Auburn Adventist Academy - Rainier Vista Yearbook (Auburn, WA)

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Emma Has kin, B. A. English ; Registrar Violet Scott, B. A. Science and Mathematics C. Lloyd Tupper, B. A. Farm Manager, Agriculture Mildred Wyman Piano Elder C. A. Wyman Bible, Baking, Gardening B. S. Whitepiouse Cook Clara Silver Sewing

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Walter R. Beach, B. A. Preceptor Language, General History Frank Steunenberg, B. A. Bible, Voice, Woodworking Claude A. Shull, B. A. Principal and Business Manager American History and Government Anna G. Roedel Preceptress, Matron Cooking, Typewriting Strauss Cubley, B. A. Bookkeeping, Accountant, Commercial Woodworking

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Historical Sketch Western Washington Academy has completed its seventh year, having first opened its doors in the fall of 1919. At the conference session the summer pre¬ viously, meeting at Manitou Park, South Tacoma, the lack of adequate facilities for giving a Christian edu¬ cation to the young people of the conference was thor¬ oughly discussed, and finally the conference under the leadership of Elder Piper, the president, voted to raise a fund for the establishment of a school in this vicinity. Elder Geo. F. Enoch, returned missionary from India, was put in charge of a campaign to raise the necessary money, and in January of 1919, a special session of the conference convened and authorized the establishment of the school. A site near Auburn was chosen and the building erected during the sum¬ mer of 1919. Professor Lyle C. Shepard, now president of the Manitoba conference, was the first principal, remain¬ ing one year. He was followed by Professor Lyle C. Wilcox, now in China, who remained two years. Pro¬ fessor Wilcox had been the preceptor during the first year of the school ' s existence. In 1922, Professor H. H. Hamilton, who was then on the faculty of Walla Walla College, was called to take up the work page twelve