Walla Walla University - Mountain Ash Yearbook (College Place, WA)

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INTRODUCTI ON continued thxe backwater: 0f McNary Dam, framwl by the cliffx of 7allula Gap, wash thc .vhoms f Sacajawea and Hat Rock late parkx when: picnicking tudents can play ball, water hki, 07-011 a windy dayhpick and out of shamburgmx. 011m 15 per cent of the nationhs green pea crop ix raised in Washington, providing mmmer labor for many xtudcnts, though all hand picking and shelling has hem; eliminated by mechanical hhzlincrs? Much of the match: crop is grown and pwcmscd in the Walla Walla Valley. The world record of wheat production fmr acre hax been held intermitcntly by countim in Eastern Washington. This grain field ix typical of much of the dry land farming Hut 0f the Caxcades.

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newly installed steam pipes made an excellent communication system. Visitors were sometime a little shocked the first time they heard this strange cross between a telegraph key and a jungle drum, and a little amazed at its effi- ciency. Students were sometimes a little shock- ed when an invitation to a snack vibrated over the pipes and a little amazed when the dean crashed the party. The luxuries in the 1890s were few, yet the students in these early years enjoyed privileges WVWC-itest, crave today - three subjects were considered a full load; room, board, laundry, tuition, and fees for an entire year amount to $113; and the first class began at eight dclock in the morning. When the 1890s closed the doors on an- other century, Walla Walla College was here to stay in spite of serious problems of depres- sions, over-erowded classrooms, and a shortage of teachers. Through the years the dedication and ingenuity of staff, constituents, and stu- dents have made Walla Walla College success-

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ful. Today the school itself is a four million dollar monument to those who came to the Northwest to serve. As the Columbia River, Walla Walla College is an alluring entryway which attracts nearly fifteen hundred young people each year. Approximately four thousand graddates have gone out strong in spiritual, intellectual, and physical preparedness to serve their fel- lows throughout the world. As ministers, teachers, doctors, nurses, engineers, accountants, and scientists they have gone. Some have actually walked thousands of miles across Korea and Manchuria, sloshed through muddy rice fields in Burma and China, sweltered in heat and dust in India and Africa, spent months on muleback riding across South America, and flown in Alaskan blizzards to tell the hold sweet storyii of Beth- lehem and Calvary. Captains Cook and Vancouver were dis- appointed in not finding a Northwest Passage. Later explorers declared it did not exist. But it does. It begins at Walla Walla College and leads to a world of service.