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Willard Boyd Grafmyre (1940 – 2019) was a Seattle area concert producer in the 1960s. Grafmyre graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1959, and student at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He was drafted shortly after, and spent time serving in the Army. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Boyd played a role in establishing the rock music scene in Seattle, WA. He worked to bring in nationally-touring acts, including The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Elton John, and more. Grafmyre died on December 9, 2019 in Port Townsend, WA. Grafmyre organized the Seattle Pop Festival, a music festival at Gold Creek Park in Woodinville, WA held from July 25th to July 27th in 1969. Tickets for the event cost $6 for a day or $15 for all three days. An estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people attended the festival. Seattle Pop was one of the first festivals to forgo hiring police or off-duty officers as security and instead hired The Black Panthers to monitor the event. Because attendance was larger than expected, extra food and water needed to be brought into the venue. Nearby neighbors complained or traffic and the hippie atmosphere, but Chick Dawsey, owner of Gold Creek, noted that spectators were orderly with very few exceptions. 26 musicians performed at the festival—a mix of national and local groups. Some highlights include: Bo Diddley, Guess Who, Santana, Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors.

The Brothers Four is an American folk singing group founded n 1957 in Seattle, WA. They are known for their 1960 hit song “Greenfields”. The group built a radio station (KSWB) in Seaside, Oregon in 1968 with Jerry Dennon—which they sold to a radio group in Montana in 1972.

Pat O’Day (born as Paul W. Berg) was a Pacific Northwest broadcaster best known as the afternoon drive personality at Seattle’s KJR 950 in the 1960s. Starting in 1967, O’Day served as race announcer and commentator during Seafair for various radio and TV stations, including mostly recently KIRO TV, where he announced until 2013.

Martin Durkan (1923-2005) served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1957-1959 and in the Senate from 1959-1975. Durkan also ran for and lost the election for Governor of Washington in 1972 and ran and lost the election for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1977. After retiring from the Senate, Durkan became one of state’s top lobbyists. He is the father of Seattle’s 56th mayor, Jenny Durkan. Martin Durkan was born in Great Falls, Montana on June 30, 1923. Durkan attended Gonzaga University and volunteered for the United States Marine Corps a week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He received training at the Naval V12 program at the University of Washington. He fought with the Navy amphibious squad in the South Pacific Theater in World War II. He was injured in the Battle of Saipan and spent 16 months recovering in marine hospitals. Durkan graduated with a law degree from the University of Washington in 1953, and entered private practice in Seattle. Durkan’s political career began when he was elected the vice president of King County Young Men’s Democratic Club in 1955. He then began appearing on television panel discussion groups. In 1956, he was elected to the Washington House of Representatives, and in 1958 he was elected to Washington’s State Senate, where he served until 1975.

George McGovern (1922 – 2012) was a historian, author, and politician. He was the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election. He served as a United States Senator in South Dakota from 1963-1981, and was outspokenly opposed U.S involvement in the Vietnam War and was a vocal supporter of issues related to hunger nationally and internationally. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces when the United States entered World War II. He was a B-24 Liberator pilot who flew 35 missions over Germany-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. After the war, he earned degrees from Dakota Wesleyan University and Northwestern University, culminating in a PhD. He was a history professor before he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 and was re-elected in 1958. After a failed bid for the U.S. Senate in 1960, he was successful in 1962. As a senator, McGovern was an example of modern American liberalism. He staged a brief nomination run in 1968 as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. The subsequent McGovern-Fraser Commission fundamentally altered the presidential nominating process. The McGovern-Hatfield Amendment sought to end the Vietnam War by legislative means but was defeated both in 1970 and in 1971. McGovern’s platform for President in 1972 ideologically split the Democratic party, and Richard Nixon won the election in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. electoral history. Though re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1968 and 1974, McGovern was defeated in his bid for a fourth term in 1980. Throughout his career, McGovern was involved in issues related to food, agriculture, nutrition and hunger. He was the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961, and oversaw the distribution of U.S. surpluses to the needy abroad. McGovern helped create the United Nations-run World Food Programme, and was the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs from 1968 – 1977. McGovern publicized the problem of hunger within the United States with the “McGovern Report”, which led to a new set of nutritional guidelines for Americans. McGovern later served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1998 – 2001.

Albert Rosellini (1910-2011) was the democratic governor of Washington from 1957-1965. He was the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River. Rosellini was born in Tacoma, WA and worked his way through college and law school at the University of Washington. He graduated in 1933. Before he was elected governor, he was elected to the state senate as its youngest member at the age of 29. He represented the 33rd district in south Seattle, home of many Italian immigrants. He served there from 1939 – 1957, and rose to the rank of majority leader before he was elected governor in 1956. During his 40-year political career, Rosellini was an activist leader who worked to reform the state’s prisons and mental health facilities, expand the state highway system, create the University of Washington’s medical and dental schools, and build the second floating bridge across Lake Washington. While he was governor, he established a state department of commerce and championed the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. After Rosellini was defeated in his bid for re-election in 1964 by Daniel J. Evans, Rosellini made a comeback bid in 1972 and captured the Democratic nomination. Again, Rosellini was defeated by Evans. After he left office in 1965, Rosellini returned to practicing law and became a political consultant specializing in matters related to liquor and entertainment industries. He also became a mentor for younger members of the Democratic Party, including Washington governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke. In 2003, Rosellini was back in the news when he was reported have delivered campaign contributions to Seattle City Council members on behalf of strip-club owners, one of whom was a convicted racketeer. Rosellini was never charged in this scandal which became known as “Strippergate”. Rosellini died of complications related to pneumonia in Seattle on October 10, 2011. He was 101 years old, and at the time of his death his was the oldest governor to have lived.

Thomson William “Thom” Gunn (1929-2004) was an English poet who wrote about gay-related topics including “The Man with Night Sweats” (1992). Gunn also wrote about drug use, sex, and his bohemian lifestyle. Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England in 1929. He attended University College School in Hampstead, London, then spent two years doing national services and six months in Paris. Later, he studied English literature at Trinity College, graduating in 1953. “Fighting Terms”, his first collection of verse, was published in 1954. As a young man, he wrote poetry associated with The Movement and later, with the work of Ted Hughes. In 1954, Gunn emigrated to the United States to teach writing at Stanford and to remain close to his partner, Mike Kitay, whom he met in college. Gunn and Kitay lived together until Gunn’s death in 2004. Gunn taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1958 – 1966 and again from 1973 – 2000.

John Daniel Ehrlichman (1925-1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. He was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury for his role in the Watergate scandal, and served a year and a half in prison. Ehrlichman was born in Tacoma, WA in 1925. His family moved to Southern California is 1931, and John graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1942, and attended UCLA for a year. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943. Ehrlichman used the G.I. Bill to return to UCLA and graduated in 1948 with a B.A. in political science. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1951. After a short time back in southern California, Ehrlichman joined a Seattle law firm and practiced as a land-use lawyer, with his specialty in urban land use and zoning. Ehrlichman supported improving civic infrastructure and cleaning up Lake Washington, and he remained a practicing lawyer until 1969. Ehrlichman worked for Nixon throughout his career, first when he worked on his 1960 presidential campaign and again with his 1962 California gubernatorial election, and once more for Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, too. After Nixon’s victory, he became the White House Counsel for about a year, before becoming Chief Domestic Advisor for Nixon—at which point he became a member of Nixon’s inner circle. John Ehrlichman created “The Plumbers”, the group at the center of the Watergate scandal. After the start of the Watergate investigations in 1973, he lobbied for an intentional delay in the confirmation of L. Patrick Gray as Director of the FBI. During the Watergate trials, he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, and other charges on January 1, 1975—along with John N. Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman. In 1977, all of their sentences were commuted to one to four years, shorter than their initial sentencing of two to eight years. Ehrlichman served 18 months. Because of his felony conviction, he was disbarred. Nixon denied both Ehrlichman and Haldeman pardons. After his release from prison, he worked at a quality control firm, then as a writer, artist, and commentator. He wrote several novels. He also worked with novelist Tom Clancy to write, produce, and co-host a three-hour Watergate documentary called “John Ehrlichman: In the Eye of the Storm”. The documentary was completed but never broadcasted. Ehrlichman died of complications for diabetes in Atlanta in 1999.

