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Vol. 23, No. 4

Autumn 1997

A review and newsletter from the Columbia River Maritime Museum at 1792 Marine Drive in Astoria, Oregon

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Fishing trollers at Astoria, captured onjUm by Rolf Klep sometime in the 1950s.

Troller Darle: A Good Catch for the Museum On a brilliant late-summer day, a small white troller cruised quietly into Astoria's East End Mooring Basin, two tall poles snugged up against her mast.

She slid into a berth not far from where she was built and launched just over 50 years ago. The Darle, a fine example of an Astoria-built troller, was on her way to her new home at the Columbia River Maritime Museum.

We collected Darle as a time capsule to document trolling, both as a way of life and as an important method in our region's fisheries. The 32-foot wooden troller was built in 1945 by Co-

lumbia River Packers' Association at their George & Barker cannery. She has fished for salmon continually since then.

Owner Michael Becker of Newport, a long-time commercial fisherman, ensured that Darle comes to us in fine condition, fully equipped and ready to fish.

For well over a hundred years, the Pacific Northwest has been synonymous with salmon, supplying markets the world over with this favorite fish.

People used a variety of methods to harvest salmon from the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean. Gillnets were most numerous, and fishers also used

traps, haul seines, fishwheels, dipnets, purse seines, and trollers.

With several gillnet boats already among our more than 25 watercraft, the Museum wishes to round out the story of commercial fishing by acquiring a troller, an equally significant boat type. The Darle, which was locally built to a proven design, relatively small, in fine condition, and with a good documentary record, fulfills all the reasons why we collect: to tell the myriad stories of our maritime heritage with typical, authentic, primary objects. For Darle's story, see page 6.

-Anne Witty, Curator

Afterguard Ted Natt, President Robley Mangold, Vice President Herbert Steinmeyer, Secretary Don Magnusen, Treasurer Ward V. Cook, Immediate Past Pres.

Jerry L. Ostermiller, Executive Director

Board of Trustees: Graham Barbey Mitch Boyce Peter Brix, Emeritus TedBugas Richard T. Carruthers, Emeritus Ronald Collman Jack R. Dant Jon Englund Carl Fisher Mike Foglia Cheri Folk J.W. 'Bud' Forrester, Jr., Emeritus Walter Gadsby, Jr. James H. Gilbaugh, Jr. Alan C. Goudy Don M. Haskell W. Louis Larson Rod Leland Eugene Lowe Chet Makinster Jim McClaskey John McGowan Scott Palmquist Larry Perkins Richard G. Reiten Charles Shea Sid Snyder June Spence Willis Van Dusen Frank M. Warren Ted Zell

Museum Staff: Russ Bean Celerino Bebeloni Chris Bennett Nikki Bryan Karen Carpenter Trish Custard John Davis Charlotte Jackson Stephanie Kiander Bonnie Kozowski Lynne Leland Jennifer Miller Jim Nyberg Rose Palazzo David Pearson Sheila Radich Rob Rudd Elaine Rusinovich Arline Schmidt W Hampton Scudder Anne Witty Rachel \.fynne

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from the Wheelhouse ...

The Last Great Mystery If one thing can be said for the last two decades of this century, it would be that it has been an explosive time of discovery. Fossil life on Mars, non-photosynthetic life in the abyss, gene engineering, and even artificial intelligence are subjects making their way into our laptops. This accelerated crossing of the scientific frontier extends to social fronts Aboard the Hesperus a century ago, mariners battled storms in as well. For instance, the Bay of Biscay. Courtesy of San Francisco Maritime NHP. who among us could have predicted the demise of the Berlin Wall or the restructuring of Chinese Communism in order to integrate the economic engines of Hong Kong entrepreneurship? And will the Dow hit 10,000 next year?

Yet the subject most discussed is the least affected by the advances of science ...

