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October 2001
Vol. III. No. 8
Redmond Recorder 
 
In This Issue…
 
Doctor, Doctor ............... 1Hanscom Oral History ... 2
Walk’g Tour Brochures
. 2Good News for RHS ...... 3Office Volunteers ........... 3Next Speaker .................. 3Elections ......................... 4Redmond Reporter ......... 5
Thank You’s
................... 5Remembering ................. 5
…
and much, much more!
Redmond Historical Society
Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center16600 NE 80
th
St., Room 106, Redmond, WA 98052425-885-2919redmondhistory@msn.com
Newsworthy Notes 
 
If you have an article,news item or memorythat you would like toshare with our mem-bers, please send it to:Walt Buchman10323 162
nd
Place NERedmond, WA 98052wbuchm1@juno.com
 
“History is
happening in
Redmond!”
 
 
Our meeting this monthwill feature
Dick Shin-strom
, whose father,Clayton Arthur Shin-strom, was one of Red-
mond’s founding f 
a-thers. Dick brings ourhistory to life. You
won’t want to miss this
fascinating speaker.
 
-
 
Doctor, Doctor
 – 
 
 By Naomi Hardy
We were honored when Doctors
James
and
Elizabeth Moore
recently visited theRedmond Historical Society office in the Redmond Schoolhouse.Betty, her brother Keith, and her sister
Phyllis
, also a doctor, were the children of Dr.
George A. Davis
, Redmond’s first resident doctor. Dr. Davis was a genuine old
-fashioned country doctor. He
never 
sent out bills, but often gave money to his needypatients.Betty and Jim met in 1944
when they were both medical interns in Chicago. “We met inJanuary, were engaged in February, and married in May,” Jim said with a twinkle in his
eye, pointing to an old
Sammamish Valley News
article displayed in the hallway outsideour office.In 1951 Mo
ntesano’s only doctor passed away, and the couple was recruited to replace
him, much as
Dr. John Way
was recruited by
Woody Reid
for the town of Redmond,when Dr. Davis died in 1945.In Montesano, Jim and Betty built a clinic without any steps, recognizing ahead of the
mainstream, the need for handicap access. During construction, the Moore’s six chi
ld-ren cleaned used brick from an old bakery on the building site, and in 1961, the familyburied a time capsule which was found and opened in 2000 by a local teenager whoundoubtedly viewed 39 years as two lifetimes.
Next Meeting:October 13
th
 10:30 am
- Correction -Lester Olson
of Happy Valley gives us the cor-rect spelling of 
Hans Ramin
who was mentionedin our last issue as one of the Redmond HighSchool football players who also served as a "buspilot" after school, transporting fellow studentshome in the wooden buses built in
Jud Orr's
Ma-nual Training classes in Anderson Park. We apo-logize for any inconvenience this error may havecaused.
For Montesano’s 1983 cente
n-nial, the Friends of the Libraryplaced historical plaques onlocal buildings, including
Moore’s clinic. Now retired
some 20 years, they still residein Montesano where they areactive in the Methodist Churchand Friends of the Library.On their way out of town, thegood doctors must surely havepaused at what was once the
 
 
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town square, to view the flag flying above Redmond’s smallest park – 
 
in honor of Betty’s
father,
Dr. George A. Davis.
- Quotable Quotes -
"The old people have goneand have taken a lot of thetruth out of the world withthem."
- Ronald Blythe Author 
“He lives doubly who alsoenjoys the past.”
 
- Marcus Martial
“The strength of our cou
n-try is the strength of itsreligio
us convictions.”
 -
 