Possibly Seattle, Washington attorney.

Ray Collins worked as a cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Ruth Walsh (later Ruth McIntyre) was a news anchor for KOMO and KVI.

Possibly Seattle SuperSonics cheerleaders

John Gary Ullin was a mountaineer who died in an avalanche on the first American expedition to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Ullin was a flight officer from Seattle, WA.

Ingegerd and Karl Hellstrom were both University of Washington Medicine Pathology faculty members. Ingegerd and Karl are married and emigrated to the United States in 1966 from Sweden. They researched and published together about cancer immunology, and made many discoveries in the field. The couple helped start the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Unsoeld (1926-1979) was an American mountaineer who was a member of the first American expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1963. He was a U.S. Forest Service Smokejumper, Peace Corps director in Nepal, speaker for Outward Bound, faculty member at Oregon State University and The Evergreen State College, and a mountaineering guide. He died in an avalanche during a winter climb of Mount Rainier on March 4, 1979.

Imogen Cunningham (1883 – 1976) was a photographer known for botanical photographs, nudes, and industrial landscapes. She graduated from University of Washington in 1907, and then began working for Edward Curtis in his Seattle studio. Cunningham worked for Curtis on his “North American Indian” project. She was a member of the photographer’s movement, Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon in 1883. She grew up in Seattle, and bought her first camera at age 18 in 1901, and entered the University of Washington in 1903. With the help of her chemistry professor, Horace Byers, she began to study the chemistry behind photography while paying tuition by photographing plants for the botany department. In 1907, she began working with Edward S. Curtis in his Seattle studio. Cunningham learned the technique of platinum printing while working for Curtis. In 1909, Cunningham was awarded a Graduate Fellowship from Pi Beta Phi, which she used to work at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany where she helped the photographic chemistry department find cheaper solutions for platinum printing. When she returned to Seattle, Cunningham opened a studio and later won acclaim for portraiture and pictorial work. She became a much sought-after photographer in the 1910s. In 1920, she moved with her husband Roi Partridge and their children to san Francisco, CA. During this period of time, she focused mostly on botanical photography. In 1933, she founded the California Horticultural Society. After her work in botanicals, Cunningham’s work shifted focus to the human form and she worked for Vanity Fair, photographing stars without makeup. She was a part of Group f/64, a collection of like-minded photographers including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke. They promoted a pure or straight photography. In the 1940s, Cunningham began practicing street photography in her spare time. In her later career, Cunningham became a mentor for younger female photographers. Cunningham continued to take photos until shortly before her death at age 93 in San Francisco.

David T. Smith was a Seattle Police Department officer who was convicted for shooting a civilian.

Possibly Seattle area photographer.

Harry Belafonte (1927 -- ) is an Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. His 1956 album “Calypso” was the first LP by a single artist to sell a million copies. He music played an important role in popularizing Trinidadian Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte performed and recorded many other genres including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. Belafonte was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s and was a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout his life, he was an advocate for political and humanitarian causes such as the Anti-Apartheid Movement, UNICEF, and USA for Africa. He acts as an American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. Belafonte has three Grammy Awards including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.

Possibly Seattle area videographer.

David. E. “Ned” Skinner II (1920 – 1988) was a shipping heir and philanthropist who was one of the first owners of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks. He was born in Seattle and attended Lakeside School. His grandfather was David E. Skinner, who owned Skinner and Eddy shipyard, the Pacific Steamship Co., and the Port Blakely Mill. Ned Skinner graduated from Dartmouth College in 1942 and served aboard a destroyer during World War II. He married Kayla Lagasa in 1942. After the death of his father, G.W. Skinner in 1953, Ned took over the Alaska Steamship Company. When it went into decline and ultimately closed in 1971, Ned branched into real estate with the Skinner Corporation owning the Skinner Building, 5th Avenue Theater, Pepsi Bottling, and NC Machinery. The company was listed as the 10th largest privately owned company in 1988. In 1972 Skinner and Herman Sarkowsky were the two original investors in the Seattle Seahawks.Skinner was an active philanthropist in Seattle and supported the Seattle Opera, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Repository Theater, Pacific Science Center, and Seattle Art Museum through his philanthropy. He founded the Skinner Foundation in 1956 and donated 5 percent of the Skinner Corporation’s profits to the foundation. Donald “Don” J. Covey (1928 – 2018) was a businessman from Seattle. He spent 39 years of his career in property development management with Unico Properties—beginning with the company as their president in 1975. Covey graduated from Franklin High School and the University of Washington. While in college, the Korean War began. Covey’s college years were interrupted when he served as a staff sergeant with the First Marine Division and participated in the Chosin Reservoir campaign in North Korea during the winter of 1950. While at Unico, he played a large role in the development of One and Two Union Square, two large office buildings in Downtown Seattle. He was a member of many Seattle organizations while working at Unico, including Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Seattle Association. Covey died in 2018 after complications due to Parkinson’s. He was 90 years old. In 1978, the Fifth Avenue Theater shut its doors. Unico pushed to restore and modify the historic theater because of a strong public opinion to keep the theater. Unico lead a collation of 42 other businesses to create the nonprofit 5th Avenue Theater Association and underwriting for a $2.6 million loan for its physical restoration. Unico also provided construction management at no charge. Covey and Skinner’s connection to each other may be both of their connections to the 5th Avenue Theater—Covey as a leader of Unico’s restoration project, and Skinner’s role as an owner of the 5th Avenue Theater.

Heavyweight boxer Daniel Victor “Boone” Kirkman (1945-) grew up in Renton, and at age 14 began commuting to Seattle’s Cherry Street gym to train in boxing. Kirkman slowly built a reputation at local events, and had his first professional fight in 1966. He retired in 1978 with a record of 36 wins (with 25 knockouts) and 6 losses.

Larry Gossett ( 1945 -- ) was born in Seattle to two sharecroppers who had emigrated from Nigton, Texas to the Central District in Seattle. He graduated from Franklin High School in 1963 and graduated from University of Washington. In 1966 and 1967, he was a VISTA volunteer in Harlem. His time in Harlem played a role in politicizing and radicalizing him. When he returned to Seattle, Gossett helped found the Black Student Union on University of Washington’s campus as well as nearly a dozen high school and middle school Black Student Unions throughout Seattle. He was instrumental in bringing about the UW’s Educational Opportunity Program minority recruitment program, and played a role in protests against the discrimination of Black track athletes from Oregon State University. Gossett graduated in 1970, receiving the university’s first ever African-American studies degree. Gossett was also a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and worked as a community organizer in Seattle for many years. He was involved in the occupation of a former Seattle public school that would become El Centro de la Raza, a social service agency in Beacon Hill, Seattle centered on uplifting the Latinx community. After working on Charles Royer’s successful mayoral campaign in 1977, he briefly joined the Royer administration. However, he felt that the work in the mayor’s office took him too far away from his other work as an activist. From April 1979 until December 1993, he was the executive director of Seattle’s Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP). He eventually worked on Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns. He was a member of King County Council from 1993 until 2020. Gossett’s office in the King County Courthouse was in the same location that his prison cell was in 1968 when he was arrested for unlawful assembly during a sit-in at Franklin High School on March 29th.

Possibly Seattle area journalist.

Bill Sieverling (1934-2004) was former city editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He began his journalism career in 1961 at The Colombian in Vancouver, WA. He joined the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1963 and left the newspaper in 1977. He became a driving force behind “Target Seattle”, a series of teach-ins on the growing threat of nuclear war and what it would mean for Seattle and Western Washington. Sieverling was later the director of the YMCA’S International Office for Asia, and he co-founded Earth Service Corps, which encouraged high school students to take responsibility for the health of the environment.

