Welcome.
Western Washington University’s English Department has provided students an opportunity to implement their skills as creators and textual coordinationists in a more real-world setting. Groups from ENG 402 are paired up with local non-profits whom they work with throughout the quarter on a Service Learning project.
The group you have stumbled upon worked with the Whatcom Humane Society (WHS) during the Winter 2018 school year. The WHS has been active in Whatcom County since 1902, and as such they have had a long and interesting history in the county. But like all things from the past some aspects of their history have become forgotten or lost.
Recently during a relocation move the WHS discovered a meeting ledger that detailed activities and incidents from their inception in 1902 and up through most of 1940. Wanting to preserve and share what has been unlost the WHS wanted to transform the ledger into a book.
That is where our group comes into the scene.
Picking up what had been started by a previous class, our group was tasked with going through the entries in the ledger, as well as supporting newspaper articles from the same time period, and organizing, expanding, and adding to them in the most beneficial way possible. While the book is in the very early stages of its creation, our goal was to help the next group who would be working on it by trying to have information setup so that it could be easily raided for the next stage.
Within this site you’ll find glimpses of the work we did to get to those stages. Enjoy.