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University of Puget Sound

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University of Puget Sound
Former names
The Puget Sound University (1888–1903)
College of Puget Sound (1914–1960)
Mottoπροs τα ακρα (Greek)
Motto in English
To the heights
TypePrivate Liberal arts college
EstablishedMarch 17, 1888; 136 years ago (1888-03-17)
Religious affiliation
United Methodist Church
Endowment$378.6 million (2020)[1]
PresidentIsiaah Crawford
Academic staff
206 Full-time and 63 Part-time[2] Fall 2021
Students2,023[2] Fall 2023
Undergraduates1,712[2] Fall 2023
Postgraduates220[2] Fall 2023
Location, ,
United States
CampusSuburban, 97 acres (39 ha)
ColorsMaroon and White[3]
  
Mascot"Grizz" the Logger
Websitepugetsound.edu

The University of Puget Sound (or Puget Sound) is a private liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington. It was founded in 1888.[4] The institution offers a variety of undergraduate degrees as well as five graduate programs in counseling, education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and public health.

Puget Sound's athletic programs compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III Northwest Conference. The University of Puget Sound is also the only independent national undergraduate liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest with a School of Music and School of Business and Leadership.[5]

History edit

The University of Puget Sound was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888 in downtown Tacoma.[6] The idea for a college in Tacoma originated with Charles Henry Fowler, who had previously been the president of Northwestern University. Fowler was in Tacoma for a Methodist conference when he spoke of his vision of a Christian institution of learning in the area. The conference released a report:

We commit ourselves ... heartily to the building up within the bounds of the conference of an institution of learning which shall by its ample facilities ... command the respect and patronage of Methodist people within the bounds of the territory ... and so by united and prayerful efforts advance to the establishment of a school of learning which shall be a praise in all the land.

Two cities vied for the location of the school: Port Townsend and Tacoma. The committee eventually decided on Tacoma. A charter was drawn up and filed in Olympia on March 17, 1888. This date marks the legal beginning of the school. At this time, the school's legal title was The Puget Sound University.[7] In September 1890, Puget Sound opened its doors, taking in 88 students.

The beginnings of the school were marked by moral conviction: students were warned against intoxicating liquors, visits to saloons, gambling, tobacco use, and obscene drawings or writings on the college grounds. The institution also had a financially tumultuous beginning. There was no endowment and the school often struggled for funds to pay the professors. It moved locations three times in 13 years and, at one time, the school was merged with Portland University (former campus is now the University of Portland). It opened up a year later (1899) back in Tacoma on the 9th and G Street.[8] In 1903, the school was "reborn" and re-incorporated as a different entity, different trustees, and a different name: the University of Puget Sound.

 
Warner Gym, one of the original 1924 buildings

The character of the school changed dramatically during the presidency of Edward H. Todd (1913–1942), who worked tirelessly to bring financial and academic stability. During his tenure, the "Million Dollar Campaign" was started, raising $1,022,723 for buildings, equipment, and endowment. With this money, the campus moved in 1924[9] to its current location in the residential North End of Tacoma, with five buildings, setting a stylistic tone for the institution. In 1914, the institution was renamed the College of Puget Sound.

President R. Franklin Thompson (1942–1973) led a massive physical and institutional expansion: During this era almost all of the institution's buildings were constructed. In 1960, the institution's name changed from the College of Puget Sound back to the University of Puget Sound, as it is known today.

Phillip M. Phibbs presided from 1973 to 1992 and endeavored to change the tone of Puget Sound. In 1980, the institution divested its attachment with the Methodist Church, and an independent board of trustees assumed full fiscal responsibility of the institution. Also during this time, the institution began to focus on undergraduate education, phasing out all off-campus programs except the law school and most graduate programs. During this time the library collections were broadened and the faculty greatly expanded.

With the advent of President Susan Resneck Pierce (1992–2003), the law school was promptly sold to Seattle University, in a move that was calculated to focus the institution's resources on its undergraduate campus. During her tenure, the institution completed almost $100 million of new construction and renovation. Collins Memorial Library and four academic buildings were renovated, and Wyatt Hall was constructed to house the growing class and office space needs of the Humanities Department. Trimble Residence Hall was constructed, bringing on-campus student residency to 65%. SAT scores rose from 1067 to 1253 and the endowment more than tripled.

Puget Sound's president from 2003 to early 2016 was Ronald R. Thomas—affectionately called "Ron Thom" by many students—a scholar of Victorian literature, and the former vice-president of Trinity College.

In February 2016, the institution announced the selection of Isiaah Crawford to be its next president, upon Thomas's retirement. President Crawford assumed office on July 1, 2016.[10]

 
Harned and Thompson Halls, along Union Avenue. Harned Hall is at center, with wings of Thompson Hall on either side.

Thompson Hall, home of the sciences at the institution, underwent a major renovation, including the construction of a new wing (Harned Hall, completed 2006) on the building's western side against Union Avenue and extensive renovations to the current wings and courtyard to allow for upgraded labs and facilities. The entire project was completed in mid 2008. The entire complex is now known locally as "The Science Center at Puget Sound." The now completely enclosed courtyard contains a striking Plexiglas structure where a coffee shop, Oppenheimer Cafe, is located.[11]

In fall 2013, Puget Sound opened Thomas Hall, a residence hall for upper-division students featuring 11 "houses" organized around five academic-residential programs: the Humanities Program, environmental outdoor leadership, international experiential learning, entrepreneurship, and the Honors Program. The hall is home for 135 students, and includes a seminar room, four studies, and an event/meeting space for approximately 150 people, accommodating special events, guest lectures, performances and more.[12]

Presidents edit

  1. William D. Tyler (1888–1890)
  2. Fletcher B. Chereington (1890–1892)
  3. Crawford R. Thoburn (1892–1899)
  4. Wilmot Whitfield (1899–1901)
  5. Charles O. Boyer (acting president, 1901–1903)
  6. Edwin M. Randall Jr. (1903–1904)
  7. Joseph E. Williams (1904–1907)
  8. Lee L. Benbow (1907–1909)
  9. Julius Christian Zeller (1909–1913)
  10. Edward H. Todd (1913–1942)
  11. R. Franklin Thompson (1942–1973)
  12. Philip M. Phibbs (1973–1992)
  13. Susan Resneck Pierce (1992–2003)
  14. Ronald R. Thomas (2003–2016)
  15. Isiaah Crawford (2016-)

Campus edit

The campus is located in North Tacoma, Washington in a primarily residential setting a few minutes' walk from the Proctor and the Sixth Avenue district.

