WOODLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON:
TIMELINE HISTORY


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WE HAVE 100 YEARS OF FRIENDLINESS, WORSHIP,  ACTIVE SERVICE.

President Theodore Roosevelt became 26th President when President McKinley was assassinated.
1901 to 1909

Seattle's first high school opens: Seattle High School later named Broadway High School. Its gymnasium is now incorporated into Central Seattle Community College.
1902

Rev. Mark Mathews, pastor of First Presbyterian Church
1902

Two lots and a small house near Green Lake were purchased for $350 by Westminster Presbyterian Church for the Woodland Park Sunday school, and the classes were successfully conducted.
Tuesday, 10 June 1902

Our first chapel, home of the Woodland Park Sunday School.

President Theodore Roosevelt visits Seattle
Saturday, 23 May 1903

Woodland Park Zoo opens
1904

John B. Allen wooden school building is built.  Opens in 1905.  
1904

Traffic is counted in Seattle at 1st and Cherry Street; 2745 horse-drawn vehicles, no automobiles; first automobile seen in Seattle in 1900.
Thursday, 7 January 1904

The Woodland Park Sunday school prospered, and it was necessary to build a small addition for $200.  It was added to the Woodland Park Presbyterian Chapel at Green Lake.

Thursday, 25 February 1904

Rev. Hugh L. Michelmore pastor of Woodland Park Chapel of Westminster Presbyterian Church for a few months. 
1905

Rev. Samuel K. Kirkhope, Ph. D. pastor of Woodland Park Chapel, branch of Westminster Presbyterian Church 1905 for a short time. 

Cedar Falls hydroelectric plant sends power to Seattle street lights for the first time.
Tuesday, 10 January 1905

Sunday, 5 February 1905 

Woodland Park Chapel of Westminster Presbyterian Church was organized with 15 members who were received by the Westminster pastor and session. The understanding was that Woodland Park would be a branch of Westminster and that the Westminster Church would provide a minister to preach each Sunday. 
Members that day:  Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Newland, Mr. G. H. Beale, Roy Beale, Frank Beale, Clyde Beale, Lillie Beale, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Armstrong, Vinnie L. Raper, Mrs. Alice Heatherington, Mr. F. W. Swenson, Mrs. Clara Swenson.    Four children were baptized.  Mr. W. R. Newland was elected elder to represent Woodland Park Branch. 

Seattle City Light starts service to first residential customer: Rev. J. M. Wilson, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Saturday, 9 September 1905

Rev. William A Mackey, D.D. pastor of Woodland Park Chapel, branch of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
April, 1906

The original Woodland Park Presbyterian Sunday School/Chapel site was to be sold for a site "up on the hill".
February 1906

Land on the NW corner of 63rd and Dayton was purchased for a small chapel.
June 1906

Citizens of the City of Ballard vote to incorporate into the City of Seattle

August 1906

Lincoln High School was completed and opened.
1907

The first gas station is built in Seattle, at Holgate and Western Avenue. Possibly this is the first gas station anywhere.
1907

A small chapel was built and dedicated for the Woodland Park Presbyterian Chapel, branch of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Sunday, 30 June 1907

Congregation and Sunday school in front of the small Church at 63rd North and Densmore Ave.  NW corner

Oklahoma became the 46th state Saturday, 16 November 1907

"Puget Sound Presbytery" renamed "Seattle Presbytery".
Friday, 9 October 1908

William Taft became the 27th President of the United StatesThursday, 4 March 1909

March 1909,  the Westminster Church pledged $500 per year if the Woodland Park mission would raise an equal amount with which to employ a permanent pastor, and the Rev. Kirkhope was asked to look after the work at Woodland Park until a permanent pastor would be found. 

William Taft became the 27th President of the United StatesThursday, 4 March 1909

Rev. Daniel O. Bean appointed pastor of Woodland Park Chapel of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
April 1909, for a time.

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition on the University of Washington grounds, a world's fair. An estimated 3.7 million people attended.  This helped the Seattle economy for a time. 

Tuesday, 1 June 1909 to Saturday, 16 October 1909

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition 1909

President William Howard Taft visits Seattle to see the AYP Exposition.
Thursday, 30 September 1909 to Friday, 1 October 1909

City Light created the "Seattle Light Department"; James D. Ross becomes superintendent. Ross is a strong member of First Presbyterian Church and a friend of WPPC.

1910

The daredevil pilot demonstrates the first airplane flight to Seattle at Georgetown Meadows Racetrack (near present-day Museum of Flight).

1910

May 5, 1910 "The very efficient superintendent of the Woodland Park Sunday School, Mr. Forsythe, having offered his resignation for June 1st, it was resolved to seek a young man to carry on the work, and Mr. W. C. Moore of our church was selected."  Session of Westminster Church. 

US Census of Seattle shows a population of 237,194.
1910

Interurban electric rail service between Everett and Seattle is commenced.

Saturday, 30 April 1910

Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson called to serve the Woodland Park Presbyterian Chapel and York (Mount Baker Park) Presbyterian Church.  He preached mornings at York and evenings at Woodland Park.
June 1910

Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson, age about 30 years

Oct 10, 1910: "At a congregational meeting after the morning sermon, Henry Shaw and J.O. Cheyne were duly elected ruling elders to represent Westminster especially in the Woodland Park branch, which is now a very promising part of our work."   Westminster Session.

Washington Women Win The Vote.
Tuesday, 8 November 1910

March 2, 1911  "Mr. A. W. Wilson, the newly elected elder of the Woodland Park branch, gave an interesting talk about the work in that field, which shows the membership increasing, the house filling up at services, and a general desire to have to preach both morning and evening."  Westminster Session 

Men of the congregation moved a borrowed portable building from Rainier Beach to the back of the church at 63rd and Dayton, and a door hole cut through both walls near the altar.  It was to be used for Sunday school work but soon was inadequate. 

1911

The level of Green Lake was lowered and regrading and filling in the shoreline to shorten it was started, completed in 1932.

1911

Charter of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church signed; there were 62 members. It became independent of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Motto: "Be Ye doers of the word. Not Hearers only."
Sunday, 17 September 1911.

John Oliver Cheyne attended since 1909 and he became an elder and clerk of session.
Walter Charles Moore became Sunday School Superintendent, and Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson is the full-time pastor.    In 1910, Walter Moore and Mr. Walter Brest and Mr. James McKim and Mr. Harold Hunter were sent to help the Sunday School by the Westminster Presbyterian Church.  Three of them later married women attending Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.  The Pastor married a woman from Portland. 

September 17, 1911, at a meeting of the congregation the motion was made by Mr. S. B. Galloway and seconded by Mr. E. W. Mills "that we incorporate the church to be known as Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, " Rev. L. K. Richardson reading the articles of incorporation.  The motion is carried.  The church officers were empowered to sign the corporation papers for the church members.  On request, Mr. Richardson left the building and Mr. Mills took the chair as moderator; and the congregation voted unanimously to extend a call to Rev. L. K. Richardson to be pastor."

Membership Roll, Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, November 23, 1911, Charter Members:

Mrs. L. A. Ashton

Mr. W. D. Arnot

Mrs. W.D. Arnot

Master Harvey Arnot

Miss Nellie Arnot

Mrs. Cora Brink

Master Bennett Brink

Mrs. Peter Blankevoort

Mrs. Paul Bugnon

Mr. Walter Brest - gone to Bartles Mills, Oklahoma (probably an error)

Mrs. Walter Brest - gone to Bartles Mills, Oklahoma  (probably an error)

Mr. John O. Cheyne

Mrs. John O Cheyne

Mr. S. B. Calloway

Mrs. S. B. Calloway

Mr. Louis Cloquet --- Gone to Canada

Mrs. Louis Cloquet --- Gone to Canada

Miss Edith Croft

Mrs. Gardner (nee Miss Myrtle Paul) - Gone to Lake Union Church

Mus. Holly Gilmore

Miss Bessie Gordon

Mrs. Mary L. Green

Miss Viola Hoelscher

Mr. J. H. Henry

Mrs. J. H. Henry

Mrs. A. A. (Minnie) Hepler

Mrs. Bertha Jack

Mr. Milford Jenks

Mr. Milford Kingsbury

Miss Olive Kitchen

Mrs. J. A. (Clara) Millett

Miss Ruth Millett

Mr. Walter Charles. Moore

Mrs. Wm. (James) McKenzie

Miss. Irene McKenzie

Miss Lola McKenzie

Master Harry McKenzie

Mr. James G. McKim

Mrs. Charles (Rose) Nardin

Mr. Robert Norris

Mrs. Robert Norris

Miss Mary Randle

Mr. Homer Randle

Mr. J. A. Rokes

Mrs. J. A. Rokes

Master Charles B. Rokes

Miss Juanita Ross

Mrs. H. H. Stewart

Mr. J. H. Shaw

Mrs. J. H. Shaw

Mr. Swensen, F. W. -- Gone to Woodland Park Methodist Church

Mrs. Swensen, F. W. (Clara)---" " " " "

Miss Beatrice Swensen -- " " " " "

Miss Sybil Swensen -- " " " " "

Mr. A. W. Wilson

Miss Sadie Wilson

Master Morton Wilson

Miss Clara Wilson

Mrs. Joseph Wellis

Mrs. J. A. Watson

Mr. Leslie Watson

Names added in December 1911

Miss Leila Croft (Alta?)

