Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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While the name of Seattle University was being established in the sports world many other developments were taking place on the campus itself. In January, 1951. the first Board of Regents was established. Thomas J. Bannan was the chairman. Henry Broderick, Dr. Hubbard T. Buckner, John W. Maloney, Charles P. Moriarty, Sr., Paul Pigott and Howard H. Wright were the original members. In April. 1951, the United States Army ROTC program was established on campus. Enrollment was climbing at a steady rate and many new buildings were added. On June 23, 1953, the Student Union Building was officially completed and October 17, 1954, Marycrest Hall was dedicated. In 1954 construction began on the faculty residence. Loyola Hall and the men’s residence hall. Xavier. Both were dedicated in 1956. November, 1957, saw the completion of the William Pigott Building. Marian Hall was purchased in 1958 for senior women residents and the City Council vacated many of the streets within the campus. The College of Sister Formation, established in 1956 with Sr. Judith Lang. F.C.S.P.. as dean, was the second college in the nation specifically for sisters and the first college attached to a university. Mother M. Philothea Gorman, F.C.S.P., became dean in 1957 and served until 1964 when Sr. Judith once again became dean. A bottling plant at 11th and Marion was remodeled and became the home of the bookstore and the treasurer's office in 1965. The bookstore had been located in the Garrand Building from 1931 to 1965. It changed rooms three times in those years. 16