Ignatius de Loyola, a Basque soldier, undergoes a spiritual conversion while recuperating from a cannon ball injury to his leg. One night, deep in prayer at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat, Ignatius offers his sword, dagger, and his service to Mary, the heavenly Queen.

In his 30s Ignatius moves to France to attend the University of Paris. He meets Pierre Favre and Francis Xavier, the first two permanent recruits for what will later become a religious order, the Society of Jesus.

With the permission of Pope Paul III, Ignatius and his six followers, known as the “the First Companions,” band together to form the Society of Jesus. Its members, later known as Jesuits, establish works throughout the world, all dedicated to “the Greater Glory of God.” The Jesuits will become known for their great scholarship in every conceivable field, exploration, and discoveries—but especially their schools.

The first Jesuit school opens in Messina, Sicily.

Jesuit John Carroll S.J. secures the deed to 60 acres along the Potomac River to build Georgetown University, the first Catholic and Jesuit college in the United States. In 1792 (just two years after Washington D.C. becomes the nation's capital) classes begin with an enrollment of 40 students.

Fr. Francis X. Prefontaine, Seattle’s first parish priest, comes to Seattle, finding only ten Catholics in a population of 600. In the 1880s, he personally borrows funds to build St. Francis School, a two-story brick building at what is now Sixth and Spring.

The Catholic Church purchases land, now the site of the current Prep campus, to create Holy Cross Cemetery. Holy Cross receives burials until 1905. The Diocese later abandons this site as the land is too soggy and remote from the city center for frequent use.

Washington Territory becomes the 42nd state of the United States of America.

Around the same time that Fr. Francis X. Prefontaine encounters financial difficulties running his Catholic school, Jesuit priests Father Victor Garrand S.J. and Father Adrian Sweere S.J. arrive in Seattle to establish an institution of higher learning for boys. The Jesuits assume the lease on St. Francis School. Seattle Preparatory School is founded in this year, though under a different name.

Paying a then exorbitant annual rent of $2,250 for the use of St. Francis School, located within Fr. Prefontaine’s Our Lady of Good Help Parish, Fr. Victor Garrand, S.J. considers building on land previously purchased by the Jesuits from Arthur Denny (an early Seattle founder). Financing this project, during the 1893 economic depression, is a challenge.

Fr. Garrand and his assistant Fr. Sweere, S.J. are resourceful and manage to find the necessary financing in Amsterdam, Holland for their new Jesuit school in Seattle. They purchase a building at the site of what is now Madison and Broadway and reestablish St. Francis as the Immaculate Conception School after the parish from which the building was purchased. Today, this building is known as the Garrand Building and is a vital part of the Seattle University Campus. Classes begin in the fall (and includes girls). However, only boys are allowed into the school from 1894 until Prep becomes co-educational in 1975.

Immaculate Conception School is granted college status and is renamed Seattle College. Both high school and college level classes are now offered. During this time, boys at Seattle College advance through four years of traditional Jesuit curriculum. They graduate with the equivalent of a high school diploma and pay $15 in tuition per year, though the costs far exceed the charge. Although aspiring to be a four-year institution of higher education, Seattle College primarily functions as a high school in its early years and does not award its first college degree until 1909.

Seattle College graduates its first class of high school seniors.

Prep adopts blue and white as its school colors. They are the colors of the Blessed Mary, mother of Jesus. Prep adopts blue and white as its spirit colors in hopes that students will grow over the years in their spirituality.

The Holy Cross Cemetery, located at 2400 11th Avenue East (Prep’s current campus), is closed by the city of Seattle. The approximately 100 burial plots are removed to the new Calvary Cemetery in the Ravenna neighborhood.

The former Holy Cross Cemetery land is purchased within the year by Swedish Baptist missionaries looking to start a school. Construction begins on Adelphia College, and its primary academic building will later be called Adelphia Hall when Prep purchases the site in 1919. Construction finishes in 1909.

Seattle College catalogue states, “as the college is not endowed, it is entirely dependent for its support on the fees paid for tuition. These are as follows, payable in advance: College course, per month $5. Academic Course, per month $4. Preparatory Course, per month $3.”

The first dance ever held under the auspices of the college organization is held by the class of 1913. The next school dance won’t occur again until 1923, following an inaugural banquet organized by the Junior and Senior Debating Societies for The Public Debate and Elocution Contest.

After the boom of the 1890’s Gold Rush and financial panic of 1907, Seattle’s economy recovers and the school prospers. Monthly tuition is $5. The School begins with daily Mass at 8:30 a.m. and the young men are expected to master all components of the Ratio Studiorum, curriculum established by the Society of Jesus in 1599: Latin, Greek, math, literature, the sciences and religion.

In June, a bound publication titled the “Seattle College Annual” is published, showcasing literary work produced by students that year. The foreword by student Cyril Peerenboom ’15 explains that this publication “is an imperfect but valiant attempt” to reestablish an annual publication of collected literary work by students, which was begun some few years ago when students of various classes at Seattle College bound together their best productions of the school year. This annual publication eventually becomes the school yearbook, named The Echo today.

On April 6, 1917, the United States enters “The Great War,” a war eventually known as World War I. The war is disruptive; Prep discontinues its 4-year program as college age boys are called to duty. Seattle College then faces a financial crisis, and the school suspends all classes indefinitely in 1918.

During World War I, the federal government places severe restrictions on all colleges. Both the Swedish Baptist Adelphia College and Seattle College are forced to discontinue their higher-ed programs by 1917.

Wealthy Catholic entrepreneur and friend of the Jesuits, Thomas C. McHugh, sells his cannery company and makes a "promise to God" to donate $50,000 to a charity. He is advised by St. Joseph's pastor, Fr. John McHugh, S.J., (no relation) to consider helping the struggling Seattle College. McHugh purchases the seven-acre property from the Swedish Baptist missionaries, who are struggling to meet their mortgage. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. McHugh donate the property to Seattle College, which was also struggling financially. Shortly afterwards, the college and high school move to this new site. The property, adjacent to Interlaken Boulevard, is the site of the current Prep campus.

In the fall of 1919, 143 students begin classes at Seattle College’s Interlaken campus, located on the north end of Capitol Hill. The Adelphia College building is renamed Adelphia Hall, Prep’s primary academic building until its demolition in 2014. High school classes continue to be held while college courses remain suspended.

Seattle College reinstates its college program after shutting down in 1918 due to WWI. Seventeen members of the previous year’s high school class return to continue their studies as “freshmen.” Three former members of the class of 1921 who had relocated to Gonzaga for a year come back as sophomores. With this nucleus, the rebuilding of the College program begins.