Weather. Is there a single subject upon which more has been written? Think back on all the literature that you have read, whether or not on a maritime subject. Has not the weather had its effect on romance, drama, or just setting the mood and forming the foundation of every story? How about sea stories? Homer or Conrad, the whims of the gods make their expression through weather, be it a gentle breeze or a raging tempest. It is perhaps no coincidence then that two of the most popular best sellers are Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm. Both of these books base their stories on the mysterious, uncontrolled power of weather.

It is ironic that the explosion of weather technology is nothing short of staggering.

For example, a tour of the Internet will overwhelm even the most sophisticated weather watcher. There are not only dozens of weather pages and vast numbers of satellite photos and data, but also "weather-cams" showing real-time views of every major city in the world. NOAA estimates that data gathered from its vast satellite network eclipses, in just one day, all the ship and shore station data gathered in a year just a few decades ago. Computers then process this information to produce the incredible pictures we consume daily of hurricanes, storms, and even El Niiio.

Because of all this technology we are aware of what is happening-in detail and in color. Yet the mystery of weather remains: that no one can predict with certainty what the weather will actually be next week, let alone next month or next year. El Niiio is a case in point; will this weather pattern bring us the storms of the century or a balmy, drier winter? Forecasters have put forth both scenarios.

There is something refreshing in this apparent chaos of the planet dynamism, and it is just this uncertainty that makes setting sail such a compelling experience. The arts of being a sailor include reading the sky, the wind, and the water. In fact, it is the exercise of judgement in such matters that provides the foundation for the term "Master," and makes the experienced mariner so highly regarded.

Perhaps we should celebrate the fact that weather remains so elusive. The fact that all the technological advances in science have not made a dent in our ability to control the weather may be good for our humility. Like it or not, weather remains wild, untamed and true to the spirit of all great journeys. And like it or not, weather is most likely to remain for many generations to come The Last Great Mystery.

-Jerry Ostermiller; Executive Director

.ailing all hands

The Columbia River Maritime Museum has recently acquired three unique historic boats, representing the fishing industry, recreational sailing, and the courageous rescue efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard. We are asking you, our members, to make a special year-end gift to help preserve these exciting new acquisitions.

Troller Darle

"These boats represent three important phases of the Columbia River's maritime history. To preserve them will ensure that our story, the story of our home and community, will never be lost."

-Richard Carruthers, Museum Trustee

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A 1934 Columbia River One-Design sailboat, CROD#l was the first of its class ever built. The creation of Astoria marine architect Joe Dyer, the CRODs were especially designed for the lower Columbia River with shallow draft and a centerboard keel.

A small fleet of CRODs raced the lower Columbia in the years just prior to WW II. With the arrival of the war, Astoria's boatyards turned to more pressing tasks, including the construction of minesweepers and the outfitting of larger Navy ships built upriver in Portland. One of the few remaining CRODs, this boat will sail the lower Columbia and fly the Museum's house flag.

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Astoria's East End Mooring Basin now houses a new arrival to the Museum's watercraft collection. The Darle, a wooden-hull troller built in Astoria in 1945, was a member of the West Coast troller fishing fleet for some 50 years. The Darle has weathered her share of storms and record catches. She comes to us fully rigged and complete with all of her gear. The donation of a generous fishing family, the Darle will join the Museum's other fishing boats, including the several gillnet boats (tunnel stem, square-sterned, Bristol Bay sailing, replica Columbia River sailing, and double-ended models). Read more about the Darle on pages 6-8.

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Director Jerry Ostermiller and Associate Curator David Pearson examine U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat #44300 as she is being preparedfor transfer to the Museum.