The campus is made up of mainly brick buildings in the Tudor-Gothic architectural style. Buildings are mostly arranged into quads. The three main quads are the North Quad and South Quad, which contain residence halls, and Karlen Quad, which contains Jones Hall, Collins Memorial Library and the Music Building. The library was designed by Tacoma architect Silas E. Nelsen in 1954. It was later renovated.

 
University of Puget Sound campus on a sunny July afternoon.

Academic buildings edit

Harned Hall, named for alumnus and local real estate developer H.C. "Joe" Harned, was dedicated on September 29, 2006. The building is 51,000 square feet (4,700 m2) and cost $25 million to construct. It was designed and built to meet the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Silver Standard. The building features labs for biology, geology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics, a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) courtyard with a crystalline glass gazebo in the center, a Foucault pendulum designed by Alan Thorndike, as well as Gray whale skeleton named Willy.[13]

 
Wyatt Hall

After Harned Hall was completed, the institution began a $38 million renovation of Thompson Hall, the "old" science building. Harned and Thompson Halls form a square with a courtyard in the middle, and are collectively named the Science Center. Thompson Hall has an area of 121,000 square feet (11,200 m2) and was originally constructed in 1968. The renovation was completed in spring 2008.[14]

Wyatt Hall is the second newest academic building on campus, dedicated in 2003. It houses the English, History, Foreign Languages & Literature, Politics & Government, Philosophy, Honors, Science Technology & Society,[15] Classics, and Religion departments. Many of the classrooms in the building are seminar style, meaning a circle of tables that students sit at to encourage discussion between students and the professor, rather than a lecture. The building features glass art by Dale Chihuly that represents the ivy leaves covering the campus buildings.

The Wheelock Student Center, known as the "SUB" (Student Union Building) is the main hub of life on campus. It features a rotunda used for lectures and catered events, KUPS (the campus radio station), the cafeteria and dining area, Diversions Cafe (a student-run coffee shop), The Cellar (a student-run pizza parlor), and the Logger Store (a gift shop for college swag).[16]

 
McIntyre Hall

Other buildings include McIntyre Hall, home of the School of Business and Leadership, the Departments of Economics, Sociology and Anthropology, and International Political Economy; Howarth Hall, home of the School of Education, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Career and Employment Services, and more; Jones Hall, home of theatre arts, communication studies, and several administrative offices, including the Office of the President; and the Music Building (which is the only building on campus without a name). Kittredge Hall, the original student union building, now houses the art department and Kittredge Gallery. The Gallery is now affiliated with Tacoma Art Museum.

Collins Memorial Library[17] houses over 400,000 books and over 130,000 periodicals, is a partial federal government repository, and has substantial microform holdings.[18] The Library was named after former trustee Everill S. Collins. The current Library building was built in 1954. A larger addition was completed in 1974. In 2000, a major renovation brought new technology and media resources into the Library's spaces, making it one of the most popular campus gathering places for students.

Construction for the William T. and Gail T. Weyerhaeuser Center for Health Sciences began in spring 2010. At 42,500 square feet (3,950 m2), the center provides the resources and flexibility needed to support new areas of study in the fields of health and behavioral sciences. Specially designed to encourage cross-disciplinary interaction, the center houses Puget Sound's undergraduate departments in exercise science and psychology, graduate programs in occupational and physical therapy, and interdisciplinary program in neuroscience. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson/Seattle, Weyerhaeuser Hall conforms to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver standards.[19]

Residential buildings edit

 
Schiff Residence Hall

Harrington, Schiff, Anderson/Langdon, Smith, and Oppenheimer halls make up what is called the "North Quad", and Todd/Phibbs, Regester, Seward, Trimble, and Thomas Hall make up the "South Quad." Theme Row, which runs to the south end of campus, contains around 20 different theme houses that students may apply to live in. The Music House is the longest standing house, originating in 1989. After the Music House, the Outhaus and the Track and Cross Country Theme House are the two longest standing houses. There are also about 55 non-theme university-owned houses available.

Currently around 65% of students live on campus. Students are required to live on campus for their first two years of enrollment at the institution.[20]

In 2009, the institution upgraded residential Internet bandwidth by more than two-fold, to 100 Mbit/s. During that year, a new connection to the Washington State K-20 Educational Network was also installed, bringing the institution's aggregate bandwidth to 150 Mbit/s.[21] Further bandwidth upgrades have brought student bandwidth to 250 Mbit/s for the 2012–13 academic year.[22]

Academics edit

The institution offers more than fifty traditional and nontraditional areas of study in the liberal arts and sciences, as well as graduate programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and education. It recently launched a master of public health program.[23][24] The student to faculty ratio is 12 to 1.[4]

Rankings and reputation edit

In 2012, Puget Sound was named one of forty schools nationwide in the college guide Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges.[29] The guide cites the college's dynamic curriculum, close interaction between students and professors, ideal location, and enduring success of its alumni as qualities that set it apart from other schools.

