College students pile into an old jalopy on their way to the College of Puget Sound's first annual C.P.S. picnic. The topless automobile with spoke wheels is being cranked by one of the students. CPS students and faculty took the afternoon off April 28, 1938 to stage their first annual picnic on campus. Classes were dismissed at 2:30p.m. and were replaced with a tug-of-war, softball, volleyball, horseshoes, lunch, a community sing and dancing under the stars. (T. Times, 4/29/1938, p. 1)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Picnics; Automobiles;

College of Puget Sound students vie for first team up to bat at the first annual C.P.S. picnic on April 28, 1938. The baseball tradition involves a member from each team placing their hands around the neck of the bat; the last to reach the top wins. Students and faculty took the afternoon off to enjoy two hours of games, including softball, volleyball and horseshoes, lunch and finally dancing under the stars. (T. Times, 4/29/1938, p. 1).

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

College of Puget Sound students play leap frog at the first annual C.P.S. picnic on April 28, 1938. Classes were dismissed at 2:30p.m. so that students and faculty could enjoy some outdoor fun and fellowship. (T. Times 4/29/1938, p. 1).

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Picnics; Games;

College of Puget Sound students tossed horseshoes in an avid game enjoyed at the first annual C.P.S. picnic on April 28, 1938. Lois Kuhl pitched for a ringer. Surrounding her were Bill Wood (kneeling,) Dean John D. Regester, Lillian Hendrickson, Betty Worden and Mary Louise Erickson. Students and faculty threw away the books and took the afternoon off to enjoy outdoor games, lunch, a group sing and dancing. (T. Times, 4/29/1938, p. 1).

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Picnics; Sports; Horseshoe pitching--Tacoma--1930-1940; Horseshoes; Kuhl, Lois; Wood, Bill; Regester, John D.; Hendrickson, Lillian; Worden, Betty; Erickson, Mary Louise;

Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities, May 1, 1935. Processional, many girls in dresses on lawn, audience in folding chairs. (filed with Argentum)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; May Day--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary May Day activities, May 1, 1935. Little girls in short dresses dancing on lawn. The dance is a modern one, utilizing white scarves.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; May Day--Tacoma;

The culmination of the festivities on May day at Annie Wright School, located at 827 Tacoma Avenue North, is the winding of the May Pole. In this photograph from 1935 the school's younger pupils dance around the pole to the approving gaze of upper classmen, friends and relatives. Originally known as Field Day, the May Day celebration included music, dance, sports and the crowning of the May Queen; it is one of the most treasured traditions of the school. In 1935 Marian Guyles was crowned May Queen.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; May Day--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma;

Annie Wright Seminary Field Day, also known as May Day, 5/1/1935. Girls leaving pitch after playing Field Hockey.

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Field hockey; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

A young man with a tennis racquet, tentatively identified as Weyerhaeuser acquaintance Bob Taylor, poses on a path at Annie Wright Seminary, near the area where 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser was kidnapped on May 24, 1935. The path was possibly used by the kidnappers. The Weyerhaeuser kidnapping was the second most famous in the nation and Tacoma's most sensational crime. It had everything to make newspaper headlines, a handsome grade school boy and a moneyed family desperate for his return. The retiring Weyerhaeusers however spoke only to the police and moved secretly so that publicity did not prevent George from being released. By June 1, 1935, George had been released. The first set of suspects was arrested within weeks, a former Puyallup couple named Harmon and Margaret Waley, and they identified the third suspect, William Dainard, who was arrested almost a year later. (T. Times 5/26/1935, pg. 1 plus succeeding months.)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Kidnappings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Weyerhaeuser, George H.--Kidnappings;

Steps and hedge at Annie Wright Seminary, one of the possible locations for the abduction of George Weyerhaeuser on May 24, 1935. He was kidnapped from the grounds of seminary, near the tennis courts, as he walked at noontime from Lowell Elementary to meet his sister at the seminary and travel home for lunch. The boy was held for $200,000 in ransom. (T. Times 5/26/1935, pg. 1 plus succeeding months.)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Kidnappings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Weyerhaeuser, George H.--Kidnappings;

Hawthorne School 6A class photographed in June of 1937. The ten students smile into the sunshine on the steps of their school, built in 1913 from a design by Heath and Gove. The school was razed in 1981.

Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

ca. 1927. The cast of "Not So Fast, " the all college play, in front of a brick wall at the College of Puget Sound in 1927. The play was written by Charles Westervelt. Pictured left to right are Torrey Smith, Robert Leatherwood, Audrey-Dean Albert, Wendell Brown, Edith Jones, Elizabeth Welton, Sam Pugh, and Leonore Bloomfield. Although most of the College's play casts were members of the Drama Club, the all college play had open auditions. (1927 C.P.S. annual, "Tamanawas," pg. 47) (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1920-1930; Drama clubs--Tacoma--1920-1930;

6A class and teachers on porch of Horace Mann School in January of 1927. This Horace Mann School was built in 1901 in the southend of Tacoma from a design by C.A. Darmer, architect. It was demolished after the new school was built in 1953. (WSHS)

