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);

ca. 1934. Girls freshman baseball nine won the annual baseball tournament in 1934, defeating the sophomores 18 to 9. Front row: Perkins, Davis, Ida Larson (captain), Hagberg. Back row: Fulton, Giske, Beerbohm, Hanson, Ramsby. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

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

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;

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. 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. Campus Day 1934 at the College of Puget Sound. Campus Day is the time set aside for the annual general spring campus cleanup. Pictured are a group of student workers enjoying the free lunch served by the Spurs in Howarth Hall after the annual frosh-soph tug-of-war contest. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound faculty, circa 1934. Front Row: James Rodenberg Slater (Biology), Lyle Ford Drushel (Dean of Women), Rowena Clement Lung (Drawing & Painting), Raymond S. Seward (Physics), Carol Angst (Secretary to the Bursar), Warren Tomlinson. Back row: Battin, Arthur W. Martin (Mathematics), Edgar C. Wheeler (Religious education), Walter Scott Davis (History & Political Science head.) (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

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

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. Staff of the 1934 "Tamanawas," group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound. Front row: Dorothy Foxwell, Phyllis Swanson, Gertrude Davis, Annabel Biggle, Eunice Perkins, Maurine Henderson and Harriet Rosenzweig. Back row: Howard Clifford, Carl Faulk, Jack Slatter, Fred Stockbridge, Richard Poole, Woodard. Not pictured are editor Delmore Martin and Business Manager Richard Zehnder. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Group portraits--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Jason Lee School baseball team, circa 1934. (WSHS)

Public Schools--Tacoma; Jason Lee Junior High School (Tacoma); Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Jason Lee School wrestling team, circa 1934. (WSHS)

Public Schools--Tacoma; Jason Lee Junior High School (Tacoma); Wrestlers;

No you're not seeing double; in February of 1936, Naval Avenue School in Bremerton boasted of 8 sets of twins, more twins than any other institution in the city of comparable size. Four sets of twins were enrolled in the first grade. Pictured, left to right with one sitting and other standing, are Tillie and Clifford Williams, Phillip and Phyllis Thornton, Adrian and Allen Mathews, Dorothy and Donna Misz, Teddy and Richard Holland, Dorothy and Donald Davis, Norene and Arlene Crites and Hollis and Wallace Erwin. For Bremerton Sun. (filed with Argentum) (Bremerton Sun 2/20/1936, pg. 1)

School children--Bremerton--1930-1940; Classrooms--Bremerton--1930-1940; Twins; Naval Avenue School (Bremerton);

On August 31, 1936 two unidentified workmen delivered fifty new typewriters to the Central School building at 601 South 8th Street - just in time for the new school year, which began September 1st. The typewriters were ordered from Stationers, Inc. at 926 Pacific Avenue. The "new" Central School opened in 1913, and was used as a school building until 1968 when it was converted to the Districts administrative headquarters.

Central School (Tacoma); Delivering--Tacoma; Typewriters; Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Dash Point School, circa 1939. Dash Point was founded around the turn of the century and is located on the bluffs across Commencement Bay from downtown Tacoma. (Argentum)

Public schools--Dash Point;

ca. 1901. Tacoma Business College at the corner of South 9th and Tacoma Avenue South circa 1901. The business college occupied the top floor(s) of the Lucerne Block which was later renamed the Midtown Bldg and the Hess Bldg. The school instructed its students in shorthand, bookkeeping, typewriting, commercial law and other business subjects. It had previously been located in the 1200 block of Tacoma Ave. So. before moving to the Lucerne Block. The Bennett New & Second Hand Furniture store (at 901 Tacoma Ave. So.) occupied part of the first floor. It was owned by Thomas Bennett and sold new and second hand furniture, stoves and carpets. Frank P. Fentress's Bicycles & Bicycle Sundries firm (at 903 Tacoma Ave. So.) was adjacent to Thomas Bennett's establishment. Both businesses had sale items on display under the building's large front awnings. (Arthur French Collection)

Tacoma Business College (Tacoma); Bennett New & Second Hand Furniture (Tacoma); Frank P. Fentress Bicycles (Tacoma);

Dupont School pictures; school girls. Dupont is located between Ft. Lewis and the Nisqually reach in Pierce County. It was named for E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, a manufacturing leader in explosives. However, by the 1950's, most of the student body came from Ft. Lewis families. The girls are wearing skirts or dresses, no slacks were allowed at school. Many wear socks with their shoes.

School children--Dupont; Dupont School (Dupont); Girls--Dupont--1950-1960;

Dupont School pictures; school boys. Dupont is located between Ft. Lewis and the Nisqually reach in Pierce County and was in the early days inhabited by settlers and employees of the Hudson's Bay Trading Post. It was named for E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, a manufacturing leader in explosives which opened a powder plant in DuPont in 1906. However, by the 1950's, most of the student body came from Ft. Lewis families. The boys are dressed in slacks or jeans with dress shirts or t-shirts, however, almost all of them are wearing undershirts.

School children--Dupont; Dupont School (Dupont); Boys--Dupont--1950-1960;

Dupont School, Ft. Lewis Midget Team. The baseball team, the "Tigers," pose in uniform with their coach in the center of the back row. By 1975, DuPont students no longer attended high school in their own hometown. Ft. Lewis now sent all of its students to Clover Park. DuPont's school Laughbon High, a victim of boundary disputes with Clover Park school district and declining enrollment, closed on June 11, 1975. Weyerhauser bought the land and demolished the buildings.