The institution has ranked among the top five small liberal arts colleges for the number of graduates who participate in Peace Corps; in 2007, it ranked first.[30]

Puget Sound professors have been named Washington State Professor of the Year seven times by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.[31]

Admissions edit

For the Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), University of Puget Sound received 5,730 applications, admitted 3,060 (58.3%), and enrolled 653 students.[32] For the freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 1230-1450, the ACT composite range was 27–32, and the average high school grade point average was 3.70.[32]

International programs edit

The institution sponsors study abroad programs in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Pacific Rim, Scotland, Spain, Taiwan, and Wales.[33]

The program in the Pacific Rim, known as PacRim, or the Pacific Rim/Asia Study-Travel Program (PRAST) is unique to Puget Sound. Every three years a group of fifteen to twenty-five students are selected to spend two semesters traveling, studying, and researching in eight Asian countries. Students must have taken three courses in the Asian studies program and completed a course of readings assigned by the director.[34] Over the program's 40-year history students have visited: Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, and Yugoslavia. Previous lecturers have included: Johan Galtung, Ken Yeang, M.S. Nagaraja Rao, Jack Weatherford, the 14th Dalai Lama, Swasti Sri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, and Sogyal Rinpoche.

Athletics edit

 
Scoreboard, Peyton Field

The Puget Sound athletics teams are known as the "Loggers" with "Grizz the Logger" as their mascot. The Loggers participate in the NCAA's Division III Northwest Conference, competing with George Fox University, Lewis and Clark College, Linfield College, Pacific University, Pacific Lutheran University, Whitman College, Whitworth University, and Willamette University.

Varsity sports edit

The institution offers twenty-three different varsity sports teams: Men's Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Crew, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Men's Football, Men's and Women's Golf, Women's Lacrosse, Men's and Women's Soccer, Women's Softball, Men's and Women's Swimming, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field, and Women's Volleyball. On a minor note, former national soccer team coach Bruce Arena got his coaching start at Puget Sound in 1976 as head of the men's soccer team.

Club sports edit

There are both men's and women's club soccer teams, as well as men's club lacrosse (which competes in the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League). The institution also has a men's club Ultimate team known as the "Postmen,"[35] and a women's club Ultimate team known as "Clear Cut".

The institution is well known for its successful men's rugby club.[citation needed] The club has achieved regional and national success over the past three seasons under coach Mark Sullivan. In 2012 the club was ranked 10th in the nation for small college rugby and traveled to Cal Maritime University in Vallejo, California for the regional tournament. The success of the men's rugby club is attributed to the hard work of the players and continual dedication of their coaches. Also, an intense rivalry has developed between the Puget Sound rugby club and the Seattle University rugby club. Known as the Seatac Cup, Puget Sound has achieved eight straight victories over their rivals. In 2012, the victory over Seattle University clinched the Loggers' playoff spot.

The Puget Sound Loggers hockey team was founded in 2005 and is currently an ACHA division II team. The team's most prominent victories include defeating the University of Washington Huskies in a 3-game series in the 2006-2007 season, and the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the 2007-2008 season. Loggers hockey is subsidized by ASUPS (the Associated Students of University of Puget Sound) student body and ticket sales for home games. Home games are currently played at the Sprinker Ice Arena in south Tacoma. Players come from the student body, and mostly consist of students hailing from Canada, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and states on the East Coast.[citation needed]

Achievements edit

In a football game against Linfield University on October 21, 2023, linebacker Lily Godwin became the first woman to record an unassisted tackle in the history of the NCAA. Godwin shared her tackle and her history with football in a live TV interview with King5 News.[36]

Several sports teams have achieved some degree of success in recent years:

  • The men's basketball team won three straight Northwest Conference championships beginning in 2004, with an average .826 winning percentage over the 2004, 2005, and 2006 seasons. In 2005, the Division III Loggers defeated the Division I Highlanders of the University of California, Riverside, making it their first Division I defeat since the 1970s. In the 2009 regular season, the Loggers went an undefeated 16-0 in Northwest Conference play, becoming the first team in conference history to do so, capturing the conference title in the process.[37]
  • From 1992 to 1995 the Puget Sound women's Cross-Country team were national champions. This tremendous 4-year run earned coach Sam Ring coach of the year honors in 1993.[38]
  • The women's soccer team took second place in the nation in 2004 and ended the 2005 season ranked fifth nationally.[39]
  • The women's swim team won the Northwest Conference championship for eleven consecutive years, from 1997 through 2007, before finally finishing second to Whitworth University in 2008. This remains a Northwest Conference record.[40] The Logger women reclaimed their title in 2009.
  • The women's basketball team made the Division III Elite 8 in the 2007 season after upsetting #12 ranked McMurry University and #2 ranked Howard Payne University. They finished #10 overall.[41]
  • The women's crew has earned a bid to compete at the Division III Rowing Championship every year since 2003. The team placed second overall in 2003 and third in 2008, as well as fourth in 2004, 2005, and 2007.[42]

Student life edit

Traditions and events edit

Repertory Dance Group (RDG) is a non-competitive dance performance held at the end of each semester and is entirely organized, choreographed, and performed by students. RDG has been a tradition of celebrating movement and expression for dancers of any skill level for nearly 30 years. It is also the most populous student group at the institution.[43]

In 2013 Puget Sound celebrated its 125th anniversary with a series of special events, anniversary programs, and shared memories by Loggers past and present.[44] Celebrating the milestone of 125 years in the community, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland declared March 17, 2013, to be "University of Puget Sound Day."[45]

LogJam! is a campuswide celebration that ends the first week of fall classes. Tables are set around the perimeter of Todd Field and the Event Lawn, and clubs and teams set up to recruit potential members.

Foolish Pleasures is an annual student film festival showing films written, directed, acted, and produced by students.

