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Emembering Larry: Resident's Corner
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JANUARY 2008 NEWSLETTER REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1 16600 NE 80th Street, Room 106
Redmond, WA 98052 ~ Tel 425.885.2919
Our Mission:
To Discover, Recover, Preserve, Share and website ~ www.redmondhistory.org
Celebrate Redmond’s History e-mail ~ redmondhistory@hotmail.com
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P resident’s Corner
It is with great pleasure I pass the gavel
R emembering Larry
GENERAL MEETING speakers, who helped make it fun, and to all of you for your support, stories,
ideas and great attendance at our meetings. WOW! I have made some
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12TH
10:30 to Noon wonderful new acquaintances, too. It has been GREAT!
Join me Saturday, January 12th at 10:30 a.m. at the Redmond Library for
at the
REDMOND PUBLIC our first meeting of 2008 and make sure you welcome Tom as well as our
LIBRARY new vice-president, former Mayor Chris Himes. l
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2008 Executive Board
Tom Hitzroth President
Chris Himes Vice-President
Miguel Llanos Vice-President hose Fabulous (Male) Fillies
Joanne Westlund Treasurer
Margaret Wiese Corresponding
Secretary
Beryl Standley
Recording Secretary
Board of Directors
Terri Gordon Nao Hardy
Judy Lang Jon Magnusson
Amo Marr Doris Schaible
Patti Simpson Ward
Office Manager
Beryl Standley
Attorney
Charles Diesen
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Fabulous Fillies
Our finances are public record
and may be viewed at the office. Tom Hansen has this to add about the Fabulous Fillies dancers cited
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in the last newsletter:
FREE Newsletter “The kiss mentioned came from my dad, Wayne Hansen, who was
If you don't already subscribe,
please sign up. Call the office at 6’5”. Dressed as a dancing girl, he went over and sat on his father’s lap
425.885.2919 or e-mail and kissed him out of affection to the embarrassment of Grampa and
mew@nwlink.com. State your
preference of e-mail or U.S. Mail Gramma, who came from Seattle to see the circus and their son perform.
(e-mail is cheaper for the city and The kiss was not planned and poor Robert Hansen got attention he never
the photos look better on-line).
expected. He was conservative but just went along with it realizing it was
The Redmond Recorder all in fun. My Mother, Lucille Hansen, made dad’s dress and did sewing for
Published nine times annually
Miguel Llanos Editor other circus acts over the years.”
Patti Simpson Ward Tom also donated photos of the dancers, including this one. We
Newsletter Graphic Designer
have some names, but not all. Left to right: perhaps Dick Patterson,
Major Sponsors unidentified, unidentified, perhaps Charles Hamby, unidentified, Wayne
Thompson, unidentified, Wayne Hansen, unidentified, Theo Caldwell,
unidentified.
If you can identify anyone, please call Tom at 206.632.2731 or e-mail us
at redmondhistory@hotmail.com.
cape) and held it over his head and • Transcriber for digital
Can you add to this kangaroo trail? If you can donate an item (or
And how did other local mascots get finance its purchase), please
their names? We’d love to know, so contact Miguel Llanos at
please e-mail us at miguel.llanos@msnbc.com or
redmondhistory@hotmail.com. 425.802.3806. Donations are
tax-deductible.
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