Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Railroad equipment was used by excavators in 1911 to remove dirt from the Broadway and Madison corner of the campus, where the Liberal Arts Building was later constructed. The dirt was sold and used for fill at 12th and Madison to raise the street level in the area as part of a city regrade project. The excavated site remained unused for 30 years. In 1941, during Fr. Corkery’s presidency, construction began on the Liberal Arts Building. The north half of the building was completed and in use for classes by October 6. 1947. Building materials became scarce and the south half of the building was not finished until 1948 under Fr. Small. In 1941 the Seattle Transit Company car barn adjoining the campus was acquired for the laboratory work of the School of Engineering. The Memorial Gymnasium was purchased from the U.S. Army Air Corps at Paine Field in 1946. The building was dismantled and moved along the highway during the night and reassembled on its present site at Eleventh and Marion. The first Seattle College basketball game in the new gym was played November 5, 1947, against the University of British Columbia. Seattle College lost by one point. I The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux, S.J., and John Murphy, 1955 president of the Alumni Association, leave Xavier Hall, dedicated in 1956. Xavier was first a men's residence, then turned over to the coeds and now serves as an office building. The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux, S.J., and Dr. Walter Moore, a member of the Board of Regents, discussed the grov th of the University at the dedication of Loyola Hall. The building, dedicated in 1956, is (he Jesuit faculty residence. U H f

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Prior to 1939 the College had no facilities on campus for lunch. The students were forced to go off campus or bring a lunch. This problem was remedied in October. 1939, when lunches were sold at the Knights of Columbus hall on East Union. The building had been used by the College for additional classroom space. Mrs. Genevieve Reynolds and her sister. Mrs. Ann Mitchell ran the establishment. In September, 1941, the cafeteria was moved to the basement of the Garrand Building and was called the Cave. Mrs. Reynolds ran the Cave until 1947 when Mrs. Gertrude Anderson took charge. In 1953 the Chieftain replaced the Cave as the student cafeteria. Henry T. Ivers, Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly. Howard LeClair and George Stuntz cut the cake at the dedication of the Chieftain. Ivers, LeClair and Stuntz were the first to receive degrees, in 1925. when Seattle College re-opened follov ing World War I. Marycrest Hall for women was dedicated October 17. 1954. Ww.i. 1.1 wm t

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During the summer of 1947 the Warren West building. Lyons-Dobler. Buhr-Simmons and Dougherty Halls were obtained from the government to meet the classroom and housing needs of the ever growing student body. The halls were named in honor of former students killed during World War II. New and far reaching objectives were brought into view when the Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux. S.J., succeeded Fr. Small as president of Seattle College on May 14, 1948. Fr. Lemieux was the youngest Jesuit college president in the United States and would serve the University 17 years, a record for any Jesuit president at that time. On May 28, 1948, fourteen days after he became president, the State of Washington granted Seattle College full University status and it assumed the present title. Seattle University. The name was used for the first time that night at commencement exercises. The campus continued to grow with the addition of the William Pigott Building, completed in November, 1957. Marian Hall was acquired in 1957 and later used by senior women. 13