R. Franklin Thompson, Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) was the President of College of Puget Sound. College of Puget Sound was established in 1888. Their Alma Mater was "All hail to Alma Mater, The best that can be found, The spirit of the Westland---All hail to Puget Sound. Her guardian is the Mountain, Beside the silver sea; We love thee, Alma Mater---All hail, all hail to thee."

College presidents--Tacoma; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Thompson, R. Franklin, 1908-1999;

This aerial photograph of part of the northwest section of the Stadium District was taken in August of 1948. The large Tudor Gothic design building at the bottom is Annie Wright Seminary, 827 Tacoma Avenue North, which opened at this address in 1924. Immediately above Annie Wright are the courts and clubhouse of the Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club, 502 Borough Road. The large area of trees to the left is the "top" end of Garfield Park. TPL-9494

Private schools--Tacoma; Neighborhoods--Tacoma; Aerial photographs; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--Buildings;

Stadium High School was built in 1891, it was built in the French Chateau style and originally designed by architect A. B. Hewitt, architect Frederick Heath remodeled the building and changed it into the school. Stadium Bowl was built in 1909, it has been remodeled many times because of mudslides and weather damage. Aerial view of Stadium High School and Stadium Bowl.

Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Sports & recreation facilities--Tacoma; Waterfronts; Cities & towns--Tacoma; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Stadium High School (Tacoma); Stadium Bowl (Tacoma);

Three students lean from one of the windows of the ivy covered buildings at Annie Wright Seminary. The girls wear dark sweaters that are part of their school uniforms. The school had several high school boarding students.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Private schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Uniforms; Dormitories--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 format. A view of the exterior of the buildings at Annie Wright. The school first opened in Tacoma in 1884. The facility moved to this location in 1924. The buildings were designed by Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, architects. The Tudor Gothic brick buildings are covered by ivy. The roofs are studded by dormers. Expansive grounds surround the buildings.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--Buildings; Private schools--Tacoma; Educational facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Faculty luncheon, CPS. A woman, wearing a hat, looks on while a man plays the piano. He plays with no music. Likely he is providing music for the faculty luncheon at the College of Puget Sound as they prepare for another academic year.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pianos; Pianists--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hats--1940-1950;

Six of the more than 75 students who participated in the United Nations Day parade at Horace Mann School in October of 1948 are shown wearing costumes from countries belonging to the United Nations. Twenty-two countries were represented by students in costumes. Shown are, L-R, Sonja June Cole in a Russian costume, Sharon Doering in a Norwegian dress, Ann Cusato in an Hawaiian grass skirt and lei, Colleen Carr in a Chinese costume, Marilyn Lodge in clothing from Holland and Don Cady in a Chinese costume. (T.Times, 10/29/1948, p.7) Times, Mr. Kimball.

Horace Mann School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; School children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Costumes; Parades & processions--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cole, Sonja June; Doering, Sharon; Cusato, Ann; Carr, Colleen; Lodge, Marilyn; Cady, Don;

The Marchetta Ki girls marching unit at Lincoln High School was scheduled to perform at two football games during the first weekend of November in 1948. On Friday evening, November 5 they appeared at the Bellingham - Lincoln H. S. game in the Lincoln Bowl. The next day they were part of the halftime show at the College of Puget Sound (now U.P.S) Homecoming game against Central Washington. The officers of Marchetta Ki are: (l to r) Joan Rehn, vice-president; Joyce Lombardo, treasurer; Elaine Kendley, majorette; Beverly Lithgow, secretary; and Betty Mackey, president. (TNT, 11/5/1948 p.13)

Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Marcetta-Ki (Tacoma); Drum majorettes--Tacoma--1940-1950; Drill teams; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Rehn, Joan; Lombardo, Joyce; Kendley, Elaine; Lithgow, Beverly; Mackey, Betty;

Tacoma Public Schools served Thanksgiving meals to about 12,000 students with children receiving turkey, dressing and all the holiday fixings. The school cooks and their assistants were busy preparing the special meal all day. View of students eating and drinking their milk and Thanksgiving meal in the lunchroom at Bryant Elementary School (T. Times, 11/26/48, p. 5). TPL-8331

Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Thanksgiving cookery; School children--Tacoma--1940-1950; School meals--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cafeterias--Tacoma; Children eating & drinking--Tacoma; Bryant Elementary School (Tacoma);

In January 1949 Annie Wright Seminary students would be traveling to Olympia where they would visit the Governor and the State government buildings. The above photograph of students enrolled in Annie Wright Seminary's lower school appeared in the 1949 Annie Wright Seminary's yearbook, the Shield. All the girls are wearing their uniforms. (AWS Shield, 1949).

Private schools--Tacoma; Boarding schools--Tacoma; Uniforms; School children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Group portraits; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1940-1950;

Robert West, Lincoln High School art student, was awarded first place for his "Night Incandescent", he received a $300 full tuition waiver for CPS's art program. Robert Greuger, Stadium High School art student, received second place and a $150 partial tuition waiver. The contest was open to students from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana; out of 11 honorable mentions, 7 were awarded to Tacoma students. View of unidentified group viewing student entries for art competition, possibly College of Puget Sound art judges (T. Times, 1/4/49, p. 9).

