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Oral history interview with Marjorie Sotero, April 12, 1985
Interview with Marjorie E. (Polk) Sotero about her experiences before and during World War II, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on April 12, 1985. Sotero was born in Montana and moved to Washington when she was five years old. She worked as a hospital ward clerk and department store detective before joining…
ID Number:1985.134.25
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with John A. and Theiline Pigott McCone, January 16, 1985
Theiline Pigott McCone (1903 - 1990) was a Seattle philanthropist. Born Theiline McGee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she married Paul Pigott, president of Pacific Car and Foundry Co. in Seattle, in 1924. After his death, she married John Alexander McCone (1902-1991) in 1962, who at the time was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He had previously served as chairman of…
ID Number:1985.135.16
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Horace W. McCurdy, January 18, 1985
Horace Winslow (“H.W.”) McCurdy (1899-1989) was a maritime construction executive, civic leader, and avid supporter of maritime research in the Pacific Northwest. A Washington native, McCurdy was born and raised in Port Townsend, and attended University of Washington in Seattle and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After graduating in 1922, he got a job at the Puget Sound Bridge…
ID Number:1985.135.17
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Frances Penrose Owen, April 1985
Frances Penrose Owen (1900-2002) was a civic leader in Seattle, Washington, and one of the most important women in Washington state in the field of education. Born in Walla Walla, Washington, Owen attended Whitman College, graduating with a degree in Greek. Afterwards, she studied politics at Bryn Mawr, taught economics at Whitman, and earned a master’s degree in education from…
ID Number:1985.135.20
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Guendolen Plestcheeff, May 22, 1985
Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892 – 1994) was a Seattle preservationist and arts advocate. Plestcheef was the daughter of Morgan and Emily Carkeek, who arrived in Seattle in 1885. The family donated the land for Carkeek park, and Emily Carkeek founded the Seattle Historical Society in 1911. Guendolen started school in Seattle before being sent abroad to a French school in…
ID Number:1985.135.21
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Al Rochester, September 24, 1985
Alfred Ruffner “Al” Rochester (1895-1989) was a lifelong Seattle resident. Rochester graduated from Broadway High School, served in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War I, and as state director of the Office of War Information during World War II. Rochester served on the Seattle City Council from 1944-1956, and at one time was chairman of the Parks and…
ID Number:1985.135.23
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Alfred Schweppe, April 1985, January 1986
Alfred J. Schweppe (1895-1988) came to Seattle from Minnesota as a young lawyer. At age 31, he became dean of the University of Washington School of Law, and three years later, opened a private practice. In 1933 Schweppe, who was instrumental in drafting the State Bar Act, served as the first executive secretary of the newly formed Washington State Bar…
ID Number:1985.135.24
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Holt W. Webster, 1985
Holt Webster (1919-1992) was a pioneer in the freight industry, and one of the founders of Airborne Express, where he also served as chairman and chief executive officer. During World War II, Webster was a captain in the military Air Transport Command from 1942 through 1946. After the war, he worked for Northwest Airlines in Seattle from 1946 to 1951…
ID Number:1985.135.28
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Kate Webster, March 30, 1988
Kate Belcher Webster (1924-2017) was a longtime Washington State University (WSU) regent and a leader at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Born and raised in New York City, Webster moved to Seattle some time after her marriage to Holt Webster, founder of the Airborne Express delivery company. She described herself as a “professional volunteer.” In Seattle, Webster first became involved with the…
ID Number:1985.135.32
Date:1988
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Greenwood Boys' Club boxing team, December 1949
The Greenwood Boys' Club was founded in the spring of 1943 to give unsupervised neighborhood teen boys a safe place to hang out. The organizers rented an old empty nightspot at 8537 Greenwood Ave. for $1 a year to start the club, which had a pool table and ping pong, and a playground at Fremont Avenue north of 85th Street…
ID Number:1986.5.1195.1
Date:1949