Mr. Harold Hunter

Miss Caroline Jenkins

Mrs. Effie Nardin

Miss Rose Louise Nardin

Master Alphonse Nardin

Miss Lenora Maude Perkins

Mrs. Clara Randle

Mrs. Leslie Kirk Richarson

Miss Norma Rokes

Mr. Gus Trennie

Mr. J. F. White

Mrs. J. F. White

Mr. B.V. Wilbur

Mr. George Wilber

Miss Helen Wilbur

Mrs. B. V. Wilbur

Pastor Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson

Sunday, 17 September 1911

"I graduated from Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, May 1910, and accepted a position as assistant to Rev. Mark Wilson of Westminster Church in Seattle. He had toured the eastern seminaries to select a senior student for this position. I was assigned the Woodland Park chapel and also the Mt. Baker Park church in the York section of southeastern Seattle. In the morning I preached in Mt. Baker Park and in the evening I crossed the city to hold service in Woodland Park.

...The Woodland Park work grew rapidly--never have I found in my five churches a more responsive group than those first members of Woodland Park church. This church will always be No. 1 with us for 3 reasons: 1. Seattle is America's most beautiful. 2. It was my first church. 3. It was to this church I brought my bride. We were married on October 18, 1911, in the Sunnyside ME Church of Portland, Oregon, the first wedding in that new lovely church.

I was ordained by the Seattle Presbytery at Renton, Washington, July 20, 1910.

The Sunday School grew by leaps and bounds. I was greatly aided by having as superintendent Walter C. Moore who was a genius of an organizer and consistent visitor on those who fell away. Others I remember were members of the Wilson family, Mr. Gilmore, the Nardins, Hap Hunter, Jim McKim, Elder, and Mrs. J. O. Cheyne, and a Mr. Trenne who I took into the church on confession of faith and he gave me a spoon with the picture of Woodland Park Church engraved on it. He was a jeweler and I've kept the spoon all these years. I recall also the Calloway and Arnot families and a young elder whom I cannot name.

I resigned from this pulpit in 1912 to accept a call to Kenilworth Church, Portland, in the Reed College district, where I stayed 4 years tripling the membership. Many times I have wondered if I made a mistake in leaving Seattle so soon. The work was growing--In fact, we hauled a portable church from Rainier Beach across the city and my men erected it next to the old building to house the big Sunday School...

...As someone there may remember, my hobby is tennis. I am 76 years old and last summer I won a tournament in the Adirondacks. On the west coast I was the champ of Oregon in 1914, and in 1911 was runner up in the State of Washington tournament at Seattle, being beaten in the finals by Joe Tyler of Spokane."

(Quoted from Reminiscences of Rev. Leslie K Richardson, Minister of the Woodland Park Church, 1910-1912. For the Golden Anniversary of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church of Seattle, Washington, 1961, which he attended.)

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Sept. 1911  From its inception the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church was a busy church.  It was the center of social life for young and old alike.  There were romances among young people.  The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Ladies' Aid, and Women's Foreign and Home Missionary Societies were active.  The Woodland Park Community League, a men's club, was organized under the sponsorship of the little church, and the Ladies' Aid of the church served suppers at the League meetings.  

The elders resigned April 1912, and they were re-elected: Mr. John O. Cheyne, and Mr. A.W. Wilson, and Mr. E. W. Mills, and in addition Walter C Moore and Mr. John A Rokes were elected.

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John O. Cheyne Family Story:
The Session met at John Cheyne's house and snacked on peanuts.   His wife Elva was Church treasurer for the first twelve years and did a very good job.  John was Elder and Clerk of Session for many years off and on.  He was born in 1877 in  Essex, Windsor, Quebec, Canada; his parents were from Scotland.  He came to the US in 1900.   He married Aug 16, 1905, Elma M Harlan in Seattle.  She was born in 1881 in Indiana.   They had a child Helen in 1906.    He worked for a time in a grocery and then worked for a department store.  In 1924 he became a co-superintendent of the Fraser-Paterson department store.  Their son Harlan Cheyne was born in 1912 in Seattle.   They lived at 519 N 61st, 6041 Palatine Ave NW., and in 1942 at a home in Lake City.

Their daughter Helen married at the Church in 1927 and their son Harlan married Marjorie Wake, a daughter of Pastor Wake at the Church on 1936 Christmas Day eve, in a candlelight service, officiated by the bride's father. (Marjorie died in July 2011, age 94). 

He probably retired from work in 1942 and they moved to Lake City as he transferred to Lake City Presbyterian Church, with their daughter's family.   On August 16, 1945, they had their 40th wedding anniversary.   The photo of them is probably of that occasion:  

More information about Harlan Cheyne is available in 1943.   

John and Elva Cheyne about 1945. 

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New Mexico became the 47th state.  Saturday, 6 January 1912

Arizona became the 48th state.  Wednesday, 14 February 1912

SS Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks, 1,500 drown. Sunday, 14 April 1912 to Monday, 15 April 1912

Sept 17, 1912, During the first year of growth after being organized the average attendance at church services was 60 at the morning service and 75 in the evening.  The growth of the Sunday School under Walter Moore's leadership passed all expectations and within a year were held in several neighboring homes.  A portable building was placed at the rear of the church.  That too was soon outgrown.  Reading from the congregational minutes of April 5, 1915: "When we think of the results the Sunday School has had with the equipment, it is to be wondered at.  We are so crowded for space that we have to send 13 classes outside the church buildings for the lesson period.  Those classes are meeting by invitation at residences on the Ridge, some classes going several blocks to their meeting place.  We also make use of a vacant house and shed, where classes meet."  The shed had a dirt floor and the junior boys meet there. 

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Walter C Moore Family Story:
Walter C Moore was our first Sunday School Superintendent.   He was born in 1883 in Washington, D.C.  His parents were born in Maine.  His father was a clerk in the Treasury Department.  Later they moved to Buffalo, NY, where he completed his education.  He came west to Seattle where he took over a nondenominational Western Washington Sunday School Association.

He was a young man who was an organizational genius and a hard worker.  He would go on to many successes.    The Woodland Park Sunday School was a growing organization and Walter C Moore organized the Sunday School and recruited and trained teachers for the classes.   When some students would fall away from the classes and stop coming, he would personally contact them and try to convince them to come back.

The Western Washington Sunday School Association had been neglected and it took a lot of organization to work with Sunday School teachers, recruiting and training them.  There were many conferences for the Sunday School teachers.  There were 100,000 children in these 19 counties under his responsibility.

1956

                                                                   Walter C Moore, 1919

His mother lived in Seattle and joined the Church in 1913.  

Walter resigned in 1915 from the Sunday School Superintendent job as he was having to devote more time to his job in the Sunday School Association.   He married a Sunday School teacher he met at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church. Nellie Eunice Arnot, 1915,. She was born in Athol, Massachusetts.  Her parents William D. Arnot and his wife were also charter members of the Church.  They moved in 1915 to Bellevue and joined the Bellevue First Baptist Church.  

Their son Malcolm "Mike" Moore was born in 1916.  Another son, Walter was born in early 1919 but died soon after.      

He and his mother and wife got the Spanish flu in 1919 and his mother and wife died.  His son went to live with his in-laws in Bellevue.  Later in 1933 his mother-in-law died, and they moved back to Ballard, and "Mike" attended Adams Elementary School and the first two years at Ballard High School.  They visited Walter in Hawaii every year or so, and "Mike" moved to live with his father in Hawaii as a high school junior.   "Mike went on to finish high school and an AB at the University of Hawaii.  Then he joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Hawaii.  (for more about Mike please see 1941).  

Near the end of 1919, he resigned from the Sunday School Association and traveled to Boston to get further training in Christian Education at Boston College.    A stained glass window was dedicated to him in the new Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, due to his efforts in growing the church and Sunday school.  

He lived as a boarder and worked temporarily in Spokane, Washington, as an education leader in a church in 1930.

After that, he was living in Kauai and he was in charge of the youth activities.

Later he became dean of Mid-Pacific College, now Mid-Pacific Institute, a prep school 70 years old that was started in Honolulu to educate the children of the missionaries.

He returned to the mainland US after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.  His son's wife and daughter also returned with him and moved to her home in San Antonio.

Walter became active in the Presbytery of Seattle's effort to resettle the Americans of Japanese descent who were interred, after the War.  

He lived in downtown Seattle and joined the Plymouth Congregational Church.  In his last few years he had a heart condition.  He died in 1956 of a heart attack.  

