Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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(Above) Workmen built cement forms as construction of Bellarmine Hall began. It was completed in 1963 and was originally used as a men's dormitory. (Below) Campion Tower was completed in 1965 at which time Bellarmine became a women's dormitory, the men moving to Campion. At the close of the 1958 season the Baylor-led Chieftains again entered tournament play, this time, the NCAA. In regional play they defeated the Wyoming Cowboys. 88-51; the San Francisco Dons: and the California Bears. 66-62. In the finals at Louisville the Chiefs smothered the Kansas State Wildcats. 73-51. The next night they met Adolph Rupp’s University of Kentucky team for the NCAA title. Defeated 84-72, they returned home second only to Kentucky in the nation. Baylor was named the Most Valuable Player of the tourney and Sweet” Charlie Brown was named to the all-star team. The University has produced many other well known sports personalities. In 1955, Pat | Lesser won the National Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. The same year Janet Hopps was ranked 11th by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. She successfully defended her U.S. Women’s Intercollegiate title and teamed with Dorothy Powers to win the National Women’s Clay Court Doubles Championship. Jim Whittaker. Ed Pearsall, Tom Storey. Eddie Miles. John Tresvant. Tommy Shaules and Charlie Williams are others who stand out in the Sports Hall of Fame. 15