Seattle Preparatory School - Echo Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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pa The year 1907 proved to be a red-letter one in the history of the school. On May first a major Hre gutted the interior of the whole college building. It is also in the year 1907 that the immortal Mr. Edward J. Coen first arrived to teach classes at the school. In the forty years of faithful service that followed, he gave his full quota of ability and energy to the institution. The following decade was one spent in quiet consolidation of pre- vious gains, but by 1918, due to rapid growth made during the first World War, the need was again felt for more ground. At this time, with unprecedented generosity, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. McHugh donated to the school the six and a half acres of grounds and buildings adjacent to Interlaken Boulevard which compose the present campus. Shortly afterwards, the College and High School moved to this new site. Inaguration of the greatest competitive rivalry ever to hit Prep was seen in 1923, when, at Broadway Playfield, the PanthersD and the Fighting Irishv of O'Dea met for the first time on the gridiron. In that encounter, the Blue and White emerged victorious by a score of 7 to O. In 1929, the High School was separated from Seattle College, and soon the college department returned to the original grounds at Broad- way and Madison. That same summer, its entrance into the basketball world was made by the erection of Garrigan Gymnasium, in tribute to a former teacher, Father William A. Garrigan, SJ., who was Prefect of Discipline from 1922 to 1925. Two years after the separation of the College and High School, in 1931, the name of the school was officially changed from Seattle College High School to Seattle Preparatory. The advent of Father Christopher McDonnell, SJ., in 1937, marked the beginning of the present era at Prep. During this period came the famous Wonder Teamn of 1940, admission into the Cross- State league, strong debate teams, and now, new attendance marks are being set every year. To some, however, the advancements made since that day in 1891 may seem a little short of tremendous, but they are not, nor were they intended to be, the type of progress that can be measured by an archi- tectural yardstick, but the kind that can be marked by improvements in competence, tradition, and learning.

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We HE STORY of Seattle Preparatory School spans a long period of years, but even longer is the list of achievements of Prep in general and Prepsters in particular. For fifty years she has produced the cream of the crop , and this year her Golden Jubilee is celebrated. But just as Prep owes her foundation and establishment to the indomitable Jesuit spirit, so that spirit, joined with the spirit of the sudents of Seattle Prep, has carried her on to ever increasing fame. Always the name of Prep has benefited from the works of her graduates. This outstanding record never could be captured fully by the pen, but on this occasion of her fiftieth anniversary an endeavor has been made to present a purely historical sketch of Seattle Prep, leaving the history of her customs, traditions and spirit in the minds of her graduates who know it so well. Although the official date of establishment was in the year 1898, the beginnings of Seattle Prep can be traced directly back to September 27, 1891, with the arrival here of Fathers Victor Garrand and Adrian Sweere, SJ., for the purpose of establishing an institution of higher learning. The Seattle into which they came could be compared with those places which are now known as mission areas . There were but few churches and no Catholic schools for young men. The Fathers first settled themselves at St. Francis Hall, then located at Sixth Avenue and Spring Street, where the first academic classes were held that same year, 1891. Soon realizing the need for a building of their own however, the two Jesuits leased a block on the corner of Broadway and Madison Street. On April 16, 1893 they laid the cornerstone of the new college building at this site. By the autumn of 1894 the school was ready, and with the help of two new scholastics, Messrs. Brusten and Mahoney, SJ., the first high school classes were taught. During the four years that followed, the school experienced a steady growth that was climaxed in October, 1898, when both Seattle College and Seattle High School were chartered by the State of Washington to bestow degrees and academic honors . During these formative years of the school, Father Garrand had served at President and Principal from 1891 to 1896. Succeeding him was his co-founder, Father Sweere who help that office from 1897 to 1905. A Glu J

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