Considered “the most opportune move” made this year by the school’s students (next to the resumption of the college course), the school’s first alumni society is formed. During these years, the college classes put on “College Night” for alumni, which is enjoyed by “a capacity audience of students and grads” each year.

The monthly Palestra student newspaper (later, named the Seattle Prep Panther) is launched, issuing three issues in the spring of 1922. This is the first of many newspapers to be produced by students of Seattle Prep.

The college sees a 27% increase in enrollment at the beginning of this year, which is taken as a great sign of progress and an indication of future student body growth for the institution.

Seattle College forms “The Letter Club” for the furtherance of the spirit of athletics in the school. The club is primarily an organization to raise the standard of athletics and to promote a stronger friendship between those who have earned a letter in a major sport.

For the first time, the Dramatics Club (reinstated after the war, and later known as the Harlequin Club) performs not two but three plays during the school year, all reported as successes financially and dramatically. Performances included “It Pays to Advertise” in the fall, “The Folly of the Cross” in the spring, and “The Seven Keys to Baldpate” in the summer.

The first official yearbook is published by The Associated Students of Seattle College. It is the first time in five years that an annual is put out by the College, due to disheartening obstacles related to the war. Designated to be the first of many annual publications named “The Echo,” its purpose is to bind together the highlights of each year and document the advancement of the school. The book’s name, accompanied by a seashell emblem, refers to the hope that “as the years roll by on the eternal sea of life” the book will provide a quiet harbor to renew the memories that are echoed forth from its pages.

A part of student life from the beginning, Sodality groups meet every Wednesday after school in the chapel. Their objectives are “to keep on an elevated plane the moral standing of the school” and to “spread the devotion to the Blessed Mother of our Saviour.” The Sodality’s founders bestow on it the motto, “Ad Jesum per Mariam.”

In the Spring of 1923, for the first time in the annals of the college, Prep sends a track team to compete with other schools and colleges.

Prep athletics consist of football, basketball, baseball, tennis and track. Coaches write letters to Seattle school athletic directors asking to have competitions and scheduled them by means of these correspondences.

This begins a long and important history of outstanding rhetoric at the school. For decades to come the school will be renowned throughout the Pacific Northwest for its excellence in debate and oratory competitions.

The school’s Mother’s Club is formed by Mrs. Louise O’Callaghan and Mrs. Katherine Logan. Monthly card parties are a mainstay. Clubs raise money for scholarships, athletic supplies, sweaters for the Lettermen’s Club and other necessities. Their first major task is to raise money for the construction of Garrigan Gym (“a dollar a brick”).

Seattle College competes against Columbia University in a series of six football games on Thanksgiving Day. The football game at Denny Field against Columbia University is a “true success” for Seattle College. Students feel that, even though the College football team loses four of the six games, they accomplish their main goal: elevating the school’s profile throughout the broader Seattle community. With 3,000 fans in attendance, the games are an unqualified success.

The December issue of the school newspaper reports that the Seattle College Dramatic Club performs a hilarious comedy called The Yellow Robe, at nearby St. Joseph’s Hall. The crowd laughs so long and heartily during the show that they weep and tear the handles off the audience seats. The club is informed that they are not invited back to use St. Joseph’s Hall for any more comedy performances.

Babe Ruth (raised by Catholic monks) and Lou Gehrig visit Tacoma and Seattle for exhibition baseball games. Ruth hits a historic three home runs in one game, and crowds gather to celebrate all over the city. The following day Ruth goes on a press tour of Seattle, exciting scores of fans; one of his stops includes tossing baseballs to fans from the top of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer building. Another stop includes a visit to Seattle College High School’s Interlaken campus, hitting fly balls for his fans on the field just outside the entrance to Adelphia Hall, with some landing as far away as 10th Avenue.

On the evening of June 10, 1925, Seattle College lives up to its name as a college for the first time since World War I: Three young men receive sheepskin diplomas, the first graduates from the College department of Seattle College since 1918 (the college department had reopened in 1922). The three graduates receive Bachelor of Arts degrees.

Post war, the student population at the College continues to steadily grow. The Seattle College Lettermen’s Club meets formally again. Athletic team performances had not been up to par in recent years and letters were not awarded, but in 1925 the school's teams are now recognized throughout the city and state, and the club has 50 student members. The club eventually adopts a standard letter for all major sports, an interlocking “S” and “C”. (This symbol is a precursor of the interlocking “S” and “P” of Seattle Prep.)

The high school, growing in independence from the college department, appoints its first principal, Fr. Edwin McNamara, S.J.

The Jesuits buy a Prussian-style home in Port Towsend, Washington, called the “Eisenbeis Castle,” to use as a training college for priests. They rename it Manresa Hall after the town in Spain where Ignatius Loyola had his most formative spiritual experiences. Prep students also utilize it as a retreat center. In 1968 the Jesuits sell the building and it is converted into a hotel that remains in operation, Manresa Castle.

The school library grows to 9,000 volumes and is indexed according to the Dewey Decimal System. The library is managed by students.

Thanks primarily to the efforts of the Mother’s Club, funds are raised to build the first major addition to the Interlaken Campus—the Fr. Garrigan Memorial Gymnasium (named after a popular Jesuit at St. Joseph parish). At the time the largest gym in the city, it opens just five days before the Wall Street market crash. In addition to serving as home to the Panthers, Garrigan would eventually also serve as the home gym for the Seattle College Maroons, the Seattle Pacific Falcons, and huge “sock hops.”

The president of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, addresses the Prep student body in Garrigan Gym. Edward J. Coen, beloved teacher of Seattle College, persuades the president, an old friend from rebellion days, to come to Seattle. He is the first of many visitors from around the world to speak on campus in the ensuing decades.

A chapel is made from the old assembly hall and graced by an altar depicting the Last Supper by da Vinci.

Feeling that the school could make use of the nickels and dimes that were otherwise being spent by students at the local bakery and drug store, Prep students petition the administration for permission to open a beanery on campus. Hot hamburgers are their specialty, and the source of the venture’s profitability.

The school library receives its long awaited for “World Book Encyclopedias.” The library offers reference materials unsurpassed in Seattle at the time.

A student creates a mild furor when he pledges not to shave until the first football game is won. Facial hair is not considered “acceptable” by the administration until the 1970s.

Lockers appear, with combination locks.

The name of Seattle College High School is officially changed to Seattle Preparatory School.