The Hatchet edit

The Hatchet is the official symbol of sports teams at the University of Puget Sound. It was first discovered in 1906 when students were digging up a barn at the old campus. They decided to carve their class year into it. This became a tradition of sorts, as the seniors would hand the hatchet to the juniors on senior recognition day. This turned into a competition where each class would try to possess the hatchet for as long as possible. It disappeared for 15 years until it was anonymously mailed to former President R. Franklin Thompson. Thompson displayed it in a trophy case in Jones Hall, where it mysteriously disappeared again, only to resurface at a homecoming game in 1988. In 1998, the hatchet's return was negotiated through an intermediary, and it was permanently displayed in a display case in the Wheelock Student Center. It was stolen in 1999 during a false fire alarm in one of the dormitories.[46]

On September 30, 2006 (homecoming) a student rappelled into the football field at halftime, brandishing "the hatchet". It was later revealed by the student newspaper The Trail that this hatchet is a replica of the actual hatchet, commissioned by the former student government administration without the knowledge of the student senate. The replica hatchet was painstakingly carved to look exactly like the original, using over 150 photos as a guide.[citation needed]

The original hatchet was finally returned to President Ronald Thomas in 2008 by two anonymous alumni and was displayed at Homecoming.[47]

Sustainability edit

The campus has a notable recent history of sustainability. On February 10, 2005, President Ronald R. Thomas signed the Talloires Declaration, committing the institution to certain standards regarding sustainability. The Sustainability Advisory Committee, consisting of one faculty co-chair, one staff co-chair, and a mix of faculty, staff and student volunteers, organizes the majority of sustainability efforts on campus. These efforts have included:

  • Fair trade coffee: The student-run Diversions Café serves only organically-grown, fair trade coffee. In 2005, 8,975 pounds (4,071 kg) of coffee was consumed by students, faculty, and the campus community. University of Puget Sound was the first college in the Northwest to offer fair trade coffee exclusively.[48]
  • Sustainable Move-Out: Starting in 2005, the institution organized a sustainable move-out program during finals week. Mixed-material recycling dumpsters were placed near all residence halls, allowing students to recycle rather than simply throwing all unwanted items away.
  • Sustainability Mugs: Upon entering the college in 2005, all students were presented with a "sustainability mug" imprinted with the University of Puget Sound logo. Students were encouraged to re-use the mug to get coffee instead of using paper cups.
  • No-Waste Picnic: A 2005 picnic welcoming incoming freshmen and their families to the campus produced a surprising ONE bag of trash for over 1700 people. This was accomplished by using recyclable paper and plastic products.

In 2007, President Thomas signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment on behalf of the institution.

Fraternities and sororities edit

 
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, University of Puget Sound

The University of Puget Sound is home to four fraternities and five sororities. 20% of male students and 29% of female students are involved in Greek life.[49] Represented fraternities include, Phi Delta Theta (1848/1952), Sigma Chi (1855/1950), and recently reinstated Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1856/2010) and Beta Theta Pi (1839/2013). Represented sororities and women's fraternities include Pi Beta Phi (1867), Kappa Alpha Theta (1870), Alpha Phi (1872), Gamma Phi Beta (1874), and Delta Delta Delta (1888). Puget Sound has a "deferred recruitment", which means that fraternities, sororities, and their members are not allowed to have any official contact with freshmen outside of class, athletics or club activities until the organized recruitment events in the first two weeks of the spring semester. Freshmen may not join a chapter until January. In the fall, chapters are permitted to give "snap bids" to upperclassmen, as well as participate in an organized fall recruitment open only to upperclassmen. A ceremony called "Crossover" took place annually on the third weekend of spring semester. Members of the Greek community partake in an entire day of celebration to honor the new members as they run across the field to their selected fraternity.

The institution is one of just five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, which claims to be the nation's most prestigious academic honor society.

Previously, several other organizations, including Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, Kappa Sigma, Chi Omega, and Kappa Kappa Gamma were represented on campus, however those chapters have all closed for a variety of reasons.

Media edit

KUPS 90.1FM (The Sound) is a student-run, non-commercial, educational college radio station that began in 1968. In 2002, KUPS began streaming its standard live programming online to the world. The radio station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and serves the greater Tacoma area with programming in a variety of genres. KUPS has earned various awards while broadcasting over the years. In 2005, KUPS was named by The Princeton Review as one of the best college radio stations in the country (#12). In 2007, KUPS was ranked #9 by the Princeton Review in the Top Ten Best College Radio Stations in the Country. Most recently, in the spring of 2010, MTV honored KUPS with the national title of Best College Radio Station at the MTVu Woodie Awards.[50] In the fall of 2011, KUPS was ranked third in a list of "10 great college radio stations" in the Washington Post.[51]

The Trail is an independent student-run organization that provides Puget Sound students, faculty, staff, and the local community with a credible weekly newspaper that serves as a comprehensive source of information, entertainment and discourse relevant to its readership. The Trail provides opportunities for students interested in journalism and acts as an archival record for the institution.[citation needed]

"Crosscurrents" is the school's literary and arts magazine and was established in 1957. Crosscurrents is published two times during the academic year, once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester. Magazines are free to the campus community. It is staffed by students and publishes student artwork, photography, prose, poetry, and the occasional miscellaneous piece. Crosscurrents also features a guest artist or writer in each issue- usually a notable person from the pacific northwest who is interviewed about their work.[citation needed]

"Wetlands" is a student-organized magazine focusing on sexual exploration and gender expression to encourage inclusive and open-minded conversations across the campus community.[52][53]

"Elements" is the school's student-run science magazine. Published twice during the academic year, Elements primarily contains student articles about science, research, math, the environment, and technology, as well as student artwork. Copies of Elements are free and are distributed at the end of Fall semester and Spring semester.[citation needed]

"Black Ice" (or the Black Student Union Zine) is a student magazine by the focused on issues for the betterment of all students of color. The magazine is published by The Black Student Union, which was founded in 1968, making it one of the institution's oldest clubs.[54]

