University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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From The ’60s To ’80s. . .A Radical Transition The late '60s and early ‘70s were times of confusion, anger, protests, and hopes for a better world. Students focused their energies on social issues: Stop the Vietnam War, clean the en- vironment, support the Wom- en's Liberation Movement. They denied campus tradi- tion, yet redefined it according to the times with a llopecom- ing” celebration in 1971. The Black Student Union had its own Homecoming dance and queen that year. It was an exciting revolution to find expectations and reality changing. Jeannette Franks '70, ‘79 The civil rights movement was in full swing. Students de- manded programs such as Black Studies and Chicano Studies, and got them. An ugly controversy arose when four black players were suspended by Coach Jim Owens amidst charges of the coaching staffs insensitivity towards blacks. Black is beautiful and Peace” were among the era's key words. The unrest settled down throughout the '70s but its ef- fects changed the campus. Ser- vices and programs such as Women's Studies, Ethnic Stud- ies. and the Educational Oppor- tunity Program continue to be offered. A bull horn loud and clear Shrills and barkers of d x m And Salvation. TYEE ‘70 The '70s segued quietly into the conservative '80s and tradi- tion wandered back into the campus community. The effects of inflation and a tighter na- tional economy have forced students to become more prac- tical minded. Budget Cuts have become a fact of life as elimina- tion of the departments of Ki- nesiology and Nutritional and Textile Sciences showed. Now there arc increasing concerns of the many students applying for grants to pay for their educa- tion, and graduating over their heads in debt. — BP The Ever-Rising Cost Of Tuition •Free tuition except School of Law ($10) and Summer School ($10), and various laboratory uiagc fee ($l-$23). Resident rate quoted only. mmm we going tv witness ft WHOLE H RTEV EFFORT70 EXPERIMENTALLY EMPLOY MEN IN TYP CftOi' WOMEN '5 OCCUPATIONS” p 4 1 M i STATEMENTS »och a thi were common during the due to the Wom- en’» Liberation Movement Dougin Cole pho o ettunesy Daily file A BOMB caused severe damage to the Administration Building in t‘X-9 VW 4M36. • STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS parodying ROTC and the Vietnam Wat were a common tight on campus. Grant Haller photo courtesy Daily files 12STH ANNIVERSARY

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WAR DECLARED! Life Wasn’t The Same Wars had unique impacts on the campus community. Patriotism rallied the students to assist the cause during World Wars I and II. The Vietnam War was seen as a cruel joke, however, and students of that era protested loudly against it. Enrollment plunged during the World Wars and intercollegiate ♦ WORLD WAR I citiwn training on the UW campos in 1917. UW «2211 STUDENTS TAKE PART in an air raid drill during the WWII era. UW «9» sports were eliminated or affected as athletes left to serve their coun- try. Several faculty helped conduct research and investigations for the government during WWII. During WWII, government gardenias replaced corsages and orchids at dances, and students were encouraged to devote 12 hours of their day to school and war activities. The morning of Dec. 7, 1941, my girlfriend and I left church in her parents' car. The radio an- nouncer blared our the news of the Jap attack on Pearl. We were STUNNED. The rest of the day. everyone was in shock. Everyone gatitered around the radio. Details were sketchy. We had been told our Pacific fleet was invincible. Now most of it was gone. The next day, the shock became RAGE as we listened to President Roosewlt declare war on the Axis powers. 'The enrollment at the U in Jan - uary was 10,700. By June 1942, it dropped to 7,275. Bruce Cole, '41 The UW was an exciting place in 1945-47 because the war veter- ans had returned on the GI bill, and they added a much more ma- ture. reasoned touch to the class THE DAILY kepc «udent» ippntcd of the World Wr r II »itunion and campo» war activities Joseph W Edgell. Jr. photo atmosphere. Jean Schumacher McClelland, '47 The government gave my hus- band $100 a month to go to school because he'd had a Port's fracture in his ankle in Prance (WW1) and was laid up in the hospital. That is the only way he had any help from the government, if he had been hospitalized in France during the war. Margaret Mansfield Van Gilder, '22 The day war was declared for WWII, many men immediately signed up for military service. Mili- tary groups took over some of the fraternity houses and they marched in formation to classes. If you were on a walkway, you had to get off as they walked fast, in cadence. Ncysa Elwcll Hickok, '44, '63 Because of WWII. classes were added: Problems of the Pacific, and The World at War. These were huge classes and met in Meany Hall. There were at least five girls to each man on campus during the war. There were service men's dances and a lot of professors were in the service or in Washington, D.C ... The vers living in the temporary Olympus Hall answered the phone with Olympus Hall, home of the Greek gods with the Roman (roamin') hands. Ethel L. Fenhaus Matter, '46 FROSTY WAS THE FIRST nmcor in 1922 wlien the UW Sundodgcr» became the UW lluikm. UW «2201 During UW President Henry Suzzallo's reign (1915-26). the campus needed new buildings. Persuaded that it was more impor- tant to build well than quickly, he felt each structure should be built as a lasting monument; hence The