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September 1912:  the Rev Richardson resigned


Sept 1912  Rev. David Blythe filled the position temporarily

Pastor Rev John W. Haman, Ph.D. from Wichita Falls, Kansas
Feb. 1913

Rev. John W Haman and family

Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United StatesTuesday, 4 March 1913

The Archduke Ferdinand of the Ottoman Empire was assassinated in Sarajevo.  Sunday, 28 June 1914

World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.   Tuesday, 28 July 1914 to Saturday, 28 June 1919

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that the United States was neutral in the war.  Tuesday, 18 August 1914

The British passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by German U-Boats. 128 Americans were killed.   Friday, 7 May 1915

Seattle First Presbyterian Church ordains deaconesses.
Thursday, 8 July 1915

The new basement church was completed at 70th and Palatine. The happy congregation walked to this new basement:: 60 by 82 by 12 feet. There is a large glacial erratic boulder sticking up one foot near the west side of basement floor; Perhaps a podium was built over it for the pastor to preach from.  (perhaps he preached from the bolder, "upon this rock, I will build my church".)
August 1915

The church history said April 1916. The Newspaper said Aug, 1915.

Basement plan from an insurance map, 1917

14 Aug 1915 Mr. Walter C Moore resigned as Sunday School Superintendent due to increased duties in the Western Washington Sunday School Association.  

Germany issues an apology for the Americans killed in the Lusitania sinking. Tuesday, 5 October 1915

Former WPPC Sunday School Superintendent Walter C Moore married Nellie Eunice Arnot (WPPC member) at Central Presbyterian Church, officiated by Rev John W Haman, pastor of WPPC. Walter C Moore is secretary of the nondenominational Western Washington Sunday School Association.

Friday, 29 October 1915  

          

Ballard High School opens its new building, at its current location.
December 1915

Washington becomes a dry state as a prohibition on making and consuming alcohol is started.
Friday, 31 December 1915

President Woodrow Wilson refuses the compromise on Lusitania's reparations.  Monday, 31 January 1916

Germany admits full liability for the Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State's right to claim indemnity.  Sunday, 6 February 1916

Boy Scout Troop 24 is organized under the sponsorship of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church Youth Program (Sunday School).
March 1916

A Scoutmaster, Percy Frazier, was found in the church to run Troop 24.
July 1916
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Percy Frazier Family Story:

 Helena Independent 1938

Percy Frazier, Sr. Scoutmaster Troop 24, 1916-18, and Troop 125 from 1917-1918, both at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church. This was the start of his 25-year career as a Scouter and Professional: Scout Field Executive: Seattle, Washington; Scout Executive: Wallace, Idaho; Missoula, Montana; Butte, Montana. Born 1884, Illinois; he emigrated with the family to Canada 1894; married Margaret 1907 in Vancouver, BC, had son Percy, Jr., born 1911; retired 1942, Butte, Montana; died 1976, Missoula, Montana, age 90.

In 1917 Percy Frazier was a Scout Field Executive and lived at 318 North 74th Street. His occupation was listed in the city directory as a salesman for Swift and Company. He was a Presbyterian and probably attended the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.

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The initial charter we have was dated March 1917 which shows that a troop started March 1916 at the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church. The Troop number is not on the charter.

Boy Scout Troop 125 organized under the sponsorship of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church Youth Program (Sunday School)
1917

                                                  Seattle Scouts in a 1917 Scout Show

Troop 24 is first chartered by Boy Scouts of America, Rev John W Haman and John Hall, trustee, and Homer Randall of the Sunday School sign the charter for the Church.
Friday, 16 March 1917

The Ballard Locks is officially inaugurated

Wednesday, 4 July 1917

Pillars of fire will go up from seven hills in the city of Seattle tonight.  The next day is Liberty Day as declared by the President of the United States.  It will bring attention to the second Liberty Bond drive, and the City has only sold half of the quota of bonds that were to be sold.  Boy Scouts and their leaders sell the bonds and turn in the money.    Our Boy Scout Troops 24 and 125 will be setting the bonfire at the edge of the ridge on 59th street.  The Camp Fire Girls from our Church will help.  Our Pastor John W. Haman will give the rousing speech urging people to buy bonds to support the war.
October 23, 1917

Our Pastor John William Haman was very busy during the war.  He went to Camp Lewis at American Lake and Vancouver Barracks to preach to the soldiers who had joined or drafted and were in training there.  1917-1919

Ole Hanson is elected mayor of the City of Seattle; he is the great-grandfather of our pastor Rev. Duncan Hanson, D.D., (1980-1991).
Tuesday, 5 March 1918

The Spanish flu epidemic hits Seattle, 1,600 people die in the next six months. No public gatherings or church services are allowed in the Fall of 1918.  Walter C Moore lost his wife and mother, who were both members of Church.  He also had the flu, but survived, as did his son Malcolm "Mike" Moore.  Church services resume in full force in early 1919.  Tuesday, 5 March 1918

The Germans sank three United States ships without warning.  Sunday, 18 March 1917

 The United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I.  Friday, 6 April 1917

There were 21 men who were in the service during World War I from the Church.
1917-1919


Nov, 11, 1918, 11 pm.  Fighting with Germany ends with an armistice.  

General Strike starts in Seattle, Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson (1874-1940) described it this way: "Streetcar gongs ceased their clamor; newsboys cast their unsold papers into the street; from the doors of mill and factory, store and workshop, streamed 65,000 workers.  Emergency services were continued and food services were provided to workers. 
Thursday, 6 February 1919

Memorial service at WPPC for a church member, Private George Walter Krause, who died of wounds in the Battle of Argonne Forest, in 1918.
Sunday, 9 March 1919

In June 1919 George and Lucy Vincent open a carousel, Ferris Wheel, and dance pavilion at 5501 Phinney Avenue, directly across the street from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.
June 1919

World War I ended when The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France.  Saturday, 28 June 1919

The cornerstone was laid in a ceremony at the new church at 70th and Palatine. And the church became self-supporting.

Sunday, 27 July 1919

Cornerstone laying ceremony

Woodland Park Presbyterian Church membership dropped from 311 to 270, as North Park Chapel became an independent church: Bethel Presbyterian Church.  (For 90 years it continued as a Church then on July 30, 2011, the Church was closed and the congregation joined with Shoreline's Trinity Presbyterian Church.)
1920

Radio in Seattle begins, Vincent I Kraft starts broadcasting from his family's garage in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle. Seattle residents, just beginning to buy crystal radio sets, tune in Kraft's station.
1920

New Church was dedicated and occupied. 311 members 70th and Palatine. A new auditorium, gymnasium, 21 Bible study rooms, men's lounge, woman's lounge, parlor, pastor study. 2 social halls, secretary room.  Sunday, 1 February 1920.  Memorial stained glass windows were dedicated to Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson and Walter Charles Moore. 

1920, Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 70th and Palatine.

Boy Scout Troop 24 terminated and Troop 125 remains., sponsored by Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.
1921

Warren Harding became the 29th President of the United States.  Friday, 4 March 1921

There were problems with the building, a leaking roof, and leaky basement, that persisted for years.  During this time the Mizpah couples' group started, which contributed greatly to the church, and it continued for more than forty years.
1921

Pastor Rev. Henry W. Thompson, stated supply.
1923

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States.  Friday, 3 August 1923

John Cheyne, Miss Ruby McDonald (later Mrs. Ruby McKecknie), and others were on the pulpit supply committee.  1923 

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Ruby McDonald McKechnie Family Story:

1985

Ruby Alexis (nee’ McDonald) McKechnie, born in 1904, in Colorado and died in Kirkland, 1990 aged 86. Her parents were born in Canada, but her grandfather was Scotch Presbyterian. Her father Donald McDonald was a mining supervisor. As a girl, she lived in coal mining company housing at Newcastle, King County, Washington. She took the ferry across Lake Washington, the streetcar to Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 63^rd and Dayton, Sunday school. That was probably 1915 and she continued to attend when they lived in Seattle throughout the rest of her life.

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In 1922 she married “Harry” Henry William McKechnie, born 22 Aug. 1900, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. His grandfather was also Scotch Presbyterian. He died 26 Aug., 1979, Kitsap County, lived in Seattle, King County, Washington, age 79. He was a mining engineer. Also in 1928-1929, he was a leading man actor and director in B grade, low budget cowboy “oaters”. He was known as “Cheyenne Bill”. He acted in eight movies. He was known for: “Thundering Thompson”, “The Cowboy Prince”, “Branding Fire”, and an Actor/Director in “The Rainbow Range”. These films were shot in out-of-the-way hamlets in California at the end of the silent film era. When “talkies” started in 1930 Cheyenne Bill left the movies to become a mining engineer in faraway places. In 1930 he and Ruby lived in Ketchikan, he worked as an engineer for his father-in-law, Donald McDonald, who was superintendent of a cement quarry. He later worked in many places from China to the Philippines.

Harry McKechnie 1929 in “Thundering Thompson”

They had three children, Don, and two girls.  

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Pastor Rev. Ward W. MacHenry
1923

                                                                Rev. Ward McHenry

Air travel from Seattle to New York in just 56 hours begins at Boeing Field.
Tuesday, 23 October 1923

Major Bertha Landes, the first woman mayor of Seattle elected.
1924

Four US Army planes take off from Sand Point Airfield (now the site of Magnuson Park) on the morning of April 6, 1924, on the first around the world flight.
Sunday, 6 April 1924

Skagit hydropower reaches Seattle, President Calvin Coolidge presses a golden telegraph key to start formal operation of a generator producing 30,000 kilowatts of energy.
Wednesday, 17 September 1924

Two US Army aircraft complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world when they land at Sand Point Airfield at 1:37 pm, Saturday.
Sunday, 28 September 1924

Troop 125, Boy Scouts, at Woodland Park Field Day, 1926

The United States Army Air Corps was established

Friday, 2 July 1926

WPPC 15th Anniversary Celebration; a building fund started to build a new Sunday school Annex, but not built due to lack of funds. A house next door was purchased for use as a Sunday school annex.

