ca. 1934. College of Puget Sound football team on the line. Brick buildings on campus in background. (1935 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas") (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Football--Tacoma--1930-1940; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Eleven football players from the 1934-35 College of Puget Sound squad line up in this circa 1934 photograph. The team included two African American players, Brennen King and Jess Brooks, unusual for the time. Jess Brooks was a 1932 graduate of Lincoln High School, where he was the first African American student to win the coveted Richard Graff award, for high scholastic achievement and athletic prowess. He is in the back row, second to the left. Brennen King is at the far left, front row. (1935 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas") TPL-9556 (Additional identification provided by a reader)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Football--Tacoma--1930-1940; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Brooks, Jess; King, Brennen;

ca. 1934. Play at College of Puget Sound. Twenty-seven people on stage, some dressed as reporters, some as police officers. One man lying on floor, either playing dead or wounded. The Dramatic Art Department's motto was "Development of Personality through Drama." The department gave more than 150 students the chance to appear before an audience in a wide variety of plays. (Filed with Argentum)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Actresses; Theatrical productions--Tacoma; Actors;

ca. 1934. Faculty group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound. Front row: Leonard C. Jacobsen (Piano), James Rodenberg Slater (Biology), Frank G. Williston (History & Political Science), Frederick A. McMillin (Chemistry & Geology), Ellery Capen (Business Administration.) Back row: John Paul Bennett (Music), Walter A. Eichinger (Music theory and Pipe Organ),Christian Miller (Registrar), John I. Chickanzeff (Violin.) (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Teachers--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Play presented by the Dramatic Art Department at the College of Puget Sound, circa 1934. The Department's motto was "Development of Personality through Drama." The department gave more than 150 students the chance to appear before an audience in a wide variety of plays. (WSHS) ( 1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Actresses; Theatrical productions--Tacoma; Actors;

ca. 1934. Chi Pi Sigma, 1934 portrait for the school yearbook, The Tamanawas. Chi Pi Sigma was a national professional chemical fraternity, for those students whose major interest lay in the field of chemistry. The College had organized the Gamma chapter of the fraternity in 1934. Front row: Claude Steeves, Robert Carlyle, Prof. Henry, Foster Allen. Back row: Hartford Thune, Lloyd Searing, Gerald Freeman, Richard Rich, Iver Belsvig. (names are as listed in yearbook, they do not match the photo exactly) (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas, pg. 75)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Fraternities & sororities--Tacoma--1930-1940; Chi Pi Sigma (Tacoma);

ca. 1934. Freshman Jane Ramsby, left, represented the College of Puget Sound as their 1934 singles champion in the Northwest Tennis Tournament held in Salem Oregon. She won this position over 19 other young coeds. Lorraine Hanson, center, and Dorothy Floydstead entered as the doubles' team. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Ramsby, Jane; Hanson, Lorraine; Floydstead, Dorothy; Tennis players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tennis rackets;

ca. 1934. Coached ably by Lou Grant, the 1934 College of Puget Sound tennis team won seven matches and lost only three. Joe Rawlings, left, played in the number four position. Govnor "Gov" Teats, right, played his last year on the squad in the number one position. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Tennis players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tennis rackets; Rawlings, Joe; Teats, Govnor;

ca. 1934. Brennen King, College of Puget Sound football player. Mr. King played right end position on the 1934-35 CPS team. The 6 '2" King was a graduate of Garfield High in Seattle. He was widely recognized for his ability in blocking and in intercepting passes. (1935 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas"; T. Times 9/27/1934, pg. 1)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Football--Tacoma--1930-1940; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940; King, Brennen;

