University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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, . . Pacific Coast with a little history . . . Experimental Theater School of Drama Glenn Hughes Director, School of Drama Boasting a number of worthwhile distinctions, among them being the most active department of its kind in the nation, the school of drama, with 200 majors, is housed in historical old Denny hall. Its 15-member faculty is composed of highly troined specialists in the various phases of theatrical produc- tion, theater history and dramatic literature. The school currently operates two theaters for the public . . . the Showboat and Penthouse ... six nights a week every week of the year. No other university maintains such a sched- ule. Among other accomplishments are: a touring theater which plays for eight months annually throughout the state . . . the most extensive touring theater project ever inaug- urated by a university; two series of children ' s productions; puppet shows twice weekly for grade schools of the vicinity; and a city-wide program of creative dramatics for children. Washington ' s school of drama originated the Penthouse type of theater, which is being imitated throughout the coun- try. This was the first theater ever designed and built for the presentation of modern plays in the arena style. To increase Washington ' s dramatic scope even more, the school is preparing to construct its third campus theater dur- ing 1 949. To be located near the Penthouse, it will be devoled primarily to plays of an experimental and artistic nature, both old and new. Awaiting the graduate in drama are such vocational fields as stage acting and directing, motion picture acting, costume ond scene designing, high school and college teaching, play- writing and rodlo writing and production. Among well-known alumnae are Ella Raines, Jean hieather and Nancy Coleman of motion pictures and Janet Waldo, radio network star. ■ Penthouse Theater Showboat Theater

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and Sciences Henry Suziallo Library The university ' s expansion alone hos been enough to dramatize a need for near-constant reorganiza- tion of A S. This year there were other factors — in parliculor the introduction of the econ depart- ment. And so it grew, to eight schools and forty administrative units, and over ten thousand students. Many of the ten thousand were there only temporarily, waiting for a crock at medical school, or law, or dentistry. More were just woiting: the pre -majors counted on A S odvlsors and counselors to fit them into a field suited to their tastes end tolents. But, though largest of the col- leges, Arts and Sciences was — ond is — more than a catch-all. It pro- vides the training needed in pro- fessions ranging from the liberal orts to the pure sciences, to edu- cate all while giving specialized training to many. Dean Edward Lauer ' s assistants are, left to light, Ralph Gustofson, Mabel Spence, Ed Listen. Not pictured is Harold Mines. of the oldest state university on the , . .

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evS ' Architecture Building (Architect ' s Drawing) School of Architecture Inaugurated as the result of instigation by the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the first courses in architecture were offered to 12 freshman students in 1914 in a room behind the Meany hall stage (now a store- room). There followed a series of moves into a number of makeshift quarters in which a growing number of aspirants learned to design useful and attractive structures for use by their fellow In 1927, when the music department moved to what had been the president ' s house, they left vacant another old wooden building which had been built as a temporary struc- ture in 1908. To this, located behind Meany hall where George Woshington now stonds, the budding architects re- paired. Until 1937, when the storms of many years had practically demolished it, this was the home of the architecture school. Then when chemistry moved to the new Bogley hall, the chem- ists ' old building . . . now known as Physiology . . . wos token over by couple of strange bedfellows — the architects and the physiologists. In this same building, plus a wooden bar- racks annex to the north, the school still remains . . . depart- ment heads dreaming of the day when the study of the design of buildings may be conducted in o building designed for such study . . . it ' s more than 400 majors in the five-year curriculum literally climbing over each other to do their work. Added to the regular course of study required by the school, it undertakes each year one or more design projects of civic or regional interest, many of these under the spon- sorship of the alumni, who offer a prize problem each yeor to junior and senior architecture students. Physiology Hall Arthur P. Herrman Director, School of Architecture •i f. f , , telling how it grew from 31 studerits . , .