Notable alumni edit

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External links edit

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university, puget, sound, 2626, 4817, 2626, 4817, former, namesthe, puget, sound, university, 1888, 1903, college, puget, sound, 1914, 1960, mottoπροs, τα, ακρα, greek, motto, englishto, heightstypeprivate, liberal, arts, collegeestablishedmarch, 1888, years, . 47 15 45 N 122 28 54 W 47 2626 N 122 4817 W 47 2626 122 4817 University of Puget SoundFormer namesThe Puget Sound University 1888 1903 College of Puget Sound 1914 1960 Mottopros ta akra Greek Motto in EnglishTo the heightsTypePrivate Liberal arts collegeEstablishedMarch 17 1888 136 years ago 1888 03 17 Religious affiliationUnited Methodist ChurchEndowment 378 6 million 2020 1 PresidentIsiaah CrawfordAcademic staff206 Full time and 63 Part time 2 Fall 2021Students2 023 2 Fall 2023Undergraduates1 712 2 Fall 2023Postgraduates220 2 Fall 2023LocationTacoma Washington United StatesCampusSuburban 97 acres 39 ha ColorsMaroon and White 3 Mascot Grizz the LoggerWebsitepugetsound edu The University of Puget Sound or Puget Sound is a private liberal arts college in Tacoma Washington It was founded in 1888 4 The institution offers a variety of undergraduate degrees as well as five graduate programs in counseling education occupational therapy physical therapy and public health Puget Sound s athletic programs compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association s Division III Northwest Conference The University of Puget Sound is also the only independent national undergraduate liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest with a School of Music and School of Business and Leadership 5 Contents 1 History 1 1 Presidents 2 Campus 2 1 Academic buildings 2 2 Residential buildings 3 Academics 3 1 Rankings and reputation 3 2 Admissions 3 3 International programs 4 Athletics 4 1 Varsity sports 4 2 Club sports 4 3 Achievements 5 Student life 5 1 Traditions and events 5 1 1 The Hatchet 5 1 2 Sustainability 5 2 Fraternities and sororities 5 3 Media 6 Notable alumni 7 References 8 External linksHistory editThe University of Puget Sound was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888 in downtown Tacoma 6 The idea for a college in Tacoma originated with Charles Henry Fowler who had previously been the president of Northwestern University Fowler was in Tacoma for a Methodist conference when he spoke of his vision of a Christian institution of learning in the area The conference released a report We commit ourselves heartily to the building up within the bounds of the conference of an institution of learning which shall by its ample facilities command the respect and patronage of Methodist people within the bounds of the territory and so by united and prayerful efforts advance to the establishment of a school of learning which shall be a praise in all the land Two cities vied for the location of the school Port Townsend and Tacoma The committee eventually decided on Tacoma A charter was drawn up and filed in Olympia on March 17 1888 This date marks the legal beginning of the school At this time the school s legal title was The Puget Sound University 7 In September 1890 Puget Sound opened its doors taking in 88 students The beginnings of the school were marked by moral conviction students were warned against intoxicating liquors visits to saloons gambling tobacco use and obscene drawings or writings on the college grounds The institution also had a financially tumultuous beginning There was no endowment and the school often struggled for funds to pay the professors It moved locations three times in 13 years and at one time the school was merged with Portland University former campus is now the University of Portland It opened up a year later 1899 back in Tacoma on the 9th and G Street 8 In 1903 the school was reborn and re incorporated as a different entity different trustees and a different name the University of Puget Sound nbsp Warner Gym one of the original 1924 buildings The character of the school changed dramatically during the presidency of Edward H Todd 1913 1942 who worked tirelessly to bring financial and academic stability During his tenure the Million Dollar Campaign was started raising 1 022 723 for buildings equipment and endowment With this money the campus moved in 1924 9 to its current location in the residential North End of Tacoma with five buildings setting a stylistic tone for the institution In 1914 the institution was renamed the College of Puget Sound President R Franklin Thompson 1942 1973 led a massive physical and institutional expansion During this era almost all of the institution s buildings were constructed In 1960 the institution s name changed from the College of Puget Sound back to the University of Puget Sound as it is known today Phillip M Phibbs presided from 1973 to 1992 and endeavored to change the tone of Puget Sound In 1980 the institution divested its attachment with the Methodist Church and an independent board of trustees assumed full fiscal responsibility of the institution Also during this time the institution began to focus on undergraduate education phasing out all off campus programs except the law school and most graduate programs During this time the library collections were broadened and the faculty greatly expanded With the advent of President Susan Resneck Pierce 1992 2003 the law school was promptly sold to Seattle University in a move that was calculated to focus the institution s resources on its undergraduate campus During her tenure the institution completed almost 100 million of new construction and renovation Collins Memorial Library and four academic buildings were renovated and Wyatt Hall was constructed to house the growing class and office space needs of the Humanities Department Trimble Residence Hall was constructed bringing on campus student residency to 65 SAT scores rose from 1067 to 1253 and the endowment more than tripled Puget Sound s president from 2003 to early 2016 was Ronald R Thomas affectionately called Ron Thom by many students a scholar of Victorian literature and the former vice president of Trinity College In February 2016 the institution announced the selection of Isiaah Crawford to be its next president upon Thomas s retirement President Crawford assumed office on July 1 2016 10 nbsp Harned and Thompson Halls along Union Avenue Harned Hall is at center with wings of Thompson Hall on either side Thompson Hall home of the sciences at the institution underwent a major renovation including the construction of a new wing Harned Hall completed 2006 on the building s western side against Union Avenue and extensive renovations to the current wings and courtyard to allow for upgraded labs and facilities The entire project was completed in mid 2008 The entire complex is now known locally as The Science Center at Puget Sound The now completely enclosed courtyard contains a striking Plexiglas structure where a coffee shop Oppenheimer Cafe is located 11 In fall 2013 Puget Sound opened Thomas Hall a residence hall for upper division students featuring 11 houses organized around five academic residential programs the Humanities Program environmental outdoor leadership international experiential learning entrepreneurship and the Honors Program The hall is home for 135 students and includes a seminar room four studies and an event meeting space for approximately 150 people accommodating special events guest lectures performances and more 12 Presidents edit William D Tyler 1888 1890 Fletcher B Chereington 1890 1892 Crawford R Thoburn 1892 1899 Wilmot Whitfield 1899 1901 Charles O Boyer acting president 1901 1903 Edwin M Randall Jr 1903 1904 Joseph E Williams 1904 1907 Lee L Benbow 1907 1909 Julius