University of a Thousand Years. UW Not Untouched By Problems Of Prejudice To start my goal of becoming a math teacher, I registered for Edu- cation I. I soon got a notice to report to a geography professor who tried to talk me into taking home economics as a major. I was completely uninterested in home ec. I was sent to a sociology faculty member who tried to persuade me to change to business administra- tion. I remained non-committal so I was sent to the placement office where I was questioned: Where were you born Seattle. Arc you a U.S. citizen I was bom here. We cannot place you in a job when you graduate; the parents would not want you. We cannot accept you in the school of education. You can keep Education I. but you can’t take any more. You will not have an advisor. I didn’t know where to turn but wandered off to the math depart- ment where math professor Dr. Winger gladly agreed to be my ad- visor. My advisor submitted my name to be a math teaching fellow. He told me about it and said I really did not have a chance as 1 was nisei and female. That did not make much difference as we were soon evacuated into concentration camps . . . There were 19 nisei eli- gible for graduation exercises in June '42, but we were considered too much of a national security risk to be allowed back to Seattle. So Dean Lauer of the Lit school gave us an address. I never got to wear a cap and gown. Mary Torihara Chaney, '41 Born Japanese, 1 suffered much prejudice and humiliation. Consid- er my credentials in light of the treatment I received: named by Phi Lambda Upsilon as the outstand- ing sophomore in chemical engi- neering. Received President's Medal as one of three outstanding UW juniors. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Yet I was not allowed to talk to a single industrial interviewer by Dr. Herman V. Tartar who handled the placement of students in the department. He selected the stu- dents to be interviewed by com- panies. He told me none of them were interested in hiring Japanese. Taft Yutuka Toribara, '38, ’39 125TH ANNIVERSARY

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 CHIFF-OF-STAFF Dr Julian S. Ansell and 1906 University Hospital Employer-of- THE SUZZALLO EXPANSION wall include a gallery walkway leading out to tHt the-Year Cora Crux take part m ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the opening of the Fast Wing. HUB yard. Joseph W. Edgell, Jr. photo Glenn Afar photo The UW j School of Medicine can only reap future benefits for its students now that University Hos- pital has a new wing. The Hospital opened its $48 million East Wing in October after over six years of planning and con- struction. The new wing adds 450 beds to the hospital and has many of the latest features in hospital technol- ogy including one of a dozen posi- tron emission tomographs (PET) w COMPUTERS CONTINUE to fi- gure prominently in the UW future. In Odegaard Library, Ian Godwin consul» the new InfoTrac system, a computerized Readers Guide. Montes Lundberp photo in the U.S. The PET helps doctors diagnose diseases such as cancer and Alzcimcr's. There are also more operating rooms to allow more efficient scheduling of sur- Scr - Down the street from the hospi- tal. a $13.2 million project began at the end of the 1986 football season. Husky Stadium was to get 13,700 new scats with an upper deck rising from the north grandstand area, bringing the seating capacity up from 60,000 to 73,000. It was to be ready by the 1987 season opener against Stanford. But when the early framework collapsed in February (sec page 114), there were doubts as to whether the scats would be ready by then or whether there would be seats at all. Maybe someday the grandstand will rise again. On the academic side, by spring 1990. Suzzallo Library will sport a new look with a $32 million wing added to the Current building. With 6,000 people using the li- brary daily and cramped quarters housing equipment and staff, the SOMEDAY. HUSKY STADIUM will look like n »rchitectur»l model Kevin M l.ohmsn photo additional 12,000 square feet will provide needed extra space plus the opportunity to expand the use of computer technology. The con- struction will begin in fall of 1988. The library addition will be a triangle wing and a square wing joined by a gallery, which will serve as a walkway to the HUB yard. The wing's design will follow the neo-Gothic tradition of the Mr Information for this section came from: First Century At the University of Washington, by Charles M. Gates; Uniwrsity of Washington, History, 1887 1902, thesis by Daniel Peterson; The Vi- sion On the Knofl 1861-1961 The First Hundred Years of the Uni- versity of Washington (booklet); Tyce yearbooks from 1900. TO, '20. part of Suzzallo built in the 1920s. What the UW's future will bring is anyone's guess; perhaps a cure for AIDS, an intercollegiate fenc- ing team, or a school of agricul- ture. The students and faculty will continue to come and go through the years, adding more chapters to the story of The University of a Thousand Years.” Only 875 more to go. — HP '30. '40. '43. '50. '60. '70; Washing- ton Alumnus Magazine Autumn 1984; Columns, November 1923; UW class catalogs. 3 Much thanks and appreciation j to the following alumni for sharing their college experiences with the Tyee: Mary K. Brown. Mary Tori- bara Chaney. Trevor Evans. Jean- ette Franks. Neysa Elwell Hickok. James H. Jenson, Eileen Gormley Mansfield, Ethel L. Fcnhaus Mat- ter. Jean Schumacher McClelland, Nancy Grecly Souder, Taft Yutuka Toribara, Margaret Mansfield Van Gilder, Marie Gustafson Wall. Eu- gene A. Wright. 125TH ANNIVERSARY