The Redmond Recorder

November 2010 Vol. 12, No. 9

Redmond Historical Society

Our purpose: To discover, recover, preserve, share and
celebrate Redmond’s history

16600 NE 80th St, Room 106, Redmond, WA 98052

425-885-2919
Just What Does RHS Do?
www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org
info@redmondhistoricalsociety.org
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:30a.m.-4 p.m. and
by appointment

Sure, we have very popular speaker presentations at our meetings -- 50-

90 people at a pop -- but what goes on behind the door (yes it‟s just one!)
of the Redmond Historical Society? That‟s the focus of our November
meeting, where we‟ll explain our new committee structure, honor
volunteers (see Page 3 for details), show off what we‟ve done with artifacts
and sharing heritage, and set up tables for folks to learn more about
specific areas. Think of it as a chance to get to know your Society better.
We‟ll 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 might
want 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, President
New Online
Miguel Llanos, VP
Joanne Westlund, Treasurer
“Did you know that we are
John Phillips, Collections approaching 100 general
Beryl Standley, Secretary meetings,” our website guru
Richard Morris asks? He
Board of Directors
Mary Hanson
knows because thanks to Nao
Nao Hardy Hardy’s work we have a list
Judy Aries Lang online showing who spoke at
Jon Magnussen each one and when. To find the
Doris Schaible list go to
Joe Townsend
Patti Simpson Ward
redmondhistoricalsociety.org
Margaret Evers Wiese and search for “speakers log.”
Our first speakers? Well, that
Office Manager was Daryl Martin, and Glen
Monica Park
and Roy Lampaert in May
Attorney 1999. The topics were
Charles Diesen Oddfellows, volunteer
firefighting, school days and
other memories.
Our finances are public record and
may be viewed at the office.
Table of Contents
Free Newsletter
Call 425-885-2919 or e-mail Page
info@redmondhistoricalsociety. 1: October membership meeting
org, asking for e-mail or US 2: New Online
Mail delivery. (We prefer e-mail 3: Proposed Board; Volunteers
as it‟s inexpensive and photos 4: Thank Yous
show up better online!) 5: Centennial Quilt Project
6: A Redmond Poet, Home Prose
Major Supporters 7: Bob Martin‟s „Monkeying Around‟
8: Scanning project, cemetery plots
9: Gift Ideas
10: Lifetimers, Meeting Attendees
11: Membership Form
12: Address & RHS Contact Info

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 ProposedThank You to… Board
2011 Executive
It‟s once again time for dues-paying members to vote on the Society‟s
executive board. The board‟s nominating committee will propose this list at
the November general meeting. (Others may also nominate themselves or
someone else for specific positions.)
- John Phillips
President:
n Chris Himes
Senior Vice President: Miguel Llanos
Vice President, Collections Management: John Phillips
Vice President, Finance: Joe Townsend
Recording Secretary: Beryl Standley

At the meeting we‟ll also be thanking volunteers working on specific

projects:

Jennifer Hawkins, who is scanning some of the Larry

Stair negatives from the Sammamish Valley News photo
collection;
Noori Shahzad and Linda Smith, who are working on
implementing human resource policies;
Susan Brown, who advises us on grant possibilities;
Richard Morris, who created and oversees our website
and advises us on database tools;
Janine Baker, who helped us get the Past Perfect
collections database up and running;
Amanda Luanglath, Monika Gupta, and Shieko
Takahashi, who are helping with data entry in Past Perfect.

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 Thank Yous
Karen & Alan Stephens, Doris & Marvin Schaible, Evelyn Gilbert and
Shawn Burkland for donations made in memory of Ethel Evers, the
mother of Society board member Margaret Wiese.

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

Judy Lang and Chris Himes for sharing our heritage with a Boy Scouts
troop 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 the
architectural firm Jensen|Fey asked us to speak to girl scouts about the
history of the Justice White House, where Jensen|Fey is located.

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

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

Janice LeVeck and Brian Ranck

(right), students at Cascadia
Community College, for deciding to do
their computer and photography
internships at the Society! Both will be
adding features to our website and
creating a new database system to
manage our member and mailing lists.
Brian, who has a photography business
(www.headspinnerphotography.com),
has also taken photos of the buildings
in the historic walking tour brochure so
as to create a “Now & Then” feature on
our website.

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 Quilt Squares for Centennial Needed
Here‟s your chance to be quilted into history! We still need quilt squares
showing some aspect of Redmond‟s heritage. Society Treasurer Joanne
Westlund will turn those into a huge quilt to raffle or auction off during
Redmond‟s Centennial in 2012. The names of all those whose designs are used
will be incorporated into the quilt‟s border. For more info contact Joanne at
jmwestlund@frontier.com or at 425.898.0399. The deadline to turn them in is
January 2011.

Instructions
Design 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 appliqué technique, hand or
machine piecing, or a combination:

Hand stitching
Weight: Use 50-weight, 100% cotton or cotton/polyester
Needle: Thin needles such as “sharps” or “betweens” are best
Stitch Length: About 1/8 inch of 8 stitches per inch

Machine stitching
Weight: Use top quality 50-weight, 100% cotton or cotton/polyester
Seams: Use exactly 1/4-inch seams
Needle: 75/11 or 80/12
Stitch Length: 10 to 12 stitches per inch
Tension: Balanced

Appliqué:
Make templates the exact size of the finished pieces. The 1/4-inch seam
allowances are added when you cut the appliqué pieces. Appliqué pieces
can be hand stitched or machine stitched.