Christian Zeller 1909 1913 Edward H Todd 1913 1942 R Franklin Thompson 1942 1973 Philip M Phibbs 1973 1992 Susan Resneck Pierce 1992 2003 Ronald R Thomas 2003 2016 Isiaah Crawford 2016 Campus editThe campus is located in North Tacoma Washington in a primarily residential setting a few minutes walk from the Proctor and the Sixth Avenue district The campus is made up of mainly brick buildings in the Tudor Gothic architectural style Buildings are mostly arranged into quads The three main quads are the North Quad and South Quad which contain residence halls and Karlen Quad which contains Jones Hall Collins Memorial Library and the Music Building The library was designed by Tacoma architect Silas E Nelsen in 1954 It was later renovated nbsp University of Puget Sound campus on a sunny July afternoon Academic buildings edit Harned Hall named for alumnus and local real estate developer H C Joe Harned was dedicated on September 29 2006 The building is 51 000 square feet 4 700 m2 and cost 25 million to construct It was designed and built to meet the U S Green Building Council s LEED Silver Standard The building features labs for biology geology chemistry environmental science and physics a 10 000 square foot 930 m2 courtyard with a crystalline glass gazebo in the center a Foucault pendulum designed by Alan Thorndike as well as Gray whale skeleton named Willy 13 nbsp Wyatt Hall After Harned Hall was completed the institution began a 38 million renovation of Thompson Hall the old science building Harned and Thompson Halls form a square with a courtyard in the middle and are collectively named the Science Center Thompson Hall has an area of 121 000 square feet 11 200 m2 and was originally constructed in 1968 The renovation was completed in spring 2008 14 Wyatt Hall is the second newest academic building on campus dedicated in 2003 It houses the English History Foreign Languages amp Literature Politics amp Government Philosophy Honors Science Technology amp Society 15 Classics and Religion departments Many of the classrooms in the building are seminar style meaning a circle of tables that students sit at to encourage discussion between students and the professor rather than a lecture The building features glass art by Dale Chihuly that represents the ivy leaves covering the campus buildings The Wheelock Student Center known as the SUB Student Union Building is the main hub of life on campus It features a rotunda used for lectures and catered events KUPS the campus radio station the cafeteria and dining area Diversions Cafe a student run coffee shop The Cellar a student run pizza parlor and the Logger Store a gift shop for college swag 16 nbsp McIntyre Hall Other buildings include McIntyre Hall home of the School of Business and Leadership the Departments of Economics Sociology and Anthropology and International Political Economy Howarth Hall home of the School of Education Office of Diversity and Inclusion Career and Employment Services and more Jones Hall home of theatre arts communication studies and several administrative offices including the Office of the President and the Music Building which is the only building on campus without a name Kittredge Hall the original student union building now houses the art department and Kittredge Gallery The Gallery is now affiliated with Tacoma Art Museum Collins Memorial Library 17 houses over 400 000 books and over 130 000 periodicals is a partial federal government repository and has substantial microform holdings 18 The Library was named after former trustee Everill S Collins The current Library building was built in 1954 A larger addition was completed in 1974 In 2000 a major renovation brought new technology and media resources into the Library s spaces making it one of the most popular campus gathering places for students Construction for the William T and Gail T Weyerhaeuser Center for Health Sciences began in spring 2010 At 42 500 square feet 3 950 m2 the center provides the resources and flexibility needed to support new areas of study in the fields of health and behavioral sciences Specially designed to encourage cross disciplinary interaction the center houses Puget Sound s undergraduate departments in exercise science and psychology graduate programs in occupational and physical therapy and interdisciplinary program in neuroscience Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Seattle Weyerhaeuser Hall conforms to the U S Green Building Council s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED Silver standards 19 Residential buildings edit nbsp Schiff Residence HallHarrington Schiff Anderson Langdon Smith and Oppenheimer halls make up what is called the North Quad and Todd Phibbs Regester Seward Trimble and Thomas Hall make up the South Quad Theme Row which runs to the south end of campus contains around 20 different theme houses that students may apply to live in The Music House is the longest standing house originating in 1989 After the Music House the Outhaus and the Track and Cross Country Theme House are the two longest standing houses There are also about 55 non theme university owned houses available Currently around 65 of students live on campus Students are required to live on campus for their first two years of enrollment at the institution 20 In 2009 the institution upgraded residential Internet bandwidth by more than two fold to 100 Mbit s During that year a new connection to the Washington State K 20 Educational Network was also installed bringing the institution s aggregate bandwidth to 150 Mbit s 21 Further bandwidth upgrades have brought student bandwidth to 250 Mbit s for the 2012 13 academic year 22 Academics editThe institution offers more than fifty traditional and nontraditional areas of study in the liberal arts and sciences as well as graduate programs in occupational therapy physical therapy and education It recently launched a master of public health program 23 24 The student to faculty ratio is 12 to 1 4 Rankings and reputation edit Academic rankingsLiberal artsU S News amp World Report 25 89Washington Monthly 26 74NationalForbes 27 205WSJ College Pulse 28 156 In 2012 Puget Sound was named one of forty schools nationwide in the college guide Colleges That Change Lives 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges 29 The guide cites the college s dynamic curriculum close interaction between students and professors ideal location and enduring success of its alumni as qualities that set it apart from other schools The institution has ranked among the top five small liberal arts colleges for the number of graduates who participate in Peace Corps in 2007 it ranked first 30 Puget Sound professors have been named Washington State Professor of the Year seven times by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education 31 Admissions edit For the Class of 2022 enrolling fall 2018 University of Puget Sound received 5 730 applications admitted 3 060 58 3 and enrolled 653 students 32 For the freshmen who enrolled the middle 50 range of SAT scores was 1230 1450 the ACT composite range was 27 32 and the average high school grade point average was 3 70 32 International programs edit The institution sponsors study abroad programs in Argentina Australia Austria Chile China Costa Rica Denmark England France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Japan the Netherlands New Zealand the Pacific Rim Scotland Spain Taiwan and Wales 33 The program in the Pacific Rim known as PacRim or the Pacific Rim Asia Study Travel Program PRAST is unique to Puget Sound Every three years a group of fifteen to twenty five students are selected to spend two semesters traveling studying and researching in eight Asian countries Students must have taken three courses in the Asian studies program and completed