University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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For fifty years the TYEE has proved it is better to give than to receive. On its printed pages, indelible reminders of college friends, favorite professors, familiar buildings, student activities and unforgettable social and athletic events hove been preserved. This year the TYEE is celebrating its Fiftieth Anniversary. But again its readers are on the receiving end. Just as in years post, the TYEE staff has caught the spirit of progress of the University and passed on the significant record to all who read. As you browse through this book in years to come, I hope you will be reminded that your education was perhaps storted, but certainly not completed, in the years you spent on this campus. The real measure of your success in becoming on educated person will be found in your ability to continue to learn throughout your lifetime. May I take this opportunity to congratulate the TYEE for a half century of service. I am confident that this book will continue to record the progress of the University of a Thousand Years. . .C;££6

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i- icatioii THIS MILL OF KNOWLEDGE, this fhousands-strong brain, this Washington— we hove said — shall live a thousand years. And eighty-eight of them have slipped by. They are The Past of a great university. The patterns of these years are in their harvest, yesterday ' s students and today ' s. They are in the musty, ivy-greened buildings, in the rawness of new construction — and in the blueprints of still more monuments-to-learning. They weave through wars, wealth, depression and intellectualism. They are olive in its instituti ons, even as pride and devotion are alive. Among a university ' s institutions is its yearbook. TYEE 1949, which happens to be an anniversary edition, marks the passing of fifty years of tracing those patterns, of recording that Past. But a yearbook, especially on a birthday, should probably be devoted to more than retrospection. Somehow, it should reflect — if it finds it — a feeling of rededication and a sense of readiness for ony of the future ' s challenges. And in this typical Washington June, TYEE 1949 has made a discovery. The University of a Thousand Years is not just a meaningless slogan stamped on vague and ambitious dreams. The apparent accent, of course, is on the building program — has been, will be. In 1934, for instance, TYEE was expressing some misty optimism — now that the depression-cloud was passing — that somefhing might be done to revamp and revitalize Washington ' s educational plant. Fifteen years later, the university has added 18 build- ings and keeps a small army on duty to service them. Really want a contrast? Consider for a moment UW of 1900, when TYEE wos born. End-of-century buoyancy prompted educators in this essentially frontier community to predict that — perhaps — the university would someday make an appreciable advance from a 58-man staff and a student body of 514. Half a century later, university bulletins list over 3,000 teachers, administrators, grounds-keepers, policemen, electricians and mailmen. A few months ago, the student newspaper reported that 16,650 were registered for instruction. Vague and ambitious dreams? We think not. Nor do we scoff at a schedule that even by I960 will be translated into solid realities: two spanking-new engineering build- ings; the much-discussed student union; two modern dormitories with a combined capacity of 3200; an atomic energy plant rivaling the nation ' s best; an auditorium designed to seat 4000; new facilities for languages, industrial arts, journalism, speech, architecture, and mony more departments. And a campus population of 25,000. If progress requires farsightedness, then the big ideas of those who guide and now shape Washington ' s future are something less than fantastic. If improvement, per se, is dependent upon imagination, then that imagination must be given free rein. Consider, if you will, a university spilling into the valley between 22nd and 35th Northeast, and knocking of the doors of Laurelhurst hill. Of Montlake boulevard turned into just another Hello Lane, while its traffic is diverted from Montlake toward the Union Bay Village stoplight over a mighty span. Consider a brood avenue instead of 40th Street, with university classes on either curb. Dreams? Perhaps. But perhaps those dreams are only a part of that infinite dreom man has of bettering himself, of changing the vast unknown to the usable known. Space and equipment are certainly the tools. Building a University of a Thousand Years is the Washington Idea. To that Idea TYEE 1949 is dedicate. 3:

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F. ore v oFcl IN FASHIONING A FINE MIRROR, a man- ufocturer (we imagine) troubles himself with problems of refraction, chemical properties of the glass, the type and quality of the frame, and such. You ' d never guess it, but we ' ve done the same (well — almost) with this yearbook you ' re reading. We ' ve tried to conceive and then publish a TYEE that would reflect this school year with faithful accuracy and with all its many-colored background. We want- ed to catch the wlll-o ' -the-wlsp spirit of the university. Because this is a rather special edition, we ' ve tried to make this the best mirror we could. TYEE 1949, as perhaps you sow on the cover, is the fiftieth recording of the univer- sity ' s modern history. We ' ve dressed up this birthday volume to fit the occasion. But that ' s OS far as it goes. From there on, it ' s oil yours. Let ' s repeat that: this is your TYEE. It ' s not the stoff ' s yearbook, though we ' ve thoroughly enjoyed working on It. Nor Is it the university ' s, though o child of the university. No . . . TYEE belongs to the students — because, you see, it is the stu- dents. It ' s you, whether you ' re from West Seat- tle, Pakistan, or Cowlitz County. Wherever you ' re from . . . It ' s you when you were staring at textbook pages, when you were jammed in the Pavilion for a basketball gome, when you were having a cup of coffee on the Ave. Whatever you