TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State

Told by the P-ioneers
Todd and to the college. One of these was the training of 100 young
men for the students army training corps. In this connection there
came the outbreak of the influenza. One-third of the S. A. T. C. boys
were stricken, but all were saved, owning to the care they received.
"\Vith the close of the war, President Todd and the board of trustees
again took up the financial problem. In 1920 a campaign was conducted
in Tacoma and Pierce county for a half million dollars for a
college campus and for a building fund. This resulting in complete
success, in 1921 an appeal was made to the people of the entire state
for a half-million to be added to the endowment fund. This also resulted
in victory. Then in 1922 a new campaign was put on to raise
a quarter of a million dollars to match the quarter of a million offered
by the general education board (Rockefeller Foundation). This campaign
also was crowned with success.
These victories placed the College of Puget Sound among the growing
institu.tions of the Pacific Northwest and it began to receive nation-wide
attention.
In 1923 on the new campus there began to arise the fine new building
known as Jones Hall. In September, 1924, the college was opened
on the new campus at Fifteenth and Warner streets.
An additional gift came in 1931 when the gift of $150,000 to Tacoma
by Leonard Howarth, a Tacoma lumberman, was awarded to the
College of Puget Sound. With this fund was completed the Hall of
Science.
From its founding in 1888 to 1915 the college depended upon student
fees and upon small donations of faithful friends. It now has a
million and a quarter of well-invested funds and buildings and grounds
valued at over half a million dollars.
In 1891 the school in the liberal arts department had only 2 college
students. In 1907 when the writer of these pages began teaching in
the institution, there were only 40 students of college rank. Today,
in 1938, there are nearly 600 students in the college of liberal arts.
This year, under the guiding hand of Pres. Todd and the Board of
trustees, the friends of the college are observing the semi-centennial
of its founding.
The achievements of this half century of progress augur well for
the college, as it enters its second half century.
By 1988 the friends of the school fondly hope and have faith to believe
that it 'will enjoy steady growth and progress, that the number
of students will double and triple, that new buildings will continue to
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