College of Puget Sound. A view of the lounge at the women's dormitory at the College of Puget Sound. Several women are seated around the room reading, knitting and at the piano. One woman looks out the window and two are standing on the stairway. Lamps, carpeting, and draperies create a comfortable interior.

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College of Puget Sound. A view of the exterior of two of the buildings at the College of Puget Sound with the parking lots nearly full of automobiles. The brick buildings are three stories tall. The building in the foreground, the new men's dormitory, Todd Hall, has bay windows above the two doorways. The dormitory was named after President Emeritus, Dr. Edward H. Todd. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.133) TPL-9521

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CPS. Athletic Department. Basketball team at the College of Puget Sound with new Athletic Director John Heinrick. The team poses in the college gymnasium.

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CPS. The College of Puget Sound SPURS hosted the regional meeting of SPURS, the national women's honorary service organization, March 5, 6, and 7, 1948, on the CPS campus. Members from Washington, Oregon and Montana attended. Three main topics were discussed: new member selection, activities and expansion of activities. This group portrait shows all the regional members attending the meeting. (T.Times, 3/10/1948, p.10)

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CPS. Students at the College of Puget Sound are determined to win the many valuable awards in the Tacoma T-Man contest. One young man is wearing a gas mask. Two hold rifles and the last one holds a revolver in his hand and a pipe in his teeth. They have scoured the campus in hopes of locating the elusive subject. The 7th jingle clue was, "For he is sound as sound can be, A saint in two he is, not three. All will vouch and praise his name, and then go on to win the game". "T-Men", an Edward Small production released by Eagle Lion Films, was opening at the Rialto Theater. The film starred Dennis O'Keefe and was based on a compilation of three actual cases of US Treasury Department agents going under cover to track down a counterfeiting ring. L-R, Bud Thomsen, Bob Mills, Doug Baldwin and Joe Boyle. (TNT, 4/8/1948, p.28; T.Times, 4/23/1948, p.5)

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College of Puget Sound. Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, President of the College of Puget Sound, and nine members of the Flower Growers' Garden Club are placing a plaque on the campus to mark the sequoia tree that was planted by earlier members of the club in 1932. L-R, they are, standing, Dr. Thompson, Estelle B. (Mrs. A.D.) Elder, Mrs. Jay McCune, Eva Laura (Mrs. Guy) Pierce, Mrs. George R. Mistead, Martha (Mrs. S.A.) Maynew, Jane R. (Mrs. Edgar M.) Densmore, and Mrs. Effie Stowe. L-R, kneeling, Lula M. (Mrs. C.M.) Shank, club president, and Katheryne (Mrs. H.T.) Greenup. (TNT, 10/3/1948, p.1)

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CPS annual. A view of the Loggers baseball team in the dug out. Coaching CPS baseball in its second post war season was Luther "Red" Harvel, a local business man. Harvel was formerly with the Tacoma Tigers. One young man is reviewing materials from a notebook. Some of the players talk to each other but mostly they watch the game and wait for their turn on the field. A few people sit in the stands. (CPS Tamanawas 1948 Yearbook) Format 7' x 11'.

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On May 18, 1948, College of Puget Sound's athletic coaches and the school president were meeting for the very first time to discuss strategies for next year. Left to right, R. Franklin Thompson, CPS president, Rod Giske, ex-football star at WSU (and Stadium High School alumni), John Heinrick, (seated) Headman of the Grid and Athletic Director, Ray Mahnkey, former football player for the Washington State Cougars, and Harry Bird. The men are making plans for next grid season (T. Times, 5/21/48, p. 12). (Additional identification provided by a reader)

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Three women students at the College of Puget Sound wear the most recent classics in co-ed fashion. L-R, Anita Roberts models a two-way belted raincoat with a matching hat, Delores Jordahl chose a gray flannel boxy jacket and washable, wooly orlon plaid skirt, and Jo Ann Wood is wearing a knit suit by Jantzen. Ordered by the Tacoma News Tribune for their fall fashion section. (TNT, 9/11/1952, p.C-10)

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Seven members of the Women's College League stand on the steps of Jones Hall at the College of Puget Sound. They have been making arrangements for the annual membership tea honoring the mothers of students attending the College of Puget Sound that would be held October 29, 1952, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. Franklin Thompson. They are, L-R, Ann (Mrs. Charles B.) Zittel, Marquerite (Mrs. William L.) Brown, Elsa (Mrs. Sabin) Swanson, Anna (Mrs. George A.) Frank, Lillian M. (Mrs. J. Don) Shotwell, Lillian (Mrs. George T.) Babbitt and Lucille (Mrs. R. Franklin) Thompson. (TNT, 10/26/1952, p.D-7)

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Exposure of Easter Sunrise service at the College of Puget Sound fieldhouse. A large choir of children and teens stands ready to sing. Services held with the rising of the sun to celebrate Easter were city wide events and well attended.

