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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Annie Wright Seminary was having their annual candlelight Christmas carol services, Christmas festivities would follow. This was an event that all grade levels at AWS participated in. View of Annie Wright students trying to get Santa's attention, the school Christmas tree is in background decorated with balloons, the teacher is standing on left side of Santa Claus (T.N.T., 12/12/48, p. D-4). TPL-8104

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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.

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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.

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Annie's Birthday at Annie Wright, Times, Miss E. Lewis. Gathered in the Great Hall, graduates of the 1948 class at Annie Wright Seminary completed the traditional spade hiding ceremony and said good-bye to one another as they prepared to leave for different colleges through the country. They hid the spade for the class of 1949 to find. In addition, according to custom, the choir at the first service of the school year was made up of graduates of Annie Wright. (T.Times, 9/l17/1948, p.4)

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Group of approximately 9 students and mothers at Seminary, Annie Wright Seminary, Miss Lewis. Annie Wright was preparing for the opening of school the next week. This year marked the seminary's 65th year. Annie's Party, the traditional gathering of old and new students, was held September 15th, 1948. Walking together in front of the school are, L-R, Phyllis Ridge, president of the Raynor Guild; Marie Lynn, student; Gail Connor, president of the student council, Maria Weiss, student in school uniform, ready to enter Class I; Ruth Jenkins, head mistress; Donald J. McNeil, Jr., student in the 4 year kindergarten; Mildred Russell, president of the junior class, Nancy Osmers, student; and Sheila Abel, president of the Masque Players. (TNT, 9/12/1948, p. D-1)

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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

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