rhs newsletter april 2011

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History is Happening in redmond • April 2011

Not much of our region’s rail history is still active, but the Northwest

Railway Museum in Snoqualmie (art of the museum’s home, the Snoqualmie

Depot on page 9) is preserving parts of it for future generations—includingthe “Chapel Car Messenger of Peace,” seen above in 1922.

Please join us on Saturday, April 9 when Jessie Clark McAbee talks about

the ongoing work to restore the Chapel Car and other

museum efforts. Used for spreading the gospel

in remote areas, the Chapel Car was built in

1898 and served the Baptist Publication

Society, the Baptist Home Mission Society

and the Railroad YMCA for 50 years!

For more on the Chapel Car, please visit

messengerofpeace.org.

REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETYAPRIL 2011 • NEWSLETTER • VOL. 13 • NO. 4

OUR PURPOSE:To Discover, recover, preserve, shAre AnD celebrATe reDmonD’s hisTory

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Remembering The rAils

April

generAl meeTing

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

10:30 A.M. TO NOONOLD REDMOND

SCHOOLHOUSE

COMMUNITY

CENTER

Chapel Car Messenger of Peace (Photo courtesy of Northwest Railway Museum)



April 2011 • History is Happening in redmond

It’s now easier to join,

renew or just plain donate to theRedmond HIstorical Society.

Just head to our website and

under “Join Us” you’ll be able to

pay via credit card or the PayPal

service.

We hope to eventually extend

this for purchases of “Redmond

Refections” and other Societyitems such as note cards.

Thanks to website guru

Richard Morris and Finance VP

Joe Townsend for making

this happen!

execuTive boArD

Chris Himes • President

Miguel Llanos • Senior Vice-PresidentJoe Townsend • Vice-President Finance

John Phillips • Vice-President Collections

Beryl Standley • Secretary

boArD of DirecTors

Mary Hanson

Nao Hardy

Rosemarie Ives

Judy Aries Lang

Jon MagnussenDoris Schaible

Patti Simpson Ward

Margaret Evers Wiese

office mAnAger • Monica Park

ATTorney • Charles Diesen

Our nances are public record and may

be viewed at the ofce.

free newsleTTer

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Call the ofce at 425.885.2919 or email

[email protected].

State your preference of email or U.S.

Mail. (We prefer email as it's inexpensive

and photos show up better online.)

The reDmonD recorDer

is published nine times annually.

Miguel Llanos • Editor

Patti Simpson Ward • Art Director

pattisimpsonward.com

2011

MAJORSPONSORS

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WhAT’s new online?

COVER FEATURE • WHAT’S NEW

1 April Meeting Cover Feature:

“Remembering the Rails”

2 2011 RHS Ofcers & Board

2 What’s New Online

3 What’s New in Our Collection

RHS NEWS

4 Thank You’s

4 New Corporate Member

4 In Memoriam

5 New Art: Old Redmond School

5 Cemetary Plots for Sale

9 Order Now: Books, Cards &

Gift Ideas from RHSMEMBERSHIP • CONTACT INFO

10 Membership & Attendees

11 Membership Form

12 Address & RHS Contact Info

TAble of conTenTs PAGE




T he Sammamish Valley News scanning project has four teams working

through some 20,000 negatives, most donated by SVN staffers Chuck Lee

and Larry Stair. “We are grateful for these and hope to come up with some

jewels for our centennial celebration in 2012,” says John Phillips, chair of the

Collection Management Committee. “It’s like looking through someone’sphoto album . . . really fun.”

Our merry band of scanners is seen here with Chris Himes, second from

right, top; and Bob Bailie, Jr., second from left, bottom. The scanners from

top left: Jerry Hammersberg, Joyce Fowler, John Phillips, Jutta Rhinehart,

Sylvia Bernauer, Margy Rockenbeck, Jean Etta Goshorn and Tom Hall. From

bottom left: Jackie Nelson, Vivian Robinson and John Couch.

If you are interested in helping out, please call Monica Park at the RHS

Ofce at 425.885.2919 or email [email protected].

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WHAT’S NEWWhAT’s new in our

collecTion?

The RHSScanning

Crew

Scenic Redmond bus model

RalphRosford in 1986 built this

model of the “Scenic Redmond” bus

that took tourists around in the early

1900s. It’s carrying a photo of the

real truck. Thanks to Andy Weiss for

loaning it, and feel free to stop by

the ofce to check it out.




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RHS NEWS ThAnk you To:

• JOANNE WESTLUND for shepherding the quilt fundraising project

from start to nish. We’re selling rafe tickets at our ofce and

general meetings.