Horace Mann School (Tacoma); Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. In 1927, first grade scholars sit at their desks in McKinley School showing off their handmade alphabet cards. The walls behind are adorned with student art work, including images of "Mount Tacoma," the name preferred in the early years by most Tacomans for our beloved Mount Rainier. This eight room McKinley schoolhouse was erected in 1908 at 3702 McKinley. Additions were made in 1910 and then the school remained virtually the same until 1954. In 2005, the school is still one of several elementary schools serving the McKinley Hill neighborhood. TPL-8776 (Argentum and 8 x10 print)

McKinley School (Tacoma); School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Irving School 6A class in June of 1927. Irving, named after author Washington Irving, was one of three schools built around 1890, the result of a bond issue. It was declared unsafe 3 years after this picture and closed in 1930. The school was razed in 1934. (WSHS)

Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Irving School (Tacoma);

Sheridan School 6A Class in June of 1927. The children pose in front of 1908 school structure designed by Frederick Heath. The school was named after Civil War general Philip H. Sheridan. This structure was demolished in the 1990's. (WSHS)

School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; Sheridan School (Tacoma); Education--Tacoma; Group portraits;

Minuet at Washington School in May of 1927. Eight boys and eight girls in Colonial era costume. (WSHS)

School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; Washington School (Tacoma); Costumes;

ca. 1927. Furnace steam pipes at St. Joseph's Hospital for Harre & Farrell, Engineers. (Argentum)

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1920-1930; Furnaces--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. College of Puget Sound Women's Quartet, 1927. Four young women wearing white dresses and dark ties stand on the right and another young woman accompanies them at a piano on the left. The 1927 yearbook Tamanawas lists the names of the quartet as Alice Rockhill, Frances Martin, Genevieve Bitney and Mary Van Sickle and their accompanist as Helen Ohlsen. (WSHS)

Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Students--Tacoma--1920-1930; Singers; Pianos;

Jason Lee Junior High School, Opening Day. Assembly in auditorium. Nearly 30,000 students registered as city and county schools opened for fall quarter on September 7, 1938. (T. Times 9/7/1938, p. 1).

Jason Lee Junior High School (Tacoma);

Lincoln High School is being overrun by pirates. Actually they are part of the annual Music Department performance on May 20, 1938. The Boys Glee Club developed the pirate scene entirely by themselves, complete with realistic sword play and sea chanties. In this scene, Dean McPhaden and his crew of pirates discover Elton Ramage attempting to break into the treasure chest. McPhaden hits Ramage across the back with his rapier and a duel ensues. (T. Times 5/19/1938, pg. 18)

Lincoln High School (Tacoma)--Performances; Pirates; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Costumes; McPhaden, Dean; Ramage, Elton;

Chinese exhibit at Horace Mann school. Three young girls, left to right Betty Bowers, Amy Langlow and Josephine Field, dressed in kimonos are seated in front of a mural of mountain peaks, drawn in the oriental style. Miss Bowers holds a chinese fan, Miss Langlow holds a fisherman's globe and Miss Field holds chinese shoes. Hand-made paper lanterns made by the students hang overhead. The students were learning about China. (T. Times 12/9/1936)

Horace Mann School (Tacoma); Schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fans; Bowers, Betty; Langlow, Amy; Field, Josephine;

Pacific Lutheran College's noted Choir of the West sings at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new library building on October 23, 1937. P.L.C. choir director leads the college choir composed of men and women students. (T. Times 10/25/1937, pg. 3)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Cornerstone laying--Parkland--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Parkland; Rites & ceremonies--Parkland--1930-1940;

The cornerstone laying ceremony of the new library building on the Pacific Lutheran College campus took place on Saturday, October 23, 1937. A crowd gathered around the partially completed brick building to listen to the college's "Choir of the West." At this time, the school had an enrollment of 700 and was a Christian Junior College and Normal School headed by Dr. O.A. Tingelstad. This building was replaced in 1967 by the Mortvedt Library; it was remodeled and is now known as Xavier Hall. (T.Times 10/25/1937, pg. 3)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1930-1940; Cornerstone laying--Parkland--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Parkland; Rites & ceremonies--Parkland--1930-1940; Choirs (Music);

Pacific Lutheran College, May Day. Queen Verna Tegland and her court wearing formal attire and posing beside the school's four-story brick "Old Main" building during the coronation ceremony on April 30, 1937. (T. Times 5/1/1937, pg. 1)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland); May Day--Tacoma; Rites & Ceremonies--Tacoma; Festivals--Tacoma; Tegland, Verna;

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. 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;

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);

Stewart Intermediate School Band. About sixty school band students with instruments in gym. Photograph taken in February of 1936. Man at extreme right, third row, is probably the music teacher. (filed with Argentum)

Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Stewart Junior High School (Tacoma); Youth bands--Tacoma--1930-1940; Music education--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Bryant Elementary School, 6A Class. Approximately 45 boys and girls in front of wood and stone school building. (filed with Argentum)

Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bryant Elementary School (Tacoma);