns and the boys in tuxedos. The 93 voice chorus was under the direction of R. Byard Fritts (seated.) The choir performed throughout the year, its productions enhanced by the special effects of staging, drama and costuming. ("1955 Saga" see the yearbook for chorus members names.)

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