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Growing Up on Weber Point

The Lake Sammamish of today is surrounded by homes, but a few

decades ago it was a much more remote place. Please join us on Nov. 12

when Tom Hansen and Gordon Dudley –who grew up on the lake‟s

Weber Point in the 1940s and graduated from Lake Washington High --

will look back on those days.

“East Lake Sammamish Road North was gravel then,” recalls Tom, and

homes were connected by “10-party telephone lines.”

Jean Etta Goshorn, Gordon‟s sister and a regular at Society meetings,

will also be on hand to exchange memories.

Tom Hansen, age 4, with his

parents, Wayne and Lucille

Hansen, in the summer of 1945

outside the “Weber House”,

which they had moved into in

November 1944.

REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY November 2011 * Newsletter * Vol. 13 No. 9

Our Purpose:

To Discover, Recover, Preserve, Share and

Celebrate Redmond’s History

NOVEMBER

GENERAL MEETING:

Saturday, Nov. 12

10:30a.m.-Noon

Old Redmond

Schoolhouse Community

Center

16600 NE 80th

St.

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2011 Executive Board

Chris Himes, President

Miguel Llanos, Senior VP

Joe Townsend, VP Finance

John Phillips, VP Collections

Mary Hanson, Secretary

Board of Directors

Nao Hardy

Rosemarie Ives

Judy Aries Lang

Jon Magnussen

Doris Schaible

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 Newsletter Call 425-885-2919 or e-mail

info@redmondhistoricalsociety.

org, asking for e-mail or US

Mail delivery. (We prefer e-mail

as it‟s inexpensive and photos

show up better online!)

Major Supporters

New Online

Please “like” us on Facebook –

we‟re building up our presence there

and webmaster Richard Morris has

set a goal of having 100 “likes” by

2012, Redmond‟s Centennial.

“Send the link to your friends and

family too!” urges Richard. “We'll

have online exhibits, trivia, and other

information.”

We recently placed photos of folks

at meetings and our 2011 picnic.

You can get there by searching for

Redmond Historical Society on

facebook.com or going straight to facebook.com/redmondhistoricalsociety

Table of Contents

Page 1: Growing up on Weber Point

2: What‟s New Online

3: What‟s New in our Collection RHS NEWS

4: Thank Yous; Cemetery Plots

5: Centennial Quilt Raffle

6: Life, Learning before Education Hill

7: Redmondiscing at General Meeting

8: Member dues; History Mystery;

Time Capsule

9: Gift Ideas MEMBERSHIP/CONTACT INFO 10: Lifetimers; Oct. General Meeting

11: Membership Form

12: Address & RHS Contact Info

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- John Phillips

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What’s New in our Collection?

We‟ve archived some 50 audio recordings over the years, and many now

have a written hard copy for easier researching thanks in large part to Doris

Schaible’s transcription skills. Below are highlights of who we have, when

the recording was made and key topics. We‟ll be adding the transcripts to

our website over the next few weeks.

Ray Adams, Betty Buckley Anderson, JoAnn Pope: 2001 (old

Redmond)

Ray Adams, Barb Klemstra, Bill Thurmond: 2000 (Saturday Market)

Betty Anderson, Jennie Bryden, Roy Buckley, Wendy Walsh: 1999 (old

Redmond)

Bob Bailie: 2002 (Sammamish Valley News)

Tony Emmanuel: 2002 (Weber Point neighborhood)

Barbara Feldman: 2000 (old school bell)

Jan Foreman, Tom Thomas: 2001 (old Redmond)

Russ Goetschius, Arlyn Vallene: 2002 (Rosford barn; barn calendar)

Lewis Green family: 2002 (Mayor Lewis Green; life in Redmond)

Fred Jarrett, Nancy McCormick: 2002 (Mayor Doreen Marchione)

Roy & Glenn Lampaert: (growing up in Redmond)

Judy Lang: 2001 (Aries farm)

Frank Mann: 1990 (growing up along Bear Creek)

Daryl Martin: 1999 (Oddfellow‟s club; old Redmond)

McClintick siblings: 1996 (growing up on Rose Hill)

Woody Reed: 2002 (historic fires in Redmond)

Arne Stray: 2002 (Jim Cerqui‟s chokecherries; Peterson Mill;

McWhirter‟s place); 2008 (old Redmond)

Rex Swan: 1982 (citizenship award of the year)

Tom Thomas: 2001 (Sex Killers football team)

Arlyn Vallene: 2001 (farming); 2002 (Gunderson home, Avondale Road)

Bud Young: 1971 (City Hall dedication speech)

Lorraine Young: 2000 (Mayor Bud Young)

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Thank Yous

Joyce and Bob Fowler for sharing our heritage by setting up a Red Cross

display at the Redmond Library.

Patsy Rosenbach, Cheryl and Gene Magnuson, Chris Himes and Joe

Townsend for staffing our last Saturday Market booth of the season.

George Lyons and Phil Palmer for auditing our financial documents (we

passed!)

Correction: Thanks to Jerry Torell for pointing out that in an article in

last month‟s newsletter "Carl and Margaret Breedman" should be

"Clarence and Margaret Breedman".

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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Time Running Out for Quilt Raffle!

We‟ll be announcing the winner in January, so not much time is left to add

your name. We‟re raffling off this quilt with historic scenes, and tickets ($2

each) can be bought at our next general meeting and our office. Call 425

885-2919 for more information -- it‟s a chance to own a piece of Redmond‟s

history while supporting the Society‟s research and programs!

