Twelve members of the Y.W. C.A. cabinet posed on the porch steps of the College of Puget Sound's main building on November 10, 1922. At that time, C.P.S. was located at 602 North Sprague Avenue (now the site of Jason Lee Middle School). The annual Y.W.C.A. advisory board tea was held on November 23, 1922, to honor C.P.S. girls. Many of the school's female students were interested in the college Y.W.C.A. (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 11-5-22, 4-D-article on tea)

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Mr. Eiselen conducted a Bible seminar at the College of Puget Sound's Religious Education summer school in 1922. The students, mostly male, posed on the steps of the school, then located at 602 No. Sprague Ave. (now the site of Jason Lee Middle School) . The man in the top row, far left next to the column, has been identified as Tom Swayze who would become Tacoma's City Controller and later state Director of Licenses. TPL-6688; G67.1-020

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Over 200 students took part in the vaudeville show produced at Jason Lee School on April 29th, 1941. The boys in the PE department participated in tumbling acts. Boys pictured on stage, two doing handstands, two pushups, the rest forming three human pyramids. (T. Times 4/21/1941, pg. 9)

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Crowd of voters at Jason Lee School, Times, Sam Angeloff. A man is entering a voting booth while a crowd of other adults wait their turn to vote. 1948 pitted Harry S. Truman against Thomas E. Dewey for President and Arthur B. Langlie against Mon C. Wallgren for Washington State Governor.

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Tacoma Philharmonic at Tacoma Schools. Miss Jean Winter's students at Jason Lee Junior High School sit two to a seat for voice class. Miss Winter plays the piano at the front of the classroom while one of the students directs.

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Boy scout rally at Jason Lee Junior High. Superior Court Judge W.A. Richmond salutes the Cub Scouts during a Boy Scout rally of the Mt. Rainier Council at the Jason Lee auditorium, where he was the principal speaker. G. Kennard and Walter Stauffacher, both scout officials, stand behind Judge Richmond. A Court of Honor was held to recognize those scouts who passed scouting ranks since the first of the year. Names are listed in the newspaper account. Photo taken for Buzz, Tacoma Times. (T.Times, 2/9/1949, p.8)

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Tacoma Philharmonic at Tacoma Schools. Miss Jean Winter's students at Jason Lee Junior High School listen to music on a phonograph player in preparation to attend the second young people's concert of the season sponsored by the Tacoma Philharmonic and Meadowsweet Dairies. (TNT, 2/14/1949, p.2)

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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.

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Jason Lee Junior High School, Opening Day. Assembly in auditorium. Nearly 30,000 students registered as city and county schools opened for fall quarter on September 7, 1938. (T. Times 9/7/1938, p. 1).

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Jason Lee 1938 Orchestra posed in front of their school with their stringed instruments. The school had recently purchased violas and cellos, adding to the depth of the orchestra's sound. The three girls seated on the far right play the new violas. They are, left to right, Aura Russell, Marion Kittredge and Wanda Sanders. (T. Times 4/29/1938, pg. 8)

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Group of Jason Lee pupils pose in front of their school with basses and cellos. Photograph ordered as publicity for the upcoming Spring music festival sponsored by the public schools music department. The annual festival would begin April 27, 1938 and conclude May 12th and feature a series of nine concerts at area schools. Musicians would range from elementary school to advanced high school performers.

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Jason Lee Junior High School, Roland Borhek, Architect; 1925. General view. (T.Times, Spring Editon)

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Music Festival at Jason Lee. Two dancing couples being serenaded by three boys. All are wearing Mexican costumes. Musical numbers with a Gypsy, Spanish or Mexican theme were offered in the program "Say It With Music," staged by music teacher Kathryn Bruner. (T. Times, 5/14/1940, p. 5).

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Performers in the spring music festival at Jason Lee. A series of gypsy, Spanish and Mexican musical numbers were performed under the title "Say It with Music," planned and staged by music teacher Kathryn Bruner. The concert included several hundred student performers from the boys and girls glee clubs, band, orchestra, choir and general music classes. Here the performers are attired in Mexican costumes. They performed folk and dance tunes from Mexico. (T. Times 5/10/1940, pg. 20)

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The orchestra at Jason Lee Middle School boasted two sets of identical twins in 1940. Anthony and Albert Mazzuca, age 15, on clarinet, and Fay and Fern Tschan on Mellophone. Both sets of twins went on to Stadium High School. Anthony and Albert continued to play in the band, and graduated in 1943. Fay and Fern took up other pursuits including the Rifle Club; they were both on the senior honor roll when they graduated in 1945. (T. Times 2/2/1940 p.11)

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How to Teach Religion was one of the classes taught at the College of Puget Sound's summer session in 1922. Members of Professor Miller's class posed on August 2nd on the steps of the main building. The school had been established in 1888 by the Methodist Episcopal Church. G67.1-016

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