1926

The first bond for the new Sunday School Annex sold and signed by John D Ross, the City Light Superintendent.

Sunday School Classes Sept. 26, 1926.

Sound motion pictures debut in Seattle at the Blue Mouse Theater. Warner Brothers Don Juan starring John Barrymore features a musical score and sound effects, but no dialogue, using a phonograph record synchronized with the film in a process called Vitaphone.
Friday, 18 March 1927

Aviator Charles A Lindbergh lands the Spirit of Saint Louis at Sand Point Naval Air Station. His stop in Seattle is one of 80 stops on a three-month tour of the United States to promote aviation. In May 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic.
Saturday, 17 September 1927

The Boeing Airplane Company is Seattle's largest employer.
1928

The Greenwood-Phinney Branch, Seattle Public Library opens at 7020 Greenwood Avenue North. Funds to rent the storefront were raised by neighborhood groups. The branch will prove to be very popular and will be expanded twice before 1954.
Wednesday, 16 May 1928

Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United StatesMonday, 4 March 1929

The "Great Depression" began on Black Tuesday when the New York Stock Exchange crashed to an all-time low.  Tuesday, 29 October 1929

Aurora Bridge was completed; City Council agreed that Aurora Avenue cut through Woodland Park.
1930

US Census: Seattle 1930: 365,583 citizens; in 1920: 315,312, a 15.5 percent increase.
1930

Playland opens at Bitter Lake in North Seattle. A gigantic amusement park with an enormous and scary roller coaster.
Saturday, 24 May 1930

Ballard Presbyterian Church elects the first three women elders in Seattle Presbytery
Thursday, 11 September 1930

Unemployed workers build the Seattle shantytown called Hooverville.
October 1930

A Theater Organ was installed, a Kimball 2 manual 9 rank, from the Embassy Theater. A one- year contract was signed but due to the Depression, it was rewritten into a three-year contract. Children were told, "Save a penny a day to make the organ play."  Rev. Wake had thought they should have a better organ.
December 1931

1925 Embassy Theater, Kimball, 2 manual, 9 rank, organ installed in 

Woodland Park Presbyterian Church in 1931

Pastor Rev. Arthur E. Wake
1931

 Rev. Arthur Wake and wife Minnie, and daughters Marjorie and Genevieve.

Elder Daniel McDonald made furnishings for the Church and donated them.
1931

The Cub Pack 125, Boy Scouts of America,  started with the sponsorship of the Youth Department of the church.  1931

The Session wrote that 'the Depression had started but we are not depressed'.  A Board of Deacons was organized to aid the needy in the congregation and community.  The Wymps, a couples' group that was organized in those years helped the church grow in many ways.   They continued for another thirty-some years.
1932

Voters repeal state Prohibition laws, elect Warren Magnuson to Washington State House, elect other Democrats to Congress, and back Franklin Roosevelt for President.
Friday, 3 March 1933

Franklin Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States,Saturday, 4 March 1933

Hunger marchers demand relief from the Washington State Legislature.

Monday, 17 July 1933

Fire destroys the carousel and Ferris wheel near Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.

Sunday, 26 August 1934

Woodland Park Presbyterian Church membership was 694, and 678 in the Sunday school. The church was the third-largest Presbyterian Church in the Seattle Presbytery
1935

Pastor Rev. Boudinot Selley, Jr., Stated Supply
1936

Rev. Boudinot Seeley

Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles when he ordered troops to march into the RhinelandSaturday, 7 March 1936

A major WPA clean-up of Green Lake is undertaken. The massive project includes dredging of the lake and building a bird sanctuary called Swan Island. Later renamed Duck Island.
December 1936

Pastor Rev. Mortimer M. Stocker, D.D.

1937

Rev. Mortimer M Stocker

Twin T-Ps (Later Power's Pancake House and Twin Teepees) opens at 7201 Aurora Ave N, near Green lake.

Wednesday, 17 March 1937

A Sunday Service celebrated the burning of the mortgage for the Church.   There was still a loan outstanding.

1938

The last North Coast Lines electric Interurban rail car leaves Everett for Seattle. This marks the end of 40 years of regional interurban service in Puget Sound.
Monday, 20 February 1939

Germany invaded Poland which began World War II in EuropeFriday, 1 September 1939 to Sunday, 2 September 1945

Both Britain and France declared war on GermanySunday, 3 September 1939

US Census 1940, Seattle 368,302 citizens, (Up +0.74 percent)
1940

Seattle's new Ballard Bridge opens. It crosses Salmon Bay and the Lake Washington ship canal at 15th Avenue NW. Ballard citizens had agitated long and hard for this bridge before it was finally built. May 1940

The British completed the evacuation of over 300,000 soldiers from Dunkirk, France.  Tuesday, 4 June 1940

France and Germany signed an armistice, dictated by Germany, which took France out of the war.  Saturday, 22 June 1940

Dedication ceremonies are held for the Lake Washington Floating Bridge (also called Mercer Island Bridge).
Tuesday, 2 July 1940

Boy Scout Troop 125 celebrates the 25th year of WPPC sponsorship of Boy Scout Troops.
March 1941

Three youth from the church, Jay Gage, Ben Bryant, and Claude Covington  fall 1,000 feet down McClellan Butte, and their survival was called a miracle.  They went to the top of the mountain and coming back tied together to cross a snowfield.  One slipped and all three fell down the steep slope falling end over end hitting each other and rocks and snow.   They stopped a short distance from a waterfall and a sharp drop off of a cliff.  An avalanche hit them and they were partially buried and had to dig themselves out.   Jay Gage had a serious head injury and had to go to Harborview Hospital.  All three are Eagle Scouts from Troop 125 and Claude had been leading mountain climbing in the Olympics for five years.
April 13, 1941

Trackless trolleys and buses replace streetcars on the Seattle Transit System. The last streetcar run is along 8th Avenue NW in Ballard.
Sunday, 13 April 1941

Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Sunday, 22 June 1941

Japanese forces attacked the American forces on the Hawaii Islands.  Walter C. Moore's son Malcolm "Mike" Moore was a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, in Hawaii.  He drove to Wheeler Field on Oahu and used his car, under enemy fire, to drive to a hanger of fighter planes and he fought fires to protect the ammunition and he made it into a fighter plane and shot down one of the last Japanese planes.
Dec 7, 1941

He received a Silver Star for valor and later was commander and developer of a fighter base in New Guinea and received the Legion of Merit, and was on 50 missions against the Japanese forces for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross.   He was an Air Force Colonel, and he died in Broward County, Florida in 1969. 

The United States declared war on Japan.  Monday, 8 December 1941

Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.  Thursday, 11 December 1941

In 1942 an elder on the session made a wooden plaque called a "Roll of Honor" where 140 men and women were listed as serving in the Armed Services and which branch they served in.  A gold star was placed by their name if they lost their life in the service.

Three names have the gold star:    Claude Covington, Earl H Wanke, and William R Gunn.

                                                             Lieut.(JG) Claude Covington, Jr.

Claude Covington was an Eagle Scout in Troop 125 and a mountain climber, who participated strongly in the Church and graduated from the University of Washington in Engineering and Naval ROTC.  He was a Lieutenant on a submarine SS133 (S-28).  The sub was a 1923 model that was obsolete and had many mechanical breakdowns.  After overhaul at Puget Sound Ship Yard, the forward elevators would stick and in Puget Sound, they had to sometimes bounce the sub off of the bottom to make them move.  The boat took seven war patrols out of Dutch Harbor to fight the Japanese attack.  They sank one Japanese ammunition ship, but on most patrols, they had mechanical trouble and had to return for repairs and refitting.   Later the sub floundered off of Pearl Harbor in 8400 feet of water on July 4, 1944.  They were on a training mission with a Coast Guard Cutter.  They submerged and the ship tried to track them.  They never came back up.   The Navy submariners were chagrined that this boat was lost on a training mission.  One other sub was lost on a training mission; fifty subs were lost in action during the war.          

Claude Covington was a well-liked five-year staff member of Scout Camp Parsons on Hood Canal,
The Camp christened a whaleboat in his honor, and the Scout District in North Seattle built a memorial log cabin to shelter hikers on one of his favorite trails in the Cascades north of I-90.  His parents and brother James were invited to the cabin for a dedication and a plaque was put on its wall. 

                                                                   Earl H Wanke 1940
Earl H Wanke was a Private First Class in the Army and was missing in action in 1944 in Germany.  He was buried in Seattle.   He graduated from Ballard High School in 1940.


William R Gunn was a Private in the Army.  He was buried in The Netherlands.

