Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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-1 ,r sl ,rig ,r Tl A ,P -1. pr Q pr 1 M M , 4 - 31 M ,. Bridging 'rhe Years Twenty-five years ago Stadium High School first heard the tramp of stude was host to those boys and girls who, through the years since. have studied therefore, on the institution's silver anniversary look back upon its history. In begun on a S750,000 tourist hotel overlooking beautiful Commencement Bay construction through 1893, when lack of funds halted progress on the half-com to the disastrous and mysterious fire which left the hotel a useless fire-blackene the school board purchased the site for a much-needed building. With the hotel's massive foundations, which seem to have been built to last for centuries, entirely reconstructed in French Renaissance architecture. Although in .lune the Class of '06 was graduated in the unfinished auditor lights brought in from the street, school really began on September 10, 1906. day the school had a faculty of 38, with H. F. Wegener as principal, to care f of 878 pupils. Many students were interested in the new and popular man domestic science departments. There was only one small gymnasium, located swimming tank now is. Next year pupils made the acquaintance of .l. G. Collicott, new principal, leadership the school enrolment practically doubled. In 1910 C. W. Knouff ca for one year, to be followed in September, 1911, by William F. Geiger. M until Christmas, when he became superintendent of Tacoma schools. Until charge in July of the next year Stadium had no actual principal. The school .V-. ut feet and first there. Let us, 1891 work was We trace its leted building. ruin. 1111903 ception of the e building was ium under arc On its opening r an enrolment l training and here the boys' and under his me as principal Geiger served . F. Hunt took board, aroused because the large Class of '12 found it impossible to hold its graduation exercises in the school, enlarged the auditorium to its present size. With startling suddenness came the declaration of war by the United Sta Stadium sent sons across. The Armistice was finally signed but eleven of th in whose memory ten trees were planted along the parking in 1919, did lI0t came the dedication of a tablet inscribed with the roll of honor of these gold the coming of U. N. Hoffman in 1922 the weekly Stadium World had its bi monthly Tnhoma became the school annual. Mr. Hunt became assistant su schools in 1928 and E. E. Perkins assumed the office he now holds as princi Back in 1906 as he supervised the workmen on the high school building., ' the architect, studied the adjoining gulch. lts bottom a swamp seven feet bel gulch presented a repulsive contrast to the building above. Charles E. Cutter, stadium idea, showed pictures of the gulcli and of the stadium at Athens, Cr boosters, personally wrote in favor of the stadium and finally won approva A public subscription plan of financing was adopted. The public gave 550,000 required. Donors were given five-year passes to the Stadium events. The sides were sluiced down and E street was filled in. One third of the the Stadium stands on solid pillars which are expected never to decay. When t pour the concrete seats great bunkers were constructed above the E street l enormous quantities of gravel, sand and cement necessary. In small cars running on tracks around the bowl the materials were taker s in 1917, anl e soldier boys. eturn. ln 1926 tar boys. With th and the old erintendent of al of Stadium. ederick Heath, sea level, the riginator of the ece, to Tacoma for his idea. of the S153,000 circular part of e time came to el to hold the where needed. On June 10 and 11, 1910, the first public school stadium in the country was dedzicated here with impressive exercises. President Wilson, John Philip Sousa. Madame Schum many other notables have appeared since in Tacoma's Stadium. ln 1929 installed which completely illuminate the huge bowl. making possible nighl night football games. nn-Heinck and oodlights were programs and Nine

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P -M .- W '31 41M 1, M Eiqhf -wg, , L ilixxf A N .. nw This is lhc way Slanlium looked while lhe lmwl was being rnnslrucleui.

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'f fi '9i9fZqi3Ei0 - - BH Herbert Davis, Anna Brix, '28 Louise Phelps. .losef Hansen, '27 Ruth Arwood. Seymour Davison, '29 Thomas Morrow, '26 Helen Graham .lohnsun Gertrude Hunt Bernard Brolman, '30 A. A. U. W. Award. For scholarship - h o n e s t, earnest, consistent etfort - and womanliness-love of the beautiful, the good and the true, and helpfulness 'toward others---the American Asso- ciation of Yniversily Women presents this award each year In some senior girl. Richard Graff Memorial Award. In memory ot' lhe son of Dr. and Mrs. Marc W. Graff, this award is given annually to a senior buy for fair play and clean, true sports- manship. Those who have been judged worthy uf these awards in the past are pic- tured here. The middle pictures identify themselves, and those in the panels are, reading from hnttom to top, left panel: Brainerd Dyer, '19g Walter Cameron, '20g Brian Shera, 'lllg For- est Aldrirh, 22: Stanley Long, 'illlg Herman Brix, 'Zig Hilo Okada, 'ZSQ right punel: Mary Bezirh, 'ZUQ Martha Griggs, '2lg Mary Lesher. '22g Evalyn Miller, '23: Dorothy Murphy, '2-lg Margaret Chureh, '25.