On the College of Puget Sound campus in 1934, Kappa Sigma Theta sorority was one of the largest social groups for women, having 41 members on the roll. Dorothy Foxwell was the fall president and Genevieve Grimes served in this role in the spring. The group won the Blanche W. Stevens Scholarship Cup for the highest grade point average. Members came from all four grade levels at the college. (WSHS) (taken for the 1934 Tamanawas, but not used)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Kappa Sigma Theta (Tacoma); Fraternities & sororities--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The annual archery tournament was held at the College of Puget Sound May 21,23 & 25, 1934. Contestants shot 12 arrows apiece from 30, 40 & 50 yard distances. Pictured are contestants, left to right, Loretta Altman, Geneva Kenway, Harriet Giske, Berenice Hanson, Sylvia Asp, June Shinkle, Brunhilde Wislicenus. Not pictured is overall winner Vonne Prather. The intermural meet was won by the Junior team. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Archery; Bows (Archery); Targets (Sports);

Dr. Edward H. Todd, president of the College of Puget Sound, sits at his roll top desk studying papers. Dr. Todd was the President of CPS for 29 years, from 1913- 1942. The men's dormitory was named after Dr. Todd when it was built in 1948.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Todd, Edward H., 1863-1951; College presidents--Tacoma;

ca. 1927. Puget Sound Trail Staff. Robert Burrows- Editor in Chief. Russell Eirman- Business manager. Editorial Staff: Elverton B. Stark, Minard Fassett, Audrey-Dean Albert, Ada Annabel, Wilma Zimmerman, Dale Ginn, Tom Dodgson, Fred LePenske, Helen Jensen, Elva Belfoy, Clarence Anderson, Delia Dreher, Betty Walton and Margaret Swanson. Business staff: Harwood Tibbits, Margaret Fitzgerald, Hale Niman, Dorothy Gelty, Mary Crosby, Alice Gartrell and Robert Miles. (1927 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas," pg. 49) (WSHS)

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Football, first team, circa 1927. Twenty-six players and two coaches sitting on bleachers. In 1927, the College of Puget Sound had only one athletic director and he coached all the sports teams. Clyde Wesley Hubbard was new, having arrived at the college in 1926, but he pushed his team to finish second in the conference. He was assisted by former Logger star Lynn Wright and A.A. Denman. Two team members were elected to the all-conference squad, Frank Gillihan and Dave Ferguson. (Photograph taken for, but not used in 1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas") (WSHS/Argentum)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Football players--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound's Spurs, circa 1927, " Woman's National Pep Organization, Puget Sound Chapter." Eleven girls in sweaters with a spur logo and knee length skirts plus their sponsor pose on the steps of a campus building. Spurs, a non profit service club, had been on the campus since 1925. The organization's name was an acronym for Service, Patriotism, Understanding, Responsibility and Sacrifice. Top Row: F. Martin, Wilson, sponsor Helen Geiger, Jones, M. Martin. Bottom Row: Rosmond, Walton, Crail, Coffman, Day, Calahan, Jensen. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas, " pg. 72.) (WSHS)

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Spurs (Tacoma); Student Organizations--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Baseball Team, circa 1927. Seventeen players and Coach Clyde W. Hubbard, bats and mitts, gloves, arranged in foreground. The CPS baseball team had been a formidable opponent in 1926, but lost three of its players to graduation, including the pitcher. The team was rebuilding in 1927. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas" pg. 64) (WSHS/Argentum)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Baseball players--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Lettermen's Club, ca. 1927. Eighteen boys, seventeen in letter sweaters, in front of bleachers. The young men in this picture had earned letters in less publicized sports or as reserves to the major sports teams. This included tennis, wrestling and the football and basketball reserve teams. Top Row: Brear, Johnson, Bankhead, Norton, Gardner, Carruthers, Fassett, Smith, Darrow. Bottom Row: Coach Hubbard, Parker, Thorniley, Tatum, Miller, Wilson, Kepka, Garnero and Samuelson. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas," pg. 68.) (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Student Organizations--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound "Knights of the Log." Fourteen boys, eleven in white blazers with C.P.S. logo on breast, three in formals on steps of a campus building. Top row: Rumball, Mace. Middle row: Anderson, Stark, Dyment, Crosby, Wilson, Thomas. Bottom row: Gysin, Harding, Henry, King, Josselyn, Farmer. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas," PG. 72) (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & Colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Student Organizations--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Boy's Glee Club, ca. 1927. Twenty-one boys in formal attire in front of a scrim curtain. Top row: L. Durkee, Searing, Gardner, R.Brown, W. Anderson, W. Brown, Hague, Miles. Middle row: Armour, Johnson, Stark, G. Durkee, Lung, Wilson. Bottom row: Wright, C. Anderson, Naess, Hanscom, Helander, Henry, Jones. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas," pg. 50) (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Student Organizations--Tacoma--1920-1930; Singers;