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Motor Lifeboat #44300 Visitors to the Museum's Great Hall know well the U.S. Coast Guard boats on display, the spectacular 36-foot wood-hull motor lifeboat and the 25-foot motor surfboat. These boats provide testimony to the bravery of the Coast Guard in our area. The two vessels will soon be joined by their successor on the Columbia River Bar, the mighty 44-foot steel-hull motor lifeboat. Thanks to the generosity of the United States Coast Guard, boat #44300, the prototype 44-foot motor lifeboat, will join the Museum fleet completely outfitted as if ready for duty-including instruments, communications equipment, towing lines, survival suits, and even a regulation coffee pot! #44300 will form the heart of a new Museum effort to tell the story of the heroes who have saved countless lives through their service on the Bar. Her donation is an expression of the U.S. Coast Guard's high respect for the Museum, a respect which we return tenfold.

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Columbia River Maritime Museum News and Notes Seeking Shipyard Memories

Take Home a Vision of World War II History The very popular Kern Room exhibit "Steichen and His Men" has been extended through January. This exhibit presents a vivid photographic portrait of the Navy in World War II through the work of eight talented photographers who documented the human side of the Navy and naval aviation. The superb, large format photographs have fascinated visitors.

Two commemorative posters are for sale in the Museum Store. These dramatic IS" x 24" glossy prints on heavy paper stock are a limited edition. Purchase yours now, for only $10.

Are you a woman who worked in a shipyard during World War II? Would you be willing to share your memories? The Museum's Education Department is beginning a project to collect the stories and recollections of female shipyard workers.

These histories will be used as reference for students and in an oral history project.

If you were a "Rosie" or shipyard employee and would share your story, please contact Patricia Turner Custard at the Museum.

Great Books Discovered During Library Cataloguing This fall, long-time members might not recognize the CRMM library. Newly-added shelves are groaning under the weight of books. The complete computerized inventory of 4,732 books has been shipped off for conversion to full Library of Congress records. Library cataloguer Arline Schmidt will be performing a good deal of unique cataloguing over the winter, and overseeing the detailed process oflabeling and reorganizing the books. If you would like to tour the library, and see first-hand how the project is progressing, call the Museum.

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Editor: Karen Carpenter. Editorial Staff: Jerry Ostermiller, Anne Witty, Patricia Turner Custard, Rachel Wynne, Rob Rudd.

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Paddling into the Past with a Willits Canoe

Columbia River Maritime Museum

Winterfest Sunday, December 21st a daylong celebration of the season Free admission all day Children's crafts and activities Live music and dance noon to 5 Help us deck out a 25-foot tree for the Museum's Great Hall!

The Museum Wants You! The Museum is looking for many good volunteers. We need your assistance in the Museum Store, at the Admissions Desk, or as a docent. If you have a few hours to donate each week, please call Chris Bennett, Volunteer Coordinator, at 503-325-2323.

Wonderful opportunities and benefits await you as a Columbia River Maritime Museum Volunteer!

For sheer aesthetic pleasure - the saucy upturn of its ends, the rich patina of old wood, the precise placement of wooden strips to form a neat package -- this classic strip-planked canoe has it all. Just the sight of such a craft brings images of leisurely excursions around a lake, at a pace more in keeping with the bucolic 19th century than with our quick-living late 20th century.

Recently, a classic canoe arrived to join the Museum's watercraft collection. Built by the Willits brothers of Tacoma, Washington, the canoe is considered both rare and collectible as a craft unique to the Northwest. Our example, like many other Willits canoes, had made its way clear across the country where it was used for many years in New York State's Adirondacks. Mr. Bill Dow of the Lake George Steamboat Company realized he had a Northwest treasure, and recently contacted the Museum about donating the boat.

Canoeing caught on among the American public in the late nineteenth century, and fine wooden decked canoes remained popular on Eastern and Midwestern waters through the early 20th century. Later, while fickle eastern leisure-seekers turned

to other fads such as bicycling, the more recently settled Pacific Northwest caught on to pleasurable pursuits on the water.

