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 History is Happening in Redmond!The Redmond Recorder 10/05
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The Redmond Recorder 
October 2005 Vol. 7, No. 8 Redmond Historical SocietyOur mission:
To discover, recover, preserve, share and celebrate Redmond’s history
 
16600 NE 80
th
St, Room 106, Redmond, WA 98052 425-885-2919www.redmondhistory.org redmondhistory@msn.comOffice hours: Monday-Thursday, 1-4pm, or by appointment
 
President’s Corner
Has this been the year for re-connecting or does it just feel that way to me? In the pasttwo weeks (keep in mind I am writing thiscolumn in September), I’ve taken calls from people looking for friends or relatives fromLake Washington High School.This isn’t any special year for mygraduating class and we didn’t have anyreunion, but that didn’t stop me fromattending one. And that special one justhappened to be the Redmond High SchoolGolden Annual Reunion here in the CotterillAuditorium at the Old Redmond SchoolHouse Community Center. This is agathering of original Redmond High Schoolclassmates.
Nancy Lee Chong
,
BettyAnderson
,
Charlie Lentz
and other volunteers keep this event happening.It just so happens that many of theseRedmond alumni are members of our historical society.
Amo Marr
was busy atthe sign-in table. I had a chance to visit with
Roy, Glenn and Norma Lampaert
whohave moved to Sedro-Woolley and say helloto
Betty Anderson, Ward and DarylMartin, Elma McCormick, Faye Sween,Claudia Scott, Judy Turner and EvelynGilbert
, just to
 
name a
 
few.Lake Washington High School had their “Golden Grads” reunion for all the grads of 50 years or more.
Jerry and ClaraHammersberg
skipped out of our meetingearly, as they were part of organizing the
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Get Ready, Setfor Slideshow
It’s the mother lode of Cityimages, and
John Couch,
afounding member of the Society,has found it: thousands of slidesand photos taken by the Parksand Recreation Department over several decades!“My estimate of 5,000 slidesis on the short end,” John says.“After the slides, I will try tostart the process of looking intothe boxes and boxes of old photographs, but that comes later.”John, who was the City’s first parks director and
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Next meeting:
 Oct. 8, 10.30 a.m.-noon
Speaker:
 John Couch
Where:
 Old RedmondSchoolhouseCommunity Center,16600 NE 80
th
St.
ohn Couch is seen here surrounded by thousands of slides at the Parks and Recreation Department.
 
 History is Happening in Redmond!The Redmond Recorder 10/05
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2005 Meetings
All at 10:30 a.m.
Old Redmond SchoolhouseCommunity Center16600 NE 80
th
St.
Second Saturday of themonth:
Oct. 8, Nov. 12
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2005 Executive Board
Judy Lang,
President
 Naomi Hardy,
VP
 Miguel Llanos,
VP
 Teresa Becker,
Treasurer 
 Margaret Wiese,
Corresponding Secretary
 Beryl Standley,
Recording Secretary
Board of DirectorsTerri GordonTom HitzrothJon MagnussenAmo MarrDaryl MartinDoris SchaiblePatti Simpson Ward
Slideshow of City Images
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headed the department from 1968 to 2000, will share about 200 slides at our nextgeneral meeting, grouping them under the broad topic: “Redmond: people, places, and things.”He’ll also be debuting our first use of the City’s new audiovisual presentationsystem, so it should be quite the show.
Phyllis Blower
, supervisor of the OldRedmond Schoolhouse Community Center where we meet, is even training Johnon how to use the system.
City of Redmond Parks and Recreation
This photo of the Redmond rail depot is among those that John Couch will be sharing. The depot used to sit between the Justice White House and the Bill  Brown Building, where Big Time Restaurant is today.
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President’s Corner 
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event and had to get things rolling. Clara mentioned to me that a lot of our members were part of that group too.In keeping with the reunion theme, our general meetings seem likereunions as well. Lots of time friends returning to Redmond for specialevents attend our meeting and sure enough they end up seeing Redmondfolks they remember from the past. We were delighted to have
BarbaraArmstrong Johnson
and
Keith Rudd
attend our September meeting beforethey too had to rush to attend their reunion. We want to thank Barbara for the pictures and news clipping that she donated. We now have a picture of 
ArneStray’s
truck and the Redmond Gas Station that was here in town.Old friends and even relatives have been reunited at our meetings. Join usand share your stories of the past and hear what is new in Redmond at our next meeting, on Oct. 8
th
.
  Judy Lang, president
 
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Mailbox
 Norma Jean Perrigo Tosh Schmidt:
We were over for the PerrigoPicnic the last weekend of July andwere surprised at the lack of parkingspace. Perrigo Park is a very popular  place. We are so grateful for Redmond to have a park recognizingPerrigo’s place in Redmond’shistory. Do you suppose somethingcould be done to recognize theTosh’s place in Redmond history?They were important to the people of Redmond in that time frame.While we were in Redmond for the Perrigo get-together, we went tothe old Redmond Pioneer Cemetery. We recently buried our son there. They required the type of headstone we bought. We weresurprised that the grass was allowedto grow to the point of covering upwhat was on the headstone. That initself presents a good argument for leaving raised headstones.
 Barbara Brachtl on Tom Hitzroth’s walking tours:
 We really enjoyed the tour -- andyou did an excellent job of makingRedmond's history interesting. I wasespecially pleased because I knowthat everything you told us was asaccurate as history can be. Some of Seattle's so-called historical tours areadmittedly designed asentertainment; the tour guides never let historical accuracy or uncertaintystand in the way of sensationalism or a good joke. Which is such a pity.Seems like how people used to liveought to be interesting enough.After we left you we had lunch atSassy's, in the old Stone House,which was delightful. It might makea good starting place for tours if youever decide to do that.I really admire your enthusiasm aswell as how much you know andyour willingness to share it.
Help Solve a History Mystery
Henry Johnson
with an unidentified gentleman in a suit. This photo isfrom Society member 
Bob Martin
, who is the grandson of early-daylogger 
Henry Martin
. “No. 618” is hand-printed beneath thespringboard in the picture, indicating an early professional photographer. Anyone with further information on this photo, pleasecontact Nao Hardy at 425-883-3866 or nhardy12@comcast.net.
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