• SHARON BAKKE for completing our fundraising quilt at no charge to

the Society.

in memoriAm: lois phillips huDson

Noted author/historian Lois Phillips Hudson, a guest speaker back in

2003 (see redmondhistoricalsociety.org/RHS/images/PDF/pdf2003/rhs_

newsletter_04_2003.pdf), passed away on December 24. Larry Kellogg, a

cousin, alerted us to her death and notes efforts are being made to publish

several novels she had worked on in recent years. “As Lois’ little cousin, she

gave me signed copies of ‘Bones of Plenty’ and ‘Reapers of the Dust,” Larry

told us. “My last memories of North Dakota were when I left at age ve. I

can do without snow over the roof of the house.”

welcome new corporATe member:

phoTo resTorATion AnD reTouchOur newest corporate member specializes in turning scratched,

damaged photos and documents back into quality images. You might know

the owner, Joe Townsend, as he’s also the Society’s nance vice president!

Below are before/after images he’s worked on. To nd out more visit his

website at photorestorationbyjoetownsend.comor call 206.890.3804.




RHS NEWSO lD reDmonD schoolhouse

communiTy cenTer

Award-winning artist andSociety board member/art

director PattiSimpsonWard

just finished a new acrylic-on-canvas portrait of our beloved

community center. It features

folks gathering for an RHS

Saturday morning meeting.

Patti donated greeting cards of

this piece as the door prize for

the April general meeting—andthis art will be part of her new

calendar, “2012•Celebrating

Redmond’sCentennial.”

Other Eastside setting greeting

cards of her work are available

at the Society office and on the

web atpattisimpsonward.com.

cemeTery ploTs for sAle

The Society is selling two side-by-side plots in Redmond’s Cedar Lawns

Memorial Park. Donated by the Reed family, they include endowment care

and are located in the Garden of Christus section (225, 3 & 4).

Cost is $3,499 for one or $6,699 for both. The current value is $5,495

each. Cedar Lawns will handle all the necessary paperwork.

Contact the Society at 425.885.2919 for more information.

“Spring at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse”

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at t i S i mps on War d .




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Upcoming locAl evenTs

lpoeTry clAss by reDmonD’s poeT lAureATeApril 9th for teens • April 16th for adults • 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

In honor of National Poetry Month in April, the Redmond Library is offering a

free workshop by Rebecca Meredith, who last year spoke to our group and

even led us on a writing exercise with word prompts. She’ll do more of that

for both novice and experienced poets!

lDownTown reDmonD wAlking Tour

April 17th • May 15th • June 19th • September 18th • 1:00 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.

Our Centennial’s in 2012, so are you ready to answer, or ask, Redmond triviaquestions? Take our guided walking tour of the historic downtown core to

load up on facts, gures and fun as historian Tom Hitzroth shares stories,

gossip and names. For example, do you know in whose building an alleged

bordello operated? Here’s a hint: He would later become Redmond’s longest

serving mayor!

Walkers meet outside the Justice White House, 7730 Leary Way. A tour will

not be held if it rains. A fee of $8 per person helps fund Society research. To

register, phone 425.885.2919 or email [email protected].

lhisTory of The pink Toe Truck

April 27th • 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The Kirkland Heritage Society hosts Ed Lincoln, founder of Lincoln Towing,

who made a Seattle landmark out of his toe-shaped tow truck. At Kirkland’s

Heritage Hall, 203 Market St.

RHS NEWS

help sAve The reArD/freeD fArmhouse!

Discounted Brown Bear car

wash coupons are being sold by the

Sammamish Heritage Society

to raise funds to restore this

farmhouse. To buy coupons, email

[email protected]

• $6 for 1 coupon

• $5.50 each for set of 5

• $5 each for 10 or more

To learn more about its history,

please visit sammamishheritage.org/freed.html.




“Redmond Street Scene” Artist: JoanPinney

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HeriTAge ArT AT evergreen meDicAl cenTer

RHS NEWS

Thanks to Evergreen Hospital and to the artists who dipped into our photo archives,

visitors to the new Evergreen Medical Center in Redmond have some amazing views of ourheritage by JoanPinney, ClaraRussellandSallyOhlsen.

“Redmond Bike Derby Parade” Artist: Joan Pinney

“Gone Fishing” Artist: JoanPinney

“Ralph Dodd” Artist: JoanPinney

“Waiting for the Parade” Artist: ClaraRussell

“Haying Time at the Perrigo’s” Artist: SallyOhlsen




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RHS NEWS

The band of merry

Sammamish Valley News

scanners organized

by John Couch got an

inspirational start at their

rst meeting on February

18th when Bob Bailie,

Jr., son of the late SVN

founder Bob Bailie, Sr.,

showed up to talk about

the SVN days.Bob Bailie, Jr. shows RHS President Chris Himes a photo of his dad,left, John Couch, center, and himself at a Husky football game, c.1998.

