Walla Walla College, 1892-2007
Name |
Tenure |
| W. W. Prescott | 1892-1894 |
| Edward A. Sutherland | 1894-1897 |
| Emmett J. Hibbard | 1897-1898 |
| Walter R. Sutherland | 1898-1900 |
| Edwin L. Stewart | 1900-1902 |
| Charles C. Lewis | 1902-1904 |
| Joseph L. Kay | 1904-1905 |
| Marion E. Cady | 1905-1911 |
| Ernest C. Kellogg | 1911-1917 |
| Walter I. Smith | 1917-1930 |
| John E. Weaver | 1930-1933 |
| William M. Landeen | 1933-1938 |
| George W. Bowers | 1938-1955 |
| Percy W. Christian | 1955-1964 |
| William H. Shephard | 1964-1968 |
| Robert L. Reynolds | 1968-1976 |
| N. Clifford Sorenson | 1976-1985 |
| H. J. Bergman | 1985-1990 |
| Neils-Erik Andreasen | 1990-1994 |
| W. G. Nelson | 1994-2001 |
| John C. Brunt | 2001 |
| N. Clifford Sorenson | 2001-2002 |
| Jon L. Dybdahl | 2002-2006 |
Walla Walla University, 2007-
Name |
Tenure |
| John K. McVay | 2006- |
A PDF containing this information can be downloaded here.
Chronology, 1892-2010
This chronology is Walla Walla University's "Chronology of Greatness," a page maintained by Sid Nash. The links in this chronology lead to Walla Walla University's digitized photo collection.
| 1892 | December 7 | Walla Walla College holds its first class, enrollment 103 |
| 1896 | May 18 | First graduation, three graduates |
| 1897 | April 25 | First Mountain Ash tree planted on campus |
| 1899 | August | College Bakery opens |
| 1901 | March 31 | WWC is incorporated |
| 1902 | Nov/Dec | Typhoid epidemic in College Place; three students die |
| 1903 | January | Smallpox epidemic in College Place |
| 1909 | April 22 | Jubilee Program celebrates paying off the college debt |
| May 24 | First baccalaureate degree issued | |
| August 6 | Artesian well drillers strike water supply | |
| 1910 | October 13 | The laundry and boiler room at the back of North Hall (old Administration building) catch fire; a wind shift saves the dormitory section |
| 1911 | October | New power plant replaces one destroyed in 1910 fire |
| 1913 | January 27 | University of Washington grants accreditation to the preparatory department of WWC for one year |
| March 28 | College Place SDA church (1st Village Hall) opens | |
| Autumn | WWC enrollment reaches 400 students | |
| 1914 | March 9 | Broom-making business discontinued |
| May | Collegiate Association is created (precursor of ASWWU) | |
| Sept. 9 | Bachelor of Music degree instituted | |
| 1915 | May | Western Collegian (the first yearbook) is published |
| 1916 | February | Snow storm leaves 48 inches of snow in 54 hours |
| September | Collegian (a monthly magazine) is first published | |
| 1917 | May | Mountain Ash (the renamed yearbook) is first published |
| Eleven college students graduate—a new record | ||
| May 24 | Alumni Association organized | |
| 1918 | November 3 | Flu epidemic; college closes for about a week |
| 1919 | January 18 | College Place SDA church (the first Village Hall) burns |
| January 28 | Fire destroys the fourth floor of the old Ad Building | |
| 1920 | April | WWC church opens (the second and current Village Hall) |
| 1922 | Spring | ASWWC replaces Collegiate Association |
| 1924 | Science Building (Bowers Hall) completed | |
| 1925 | February 5 | Collegian becomes a weekly paper |
| 1926 | January 21 | College enrollment reaches 500 students |
| 1927 | April 28 | OPS is established |
| Fall | Johnson Music Conservatory completed | |
| AGA is established | ||
| 1931 | Mar. 31-Apr.1 | Flood in College Place covers a few streets in 4-5 ft of water (second photo) (film) |
| April 22 | First accreditation report denies accreditation to WWC | |
| 1933 | July 1 | Fire destroys most of Rachel Oakes Preston House (women’s dorm) |
| October 17 | WWC admitted to the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventists by the Board of Regents (denominational accreditation) | |
| 1934 | Autumn | Conard Hall completed |
| 1935 | January 15 | WWC receives senior college accreditation from the University of Washington |
| April 3 | WWC receives four-year accreditation from the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools | |
| 1936 | 1936 | Conard Hall dedicated |