Many people in the Church are employed in war industries and some by the Government.  One such from the Church was Harlan George Cheyne (1912-1967) who was a fish biologist, University of Washington graduate in Fisheries.  He was employed in 1943 by the Office of Economic Warfare along with three others to help the Navy and Army in the Southwest Pacific try to develop a fishery, so the servicemen could have fresh fish instead of Spam and canned Vienna Sausages.  The transport space for refrigerated meats was minimal at that time.  The Navy had them teach sailors how to catch fish and that was very successful.  However one of the fishery experts died of malaria or dengue fever, and another one was incapacitated by a fever so that he had to be returned to the US.  Then Army took over the project and offered three small boats for developing a fishery in the New Georgia Islands.  The problems were that only one boat was forthcoming and that the East Coast bureaucrats shipped them Atlantic fishing gear that was not usable, and that they did not know what were the best fishing techniques around the coral reefs of these small islands.  Japanese submarines still lurked in the waters and Army artillery threatened some nights to shoot their fishing boat out of the water.  The British provided some natives to help them fish.  A net was fabricated from the Atlantic gear and the natives used it successfully with their light spears to catch a lot of fish.  After some months they got the second boat but it was withdrawn and the program finally ended when the military had to concentrate on attacking Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

                                                              Harlan Cheyne about 1945
The natives and Army men of the boat admired Harlan who never got ill and had such grit that with each setback he just became more determined that the project would succeed.   (A book about this project by U of W. Fisheries School Director Dr. William McLeod Chapman, and partner of Harlan in this project, was written: "Fishing in Troubled Waters", J.B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia and New York, 1949). 

"Beginning with the news of Pearl Harbor in 1941 our church entered four years of change and difficulty.  War restrictions and demands on the time and energy of our leaders, gladly given, made it necessary to greatly curtail our church program.  Many of our best workers went to war, moved away to defense areas, or had to work hours that made church participation almost impossible.  A large group of young people of college-age simply disappeared from our church into defense work or their country's service.  The young people's department in our Sunday School and older Christian Endeavor Society dissipated into thin air, "gone with the wind" of war years.  Parents stopped bringing children to Sunday School because they were hampered by gas rationing, working Sundays, or were just tired out.  Our Sunday School attendance went down and down during those years."  Pastor William H Thompson, 1945-46 Pastor's Annual Report.

US Army anti-aircraft guns take over city parks to defend Seattle from aerial attacks during World War II. Troops of the 63rd Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft) establish guns, searchlights,  barrage balloon emplacements, barracks, and secret radar installations.
January 1942

Wood had to be purchased to cover the church basement windows to comply with the blackout rules.
Feb 1942

Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast to 10 inland prison camps.
Thursday, 19 February 1942

The Bataan Death March began in Mariveles in the Philippines

Friday, 10 April 1942

The Battle of Midway turned the tide of the war in the PacificThursday, 4 June 1942

200,000 German soldiers surrendered at StalingradTuesday, 2 February 1943

The manse on Palatine two houses south of the church is purchased.

1943

Japan abandons the Aleutian IslandsSaturday, 21 August 1943

During the war, the church could not find anyone who would take the janitor job.  Too many other job opportunities with good pay were available, and many people were in the service.  
1943

D-Day when Allied forces invaded Normandy.  Tuesday, 6 June 1944

January to September 1944, visiting Chaplains from the Army and Navy served in the pulpit.   Dr. Stocker came back many times to serve as session moderator, as did Rev. A. Taylor Dunlap, of Northminster Presbyterian Church.,

The church sent an elder to attend a community meeting to set up a Boys Club in Greenwood, the boys were not supervised well and had nothing to do, so got into a lot of trouble.  The Boys Club started with a boxing program for boys and the reports of mischief and crime by boys in the district were reduced by eighty percent.  1944

Pastor Rev. William H. Thompson was instrumental in inaugurating many youth activities and many repair jobs were done on the church, including new chimes in the organ and hearing aides at the pews for the hard-of-hearing.  September 1944

Rev. William H Thompson, taken 1957

The Battle of the Bulge began and would last until 25 Jan 1945.  Saturday, 16 December 1944

Marines landed on Iwo Jima. After a long battle, the traditional Japanese island fell to the U.S.  Monday, 19 February 1945

In 1945 there were 51 kids under the age of four, 799 members, 384 Sunday School, 79 servicemen and women have returned. 


Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States.  Thursday, 12 April 1945

Germany surrendered unconditionally (VE-Day).  Tuesday, 8 May 1945

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.  Monday, 6 August 1945

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan.  Wednesday, 8 August 1945

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.  Thursday, 9 August 1945

World War II ended when Japan laid down her arms and surrendered to the United States.  Tuesday, 14 August 1945

The official Japanese surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay,  Sunday, 2 September 1945

The United Nations was established.  Wednesday, 24 October 1945

The "Cold War" began when Winston Churchill proclaimed that "an iron curtain has swept across the continent."  Tuesday 5 Mar 1946

In 1946-47  the Church budget was $11,000.

In a Spokane speech, State Senator Thomas H. Blenz, a Democrat, declares that at least 150 of the 700 University of Washington faculty members are Communists. Senator Blenz is a member of the recently created Joint Legislature Fact-Finding "Canwell" Committee.
Sunday, 14 March 1948

President Harry S Truman begins a whirlwind tour of Washington State that would last two days. He visits Seattle. He campaigns for upcoming elections in the Fall.
Thursday, 10 June 1948

The first wide audience television broadcast is shown on nearly 1,000 TV sets around Puget Sound. Viewers marveled at the telecast of a high school football championship game between West Seattle and Wenatchee. The technical problems and grainy picture notwithstanding, it was an amazing show.
Thursday, 25 November 1948

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created Monday, 4 April 1949

WPPC was the fourth largest Presbyterian Church in the Seattle Presbytery; 722 Church members, and 466 Sunday school members. They had separate treasuries until a few years later. Current member "Burnie" R. Burnett Davis was Sunday School Superintendent.
1950

The US Census shows Seattle has a population of 467, 591 citizens.
1950

The Northgate shopping mall opens at Northgate Way and 5th Avenue Northeast in Seattle. It is the country's first regional shopping center to be developed under one roof.

Friday, 21 April 1950

The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea. Sunday, 25 June 1950 to Thursday, 4 June 1953

Pastor Rev. Robert D. Porter, Temporary Supply.  Rev. Dr. Thompson accepted a call to Baker, Oregon.
1951

Rev. Robert Porter, taken 1985

Pastor Rev. Theodore Koopmans.  A manse on 6534 Greenwood Ave. North was purchased for his family.
May, 1951

Rev. Theodore "Ted" Koopmans

The City of Seattle celebrates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the founding settlers. A re-enactment of the landing party is held at Alki point.
Tuesday, 13 November 1951

A few Dutch Indonesian refugee families were sponsored by the Church.

About 1952

In 1952 Miss Hoffman, Director of Christian Education, was hired.  He was the first DCE in Seattle Presbytery.

Dwight Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States,  Tuesday, 20 January 1953

Time to whittle down the membership rolls.  Membership 561, loss of 191 from 1950 levels.  1953

First support for a foreign student, Jose Luis Velazco.  He came to the UW through the cooperative efforts of Woodland Park, Board of Foreign Missions, Westminster House, and the University. 



The Presbytery of Seattle closes the African American Grace Presbyterian Church at 22nd Ave and E Cherry Street in Seattle to merge it with a nearby white church. The move is a response to dwindling church attendance and an effort to encourage racial integration.
Sunday, 5 April 1953

The Korean War ended when North Korea accepted the United Nations proposals.  Thursday, 4 June 1953

The City of Seattle annexes a 10 square mile area north of No 85th Street to N 145th Street, and between Lake Washington and Puget Sound. Seattle's population grew by about 44,000 to 544,000 with a total area of 89,769 square miles.
Monday, 4 January 1954

Donation for the ship "Princeton Hall", part of the Presbyterian Navy that provided ministries to Southeast Alaska.  

1954

The tradition of Homecoming Dinners continues to the present.  September 17, 1911 was the date of the incorporation of the church and the beginning of its independent existence.  Homecoming Dinners celebrate this.  

                                                        Homecoming Dinner in the 1950's

The Greenwood Branch, The Seattle Public Library, opens. It is the first new branch built in Seattle in 33 years. Greenwood replaces the Greenwood-Phinney Branch.
Sunday, 24 January 1954

Palm Sunday candlelight service in the old sanctuary, 1950's

A 16-foot neon-lighted white cross was put up on the WPPC tower, so at night it was lighted and could be seen from all of south Ballard from across Puget Sound. This cross was funded by the friends in memory of Ruth Covington, a longtime deacon and Sunday School teacher.  Her son James remembered her making many meals for the Church. 
Sunday, 3 October 1954

                                          Claude Covington, Jim Covington, Ruth Covington 1942
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Ruth Covington Family Story:

Ruth Franzman was born in 1892 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and died 1954 in Seattle, aged 62 years. Ruth was an active person in the church, very nice, and cooked for many dinners at the church. She was on the deacon’s board and Sunday school teacher for many years.  Ruth and her husband were Troop historians for Troop 125 until the 1940s.   