The typewriting department is inaugurated with the new Dvorak system. The Dvorak keyboard layout, which receives a patent two years later, is designed to replace the QWERTY layout by minimizing distance between keys (allowing for faster, more efficient typing) and arranging vowels and consonants on the respective left- and right-hand sides of the keyboard.

Class of 1933 graduate George Morry and eight other college boys on the University of Washington Crew team defeat the odds when the team rows their way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany and win the gold. A parade greets them in downtown Seattle upon their return. Their story is chronicled in Daniel James Brown’s 2013 novel, The Boys in the Boat.

Boxing is introduced as an official sports team.

Coach Walterskirchen takes Prep to a 6-0 game against O’Dea and wins the Catholic High School Championship in front of 5,000 fans. Judge Walterskirchen is later inducted into the Seattle Prep Athletic Hall of Fame.

The first drama club forms, under the leadership of Mr. Ruelle, S.J. After a soft start in the 1935 school year, they begin meeting formally in November 1936 to elect officers.

Members of the Radio Club meet every Wednesday evening in the physics laboratory from 7:00 to 9:00, under the direction of Mr. French, S.J. Some meetings begin with lectures prepared by advanced members of the class, who explain things such as electromotive force, electric current, and electric resistance. They later acquire a new meeting room in which to string wires to deflect needles and build a public-address system. In 1938, to pay for a microphone for the PA system, they hold a raffle advertised in the school newspaper offering a prize of a radio with a value of “at least 15 dollars”.

Student Clubs formed around this time include the camera club, an orchestra (that practiced in the gym and then the chemistry lab) and an altar society. There is also an intramural sports league that rouses friendly rivalry between the classes. Debate Club, whose first resolution for the school year was whether the United States should have an alliance with Great Britain, also forms around this time.

The December 1937 newspaper (Panther) reports that “the fistic battle of the year” would take place again between various members of the student body (featuring “many prominent men and prizes”) in the Garrigan Gym on December 23rd. It was to be put on by the Lettermen’s Club, and the proceeds went toward the basketball team’s “flashy” new uniforms. For added attraction, the Dramatic Club would perform a skit and football letters would be awarded.

Annual Homecoming celebration instituted at Seattle College, consisting of a basketball game followed by a dance. 276 students are enrolled.

Prep’s first coat of arms is designed by Fr. Andrew Vachon, S.J. The upper left is a section taken from the ancient coat of arms of the Loyola Family whose illustrious son, St. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus. The upper right is the official seal of the city of Seattle. The lower left is a sword through the center of an M, a symbol of Mary Immaculate, patroness of our school. The lower right is the shining shield of honor of Christ containing the letters, IHS, the first three letters of the word “Christ” in Greek. Above them is the cross, the universal sign of the sufferings one must expect if he is to bear the shield of Christ. The whole coat of arms is united by the letters SP to symbolize the purpose of education at Seattle Preparatory School, for God and Country.

After interest meetings and newspaper polls throughout 1937, it is determined that Seattle College should have an official ski team. 58 students join and pay their 25 cents membership fee to be applied to the purchase of ski boots and a set of slalom flags. By 1938, the Ski Club is fully formed and plans its first trip ever to Snoqualmie Summit. They also compete in an all-city high school ski-meet that winter, and continue to do so in following years.

Prep tries a novel experiment of issuing the Panther school newspaper using a mimeograph (a predecessor to the photocopy machines). It is news and a gossip column (to encourage subscriptions).

In order to keep up with the times, Prep establishes a Bike Club that embarks on weekly rides ranging from 20-90 miles. One of the club’s favorite pastimes is drinking malted milk along the route, popular at the time with outdoor explorers for its light weight and transportability. This same year the bike Club bikes 79 and a half miles to the Puyallup Fair. The trip consists of three Prep boys and a boy from another school. That year they also bike to Mukilteo, reporting that the ride home of 25 miles took one hour and fifty-five minutes, in the driving rain.

Releasing special editions of the Seattle Prep Panther newspaper and the Echo yearbook, Prep students celebrate the 400th year jubilee of the group of men who petitioned in 1538 to His Holiness Pope Paul III to approve the rules they had formulated for a religious society called the Society of Jesus. (This was granted by the Pope in 1540.) Members of this society are later known as "Jesuits."

Senior Prepsters sponsor the first “skating party” of the year, a common fundraising event. Held on a Friday night at the Ridge Roller Rink on 85th and Greenwood, the event includes an admission price of 10 cents that goes toward holding “a bigger and better junior” in May.

Tryouts are held for the newly organized Glee Club. A newspaper article encourages all students to try out, assuring prospective members that the only requirement is “that you sing somewhat more melodiously than a frog.”

The Sodality Club bestows the “Loyalty Award” to the class that expresses the most loyalty and spirit. Loyalty points are earned by attending Mass, with points awarded to “the class having the greatest number present over a given period of time.” A trophy is awarded every six weeks to the most “Prep-minded” class.

Called the “wonder team,” the boys basketball team shatters individual and team records with 21 victories in a 23-game season. Wally McGovern ‘40, star and captain of the team, hangs up a new record in three different divisions: breaks the Garrigan Gym individual scoring record with potting 24 points in one game; secondly, he broke the Lakeside Invitation Tournament individual scoring record by making 25 points in the semi-finals against O’Dea; thirdly he broke the Prep individual scoring record, where he incidentally set the previous year, by scoring a total of 290 points in 23 games. The old record was 235 points.

On December 28, 1941, the school issues a letter to alumni of the Class of 1938 following the events at Pearl Harbor, in what appears to be the first alumni magazine.

“Our class days saw sacrifices. Small they seem now... Many will be called to armed services. Many will go and never return. It will call for valor and courage. But our faith arms us with the necessary fortitude of facing death with a smile.”

The issue of the magazine, he adds, is dedicated to those who would prove so valuable in holding them together – those members of the class of ‘38 who joined the priesthood” (The Seagull Exchange, 1941).

A typing class is instituted and becomes one of the most popular offerings at Prep. During this time, courses in Latin and Greek form the backbone for a Prep classical education as the Jesuit faculty find no better instrument for training the young man’s mind in precision, accuracy and perseverance. Typing on a typewriter would prove to be a close second.

Prep sees a record enrollment of 394 students during the 1944-1945 school year.

The School starts a Publicity Club; its duty is to advance post game information to the local papers and conduct public relations with other schools.

Student Jim Meehan ‘46 wins the Oratorical Gold Medal and the Catholic State Oratorical championship with a speech—the eulogy of President James Monroe.