| July 15 | 6.0 earthquake rattles windows at WWC | |
| 1938 | August 4 | Fire in the West Hall basement |
| 1939 | Spring | Columbia Auditorium opens (second photo) |
| 1940 | Dec. 12 | Men’s dorm quarantined because of influenza epidemic |
| 1942 | Martin Airfield is built in College Place | |
| 1944 | May 11 | Peterson Memorial library is inhabited |
| 1945 | Dec. 24 | City of College Place is incorporated |
| 1947 | Summer | School of Nursing opens at Portland Sanitarium |
| September | Sittner Hall, though unfinished, is occupied | |
| 1948 | Autumn | Master in Biology approved |
| 1950 | June | Master in Education approved |
| 1954 | August | Marine station property is purchased at Rosario Bach, near Anacortes, Washington |
| Autumn | First Mask is published | |
| 1957 | October | Over 100 dormitory students are incapacitated by the flu |
| 1958 | Cafeteria (later named Kellogg Hall) is built | |
| October | College drills a new artesian well to replace 1909 well | |
| 1959 | January | Enrollment raises above 1400 for first time |
| 1962 | October 20 | College Church (now University Church) holds first service (construction video) |
| 1963 | April 25 | KGTS-FM goes on the air for first time |
| 1964 | Walla Walla Valley Academy (WWVA) opens in current location | |
| April 29 | Kretschmar Hall officially named, dedicated November 1st | |
| 1965 | August 22 | Smith Hall dedicated |
| Nov. 14 | College Bakery closes | |
| 1966 | West Hall, College Bakery, old swimming pool, old academy/normal building and the academy annex all removed during the school year | |
| February 27 | Music department moves into the Fine Arts Center, dedicated December 4th | |
| 1967 | June 2 | Life Sciences building (Rigby Hall) is dedicated |
| 1969 | Alumni Gym (Winter Education Complex or WEC) is opened | |
| 1970 | October | Highrise women’s dorm (Foreman Hall) opens |
| October 3 | Biology Lodge near Tollgate, Oregon burns | |
| 1971 | October 11 | Engineering Department is accredited by the Engineers’ Council for Professional Development |
| 1972 | April | Board approves the purchase of Hallmark Apartments, which opened in September |
| December | College is reaccredited for ten years | |
| 1973 | May 17 | OPS ceases to function |
| 1974 | January 13 | Clyde and Mary Harris Art Gallery opens |
| Autumn | Harris Pine Mills opens in College Place | |
| 1975 | January 8 | Fire in a building adjacent to Foreman Hall damages the dorm building |
| 1976 | October | Enrollment tops 2000 for first time |
| 1977 | Health Sciences Offices open | |
| 1978 | Nursing Dormitory, Portland Campus (Howard Hanson Hall) opens | |
| Spring | OPS reinstated | |
| March 23 | Columbia Auditorium is destroyed by fire | |
| Autumn | Classes begin in Industrial Technology Center (now Canaday Technology Center or CTC)(second photo) | |
| 1980 | April | Sociology and Social Work department is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. |
| June 30 | College laundry closes (second photo) | |
| 1981 | Havstad Alumni Center opens. | |
| 1994 | Nov. 3 | Lindgren Chemistry Wing (Rigby) dedication |
| 1996 | August 20 | New College Store ribbon cutting |
| 1997 | School of Social Work and Sociology opens campus in Missoula, Montana | |
| April 27 | Chan Shun Pavilion dedicated | |
| 2001 | School of Social Work and Sociology opens campus in Billings, Montana | |
| May | Lindgren Hall (Rosario) opens | |
| 2003 | Autumn | Original Administration building demolished (second photo) (third photo) |
| Sept. 16 | Mountain View Apartments official opening | |
| 2004 | August 22 | Rogers Adventist School (new) ribbon cutting |
| Dec. 17 | Rogers Elementary School demolished | |
| 2007 | April 28 | Grand opening of new Administration building (second photo) |
| September 1 | Walla Walla College officially becomes Walla Walla University | |
| 2008 | Summer | Soccer field Completed |
| 2009 | Summer | The Hebbel-Janke Softball Complex (women's) completed & dedicated on October 4th |
| 2010 | March | The Express expansion completed |
| November | Nursing, Health, PE, and Social Work remodeling of WEC finished. |
