Tamara Belts

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Special Collections Manager Tamara Belts to Retire After 42 Years at Western 2020-01-31
Women of Library History: Mabel Zoe Wilson

It’s hard to imagine Western without the Mabel Zoe Wilson Library. Its elegant, Italianate brick façade has graced the south end of the green swathe in front of Old Main since 1928. But when the famously feisty, determined woman for whom the building is now named first set foot on campus, there…

2016-03-22
Vast WWU collection is dedicated to fly fishing

It seemed like a rather benign phone call.

It turned out to be something much larger than a simple plea to come look at a collection of fly rods, in order to price them for a garage sale.

Danny Beatty of Anacortes got that call back in 1986. And when the Fidalgo Fly Fishers club…

2016-02-16
WWU Faculty and Staff Campaign Advisory Board announced 2016-02-11
Western Washington University campus newspaper back to 1899 now online and searchable

From student life in the early 1900s to a campus strike after the Kent State shootings in 1970, The Western Front has covered goings-on at Western Washington University for more than a century.

Until recently, people who wanted to read old issues of the student newspaper had to visit…

2012-09-14
Writer and fly fisher presents 'Return to the River' 2012-07-27
Contents of 1912 time capsule at WWU remain a mystery

One hundred years ago, the graduating class at Western Washington University started a school tradition by burying a time capsule on campus.
But what they intended for the future to find remains unclear.
University workers opened the 1912 time capsule - along with the 1913 one -…

2012-02-10
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