The Seattle Prep Panther newspaper is awarded the International First Place Award (against all other high school papers in the county) by the Quill and Scroll, an international high school journalism honor society. Two years later, The International Quill and Scroll names the Panther news (described as “the Voice of Prep”) one of the most outstanding publications in the United States.

The student council draws up a constitution in order to regulate the school’s various activities in an “orderly and business-like manner.” They are now an official governing body.

The school commemorates its 50th anniversary since its granting of a charter of education from the State of Washington in 1898. . The Echo yearbook dedicates its fiftieth edition to this great feat.

Prep is declared state champions in debate.

A 6.7 earthquake rattles the campus and bricks fall from Adelphia Hall as students evacuate. It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Puget Sound in recorded history.

A new laundry system in the Faculty Building is one of the first projects undertaken by the school’s Booster Club. This is exciting news for students as the laundry room is also used for all athletic equipment.

Students embark on an inaugural “closed retreat” (a mostly silent conference led by a retreat director) at Manresa Hall in Port Townsend, Washington. It is announced with the hope that it will be popular enough to be an annual occurrence. Manresa Retreat is offered to Prep seniors today, though it is not as silent.

The war cry for cheerleaders to cheer on the Panther football and basketball teams: “Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all for Seattle Prep! Stand up and holler!”

September starts with record numbers for two of Prep’s classes, with 105 seniors and 150 freshmen.

In March, Prep skiers tie Franklin for All-City Ski title. Senior Fritz Holtz ’51 is voted most inspirational of all the competitors.

In April, Prep wins its first state distance meet in the school's history, against Lincoln 58-55.

Bill Wilson ’51 takes first place in the 1951 State Washington Resources Contest for his 12-minute speech on “Greater Seattle, Inc.” Bill receives a new fully equipped Bel-Air Chevrolet. This great orator defeats contestants in school, city, and congressional district eliminations.

Under the leadership of Fr. Christy McDonnell, Prep adds a $140,000 south wing tying together Adelphia Hall and the Garrigan Gym. It provides study halls, a student chapel, and a cafeteria. It is known as the “Christy L” and is later remodeled in the early 1980s and renamed McDonnel Hall.

Students gather daily in the chapel for noon-hour rosary from 12:05 to 12:15, reciting the rosary in honor of Our Blessed Mother. The Sodalists made up a good portion of the attendance, but all students have the opportunity to attend.

The Seattle Prep Grade School Speech Tournament begins a tradition that continues to this day.

Prep Baseball team named American Legion District Champions.

Student Pep band is formed with a band leader from Seattle University, Mr. Rodrique.

Debate Club continues its reputation as one of the top forensic competitors in the state. In the field of debate, they bring home five trophies including the Northwest Debate Championship. In extemp and impromptu they win eight awards. This exceeds their earlier record of 11 trophies in a single year.

The Harlequin Club achieves a new milestone in Seattle Prep’s history when it presents the club’s first ever musical, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado. It is well received.

The school expands its varsity sports to include tennis and golf. Prep now has six sports: football basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, and track.

Senior Prepsters are allowed to venture off campus but only in the direction of the drugstore (not “nicotine alley”). With written parental permission they may also go home during lunch hour if they live in the surrounding neighborhood.

Under the guidance of Coach John Goodwin, the baseball team wins the Northwest Catholic and the Western Conference Championships, and the football team wins the Northwest Catholic Championship.

An informal ice hockey team is established. Students often pile into cars after basketball games and go to Highland’s Ice Arena, occasionally competing against Prep teachers - the “Faculty Flyers.”

The Sodality Club undergoes a fundamental change. Rather than the focus being on the personal holiness of the individual, it shifts to the sanctification of others and the defense of the Church. It is considered a radical and progressive move for high school students. This is the beginning of community service at Prep as we know it today.

The first Prep “senior social” is held in the Garrigan Gymnasium, with attendees from Holy Names, Forest Ridge, and Prep.

In its most successful year to date, Prep’s Debate Club places first overall in the sweepstakes competition at the Gonzaga University tournament.

The Prep Glee Club hits the big time when it makes a Christmas appearance on television’s KIRO-TV.

Prep football team announced NCA Football Champions for the second year in a row.

President John F. Kennedy names Alain C. Enthoven, a Prep graduate of 1948, as an undersecretary in the Defense Department. No other Prep student had ever received such a distinguished position prior to this date.

The design and construction of the West Approach to the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, officially known as the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, connects Seattle’s Montlake and the Eastside’s Medina communities. (Prep had been forced by the state to sell a portion of its property for the 520 construction.)

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in his motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Prep lowers its flag to half-staff.

This year marks the inception of Prep’s cross-country team and produces Don Kardong ’67, a champion runner and Prep Hall of Fame member. Kardong is known for starting the long-standing annual Lilac Bloomsday Run in the fall of 1976, in Spokane, Washington.

The school tennis team named Metro Tennis champs and wins the state championship for the fourth time in the past five years.

Seattle Prep performs Annie Get Your Gun at Seattle’s Palomar Theatre. The Palomar Theatre (originally opened as The Pantages in August 1915) is demolished in June 19, 1965.

Prep has the largest percentage of National Merit Scholar semi-finalists in its student body than any other school in Washington state.

Prep adopts a new academic split schedule where students attend longer classes fewer times a week instead of one class a day in each subject.

Debate club earns the coveted NFL Sweepstakes Award/Trophy — a prize based upon the number of rounds of competition a school’s speakers accumulate without being eliminated.

Student literary journal, The Page, is first published.

Ten years into the Vietnam conflict, Prep students are polled: “Should the United States be in Vietnam?” 97% of students say they are in favor of U.S. Involvement. The two most common reasons for voting this way are to protect freedom in Vietnam and prevent the spread of Communism.

The Jesuit residence and pedestrian bridge located on the north side of Delmar Drive East closes due to structural damage sustained from the Seattle-Tacoma earthquake (Magnitude 6.5). The damage is severe, and the building is immediately closed and then demolished in 1971. Peyton Hall is built two years later to replace the Jesuit residence. Remnants of the old Jesuit residence, including a concrete lintel, can be found on campus today. Also, due to this earthquake damage, the roof of Adelphia Hall is lowered.

Prep football coach John Goodwin is named Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sportsman of the Year. Here, he is congratulated by 1965 Seafair Queen Pamela Bryant.

Prep football team named Western Conference Football Champions.

The Panther football team is undefeated and ranked number one in the state (per 1968 yearbook). John Goodwin is coach.

For the first time the Glee Club experiments with trumpet and guitar accompaniment and Beatles music.