a course of readings assigned by the director 34 Over the program s 40 year history students have visited Mongolia People s Republic of China Japan South Korea India Nepal Vietnam Thailand Cambodia Malaysia Sri Lanka Indonesia Papua New Guinea Fiji Australia New Zealand Iran and Yugoslavia Previous lecturers have included Johan Galtung Ken Yeang M S Nagaraja Rao Jack Weatherford the 14th Dalai Lama Swasti Sri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka Ogyen Trinley Dorje Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche Athletics edit nbsp Scoreboard Peyton Field The Puget Sound athletics teams are known as the Loggers with Grizz the Logger as their mascot The Loggers participate in the NCAA s Division III Northwest Conference competing with George Fox University Lewis and Clark College Linfield College Pacific University Pacific Lutheran University Whitman College Whitworth University and Willamette University Varsity sports edit The institution offers twenty three different varsity sports teams Men s Baseball Men s and Women s Basketball Men s and Women s Crew Men s and Women s Cross Country Men s Football Men s and Women s Golf Women s Lacrosse Men s and Women s Soccer Women s Softball Men s and Women s Swimming Men s and Women s Tennis Men s and Women s Indoor and Outdoor Track amp Field and Women s Volleyball On a minor note former national soccer team coach Bruce Arena got his coaching start at Puget Sound in 1976 as head of the men s soccer team Club sports edit There are both men s and women s club soccer teams as well as men s club lacrosse which competes in the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League The institution also has a men s club Ultimate team known as the Postmen 35 and a women s club Ultimate team known as Clear Cut The institution is well known for its successful men s rugby club citation needed The club has achieved regional and national success over the past three seasons under coach Mark Sullivan In 2012 the club was ranked 10th in the nation for small college rugby and traveled to Cal Maritime University in Vallejo California for the regional tournament The success of the men s rugby club is attributed to the hard work of the players and continual dedication of their coaches Also an intense rivalry has developed between the Puget Sound rugby club and the Seattle University rugby club Known as the Seatac Cup Puget Sound has achieved eight straight victories over their rivals In 2012 the victory over Seattle University clinched the Loggers playoff spot The Puget Sound Loggers hockey team was founded in 2005 and is currently an ACHA division II team The team s most prominent victories include defeating the University of Washington Huskies in a 3 game series in the 2006 2007 season and the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the 2007 2008 season Loggers hockey is subsidized by ASUPS the Associated Students of University of Puget Sound student body and ticket sales for home games Home games are currently played at the Sprinker Ice Arena in south Tacoma Players come from the student body and mostly consist of students hailing from Canada Washington Colorado Minnesota and states on the East Coast citation needed Achievements edit In a football game against Linfield University on October 21 2023 linebacker Lily Godwin became the first woman to record an unassisted tackle in the history of the NCAA Godwin shared her tackle and her history with football in a live TV interview with King5 News 36 Several sports teams have achieved some degree of success in recent years The men s basketball team won three straight Northwest Conference championships beginning in 2004 with an average 826 winning percentage over the 2004 2005 and 2006 seasons In 2005 the Division III Loggers defeated the Division I Highlanders of the University of California Riverside making it their first Division I defeat since the 1970s In the 2009 regular season the Loggers went an undefeated 16 0 in Northwest Conference play becoming the first team in conference history to do so capturing the conference title in the process 37 From 1992 to 1995 the Puget Sound women s Cross Country team were national champions This tremendous 4 year run earned coach Sam Ring coach of the year honors in 1993 38 The women s soccer team took second place in the nation in 2004 and ended the 2005 season ranked fifth nationally 39 The women s swim team won the Northwest Conference championship for eleven consecutive years from 1997 through 2007 before finally finishing second to Whitworth University in 2008 This remains a Northwest Conference record 40 The Logger women reclaimed their title in 2009 The women s basketball team made the Division III Elite 8 in the 2007 season after upsetting 12 ranked McMurry University and 2 ranked Howard Payne University They finished 10 overall 41 The women s crew has earned a bid to compete at the Division III Rowing Championship every year since 2003 The team placed second overall in 2003 and third in 2008 as well as fourth in 2004 2005 and 2007 42 Student life editTraditions and events edit Repertory Dance Group RDG is a non competitive dance performance held at the end of each semester and is entirely organized choreographed and performed by students RDG has been a tradition of celebrating movement and expression for dancers of any skill level for nearly 30 years It is also the most populous student group at the institution 43 In 2013 Puget Sound celebrated its 125th anniversary with a series of special events anniversary programs and shared memories by Loggers past and present 44 Celebrating the milestone of 125 years in the community Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland declared March 17 2013 to be University of Puget Sound Day 45 LogJam is a campuswide celebration that ends the first week of fall classes Tables are set around the perimeter of Todd Field and the Event Lawn and clubs and teams set up to recruit potential members Foolish Pleasures is an annual student film festival showing films written directed acted and produced by students The Hatchet edit The Hatchet is the official symbol of sports teams at the University of Puget Sound It was first discovered in 1906 when students were digging up a barn at the old campus They decided to carve their class year into it This became a tradition of sorts as the seniors would hand the hatchet to the juniors on senior recognition day This turned into a competition where each class would try to possess the hatchet for as long as possible It disappeared for 15 years until it was anonymously mailed to former President R Franklin Thompson Thompson displayed it in a trophy case in Jones Hall where it mysteriously disappeared again only to resurface at a homecoming game in 1988 In 1998 the hatchet s return was negotiated through an intermediary and it was permanently displayed in a display case in the Wheelock Student Center It was stolen in 1999 during a false fire alarm in one of the dormitories 46 On September 30 2006 homecoming a student rappelled into the football field at halftime brandishing the hatchet It was later revealed by the student newspaper The Trail that this hatchet is a replica of the actual hatchet commissioned by the former student government administration without the knowledge of the student senate The replica hatchet was painstakingly carved to look exactly like the original using over 150 photos as a guide citation needed The original hatchet was finally returned to President Ronald Thomas in 2008 by two anonymous alumni and was displayed at Homecoming 47 Sustainability edit The campus has a notable recent history of sustainability On February 10 2005 President Ronald R Thomas signed the Talloires Declaration committing the institution