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Students stirring limestone with water to create the whitewash, 1967



Students passing buckets of limestone up the mountain, 1967



Students passing buckets of limestone up the mountain, 1967



Students pouring whitewash on rocks to create "W", 1967



Two students carrying a rock up the mountain, 1967



Students, staff, and community members planting sumac trees on the mountainside, 1981



Students, staff, and community members planting sumac trees on the mountainside, 1981



Students, staff, and community members planting sumac trees on the mountainside, 1981



Sumac unloaded from a delivery truck, 1981



Sumac trees unloaded and preparing to be planted, 1981



Football players walking off the field with white painted "W" on mountain, October 21, 1966



Aerial of campus with WS painted on the mountain, 1969-1970



Students working to put out the wildfire, 1957



Flaming W made of fire on the mountain, 1957



Students prepping the ground for the Flaming W, 1957



Music being played on the mountainside during the Flaming W hike, 1951



Students getting hotdogs and drinks during the Flaming W hike, 1951



Students gathering around bonfire after hiking to the "W", 1948



A group of people preparing the mountainside for sumac, circa 1970-1976



Orson Whitney Young of the zoology department supervises students replanting the sumac "W" above campus, 1972



Jack Critchlow, Carol Scoffield, Phyllis Parker and Lawrence Stone planning the flaming "W" hike, 1948



Forward (arrow) W, circa 1976-2001



Facilities Management employees setting up the Flaming W



Flaming W lightbulb and wiring



Facilities Management employee attaching a light bulb, 2008