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.
Judy Williams,
Middle School Spanish
Judy Williams teaches Middle School Spanish. “I love being able to work one-on-one with students,” says Williams. “I love to help them ‘see the light’ when learning different concepts about Spanish. The students are so responsive when we take the time to work with them individually. I hope that through studying a foreign language they have learned to appreciate other cultures. I hope they will continue to study Spanish because they had so much fun learning it here and have come to realize what an asset it is to know another language or two.”
Williams got hooked on Spanish in high school and majored in the language during college. In 1999, she was 1 of 18 Washington teachers selected to study at the University of Salamanca in Spain with a scholarship from Boeing and the Spanish Embassy. She has made three trips to Spain, including a trip with students.
At a conference in San Antonio, Texas, Williams randomly ran into a friend she had met on her first trip to Spain. “We had not seen nor heard from each other for 25 years, yet we still recognized each other!” she says. “Thanks to the advanced technology age we live in, we plan to keep in touch with each other this time.”
Williams holds a bachelors degree from Mt. Union College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1991. In addition to teaching, she has coached track and field, soccer, volleyball and basketball. She double-majored in physical education and became the first student athletic trainer at her college, working with the men’s soccer and basketball programs for two years. “I can tape ankles,” she says, and occasionally helps out in the Charles Wright training room.
Williams volunteers at her church and is a former Girl Scouts troop leader. She enjoys camping with her family, playing the piano, singing, baking, reading murder mysteries and doing cross-stitch. In 2007 she completed the grueling Breast Cancer 3-Day, a 60-mile walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Visit her web page
Williams got hooked on Spanish in high school and majored in the language during college. In 1999, she was 1 of 18 Washington teachers selected to study at the University of Salamanca in Spain with a scholarship from Boeing and the Spanish Embassy. She has made three trips to Spain, including a trip with students.
At a conference in San Antonio, Texas, Williams randomly ran into a friend she had met on her first trip to Spain. “We had not seen nor heard from each other for 25 years, yet we still recognized each other!” she says. “Thanks to the advanced technology age we live in, we plan to keep in touch with each other this time.”
Williams holds a bachelors degree from Mt. Union College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1991. In addition to teaching, she has coached track and field, soccer, volleyball and basketball. She double-majored in physical education and became the first student athletic trainer at her college, working with the men’s soccer and basketball programs for two years. “I can tape ankles,” she says, and occasionally helps out in the Charles Wright training room.
Williams volunteers at her church and is a former Girl Scouts troop leader. She enjoys camping with her family, playing the piano, singing, baking, reading murder mysteries and doing cross-stitch. In 2007 she completed the grueling Breast Cancer 3-Day, a 60-mile walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Visit her web page
