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'O|d-timers'Bid Forewell to Historic 'House of Hoo-Hoo'

January 28 will go down in history as one of the high spots in the annals of Hoo-Hoo in the Pacific Northwest, for it was on this occasion that Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club 34 celebrated the Gold- en Anniversary of the "House of Hoo- ' lloo" on the campus of the University of Washington. Designated as Old Timers' Night, it was a gala affair with , nearly 70 cats attending from all over the state of Washington and one from j California. Don Briggs, president of the Tacoma club, and Q. E. MacEathron, past-president, brought a : delegation of members from the great lumber center.

Old Hoo-Hoo House

To Be Torn Down

The meeting was held in the SO-yearold Seattle "llouse of Hoo-Hoo," built and financed by local club members in 1909 as the - hospitality center for ' visiting lumbermen and their families at the famed Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. For the past half-century, F;-l-: jl" it has served as the Facultv club of the 5 University of Washington but was to be torn down starting in February to make way for a modern quarter-million-dollar .structure.

being members of the House of Ancients; Stuart C. Smith and Bill Bell, former members of the Supreme Nine; Bojum Jim Miller and Deputy Snark, Jurisdiction III, Bob Grimm; Vicegerent Snark John Allen and former Supreme Bojum Donald H. Clark.

Other "old-timers" included President-Emeritus Henry Schmitz of the University of Washington, who is honorary vice-chairman of the Organizing committee for the Fifth World Forestry Congress to be held in Seattle in the fall of 1960 (of which Seattle Hoo-Hoo President Gordon D. Marckworth is a member), and Hugh Brady, old-time Seattle lumberman. And there were three retired faculty members who were among those who took over the transfer of the Seattle House of Hoo-Hoo to the University of Washington in 1909 as its Faculty Club.

Youth of 80 Honored

and bright smile belied his years as he greeted old friends. Walter, who carries the low Hoo-Hoo number 8728, was one of the pioneers of the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest and is still active as chairman of the board of his company.

Early History of Hoo-Hoo

The oldest living Snark of the Universe, Charles D. LeMaster, 29727, was on deck. As Rameses29.he is the sixth Seer of the House of Ancients.

The affair was sparkling with members of the House of Ancients and latter-day dignitaries: Ernie L. Wales, Spokane, Washington, 1958 Snark of the Universe and now Rameses 50. and Arthur H. Geiger, Tacoma, Rameses 45both veritable youngsters but elderly only in the technical sense of

A note of 'nostalgia was in evidence as old timers were greeted at the door by the Seattle club president, Gordon D. Marckworth. dean of the university's College of Forestry, and Walter H. Schaeffer, president of the Faculty club, who acted as co-hosts. Perhaps the most touching scene was the arrival of Walter B. Nettleton, grand old youth of eighty, the oldest living member of the Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club, who wds just barely able to navigate with a sturdy cane but whose youthful gleam

President Marckworth related the history of Hoo-Hoo in Seattle and the building of the House of Hoo-Hoo half a century ago. He told how a zealous building committee of nine members of the old Seattle club undertook the fund-raising campaign and succeeded in garnering $17,615.09 in subscriptions and then completing the structure and providing for its operation during tl-re Exposition at a total cost of $17,604.38 with $10.71 cash left over with which to celebrate. The beautiful building, now doomed to make way for progress, is living evidence of the love and devotion and careful planning that went into its creation.

The consulting architect for the new club house, Victor Steinbrueck, associate professor of Architecture, IJniversity of Washington, displayed a scale model of the new structure with timeyellowed plans of the original building resurrected from the attic of the home of the former architect. Ellsworth Storey, where Steinbrueck is presently residing. He painted a glowing picture (Continued on Page 68)

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