University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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roni that day in 1897 when a low-wallow- ing, heavily-laden ship plowed from the Far North to the nearest and best port, cargoed with a ton of gold, Seattle has been the main port for in-and-out Alaska commerce — the Gateway to Alaska. The growth of Seattle began in earnest dur- ing those Gold Rush days from a small town on Puget Sound of «,000 in 1890. to a bus- tling community of 80,000 in 1900, a boom city of 237,000 in 1910, and forty years later the roaring metropolis of half a million — a main channel of trade, commerce and trans- portation of the nation. In this booming city a university had been established. This university was to expand as the city expanded, grow as the trade between the city and the Far North grew. And this 1950 TvKK.with an Alaskan theme, commemorates the growth and development of the Alaskan territory and the ever-strength- ening ties which bind the University of Wasli- ington with the Far North. We of the 1950 staff not only have attempted to publish the fifty-first edition of a yearbook reflecting the many activities of the school year, but also to bind this yearly record with a timely and artistic theme, a .SOO-page thread stretching from cover to cover. Our thread — Alaska.

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CI laska -a mafiic word not only lo us of the Uni- versity. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, but a name reflecting to all. a land of snow-cajiped mountains, hearded jiioneer sourdoughs, gold miners, salmon fisher- men, and sealers, as well as eskimos. igloos, dog sleds, totem poles, polar hears and the Midnight Sun. Ever since Seward ' s Folly in 1867, the word Alaska has symbolized eithe rcold grandeur, economit ' exploita- tion or romantic adventure to the average American. The jiresent years, however, call for a new portrayal ol the territory to our north. Alaska is no longer the land of 1867, many months away and far removed from our lives, but is today an integrated part of our economic, political and military thinking. No longer are her flour- ishitig cities the small northern outposts of yesterday. New industries have been born and old ones developed. Her farm lands are tilled, new mineral resources tapped and her economy stabilized. Many misrepresentations and delusions concerning Alaska have been corrected during these eighty years, but many more still remain lo be swept aside before Alaska may be appreciate l for her true assets, both present and potential. in the hoppers of the United Slates (iongress lie bills for the admittance of the Territory of Alaska lo the Union as the Wth stale. The I9S(» ' ' :e is dedicated lo this state of Alaska, lo tier citizens, both |)ast and present, who. as America ' s true Last Krontiersineii, remind us in the i ' acific Northwest of the days of the Oregon ' I ' erri- lory and the pioneer spirit wliich lirought us into the Union as the 42nd state of Washington.