Girl cheerleaders make their debut at a Prep basketball game. They dance to the Pep band’s music and attempt to increase the spirits of the tentative but curious fans in attendance. There are mixed opinions, most from those wondering why girl cheerleaders are a necessary addition, but as one faculty member explains, the girls represent the way that Seattle Prep is “progressing with the times.” The male cheerleaders, always seniors per tradition, continue to cheer as well. Girls trying out came from Forest Ridge, Holy Rosary, Holy Names, and Holy Angels.

The Panthers football team completes a brilliant season with a perfect record of 10 wins and no losses. They defend their state championship, thus becoming the only school in Washington state history to capture the title two years in a row. They will secure it again in 1968.

The basketball cheerleaders introduce novel cheers and originate the cry “blue power” cheer. The all-boy cheerleading team, previously known as “the yell kings” invents new ideas for bringing students to school games such as reinitiating the renowned “locomotive cheer,” selling 400 pom-poms, and importing a 75lb bell from Seattle University.

The religion department reorganizes with an emphasis on helping students become aware of their personal values and identity as Christian and Catholic. Girl visitors to religion classes blossoms into a tradition with the objective of gaining a Christian understanding of their reactions and views. On one of the first visits from female students, a Junior religion course on interpersonal relationships hosts six Forest Ridge seniors who sit on a panel and answer questions from Prep students. “We are investigating personal relationships,” Father Bischel, S.J. explains, “primarily boy-girl relationships; and who could be more informed on the subject than boys and girls.” They respond to questions on “steady” dating, social expectations of boys in relationships and the female perspective on Seattle Prep boys.

A cosmetic screen is constructed in front of Adelphia Hall in a concerted effort to modernize the campus. It is demolished a few years later.

Two students start selling hamburgers on campus and find themselves making an average profit of $10 per day. They decide to set up a scholarship fund for Prep students in need of financial assistance. In its first year, the fund nets $1,600 from hamburger sales, raffling off record albums, and peddling Coke at the basketball games.

The school cafeteria is transformed into the Panther Den, a miniature restaurant during school dances. Card tables and candles give The Den a relaxed atmosphere. This space is later the site of the Girls Locker Room.

Construction finishes on Peyton Hall, where Adelphia Memorial Hall stands today. It is designed as a residential dormitory for the Jesuits, the former damaged by the 1965 earthquake. It will be converted into classrooms and offices during the 1980s.

Prep holds its first ever auction. Fr. Steve Kuder, S.J. names it SPREE, an acronym for “Seattle Prep’s Reach for Enduring Excellence.” The annual SPREE auction continues its fundraising efforts to this day. Fun Fact: Prep once auctioned off a 1924 Model T Ford car at the SPREE live auction.

The Junior Statesmen of America (JSA) Club is formed, branching off from the Debate Club. JSA is formed with the objective to examine the governmental process by conducting Model Congresses and Model United Nations conventions.

Sodality renames itself the Social Action Group. The first and major aspect of the group is the Caritas program which provides tutoring for the under-privileged.

A more progressive attitude is taken towards students. They are allowed, in most classes, to become more involved in the school. For the first time in school history, students take control of the dances (they hire bands, sell tickets, build stages, make posters, advertise, etc). Lay people are brought in with new ideas and perspectives. A number of laypeople are invited to assist in formulating voices on three boards: discipline-activities, finances and academic-admissions.

A new state law offers students greater flexibility in classes. Since Prep is a college prep school, it does not have many electives; this law enables students to take courses at other schools to give their education a new dimension.

Boys soccer is added as an official Seattle Prep sport.

Prep cross country team wins the State AA title by an unbelievable 50 points.

Undersea Club is added to the Prep lineup. It offers students opportunities to go to dive sites in the Puget Sound area where members dive for fun and food. The club is designed to stimulate interest in oceanography and marine biology.

Cross country goes unbeaten in 11-0 season and wins second straight WESCO title.

Hockey team makes its debut.

Prep’s Men's Chorus makes an appearance at Expo 74, held in Spokane, Washington. It is the first environmentally themed world’s fair.

In response to the shrinking number of Jesuit priests, Seattle Prep orchestrates a two-fold strategy to ensure its longevity: the addition of girls and the introduction of the Matteo Ricci Program. Both substantially increase enrollment over the following years.

In the Fall of 1975, girls grace the classrooms and campus for the first time at the Interlaken site. The historical all-boy culture is about to change. Prep neighbors comment that male dress standards have improved dramatically. The sophomore class, formerly all-male, now consists of both male and female students and is the first class to enter the integrated six-year Matteo Ricci College Program.

Due to a variety of factors, including a struggling enrollment, a shortage of priests, and a report from the Carnegie Commission of Higher Education that stresses closer collaboration between secondary and higher education, Prep unveils its “radical” Matteo Ricci Program. In contrast to the traditional 4-year high school, 4-year college model, the program creates a unified six-year education that results in the granting of a bachelor’s degree from Seattle University. It provides the Jesuits with the opportunity to renew their focus on their commitment to liberal and values-oriented education while adapting to changing times.

A year of great change, Prep also pioneers the new interdisciplinary Collegio curriculum in conjunction with Seattle University. The teaching method synthesizes English, history/social studies and religion studies into one class and is team taught by three instructors. It also is a departure from “rote pedagogy” and places the student, not the instructor, at the heart of the learning experience. Collegio becomes a hallmark of a Seattle Prep education, and freshmen, sophomores and juniors take it to this day.

The first dance team is formed, called the Panther Express. They perform at school-related functions like halftime at Prep sports games.

Cross country, golf, tennis, volleyball, track and basketball are formed for female athletes now that Prep is co-ed.

The Artistic-Aesthetic Development (AAD) program is created based upon a program developed at Seattle University under a federal grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

The administration asks the city for permission to use the large white house on Miller street for the school’s “resident artists,” functioning as studios for painting, sculpture, and pottery, with the large storage room becoming the Artistic Aesthetic Development center. In 2017 the house begins housing members of the Alumni Service Corps program.

First “Tolo” dance is held, with male guests invited by female students per tradition.

Prep Installs 83 lockers, 58 new athletic lockers and 128 baskets to accommodate the swell in student population. The renovation plans to accommodate Prep’s co-ed status also include transforming the “game room” into a girls’ bathroom and updating the locker rooms to accommodate the “added variety.”

Prep named Metro Track Champions.

It is announced that three computer terminals, one high speed printer and one computer card reader will be installed on Prep’s campus. Grading, courses and filing can now be done right from the Interlaken campus. The MRC program later requires students to take computer programming classes, taught by Prep math teachers.