Paul Kraabel (1933-2016) was a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1971-1975. In 1975, he was appointed to Seattle City Council, which he served on until 1991. He returned briefly to serve as an interim councilmember from August to November 1996. While on City Council, he worked on the Downtown Plan and worked to protect the International District and Pioneer Square from development that would damage unique neighborhoods and business districts. He was also an advocate for transit and for low income housing extensions. Marina is possibly his first wife.

Ray McMackin was a KING-TV personality.

Edward “Ted” Moore Kennedy (1932 – 2009) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009. He was a member of the Democratic party and the Kennedy political family. His brother, John F. Kennedy was President of the United States from 1960 until 1963. Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws, mostly focused on economic and social justice. He was also known for working with Republicans to find compromises. There was much talk about Ted Kennedy as a potential contender for a 1976 U.S. Presidential election nomination from the Democratic party. Though he announced he would not run in September 1974 saying his decision was “firm, final, and unconditional” he was still a very popular and well-known politician around the country at the time of his visit to Seattle in September 1975.

Revered Edmund Ryan, S.J. was President of Seattle University in 1975.

Danny Kaye, or David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 – 1987) was an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. He starred in 17 movies, including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1947) and “White Christmas”. Danny was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1911 to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. Danny held a succession of jobs in New York, most ending in Danny being fired. His first big break came in 1933 when he joined a vaudeville dance act called “The Three Terpsichoreans”. This is where he adopted the stage name Danny Kaye for the first time. His first film debuted in 1935, a comedy short called “Moon Over Manhattan”. His feature film debut was in the 1944 technicolor comedy “Up in Arms”. He hosted the Danny Kaye show from 1963 to 1967, which won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award. His last film was in 1963, “The Man from the Diners’ Club”. He worked as a television host, singer, dancer, and investor afterwards. He owned a company, Kaye-Smith Enterprises, with business partner Lester Smith. Smith-Kaye owned a chain of radio stations mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Kaye and Smith led an investment group that was awarded the Seattle Mariners Franchise. They owned the Mariners until 1981. In 1985, Kaye sold his share of Kaye-Smith to the Smith family. He died of heart failure in 1987.

Rosellini (1915-2003) was a Seattle restaurateur and president of the National Restaurant Association and the Restaurant Association of Seattle. He owned Rosellini’s 610 and Rosellini’s Four-10.

Brockman (Brock) Adams was born January 13, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Adams served in the United States Navy from 1944 until 1946 and graduated from the University of Washington in 1949 with a degree in economics. He received his law degree from Harvard University in 1952. Adams went into private practice in Seattle, where he also taught law at the American Banking Institute. As a result of Adams’s involvement in John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington in 1961 until 1964, when he campaigned for a seat in the House of Representatives. Adams, a Democrat, represented the greater Seattle area and was re-elected six times. During Adams’s career in the House of Representatives, he served on several committees, including Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Revenue and Financial Affairs, Banking and Currency, and Agriculture. Adams became chairman of the House Budget Committee in 1974. His expertise regarding transportation issues led to his appointment as Secretary of Transportation by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Adams resigned his house seat and worked in Carter’s cabinet until his resignation in 1979, returning to Seattle to enter private law practice. In his Senate career, Adams championed women’s issues as well as those of senior citizens. He took a conservationist stance on many environmental issues, focusing particularly on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Adams also opposed Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr., in many aspects of foreign policy, especially regarding United States involvement in the Persian Gulf War. In 1985 Adams ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican Slade Gorton, winning Gorton’s seat in an upset victory. Shortly after Adams launched his re-election campaign in 1992, the Seattle Times published a front-page story in which eight anonymous women accused the senator of sexual misconduct. Adams denied the allegations but withdrew from the re-election race and retired from public life at the conclusion of his Senate term.

Bruce Lee, also known as Lee Jun-fan, (1940 – 1973) was a Hong Kong-American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy that paved the way for mixed martial arts (MMA). Lee remains one of the most well-known martial artists of all time, and was a major pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is credited with helping change the ways Asians were represented in American films.Lee was born in San Francisco, California in 1940. His family returned to Hong Kong when Lee was 3 months old, and raised with his family in Kowloon. His father Lee Hoi-chuen was a famous Cantonese opera star, and as a result Bruce appeared in several films as a child. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in twenty films. After getting involved in street fights, his parents decided he needed to be trained in martial arts. He studied Wing Chun under the teacher Yip Man. Lee continued street fighting in Hong Kong, and his parents feared he would get involved in organized crime through his participation in street fights. In April 1959, he was sent to live with his sister Agnes Lee in San Francisco, and several months later he moved to Seattle. While in Seattle, he began teaching martial arts. He also worked at the restaurant Ruby Chow, where he was a live-in waiter. He opened his first martial arts school In Seattle—the Lee Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. Lee enrolled at the University of Washington in March 1961. He majored in drama, but dropped out in early 1964 to moved to Oakland with a Chinese martial artist James Yimm. He began to build an even stronger reputation as a talented martial artist through teaching, competitions, and high-profile fights with other martial artists. Bruce Lee’s film career began to pick up speed again in the 1960s, when he was cast to play the role of Kato in the 1966 TV series The Green Hornet. Though the show only lasted one season, it introduced the adult Bruce Lee and Asian-style martial arts to an American audience. In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee had starring roles in American films like The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972). Six days before the release of his film Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema on July 20, 1973. Lee complained of a headache while in Hong Kong, and took the painkiller Equasgesic which contains both aspirin and the tranquilizer meprobamate. After his death, several unfinished films with Lee were released.

Wesley C. Uhlman (1935 - ) was the 47th mayor of Seattle from 1969-1978. Uhlman was born in Cashmere, Washington and attended Aberdeen High School, Seattle Pacific College (now known as Seattle Pacific University) and the University of Washington. In 1958, Uhlman became the youngest member of the Washington State House of Representatives. He was 23 and was a law student at the time of election. He held the position for four terms before running for and winning a seat in the Washington State Senate. In 1969, Uhlman won the election for Seattle’s mayor. He was 34 at the time, and became Seattle’s youngest mayor. While he was mayor, the historic Pioneer Square district was preserved and services for senior citizens were expanded. Uhlman ran for governor of Washington in 1976 but was defeated in the Democratic primary by Dixy Ray.

Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies. Her theory, the five stages of grief, is also known as the Kubler-Ross model. Her internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying was published in 1969. She was a 2007 inductee in to the National Women’s Hall of Fame. In addition to her work, writing, and teaching regarding grief, Kubler-Ross also focused on topics including out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, hospices, and experiences of terminally-ill people.

Bob Hardwick was a Seattle radio personality on KVI-AM and KING-AM.

Daniel Jackson Evans (1925 -- ) was the 16th governor of Washington from 1965-1977 and was a United States Senator representing Washington State from 1983 to 1989. Evans was seriously considered the Republican vice presidential nomination in both 1968 and 1976. Evans was born in Seattle, WA in 1925. He grew up in the Laurelhurst neighborhood and attended Roosevelt High School. After high school, he served in the United States Navy from 1943 – 1946. Evans graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in civil engineering in 1948 and in 1949. He then worked as a structural engineer for the United States Navy and helped draw up the plans for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Evans served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 1956 to 1965 before being elected governor. Though he was a republican, he became known for his administration’s liberal policies on environmental protection—including founding the country’s first state-level Department of Ecology, which became Nixon’s blueprint for the federal EPA and strong support of the state’s higher education system, including founding Washington’s system of community colleges and he fought unsuccessfully for a state income tax. From 1977 to 1983, Evans served at the second president of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. In 1983, Washington Governor John Spellman appointed Evans to the United States Senate to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Henry Jackson. Evans later won a special election later that year against Mike Lowry and filled the remainder of Jackson’s unexpired term. Evans retired from politics after the 1988 elections. After leaving the Senate 1989, Evans founded his own consulting firm, Daniel J. Evans and Associates. Governor Mike Lowry appointed him to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington in 1993, he then served as the board’s president from 1996 to 1997. In 1999, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs was renamed in his honor.

Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941 -- ) is a hugely prolific civil rights, political, and religious activist known for a lifetime of activities, including his participation in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, involvement in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and his affiliation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jackson is also known for founding Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971 and the National Rainbow Coalition in 1974. The two organizations merged in 1996, forming the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The organization focuses on numerous issues, including education and public policy. Jackson also ran democratic presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988.

former King County assessor and founder of Harley Hoppe law firm.

Dixy Ray (1914-1994) was a scientist and politician. She served at the 17th governor of Washington from 1977-1981. Ray’s career began as a scientist. After receiving her doctorate in biology at Stanford University, she was an instructor in the zoology department at the University of Washington. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1947, and in 1952 she received a Guggenheim grant. She was made an associate professor in 1957, and served as chief scientist abroad the schooner SS Te Vega during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. She also hosted a television program on marine biology called “Animals of the Seashore” on KCTS-TV, Seattle’s PBS affiliate. After her growing popularity on KCTS-TV, the Pacific Science Center extended an invitation to her to take over the nearly bankrupt science museum. Under her guidance, the Pacific Science Center was converted from a traditional exhibit-oriented museum to an interactive learning center, and lead the center back into financial solvency. Before her term as governor, Ray was appointed by President Nixon to chair the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). While serving on the commission, she lived out of her 28-foot motor home with her two dogs which she parked on a lot in rural Virginia. Despite criticism and scrutiny from the media and fellow AEC members, Ray became the commission chair until the AEC was abolished in 1975. She briefly worked as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in 1975, appointed by Gerald Ford.Ray was Washington’s first female governor, and it was also her first race for public office. Ray’s victory was surprising, given that all major newspaper and predictions from pundits that the state was not ready for an unmarried woman to govern. She was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Though Ray ran as a democrat, she had conservative views on energy and the environment, including supporting atomic energy and allowing supertankers to dock in Puget Sound. Ray also faced conflict with the Republic establishment after she fired 124 appointees of her predecessor Daniel J. Evans. Ray also faced heavy scrutiny from the press, sometimes for her appearance and the way she dressed. She lost the democratic primaries to her rival Jim McDermott in 1980.

Warren Magnuson (1905-1989) was adopted by a Swedish family in Moorehead, Minnesota. He moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. He began practicing law soon after he graduated from the University of Washington Law School in 1929. Magnuson, a Democrat, began his political career in the Washington State House of Representatives during the 1933 legislative session. In 1934 he was elected King County Prosecuting Attorney, an office he held until his election the U.S. House of Representatives from the First District in 1936. During his tenure in the House, Congressman Magnuson served on the Naval Affairs Committee and the Alaska International Highway Commission. A naval reservist before World War II, Magnuson spent several months on active duty in 1942. In 1944 Magnuson was a successful candidate for the U.S. Senate. He assumed his Senate seat early when his predecessor, Homer T. Bone, resigned shortly before the end of his term. Magnuson was best known throughout his long Congressional career for his championship of consumer and health legislation. Appointed to the Commerce Committee in 1945, he became chair in 1955 after the Democrats took control of the Senate. Consumer protection legislation was an important part of the Commerce Committee’s agenda throughout Magnuson’s 23 years as chairman. Magnuson co-authored a 1968 book, The Dark Side of the Market Place, which attempted to raise public awareness of the need for consumer safeguards.Magnuson was also an advocate of government support for scientific research in the years following World War II. In 1945 he introduced a bill which was signed into law in 1950, creating the National Science Foundation. As a freshman Congressman Magnuson sponsored legislation in the House which created the country’s first tax-supported research center, the National Cancer Institute. The bill marked the beginning of a career-long dedication to governmental support of biomedical research and education, which he continued through his 1948 sponsorship of a bill to create the National Institutes of Health, and expanded in the 91st Congress, when he assumed the chairmanship of the Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding health, labor, and education programs. Other issues that concerned Magnuson throughout his career include civil rights, particularly through his authorship of the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; environmental protection, including ports and waterways safety and supertanker regulation; and improvement of public power and irrigation systems in the Northwest.

Henry Martin Jackson (1912-1983) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from 1941-1983. Jackson was born in Everett, Washington, the son of Norwegian immigrants. He briefly attended Stanford University before graduating from the University of Washington with his bachelor of law degree in 1935. After passing the bar exam, he entered private practice in Everett. Jackson won his first elected office at the age of 26, when he was chosen Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney in 1938. In 1940, he ran for the Second District congressional seat which was vacated when Representative Monrad Wallgren ran for the U.S. Senate. Jackson served 12 years as a congressman, concentrating primarily on issues of interest to the Pacific Northwest. He won a seat on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and public power development was one of his legislative priorities. Jackson became interested in the potential military and civilian uses of atomic energy, and was appointed to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee in 1949. In 1952, Jackson defeated the Republican incumbent Harry P. Cain to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. Jackson was assigned to the Government Operations Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI)—a position that quickly put him at the center of the un-American activities controversies and in the national spotlight. He won recognition for his questioning during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in the spring of 1954. Jackson was a member of the PSI for the rest of his Senate tenure and chaired the subcommittee from 1973-1978. Jackson was known for his advocacy for a strong national defense, and he cast a critical eye on arms limitations agreements with the Soviet Union. His support became a key factor in the adoption of any agreement. He was an early advocate for U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. He continued his support for the conflict in Vietnam during Johnson and Nixon’s administration—creating conflict with the Democratic Party and public opinion. He was a supporter of Israel and championed human rights causes including supporting the dissident Soviet Jewish population. He frequently intervened on behalf of individuals trying to emigrate to the U.S. Jackson was also instrumental in helping move the U.S. towards recognition of the People’s Republic of China. He became a specialist on China, and played a significant behind-the-scenes role in influencing U.S. leaders and policy toward China.Jackson was a firm believer that an active federal government could improve the lives of ordinary citizens. He supported the GI Bill, Medicare, and Medicaid. Jackson and his colleague Warren G. Magnuson were able to use their committee positions and accumulated seniority to direct federal money and programs to Washington State. He was a member and later Chairman (1963-1980) of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. He played a key role in many other land use policies, including authoring the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the cornerstone of American environmental law. Jackson died suddenly of a heart attack on September 1, 1983. At the time of his death he held the record for longest service in Congress.

Lou Guzzo (1919-2013) was a journalist, author, and television commentator in Seattle. He was the arts and theater critic for twenty years at the Seattle Times, and then served as the managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Guzzo was an ally of Washington state governor Dixy Lee Ray. He worked with her at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, co-authored books with her, and helped in her successful bid for the governor in 1976. Guzzo regularly appeared on KIRO-TV and KIRO (AM) radio, where he was an editorial consultant. After his retirement at KIRO, Guzzo maintained a website where he continued to write a daily commentary on current events. He was a resident of Newcastle, WA. Guzzo died in 2013 at the age of 94.

Clay Huntington (1922-2011) was the youngest sportswriter and sportscaster in the history of Tacoma, WA. He started while attending Lincoln High School, and worked from the Tacoma Times and KMO radio. He was one of the founders of the Tacoma Athletic Commission, and a former Pierce County Commissioner. Huntington founded the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame and owned radio station KLAY.

Alex L. “Sonny” Sixkiller (1951 -- ) is an American football player and sports commentator. Sixkiller played quarterback for the University of Washington football from 1969-1972. Sixkiller was a cast member in the 1974 film The Longest Yard. Sixkiller was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and a member of the Cherokee Nation. His family moved to Ashland, Oregon when he was a year old, where his father worked in a lumber mill. He graduated from Ashland High School. After high school, he attended the University of Washington and became starting quarterback for the Huskies during his sophomore year in 1970. In 1973. He went unselected in the 1973 NFL draft. He signed to the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League in September 1974, and played with The Hawaiians in 1975. Sixkiller and several other players quit the troubled team late in the season after the players were asked to take a 20% pay cut; the entire league collapsed a week later. He is an executive for sports marketing firm IMG College.

