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  4. 75 Years of Kittredge Hall: A Celebration of a Remarkable History

75 Years of Kittredge Hall: A Celebration of a Remarkable History

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Historical Kittredge

Kittredge Hall opened in 1942 as the student hub of the College of Puget Sound. For eighteen years, it housed student dining services (with soda fountain), the bookstore, sorority chapter houses, yearbook and newspaper offices, Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. rooms, and the Dean of Women Students, as well as providing a home to Army Specialized Training Program soldiers for three months in 1942-1943. When the new Student Union Building was constructed in 1959 to accommodate burgeoning enrollment, Kittredge Hall became the home of the Art Department in 1960. Clearly, Kittredge Hall has a rich and layered history!

To celebrate the vital life and history of this central structure on the Puget Sound campus, a series of events were organized over the 2015-2017 academic years to commemorate both the early years of Kittredge Hall as the Student Union and the fifty-seven years as the Art Department (now Department of Art and Art History) with Kittredge Gallery. Since 1942, Kittredge Hall has been a rich space of memory for Puget Sound students, the campus community, and the broader Tacoma community. All of these groups were well represented in events detailed below that celebrated staff contributions to the history of our institution, welcomed hundreds of students and alumni who were able to reunite with old friends and to return to a site important in their liberal arts undergraduate education, and a wide range of community members who attended public talks and exhibitions.

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Professor of Art History Linda Williams coordinated the 75th Anniversary events. Student assistants Kyla Dierking ’17 and Lianna Hamby ’17 facilitated the receptions, organizing, promoting, and providing historical tours; we thank them very much for their engaged and positive support. Many thanks to John Finney for initially suggesting the celebration and historical excavations that produced several articles in the Puget Sound Arches Magazine related to Kittredge Hall. Kittredge Hall 75th Anniversary events were funded by the Department of Art and Art History Tilley Fund and a Chism grant from the Office of the Academic Dean.

Links to past Exhibitions
  • A Sound Legacy: The Life and Art of Frances Chubb Exhibition
    October 5–November 7, 2015
  • Bill Colby Retrospective
    August 29–September 24, 2016
  • Past and Present Faculty Exhibition
    October 3–November 5, 2016
  • Dining Services & Bookstore Receptions
    October 17, 2016, and February 8, 2017
  • What Happened Here: Puget Sound Studio Alumni Exhibition
    January 17–February 18, 2017
  • Art History Colloquium
    January 27–28, 2017
  • Student-Curated Exhibition: Painting the National Parks: Preserving A.W. Hill's Experience
    February 27–April 15, 2017
  • Sorority Reception
  • Army Special Training Program in Kittredge Hall
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Historical Guide to Kittredge Hall

Kittredge Hall, the fifth permanent building on campus (after Jones, Howarth, and Anderson Halls and Warner Gymnasium), served as a student center for the first eighteen years of its existence, 1942-1959. Kittredge as a student center was vitally important in Puget Sound’s development—eagerly sought, heavily used, and much appreciated by students. After years of fragmented functioning of student groups in Jones and Howarth, Kittredge was where the unity of campus spirit could and did flourish. Kittredge was “home base” for the first generations of wartime and post-war “can do” students. All paths led to Kittredge.

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