Charles A. Robbins, College of Puget Sound bursar, declared college trustee Norton Clapp the winner of the shoveling contest during the ground breaking ceremony for the school's new Student Union Building on October 16, 1940. From left to right in the front are: Tacoma Chamber of Commerce president Everett T. Smith, Student Body President Lyle Jamieson, Charles A. Robbins, Norton Clapp and Mayor Harry P. Cain. The young C.P.S. student president came in second in the contest. (T. Times, 10-17-40, p. 10)

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Ground breaking ceremonies at C.P.S. for new Student Union Building. A group of coeds with shovels take their turn during Homecoming Week in October, 1940. The Student Union Building was the first of three building projects totaling $300,000 which had been recently approved by the Board of Trustees. The school's population was growing and new structures needed to be built to accommodate the students.

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It's that wacky time again, time for the 12th annual Freshman Stunt Night at the College of Puget Sound, presented under the supervision of the Department of Dramatic Art. History will never be the same after September 20, 1940 when the Freshmen take aim at George Washington, Helen, Paris and the Trojan Horse, among others. Pictured left to right are Norma Gagliardi, Walter Ebbett, Aldo Benedetti (kneeling), Kay Copeland, Beverly Birdsall and Jack Miller. The four skits to be presented to students and the public are "George Washington's Life Story, Sort of Chopped Up by the Little Hatchet with which He Carved Out the United States," "Paris, This is It" (the love story of Helen, Paris and the Trojan Horse), a Baby Contest and "Spot Cash," the story of a fifty dollar bill as it changes hands. (T. Times 9/19/1940, pg. 11) TPL-9703

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College of Puget Sound had a ground breaking ceremony for their new building, the CPS Memorial Field House. The Memorial Field House will be dedicated to the 138 men from CPS who died in World War II. The Field House will be located on the south side of campus, it will have a steel reinforced concrete foundation, the building will be 200 feet by 168 feet and 36 feet from the floor to the overhead beams; it will accommodate more than 5,000 people. View of Mock & Morrison architectural drawing (T. Times, 8/4/48, p. 1).

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ca. 1962. Copy of customer print. Aerial photograph of Tacoma's northend, specifically the University of Puget Sound campus, ca. 1962. This copy has been retouched; dark rectangular and square shapes seem to indicate where new construction will be occurring on the campus. The university planned to put in five new fraternity houses directly across the street from the campus and build two women's dorms to supplement Anderson and Harrington Halls. Photograph ordered by the North Pacific Bank Note Co.

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Almost 1,000 individuals gathered to see the cornerstone laying ceremony on February 22, 1924 at Jones Hall, the first building to be constructed on the new campus of the College of Puget Sound at 1500 No. Warner St. At this time the college was located at 602 No. Sprague Ave. (now the site of Jason Lee Middle School.) To the extreme left is philanthropist Franke M. Tobey Jones, who was the donor of the building. It was dedicated to her late husband Charles H. Jones, one of the founders of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. To the left of the flag is D.D. Brown, presiding Elder at the time the first cornerstone was laid at the college's original location, and to the right is Dr.(Rev.) David G. LeSourd, one of the college's trustees and original planners. (TNT 2/23/1924, pg. 3) G67.1-035

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On February 12, 1924, the concrete work by contractors J.E. Bonnell & Sons on Jones Hall, the first building to be constructed on the new College of Puget Sound campus, was almost complete. The red tile roof was scheduled to be done next. The building was designed by the architecture firm of Sutton, Whitney & Dugan, as was the entire original campus. The school was patterned after the English educational institution of Cambridge. When completed, Jones Hall would represent an investment of $300,000. It was built completely of reinforced concrete with brick veneer, making the building fireproof. It was scheduled to be finished in early summer, in time for the college to transfer from 602 No. Sprague (now the site of Jason Lee) to this location and open for classes in the fall. (TNT 2/14/1924, pg. 10) BU -13585, G67.1-080

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