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; Competition entries--Tacoma; Contests--Tacoma; Paintings; Art exhibitions--Tacoma; Hats--1940-1950; Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1940-1950; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Alpha Rho Tau (Tacoma);

College of Puget Sound's Art Department and Alpha Rho Tau, College Art Honorary, were sponsoring the first annual High School art competition. The winners would be awarded full or partial scholarships to attend the art program at College of Puget Sound. View of unidentified group viewing student entries for art competition, possibly College of Puget Sound art judges, admiring an abstract painting (T. Times, 1/4/49, p. 9).

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; Contests--Tacoma; Abstract paintings; Competition entries--Tacoma; Art exhibitions--Tacoma; Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1940-1950; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Alpha Rho Tau (Tacoma);

College of Puget Sound. Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, President of the College of Puget Sound, and nine members of the Flower Growers' Garden Club are placing a plaque on the campus to mark the sequoia tree that was planted by earlier members of the club in 1932. L-R, they are, standing, Dr. Thompson, Estelle B. (Mrs. A.D.) Elder, Mrs. Jay McCune, Eva Laura (Mrs. Guy) Pierce, Mrs. George R. Mistead, Martha (Mrs. S.A.) Maynew, Jane R. (Mrs. Edgar M.) Densmore, and Mrs. Effie Stowe. L-R, kneeling, Lula M. (Mrs. C.M.) Shank, club president, and Katheryne (Mrs. H.T.) Greenup. (TNT, 10/3/1948, p.1)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; College presidents--Tacoma; Thompson, R. Franklin, 1908-1999; Aged persons--Tacoma--1940-1950; Rites & ceremonies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Elder, E.B.; Shank, Lula; Pierce, Eva; Greenup, K.; Maynes, M.;

Manitou School group. A group portrait of one of the school classes at Manitou School. There are thirteen girls and sixteen boys.The School Board was faced with tough questions in 1911. How to provide for a school population that was increasing at the rate of nearly 1,000 new students per year? Voters approved a special levy on May 6, 1911, for several new elementary schools and a new high school. A portable was secured for the Manitou neighborhood and in September, Sara Cochrane began teaching the first three grades in the one-room building. (For the Record, a History of Tacoma Public Schools, 1869-1984, by Winnifred L. Olsen) Format 5" x 8"

Manitou Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; School children--Tacoma--1940-1950;

May Day celebration. Queen Ardys Bredvold is seated in the center of her many attendants. She was crowned queen of the May festival at Pacific Lutheran College. Queen Ardys and her attendants are shown on a raised dais decorated with spring flowers and an arch of flowers behind her.

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Parkland--1940-1950; Rites & ceremonies--Parkland--1940-1950; Celebrations--Parkland--1940-1950; Bredvold, Ardys; Evening gowns--Parkland--1940-1950;

May Day celebration. Queen Ardys Bredvold is seen with her attendants at Pacific Lutheran College. Ardys has been crowned queen of the May festival. Her coronation took place in the new gymnasium at the college. The young women in the front hold a long ribbon that formed the edges of the walkway the queen took to reach her throne on the dais.

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Parkland--1940-1950; Rites & ceremonies--Parkland--1940-1950; Celebrations--Parkland--1940-1950; Bredvold, Ardys; Evening gowns--Parkland--1940-1950;

In May of 1948, the Fife High School held their annual Junior and Senior Dinner Dance at the Winthrop Hotel's Wedgewood Room. View of Viletta Steele, in her beautiful spring formal, dancing with Harold Watrin. Students admiring the dancing couple are, left to right, Stanton Schack, Eugene Rowan, Jim Saugan, Clinton Nell, Arnold Riveness and Gene Matson (T.N.T., 5/13/48, p. 21).

Public schools--Fife; Students--Fife; Balls (Parties)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Ballroom dancing--Tacoma--1940-1950; Ball dresses; Fife High School (Fife); Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

View of Stanley Elementary School's Principal Thune at his desk, end of the year school photos. Stanley elementary was getting ready to end the 1947-1948 school year, the school would have sixth grade graduations and end of the year activities. The Stanley PTA was helping plan this year's festivities.

School principals--Tacoma; Education--Tacoma; Public schools--Tacoma; Desks; Thune, Elmer T.; Stanley Elementary School (Tacoma);

High School hockey team. Times, Metcalf. The 1948 Stadium Ice Hockey team was practicing at Lakewood Ice Arena. Dick Milford was coach, standing on right. The goalie is wearing a padded vest for some protection against a puck coming his way. Names listed. (T.Times, 3/23/1948, p.10)

Stadium High School (Tacoma); Sports; Ice hockey--Tacoma--1940-1950; Coaching (Athletics)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lakewood Ice Arena (Lakewood);

Several groups at Stewart Junior High School, Mrs. Andres, Times. Stewart Junior High School held its eight annual May festival May 7, 1948. Queen Arlee Curtice is seated on a stool raised higher than the others who are seated on stools. The other young women are her posture duchesses. They are dressed in summer play clothes including pedal pushers, shorts, and blouses, some with midriffs exposed. Helen Andres was one of the directors of the May festival for 1948. Names listed in newspaper. (T.Times, 5/6/1948, p.13)

Stewart Junior High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Several groups at Stewart Junior High School, Mrs. Andres, Times. Eight students from Stewart Junior High School are standing on the school steps wearing full-length summer dresses.

