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Day of Common Learning 2016: Tracing Our Roots, Telling Our Stories: Tracing SPU's Roots

*This guide was created to address topics related to SPU's 2016 Day of Common Learning and is no longer being updated.*

SPU's History in Books

SPU's History in Short

Response Magazine has featured stories from SPU's history:

Summer 2016 - The 125th Anniversary Issue

Spring 2014 - Alexander Hall, part 1

Summer 2014 - Alexander Hall, part 2

Winter 2014 - Alexander Hall, part 3

Summer 2013 - Sent Out from This Place - SPU's beginnings and missionaries

Spring 2012 - Forty Years of Crew

Winter 2012 - Space-Age Flashback - SPU at the 1962 World's Fair

Winter 2012 - Seven Decades of Better Living - The 70th Anniversary of the Family and Consumer Sciences Department

Spring 2011 - Fifty Years on Stage - The 50th Anniversary of the Theatre Department

Summer 2006 - War and Peace - A Short History of Camp Casey

Summer 2004 - Flight into Eternity - The story of alumnus Jake DeShazer

Summer 2004 - Dear Toshiko - The story of alumna Toshiko Senda

Summer 2003 - What's 'free' about Free Methodist? - A summary of the Free Methodist Church, SPU's parent denomination

 

SPU's History in Pictures

Seattle Seminary Students with Pennant, 1915   Photographs from SPU's history:

 Seattle Seminary, 1891-1916

  Seattle Pacific College, 1916-1977