Eleanor Toews Archives Center – Seattle Public Schools

District’s Data and Archives Middle Named in Honor of First Archivist 

After retiring from Seattle Public Faculties because the district’s first archivist in 2011, Eleanor Toews – whose final identify rhymes with saves – couldn’t keep away.

She continued to volunteer, serving as an energetic committee member on the Seattle College Scholarship Fund, processing historic collections within the SPS Data and Archives Middle, and serving on the historical past committee liable for the newest version of the “Constructing for Studying” college histories e-book. 

Now, after an almost 32-year profession in SPS, the Seattle College Board of Administrators accredited the naming of the district’s Data and Archives Middle in honor of Eleanor Toews.  

Naming the Data and Archives Middle after Toews is suitable, as she was instrumental in establishing the 7,000 sq. foot facility housing inactive, everlasting, and historic information. She championed the event of a sturdy district information administration program and was instrumental in establishing a lot of our district historic collections. She can be instantly liable for the preservation of hundreds of artifacts.  

“We can not go ahead with out understanding the previous,” Toews stated. “The previous needs to be preserved.”