Morrison was an FM DJ and Promotion Director on KZAM.

Probably Sherron Walker Boyea, who attended Seattle Pacific University. Walker was a long jumper who competed in the 1976 Olympics, placing 14th in the long jump.

Probably investigative reporter of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

David Checkley was chairperson of the Seattle Kite Association, kite maker, and First Vice President of American Kitefliers Association.

Wappler was the weather forecaster for KIRO-TV from 1969 until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure at KIRO, he took a three-year job as a forecaster at WNBC-TV in New York, and then returned to work at KIRO. Wappler studied speech at Northwestern University and earned a graduate degree at Yale University Divinity School. He was also an ordained Episcopal priest and had officiated the weddings of a few KIRO staffers. Wappler died in April 21, 2010 from a stroke in Bellevue, Washington, he was 73 years old.

Journalist Greg Heberlein spent 32 years at the Seattle Times. In 12 years in the Sports Department, he was the only reporter to cover every game in the Seattle SuperSonics’ championship season. He then spent 20 years in the Business Department, where an award was established to honor the Northwest’s top business columnist. He won the award in each of the first three years it was offered.

Possibly Georg N. Meyers, ex-Seattle Times sports editor and sports columnist.

In 1974 Page was appointed to run the transit system of the Seattle transit system. In June 1977, he was nominated and confirmed to head the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Sam Angeloff worked as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Life Magazine.

Richard E. Combs Jr. was an American diplomat who worked for the U.S. Foreign Service. Her served as Minister-Counselor and acting head at the United States Embassy in Moscow, USSR during the Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s.

O’Connor (1961 - ) is an American violinist and composer. He has released 45 albums, mostly of original music. O’Connor toured with French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli when he was a teenager. He developed a string instrument technique for teachers and students called The O’Connor method, which places emphasis on music and playing techniques from North America in addition to focusing on rhythmic development, ear training, and improvisation.

Roberto Maestas (1938-2010) was a social activist and community leader in Seattle, Washington from the 1960s to 1990s. Maestas was a member of the Gang of Four—a radical minority rights activism group who founded Minority Executive Directors’ Coalition. In the early 1970s, he helped begin an ESL program at South Seattle College. In 1972, the funding to the program was abruptly cut off which lead to a number of other activists to occupy an abandoned school building in Beacon Hill, which eventually became El Centro de la Raza – an educational, cultural and social service agency founded by Maestas.

Smeal (1939 - ) served as the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) for three terms (1977-1987) in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst. Her first term as NOW’s president began in 1977.

Uri Geller (1946 - ) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. His performances include spoon-bending, describing hidden drawings, and making watches stop or run faster. Geller claims his feats are the result of paranormal powers given to him by extraterrestrials. “Mind Miraculous Symposium” is possibly an event hosted by Uri Geller or one that Geller participated in near or in the Seattle area.

Ramsey was KOMO’s weatherman from 1965-1985. Ramsey passed at the age of 87 on May 22, 2011. He was a resident of Mercer Island, WA for 47 years.

Edwin Lloyd Meeds (1927-2005) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1979. He represented the second district of Washington as a Democrat. During his time in Congress, he championed major environmental legislation, including the establishment of North Cascades National Park and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, and also became active in Native American issues, most notably the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Before his time in Congress, Meeds worked as a prosecuting attorney in Spokane County and then in Snohomish County from 1958-1960. In the fall of 1959 he gained public attention as a deputy prosecutor in Snohomish County when he led a raid on a prostitution ring. Two sheriff’s deputies were found in the house. In the early 1960s, Meeds became more politically active. He served as president on the Snohomish County Young Democrats from 1960 to 1962, and was a board member of the Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee from 1961-1963. In his early years in Congress, he helped implement some of President Johnson’s Great Society programs—including the War on Poverty, Head Start, and other anti-poverty programs. Meeds served on the House Labor and Education Committee and sponsored educational reform legislation, including the Vocational Educational Amendment of 1968, the National School Lunch Act, and the Child Nutrition Act of 1970. He was also named chairman of the House Subcommittee on Indian Affairs in early 1973. Meed’s support of Native Fishing Rights and support of Alaska Natives combined with his support of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness legislation lost him some support from voters, and his 1976 re-election was an incredibly tight race. He won the election with a tight re-count vote, leading by only 542 votes. In his final term, he served as a member of the House Committee on Interior and Insular affairs. After his last term ended, Meeds remained in Washington to practice law and lobby. He was active in organizations that promoted clearly and stronger ethical standards for lobbyists, and wrote the first code of ethics for lobbyists for the Ethics Committee of the American League of Lobbyists. In the 1990s, he participated in the debate over campaign finance reform—arguing that the widespread use of unregulated contributions posed a bigger threat of corruption that the former practice of allowing large individual donations directly to candidates. In the final years of his life, Meeds battled lung cancer. He died in his home in Church Creek, Maryland on August 17, 2005.

Michael G. Foster (1937-2003) was a Seattle investment banker and founding trustee of the Foster Foundation. Foster graduated Roosevelt High School in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. After graduate he worked at Dominick & Dominick—a bond firm in New York. He was President and CEO of the regional brokerage firm Foster & Marshall Inc., which was sold to American Express in 1982. After Foster & Marshall was sold, Michael and his parents Albert and Evelyn Foster established The Foster Foundation—which gives to education, arts, and health and human services causes. One of their first major gifts was a $3 million gift in 1990 to help build a new business library for the UW Business School that carries the name of Albert O. and Evelyn W. Foster. He later formed the investment banking firm Foster, Paulsell & Baker Inc. The University of Washington’s Business School was renamed the Michael G. Foster School of Business on September 20, 2007.

Dixy Ray (1914-1994) was a scientist and politician. She served at the 17th governor of Washington from 1977-1981. Ray’s career began as a scientist. After receiving her doctorate in biology at Stanford University, she was an instructor in the zoology department at the University of Washington. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1947, and in 1952 she received a Guggenheim grant. She was made an associate professor in 1957, and served as chief scientist abroad the schooner SS Te Vega during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. She also hosted a television program on marine biology called “Animals of the Seashore” on KCTS-TV, Seattle’s PBS affiliate. After her growing popularity on KCTS-TV, the Pacific Science Center extended an invitation to her to take over the nearly bankrupt science museum. Under her guidance, the Pacific Science Center was converted from a traditional exhibit-oriented museum to an interactive learning center, and led the center back into financial solvency. Before her term as governor, Ray was appointed by President Nixon to chair the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). While serving on the commission, she lived out of her 28-foot motor home with her two dogs which she parked on a lot in rural Virginia. Despite criticism and scrutiny from the media and fellow AEC members, Ray became the commission chair until the AEC was abolished in 1975. She briefly worked as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in 1975, appointed by Gerald Ford.Ray was Washington’s first female governor, and it was also her first race for public office. Ray’s victory was surprising, given that all major newspaper and predictions from pundits that the state was not ready for an unmarried woman to govern. She was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Though Ray ran as a democrat, she had conservative views on energy and the environment, including supporting atomic energy and allowing supertankers to dock in Puget Sound. Ray faced conflict with the Republic establishment after she fired 124 appointees of her predecessor Daniel J. Evans. Ray also faced heavy scrutiny from the press, sometimes for her appearance and the way she dressed. She lost the democratic primaries to her rival Jim McDermott in 1980.