to certain standards regarding sustainability The Sustainability Advisory Committee consisting of one faculty co chair one staff co chair and a mix of faculty staff and student volunteers organizes the majority of sustainability efforts on campus These efforts have included Fair trade coffee The student run Diversions Cafe serves only organically grown fair trade coffee In 2005 8 975 pounds 4 071 kg of coffee was consumed by students faculty and the campus community University of Puget Sound was the first college in the Northwest to offer fair trade coffee exclusively 48 Sustainable Move Out Starting in 2005 the institution organized a sustainable move out program during finals week Mixed material recycling dumpsters were placed near all residence halls allowing students to recycle rather than simply throwing all unwanted items away Sustainability Mugs Upon entering the college in 2005 all students were presented with a sustainability mug imprinted with the University of Puget Sound logo Students were encouraged to re use the mug to get coffee instead of using paper cups No Waste Picnic A 2005 picnic welcoming incoming freshmen and their families to the campus produced a surprising ONE bag of trash for over 1700 people This was accomplished by using recyclable paper and plastic products In 2007 President Thomas signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment on behalf of the institution Fraternities and sororities edit nbsp Sigma Alpha Epsilon house University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound is home to four fraternities and five sororities 20 of male students and 29 of female students are involved in Greek life 49 Represented fraternities include Phi Delta Theta 1848 1952 Sigma Chi 1855 1950 and recently reinstated Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1856 2010 and Beta Theta Pi 1839 2013 Represented sororities and women s fraternities include Pi Beta Phi 1867 Kappa Alpha Theta 1870 Alpha Phi 1872 Gamma Phi Beta 1874 and Delta Delta Delta 1888 Puget Sound has a deferred recruitment which means that fraternities sororities and their members are not allowed to have any official contact with freshmen outside of class athletics or club activities until the organized recruitment events in the first two weeks of the spring semester Freshmen may not join a chapter until January In the fall chapters are permitted to give snap bids to upperclassmen as well as participate in an organized fall recruitment open only to upperclassmen A ceremony called Crossover took place annually on the third weekend of spring semester Members of the Greek community partake in an entire day of celebration to honor the new members as they run across the field to their selected fraternity The institution is one of just five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa which claims to be the nation s most prestigious academic honor society Previously several other organizations including Sigma Nu Theta Chi Kappa Sigma Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma were represented on campus however those chapters have all closed for a variety of reasons Media edit KUPS 90 1FM The Sound is a student run non commercial educational college radio station that began in 1968 In 2002 KUPS began streaming its standard live programming online to the world The radio station broadcasts 24 hours a day 7 days a week and serves the greater Tacoma area with programming in a variety of genres KUPS has earned various awards while broadcasting over the years In 2005 KUPS was named by The Princeton Review as one of the best college radio stations in the country 12 In 2007 KUPS was ranked 9 by the Princeton Review in the Top Ten Best College Radio Stations in the Country Most recently in the spring of 2010 MTV honored KUPS with the national title of Best College Radio Station at the MTVu Woodie Awards 50 In the fall of 2011 KUPS was ranked third in a list of 10 great college radio stations in the Washington Post 51 The Trail is an independent student run organization that provides Puget Sound students faculty staff and the local community with a credible weekly newspaper that serves as a comprehensive source of information entertainment and discourse relevant to its readership The Trail provides opportunities for students interested in journalism and acts as an archival record for the institution citation needed Crosscurrents is the school s literary and arts magazine and was established in 1957 Crosscurrents is published two times during the academic year once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester Magazines are free to the campus community It is staffed by students and publishes student artwork photography prose poetry and the occasional miscellaneous piece Crosscurrents also features a guest artist or writer in each issue usually a notable person from the pacific northwest who is interviewed about their work citation needed Wetlands is a student organized magazine focusing on sexual exploration and gender expression to encourage inclusive and open minded conversations across the campus community 52 53 Elements is the school s student run science magazine Published twice during the academic year Elements primarily contains student articles about science research math the environment and technology as well as student artwork Copies of Elements are free and are distributed at the end of Fall semester and Spring semester citation needed Black Ice or the Black Student Union Zine is a student magazine by the focused on issues for the betterment of all students of color The magazine is published by The Black Student Union which was founded in 1968 making it one of the institution s oldest clubs 54 Notable alumni editMain article List of University of Puget Sound alumniReferences edit As of June 30 2020 U S and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 Report National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA February 19 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 a b c d University of Puget Sound College Navigator University of Puget Sound Athletic Logo Specifications PDF University of Puget Sound Retrieved September 20 2017 a b About Puget Sound University of Puget Sound Retrieved 2014 08 22 Facts and Rankings Pugetsound edu Retrieved 16 January 2024 UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AFFILIATION University of Puget Sound 2022 Retrieved September 5 2022 Klahowya 1913 University of Puget Sound Yearbook Volume 1 Walter Davis University of Puget Sound in Told By the Pioneers Works Progress Administration 3 vols 1937 38 scanned copy archived at the Flickr page of the University of Puget Sound Department of 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2014 08 22 UPS Ultimate Retrieved 2014 08 22 Jake Garcia Lily Godwin makes history with tackle in NCAA football game King5 Retrieved 10 January 2024 University of Puget Sound Basketball M Archived 2006 05 02 at the Wayback Machine NAIA Women s Cross Country Records Page Division 3 Women s Records page 14 University of Puget Sound Women s Swimming Archived 2006 11 26 at the Wayback Machine University of Puget Sound Women s Basketball Archived 2007 03 03 at the Wayback Machine Brief history of Puget Sound in the NCAA Championship Regatta Repertory Dance Group University of Puget Sound Retrieved 10 January 2024 125th Anniversary Celebrating University of Puget Sound University of Puget Sound Archived from the original on 2014 08 01 Retrieved 2014 08 22 City of Tacoma Declares March 17 2013 University of Puget Sound Day University of Puget Sound 2013 03 01 Retrieved 2014 08 22 ASUPS The Tradition of the Puget Sound Hatchet Ron Thomas Winter 2009 The hatchet men University of Puget Sound P 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