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College of Puget Sound 1951 graduating class. 285 graduates received degrees June 3, 1951, during the ceremony in the field house. Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, president of the college conferred the degrees. Dr. Robert E. Burns spoke to the granduates on "World Unity, But How?". The class of 1951 was the second largest graduating group in the history of the college. Ordered by the Tribune, Ernie Knight. (TNT, 5/27/1951, p.A-9)

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On January 5, 1951, three unidentified Tacoma Athletic Commission members posed with tennis stars (in white, left to right) Pancho Segura, Pauline Betz Addie, Gertrude "Gussie" Moran and Jack Kramer at the Bobby Riggs Professional Tennis Show held in the College of Puget Sound Fieldhouse. TAC and the Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club cosponsored the two singles and the doubles match offered in the nationally touring show. The most exciting matches were those of Kramer, who was top of the amateur field, and Segura, the flashy Latin player from Ecuador with the two handed forehand and backhand returns. "Gorgeous Gussie" Moran, consistently rated in the top 10 of this country, was better known for her fashion statements such as her ruffled tennis undies. Addie, who had worn the national women's crown for four years, was also known as a sharp dresser and the two women consistently tried to out dress each other. A portion of the evenings returns were donated to the March of Dimes. (TNT 1/5/1951, pg. 15)

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The fourteen student members of the College of Puget Sound Choral Readers perform in recital in Jones Hall Auditorium. The group, under the direction of Martha Pearl Jones, performed a diversified program of ensemble verse readings. Members were Herb Stark, leader, Gloria Nelson, assistant leader, Doug Cullen, Ellen Davenport, Mary Kincheloe, Helen Pearson, Kaye Klopfenstein, Mel Gidley, William Gianelli, Dale Lee, David Stell, Fern McCullough, Claudia Zediker and Homer Johnson. (TNT 2-24-1950 pg. 14)

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Pacific Northwest Conference Convention at CPS, Women's Society, The Methodist Church. Leaders of the Woman's Society of Christian Service conducted the annual Pacific Northwest conference at the College of Puget Sound for a week in early August 1949. They are, L-R, top row, Mrs. Thomas Swayze, conference secretary; Mrs. P.S. Van Kleek, conference promotion secretary; Miss Margaret Billingsley, secretary for Japan, Korea and the Philippines, and Ruth H. (Mrs. E.Paul) Todd, secretary of supplies. Bottom row, Miss Yoshi Tokunaga, principal of Fuyuoka Girls' School in Japan; Mrs. Roy Freeman, conference summer school committee; Mrs. William Coddington, former conference president. (TNT, 8/3/1949, p.15)

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Pacific Northwest Conference Convention at CPS, Women's Society, The Methodist Church. Nearly ninety women from the Woman's Society of Christian Service attended the annual Pacific Northwest conference held this week at the College of Puget Sound. (TNT, 8/3/1949, p.15)

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Layout on Beaux Arts Ball, Times, Mrs. MacDonald. A quartet of young men are performing at the ball wearing white shirts, white vests, big bow ties, straw hats, and matching, checked masks. They each hold a cane over their left arms. Two of the men are wearing obviously fake mustaches. The costume ball was hosted by the art honorary fraternity, Alpha Rho Tau.

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Layout on Beaux Arts Ball, Times, Mrs. MacDonald. Students at the College of Puget Sound enjoyed a masquerade ball given in honor of forieign students by Alpha Rho Tau, the art honorary. The event was described as spectacular. A young man wearing a cardboard cage is lying on a table while another student wearing a doctor's stethoscope evaluates his condition. Others in various costumes look on in case they are called upon to help. (T.Times, 2/20/1949, p.21)

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Layout on Beaux Arts Ball, Times, Mrs. MacDonald. A party named after the School of Fine Arts in Paris was held at Jones Hall at the College of Puget Sound. It was hosted by the art honorary fraternity, Alpha Rho Tau (Greek letters for ART), in honor of the college's foreign students. Party goers are shown blowing up balloons while wearing their costumes and masks. (T.Times, 2/20/1949, p.21)

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On February 12, 1949, the art honorary fraternity of the College of Puget Sound, Alpha Rho Tau, threw their very first Beaux Arts Ball. The party was given in honor of the College's foreign students and drew students dressed in all sorts of lavish, exotic and creative costumes. A masked couple glided by in fanciful dress; she a column of black and white ruffles and he a rectangular knight. Other couples looked on from tables near a wall decorated with modern drawings. All of the revelers were unidentified with the exception of the woman directly left of the female dancer. She was Maxine Lister, the winner of the first prize for most original costume. She was dressed as a representation of Picasso's painting "Girl looking in Mirror." Photograph ordered by Mrs. MacDonald at the Times. (T. Times 2/20/1949, pg. 21)

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Layout on Beaux Arts Ball, Times, Mrs. MacDonald. Five persons are dressed the same in black-face, long johns, big feet, mop wigs and clocks hung on chains around their necks. They are chained together and carry brown paper bags. One of them holds an opened umbrella over her (?) head. Other people attending the ball are seen in the background in various costumes.

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College of Puget Sound Summer Class, July 1935. Portland Area School of Ministerial Training. (WSHS)

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