Richard Kirsten (1920 -2013) was an artist, author, printmaker, and Buddhist priest born in Chicago, Illinois. He worked in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Editorial Art Department for over 30 years. Kirsten attended the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated in 1939. Upon graduation, Kirsten hitchhiked to Seattle, Washington on his way to Alaska. He then joined the U.S. Navy in 1942, where he spent his entire service at the Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois teaching and illustrating art for the Navy. After his discharge from the Navy, Richard and his wife Elaine moved back to Seattle with their infant son. Kirsten worked at Seattle City Light, Webster-Brinkley Co., Boeing, and the Catholic Northwest Progress Newspaper until he started working at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1950 in the Editorial Art Department. Kirsten worked in the department for the next 30 years, eventually heading the department. During his life, Kirsten took many trips to Japan to learn about Japanese printmaking. In 1967 he was ordained a Zen Buddhist priest and given the name Daiensai Kuden Bonseki Dojin. Shortly after his ordination he became one of the first Westerners to be licensed to professionally administer the I-Ching to clients in Japan. In 1972, Richard’s son Rick opened the Kirsten Gallery in Seattle—where Kirsten spent much of his spare time when not in Japan. Kirsten wrote two books, "Smile 365 Happy Meditations" and "Love 365 Happy Meditations".

Possibly Seattle Post-Intelligencer journalist. Knight began working at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the sports department in 1961 and was honored as the National Boating Writer of the year in 1977. In 1984, he was promoted to the sports editor.

Rosanne Gostovich Royer graduated with a degree in Russian from the University of Washington. She was the daughter of Serbo-Croatian immigrants, and married journalist, politician, activist, and 48th Mayor of Seattle Charles T. Royer in 1968. The couple divorced in 1994. When Charles ran for Mayor in 1978, Rosanne played a critical role in his populist campaign by tapping into her connections with the ethnic-white communities in Seattle.

Throm (1912? – 2002) was born in Pullman, WA. He worked in fisheries for most of his life, coming out of retirement twice—at ages 65 and 74. Throm joined the New England Fish Company in 1956 when he moved to Astoria, Oregon to become a plant manager. In 1961, Throm became manager at the company’s Pederson Point cannery in Bristol Bay, Alaska. He worked there until 1972, continuing as a marine insurance claims adjuster until retiring for the first time in 1976. He then accepted a part-time offer to continue marine insurance work for Louis Kemp Fisheries, surveying damage to fishing boats and barges traveling from Seattle to Alaska. He retired again in 1986.

Wayne Larkin was a Seattle City Councilman, Seattle firefighter, and Seattle police officer (1927 – 2009). Larkin was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1927. From 1944 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1947, Larkin joined the Seattle Fire Department serving at Station 17, Ladder 9. In March 1952, Larkin joined the Seattle Police Department serving in patrol and as a detective in auto theft, intelligence, narcotics, and vice. Larkin served two terms on Seattle City Council beginning in 1969. While on the Seattle City Council, he served as chair of the Intergovernmental Relations, Utilities, and Public Safety committees. While on the city council, Larkin used his experiences as a firefighter to work with Seattle Fire Chief Gordon Vickrey to develop the first 911 Medic One system in the country. Wayne sponsored and secured passage of Harborview Hospital’s bond issue for Seattle’s Burn Center and also spear-headed the passage of legislation creating the Policy Department’s K-9 unit. He advocated for including the Vietnam and Korean War Memorial on the walls of the old Public Safety Building in Seattle. Additionally, Larkin’s committee chairs helped him secure passage for a program to exempt economically disadvantaged users of the city’s utilities, forge consensus on water issues in King County, and he played a leading role in creating the Metro Transit System. Larkin passed away at Swedish Hospital on September 3, 2009.

Ivar Haglund (1905 – 1985) was a Seattle restauranteur and folk singer best known for founding Ivar’s seafood restaurant chain based in Seattle, WA. Ivar’s also owns the Seattle-based burger restaurant chain Kidd Valley Hamburgers. During his life, Haglund was known as “King of the Waterfront”. Haglund was born to Scandinavian parents on March 21, 1905. His father, Johan Ivar Haglund was Swedish and his mother Daisy Hanson Haglund was Norwegian. His mother’s parents had bought Alki Point from Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard in 1868. Daisy Haglund died in 1908, and Ivar was subsequently raised by his father and Daisy’s older sister Lorena Smith and brother Edmund. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1928 with a degree as a stockbroker. In 1938, Haglund established Seattle’s first aquarium at Pier 54, along with a fish-and-chips stand. This stand was the precursor of Haglund’s first restaurant, “Acres of Clams”, which opened in 1946. By 1965, Haglund began shooting fireworks over Elliott Bay every Independence Day. He also became a radio personality and a champion of regional folk music. Ivar bought Seattle’s Smith Tower in 1976. In 1983, he was elected port commissioner after filing as a prank. Haglund died of a heart attack just over a year later. Though he was married twice, he had no children. He left his estate principally to the University Washington School of Business in support of the University Restaurant Program.

Lloyd Cooney (1923 – 2013) was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to Vera Marie Williams and Cecil Everett Cooney. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and served as a Tech 5 specialist with the 517 Airborne Signal Co. of the 17th and 82nd Airborne Divisions in World War II. He received three major battle stars including the Battle of the Bulge. He earned his B.S. degree in Political Science at the University of Utah. He married Betty Louise Packard in 1946. Cooney was a VP/General Manager of KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, UT before coming to Seattle as President/General Manager of KIRO, Inc.—which includes KIRO-TV, KIRO News radio and KSEA-FM—from 1963 to 1982. Cooney left KIRO to run for the U.S. Senate seat of Warren Magnuson in 1982 and the seat of Henry Jackson in 1983. After his lost both campaigns, he worked as a business consultant.

Possibly Joan Mondale, wife of Vice President Walter Mondale. Joan was a lifelong practitioner, patron, and advocate of the arts. She was an accomplished potter and worked in galleries before she moved to Washington, D.C. as a Senator’s wife in 1964, and led guided tours at the National Gallery of Art. In 1972 she wrote a book called Politics in Art that examines how political commentary is reflected in art. She served as chairperson of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities as Second Lady.

Katharine Graham was chairwoman of the board and CEO of the Washington Post. The Washington Post owned The Daily Herald—a newspaper based in Everett, WA—from 1978 until 2013. Graham visited Everett, WA where The Daily Herald plant was located several times, beginning in March 1978. By 1979, Graham’s son Donald Graham was the publisher of the Post, and he began making frequent trips to Everett. However, Katharine still visited Everett up until as recently as 1995. During her visits, she preferred to stay in Everett or Snohomish County rather than staying in Seattle hotels. Katharine Graham (1917 – 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family’s newspaper, The Washington Post from 1963 – 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. She was the first twentieth century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. She held the formal title of the publisher from 1969 to 1979, and was chairwoman of the board from 1973 to 1991. She was the first female fortune 500 CEO in 1972, as CEO of The Washington Post.

Possibly Jim Halverson of Bellingham, WA. James M. Halverson passed away at the age of 71 on September 7, 2010. He was a longtime resident of Auburn/Federal Way, and was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Kenneth Callahan (1905 – 1986) was an American painter and muralist who served as a catalyst for Northwest artists in the mid-20th century through his own painting, his work as assistant director and curator at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), and his writing about contemporary art. Callahan was a somewhat controversial figure because of the conflicts of interest in his positions as curator, artist, and citric. Callahan was born in Spokane, Washington and was largely a self-taught artist. He briefly enrolled at the University of Washington in 1924, but did not complete a degree. His work was included in the first Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1933. The same year, he began his twenty-year tenure at SAM. For the next twenty years, he also wrote a weekly arts column for The Seattle Times. Callahan continued painting into the 1970s and 1980s, though he had much lower output. However, Callahan did continue working in the arts in varying capacities. In 1972, he designed costumes and sets for Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of Macbeth. In 1973, the Henry Art Gallery presented Universal Voyages, the most comprehensive retrospective on his work. In 1976, he painted a series of horses for an on-site restaurant at Longacres racetrack. He was known as one of the Northwest Mystics—along with Guy Anderson, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey—who all shared a muted palette and strong interest in Asian aesthetics, though Callahan did not consider himself to be a mystic painter because he was uninterested in symbolism and he saw his work as firmly rooted in nature and art history. His works are included in collections all over the United States—including the Seattle Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.