She married Claude Covington in Butte, Montana in 1918.  He was born in 1890 near Fort Collins, Colorado. He died in 1969 at Mercer Island, aged 79 years. He joined the Westminster Presbyterian Church in 1904. In 1920 he was a ship fitter at a shipyard. In 1930 he was a stockman for Ford Motor company; He was an active Masons lodge and in their Knights Templar organization. His father, Marshall Covington, was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and was captured and imprisoned in the notorious Andersonville Prison for a time; he was a grocer on Capitol Hill.

Ruth and her husband moved to Ballard in 1920 and joined the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.  She was active in the masonic women's lodge.  They had three children who were very active in the church. 

Helen was born in 1917 and died young.  Claude Covington, Jr., (see 1944 for a story about Claude), and Jim Covington.  Jim was an Eagle Scout in Troop 125 and graduated from the University of Washington in Engineering and Naval ROTC.  He served in the Navy in Japan.  He married and had four children and died in 2002.  They lived on Mercer Island.  
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Dedication ceremony for the new sanctuary: Chairman of building committee Kenneth Angell, Rev. Theodore Koopmans, Chairman of finance committee Jay Gage, Rev Charles W Muir, Dir. of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church. Picture in the Times
Monday, 20 February 1956

The first U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.  Thursday, 8 March 1956

Hungarian Refugee family sponsored by WPPC. 
1957

A new sanctuary on Greenwood and 70th was dedicated, seating for 300.
Sunday, 17 March 1957

Cornerstone laying.  1956, Richard K Pryne, Clerk of Session, Rev. Ted Koopmans, and Ken Angell, Chair of the building committee.   Eric Pryne is the little boy.  

First Sunday Service in the new sanctuary 1957

Homecoming dedication dinner for new sanctuary; photo in Seattle, Times, March 20, 1957, of the ministers present.
Tuesday, 19 March 1957

Principal speaker, Rev. Dr. Paul S Wright, Portland, Oregon, former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Arthur E Wake, retired, former pastor of the church 1931-1936. Rev. Dr. Mortimer M Stocker, former pastor of WPPC 1937-1943. Rev. Dr. William H. Thompson, former pastor, who headed the church 1944-1950. And Rev. Theodore Koopmans, the current pastor.

In 1957  there were 774 members.   The cost for the new sanctuary: $210,000 in receipts, $209,000 in expenditures for the new building. 

A safe with church records, membership records for many years, and minute books with records of birth, deaths, and baptisms, and a small amount of money, was stolen the night before. Rev. Koopmans appealed to the burglar or anyone knowing about the safe.
Wednesday, 15 January 1958

A trailer bearing four elephants from the Woodland Park Zoo overturns at the corner of Phinney Avenue and 67th street, damaging a car. The elephants are uninjured and wander about briefly, but are walked back to the zoo through a crowd of gaping passerbys.
Friday, 23 May 1958

Presbyterian Church USA (1758-1956) - The "Northern Presbyterian Church" and United Presbyterian Church in North America (1858-1958) -- "The United Presbyterians" merged to become United Presbyterian Church in the USA (1858-1983)
Wednesday, 28 May 1958

"The Busy Life Of a Minister's Wife" an article in the Seattle Times about Mrs. Theodore Koopmans. "There is no other profession where a wife can share so much with her husband."
Sunday, 1 June 1958

Carl H Reed, instructor of music theory and music theory at Seattle Pacific College is the new choir director at WPPC. The cathedral choir will present a concert tomorrow evening. Dr. Edward Palmason will be a guest soloist.  (Carl Reed continued to attend until he died 2010)
Saturday, 15 November 1958

Alaska became the 49th state Saturday, 3 January 1959.

Churches to provide kindergarten services to children that the public schools will not provide. Woodland Park Presbyterian Church provides kindergarten services.

Grace Koopmans was getting ready to open a kindergarten in the Church.

Hawaii became the 50th state Friday, 21 August 1959

Rev. Theodore Koopmans preaches his final sermon "Lights of God" at 9;30 am and 11 am services. He will speak at the 7 pm communion service on "Were You There". He will accept a call to the Little Church on the Prairie, Lakewood, Pierce County.
Saturday, 21 November 1959

Rev. William H. Creevey became Interim Paster and later Pastor. He had previously been Assistant Pastor.
1960

 Rev. William H Creevey

In 1960 the Cathedral Choir sang at two services each Sunday, except during the Summer.   Rev. Neil Monro served at Woodland Park and later served with distinction in Alaska mission work.  

US Census, Seattle population is 557,087, twenty percent more than in 1950.
1960

John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United StatesFriday, 20 January 1961

The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, including a visit by Rev. L.K. Richardson, the first pastor.  The congregation walked from the Church down to 6211 Fremont North, the site of the first Sunday school building that was the predecessor of our current Church.  The longest termed member is Helen Dickinson, who became a member on April 20, 1912.
September 17, 1961

                                                                Helen Dickinson 1962

Rev. William Creevey and Rev. John Wick Bowman and Mrs. Bowman photographed in the Seattle Times. Rev. Bowman was a seminary professor who retired early to teach laymen and be "Bible teacher at large." He lectured at WPPC.
Friday, 20 October 1961

President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), the 35th President of the United States, delivers a major foreign policy speech at the University of Washington Centennial Convocation.
Thursday, 16 November 1961

The Seattle Public Library Board votes to close six branch libraries evenings because of "rowdyism" by teens. The action is triggered by an incident at the Greenwood Branch in which approximately 200 youth jammed the library following rumors of a gang fight.   There was no fight.
Saturday, 18 November 1961

Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair
Saturday, 21 April 1962

The project manager of the Exposition and manager of the Space Needle was Ewen C. Dingwall, who as a child attended the Junior School of Stewardship in Jan thru March 1925 at WPPC.

                                                                   Ewen Dingwall, 1925

WPPC Rev. William Creevey together with many religious leaders signed a statement: "More than Anti-communist", against right-wing organizations that appeared to be similar to fascist organizations during WWII.
Tuesday, 11 September 1962

Allen Clark was hired to be Business Administrator for WPPC. This frees up the time for Pastor Creevey.
Tuesday, 18 September 1962

The Cuban missile crisis began when American spy planes spotted Soviet missile bases in Cuba.  Monday, 22 October 1962

The Soviet Union removed is missiles from Cuba.  Saturday, 27 October 1962

The United States lifted the blockade of Cuba, which ended the Cuban missile crisis. Tuesday, 20 November 1962

La Pensee Discovery! Theater stared in our 1919 sanctuary by Allen and his wife Willy Clark, Church members. 1963

They also instigated the Le Rapport Coffee House, Allen died in April, 1976. Productions were put on regularly with church members and friends, and Shoreline College students. Attendance was low. They paid a rent to the Church until 1984, twenty-one years later.

 Buck Creek Lodge in 1963 near Bandera Emergency Airfield (Cristal Mountain area).

Seattle Presbytery Buck Creek Camp and Conference Ground opened near Chinook Pass. Louis Heidenrick, WPPC member and elder will be the camp supervisor. He and his family will live on the grounds. Cost $335,000, Dedication May 11, 1963
Saturday, 12 January 1963

In 1963 there were 

892 members.

"We dedicated a building at the first of the year, and have continued the task of completing and furnishing it with adequate equipment.  We have found ways to use it all week long.  On Sunday morning a tour th

rough the building is inspiration indeed."

"The most significant event in the musical life of the church this year was the arrival of the Cassavant pipe organ... it has noticeably improved congregational singing."



The new Christian Education Building was dedicated Sunday.
Sunday, 24 February 1963

New Education Wing, 1963

Le Rapport Coffee House opened, 7716 Greenwood Ave North, next to the Ridgemont Theater. Instigated by Allen and Willy Clark and the Youth Group of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.
Tuesday, 17 September 1963

The purpose of the Le Rapport Coffee House was stated on table placards in the words of Albert Camus, who argued "...that the world needs real dialogue: that falsehood is just as much the opposite of dialogue as is silence: and that the only possible dialogue is the kind between persons who remain what they are and speak their minds. This is tantamount to saying that the world of today needs Christians who remain Christian."

Spring, 1963 the Young Peoples' group remodeled the storefront next to the Ridgemont Theater and opened with Jerry Gill becoming the first program director and his mother Virginia Gill becoming the first cook. Allen Clark was the first business manager.

Discussion leaders included: Governor Daniel Evans; Dr. Giovanni Costigan, UW; Wing Luke, Seattle City Council; Edwin Pratt, NCACP; Willie Clark, Shoreline CC; Neil Kuyper, Presbyterian Counseling Service.  Volunteer staff: including Dick and Joyce Erickson, Dave and Louise Kalpousos, Karen Oberg, Bob and Linda Vaughn, Bill and Gladys Creevey; Ken and Marge Stover.

    Saint Andrews Day, Traditional Scottish Celebration and celebrated at our church yearly (2010).

The Scotch born congregants sat together in the 1960s, and there were two pews full.  The Scotch and their descendants had always been a very important part of the congregation. Each year they helped celebrated Saint Andrews Day, with shortcakes, dancing, and bagpipes.   Walter and Margaret Russell are the active ones today.