ca. 1927. The cast of "Not So Fast, " the all college play, in front of a brick wall at the College of Puget Sound in 1927. The play was written by Charles Westervelt. Pictured left to right are Torrey Smith, Robert Leatherwood, Audrey-Dean Albert, Wendell Brown, Edith Jones, Elizabeth Welton, Sam Pugh, and Leonore Bloomfield. Although most of the College's play casts were members of the Drama Club, the all college play had open auditions. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas," pg. 47) (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1920-1930; Drama clubs--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Women's Quartet, 1927. Four young women wearing white dresses and dark ties stand on the right and another young woman accompanies them at a piano on the left. The 1927 yearbook Tamanawas lists the names of the quartet as Alice Rockhill, Frances Martin, Genevieve Bitney and Mary Van Sickle and their accompanist as Helen Ohlsen. (WSHS)

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Singers; Pianos;

ca. 1927. The College of Puget Sound Track Team, circa 1927. The Maroon track team was small but scored well in competition. Top row: Van Patter, Wallace, Norton, Wilson, Darrow, Pugh and Smith. Bottom row: Fassett, Carruthers, Garnero, Captain Gordon Tatum and Hendel. (1927 CPS annual "Tamanawas," pg. 65) (WSHS)

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Athletes--Tacoma--1920-1930; Runners (Sports)--1920-1930;

Matriculation exercise at College of Puget Sound, ca. 1927. Boy in cap and gown addressing a small group gathered around a stone obelisk with other stones piled up forming a crude low wall around it. (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Beutel Business College. Simulated tellers wickets, adding machines , stools. Beutel, founded in 1887, was the oldest commercial school in Tacoma. It offered classes in accounting, typing, shorthand, and other subjects needed to find placement in the business world. (filed with Argentum)

Beutel Business College (Tacoma); Business education;

ca. 1926. In 1926, according to the City Directory, Beutel Business College was located at 937 1/2 Broadway in the Anderson Building, which has since been demolished. Other businesses at this location included the Mode-Art Apparel Store, Lewis Brothers Clothing and the Electro Dental Parlors. The slogan for Beutel was "Best by Test of more than thirty years." The school was founded in 1887 by John Tate, making it the oldest commercial school in Tacoma and southwest Washington. It was originally known as Tacoma Business College. C.F. Beutel, who gave the school his name, purchased partial interest in the school in 1902. (filed with Argentum)

Beutel Business College (Tacoma); Business education--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Beutel Business College. Simulated tellers wickets, adding machines , stools. Beutel was the oldest business school in the city. (filed with Argentum)

Beutel Business College (Tacoma); Business education;

ca. 1907. Established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888 as Puget Sound University and reorganized in 1903 as the University of Puget Sound, the university opened its first permanent campus at 602 North Sprague Ave. that year. Noted architect George W. Bullard designed the buildings. In 1924 the university moved to its present location at 1500 North Warner and the buildings were demolished. Jason Lee Intermediate (now Middle School) was built on the site of the former campus. From 1914-1959 U.P.S. was known as the College of Puget Sound before resuming its current name.

University of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1900-1910; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1900-1910;

"Edward Hynes, Egyptologist holding statuette, 3000 yrs. Old, 11/21/1936."