Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Seminary fair; May achievements crown thy labors is our earnest prayer. Deep and true as those blue waters thou art reared above, May the characters thou moldest hold thee in their love. Pure as yonder snow-clad mountains where our glances fall, May we in the years to follow answer to thy call. Chorus: Hearts turned toward our Alma Mater, may our lives at length Prove thy daughters bear thy motto, On from strength to strength.

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4% Bishop Huston The Reverend Canon Arthur Bell Gradually the new school assumed its present dignity with ivy-covered walls and grounds landscaped with shruhs and trees given by each graduating class. By 1935, the Golden Anniversary year, a girl might follow a strictly college preparatory course or a more general one, developed to fit the needs of those not interested in continuing their formal training. The physical education program offered a variety of sports, including tennis, golf, riding, swimming, basketball, hockey, and skiing. That same year an outdoor pageant, The Masque of the Golden Age, was produced by students, faculty, and alumnae. Through song, dance, and story, the life and spirit of the Seminary ' s fifty years were revealed, and even a briefly-suffered rainstorm could not destroy its grandeur. Decreased enrollment in the 1930 ' s and increased expenses during the early years of the Second World War forced the school to go deeply into debt. One fateful winter day in 1943, foreclosure of the mortgage was threatened. The Right Reverend S. Arthur Huston, President of the Board of Trustees, Miss Ruth Jenkins, newly-appointed headmistress, and the Board itself were given 48 hours in which to raise enough money to pay the most pressing obligations. Faith in and loyalty to the school prompted a wonderful response to a plea for aid from friends, alumnae and students. The crisis was averted. The debts were cancelled gradually. In 1947 the Right Reverend Stephen F. Bayne Jr. assumed the duties of President of the Board of Trustees. In November of 1954 a development program under the leadership of Miss Jenkins was initiated. With suffi- cient funds raised, ground was broken in January. 1957, for a wing to house class- rooms, an assembly hall, and a dance studio. The autumn of the same year saw the opening of the Charles Wright Academy in the Lakewood area, and the boys moved from their one-room school house on the Seminary grounds. A second ground-breaking in April of 1959 was attended by the Most Reverend Arthur Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The present plans for expansion will be realized with the completion of this library wing. 1958-59 has been the Seminary ' s Diamond Jubilee. Students, parents, alumnae, faculty, and friends of the school have joined together to make this year, pictorial ly represented in this twenty-eighth Shield, a tribute to seventy-five years of labor and of achievement. They have done so with the certain knowledge that in the strength of the past and present lies even greater strength for the future. Mrs. Thomas P. Harney, daughter of Annie Wright, was the commencement t Bishop Keator Mrs. Harney Bayne,

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The Right Reverend Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr. Bishop of Olympia, Chairman of the Board of The Annie Wright Seminary June 11, 1947 - December 31, 1959 Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion, January 1, I960 — He looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed. from the Epistle of St. fames 1:25