SAluTe To SVN founDer

Bob joked about the paper always being late to press because his

dad was the last to submit his editorial. “My dad was somewhat of a

procrastinator at times, but it was more that he always wanted to express

his thoughts carefully and thoughtfully,” he said. “If he didn’t he would hear

about it the next day at the Lion’s Club meeting.”

Bob, Sr. was recruited to Redmond in the mid 1940s to start the SVN

and was a major inuence in shaping local politics and community growth,

local sports, school bonds, service clubs and business progress. “Bob was

a visionary and always had Redmond’s best interest in his heart,” said

Couch, City Parks and Recreation director from 1968-2000.

RHS President Chris Himes remembers Bob writing about

contentious times after she defeated longtime Mayor Selwyn L. Bud

Young. Couch recalled that “Bailie had supported the ‘old guard’ and told

it like it was, and newcomer Chris was for ‘change’ and she told it like

it was.”

The two sides seemed to understand that improving Redmond was a

goal shared by each. It was an interesting four years of “togetherness” to

say the least, said Couch.




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greAT gifT iDeAs for

2011Need something special for someone

who loves our history? These items are

available at our Society ofce:

GREETING CARDS, MAGNETS &

NOTE CARDS

featuring artwork by local artists:

• PATTI SIMPSON WARD

• DORISJEAN COLVIN• PAT DUGAN

“OUR TOWN”

A history of Redmond, by Nancy Way

Our “VIEW OF HISTORY” DVD

Artwork of the historic Snoquamie Depot

which houses the Northwest Railway Museum

(see the article on page 1). “Sightseeing at the

Snoqualmie Depot” is the work of ne artist Patti

Simpson Ward. See more Eastside images on

pattisimpsonward.com)




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our lifeTime members

Eric Anderson

John Anderson

Barbara Neal Beeson

Brad Best

Marjorie Stensland Costello

John CouchLiz Carlson Coward

Frank Garbarino

Edward L. Hagen

Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings

Naomi Hardy

Patricia Weiss Jovag

Barbara Weiss Joyce

Glenn Lampaert

Roy Lampaert

Judy Aries Lang

Miguel LlanosJon Magnussen

Charles Reed

Clare ‘Amo’ Marr

Daryl Martin

Allison Reed Morris

Frances Spray Reed

Vivian Robinson

Laurie Rockenbeck

Margy Rockenbeck

William Rockenbeck

Fred Stray

Doris Bauer SchaibleArlyn Vallene

Don Watts

Rose Weiss

Joanne Westlund

Margaret Evers Wiese

James Windle

MEMBERSHIP MArch meeTing ATTenDees

Were you at our March meeting? These folks were! First time attendees

are noted in bold caps.

Ray Adams

Ralph Anderson

Eric Anderson

VICKI BAGGETTE

Sylvia Bernauer

DONNA BRETHAUERMarilee Cirvello

Liz Carlson Coward

KIM DIETZ

Evelyn Driscoll

Tony Emmanuel

Lillian Garland

Evelyn King GilbertJean Etta Goshorn

Frank Gwerder

Suzanne Hall

Tom Hall

MARTHA HANSCOM

Thomas Hansen

Mary HansonRoy Hanson

Marge Hanson

Chris Himes

DAVID HORSEY

Elaine Keeley

Cheryl Kenyon

Bruce Kenyon

Janice LeVeck

Cheryl Magnuson

Gene Magnuson

Joan Magruder

John Marchione

Bob Martin

DARRELL MCCLUNG

Andy McClung

Larry Miller

Mary MontgomeryAlexa Munoz

TORKEL NILSON

Monica Park

Brian Ranck

Beth Rau

Jutta Rhinehart

Margy RockenbeckDave Rockenbeck

Julie Roe

Phil Roe

Patsy Cook Rosenbach

David Rossiter

Anne Salmi

Doris SchaibleBeryl Standley

Fran Stray

Fred Stray

Kris Swanson

ADELAIDE TILLINGHAST

Anne Tollfeldt

Harvey Tollfeldt

Judy Gilbert Turner

Arlyn Bjerke Vallene

Leonard Vallene

Juanita Verschuyl

Wendy Walsh

Lorraine Weeks

Joanne Westlund

Margaret Wiese

Shelley Wong




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