Rainier State School (Buckley, Wash.)

found: Rainier State School newsletter, [May 1957]p. 5 ("After June 13, [1957] we become Rainier School")

found: Over fifty years of caring, 1997:t.p. (Rainier School) p. 7 (state mental institution est. under Senate Bill 34, Feb. 16, 1937, as Western State Custodial School); p. 12 (Buckley, Wash. announced as school site June 3, 1937); p. 27 (first residents arrive Oct. 19, 1939); p. 63 (name changed from Western State Custodial School to Rainier State School March 1947); p. 144 (name changed from Rainier State School to Rainier School, June 13, 1957-- Session Laws [St. of Wash.], 1957, [Senate Bill 122], Ch. 102, [p. 411])

found: Wash. DSHS Internet website, April 4, 2006(Rainier School; residential facility for adults w/developmental disabilities; located in Buckley, Wash.; first residents arrived Oct. 1939; originally named Western State Custodial School, renamed Rainier State School in 1947 and then Rainier School in 1956 [i.e. 1957]; Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR) program-- certified by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)