FROM THE ARCHIVES – DECEMBER 2010
From Chuck Luce, Arches Magazine – A Todd portrait comes home:
“We received a cordial phone call from Eunice Robeck ’58, M.A.’74, remarking on the “From the Archives” item about Todd Hall (summer 2010) and tipping us off that on a recent visit to an antiques store on South Tacoma Way she spotted a nicely done portrait of President Edward H. Todd, drawn when he was a young man. Incurable browsers of antiques stores that we are, your editors couldn’t resist a field trip to check it out. Sure enough, we found the likeness upstairs in the South Tacoma Antique Mall, across from the B&I. (Picky editors’ aside: Names like “Antique Mall” or “Athletic Center” really get our backs up. The place we visited was not an old mall. It was an antiques mall; where antiques are sold. Harrumph.) The portrait appears to be a charcoal, we’re guessing drawn when Todd was in his 20s, about 1885. A little haggling over the price and we brought it home. We’ll turn it over to the college archives.”
A Sound Past
John Finney continues to add to the digital image collection A Sound Past. A full list of recent additions is available from the Archives web site. Here are three of my favorites!
(images from left) 1.) President R. Franklin Thompson taken 13 April 1972 as he approached the end of his 31-year presidency in 1973.2.) A color image of the 1960 College of Puget Sound Daffodil Parade float. 3.) A color image of Jones Hall taken October 1955 with plenty of cool old cars.
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