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

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History (continued) A J. Olson, principal, 1941-1949. CAFETERIA WORKERS are ready for students in the enlarged cafeteria in the basement of the administration building. The Student Association project for the school year 1942-1943 was an orgatron. The music department expanded considerably under the direction of Harold Mitzelfelt. A girls’ glee club, church choir, orchestra, boys’ glee club, double male quartet and the band were organized and kept active throughout the year. A new gymnasium, 165’ by 55’, with a seating capacity of 1500 people, was started but not completed until the following year. With the construction of the gymnasium, East Hall became an overflow girls’ dormi¬ tory upstairs and a manual arts department downstairs. During the years 1942-1944, the 150-acre Cloitiere farm, with a large dairy bam and a two-story home, was purchased. The productive land was improved in grow¬ ing good crops. By now a fine dairy herd of 40 cows and a flock of approximately 600 hens provided additional work for students. In the summer of 1944, a service building containing a modern laundry, cannery, pasteurizing plant, home economics department and maintenance department was built. By now the school had 15 school homes for staff and factory workers. A complete new water system with storage capacity of 140,000 gallons was constructed to replace the old 8,000 gallon tank which burned. Fire hydrants to all important places on campus were now possible. Elder Don Spillman, board chairman, broke ground for a three-story dormitory on April 26, 1946. For a project during this school year, the students endeavored to raise $10,000 toward the estimated $85,000 for the new girls’ dormitory. This campaign was completed during a three-week period, and the students and faculty together raised over $11,000 under the faculty sponsor¬ ship of H. D. Schwartz and student leadership of Donna THIS CONCRETE block building replaced the former factory destroyed by fire in 1942. SOUTH HALL, new dormitory for girls was first occupied

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Choir robes, made by the Dorcas Society, were used for the first time in 1940. During the year 1940-1941, the Casa Loma Culture Club had a Father-Son Banquet in honor of the fathers and many business men who acted as foster fathers for the boys. That year 100 fellows occupied Gibson Hall. The Tillicum Village Club obtained enough money from program proceeds to place an Auburn Academy sign along the highway near the school. During the year the greenhouse which adjoined the old boiler room was tom down and a modern boiler room was build. The new boiler, fitted with a new large coal stoker and a 60-foot smoke stack, furnished steam heat for the two dormitories, the administration building, and the furniture shop. The farm, supplying the school with fresh vegetables, was a valuable asset. An excellent herd of cows produced plenty of milk daily. A group of hard-working boys looked after the small herd of heifers, kept the team of horses in first class condition, and cared for the flock of leghorns which supplied the school with about 150 eggs per day. During A. J. Olson’s administration from 1941-1949 the campus grew. The woodshop burned in January, 1942, and a new 21,000 square foot, one-story concrete building replaced it. Being equipped with heavy duty modem machines, it was considered one of the most modem and best equipped furniture shops in the state. It had the capacity to turn out a quarter million dollars’ worth of furniture annually, and provided an opportuni¬ ty for 100 boys to earn all or part of their school expenses. At this point the dairy had 30 head of cattle and the poultry houses sheltered approximately 500 chickens. Three acres of truck garden were in cultivation. An enlarged school cafeteria in the basement of the administration building, completed in 1941-1942, ac¬ commodated 260 students. The cafeteria employed 40 students to help prepare meals for over 200. C. L. Witzel, dean of men during this year, was in his second term of service at the academy. TWO STUDENTS and their work supervisor in the greenhouse transplant plants for campus beautification. THE OLD school dairy and farm located south of the campus provided work opportunities for fellows. 13

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wm Spillman. This building, South Hall, was designed to accommodate 110 girls. The top floor was completed in the 1947-1948 school year; the main floor was finished in time for the 1948-1949 school year. One hundred fifteen girls were housed in the building. The lower floor, containing a worship room, recreation room, and cafeteria, was completed in 1949. With the girls in new quarters, the upper floor of East Hall was converted to staff apartments. Regina Hall was changed from a girls’ to a boys’ dormitory in 1949 and was renamed Manous Hall in memory of N. L. Manous, music and Spanish teacher, 1945-1947, who later died while teaching in Chilean Training School, Chile. The girls’ club was named ZETA KAPPA, meaning “Beauty of Character.” The boys’ club, CASA LOMA, meaning “Loyal to the Royal in Thyself,” had been functioning for some years. A power plant utilizing what the sawdust from the furniture factory for fuel, was the second building on the new campus at this time. The old dining room in the basement of the adminis¬ tration building was converted into a large library during this period, and the kitchen area was remodeled and changed to modem science laboratories, providing expanded classrooms for the school program. Ground breaking ceremonies for the new boys’ dormitory were held on January 21, 1962. The three- story brick structure, containing two deans’ apartments, a large worship room, a recreation room, guest room facilities and rooms for 176 boys, was ready for the 1962-1963 school year. A modem cafeteria, built on the old Rainier Auditori- um site, was completed toward the close of the school year 1962-1963. It was named Rudolph Hall in memory of Miss Irene Rudolph, whose generosity made the building possible. RAINIER GYMNASIUM served the students and constituency from 1943 until 1963. 1947-1948 and had room for 110 girls. ELDER DON Spillman, board chairman, drives the tractor to break ground for South Hall. 15