John Edward “Jack” Cunningham III (1931 - ) was a Republican Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won a special election in May 1977 when Brock Adams resigned to become Secretary of Transportation. He lost his re-election to Mike Lowry in 1978. Before his term in the U.S. House of Representatives, he served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1973 until 1975, and a member of the Washington Senate from 1975 to 1977.

Michael Edward Lowry (1939 – 2017) was a Democratic politician who served as the 20th governor of Washington from 1993 to 1997. His political career ended abruptly following a sexual misconduct allegation made by his deputy press secretary, Susanne Albright. Lowry served as a United States representative from Washington’s 7th congressional district from 1979 – 1989.Lowry was born and raised in St. John, Washington and graduated from Washington State University in 1962. He had a brief career as lobbyist for Group Health Cooperative before being elected to the King County Council in 1975. He also twice ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate. While governor, his principal policy initiative was a statewide system of health insurance with premiums based on ability to pay. However, he did not run for reelection after Albright accused him of making inappropriate remarks and fondling her. Before his death in 2017, Lowry was active in building affordable housing for Washington’s migrant farm workers. He died on May 1st, 2017 at the age of 78 from complications of a stroke.

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of the Black American experience, using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence referred to his style as “dynamic cubism,” though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. Lawrence also taught, and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington. He is known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African-American history and historical figures. When he was 23 years old, he gained national recognition for his 60-panel Migration Series painted on cardboard—depicting the Great Migration of Black people from the rural South to the urban North.After many years in New York, Lawrence and his wife and fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1970 where he had been invited to teach art as a professor at the University of Washington.

Barbara Bye Goesling (1936 – 2017) was born in Fort Worth, Texas on February 19, 1936. Her family moved to Seattle when she was eight years old, and she attended the Helen Bush School and Roosevelt High School in Seattle. After a year at Stanford University, she graduated from the University of Washington in 1958 where she joined the Pi Beta Phi sorority. She worked for The Seattle Times during the 1962 World’s Fair, and later for Japan Airlines when they opened a regional office in Seattle. In 1964, two members of the Seattle Symphony Board asked if she would start a young support group for the Symphony, which eventually became the Junior Women’s Symphony Association. Shortly after founding this group, she was asked to serve on the boards of both the Seattle Opera Association and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. In 2009, she became a Lifetime Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She married WIlliam W. Brinkley in 1966, and they raised two children together. She was a devoted advocate of the importance of public/private partnerships in the arts, working on the board and commissions of funding organizations such as the King County Arts Commission and the PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civil, Cultural, and Charitable Organizations) Board of Trustees.

Emmett Watson (1918 -2001) was an American newspaper columnist from Seattle, Washington whose columns ran in a variety of Seattle newspapers over the span of more than 50 years. Initially a sportswriter, he is primarily known for authoring a social commentary column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1956 until 1982, when he moved to The Seattle Times and continued there as a columnist until shortly before his death in 2001.Watson grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s. He was an advocate through his column, as well as through a fictional organization called “Lesser Seattle”, for limiting the growth and urban renewal that dramatically altered the city’s landscape during the second half of the twentieth century. Lesser Seattle was a parody of Greater Seattle Inc., which advocated for several of Seattle’s civic improvement and development projects that Watson considered ill-advised because of the influx of outsiders from California and elsewhere that he thought would ruin the city. His column at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was called “This, Our City” in addition to other names throughout the years includes “This, Our Town”. Watson was an early champion of civil rights, social reform, and the anti-war movement, and would frequently write about these topics in his column. In the early 1980s, Watson left the P-I after perceived unfair treatment by a new editor, and an eventual reduction of his column’s frequency. By October 30, 1983, Watson’s column began appearing in The Seattle Times instead of the P-I. At the Seattle Times, he continued to skewer the rich and powerful in his columns, always fighting against the kind of development and modernization he felt was destroying the city he knew and loved. During The Newspaper Guild’s November 2000 strike against the Seattle Times, Watson, then in his eighties, made regular daily appearances on the picket line. He also wrote for the Seattle Union Record, the strike paper for the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild. On February 18, 1979, Emmett Watson and his friend Sam Bryant open the city’s first oyster bar. Watson sold his share of the Oyster Bar to Bryant in 1987. Emmett Watson’s Oyster Bar in located in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and is currently owned by Sam Bryant’s son, Thurman. In March 2001, Watson underwent surgery for an abdominal aneurysm at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and died of complications from the surgery on May 11, 2001 at the age of 82.

Ned Skinner is possibly David. E. “Ned” Skinner II (1920 – 1988). Skinner was a shipping heir and philanthropist who was one of the first owners of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks. He was born in Seattle and attended Lakeside School. His grandfather was David E. Skinner, who owned Skinner and Eddy shipyard, the Pacific Steamship Co., and the Port Blakely Mill. Ned Skinner graduated from Dartmouth College in 1942 and served aboard a destroyer during World War II. He married Kayla Lagasa in 1942. After the death of his father, G.W. Skinner in 1953, Ned took over the Alaska Steamship Company. When it went into decline and ultimately closed in 1971, Ned branched into real estate with the Skinner Corporation owning the Skinner Building, 5th Avenue Theater, Pepsi Bottling, and NC Machinery. The company was listed as the 10th largest privately owned company in 1988. In 1972 Skinner and Herman Sarkowsky were the two original investors in the Seattle Seahawks.Skinner was an active philanthropist in Seattle and supported the Seattle Opera, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Repository Theater, Pacific Science Center, and Seattle Art Museum through his philanthropy. He founded the Skinner Foundation in 1956 and donated 5 percent of the Skinner Corporation’s profits to the foundation. Donald “Don” J. Covey (1928 – 2018) was a businessman from Seattle. He spent 39 years of his career in property development management with UNICO Properties—beginning with the company as their president in 1975. Covey graduated from Franklin High School and the University of Washington. While in college, the Korean War began. Covey’s college years were interrupted when he served as a staff sergeant with the First Marine Division and participated in the Chosin Reservoir campaign in North Korea during the winter of 1950. While at UNICO, he played a large role in the development of One and Two Union Square, two large office buildings in Downtown Seattle. He was a member of many Seattle organizations while working at UNICO, including Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Seattle Association. Covey died in 2018 after complications due to Parkinson’s. He was 90 years old. In 1978, the Fifth Avenue Theater shut its doors. UNICO pushed to restore and modify the historic theater because of a strong public opinion to keep the theater. UNICO lead a collation of 42 other businesses to create the nonprofit 5th Avenue Theater Association and underwriting for a $2.6 million loan for its physical restoration. UNICO also provided construction management at no charge. Covey and Skinner’s connection to each other may be their involvement in the reopening of the 5th Avenue Theater—Covey as a leader of UNICO’s restoration project, and Skinner’s role as an owner of the 5th Avenue Theater.

Possibly Victor Bradley of the Cascade Rescue Company. Bradley invented the first aluminum rickshaw style toboggan in 1962, now called the “Cascade Toboggan”.

David Checkley was chairperson of the Seattle Kite Association, kite maker, and First Vice President of American Kitefliers Association.

