Dr. Dale Wirsing

Dr. Dale Wirsing, Board Vice-President enews@tacomahistory.org

Dr. Dale Wirsing

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"I think the postcards capture the city putting its best foot forward," says Dale Wirsing, president of the Tacoma Historical Society.

Inside, society president Dale Wirsing, a retired reporter and editor at the Tacoma News Tribune, tallies the number of visitors on a wall calendar splayed across his desk.Each month, 100 people or more visit the museum to check out its exhibits; the latest, Building Tacoma, documents the city’s boom and bust growth between 1852 and 1915.Others stop by to inspect an old streetcar map on loan from Pierce County Councilmember Timothy Farrell.

When Historic Tacoma hosted its first public meeting this summer, Wirsing says the Tacoma Historical Society offered its blessing.Advocacy was something the society had supported all along, he says, but didn’t always have the resources or expertise to take it on full-time.

Dale R. Wirsing was re-elected president of the Tacoma Historical Society, and Marie Hayden was re-elected treasurer.

Inside, society president Dale Wirsing, a retired reporter and editor at the Tacoma News Tribune, tallies the number of visitors on a wall calendar splayed across his desk.Each month, 100 people or more visit the museum to check out its exhibits; the latest, Building Tacoma, documents the city's boom and bust growth between 1852 and 1915.Others stop by to inspect an old streetcar map on loan from Pierce County Councilmember Timothy Farrell.

When Historic Tacoma hosted its first public meeting this summer, Wirsing says the Tacoma Historical Society offered its blessing.Advocacy was something the society had supported all along, he says, but didn't always have the resources or expertise to take it on full-time.

"They are a much better organization to do that than we are," he says.

"It's just my impression, but at the time this was the best deal that the city could make to keep the Winthrop in use and have some kind of usefulness for that old building, rather than allowing it to become derelict," says Dale Wirsing, former business reporter and editor at The News Tribune, and current president of the Tacoma Historical Society, during a phone interview Tuesday.

Inside, society president Dale Wirsing, a retired reporter and editor at the Tacoma News Tribune, tallies the number of visitors on a wall calendar splayed across his desk.Each month, 100 people or more visit the museum to check out its exhibits; the latest, Building Tacoma, documents the city's boom and bust growth between 1852 and 1915.Others stop by to inspect an old streetcar map on loan from Pierce County Councilmember Timothy Farrell.

When Historic Tacoma hosted its first public meeting this summer, Wirsing says the Tacoma Historical Society offered its blessing.Advocacy was something the society had supported all along, he says, but didn't always have the resources or expertise to take it on full-time.

"They are a much better organization to do that than we are," he says.

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