DID YOU KNOW?
Tacoma’s story spans more than two centuries from the time Captain George Vancouver anchored off Tacoma’s north shore in 1792.
In 1870, Tacoma’s natural deep-water port became an attraction that the Northern Pacific Railroad couldn’t pass up, when it made Tacoma a stop on its transcontinental line.
Old Tacoma and New Tacoma merged in 1884 and incorporated as Tacoma. By 1890, the population reached 36,000 people.
Tacoma is home to the Port of Tacoma, the seventh-largest container port in the United States, and it is within 20 miles of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and 36 miles of the city of Seattle.
Bill Clow,
Lower School French
Bill Clow teaches French in the Lower School. This year he is teaching fifth graders as the school completes its transition from teaching French to teaching Spanish to its youngest students.
“My favorite projects to work on with students are learning folk dances, constructing a paper French village complete with electric train, and building French castles with mouse-trap catapults for marshmallow bombardment,” says Clow. “Of course, our work is all done in French!”
Clow completed his undergraduate education at the University of Portland. He earned a masters degree in French at Middlebury College in Vermont. He holds a masters degree in Latin and PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington. As a Peace Corp volunteer, Clow taught computer classes for two years in Vanuatu, a country in the South Pacific. He joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2006.
Clow loves aviation and volunteers at the Museum of Flight in Seattle and Olympic Flight Museum in Olympia. He also enjoys hiking, camping, bicycling, and operating a ham radio. At his home, Clow keeps a framed hand-made card from a third-grader at Charles Wright complimenting him on his work as a teacher.
“My favorite projects to work on with students are learning folk dances, constructing a paper French village complete with electric train, and building French castles with mouse-trap catapults for marshmallow bombardment,” says Clow. “Of course, our work is all done in French!”
Clow completed his undergraduate education at the University of Portland. He earned a masters degree in French at Middlebury College in Vermont. He holds a masters degree in Latin and PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington. As a Peace Corp volunteer, Clow taught computer classes for two years in Vanuatu, a country in the South Pacific. He joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2006.
Clow loves aviation and volunteers at the Museum of Flight in Seattle and Olympic Flight Museum in Olympia. He also enjoys hiking, camping, bicycling, and operating a ham radio. At his home, Clow keeps a framed hand-made card from a third-grader at Charles Wright complimenting him on his work as a teacher.
