Frieda Al Peterson and R. Eline Kraabel (Morken) establish the nursing department.

Students must travel to Emmanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon, for hands-on experience until a Tacoma hospital partners with PLC years later.

Walter Schnackenberg,
Dean of Men during World War II,
returns as a faculty member
with a Ph.D. in history.

The Chapel-Music-Speech Building, now renamed Eastvold Chapel, is built.

Chapel becomes mandatory for the first time; attendance is taken and seats are assigned.

The first drama-music festival is held in the Chapel-Music-Speech building. The Metropolitan Opera (featuring mezzo-soprano Irra Petina), Shakespearean actor Clarence Derwent, and the Seattle Symphony perform.

The festivals continue to bring world-class artists to campus until 1957, when the program becomes the student-subsidized Artist Series.

Marianne Sunset is the first nursing graduate.

The fall 1953 orientation handbook explains PLC Christmas customs.

North and South Halls, the first dormitories, are built.

Until now, students had lived in Old Main or boarded with Parkland families.

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