Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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Within a little over a year after his arrival Fr. Lemieux had initiated the Seattle University Women’s Guild, on August 29, 1949. The group was an outgrowth of the Seattle College Mother’s Club. Mrs. H. T. Buckner was the first president. The reputation of Seattle University became known in the sports world with the emergence of the basketball team led by Johnny and Eddie O’Brien. In February. 1951. the Chieftains had compiled a 30-4 season record and received a bid to the National Invitational Tournament. On January 21, 1952, they played one of their most remembered games defeating the Harlem Globe Trotters 84-81 in a contest to provide funds for athletes participating in the Olympic Games. In 1957, with All-American Elgin Baylor, the first University player since John O’Brien to achieve the title, they again participated in the NIT tournament. They lost to St. Bonavcnture in the quarter-final round. The team ranked fifth in the nation. Baylor was third in the country in scoring and led in rebounding. (Above) The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux, S.J., and David Levine, city council member, broke ground for the Thomas J. Ban-nan Building which was dedicated October 28, 1961. (Below) The view of Marian Hall shows the southeast area prior to the advance of the campus. Apartment buildings can be seen at the edge of the campus. 14