The Board of Trustees approves plans for renovations within the Faculty House (Peyton Hall). Originally constructed as a residence for the Jesuits, the building is prime real estate for the operations of a newly co-ed school with skyrocketing enrollment. Plans include a new library, cafeteria, and restrooms for both boys and girls. Drawers, bookshelves and washrooms in the old Jesuit rooms will be removed to make room for new small-group instruction spaces.

Assigned to represent nations in groups of 2-3, students spend 3-4 weeks researching their country extensively, preparing to answer questions about its history, foreign relations, government and military policies in an assembly after giving speeches. Model UN remains a core part of Sophomore Collegio today.

President Gerald Ford presents a Certificate of Achievement for innovations in education to Matteo Ricci College at a May award dinner in New York City. Father William Sullivan, S.J., president of Seattle University, and Father Thomas Healy, S.J., president of Matteo Ricci College at Seattle Prep, accept the certificate, which is accompanied by a $10,000 award.

In the Spring of 1980, 24 students graduate from Matteo Ricci College (MRC) at Seattle Preparatory School. They are the first ever graduating class of the MRC program, introduced in 1974. The commencement ceremony is held at the Seattle Center.

Father Sullivan, S.J. passes away in July of 1980. The first annual Fr Sullivan Run is held that October and continues to this day.

Golf takes first in the Metro League.

Prep named Cross Country State Champions.

Started by faculty member and counselor Kathy Krueger, this program takes place during Activity Period.

Fr. Tom Healy announces the plans for a new gym at a September 13th press conference, along with co-chairmen Tim Firnstahl ’61 and Michael McHugh’ 61, owners of two well-known Seattle restaurants. The old Garrigan Gym will remain for practices and assemblies.

A groundbreaking ceremony is held for a project that includes a new gymnasium, science center and student cafeteria. Honored guests highlighted on the invitation include Governor John D Spellman ’45, and the Ella & Thomas C. McHugh Family for whom the gym is named.

Intramural sports are reintroduced.

Students begin work to form a student government. They draft the first student constitution.

The club begins as an elective class and is limited to 14 students because there is only one driver. Students serve at The Josephinum and Pike Place Senior Center.

Chess Club is a new club founded by a handful of juniors during the 1981-1982 school year.

Community Service becomes part of the Junior curriculum.

Prep named Metro Soccer Champions.

The Prep Players (members of the Harlequin Club) perform Agatha Christie’s murder mystery play “Mousetrap” at Villa Academy, as Prep does not have a theater space.

Following a three-year Capital Fund Drive, a major remodel adds McHugh Gymnasium to the courtyard in front of Adelphia Hall. The gym, capable of seating 720 people, features 11,300 feet of court space and a twelve-foot panther head designed by Kellogg Metcalf of the Foley Sign Company. Included in gym renovations are a new training room, office for girls’ athletics, visitors’ locker room, a lobby, and a waiting room. These spaces are subsequently renovated in 2019 as part of the Lico Athletic Center.

The McHugh Gym is only one of many new additions to campus in 1982. Also unveiled are four science laboratory-classrooms and a solarium at the top of Adelphia Hall, as well as computer labs, offices and a weight room in the south wing. The south wing is renamed McDonnell Hall, in dedication of Fr. Christopher J. McDonnell, S.J., former principal of Seattle Preparatory School from 1938-1956. Student dining and cafeteria facilities are built in the first floor of the faculty building (Peyton Hall) where hot lunches will be served for the first time in many years.

Fourth year is designed to provide intellectual challenge, and Advanced Placement (AP) courses are eventually introduced. Eighth graders no longer need to commit to a 6-year program or leave to do senior year at another high school in order to experience a Seattle Prep Jesuit education. This is the first senior class to graduate from the Seattle Prep high school campus since 1978. This results in a 20% increase in enrollment the following year.

Students are required to take a computer class to graduate. This computer course includes skills in finances, word processing, and research skills. Students start on IBM PC computers with Wordstar, Sr. Pascal and basic learning programs.

Marilyn Kavanaugh and Steve Koehler ’62 establish the Alumni Basketball Tournament, a spirited three-day event that draws alums from across the nation.

Natural Helper program begins as a co-project between faculty and students. The program trains students to help each other and solve problems ranging from loneliness to eating disorders.

Boys basketball goes to the Metro State AA Tournament for first time in 15 years.

Advanced Placement (AP) courses available for the first time to Prep seniors.

A group of Prep students road trip to Vancouver to see Pope John Paul II in his famous popemobile.

Prep seniors embark on Senior Pilgrimage Retreat. The retreat is still offered today.

The Greenlake Crew Team begins its season with Seattle Prep students on the team. Seattle Prep begins its own crew program in the 2000s.

Prep named girls Metro Tennis Champions.

Prep fields its first swim team ever. It starts with 63 students.

Junior student Tim Peyton ‘90, steps up to fill an unexpected vacancy as ASB President and in doing so creates the first Olympic Week. The events are intended to keep competitive Panther spirits high and fill the lull between winter and spring sports seasons. This longtime tradition occurs now during a designated “Olympic period” on Special block schedule for a full week. It remains one of the best weeks in Prep’s school year to this day.

The magazine Second Face is begun, featuring students and teachers’ artwork, poems and short stories. Still published today, but now known as Ignite.

First Minority Awareness Club started to “improve awareness and foster understanding within the Prep community.” Two years later teacher Anne Jane Gleason introduces Prep’s first multicultural enrichment class. A rose garden on the Peyton Plaza is planted in memory of this legendary teacher who died in 1999.

Prep girls golf named Metro Champions.

Prep co-ed tennis named Metro Champions.

112 students walk out of classes to protest the Gulf War.

For the first time in Prep’s history there is an all-female ASB government at the helm.

Athletic Hall of Fame established with “First Five” inductees: Art McCaffray, Walter McGovern (both 1940 graduates, part of the “Wonder Class”), Tom Gorman ’64, Don Kardong ’67 and legendary football coach, John Goodwin.

A foreign exchange program is launched that involves teachers trading places between Seattle and Australia.

Students Against Driving Drunk (S.A.D.D.) organizes at Prep to discourage students from driving while under the influence of alcohol. Activity nights happen where movies, ping-pong, Nintendo and hockey are on hand for the students as an alternative to drinking and driving.

For the first time in history all six fall sports teams or team members qualify for the state competition. Between the years of 1991 and 2015, Prep will win 30 State Championships in athletics.