Calvin Coolidge,President 
- Dorothy White Hanscom Oral History Completed -
At our general meeting on September 8,
Margy Rockenbeck
presented us with finishedcopies of transcripts of the oral history of 
Dorothy White Hanscom
. It was the culmina-tion of a Redmond Historical Society project several years in the making. Our first inter-view was conducted in August, 1999, by oral historian Amanda Cooke. When Ms. Cookewas unable to complete the project, Margy volunteered to finish it. She did several inter-views, from April through June of 2001. The results are on our shelves and in our filesfor us, and others in the future, to enjoy.Over the years, Dorothy has been interviewed many times by various news media. Ouroral history thus covers some territory that will be familiar to long-time Redmondites,and some new areas as well. Margy plans to add to the basic oral history with an index astime permits.Dorothy Hanscom, who recently turned 98, is the granddaughter of pioneer Redmond co-founder and namesake
Luke McRedmond
, and the daughter of 
William White
, a CivilWar veteran who became the first Chief Justice of the supreme court of the state of Washington. Her father and mother,
Emma McRedmond White
, owned a hotel that wasa major center of interaction in historic Redmond. The building is now known as the
“Justice White House” and is still a landmark near Redmond Town Center today.
 Dorothy grew up and was educated in Seattle and Redmond. She taught school for sever-al years after graduating from the University of Washington, and then she began a wholenew career, modeling and learning fashion merchandising in New York City. After mar-rying and moving back to Washington with her husband,
Robert C. Hanscom
, she
opened a women’s sportswear store in Seattle, but her heart was always in Redm
ond.When they were able to, Dorothy and Bob moved to their Redmond home, Valley StreamRanch, on Conrad Olsen Road (NE 95
th
Street), where they continue to be astute observ-ers of the Redmond scene.
- Walking Tour Brochures -
Lots of us are awaiting a second printing of the self-guided walking tour brochures of historic downtown Redmond. The first printing of 500 brochures disappeared quickly,and a much larger second printing is now in progress, according to
Debra Moonan-Churchill
of Redmond Parks. The new brochures will be available at the downtown
O’Leary Park kiosk, from Redmond Historical Society, Redmond Library and R 
edmondChamber of Commerce. For further information, contact Debra at 425-556-2356 ordchurchill@ci.redmond.wa.us.This second printing includes a few changes in text, most notable being the year Wash-ington became a state [1889], an error resulting from our railway experts correcting our
date for Redmond’s train depot opening [1888]. An astounding number of Redmonites
quickly spotted this mistake,
Roy Buckley’s
note being the first to cross our desk. Whatwell-educated, historically aware citizens we have!
 
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- More Good News for RHS -
 by Miguel Llanos
The Redmond Arts Commission has awarded RHS a$750 grant that we'll use for a fundraiser built around
Dorisjean Colvin
, whose sketches of Redmond are wellknown around town. Dorisjean will create three newsketches, which we'll then be able to use for notecardsand prints that we can sell to the public.Our thanks to the commission and the City for its con-tinued support!In addition to the great news above, a sister society, Is-saquah Historical, has voted to donate a spare horse-drawn sickle bar mowing machine. We hope to let theParks Dept. use it at Farrell McWhirter Park, where thefarm display is being renovated with our help.Many thanks to
Eric Erickson
of Issaquah HistoricalSociety for making this happen!
- Office Volunteers -
 by Jo Ann Potter
Marion Neal
will be our new "regular" on Tuesdays inthe office. Stop by and welcome her. We can always useoffice volunteers on a regular or substitute basis. Com-puter skills are not required but if you have them, wemight just use them. If you want to spend a delightful,historical afternoon chatting with visitors and answeringphones, call Jo Ann Potter, 425-822-3322.We appreciate
Margy Rockenbeck
who has been com-ing in on
 BOTH 
Tuesday and Thursday for the past year.She will be giving her time to some other projects withinRHS. Thanks,
Margy.
 
- Dick Shinstrom at Next RHS Meeting -
"History is happening in the Redmond area.” The Re
d-mond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, October13, 2001, 10:30 a.m., at The Old Redmond SchoolhouseCommunity Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Room 104,Redmond, WA.The special speaker will be
Dick Shinstrom
whose fa-ther,
Clayton Arthur Shinstrom
, was one of Red-mond's founding fathers. The elder Shinstrom was ourfirst City Treasurer in 1913, and also a founder of ourtown's first bank in 1911. Dick brings our history to lifewith his personal recollections of his father and othertown founders. Please join us, and find out what the heck are Dickie Balls, anyway?To receive the monthly newsletter, please contact NaomiHardy, president, Redmond Historical Society, The OldRedmond Schoolhouse, 16600 NE 80 Street, Room 106,Redmond, WA 98052, telephone 425-885-2919, ornhardy12@home.com
 
AKCHO! Bless You!
 By Margy Rockenbeck
The Association of King County Historical Organiza-tions (AKCHO) is sponsoring a major event at the con-vention center in Seattle in November to celebrate the150
th
anniversary of the founding of Seattle. To raisemoney for this worthy cause, they are hoping to sell5000 raffle tickets for $1 each. The raffle prize is athree-volume 1929 history of King County. These wouldbe wonderful books to have on our RHS library shelves,if the lucky winner happened to want to give them to usin exchange for a $300 tax deduction. It would be greatif the winner were from Redmond, but in any case, theraffle supports a good cause. In addition, AKCHO isoffering an incentive to encourage us to buy or sell asmany tickets as possible. They will give 25% of the totalraffle proceeds to the historical organization that sellsthe winning ticket. This donation from AKCHO couldimprove the, er, Gesundheit of our RHS treasury. Wewill offer tickets for sale again at our October generalmeeting, or you can buy one or more at the RHS office,Mondays through Fridays, 1:00 to 4:00.
Did You Know?
October is National Archaeology Month!
 - Do You Remember? -
When the worst thing you could do at school was smokein the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum?When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,peel out, lay rubber and watch drag races?When being sent to the principa
l’s office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving studentat home?
Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, “Yeah, Iremember that!” And was it really that long ago?
 
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