Tea for new members of AAUW at Annie Wright Seminary, Tribune, Barbara Dana. The Tacoma branch of American Association of University Women honored its new members with a reception in the Great Hall of Annie Wright Seminary. Mrs. E.N. Davidson, president of the Tacoma branch, opened the business meeting . A musical program was furnished by students of Annie Wright. Mrs. M.J. Frapper, social chairman, was in charge of the tea and was assisted by Mrs. W.F. Norris as junior co-chairman. (TNT, 11/13/1949, p.D-4)

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary. In November of 1949, three students were photographed taking a break from studies in one of the large dormitory rooms at Annie Wright Seminary. One of the girls sits at a desk with a book open. Another student leans against one of the dressers in the room while sitting on the arm of an upholstered chair. The other girl sits on the end of her bed with stuffed animals. An Annie Wright banner is hung on the wall and there are also two bulletin boards hung on the walls. Annie Wright Seminary was a private school for girls, many of them boarding, which had been established in September of 1884.

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary. Ten members of the Seminary Athletic Council at Annie Wright Seminary pose with a plaque with a figure of the headless, winged victory. Several smaller, individual, engraved plaques hang from the bottom of the larger plaque. The council was one of the governing bodies at the seminary and planned athletic actiities, Dad's Day, Initiation, and the May Day Banquet. The girls wear one of their uniforms, dark skirts, white blouses with peter pan collars, a scarf at the collar opening and dark v-neck sweaters with the Annie Wright emblem on the left breast. (The Shield, 1950)

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary. Three students at Annie Wright Seminary practice their ballet movements. The students met every Monday and Friday in dance studio to practice, under the direction of Mis Nancy Jane Bare. They performed for the Christmas party, "Prince Rupert" and "Hunting for the Christmas Tree", for May Day, and a mid-year recital with "Gossip" and "Rondina". A large mirror and bars are seen against the wall behind them. (The Shield, 1950)

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary, a group portrait of the Blue Team. Four students in the front wear letter sweaters with "B" on them and beanies with "Blue" written on them. They also wear white shorts and saddle shoes. The other students in the photograph are wearing one of the Annie Wright uniforms of dark skirts, white blouses with peter pan collars, a scarf at the opening of the collar and a dark, v-neck sweater with the Annie Wright emblem on the left breast. (The Shield, 1950)

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary. A sign over the map says, "AWS Goes to College". Strings run between locations on the map to cards on the bulletin board with the names of colleges and names of Annie Wright students attending them.

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Activities at Annie Wright Seminary. Students are studying and taking notes during a science class at Annie Wright in November of 1949. One girl is examining something under a microscope and another student is weighing something, possibly a guinea pig. The girl in the middle is taking notes of the weight.

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On November 15, 1949, Nancy Jane Bare gave an informal lecture on ballet in the Great Hall at Annie Wright Seminary. To help explain the various moves and positions discussed in her presentation, she used a number of her students to demonstrate including: front row (l to r) Kaydene Anderson and Frances Delano, and behind them (l to r) Carolyn Solberg and Jillean Cormier. By the end of the evening, every Tacoman who attended the free lecture knew the difference between a grand jete and an entrechat. (TNT, 11/13/1949, p.d-12)

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A lecture-demonstration was given at Annie Wright Seminary by Nancy Jane Bare and eight students from the school. The program was presented in the Great Hall. The demonstration was concerned with the dancers training and with identification and explanation of some of the poses and dance steps in ballet. Dancers included Kaydene Anderson, Gail Boden, Jane Brisack, Jilleen Cormier, Frances Delano, Carolyn Solberg, Mary Lee Thompson and Dorothea Weiss. (TNT, 11/13/1949, p.D-12)

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. The entertainment is over and the audience is looking at the camera for this group portrait of fathers and daughters for Fathers' Day 1949. Two women stand in the arches along the right side of the open courtyard.

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. Fathers have joined their daughters for Fathers' Day. They are seated together at tables in the open courtyard at Annie Wright.

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. The audience is breaking up after a performance during a celebration of Fathers' Day at Annie Wright. The arcade along the right side is covered with ivy.

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Scenic views, Annie Wright Seminary. Two young girls and their fathers are leaving Annie Wright in this photograph dated May 21, 1949. This view shows the front of the building covered thickly with ivy.

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. Fathers of children in the lower classes are honored with a banquet and a performance for Fathers' Day held in the courtyard.

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. Fathers and their daughters are seated at the foot of a large staircase watching an entertainment in May of 1949. An ivy covered arched walkway is seen on the right of the open courtyard. Tables in the back are now empty.

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Scenic views, Annie Wright Seminary. The exterior of Raynor Chapel at Annie Wright Seminary from Tacoma Avenue North. The chapel was named for Mrs. Amanda A.H. Raynor, head of bible classes and vice principal from 1884 until 1907. The exterior of the building is thickly covered with ivy. A stained glass window is seen along the front of the building below the bell tower.