The Willits brothers, Floyd and Earl, began building canoes in Tacoma around 1914, building a small factory on Day Island around 1921. Over the course of long careers working side-by-side, they produced a thousand wooden canoes through the 1960s. All one size and superbly crafted, the canoes were ubiquitous on Puget Sound and Northwest waterfronts.

We are delighted to add Willits canoe #664 to our fleet of historic recreational watercraft.

-Anne Witty, Curator

Gearing Up the Canoe We'd like to furnish our canoe with the right gear. The Willits canoe was designed to be outfitted for sailing with spars, a "butterfly" or batwing sail, and a strap-on centerboard, or with sliding seats, sculling oars, or a bracket for outboard motor. If you know of any existing Willits equipment that should be reunited with a canoe, please contact the Museum.

CORRECT DESIGN

SAFE AND SEAWORTHY

SHOW ING BEAUTIFUL MODEL OF WILLITS CANOE Lenqth 17 feet , 8edm 3~ inches, Depth Am;ds.hip-s 12 1/J. inches, Depth ot Bows. 23 il'lches. .

Crew News We welcome Stephanie Kiander to the new membership coordinator position and to the Astoria area. A native Oregonian, Stephanie brings marketing experience and great enthusiasm for maritime history to this position. In addition to managing the Museum's membership program, she will be working with a new committee which will focus on increasing membership in the Museum.

We say so long to Lora Gerry Burnham, who has handled the membership desk adeptly since April 1996. Lora and her husband, Dr. Clyde Burnham, are heading south to pursue his medical career, and in search of sun and further schooling. Good luck, and we'll miss you!

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Cedor Planking S/lb inch, Dech 2 feet long , Weight 75 lbs.

ONE STANDARD SIZE

DOUBLE PLANKING

We use o double pl<lnk method of construction with " permanent waterproof lining between the two thicknesses of planking.

The inside planks run cross-wise oround the conoe ond toke the place of ribs while the outside planks are narrow strips and run lengthwise from stem to stern. This mokes a very strong conoe and gives a perfectly smooth surface both inside and outs ide which adds greatly lo the appearance of the conoe and makes it very easily kept clean.

This is the strongest type of wood construction known ond is used extensively in the construction of airplanes , speed boats, and all such places where greot strength and light weight are required.

HIGHEST QUALITY OF MATERIALS

Only the best of moterials are used in the const,uction of our conoes. The planking is clear. selected, verticol groin cedar which makes a light canoe and ossures long life. The seats are spruce, the stems are white ook and the keel is teak.

The decks, thwarts and gunwales ore either genuine mahogany. finished in deep red, or teak, finished in the natural brown color of the wood.

The fastenings are all of copper ond brass ond the canoe may be used either on fresh or salt waler .

Every conoe receives four coals of the highest quality of spor varnish which brings out the natural groin of the wood ond gives o durable and beautiful finish.

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Poles spread, this trailer joins the winter fleet for maintenance at the CRPA "sandlot." Like other CRPA boats, Darle was owned by the company, which performed all maintenance, and leased by the fisherman. CRPA neg. 541

Ernest Oja of Ilwaco, Washington (third from left) was Darle's skipper for many years. He bought the boat from CRPA in about 1970. Together they fished off the mouth of the Columbia River in the early season, then went down the coast to Newport for summer ocean trolling each year. (L tor) Ted and Wayne Juomala, Ernie Oja, and Bill Lugnet, Ilwaco, April 1946. CRPA neg. 657B

Unloading salmon from trailers at the Elmore Cannery, Astoria, March 1946. CRPA neg. 603

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The Lively Lad and Captain C tion Meet t Ocean Tr For those reade have wondered abo books in the mariti e library, we present this di ersionary fable. It is dedicati to Arline Schmidt, our crack library cataloguer, who first pointed out the comic potential of the actual book tides and authors' names (shown in italics).