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Life & Learning before Education Hill

Patsy Rosenbach was recently asked by Bob Yoder a series of questions about

growing up in Redmond that Bob published in his redmondblog.org. Thanks

Bob for bringing out that history, some of which is reproduced below.

I grew up on "Education Hill" before it was Education Hill. It was a

dirt road that had huge washouts annually. … I have never lived farther

than 10 miles from Redmond. I truly enjoy the fellowship with those I

grew up with and the broadened scope of friends and acquaintances I

have acquired from my attendance at the Redmond Historical Society and

the annual reunions of Redmond (my mother's generation) and my alma

mater, Lake Washington High School, which was then the home of

students from Redmond, Kirkland, and Juanita.

I'm the youngest graduate in my class of 1958. I graduated at age 16. I

had the unique experience of knowing how to read, spell, and do

arithmetic before I entered school. My dad was blind and an invalid, but

he taught me and my older sister these facts before we entered

school. We had an older brother who suffered a severe reaction to a small

pox vaccination (I believe) as a youngster, and had to have his books sent

home with him to continue his studies. These lessons were repeated for

my sister and me. (A phenomenon in itself.)

Years later, I asked my dad how he could teach us to read when he

could not see the page. He said, "Your mother read to you, and you could

spell the words you didn't know, so I could work with you." I went to the

first grade, as there was no kindergarten offered that year (the taxpayers

had to vote it in and they declined that year), so I went directly to grade

one. I was there for about three weeks when I was sent to a combined

first and second grade room with Mrs. Shobert. I did all the second

graders work, but didn't go with them to music in Mrs. Woelcker's

room, so I knew I was a first grader.

When report cards came at year end, I couldn't resist the temptation to

open it on my walk up the dirt road home. It said "Promoted to Grade 3".

That's the first I knew I had been a second grader after all. So that put

little me in a position that required continual perseverance and stoic

determination. My elder sister had also skipped a grade and I had to

measure up, so I required the ultimate of myself throughout the years.

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Redmondiscing at Last General Meeting

Brian Ranck, a portrait and event photographer (see

headspinnerphotography.com), has been taking photos of our events. Here

are a few from the October meeting; check redmondhistoricalsociety.org

and facebook.com/redmondhistoricalsociety for lots more.

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Membership Drive – Renewals Too!

We don‟t like bringing this up, but the fact is our membership revenue is

far below previous years, and most of that is because renewals are way

down. So if you haven‟t renewed, or joined for that matter, but appreciate our

efforts to preserve Redmond‟s heritage please consider doing so before the

end of 2011. That revenue is a key component of the funds that allow us to

keep the office open for history business. Thanks from your friendly

volunteer board at Redmond Historical Society!

History Mystery: Brazappa

www.ci.sammamish.wa.us/departments/parksandrec/projects/EvansCreekPreserve.aspx

Centennial Time Capsule? The City turns 100 in 2012 and among the ideas for celebrations is

creating a time capsule for the 200th

anniversary! What would you want folks

to know about us 100 years from now? Send ideas via email to

Miguel.llanos@msnbc.com or via US Mail to Redmond Historical Society,

c/o Miguel Llanos, 16600 NE 80th

St, Redmond, WA 98052.

Sammamish last month

dedicated the Evans Creek

Preserve just off Redmond-

Fall City Road and across

from Luisa May Alcott

Elementary. On that property

is the sign seen here, but the

city doesn‟t know what it

represents. Anyone know if

it‟s a family, a business, a

club? If so please contact

Miguel.llanos@msnbc.com or

425-802-3806. And do check

out the 180-acre park, more

info is at:

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Our Lifetime Members

Eric Anderson

John Anderson

Barbara Neal Beeson

Brad Best

Marjorie Stensland Costello

John Couch

Liz Carlson Coward

Frank Garbarino

Edward L. Hagen

Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings

Wayne Hansen

Naomi Hardy

Patricia Weiss Jovag

Barbara Weiss Joyce

Glenn Lampaert

Roy Lampaert

Judy Aries Lang

Miguel Llanos

Jon Magnussen

Clare „Amo‟ Marr

Daryl Martin

Allison Reed Morris

Charles Reed

Frances Spray Reed

Vivian Robinson

Laurie Rockenbeck

Margy Rockenbeck

William Rockenbeck

Fred Springsteel

Fred Stray

Doris Bauer Schaible

Arlyn Vallene

Don Watts

Rose Weiss

Joanne Westlund

Margaret Evers Wiese

James Windle

Oct. 10th General Meeting Were you there? These folks were (First-time attendees in capitals):

Ruth Adams

Ray Adams

David Bartley

Elsie Bartley

Sylvia Bernauer STEVE BOZICK

Tony Emmanuel Jean Etta Dudley Goshorn

Frank Gwerder

Tom Hall

Suzanne Hall

Thomas E Hansen

Marge Hanson

Mary Hanson

Roy Hanson

Chris Himes

Carol Hudson

Bruce Kenyon

Cheryl Kenyon

Janice LeVeck

Miguel Llanos

George Lyons

Jackie Lyons

Joan Magruder DAVID MARKLEY

Carl Marrs

Pat Marrs

Bob Martin

ROGER MATTHER Newhard

Helen McMahon

Mary Montgomery Richard Morris

Alexa Munoz

BOB OLSON

Monica Park

Brian Ranck PAULINE RICE

Patsy Cook Rosenbach

Anne Salmi

Doris Schaible

Don Stensland

Fran Stray

Fred Stray

Anne M Tollfeldt

Harvey Tollfeldt

Jerry Torell

Arlyn Bjerke Vallene

Joanne Westlund

Peggy Williams

Shelley Wong

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