University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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to multiversity The multiversity now covers 660 acres in north Seattle. In 1861, the University was a single building at the present site of the Olympic Hotel. 19

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110 years: from cow-college to university The oldest state college on the Pacific Coast, the UW has grown since 1861 from a school with a total enrollment of 31 students to the largest single campus on the coast. At one time it stood in the heart of downtown Seattle, housed in a little white building. The bell that summoned students to classes was also used as a foghorn for ships in Elliott Bay. The fire of 1889 and a growing enrollment forced the re- gents, under the direction of Edmond Meany, to look for a new campus. The search was so prolonged that one day a weary regent planted his umbrella in a stump, exclaiming, I'm through! There Denny Hall was built. A cow college for many years, it was not until after World War II and the subsequent technolog- ical boom that Washington began to come of age. The University is the materialization of a dream of Seattle's founder, Arthur Denny, who donated, along with Edward Lander and Char- les Terry, the first ten acres of land in order to create the finest educational structure in the Pacific Northwest. Today, the University of Washington has ex- panded far beyond anyone's dreams. Not just in terms of its 660-acre campus, although this is in itself significant. More than just size, the astonishing thing about the UW is that it has grown into a multiversity almost without anyone noticing it. What does the term multi- versity mean? It refers to size and diversity. The U , as it is referred to in the state of Washington, is now a sufficiently big and pow- erful institution that it does much to shape and define our society and environment. It has become a powerful force, powerful enough to set to work solving many of the community's problems. With an obvious philosophy that mere instruction does not suffice to educate, the multiversity's students enter the Seattle area in programs such as Seattle Tutoring Agency for Youth, Environmental Affairs Com- mission, Abortion Reform and a whole spec- trum of others in an attempt to work at the so- lution of some of our most pressing problems. The administration itself sends its architecture, engineering, education, social work, medical students and many more out into the ghetto, to the Indian reservation, to wherever prob- lems exist, in an attempt to be part of the envi- ronment, not simply an institution drawing from the environment. This is a revolutionary change. This is the University of Washington in its 110th year, far beyond Arthur Denny's dreams. Immensely huge, tremendously di- verse, the multiversity is becoming more than ever a part of the community. From 1861 until this, our 110th year, the Uni- versity of Washington has been making great strides forward. It is our fervent hope that the attitudes of certain pressure groups on campus and in our state legislature do not force the University to move backward after so brilliant a century. The arrow points to the UW as it stood in Seattle in 1865.

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TYEE 1971: PORTRAIT OF 2 22 66 116 184 196 246 274 376 379 385 396 CONTENTS The Real Multiversity'' . . The Year................ Establishment........... Sports.................. Royalty................. Academics and Graduates Organizations........... Living Groups........... Acknowledgements . . . Senior Index ........... General Index........... We Leave Here