Friday, November 22, 2019

Penrose Memorial Library groundbreaking ceremony at Whitman College in February 1956, and students moving the collection from the old Reynolds Hall to the new building in March 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.


President Chester Maxey on left

June 1956


November 1956

Old library was in Reynolds Hall seen in background

March 1st 1957














Library Director Ruth Reynolds at Reynolds Hall 

What may be the last armloads of books from Reynolds Hall.