One bell calls the watch on this passage perilous along Oregon s salty coast. So noble a captain, Captain Martyat, had a million miles in sail Yet this skeleton coast alarmed even him. Ships that go bump in the night was not the fate he desired for his live!J lacfy, Lois Darling, who accompanied him on this voyage. She knew how to abandon ship, of course, but with three before breakfast, she might have believed she was on Tahiti, Island of Love, not rough and tumble on the old clipper ship along the coast of a savage country.

For her part, Lois Darling enjoyed a drop of Nelsons blood to ease her fears. What's more, she had every confidence that those sons of Sinbad, TwoBlock Fox (the ships husband) and E. W Sturcfy, first mate, would keep the vqyagers unafraid. She did not want to sail into oblivion, nor to be shipwrecked on this coast where she would undoubtedly be taken a slave wife of Nehalem. Nor did she wish to go on the bottom. All she asked from this passage was a night to remember - and the dashing third mate, Jack Frost, was happy to ensure that the lady's colors were still f!Jing and nailed to the mast.

"In praise of sailors," she warbled the next morning as the ship beat her way up the Oregon coast, "the night

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lives on..." Captain Marryat came down the companionway at that moment. "Whatever are you going on about, my dear Lois Darling?" he inquired.

She turned crimson. "I was just thinking back to my love affair with the Na1!J," she murmured. "Well, my dear," he said, looking sternly at her, "It's time to fish or cut bait. I have overheard certain members of my crew bespeak fables of infidelity and facts offaith, and I wonder not that you stand there blushing on this morning."

"Oh, Captain Caution!" she cried, using the nickname that served whenever he was being so noble a captain.

"You know the tall tales thry tell in the services - well, the ftltf?y liars may wish I were an ocean tramp, but I know the difference between tramps and ladies."

"I doubt it not," he murmured, unrolling the map.

"However, lest our marriage become another shipwreck in paradise, I shall reassign Mr. Frost at earliest opportunity. In fact, he may find himself shanghaied out of 'Frisco on some old nameless very soon."

The lively lady turned her back on him and sulked for the duration of the voyage. But just how long that was, we shall never know, for like so many other fine ships thry sailed into oblivion...

-Anne Witty, Curator

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New Members - July 1- September 30, 1997 Ensignllndivulual

Crew/Family

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Mrs. Martha Ahearn Mr. Paul Barney Mr. Robert Blankholm Mr. and Mrs. David Blatchford Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cain Ms. Terresa A. Cawthra-Cornelius Mrs. Phyllis Collier-Kerns Mr. and Mrs. Bill Eitner

Robert D. Barry Elizabeth W. Buehler Phoebe Daniels David Hanson Roberta Heick John A. Kerr Robert Reuter Patrick J. Rock Richard A. Swart Peter Wilcox

Mr. Delwin D. Fandrich Mr. and Mrs. Ray Freeman Mr. Dan Grimberg Mr. Craig A. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jury Ms. Sally Lebens Mr. and Mrs. Scott McMullen E. S. Omeliwa Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schuneman Mr. and Mrs. Martin Winch

Helmsman Mr. Gregory S. Briggs Mr. and Mrs. George Wright

Boatswain Mr. Chuck Carpenter Mr. Dan Mahony

Increased Memberships - July 1- September 30, 1997 Crew/Family Mr. Steven J. Aamodt Mrs. Wilma Berg Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fransen Mrs. Patricia P. Hemingway Mrs. Ella P. Hill Dr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson Mr. Richard K. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Myron Molnau Mrs. Ruth Parnell Mr. David Thimgan

Helmsman Ms. Virginia M. Alzner-Laang Judge and Mrs. John C. Beatty, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brooks P. M. Buff Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Cullar Captain and Mrs. Michael Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eckert Mrs. Phyllis Edy Mrs. Freda Englund Mr. and Mrs. David S. Gamst Mr. and Mrs. Walker Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill L. Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hedrick Mr. William H. Krohn Mrs. Mary Laird Dr. and Mrs. Charles Linehan Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Martens