Do not add batting to your quilt square. This will be done when we have assembled the
quilt pieces together.

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 A Redmond Poet
Frank Methven, who with his wife Jeannie owned The Lions Paw
restaurant in Redmond, sent us a beautiful book of poetry he wrote about
his 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 one
single traffic light. We owned and lived in that beautiful rock house in
downtown Redmond. … Wonderful memories.” Here‟s part of one poem:
Hand in Hand
I 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 along
Through the rose intoxicated air.

Home Revisited
Tony Emmanuel sent along his exercise in prose taught by Redmond‟s
poet laureate, Rebecca Meredith, at our September meeting. She asked us
to 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, irrigation
canal, RR tracks and bridge -- backed up by 200 acres of orange groves and
hills. I could smell the team of horses, cows, and chickens.
“We lost the farm in 1929 to a $20,000 mortgage and never farmed
again. 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
Here’s another excerpt from Bob Martin’s 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 medieval
dungeon. Rollie (Sorweide) and I walked down
the dingy, coal-blackened concrete ramp, pulled
open the huge metal door and peered into the dim
interior. The muffled blast of the big coal-fired
furnace made it difficult to hear, but we called Mr. Bob Martin and Rollie
Sorweide, circa 1943
Cotterill‟s name a few times anyway.
Satisfied that he wasn‟t there, we walked to the back entrance of the
school where the custodians kept their supplies. We pounded loudly on the
door and soon Mr. Cotterill appeared with a smile on his face. No doubt he
was thinking to himself, “Oh boy, just what I need. Here come those two
little squirrels again.” …
Rollie did the talking. “Well, Mr. Cotterill, would it be okay if Bobby
and me went into the gym for awhile?” … The gym was holy ground for us
boys, and to have it all to ourselves was as good as it gets. ...
When we finally tired of shooting baskets, Rollie said, “Hey, let‟s go climb
up the scoreboard.”
The scoreboard was located in a corner of the gym. … To get up to the first
level 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 ladder
when Mr. Cotterill, not hearing bouncing basketballs any longer, entered the
gym. “You guys still here?” he inquired.
Meekly we both answered, “Up here.”
… “You guys get your fannies down from there”, he ordered. “Think of
what your moms would say to me if you got hurt. I let you guys in here to
shoot 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.

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 Help Save Sammamish Valley News Images
We need volunteers to help scan negatives -- no experience needed, we'll
provide 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 others
looking for visual ideas to celebrate Redmond's Centennial in 2012.
Contact office manager Monica Park at 425-885-2919 or
info@redmondhistoricalsociety.org to volunteer or for more information.

Cemetery Plots For Sale

The Society is selling 2 side-by-side plots in Redmond's Cedar

Lawns Memorial Park. Donated by the Reed family, they include
endowment care and are in the Garden of Christus section (225,
3&4). $3,499 for one or $6,699 for both. Current value is $5,495
each. Cedar Lawns handles all necessary paperwork. Contact us
at 425-885-2919 for info.

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Our Lifetime
Members Oct. 9 Meeting
Eric Anderson Were you at our last general meeting? These
John Anderson folks were (* are first-time attendees):
Barbara Neal Beeson
Brad Best Ray Adams
Ruth Ann
Marjorie Stensland Costello Dave Bartley
McCoskrie
Liz Carlson Coward Elsie Bartley
Larry Miller
Frank Garbarino Tony Emmanuel
Richard Morris
Edward L. Hagen Joyce Fowler
Jackie Nelson*
Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings Marilyn Frey
Monica Park
Naomi Hardy Stan Frey
Tom Payne*
Patricia Weiss Jovag Evelyn Gilbert
John Phillips
Barbara Weiss Joyce Jean Goshorn
Patsy Rosenbach
Glenn Lampaert Charlotte Hahnlen
David Rossiter
Roy Lampaert Suzanne Hall
Juliann Rossiter
Judy Aries Lang Tom Hall
Dee Saunders
Miguel Llanos Jerry Hammersberg
Doris Schaible
Jon Magnussen Marge Hanson
Nina Shelden
Charles Reed Mary Hanson
Brad Solomon
Clare „Amo‟ Marr Roy Hanson
Beryl Standley
Daryl Martin Chris Himes
Fran Stray
Allison Reed Morris Jo Ann Ingersoll
Fred Stray
Frances Spray Reed Tom Jones*
Faye Sween
Vivian Robinson Elaine Keeley
Anne Tollfeldt
Laurie Rockenbeck Betty Kuhl
Harvey Tollfeldt
Margy Rockenbeck Howard Kuhl
Jerry Torell
William Rockenbeck Judy Lang
Carol Trapp
Fred Stray Craig Larsen
Judy Turner
Doris Bauer Schaible Janice LeVech
Joanne Westlund
Arlyn Vallene Miguel Llanos
Peggy Williams
Don Watts Cheryl Magnuson
Rose Weiss Jon Magnussen
Margaret Evers Wiese Bob Martin
James Windle Donald McCoskrie
Eileen McCoskrie

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