Pacific Lutheran College has an important role in the education system of the Pacific Northwest. The growing College has gained national acclaim for its outstanding methods of instruction. Pacific Lutheran experienced an increase in student enrollment following the end of World War II. Exterior view of the newly built Memorial Gymnasium, one of the best college gyms in the west. Photo taken for PLC's Saga, the school yearbook (Saga, 1948).

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Pacific Lutheran College offered their students an "Education for Life" and "Build for Character". They had programs in Liberal Arts, Teacher Training, Music, Parish Work, Pre-Medical, Pre-Nursing, Pre-Theology and Pre-Law. Pacific Lutheran College had brought a lot of benefits to the Parkland community. View of Pacific Lutheran College school grounds, building on left side has ivy covered walls, Chapel in background (Saga, 1948).

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College of Puget Sound. Three male college students, members of the Intercollegiate Knight National Service Fraternity, are cleaning an attic. One of them is dismanteling what looks like a bed frame, and the other two are mopping the floor. Old furniture, roll-up blinds and other items are still piled up around them. The walls are finished in wooden planks. This group participated in the year-round activities of the college and undertook two major spring projects: remodeling the out-dated bulletin boards at Jones Hall and the procurement of a chapter room. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.125)

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Pacific Lutheran College's library was designed in 1936, building began in 1937 and the building was dedicated in 1939. This building was designed by Emanuel J. Bresemann, a local Tacoma architect. Pacific Lutheran was planning to remodel the library during 1948, view of PLC students outside of the library, possibly between their classes or on their way to study (Saga, 1948).

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Pacific Lutheran College dedicated their new gymnasium in 1947. This gymnasium was built after their original gymnasium was destroyed in a fire. The building construction was slightly delayed because of World War II. Exterior view of Pacific Lutheran College's Memorial Gymnasium, showing concrete foundation. Photo ordered by Holroyd Company, manufacturers of concrete, bricks and other building materials.

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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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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. Women students in the lounge of the women's dormitory. Several students study individually or together although some appear to be having too much fun to be studying. Upholstered chairs, a sofa and a desk line the room which is carpeted. Floral drapes and venetian blinds are in place at the windows.

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College of Puget Sound. A view of men studying in the men's dormitory lounge. Several men sit around a large table in the middle of the room. A counter runs around the room to provide additional study areas. Several of the men are smoking pipes.

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College of Puget Sound. Students are learning to use typewriters. They are seated at tables four at a time. The instructor is talking with one of the women in the back of the room. There are an equal number of men and women students in the class.

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College of Puget Sound. The Central Board was a group of students vested with the responsibility of appointing committee heads, supervising the control of ASCPS finances, choosing publication heads and planning special campus events. The board was comprised of representatives of each class, editors of the Trail and Tamanawas, department managers of forensics, men's and women's intramural, music and dramatics, elected officers of ASCPS, and three faculty advisors. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.69)

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College of Puget Sound. Harvey Wegner, Carol Kilgore, Jane Hill and Ed LaChapelle listen while Dr. Martin Nelson discusses an experiment in a physics class. Carol Kilgore is holding an instrument while Dr. Martin Nelson touches it with a cylindrical rod. She is wearing head phones and the instrument is connected to a readout. Formulas are written on the blackboard and a sample of a slide rule is hung over the board. A chart of the typical stellar spectra hangs on the wall. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.31)

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College of Puget Sound. Students in a physics class are conducting an experiment with light. One of the students works an instrument with a large, flexible bellows and a viewer on the top. The instrument is pointed towards a florescent light. Another student seated at the table is adjusting part of the mechanism. A spectrum chart stands near the door. Other students and the instructor look on.

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College of Puget Sound. A group of men students sit around a fire lit in a fireplace listening to a young man play accordion. Some of the men may be singing. Many of the young men hold Coca-Cola bottles. Trophies line the mantel of the fireplace. One of the men wears a CPS letter sweater.

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College of Puget Sound. A view of the bursar's office about the time tuition is due and payable in January of 1948. Students are seen through the openings receiving assistance from the staff. Inside the office staff are seated at desks and one woman reviews listings in a book. A large clock hangs on the wall at the back. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.22)

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This aerial view of the Pacific Lutheran College campus and grounds was taken in January of 1948. Harstad Hall, "Old Main", stands proudly in the middle of the expanding campus as shown in this elevated view. Just in front of the point where the sidewalks converge is the entrance gate to Pacific Lutheran College. The Student Union is to the left of "Old Main" and the Science Hall is between and above them. The library is to the upper right. In the far, upper left is the new Memorial Gymnasium. The cornerstone of Harstad Hall was laid on October 4, 1891 and it was dedicated in October 1894. Ordered by Mrs. Nesrig (PLC Saga Yearbook 1949, p. 5 & 9)

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Aerial view of campus and grounds, Pacific Lutheran College, Mrs. Nesrig. Pacific Lutheran College had built three new facilities during 1947: a three-story student union building, a gymnasium and a science hall. This elevated view shows the older and newer buildings on the expanding campus. The campus consisted of 150 acres. (TNT, 2/17/1948, p. 4-D)

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In February of 1948, the alumni reunion planning committee sipped coffee as they discussed the upcoming annual Pacific Lutheran College reunion scheduled for February 7-8th at the Parkland campus. Pictured graduates were, L-R, Lorene Wilson, Marjorie Wentworth, Stella Jacobs, Alice Ford and Wilma Schmitz. Activities for the two-day get-together included a smorgasbord banquet, a basketball game between the PLC reserves and the Alumni All-Stars, and a mixer featuring home movies of the Alumni's college days. The climax was the dedication of the recently completed Student Union building. (TNT 1/29/1948, pg. 8- alternate picture)

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College bookstore, PLC, Mrs. Nesrig. This January, 1948, view of the interior of the bookstore at Pacific Lutheran College shows shelves full of books and students standing at the two counters talking with staff about different items. One student is holding a PLC pennant.