School children--Dupont; Dupont School (Dupont); Baseball--Dupont; Baseball players--Dupont;

May Day festivities, Annie Wright Seminary. The young girls in the front wear dark sweaters, white blouses and either dark skirts or pants. They appear to be dancing the hokey pokey or the bunny hop in front of the ivy covered walls. The piano accompanist can be seen behind the railing. The woman to the left leaning against the railing in the picture hat is possibly Headmistress Ruth Jenkins. (TNT 5/20/1956, pg. D-1)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma--1950-1960;

May Day festivities, Annie Wright Seminary. One of the biggest social activities at Annie Wright was that annual rite of spring, May Day. A May Day queen would be crowned in the midst of performances and activities for parents and students. The queen was traditionally a senior and her maid of honor a junior. These girls appear to be middle school age students, dressed in matching polka dot skirts. They will possibly be performing for the festivities, using the umbrellas. (TNT 5/20/1956, pg. D-1)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma--1950-1960;

May Day festivities, Annie Wright Seminary. Younger girls dressed in white dresses with sashes at their waists and dark ballet shoes perform a traditional Maypole dance to the delight of May Queen Becky Broughton and her court. The dancing girls are members of the school's third class. The dancers will twist the pole's streamers in an attractive pattern by going over and under the others' streamers. This largely European holiday celebrates the coming of summer. (TNT 5/20/1956, pg. D-1)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma--1950-1960;

1956 May Day festivities, Annie Wright Seminary. Flag bearer Sophomore Barbara Staples leads in a group of petite and very young students dressed in full skirted white dresses with matching white anklets and white shoes and carrying flowers. The May Day court appears lined up in the background, ready to enter. (1956 issue of The Shield, Annie Wright yearbook, TNT 5/20/1956, pg. D-1))

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Festivals--Tacoma--1950-1960; Staples, Barbara; School children--Tacoma--1950-1960;

1956 May Day festivities, Annie Wright Seminary. Front row attendants, left to right: Marcia Jensen, Wendy Peterson, Sandy Cites, Janet Junkley, Gretchen Anderson, Debbie Kass, Hurlaine Johnson. Flag Bearers: Julia Mackay and Barbara Staples. Sceptre Bearer: Peggy Guyles. Crown Bearer: Mary McGoldrick. Second row, left to right: Mardi Camerer, Twyla Martin, Jane Fairbourn, Didi Camerer. Third row: Philinda Parry, Carol Somers, Joanne Ginn, Judy Spencer. Fourth row: Sandra Hagedorn, Becky Broughton (May Queen), Louanne Gibson (Maid of Honor), Wanita Townsend. Fifth row: Sondra Schafer, Nancy Lampson, Janet Haley, Nancy Steen. Sixth row: Sharon Reid, Sue Marie Lynn, Katie Bernhard, Jessie Nelson. Last row: Bobbie Allen, Helen Tompkins, Ann Wohleben, Kay Richards, Margot Hoffmeister, Sharon Ryder. Queen Rebecca Broughton was from Dayton, Wa. She was the Vice President of the Athletic Association and the yearbook noted that she was always cheerful, even on Monday mornings. (1956 issue of The Shield, Annie Wright yearbook, TNT 5/20/1956, pg. D-1)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma--1950-1960; Broughton, Rebecca;

Some of the hi-jinks of the annual Annie Wright Seminary's Dad's Day. Five upper class girls in matching dark blouses and white shorts and one brightly attired Dad perform a high kick routine to the delight of uniformed girls, their Dads and Headmistress Ruth Jenkins, at the bottom right of picture. Families were invited to the school for this special annual event and activities were planned for the students and their Dads.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Private schools--Tacoma;

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)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1950-1960; Festivals--Parkland--1950-1960; Universities & colleges--Parkland--1950-1960; Folk dancing--Parkland--1950-1960;

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")

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1950-1960; Festivals--Parkland--1950-1960; Universities & colleges--Parkland--1950-1960; Folk dancing--Parkland--1950-1960;

Commencement at College of Puget Sound. Large crowd gathered around fenced obelisk.

Education - Colleges and Universities - Tacoma - University of Puget Sound

Commencement at College of Puget Sound. Graduates and families around fenced obelisk.

Education - Colleges and Universities - Tacoma - University of Puget Sound

With a shot from varsity track coach Jim Walsh's starting pistol, Lincoln High School speedsters Jerry Elmore, Jeff Terry and Bill Elmore are off their starting blocks for a 100 yard dash in April of 1956. Fellow track members look on from the sidelines. Coach Walsh, in his first year at Lincoln, and Chuck Gilmur, the field coach, had a rough year in 1956. With a team of mostly sophomores and juniors, Lincoln won 1 meet and lost 6. (1956 yearbook, The Lincolnian)

Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Track athletics--Tacoma--1950-1960; Running races--Tacoma--1950-1960; Runners (Sports)--Tacoma--1950-1960; Running; Elmore, Jerry; Terry, Jeff; Elmore, Bill; Walsh, Jim; Coaches (Athletics)--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Lincoln High School reserve track team picture for the yearbook "The Lincolnian." Pictured are bottom row, left to right, Loren Donahue, Don Smith, John Kouklis, William Wilbur. Top row, left to right, Melvin Johnson, Duane DeForest, Dave Jackman, George Pettitt, Dick Elliott, Jim E. Jones. The athletes were called over from a practice to pose for this April, 1956, photograph, on the old cinder track. During his first year as varsity track coach, Jim Walsh, former New Jersey State College athlete, headed up a team consisting mostly of sophomores and juniors. With the assistance of field coach Chuck Gilmur, Walsh tried to bring his team up to speed. Unfortunately, out of 7 track meets, the team won 1 and lost 6. (The 1956 Lincolnian) (Additional information provided by a reader)

Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Track athletics--Tacoma--1950-1960; Donahue, Loren; Smith, Don; Kouklis, John; Wilbur, William; Johnson, Melvin; DeForest, Duane; Jackman, Dave; Pettitt, George; Elliott, Dick; Jones, Jim E.;