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Mattila Mr. and Mrs. Toivo Mustonen Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Parks Mrs. Peter F. Paulson Dr. and Mrs. Jukka Perkiomaki Mr. and Mrs. John L. Price Mr. and Mrs. Paul See Mr. and Mrs. James C. Sharp Mr. and Mrs. Dawson C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Smith Mr. and Mrs. Michael Soderberg Mr. and Mrs. James M. Yasutome

Boatswain Mr. Robert W. Blake Ms. Muriel Bruning

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Sherriffs Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Skille Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Wyatt

Pilot Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Allen Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Atkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Boyle Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Charlton Mr. and Mrs. John L. Christie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Garry Helmer Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Eldon E. Korpela Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rottiers Mr. George H. Shaver

Welcome Back to our Membership - June 1- September 30, 1997 Ensignllndivulual

Crew/Family

Mrs. Aneta Englund Ms. Nancy Kem Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tolonen Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Willis

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and Mrs. Robert F. Brockey Scott E. Collins and Mrs. Merrill Ginn Kathleen L. Guizzotti and Mrs. Roy D. Hammond and Mrs. Jack Olson & Family

Ms. Florence Sage Mrs. Edith D. Schenk

Boatswain Mr. and Mrs. Bill P. Moir

Helmsman Mr. and Mrs. Kenton Cruzan Mr. Robert N. Hauke Mr. and Mrs. Jon Levy

Library Cataloging Project - June 1- September 30, 1997 Gifts Capt. Harold D. Huycke Dr. Curtis H. McKinney Mr. Kurt R. Nelson Capt. James R. Tompkins

By remembering the Columbia River Maritime Museum in your estate plans, you can help ensure its continued success in preserving our region's maritime heritage and educating visitors of all ages. A will is a wonderful way to recognize your lifetime interest in the Museum while also ensuring that

your assets are distributed according to your desires.

For more information on making contributions to the Museum, please call (503) 325-2323 or write to us at 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, Oregon 97103. Our E-mail address is columbia@seasurf.com.

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June 1 - September 30, 1997

Theresa Andersen

Cora Hanenkratt

Carolyn Leonard

Mr. and Mrs . Carl Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. James O'Connor

Edwin Anderson

Harold Hatley

Tom Layman

Dr. and Mrs. David I. Williams

Mrs. Dorothy Labiske Mr. and Mrs. James O'Connor

Mr. and Mrs. George P. Ducich

Lillian Anderson Dr. and Mrs. David I. Williams

Stanley Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Larson

Frank Anglin Mr. George Blinco

Peter Antonio Mr. and Mrs . Richard C. Paulsen

John Augustin Dr. and Mrs. Robert William Davis

Berenice Baker Mr. and Mrs . Merrill Ginn

Warren Bean Mr_ and Mrs. Joe Miller

C.R. Burton George and Betsy Wright

Mary Dahl Mr. and Mrs. Howard B . Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Knutsen

Theodore Dichter Mr. and Mrs. George Abrahamsen

Lois Dock Mrs. Ella P. Hill

Kenneth Drucker Mr. and Mrs. Bruce North

Nora Dunsmoor Mrs . Lucille Perkins

Donald Falconer Mr. and Mrs. James O'Connor

Charles Farmer Mrs. Donna M. Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Paulsen

Stella Green Mrs. Ella P. Hill

Charles Haddix Ms. Marva Jean Frisbie

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Mabel Hediger

Donald Leslie

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Paulsen

Mr. and Mrs . Dewey Maxson Ms. Sara L. Leslie

Willis Stetson Hollingworth

Robert C. MacDonald

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hjorten

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C . Paulsen Mrs. Donna M . Gustafson

Clifford Johns Mrs. Janet L. Hazlett Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hjorten Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hjorten Mr. and Mrs. F. C. McFetridge Mr. Donald V. Riswick Ms. Suzanna M. Snider Mr. and Mrs . Ken Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nelson

