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The Redmond Recorder November 2010 1

The Redmond Recorder November 2010 Vol. 12, No. 9

Redmond Historical SocietyOur purpose: To discover, recover, preserve, share and

celebrate Redmonds history

Just What Does RHS Do?

Sure, we have very popular speaker presentations at our meetings -- 50-90 people at a pop -- but what goes on behind the door (yes its just one!)of the Redmond Historical Society? Thats the focus of our Novembermeeting, where well explain our new committee structure, honorvolunteers (see Page 3 for details), show off what weve done with artifacts

and sharing heritage, and set up tables for folks to learn more aboutspecific areas. Think of it as a chance to get to know your Society better.

Well also be throwing in some mystery photos that need identifying --people and events from around Redmond.

So please join us on Nov. 13th

, from 10:30 a.m.-noon at the Old

Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. Who knows, you just mightwant to step up and help out with discovering, recovering, preserving,sharing and celebrating our happening history.
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2010 Executive Board

Chris Himes, PresidentMiguel Llanos, VPJoanne Westlund, TreasurerJohn Phillips, CollectionsBeryl Standley, Secretary

Board of Directors

Mary Hanson

Nao Hardy

Judy Aries Lang

Jon Magnussen

Doris Schaible

Joe Townsend

Patti Simpson Ward

Margaret Evers Wiese

Office Manager

Monica Park

Attorney

Charles Diesen

Our finances are public record and

may be viewed at the office.

Free NewsletterCall 425-885-2919 or e-mail

[email protected], asking for e-mail or USMail delivery. (We prefer e-mailas its inexpensive and photos

show up better online!)

Major Supporters

New Online

Did you know that we areapproaching 100 generalmeetings, our website guru

Richard Morris asks? Heknows because thanks to NaoHardys work we have a listonline showing who spoke ateach one and when. To find thelist go toredmondhistoricalsociety.organd search for speakers log.

Our first speakers? Well, thatwas Daryl Martin, and Glenand Roy Lampaert in May1999. The topics wereOddfellows, volunteerfirefighting, school days andother memories.

Table of Contents

Page1: October membership meeting2: New Online3: Proposed Board; Volunteers4: Thank Yous

5: Centennial Quilt Project6: A Redmond Poet, Home Prose7: Bob Martins Monkeying Around8: Scanning project, cemetery plots9: Gift Ideas10: Lifetimers, Meeting Attendees11: Membership Form

12: Address & RHS Contact Info
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- John Phillips

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Thank You to

Its once again time for dues-paying members to vote on the Societysexecutive board. The boards nominating committee will propose this list at

the November general meeting. (Others may also nominate themselves orsomeone else for specific positions.)

President: Chris HimesSenior Vice President: Miguel LlanosVice President, Collections Management: John PhillipsVice President, Finance: Joe Townsend

Recording Secretary: Beryl Standley

At the meeting well also be thanking volunteers working on specificprojects:

Jennifer Hawkins, who is scanning some of the LarryStair negatives from the Sammamish Valley News photocollection;

Noori Shahzad and Linda Smith, who are working onimplementing human resource policies;

Susan Brown, who advises us on grant possibilities;

Richard Morris, who created and oversees our websiteand advises us on database tools;

Janine Baker, who helped us get the Past Perfectcollections database up and running;

Amanda Luanglath, Monika Gupta, and ShiekoTakahashi, who are helping with data entry in Past Perfect.

Proposed 2011 Executive Board


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Thank Yous

Karen & Alan Stephens, Doris & Marvin Schaible, Evelyn Gilbert andShawn Burkland for donations made in memory ofEthel Evers, themother of Society board member Margaret Wiese.

Judy Lang, Angie Lang and Patsy Rosenbach for staffing a booth at theLake Washington High Golden Grads Reunion. The gals sold $175 worthof history books, DVDs and cards!

Judy Lang and Chris Himes for sharing our heritage with a Boy Scoutstroop and a Girl Scouts troop. Jeff Handley, the father of a boy scout,organized their visit to our office, while Kurt and Kristen Jensen of thearchitectural firm Jensen|Fey asked us to speak to girl scouts about thehistory of the Justice White House, where Jensen|Fey is located.