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Father's Day, lower classes, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Jenkins. A view of the banquet for fathers and daughters through the arcade at Annie Wright. They are celebrating Fathers' Day together in 1949.

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Scenic views, Annie Wright Seminary. A view of Raynor Chapel from the side along North 10th Street. The exterior is covered with a heavy growth of ivy.

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Annie Wright Seminary. A view of Commencement Bay from the playing field at Annie Wright Seminary. Men wearing street clothes are playing baseball and students and parents watch from the grassy hillside.

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Annie Wright Seminary. Men are playing baseball on the grounds of Annie Wright Seminary. The school's buildings are shown in the background. The man at bat is wearing suspenders and even his hat. Several students are seen in the stands and sitting on the lawn.

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Nancy Jane Bare prepares for a solo contemporary dance recital at Annie Wright Seminary's Keator Hall. A popular local talent in her own right, Bare was also the dance instructor at Annie Wright. Alice Weiss, well known Tacoma pianist, was to accompany Miss Bare's performance. The event was sponsored by the Annie Wright Seminary Mother's Club. View of Nancy Jane Bare gracefully expressing three qualities of the American Pioneer in "A Heritage" (TNT, 5/15/49, p. D-11). TPL-9814

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Photographer Bob Richards joins talented dance instructor Nancy Jane Bare in a high flying leap to demonstate how strobe lights could be used to freeze action without blurs. The couple resemble marionettes as they dance across the stage at Annie Wright Seminary in May of 1949. Using strobe lights, the Richards Studio cameras could freeze action at 1/10,000th second. Nancy Jane Bare taught hundreds of students while at Annie Wright Seminary, the University of Puget Sound, and Charles Wright Academy. At the time of this May, 1949, photograph, she had been a faculty member of Annie Wright for five years.

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In this creative photographic print from 1949 a photographer from the Richards Studio in Tacoma attempted to capture in one image the flow and grace of Nancy Jane Bare, a well known dance instuctor in Tacoma, as she executed a leap within a solo dance. Miss Bare performed a solo dance recital in Keator Hall at Annie Wright Seminary on May 17, 1949; the school's Mother's Club was sponsoring the performance, which was open to the public. Nancy Bare had been on the school's faculty for five years. (T.N.T., 5/15/49, p. D-11). TPL-9815

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Annie Wright Seminary's Mother's Club was presenting a contemporary dance solo recital by Nancy Jane Bare. Nancy Jane Bare has been a member of the AWS staff for five years and is also a well known Tacoma dancer. View of Miss Nancy Jane Bare, dance instructor at Annie Wright School (T.N.T., 5/15/49, p. D-11). TPL-8060

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Annie Wright Seminary offered students a few dance class options in 1949. They were available for both the lower school and the upper school classes and taught by Nancy Jane Bare. View of Annie Wright upper school dance group, left to right: Betty Northstrom, Karen Nelson, Ann Churchill, Flavia Gierin, Janice Dean, Marian Folsom and Nancy Mace (AWS Shield, 1949, p. 40).

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Annie Wright students were involved in hockey, basketball, bowling, tennis, ping-pong, volleyball, archery, swimming, softball, skiing and badminton; their sports were set up in two levels the "Gold Team" and the "Blue Team". View of Annie Wright members of the "Gold Team", the front row has four "Gold Team" cheerleaders and their mascot "Goldie" in the center. Names appear in AWS Shield (AWS Shield, 1949, p. 40).

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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).

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View of students enrolled in Annie Wright Seminary's lower school in this photograph taken on January 6, 1949. The lower school was the only program at Annie Wright that allowed boys to be enrolled, thus the lower school classrooms were mixed with girls and boys. These children did not live on the school grounds. The female students are wearing their school uniform; the classroom is decorated with winter holiday decorations (AWS Shield, 1949).

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Annie Wright Seminary offered kindergarten-4 through high school graduation education for girls; the kindergarten classes were for boys and girls. In 1949 Annie Wright's headmistress was Ruth Jenkins, Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr. was the school's Right Reverend. View of the Kindergarten-4 class; their teacher is showing the students how to count, Donald Duck is on the bookshelf in the back of the classroom (AWS Shield, 1949). TPL-8332

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View of the Annie Wright Seminary Kindergarten-4 class; Arthur Norman, Calvin Bamford, Helen Bannon, Richard Boyd, Sandra Brines, Karen Halfhill, Katherine Howe, Christine Kunz, Bettylou Lagerquist, Donald McNeill, Susan Phillips, Jay Riebe, Steven Sutton, Elizabeth Taylor, Jenny Walker, Pamela Weinstein, Sandra Young, and William Young. Kindergarten-4 teacher is possibly Eloise Ash or Norma Lyness (AWS Shield, 1949).

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