A crowd filled the lower level of Chapel Auditorium in the new chapel-music-speech building at Pacific Lutheran College. Dr. Seth C. Eastvold, president of the college, is speaking from a podium on the stage (lower left). A Casavant pipe organ would be installed later in the year in two large chambers on either side of the chapel stage with the console below on a stage level. (TNT, 8/23/1952, p.14) TPL-9319

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1952 May Day Festival at Pacific Lutheran College. May Day Queen Louise I is surrounded by young attendants. Senior Louise Stephenson was crowned as the 1952 May Day Queen with a court composed of two young ladies from each class at the College. (Pacific Lutheran College yearbook "Saga '52")

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The 1951 May Queen, Marjorie Anderson, and her senior attendants, LaWanna Wellsandt (left) and Amy Knutson (right) are shown with the children who also participated in the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1951. The children were twin sisters Ingrid Rae and Iral Ann Mobroten as the flower girls; Cathy Harshman as the train bearer and Jonathan Nesvig was the crown bearer. (TNT, 5/3/1951, p.D-3)

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Folk dancers perform during the festivities at Pacific Lutheran College for May Day 1951.

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Pacific Lutheran College has an important role in the education system of the Pacific Northwest. The growing College has gained national acclaim for its outstanding methods of instruction. Pacific Lutheran experienced an increase in student enrollment following the end of World War II. Exterior view of the newly built Memorial Gymnasium, one of the best college gyms in the west. Photo taken for PLC's Saga, the school yearbook (Saga, 1948).

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May Day celebration. Ardys Bredvold is seen walking to the dais before she was crowned queen of Pacific Lutheran College's May festival May 8, 1948. Some of her attendants are already on the dais while others hold a long ribbon designating her walkway to the throne. Margaret Ronning served as her train bearer. Guests are seen standing and an orchestra is playing in the background to the right. (T.Times, 5/10/1948, p.1)

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May Day celebration. The royal court that reigned over the Pacific Lutheran College's May festival held May 8, 1948, included Queen Ardys Bredvold, seated in the center. Seated in front of her are two sophomore attendants, L-R, Jean Hesla and Phyllis Brynestad. Other attendants standing in the back, L-R, are: Dolores Berg, Doris Berg, Afton Hjelm, Anita Roth, Catherine Breum and Doris Johnson. Four children were included in the coronation, L-R, Dean Johnson, crown bearer, Ann Marie Malmin, train bearer, and Margaret Ronning and Judith Leraas, flower girls. The young women are wearing floor-length evening gowns. (T.Times, 5/10/1948, p.1)

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Dr. Seth C. Eastvold, President of Pacific Lutheran College, and his wife Enga are getting ready to depart on a three month trip to Europe. The Eastvold's will be visiting England, Scandinavian countries, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Italy. Dr. Eastvold plans to make two quick stops prior to leaving for Europe. In Moorhead, Minnesota he will give the Commencement Address at Concordia University, and he will attend the Biennial Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. The Eastvolds will return to Tacoma in September (T. Times, 5/29/48, p. 10).

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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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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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