[LOGO] 1905-1909

1907

The first women's basketball team

Women are allowed to play basketball.

Not very good at first, the women's team picks up much speed and skill once they are allowed to discard their restrictive and impractical bloomers and play instead in shorts.


1908

Johan Ulrik Xavier

Johan Ulrik Xavier joins the faculty as resident theologian, and later becomes librarian. He teaches Latin, Greek, religion, the Bible, history, botany, and zoology

His wife, Signe Skattebol, later becomes the women's basketball coach and teaches reading and grammar.


1909

Ad from a summer 1909 Pacific Herold

PLA is advertised mostly to the Norwegian and Lutheran populations in the Northwest.

Ads appear in the Pacific Herold, a weekly newspaper printed in Norwegian by the Pacific Lutheran University Association.

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