Cheryl and Gene Magnuson for setting up the train display at RedmondLibrary.

Marge Hanson and Coeta Chambers for the School Days displays at thelibrary and Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center.

Janice LeVeck and Brian Ranck(right), students at CascadiaCommunity College, for deciding to dotheir computer and photographyinternships at the Society! Both will beadding features to our website and

creating a new database system tomanage our member and mailing lists.Brian, who has a photography business(www.headspinnerphotography.com),has also taken photos of the buildingsin the historic walking tour brochure soas to create a Now & Then feature onour website.
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Quilt Squares for Centennial Needed

Heres your chance to be quilted into history! We still need quilt squaresshowing some aspect of Redmonds heritage. Society TreasurerJoanneWestlund will turn those into a huge quilt to raffle or auction off duringRedmonds Centennial in 2012. The names of all those whose designs are used

will be incorporated into the quilts border. For more info contact Joanne [email protected] at 425.898.0399. The deadline to turn them in isJanuary 2011.

InstructionsDesign quilt 8 inches square.

Add an additional 1/4-inch seam allowance to all sides of the quilt piece. The actual

overall size will then be 8-1/2 inches.

Use 100% quilting cotton fabric with a thread count of 68x68 threads per square inch.Pre-wash the quilting materials, using cold water.

When designing your quilt square, you can use appliqu technique, hand ormachine piecing, or a combination:

Hand stitching

Weight: Use 50-weight, 100% cotton or cotton/polyesterNeedle: Thin needles such as sharps or betweens are bestStitch Length: About 1/8 inch of 8 stitches per inch

Machine stitchingWeight: Use top quality 50-weight, 100% cotton or cotton/polyesterSeams: Use exactly 1/4-inch seamsNeedle: 75/11 or 80/12Stitch Length: 10 to 12 stitches per inchTension: Balanced

Appliqu:Make templates the exact size of the finished pieces. The 1/4-inch seamallowances are added when you cut the appliqu pieces. Appliqu piecescan be hand stitched or machine stitched.

Do not add batting to your quilt square. This will be done when we have assembled theuilt ieces to ether.
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A Redmond PoetFrank Methven, who with his wife Jeannie owned The Lions Pawrestaurant in Redmond, sent us a beautiful book of poetry he wrote abouthis wife, nature and family. I lived for over a half century in Redmond ...Both of my sons were born and raised there, he wrote to us from his home

in Colville, Wash. When I first lived there Redmond didn't have onesingle traffic light. We owned and lived in that beautiful rock house indowntown Redmond. Wonderful memories. Heres part of one poem:

Hand in HandI will never forget, dear,Our final walks together,As we strolled over the

Warm and sunlit meadow.

Hand in hand along the river sands,Of the gentle Snoqualmie,We gazed above at the golden sun,Over this river of eternity.

Listening to the timeless tunes,Of the birdsong you held so dear,As arm in arm we walked alongThrough the rose intoxicated air.

Home RevisitedTony Emmanuel sent along his exercise in prose taught by Redmonds

poet laureate, Rebecca Meredith, at our September meeting. She asked usto close our eyes, visualize the word home and then write. Wrote Tony:

I saw a two-story farmhouse through my 5-year-old eyes in Riverside,California.

The farmhouse, front porch, huge eucalyptus trees, barn, irrigationcanal, RR tracks and bridge -- backed up by 200 acres of orange groves andhills. I could smell the team of horses, cows, and chickens.

We lost the farm in 1929 to a $20,000 mortgage and never farmedagain. I learned after WWII the farm sold to a developer for $6,000,000.

I suppose you've heard this same old story before, but that's what I saw.Things like this I wish could forget, but I can't.


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Just Monkeying Around

Heres another excerptfromBob Martins book.

The full chapter is at redmondhistoricalsociety.org,

search for monkeying around.

A trip into the deepest recesses of the (school)boiler room was much like going into a medievaldungeon. Rollie (Sorweide) and I walked downthe dingy, coal-blackened concrete ramp, pulledopen the huge metal door and peered into the diminterior. The muffled blast of the big coal-firedfurnace made it difficult to hear, but we called Mr.Cotterills name a few times anyway.