Rose Magnuson Mr. and Mrs. James O'Connor

Jerry McCallister Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Paulsen

Bernice Moore Mrs. Donna M. Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kearney

Leo Johnson

Benjamin Niemi

Dr. and Mrs. David I. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Trygve Duoos Mrs. Virginia Estoos Mr. and Mrs. Robert E . Frame Mrs. Ella P. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Knutsen Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Sarpola

Captain Peter Jordan Sedoris 0 . Jordan Daniels

Chester A. Jordan Sedoris O. Jordan Daniels

Harold S. Jordan Sedoris 0. Jordan Daniels

Robert Kankkonen Mr. and Mrs. Richard E . Cameron

James H. Kelly Mrs. Margaret Waisanen Mrs. Dorothy Labiske

Del Kerns Mrs. Donna M . Gustafson

Harold Knutson Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Kennedy Jr.

Jack Lake Mrs. Ludwig Bakanen Mr. and Mrs. Victor L. Barnick Mr. and Mrs. Don Brunner Mrs. Juanita Jensen Mrs. Arlene O'Bryan Mrs. Hazel Savola

James O'Bryan Ms. Evelyn Abrahams Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Barendse Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Brockey Mr. and Mrs. David R. Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Hendriksen Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hjorten Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lake Mr. Einar Lundman and Mr. Gerald D. Juniper Mr. and Mrs. Earl Malinen Ms. Sylvia Mowrey Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Oja

Kurt Olsen Mr. Robert Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John Ballantyne Mr. and Mrs. Roy Baxter Brownstein, Rask, Arenz, Sweeney, Kerr, and Grim, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Carpenter Mr. Gordon Childs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cordiner Mr. and Mrs . Evan Davies

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Downs Ms . Patricia Greene, James and Jeff Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Hofer Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hoff Ms. Berthamae Howard Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Orval S. Ladd, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William R. MacClarence Melvin Mark Properties Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Nielsen Mr. M. Keith Noren Mr. and Mrs. Ward Paldanius Ms. Priscilla A. Risley Mr. and Mrs. John W. Schiffer Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Schumaker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Sharpe Mr. and Mrs. James S. Stacy Mr. and Mrs. Crockett L. Stearns Ms . Frances Straumfjord Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Wissler Mr. and Mrs. Ted Woolley Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wetmore

Don Roberts Mrs. Ruby Smith

Charles Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Knutsen

Bob Sarles Mr. and Mrs. Arnold C. Swanson

Kenneth G. Seeborg Mr. and Mrs. Allen V. Cellars Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kearney Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Kessler

Horace Taylor Mr. George H. Shaver

Edgar Tucker Mr. Allan J. Bernhoff

Richard Tuny Mrs. Donna M. Gustafson

Leo Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs. David Sherman

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June Young Mrs. Ruth Lutzker

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0-nnual Meeting Reminder Friday, November 14th, 1997 at the Astoria Golf and Country Club No-Host Cocktail Hour Annual Membership Meeting Dinner

5:30pm 6:30pm 7:00pm

Guest speaker Dr. James Ronda is a highly respected scholar and author. He will speak on "Thomas Jefferson, the Columbia River and the Museum."

If you haven't reserved your seating yet, it's not too late.

Call Jennifer at 503-325-2323 for reservations.

. e e t the Author· Saturday, December 13, 1997 in the Kern Room 1 to 4pm Captain Deborah Dempsey will sign her brand-new book, The Captain's A Woman.

During a short interval, she will speak about her maritime career and the challenges she faced on her way to become the first woman voted into the Columbia River Bar Pilots' Association.

Captain Dempsey's memoir profiles afascinating career. She has achieved a long list of "firsts" in the male-dominated maritime industry. Her book chronicles how she earned the respect of her colleagues by passing the tests faced by any seagoing officer.

Museum members will receive an extra 5% discount on Captain Dempsey's book at this special event.

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