The Community Covenant is introduced as an agreement between students and faculty, maintaining the community atmosphere.

Senior Community Service class puts on The Shelter Project that raises money for the homeless of Seattle and the hurricane victims in Miami, Florida.

Drama Program holds the first One-Act Play Festival, directed by students. This tradition thrives to this day.

The class of 1943 gathers to present classmate Francis Y. Nakagawa, (68-years old at the time) with a Seattle Prep diploma. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nakagawa and his parents, of Japanese descent, were forced to leave Seattle in early 1942 and relocate to a camp in Idaho. He never got the opportunity to complete his senior year at Prep. The surprise diploma was something he had always dreamed of but had never attained.

Prep teacher Regina Melonson starts the writing center, comprised of students and teachers who are willing to advise or answer any questions about the art of writing. This eventually becomes the Learning Resource Center, now located on the second floor of McDonnell Hall and named in Regina’s honor.

Prep swim team stuns defending champion Blanchet to claim the Metro title.

Prep girls soccer team wins Metro Championship.

The Coalition for AIDS Peer Education is new to Prep and educates students to the facts about AIDS in order to break down stereotypes and insecurities.

Swimming is once again the most popular sport at Prep with nearly 100 members.

Community Ministry is formed to develop and oversee retreats, liturgies/all-school masses, and the Giving Tree assembly. Annual Peace and Justice Month is inaugurated during the 1995-1996 school year, as well as the first Freshman Retreat.

During the following years, several programs develop that define the Prep experience. Window class takes on a new name: Service Oriented Students, or S.O.S., which would later become Peer Ministry in 1997. The Urban Plunge Retreat is piloted during the 1996-1997 school year and Peer Ministry students are trained to lead it 1998.

Prep hires its first non-Jesuit president, Mr. Bob Graby, who serves until 2001.

Prep girls softball switches to fastpitch.

Along with Blanchet, Prep changes athletic leagues from WESCO to the Metro League.

The student-run Junior Statesmen of America is revived. Its purpose is to discuss a variety of topics ranging from flag burning to the ideal society. Members would soon begin to compete in Mock Trial competitions, beginning Prep’s legacy of outstanding teams under the direction of Prep teacher and lawyer, Andy McCarthy.

The internet comes to Seattle Prep. Many do not understand how to use it or how it works. Frustration ensues.

Prep boys cross country named Metro Champs.

Student work study program advocated by Associated Student Body President Ford Davidson ’97. He suggests to the administration 15 hours of work per week for tuition assistance.

Prep girls basketball named Metro Champs.

Both Prep boys and girls tennis teams named State Champions.

The SOS club revamps its style and is renamed Peer Ministry. Their job is to help grow student spirituality.

Prep welcomes its 25th incoming co-ed class of freshmen.

The construction of a new 2-story underground parking garage is complete, along with a landscaped plaza and a new 20,000 square foot academic building—St. Ignatius Hall. St. Ignatius serves as the primary learning space for Collegio, the integrated humanities curriculum created in 1975 that continues as a cornerstone of Prep’s educational model to this day. A statue of St. Ignatius is also installed at the center of campus, joined in 2015 by the statues of Mother Mary and Child Jesus across the plaza.

Friday morning liturgy replaces lit-study as a way to increase attendance. It is an optional 45-minute liturgy. Students can either sleep in or attend.

St. Ignatius statue is dedicated and blessed by faculty member Fr. Paul Fitterer, S.J., at a school gathering in the McHugh Gym.

With a 19-1 season under their belt Prep boys basketball wins the state title, playing before a packed crowd at Key Arena.

The Loyola Library and Information Center in Peyton Hall unveils improvements after recent construction including computer stations and a classroom for class research sessions. In October, the Loyola Library is dedicated in honor of the Oregon Province of Jesuits. The second floor of Peyton Hall is remodeled for classrooms and development offices.

Prep students hold the first ever mock presidential debate at assembly in front of the whole school. One student represents George Bush, the other represents Al Gore.

In April Prep closes early to conduct gender equity audit aimed to assess and improve gender equity at the school. Among the topics discussed is the absence of women among Prep’s administration and policy decisions. Another point of discussion is the lack of attendance at sports games, seemingly drawn along gender lines. This, despite widespread success among girls' sports teams.

Music ministry is incorporated into Community Ministry. Also during this year, senior students assume leadership of the junior retreats for the first time under faculty and staff guidance. Student leadership expands to all retreats in the coming years and to weekly liturgies beginning in 2002.

The nation stops in its tracks after a hijacked plane flies into one of the New York World Trade Center buildings on the morning of September 11, 2001. Across the country, skyscrapers are evacuated, airports closed, and national borders locked down as news of the attacks air on every television channel. An all-school Mass is held that school day at Prep, with more than half of those gathered in the McHugh Gym having come to school dressed in white as a symbol of hope. Looking back a year later, a student writes in the school paper that the “shock wave of change” that began to transform students’ lives after that day disrupted their daily routines, activities, attitudes and beliefs more than ever expected.

Boys cross country places 1st in state. The last time Prep received this honor was 28 years prior.

Varsity boys football team named Academic State Football Champions, second year in a row, with an average 3.315 GPA.

Boys lacrosse team is started. In three years it becomes Prep’s largest sports team. It is not a school sponsored sport, so its survival relies on parent support and fundraisers.

Girls basketball wins Metro Championship and goes on to win the State Championship.

Collegio sections are now represented by names of Jesuits rather than letters of the alphabet. They are also restructured to serve 45 students with two teachers instead of 60 students with three teachers.

Girls volleyball is named 2001 State Champions. Under Coach Gaylene Page, volleyball would go on to win a second and third state championship to make three consecutive state titles.

A mandatory summer reading program is instituted for the first time, requiring students to read mandatory selections. The program is revised in 2019 to allow students to choose from over 50 selections to read, each one sponsored by a faculty or staff member who then facilitates book discussions with students.

Jousting and miniature golf are introduced into Olympic Week (instituted in 1989). The school raises $1,500 to go towards Leukemia research and collects over 5,000 nonperishable food items.

Dr. Matt Barmore, Prep principal, introduces the Block Schedule to Prep.

The Kairos retreat comes to Prep after five Prep juniors attend Blanchet’s Kairos retreat in 2002. The five students work with Community Ministry faculty Jeannie Robinson and Fr. Fitterer to bring it to Prep. The junior retreat, an opportunity for reflection and deepening faith, profoundly impacts Prep’s culture and the lives students every year.

Three new student clubs introduced: Outdoors Club, The Hispanic Heritage Club and the Knitting Club.