Satisfied that he wasnt there, we walked to the back entrance of theschool where the custodians kept their supplies. We pounded loudly on thedoor and soon Mr. Cotterill appeared with a smile on his face. No doubt hewas thinking to himself, Oh boy, just what I need. Here come those twolittle squirrels again.

Rollie did the talking. Well, Mr. Cotterill, would it be okay if Bobbyand me went into the gym for awhile? The gym was holy ground for usboys, and to have it all to ourselves was as good as it gets. ...

When we finally tired of shooting baskets, Rollie said, Hey, lets go climbup the scoreboard.

The scoreboard was located in a corner of the gym. To get up to the firstlevel required climbing up a vertical ladder and crawling through a trap door.There were small windows and peek holes that were used by the scorer. There was another small platform high above the first level.

Rollie was sitting on the high platform and I was half way up the ladderwhen Mr. Cotterill, not hearing bouncing basketballs any longer, entered thegym. You guys still here? he inquired.

Meekly we both answered, Up here.You guys get your fannies downfrom there, he ordered. Think of

what your moms would say to me if you got hurt. I let you guys in here toshoot baskets, not to monkey around.

We told him we were sorry and would never do it again. "Good,"he said.

That was about as stern as we ever saw him get.

Bob Martin and Rollie

Sorweide, circa 1943


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Help Save Sammamish Valley News Images

We need volunteers to help scan negatives -- no experience needed, we'llprovide the training! We have the entire collection of SVN photo negatives

and need to start digitizing them so as to share them with artists and otherslooking for visual ideas to celebrate Redmond's Centennial in 2012.Contact office manager Monica Park at 425-885-2919 or

[email protected] to volunteer or for more information.

Cemetery Plots For Sale

The Society is selling 2 side-by-side plots in Redmond's CedarLawns Memorial Park. Donated by the Reed family, they includeendowment care and are in the Garden of Christus section (225,3&4). $3,499 for one or $6,699 for both. Current value is $5,495each. Cedar Lawns handles all necessary paperwork. Contact usat 425-885-2919 for info.


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Oct. 9 Meeting

Were you at our last general meeting? Thesefolks were (* are first-time attendees):

Ray AdamsDave BartleyElsie BartleyTony EmmanuelJoyce FowlerMarilyn FreyStan FreyEvelyn GilbertJean GoshornCharlotte HahnlenSuzanne HallTom HallJerry HammersbergMarge HansonMary Hanson

Roy HansonChris HimesJo Ann IngersollTom Jones*Elaine KeeleyBetty KuhlHoward KuhlJudy Lang

Craig LarsenJanice LeVechMiguel LlanosCheryl MagnusonJon MagnussenBob MartinDonald McCoskrieEileen McCoskrie

Our Lifetime

Members

Eric AndersonJohn AndersonBarbara Neal BeesonBrad BestMarjorie Stensland CostelloLiz Carlson CowardFrank GarbarinoEdward L. HagenLucille B. Hansen-BellingsNaomi Hardy

Patricia Weiss JovagBarbara Weiss JoyceGlenn LampaertRoy LampaertJudy Aries LangMiguel LlanosJon MagnussenCharles Reed

Clare Amo MarrDaryl MartinAllison Reed MorrisFrances Spray ReedVivian RobinsonLaurie RockenbeckMargy RockenbeckWilliam Rockenbeck

Fred StrayDoris Bauer SchaibleArlyn ValleneDon WattsRose WeissMargaret Evers WieseJames Windle

Ruth AnnMcCoskrieLarry MillerRichard MorrisJackie Nelson*Monica ParkTom Payne*

John PhillipsPatsy RosenbachDavid RossiterJuliann RossiterDee SaundersDoris SchaibleNina SheldenBrad Solomon

Beryl StandleyFran StrayFred StrayFaye SweenAnne TollfeldtHarvey TollfeldtJerry TorellCarol TrappJudy TurnerJoanne WestlundPeggy Williams


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