In 1974 Page was appointed to run the transit system of the Seattle transit system. In June 1977, he was nominated and confirmed to head the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Valerie Harper (1939 - 2019) was an actress, dancer, singer, and writer. Harper worked at the Seattle Repertory Company in Seattle, WA in the 1974-1975 season. She was a special guest of the company, with Anthony Zerbe, and acted in two one act shows, Lunchtime and Halloween both written by Leonard Melfi. Harper is known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970 – 1977) and its spin-off Rhoda (1974 – 1978). Harper was born in Suffern, New York on August 22, 1939. She grew up all over the country, as her family moved around to accommodate her father’s job at a salesman. She trained as a ballerina and got her start as a performer on Broadway, working as a dancer and a chorus girl. She also worked at Chicago’s Second City Theater. After the final season of Rhoda, Harper appeared in a number of television movies and stared in a third sitcom, Valerie beginning in 1986. The series didn’t achieve success of her previous shows, and Harper was removed from her role after the second season, though the show continued for additional seasons under other names. She sued Lorimar Television for wrongful firing, and the jury agreed, awarding her $1.4 million in compensationHarper was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. The cancer spread to her brain in 2013, and her prognosis was poor. However, she lived for nearly 10 years after her initial diagnosis. She died in 2019, survived by her husband Tony Cacciotti and their daughter Cristina.

Brandt Morgan is a writer and an editor, including books from the Tom Brown’s series of survival guides.

Elmer Dixon was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle’s Central District, attending Garfield High School. While at Garfield High, Dixon helped organized the school’s Black Student Union in 1968. The same year, with his older brother Aaron Dixon, he co-founded the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He served the Chapter as its Field Marshall as well as the Breakfast Program Coordinator. When the Seattle Chapter closed its office and some of its core members moved to Oakland in 1972, Elmer, under parole and unable to move to Oakland, stayed in Seattle and reorganized the Chapter. He worked to sustain the Party’s breakfast program and health clinic, maintaining the Panther organization until 1976 and some programs into the 1980s. After the cessation of the Party, Elmer Dixon worked as a diversity consultant.

Stanley C. Soderland (1917—2001) was a judge of the King County Superior Court, who clerked for Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Soderland was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up on a farm near Snohomish, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1936 and received his LL.B. degree from the University of Washington Law School in 1939, graduating first of his class. He served as the first full term clerk for Justice William O. Douglas from 1939 – 1940. Soderland practiced personal injury law in Seattle from 1943 to 1964. In 1964, he was appointed a judge in King County Superior Court and served until his retirement in 1979. In 1971, he oversaw the grand jury led by prosecutors Chris Bayley and Evan Schwab investigating police payoffs, and helped lead an investigation into poor conditions at the King County Jail, which resulted in a report recommending reforms. Drawing on his years as a trial lawyer, he published pattern jury instructions for use in civil cases in 1971. In 1976, the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association voted him “judge of the year”. He was married twice, and had one daughter, Diana Crittendon, and four sons, Stephen, Douglas, David, and Carl. The family resided in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle and had a second home on Shaw Island in the San Juan Islands in Washington.

Morganna Roberts (1947 - ), also known as “Morganna”, “the Kissing Bandit” and “Morganna the Wild One” is an entertainer who is known for rushing the field on many occasions during Major League Baseball Games to kiss players, including Nolan Ryan, Peter Rose, Johnny Bench, George Brett (two times), Steve Garvey, Len Barker, and Cal Ripkin, Jr. She’s been described as “baseball’s unofficial mascot” and the “grand dame of baseball”. She has also rushed the court during National Basketball Association games, where she once kissed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Peter Oelrichs Duchin (1937 -- ) is an American pianist and band leader. Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when Peter was five days old. Peter’s father was Jewish, and his mother was removed from the New York Social Register for marrying him. Duchin was educated at Eaglebrook School and the Hotchkiss School in New England. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France before returning home to graduate from Yale University. Duchin formed his first professional band, which played at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, in 1962 thanks in part to his family name and the networking it had made possible. By 2009, Duchin’s band had played an estimated 6,000 performances.

Possibly Steve Paul Myer (1954 - ), a former professional American football player who played four NFL seasons from 1976 – 1979 for the Seattle Seahawks as quarterback.

Tom Wolfe (1930 – 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s. His best-selling book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” brought his work to national attention in 1968. Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff” was released in 1979, Wolfe was possibly touring and promoting his newest book while in Seattle, WA in October 1979.

Possibly Ann Bergman, publisher and editor of "Seattle’s Child", a guide to kid-friendly activities in Seattle.

The L.A. Four was a jazz quartet that performed in Los Angeles, California from 1974 – 1982. Its members were guitarist Laurindo Almeida, saxophonist and flutist Bud Shank, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Shelly Manne, replaced by Jeff Hamilton in 1977.

M. Burke Walker is a director who worked at theaters and theatrical companies in Seattle including A Contemporary Theater (ACT), The Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1973 until roughly 2009, with a few directing credits outside of Seattle throughout the time period. Walker directed “The Sea Horse” in August 1978 and “Artichoke” in 1980, both with ACT.

Haglund (1905 – 1985) was a Seattle restauranteur and folk singer best known for founding Ivar’s seafood restaurant chain based in Seattle, WA. Ivar’s also owns the Seattle-based burger restaurant chain Kidd Valley Hamburgers. During his life, Haglund was known as “King of the Waterfront”. Haglund was born to Scandinavian parents on March 21, 1905. His father, Johan Ivar Haglund was Swedish and his mother Daisy Hanson Haglund was Norwegian. His mother’s parents had bought Alki Point from Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard in 1868. Daisy Haglund died in 1908, and Ivar was subsequently raised by his father and Daisy’s older sister Lorena Smith and brother Edmund. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1928 with a degree as a stockbroker. In 1938, Haglund established Seattle’s first aquarium at Pier 54, along with a fish-and-chips stand. This stand was the precursor of Haglund’s first restaurant, “Acres of Clams”, which opened in 1946. By 1965, Haglund began shooting fireworks over Elliott Bay every Independence Day. He also became a radio personality and a champion of regional folk music. Ivar bought Seattle’s Smith Tower in 1976. In 1983, he was elected port commissioner after filing as a prank. Haglund died of a heart attack just over a year later. Though he was married twice, he had no children. He left his estate principally to the University Washington School of Business in support of the University Restaurant Program.

Bob Walsh (1940 – 2017) was a Puget Sound region entrepreneur, business consultant, and sports executive. Walsh was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts in 1940. He worked as a radio and television producer at WMAC in the Boston area. He then moved to KABC in Los Angeles. While working at KABC, he hired basketball player Bill Russell as a drive-time host. When Russell resigned his position at KABC in 1973 to become head coach and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics, he hired Walsh as his assistant general manager. During his tenure with the Sonics, Walsh negotiated to bring the 1974 NBA All-Star Game to Seattle. Walsh left the SuperSonics in 1977, and became a sports agent for clients including Jim Zorn and Steve Largent of the Seattle Seahawks. Walsh also brought the 1984 NCAA Final Four basketball tournament to the Kingdome in Seattle. Largely through the promotion efforts of Walsh and his company, Bob Walsh and Associates, the phrase “March Madness” was coined. Walsh also helped promote Seattle’s rebrand from “Queen City” to “Emerald City” in the late 1980s by reaching out contacts in the NFL and at Sports Illustrated and convinced them to refer to Seattle as “Emerald City” on broadcasts and in print. Walsh’s company also promoted the 1990 Goodwill Games. He was inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

Harvey J. Feldman (1931 – 2009) was an American diplomat best known for planning the 1972 Nixon visit to China. Feldman served in Hong Kong for eight years, Taiwan for six years, and Japan for four years. He continued involvement in relations with China when he became the Director of the Office of Republic of China Affairs in September 1977. In that capacity, he and Lee Marks drafted the Taiwan Relations Act, which was passed into law in 1979. On August 2, 1979, he was appointed to the position of U.S. ambassador to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, which he held until May 25, 1981. He later served as an alternative U.S. representative to the United Nations. He retired in 1986. After his retirement, Feldman continued his involvement with China affairs. He became a fellow in China Policy of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He was also a board member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. He died on February 24, 2009 from complications from aortic dissection.

Megan Cole, also known professionally as Megan Elizabeth Cole, was an actress who performed in various theater and companies in Seattle, including A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), Intiman Theatre, and several other theaters outside of Seattle—mainly in California. She was active from 1974 until 2010.