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A potpourri: gazing at year 2005 or remembering events of '04
During the week between Christmas and
New Year’s Day, it was difficult for me to decide whether to take time
to gaze into 2005 or reflect on the eventful year of 2004. With an
invitation on the desk to attend the 104th anniversary of the
founding of Kenmore on January 5th, that served to remind me how
delightful it was to connect with such a dedicated group of history
buffs in the Kenmore Heritage Society. On the other
hand, catching up with a number of Northshore Citizen “alums”
late in 2004 also reminded me that the venerable community newspaper
would have been 102 years old in 2005. We learned that long-time Bothell
resident LeRoy Hill was gravely ill. Between LeRoy and his top
electrician Ray Taylor, these two kept the over-taxed fuse-boxes in the
Citizen plant from blowing up and would come in the middle of the night
if the newspaper presses developed a short too complicated for the press
crew to correct. The holiday
mail contained an electronic note from Dorothy Hawley Hansen who has
been living in Snohomish the last dozen years and continues to produce a
national magazine for those engaged in the world of miniatures. Dorothy
was our valued production manager for many years. She wrote,
“It is amazing how the printing industry has changed over the years.
I still remember learning to typeset on that Comp 4 that was the newest
equipment at the time.” Dorothy was recalling days of wax and
paste-up boards used in assembling newspaper pages, vastly different
from today’s comparatively streamlined electronic computer devices. One of these days we’re going to get this 20-year collection of “alums” together for a potluck and learn of all the diverse and interesting things they have done in post-Citizen careers. Northshore’s gain
Pauline Love is spending much
more time in Kenmore these days, having spent the last 14 years as a
regent and trustee at Gonzaga University in Spokane. She was active with
her alma mater during a period in which Gonzaga was on a campaign to
raise $120 million no less. Pauline retired
from the Shoreline School District in 1997 after 38 years in education,
having started out teaching in Pomeroy with her late husband Frank. Dr.
Frank Love died of cancer in 1988 while serving as superintendent of
Northshore schools. She started out
as a first grade teacher and retired as executive director for human
resources for the Shoreline system. “Believe me,” said Pauline,
“compared with teaching first grade, being in that last job you never
had a dull moment.” The Love’s
son Mike is also a Gonzaga grad. During her time as regent, she
particularly enjoyed the role in the university’s job-placement
mentoring program – especially working with graduates on their
interviewing skills. Call
me “Laurel”
Laurel Yong-Hwa Lee, Bothell’s
recently named Rhodes Scholar, was home for the holidays and wanted to
set the record straight on a couple of matters. First, she will graduate
in May from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with two Bachelor of
Science degrees – in neuroscience and in biology. The regional press
had reported that the 2001 graduate of Woodinville High School had
graduated from MIT this past May, 2004. At
WHS, her classmates knew her has Yong-Hwa, her given name upon her birth
in Korea. She had moved to Bothell with her sister and mother from Korea
to begin her sophomore year at Woodinville. The very first day she
visited the WHS campus while looking over potential schools turned out
to be the day the present principal Vicki Puckett was taking her first
tour of the home of the Falcons. Upon
receiving her U.S. citizenship in January of 2004 Yong-Hwa added the
name Laurel. She is determined to become a physician in the not too
distant future and “I want my patients to know me” and to call her
by a more familiar first name. She will begin three years of study at
Oxford, England, beginning in the fall. Now,
that’s what I call a crown of laurels. Helping others flyIt
was a year after graduation from Inglemoor High School 20 years ago that
a mid-air collision of two seaplanes over Lake Washington took the life
of Darren Lindal of Bothell at the age of 19. Three persons in the
second plane also perished. Darren’s mom, Bonnie, has helped keep his
memory alive since 1987 by offering a scholarship for others interested
in aviation careers. Darren worked at a number of jobs to pay for
instruction to become licensed as a single-engine pilot at the age of
16. He later earned floatplane accreditation while working at Kenmore
Air as a lineman. In
2005 the Darren Lindal memorial scholarships will go to Melissa Olson to
pursue studies at Green River Community College in air traffic control
and to Joe Leatherman to complete a course at Kenmore Air so he
qualifies as a flight instructor. Melissa works as a Kenmore Air
dispatcher and Joe is a lineman there when not fishing in Alaska. Bonnie noted, “As a single mom, I remember how hard it was for my son to be going to school, working, and being on his own, trying to achieve his goal to become a pilot. Every bit of help was and is appreciated.”
A
retirement reception was held December 10 at the Northshore Senior
Center
and here's the LoGerfo story as told in a nice article in the Seattle SomeTimes http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002133711_logerfo29m.html
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The Previous Columns December
15, 2004 December
1, 2004 Nov.
17, 2004 November
3, 2004 October
20, 2004 October
6, 2004 Sept
15, 2004 Sept.
1, 2004 August
18, 2004 August
4, 2004 July
21, 2004 July
7, 2004 |
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John
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Hughes
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