Seattle Pacific University - Tawashi Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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The Cascade COLLEGE FRESHMEN Louis Watkins . President Beulah Fletcher . Vice ' President Frances Pearson . Secretary Albert Darling . Treasurer Neva Kellogg . Reporter Marion Van Tassel . Religious Director Edward Blair . Student Representative ' T HE class of ’31 is nearing its port. Having had favorable winds and currents, the cruise has been pleasant and profitable. With colors flying the Freshman craft was launched on September 19, with sixtyTve members aboard, the largest group ever known to set sail at one time in S. P. C. The crew, guided by Captains Blair and Watkins, and piloted by Professor Ward, has proved efficient and willing. Various landings have been made during these nine months, foremost among which stand the Sophomore initiation party at the gymnasium, the Christmas party, and the Frosh ' Soph hike to Lincoln Beach. The members have been busy during this time and all have helped to uphold the good name of the class. In the Community Fund Drive and the boat trip ticket sale the Freshmen led all the way. The Freshmen have endeavored to further the religious activities of the College. The class of the “Green and White” had charge of one Saturday night service at the Olive Branch Mission, one Chapel service,and one Tuesday evening meeting. The green and white flag is still gayly flying, and as the class nears port they are sorry they will soon no longer be Freshmen. Page Twenty-four

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The Cascade 1 . Frances Pearson 9. Edward Blair 17. Nora Jensen 2. Albert Darling 10. Ivan Klein 18. Carter Holton 3. Oral Hemry 11. Donald Whitbeck 19. Harriet Bittner 4. Lewis Watkins 12. Florence Dofsen 20. Helen Knowlton 5. Beulah Fletcher 13. Agnes Hageland 21. Blanche Glazier 6. Francis Gallaher 14. Muriel Ferguson 22. Nena Davies 7. Marion Van Tassel 15. Wilbur Sparrow 23. Helen Flynn 8. Viola Lagasse 16. Christine Matthewson 24. Mildred Harmer Page Twenty-three

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The Cascade THE NORMAL DEPARTMENT iCr T ' HE standards which teachers are required to maintain are continually rising. Their work takes on a new dignity. It is rising above a calling, above a profession, into a realm of an art. It must be dignified by technical training, ennobled by character, and sanctified by faith. It is not too much to say that the need of civilization is the need of teachers. The contributions which they make to human welfare are beyond estimation.” Calvin Coolidge The Normal Department of Seattle Pacific College was organized in 1921-22. In 1922-23, on application, accreditation was granted. The first students to graduate from the department were Loretta Pettingill and Elmer ' Root. They were later married and went to India, where the Normal training began to function at once. The first class to graduate under accreditation numbered thirteen. Eight of this number are married and thirteen are teaching. During the span of the department one hundred and twelve have been graduated. This does not include the class of 1928, which numbers over thirty. Of the one hundred and twelve graduates, sixty-two are teaching, distributed over eight states; forty-six of the number are teaching in the State of Washington, and be it said to their credit, not a failure has been recorded, but on the contrary, their work has been very highly commended by their various superintendents and principals. Thirteen of the former graduates, believing in the growing standards of teachers, are continuing in College to complete work for an A. B. degree. All of this is an effective piece of advertising for the Normal Department of Seattle Pacific College. “If teachers do not do their work well, this republic will not outlast the span of a generation. — Theodore Roosevelt. Page Twen.ly-fi.ve ,