Student G.L.o.W. club comes to Prep (Gays and Lesbians or Whatever). It is now called One Voice.

Girls volleyball takes the state title for a third consecutive win.

Co-ed tennis team wins the Metro Championship

Girls lacrosse becomes an official school sport.

School Counselor Jolene (Mudd) Boyle starts the first Retreat for Young Women, now known as YWR or the sophomore Young Women’s Retreat. Brian Mack of Community Ministry creates The Young Men’s Retreat, YMR, for sophomore boys six years later.

The Homecoming Assembly wrestling match returns after a five-year hiatus. The classic brawl between seniors and freshmen takes places with gallons of foam instead of the traditional JELL-O.

Senior Andy Lundquist is given unique opportunity to direct a drama that all classes are required to attend. He chooses Dead Man Walking, a story about a nun and her journey with a death row inmate.

Girls soccer wins the Metro Championship title.

Boys basketball wins its first Metro Championship.

Prep’s Chess Team is largest to date with 23 students. They have a 5-0 season and compete at state receiving a 4th place finish.

This capital campaign results in the opening of the new Lee Family Fine Arts Center, PACCAR Commons, and the Fr. Thomas F Healy S.J. Chapel and Theater.

Girls cross country wins Metro title.

Prep’s current dance program, PULSE, is created, with teacher moderator Bei Bernal (also a member of the Community Ministry Team) as the dance team’s first “coach.” That year choreographer Area Meas is hired (later becoming head coach and program head) to direct six student members in tandem with student captains Clarize Baldoz ‘08 and Fantasia Galarosa-Krager ‘08.

Mock Trial wins State Championship title. The team takes home the state trophy for the next seven years.

Current president Kent Hickey comes to Seattle Prep.

Adelphia Hall, the first building on the Seattle Prep campus, is tested for earthquake safety. The early 1900s structure fails the test, prompting deliberations regarding how best to address the threat to life and safety.

Prep grad Amanda Knox is jailed for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, a case that draws world-wide attention. Prep publicly supports Amanda based upon its commitment to cura personalis, the “care for the person” at the heart of Jesuit education. Amanda is eventually found innocenlacet and returns to Seattle.

Blue Man groups starts raising cheers at games with their drums and energy.

Coffee house begins as a venue for kids to perform songs, dances, poetry, and showcase other talents.

New CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) class offered during window period.

In an historic election, Prep students show their support for President Barack Obama, the first African American US president.

Two new retreats are introduced at Prep, both based upon retreat initiated at other Jesuit schools: Senior Pilgrimage (Bellarmine Prep, Tacoma) and Freshman Retreat (Creighton Prep, Omaha).

Girls cross country team is the first Prep girls team to ever win a district title. They go on to take 2nd in state.

Girls soccer wins the Metro League Championship.

The Board of Trustees unanimously adopt a plan for a two-for-one solution to the safety issues and space limitations posed by the aging Adelphia building. Adelphia Hall is to be torn down and Peyton Hall renovated to provide the most seismically safe and sustainable solution for Prep’s future.

New Media Literacy class is introduced by Prep faculty member Michael Danielson, poised to address the onslaught of social media such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.

First female Principal, Maureen Reid, comes to Seattle Prep.

Prep girls soccer team named State Champions for second year in a row.

In solidarity with other Seattle-area Catholic school students, Prep students stage a sit-in to protest the dismissal of an administrator at Eastside Catholic High School because he had entered into a civil same-sex marriage. Unprompted, students take the opportunity to work with faculty to facilitate a productive and orderly discussion in the School’s PACCAR Commons.

Mock Trial wins 7th state championship in a row.

Baseball coach Ed Paulter retires after 28 years and 415 wins.

Joe Hardy ‘14 smashes the cross country record at Seattle’s most historic course, Lower Woodland, with a time of 14:56.

In a unique partnership between Seattle Prep and Seattle Parks and Recreation, the long-suffering Montlake Playfield is transformed into a state- of-the-art field available for year-round community and school use. The field, a nearly unplayable peat bog for decades, is replaced with a synthetic turf surface donated by Ohno Construction. Ohno Field is used for HEX classes and the football and lacrosse teams under a joint use agreement with Parks.

A time capsule is buried within the newly constructed Adelphia Memorial Hall. It is reported that only the Dean of Students knows its location.

This capital campaign allows for the construction of Adelphia Memorial Hall, Rudolf Playfield (on former site of Adelphia Hall), and Peyton Plaza. A highlight of this project is Our Lady of Montserrat Chapel, the only space on campus designated solely for religious use.

Mock Trial wins the National Championship in Madison, Wisconsin. The program, arguably the most successful in the country, wins twelve State Championships and nine Top 10 National finishes from 2003-2016.

One-to-One program begins in 2014-2015 school year with iPads. The iPads are later phased out and replaced by Microsoft Surface tablet laptops.

Current Principal Dr. Erin Luby comes to Seattle Prep.

A new statue titled “The Embrace,” is installed on the Peyton Plaza adjacent to the Anne Gleason Memorial Rose Garden. It represents a celebration of love between Mary and Jesus. The statue is a counterpart to the existing statue of St. Ignatius located directly across the Peyton Plaza, intended to be observed daily by the Prep community and visitors alike.

Happy 125th Birthday Seattle Prep!

The 2017-2018 school year sees the launch of the Alumni Service Corps program. Four recent college graduates and Prep alums move in to the white house on 12th and Miller, ready to live in community while serving different departments of the school for one calendar year.

Hall of Fame Coach, Andy Hendricks, earns his 400th girls’ soccer victory.

Prep first girls bowling team is created.

Cameron Smith ‘17 makes state swim & dive history with her four-peat win in the 500-yard freestyle.

Robotics team wins Washington State Championship for outstanding engineering.

The largest class in the history of Seattle Prep enters Prep as freshmen, with a whopping 216 students in the Class of 2021. This makes for the largest sophomore Model UN in Prep history during their sophomore year in the spring of 2019.

Flexing their activism, hundreds of students participate in the National School Walkout on March 14th to take a stand against gun violence.

Prep adds AP Environmental Science, a new Advanced Placement course, to its curriculum. This brings the number of AP courses offered at Prep to 14.

Construction finishes on Lico Athletic Complex. New locker rooms, coaches and HEX offices, training room and Hall of Fame are unveiled, as well as two digital touchscreens displaying a digital hall of fame and timeline experience of Prep’s history. Prep Coach Val Ritchie and alum athlete Mary Ann Santucci ’14 are inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at the September 19th ceremony.