Lyndon Johnson became the 36th President of the United States. Friday, 22 November 1963

A two-manual, fourteen rank Casavant organ was installed.  It was made in Quebec, Canada, and took a year to make and ship by train and install.  It has been improved over the years but needs its electronics restored after almost fifty years. 
1964

The United States sent 600 troops to Vietnam.  Tuesday, 14 July 1964 to Saturday, 27 January 1973

The United States sent 5,000 more advisers to South Vietnam.  Monday, 27 July 1964

In 1964 the 

Church School enrollment is 360. 

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was passed by Congress.  Friday, 7 August 1964

Fourteen Vietnam War protesters were arrested for blocking the United Nations' doors in New York.  Friday, 19 February 1965

In 1965:  Le Pensee Players (community theater sponsored by Woodland Park) presented plays by Ionesco, Shakespeare, Miller.  At the end of the year, the group had a bank balance of $37.00.

"I have a feeling that Woodland Park Church is a sleeping giant.  What has been done in the past is a small sign of what can yet be done...  Being sure of and clear about our goals is not enough...  Nothing short of living and active commitment to Christ and his mission for us is enough.  

President Lyndon Johnson sent an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam.  Wednesday, 28 July 1965

Between 350 - 400 citizens marched in downtown Seattle to protest the escalating US military involvement in Vietnam. This was the first major local demonstration against the war.
Friday, 15 October 1965

Boy Scout Troop 125 Celebrates 50 years of sponsorship of Boy Scout Troops by WPPC.
March 1966   Seattle Times publishes a color picture of the Troop.  The Scoutmaster Richard Jonesson had a 1928 car and lend the scouts the old-style boy scout hats.  He also had them use the old Scout Handbook and the old advancement rules.  

First female Elders elected at WPPC: Kathrine Oberg and Ruth Herbig.
May 1966

There were 880 members.
"Perhaps I may be permitted a word about Le Rapport Coffee House.... it has grown out of our Church's life although it has no official connection.  It has served our congregation  by bringing new members and by attracting attention to our Congregation's particular style of life." 1966

Le Rapport Coffee House moved to 100 West Roy "The New Coffee House", an ecumenical effort. It was very popular and successful.  The Presbytery is a partial sponsor of it. 
Friday, 17 June 1966

Pastor Rev. George H. McCleave, D.D., Temporary Supply.
1967

50,000 protestors attended the "March on the Pentagon."Saturday, 21 October 1967

Pastor Rev. V. Robert Klitz.
1967

Rev. V Robert Klitz 1967

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968

Robert Kennedy was assassinated during a presidential campaign in Los Angeles, California.  
1968

General William Westmoreland requested an additional 206,000 troops in Vietnam.  Saturday, 9 March 1968

Easter offering of WPPC to go to Seattle Opportunity Industrialization Center, to provide training for the hardcore unemployed of Seattle. Rev. V. Robert Klitz said: "This is a practical application of the love of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ".
Sunday, 14 April 1968

Rev. V. Robert Klitz of WPPC becomes the chair of the Seattle Presbytery Commission on Religion and Race. He succeeded Artie Ford, an African-American, who became Moderator of Seattle Presbytery.
Friday, 1 November 1968

In 1968 the Mariners Groups, Icebreakers, and Lightship, voted to disassociate themselves from the National Mariners and to continue as organizations of the local church.


Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United StatesMonday, 20 January 1969

Le Rapport Coffee House closed. There were many such venues now and it was felt that it was time to close.
Sunday, 20 April 1969

"The dynamics within our congregation are much more keenly appreciated than this time last year when the solution was overly simplistic.  The polar differences within our church are more defined now.... we may have to begin to recognize that we have at least two congregations and structure our church's life according so that their different needs can be more honestly and fully met." 1969

President Nixon informed President Thieu of South Vietnam that 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by AugustSunday, 8 June 1969

United States astronauts landed on the moon. Sunday, 20 July 1969

US Census: Seattle, 493,548 (7.1 percent decrease from 1970 population of 530, 531)
1970

Annual Budget:  $72,433 including $4,726 for Draft Counseling Service.  1970

Four students at Kent State University were shot by National Guard members during an anti-war demonstration Monday, 4 May 1970

New Zealand and Australia announced that they will pull their troops out of Vietnam Sunday, 18 July 1971

Linda Hofer first woman ordained to the ministry in our presbytery from Bethel Presbyterian Church.

Sunday, 29 August 1971

President Nixon announced that the U.S. would withdraw about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by FebruaryFriday, 12 November 1971

Rev Robert Klitz and other church leaders urge prayers for an American cease-fire initiative during the Vietnam war.

Sunday, 2 January 1972

Seguin School for children with language and learning disabilities, held at WPPC.

April 1972

"Save Woodland Park" group meets at WPPC, Bill Jerauld,president, Church Member; fighting expansion of the Zoo across Aurora into the Lower Woodland Park area.
June 1972

Scout Sunday tradition of Scouts making breakfast for the congregation each year on the nearest Sunday to Februrary 8th celebration of the anniversaery of founding of Boy Scouts, USA.

                                                                     Scout Sunday 2000

President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.  Tuesday, 23 January 1973

A peace accord was signed by the United States and North Vietnam.  Saturday, 27 January 1973

The New School For Children operates at WPPC and offers an alternative school for special children 6-10 years old.  April 1973

Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States.  Friday, 9 August 1974

The Vietnam War ended. Wednesday, 30 April 1975

Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. Thursday, 20 January 1977

Iranians seize the American Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage.  Sunday, 4 November 1979

The manse at 6534 Greenwood North was sold, and a housing allowance was made to the pastor.

1979

Rev. Bob D. Porter resigns as he could not get approval to work part-time due to personal problems.    1979

Pastor Rev. Robert D. Porter, interim 1979

Rev. and Mrs. Robert D. Porter, taken 1985

North Seattle Gamblers Anonymous meeting held in the basement of the Church each Tuesday night. The only such meeting in the City; the subject of a Seattle Times article
Saturday, 22 September 1979

Woodland Park participates in the Central Area Food Bank.  Perkins Elementary uses Woodland Park for a Latchkey Program. 1979

Pastor Rev. Duncan Hanson D.D  (He is a great-grandson of former Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson).
1980

Rev. Duncan Hanson, taken about 2009

As Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president, the 52 American hostages were released in Iran.  Tuesday, 20 January 1981

Phinney Neighborhood Association begins at John B. Allen School buildings. 
They supply the services for the community previously provided mostly by churches and community clubs.  September 1981

 First All Church Retreat.   WPPC Men's Breakfast begins.  Mike Gill (a blind member) elected to the session.   Woodland Park sponsors a refugee family from Laos.  1981

70th Anniversary of the Church celebrated by the Congregation marching from the present Church to the original Sunday school home at North 63rd and Fremont Avenue North. They joined in a circle song and prayer.

September 1981

Gwen Beighlie was a seminary intern.  1982

Jay Babcock  1981

Troop 125 Boy Scout Eagle Project improves the gym. Scout Jay Babcock, got donations and volunteers to work on setting up a basketball backboard, patch leaking skylights and repair damaged ceilings and walls, and install safety lights and paint the new wallboard.  1983

Jay became a Seattle firefighter and was in the Navy and Naval Reserve. He later served as Troop 125 Scoutmaster at the church. He was a scoutmaster for two years until he was activated to serve in the Navy in the Iraq War.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1958-1983) and Presbyterian Church in the United States (1864-1983) -- "The Southern Presbyterian Church" merged to become Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

Monday, 6 June 1983

"In October 1984, the idea of a soup kitchen came before the Session with the idea of serving refugees, especially through the cold winter months.  The idea was to serve a hot meal one day a week.  After looking at other soup kitchens in the area Monday was chosen because it was one of the days that was not being served.    We opened in November, the Monday before Thanksgiving.  The first day we service Turkey soup."  

The Soup Kitchen started at WPPC every Monday, for a home-cooked meal at lunchtime. Volunteers give meals to anyone who comes  in the basement of the 1919 church building.
1984

2004 Soup Kitchen volunteers from church, and Northminster and the community, 20th Anniversary photo

Church Council of Greater Seattle, Central American Taskforce Director, Rev. Duncan Hanson, quoted in the Times, talking about resistance by religious groups in reaction to an invasion of Nicaragua, if one was to occur.
Saturday, 17 November 1984

Pastor Duncan Hanson was weighing a campaign against Representative John Miller for the US Congressional seat in the 1st District. He would have taken a leave of absence to run, but decided not to run.
1985

"The Women's Association is open to all women of the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church... We retain the same officers from year-to-year because it suits our idea of a group more committed to Bible study, fellowship, and mutual and mission support than to business or rules of order."  1985

Salvadorians and Central American refugees were being detained and deported back to their countries to face possible death. Salvadorian and Guatemalan Refugees Program at WPPC headed by Hermalinda Gonzales tried to secure bonds for refugees to be freed on bail while awaiting trial.  Members of the congregation put up their homes to secure the bonds of these people.  
January 1985

Budget $110,845, 1986

Sokun Oeurn was a Cambodian refugee from the killing fields of her country and the refugee camp of Thailand, that the church sponsored.  1985

Jane Pauw was ordained by the Presbytery and became associate pastor of WPPC.  about 1986

The house next to the church on Greenwood was sold. It had been the home of the Fremont Woman's Clinic and home of the Senior High Youth Group.

