Pierce College -established in 1967 as Clover Park Community College -classes started 9/25/1967 with evening sessions at Clover Park High School -named changed to Fort Steilacoom Community College in 1968 -permanent campus opened in 1970 with temporary bldgs. -permanent campus construction started in 1972 (Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch. and Merit Co., contr.) -ground breaking held 4/17/1972 -permanent campus bldgs. opened 10/3/1973 -dedicated 5/19/1974 -named changed to Pierce College in Mar. 1986 SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
TNT 2/2/1962 p.7 Clover Park seeking junior college site
TNT 1/9/1963 p.B8 Junior college hopes raised in Lakewood
TNT 5/25/1967 p.A22 New board studying site for CP College
TNT 6/14/1967 CP College to open in high school (to open 9/25/1967 at Clover Park High School)
TNT 6/25/1967 p.A4 New college prexy faces task: No buildings, campus or money
TNT 8/15/1967 p.1 New home for CPark's "checkstand college" (aerial il) Suburban Times 11/15/1967 State leases 131 acres at WSH for future CPCC campus site
TNT 11/15/1967 p.A10 Clover Park College now has scenic campus (il)
TNT 2/8/1968 Clover Park College eyes new name
TNT 2/28/1968 p.B5 CPark CC considers new name
TNT 5/14/1968 p.39 College's new name: Fort Steilacoom CC
TNT 6/25/1968 Lakewood campus study session held
TNT 3/11/1969 p.4 Ft. Steilacoom college board hears plans
TNT 5/13/1969 .. building start set
TNT 7/16/1969 p.D13 Board OKs FSCC first phase plans
TNT 10/14/1969 Steilacoom CC plans land swap
TNT 1/13/1970 Steilacoom College to get site, rooms (portable classroom bldgs. to be moved to site)
TNT 4/14/1970 Fort Steilacoom College to ask $4.5 million for construction
TNT 7/14/1970 Steilacoom CC to get 55 portables
TNT 11/1/1970 p.B6 Ft. Steilacoom College finally has campus (il)
TNT 8/17/1971 College building set for late fall T.Review 1/26/1972 FSCC buildings bulging (il of portables) T.Review 4/19/1972 FSCC ground breaking held Monday (sketch)
TNT 3/3/1973 p.23 Rising on the banks of Lake Waughop (il)
TNT 9/6/1973 College finally has a home (il)
TNT 5/17/1974 Open house (il)
TNT 9/29/1974 p.E15 FSCC plans two new classroom buildings (sketch)
TNT 9/21/1975 p.B2 Ft. Steilacoom faces year with space, but no room (il)
TNT 4/7/1976 FSCC parking battle raging
TNT 9/12/1976 p.C12 FSCC prexy on campus at last
TNT 11/2/1976 Oppelt bust to be unveiled
TNT 11/15/1976 Oppelt bust unveiled (Dr. Marion Oppelt Student Center dedicated)
TNT 12/15/1976 FSCC's Dr. Oppelt to retire (il)
TNT 2/22/1979 FSCC to install pool-lift tomorrow
TNT 2/25/1979 p.A10 Lift put into operation for handicapped (interior il of swimming pool)
TNT 10/3/1979 FSCC to get theater or parking lot?
TNT 7/9/1980 FSCC to dedicate Thoreau-type cabin
TNT 10/30/1981 Students will take their pens to Thoreau-like cabin on lake (il)
TNT 6/15/1984 Center opens door to learning; FSCC children's facility is students' laboratory
TNT 6/29/1985 p.B2 FSCC looking at a name change which would reflect broader region it serves and which would be easier on the tongue
TNT 3/13/1986 p.B5 Ft. Steilacoom Comm. Coll. to be renamed Pierce College; change effective immediately, but gradually in practice
TNT 7/29/1987 Pierce College dental hygiene program receives new facility
TNT 11/1/1987 p.C8 Pierce College thespians move from lunchroom to new theater (interior il)
TNT 6/6/1988 Pierce College student dies after lab experiment
TNT 5/12/1993 Pierce College to open outdoor amphitheater
TNT 1/20/2013 p.B1 Eyeing outer space from a comfy seat: Pierce College's "Science Dome", the only planetarium in the South Sound 979.778 D921L p.122 (il) 979.778 M364T p.195 (il)