Stewart Junior High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Teenagers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dresses;

Panhellenic Tea at Great Hall, Annie Wright, News Tribune, Mrs. Hosmer. The Tacoma Panhellenic honored graduating senior high school girls and their mothers at their annual tea on April 24, 1948, at the Great Hall at Annie Wright. The program consisted of talks by Miss Maxine Blake and Miss Jacquine Norback about college life from the student's view point. Lona Huseby played Chopin and Debussy on the piano. The Clover Park choir sang. This view shows four women wearing corsages in front of one of the fireplaces in the Great Hall. (T.Times, 4/22/1948, p.10)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Panhellenic Committee (Tacoma); Fraternities & sororities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tea parties--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dresses--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In March of 1949, Bellarmine High School journalists were given the opportunity to put their classroom education into practice by the Tacoma Times. In 1949, the journalism students in each of the area high schools worked as interns for the Tacoma Times for several weeks. Standing are (l to r): Mr. Neill R. Meany, S.J., advisor to the students, Tom Kornell, Dick Jensen, Harvey Beauchamp, Jim McGuigan, Jack Baker, Jim Loonan; Seated: Jay Merrick and John Harbottle. (T.Times, 2/13/1949, p.29) TPL-8573

Bellarmine High School (Tacoma); Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Church schools--Tacoma; Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma); Meany, Neill; Kornell, Tom;

Layout on Beaux Arts Ball, Times, Mrs. MacDonald. A quartet of young men are performing at the ball wearing white shirts, white vests, big bow ties, straw hats, and matching, checked masks. They each hold a cane over their left arms. Two of the men are wearing obviously fake mustaches. The costume ball was hosted by the art honorary fraternity, Alpha Rho Tau.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Dance parties--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Costumes; Masquerades--Tacoma--1940-1950; Barbershop quartets;

Tacoma Philharmonic at Tacoma Schools. Students sit two to a seat listening to recorded music as a preview to the second young people's concert of the season that was held February 16, 1949, at Temple Theater. Pupils from 4th through 9th grades in public and parochial schools attended. Ann Deyo, a fifth grader in Miss Hilda Meisner's class at Lowell School is about to play a recording of "Die Fledermaus" overture by Johann Strauss which they would hear performed at the matinee concert sponsored by the Tacoma Philharmonic and Meadowsweet Dairies, Inc. (TNT, 2/14/1949, p.2)

Lowell Elementary School (Tacoma); School children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Deyo, Ann; Classrooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pianos; Music education--Tacoma--1940-1950; Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Philharmonic Association (Tacoma);

Three men speakers and students who arranged assembly at Mason Junior High, Times, Dick Yost. Mason Junior High School held a round table discussion at a student assembly as a climax to Brotherhood Week, with the five persons seated here: L-R, Dr. Harold B. Long, of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Rabbi Bernard D. Rosenberg of Temple Beth Israel, Roy Wright, Mason School moderator, Father Henry Buchman of St. Patrick's Church, and Sumner Bennett, Mason student speaker. The group was photographed on February 25, 1949. (T.Times, 2/28/1949, p.5)

Mason Junior High School (Tacoma); Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Discussion; Long, Harold B; Rosenberg, Bernard D.; Wright, Roy; Buckman, Henry; Bennett, Sumner; Teenagers--1940-1950; Rabbis--Tacoma; Priests--Tacoma--1940-1950;

College of Puget Sound. Students in a physics class are conducting an experiment with light. One of the students works an instrument with a large, flexible bellows and a viewer on the top. The instrument is pointed towards a florescent light. Another student seated at the table is adjusting part of the mechanism. A spectrum chart stands near the door. Other students and the instructor look on.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Classrooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; Physics--Tacoma--1940-1950; Experiments--Tacoma--1940-1950;

College of Puget Sound. The Central Board was a group of students vested with the responsibility of appointing committee heads, supervising the control of ASCPS finances, choosing publication heads and planning special campus events. The board was comprised of representatives of each class, editors of the Trail and Tamanawas, department managers of forensics, men's and women's intramural, music and dramatics, elected officers of ASCPS, and three faculty advisors. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.69)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Committees--Tacoma--1940-1950; Meetings--Tacoma--1940-1950;

College of Puget Sound. A view of men studying in the men's dormitory lounge. Several men sit around a large table in the middle of the room. A counter runs around the room to provide additional study areas. Several of the men are smoking pipes.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Studying--Tacoma--1940-1950; Interiors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lounges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tobacco pipes;

College of Puget Sound. A view of the lounge at the women's dormitory at the College of Puget Sound. Several women are seated around the room reading, knitting and at the piano. One woman looks out the window and two are standing on the stairway. Lamps, carpeting, and draperies create a comfortable interior.

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Studying--Tacoma--1940-1950; Interiors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lounges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950;