About 1986

Edward Sooter and his wife Kaaren Erickson, both opera singers, performed at WPPC for the organ fund. Kaaren first sang a solo at the Church at age 8, and sang in the junior choir and sang her first recital there at age 16.
Sunday, 2 February 1986

Jane Pauw is the Director of Christian Education. 1987

Seattle citizens (some like the WPPC members Harry and Nancy Horman) and citizens of the Soviet city of Tashkent dedicate the Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park built in Tashkent by volunteers from both cities.
Monday, 12 September 1988

Witness Committee started a new program aimed at seeing ways to support victims of AIDS.  1988

The Church sponsored a Ukrainian Pentecostal refugee family from the Soviet Union who settled in Seattle; Eric and Miki Pryne take charge of  Anatoli Kalosha  and wife Vera and three children. Nov. 23, 1989 article in Seattle Times.

Saturday, 10 December 1988

George Bush became the 41st President of the United StatesFriday, 20 January 1989

The Congregation sponsored a Cambodian refugee.
1989

Norman B. Rice elected mayor of Seattle, first African-American mayor.

Tuesday, 7 November 1989

The Cold War ended Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announced the official end to the Cold WarSunday, 3 December 1989

US Census 1990, Seattle population 516,259 citizens.
1990

The Gulf War began when Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait.  Thursday, 2 August 1990 to Thursday, 11 April 1991

Rev. Duncan Hanson held a funeral for Michelle Koski, a 17-year-old girl murdered in Snohomish County.

Saturday, 1 September 1990

Pastor Rev. Gerald K. Poole, Interim.
1991

Rev. Gerald Poole, taken 2010

The Gulf War ended when a cease-fire was signed between the United Nations and Iraq Thursday, 11 April 1991

Rev Duncan Hanson wrote the Seattle Times about The General Assembly dropping the further effort to develop a new ethic for human sexuality: he said that during 15 years of marrying hundreds of couples maybe ten were probably not living together.  We needed to acknowledge this and other realities in our policies.   
Monday, 3 June 1991

Membership 229, Budget $81,000,  1991

The Soviet Union dissolves and the Cold War is ended.  April 1991

Pastor Rev. James M. Christiensen
1992

                                                 Rev. James Christensen and Assoc Pastor Rev. Jane Platinga Pauw

1992
The Witness committee is involved with Health information Network,
Amnesty international, Ethiopian refugee family, serving as a sponsor for a
Protective Payee.



Thanksgiving cover story in the Seattle Times about our congregant, Arthur Wold, who was about 30.  He was thought to be retarded and unable to communicate, but it was recently found that he had autism and with assistance and computer he could communicate. Members of the congregation bought him a laptop to help him communicate.
Thursday, 26 November 1992

Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United StatesWednesday, 20 January 1993

Boy Scout Troop 125 celebrates its 75th Anniversary; sponsored by WPPC since 1916. 99 Troop 125 Scouts became Eagle Scouts. A picnic was held for Troop members, parents and former scouts from 1923 in the Troop, and Rev. and Mrs. Christiensen. The boys took a hike to Bitter Lake to reenact their first hike in 1916.  A Seattle Times article and color photo is published.
Tuesday, 29 June 1993

Group of some former church members and Troop 125 Scouts.  Bitter Lake Park.   75th Anniversary picnic. Loody Cristofero, a German Exchange student, Jim Covington, Ben Bryant, Pinkney Rorhbach, Bruce Winston, Joe Long, and his wife.

1994: Wednesday Night program initiated, 20 people enjoyed a program on the first Wednesday of each month.



A loan was obtained to make the church handicapped accessible; the old building was renovated creating a fellowship hall, kitchen and nursery. This repaired some old fire damage better and made the "Upper Room", Coffee corner was held there after church services when the old sanctuary was in use and ever since.

June 1994

                                                                Coffee Corner 1956

                                                           Coffee Hour in "Upper Room"  June, 2011

Overnight women's shelter initiated in the basement of the church.  
1994

Wednesday Night Program initiated, 20 people enjoyed a meal and program on the first Wednesday of each month.   1994

WPPC Youth trip to Kauai to help build homes for native Hawaiians through Habitat for Humanity...a one-week build project.
July 1994

Women's Overflow Shelter program started.  1995

Soup Kitchen has served 624 meals on Mondays since 1984.  1996

Membership 148, 

Budget $ 167,000.  

1997

Lease to Taoist Study institute begun. "They have been regular with their rent and easy to get along with Some of you who use the church in the evenings may have noticed the lack of yelling from the prior tenant, the acting workshop. The Taoists are very quiet."

When Congress proposed cutting welfare and letting churches help the poor more: `Rev. James Christensen told the Seattle Times that our Church of 200 was already helping the poor every weeknight: soup kitchen, food bank, taking in refugee families, and providing shelter for women in an overflow shelter"

Sunday, 27 April 1997

Kaaren Herr Erickson, opera singer, sang a farewell concert at WPPC, where she grew up; her husband Edward Sooter and daughter Esther (9) also sang with her. (She died the next month of cancer).
August 1997

                                                              Kaaren Herr Erickson

After a year of discussion and discernment, Session votes to serve communion every Sunday.  Volunteers bake the bread using a recipe from Annette Herr (mother of Kaaren, above).  1998

Communion served every Sunday.  1998

Terrorists struck two American embassies in Africa.  Friday, 7 August 1998

NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia.  Tuesday, 23 March 1999

Control of the Panama Canal was returned to the nation of PanamaFriday, 31 December 1999

2000 US Census shows the Seattle population at 563,374 people.
2000

The tradition of Sunday School continues for Children and Adults.

                                                         Sunday School about 2001

Pastor Rev. Francis Horner, interim.

2001

George W. Bush became the 43rd President of the United States.  Saturday, 20 January 2001

Early in the morning, the historic Twin Teepees restaurant was bulldozed to the ground.
Tuesday, 31 July 2001

Terrorists attacked U.S. Targets in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.  Tuesday, 11 September 2001

The war in Afganistan started.

Sunday, 7 October 2001

Pastor Rev. Wesley “Wes” W. Nordman.

2003

Rev. Wesley "Wes" W. Nordman

The second Gulf War started Invasion of Iraq.
Thursday, 20 March 2003

Children's sermon tradition continues on.
2003

                                                                       Childrens Sermon June, 2011


WPPC becomes a member of the Covenant Network, affirming a commitment to a church as just and generous as God's grace.  2004




Church Retreat where all congregants are invited to gather for a time of fun and reflection each Summer.

                                       Church Retreat in 2004  a Summer tradition that continues
President Geroge W Bush re-elected.  November 2004

The new Greenwood Branch of the Seattle Public Library opens at 8016 Greenwood Ave North. This is the 13th project opened as part of the Libraries For All, a $196.4 million bond issue passed by Seattle Voters in 1998.

Saturday, 29 January 2005

Tradition of Childrens Christmas Pagent continues. 

                                                       Children's Christmas Pagent 2007
Overflow Women's Shelter in our basement closed.  2006

GROW FAITH FORWARD –Capital Campaign initiated to remodel the 1956 sanctuary and narthex. Stared in 2008.

Barack Hussein Obama II elected 44th US President; the first African-American elected.
November 2008

US Census shows Seattle is the 23rd population of cities, and the population has risen to 608,660 citizens.   2010

The 1956 Sanctuary was rededicated after refurbishing, remodeling of the sanctuary, restrooms, and narthex, A new roof was put on the entire building.

January 2010

Demolition in the sanctuary 2010

Phinney Art and Music Series of concerts and art exhibitions initiated.  

2010

100th Anniversary Celebration Week of Woodland Park Presbyterian Church..
Sunday, 11 September 2011 through Saturday, 17 September 2011

Sunday, September 11, 2011 -- The celebration week begins!

Grady Parsons, Stated Clerk of PC(USA) preaches at worship service

Former Pastors invited to attend and participate in procession

Reception follows service; this is designed as a get together for former members to greet and meet each other.

Friday, September 16 -- Centennial organ concert with Christopher Glenn.  Neighborhood and presbytery invited.  Information about Casavant organ included as part of the program

 

Saturday, September 17 -

5 pm- Church family homecoming potluck dinner

The Boy Scout Troop will be celebrating their 95 year of partnership with the Church.  They have had 115 Eagle Scouts.
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Cenetennial Members of Note:  Longest term member: Lillian Gibbs, 1929

                                                                    Lillian Gibbs, 1985

Longest attendance:  Ben Bryant, 1928, 85 YEARS, died on 14 Nov 2011.

                                                                  Ben Bryant 1985

Oldest member:  R. Burnett "Burnie" Davis, 100 years old, member since 1940.

                                                             Burnie Davis, 100th Birthday
                                               He died at age 102, on December 12, 2012

Centennial Celebration September 17, 2011: some of the congregation wearing clothes like those in 1912

100 YEAR PICTURE DECEMBER, 2011