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Pacific Lutheran College's new Memorial Gymnasium had recently been dedicated and the first basketball game had been played here. Pacific Lutheran's new gymnasium was used by the women's and men's basketball teams. The gymnasium was one of the most modern gyms of its type, and one of the best in the Pacific Northwest. View of PLC's Memorial Gymnasium, a line of students are walking toward the gym (Saga, 1948).

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Marjorie Ventor is working with a drill press and Jeanne Moore is using a lathe for their woodworking projects in an Occupational Therapy class at the College of Puget Sound. The other student is not named. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.29)

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Students (all men) work in a science lab with microscopes, slides, rocks, test tubes and small bottles of different solutions. A motar and pestle sits on the table for students to use to grind materials with which they want to experiment further. Jars of labeled materials sit on shelves around the room and gas lines are also seen against the wall to provide flame for certain kinds of experiments.

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Two College of Puget Sound students are weaving with large, foot-operated looms while their instructor looks on in this photograph from January of 1948. The foot-pedals are used to raise and lower specific strands of the warp threads (running from front to back of the loom and sometimes long enough to be wrapped around a cylinder at the back) in a pre-set pattern. When the warp is separated between top and bottom layers the weft threads held on a large bobbin (seen in the hand of the woman on the left) are shoved across the loom and removed from the other side. Then the pedals are changed to select the next set of warp threads for the pattern.

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CPS Alumni. Graduates of the Occupational Therapy program at the College of Puget Sound are working with Pfc. James Duffy in a wheelchair at a loom. He is holding a shuttle in his left hand. Occupational therapy is thought to promote recovery or rehabilitation through creative activity. Mary Rough, left, and Lt. Myra McDaniels are wearing nursing uniforms with the Occupational Therapy insignia on their left shoulders. (Ledger, 4/4/1948, p.4)

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Four women students at the College of Puget Sound are handbuilding pottery with clay. The two women on the right are working on pedestals that twirl to make it easy to access all parts of the pot. The two women on the left, Cynthia Harris and Maxine Lister, are working with clay in molds. These students are probably in the occupational therapy program at the College of Puget Sound. As of the 1990's the University of Puget Sound is well known for their OT program and it is one of the few programs offered at the post-graduate level there. As of May 1948, ceramics would be featured in the annual student art exhibit. (T.Times, 5/15/1948, p.5)

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CPS Alumni. Mary Rough and Cynthia Thompson, graduates of the Occupational Therapy program at the College of Puget Sound, work with Capt. Donald Blackman wearing army clothing at a pottery wheel at Madigan General Hospital. His arms rest against a wooden dowel as a brace to keep his arms steady as he throws a small pot. Some pinch pots and pottery tools are on the table in front of him. (Ledger, 4/4/1938, p.4)

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CPS Alumni. A graduate of the Occupational Therapy program at the College of Puget Sound is working with a young man with rounds of sheet metal at a bench. The occupational therapist is showing him how to pound the metal into a specific shape using a wooden form. Examples of what can be made from sheet metal are shown on a shelf above the work table. One of the pieces has spelled out the name, "Cynthia". An open cupboard contains metal working tools. The young woman is using a ball peen hammer to finish a piece and the man is using a leather-faced forming mallet.

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CPS Alumni. Cynthia Thompson is working with a young man making plastic boxes. The therapist is measuring the opening of the box while the young man had a piece of plastic with a backing on it held in a vice. Another man is working on a project behind them. Cynthia Thompson's uniform has a University of Wisconsin badge on the sleeve. She was taking a 10 month field training program at Madigan General Hospital.

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Students at the College of Puget Sound, Marjorie Ventor, Ray Crick, Jeanne Moore Juanita Baumbartner and Janette Blake learn about human anatomy from Dr. Burton A. Brown. A skeleton hangs near Dr. Brown and other bones lie on the table. A chart hangs behind the students who are taking notes in this photograph dated January 15, 1948. (CPS Tamanawas Yearbook 1948, p.29)

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ca. 1948. Christie Walker points out a "favorite" child among a photograph of French orphans to interested donors; Edward J. Cooper, Bank of California executive, stands at her side. C.P.S. students opened their hearts - and wallets - in support of French orphan boys. The student body decided by ballot to "adopt" the De Bon Secours French orphanage for the rest of the winter (February-May,1948) and signed pledges totaling approximately $1000. The money raised would be sent to C.A.R.E. and the organization would send food and clothing packages. It cost about $29 to support one child per month. The orphanage was in debt due to France's post-war situation and money raised would help the orphanage through the winter months before spring crops and before Marshall Plan aid started. De Bon Secours housed 35 boys between the ages of 4-14. Their parents had either been killed during the war or sent to German concentration camps. The drive to collect funds, sponsored by the International Relations Club, began the first week of February, 1948. By February 6, the campaign neared the $1000 in pledges redeemed and a check was turned over to Edward J. Cooper, Bank of California assistant manager, who handled the C.A.R.E. gifts. The goal was then raised to $2000. (TNT 1-20-48, p. 8; TNT 2-6-48, p. 6)

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