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Summer/Fall 2000 Vol. 26, No. 3

~CK A review and newsletter ji·om the Columbia River Maritime Museum at 1792 Marine Drive in Astoria, Oregon

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From the Wheelhouse Afterguard Robley Mangold, President Jim McClaskey, Vice Pres.

W. Louis Larson, Secretary Don Magnusen, Treasurer Ted Natt - in memoriam Jerry L. Ostermiller, Executive Director

Board of Trustees: Graham Barbey Dennis Bjork Peter Brix* Richard T. Carruthers * Ronald Collman Ward V. Cook Dan Dutton Jon Englund Fred Fields Cheri Folk J.W. 'Bud' Forrester, Jr.*in memoriam Walter Gadsby, Jr. Alan C. Goudy E .H. (Ted) Halton, Jr. Don M. Haskell Senator Mark Hatfield S. Kenneth Kirn Captain Rod Leland Chris Maletis Thomas F. Martin Duane McDougall John McGowan * Ken M . Novack Larry Perkins Jack Schiffer Hugh Seppa Charles Shea Senator Sid Snyder June Spence Joseph Tennant Willis Van Dusen Bruce Ward Samuel C. Wheeler Harold Wilde Ted Zell * Trustee Emeritus

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We should have little doubt that Rolf Klep's spirit will be present as we begin our longawaited Museum remodeling and expansion program with a groundbreaking ceremony November 17 at 4:00 PM in conjunction with the Annual Meeting.

In the five years we have been planning this expansion, we have systematically reviewed Rolf's sketches, concepts, and his hopes for the Museum. For example, Rolf always wanted spectacular views of the Columbia River as part of the Museum experience, yet budget constraints resulted in few windows. Our plans incorporating wonderful views of the Columbia River will now make the "Great River of the West" a connected part of our new exhibits.

In addition to his vision for the facility, Rolf had a clear financial philosophy. He believed in moving ahead with construction forcefully, but never over-extending the organization financially. Clearly defined units of construction proceeded only when they were funded; at the same time, subsequent units were held in check, serving as targets for continued fundraising efforts.

The brilliance of Rolf's approach accomplished multiple objectives. As his Museum took shape, everyone involved watched excitedly The construction project raised the Museum's visibility, which helped fundraising. And, best of all, Rolf's sound fiscal policy prevented the Museum from ever going into debt.

Taking a lesson from Rolf, we have divided our Capital Campaign into two

parts. The first part, physical remodeling of the building, is beginning now. The timing couldn't be better. This is our slow season for visitors and our schedule matched that of our construction firm.

While construction goes on, we are moving ahead to raise funds for phase two of the Campaign - to construct the new exhibits.

They have been carefully designed to be more educational and far more engaging and energizing for all ages, thus broadening the Museum's audiences. This second phase, the opening to the public of these powerful new exhibits, will no doubt prove far more invigorating to future generations.

It is our goal to aggressively continue to raise the remaining funds necessary to build and install these world-class exhibits so that they will be ready when the building is complete one year from now.

It is appropriate then that we should celebrate as we approach the new year. With only ten percent of the funds yet to be raised to complete the entire project, it is exciting to realize that Rolf's greater vision is about to become a reality. I know he must be smiling.

Executive Director

On the Cover: Along the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon, is where dense forests west of the Cascades give way to dry grasslands that typify the landscape east of the range.

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Columbia River: Gateway to the West The Columbia River Maritime Museum is proud to feature a preview of a selection ofphotographs and writings from the new publication Columbia River: Gateway to the West. The following is a short section of the many interesting chapters and topics explored. We wish to thank Carlos Schwantes for all his efforts in producing the book and for the exclusive reprint presented in this issue of the Quarterdeck.

A River Landscape in Transition Visitors new to the Columbia River often find it hard to sleep during their first night aboard one of the several cruise boats that regularly ply the waterway between Portland, Lewiston, and Astoria. Perhaps they need time to get used to unfamiliar sounds, like the sometimes noisy bollards that float up or down as the water level rises or falls in a lock chamber, affording a vessel a safe place to tie up. More often, though, they are excited by this chance to see for themselves the Great River of the West and the scenic wonders they could scarcely imagine. For travelers with an engineering interest, the huge dams and locks are objects of great fascination; others are drawn to the Blalock Islands near Umatilla in hopes of seeing unfamiliar species of birds that regularly migrate along one of North America's major flyways.

Once people become entranced by the waterway's visible landscapes, they almost always want to know more about the invisible ones that consist of important historical events, places, people, and processes no longer discernible. The more conscientious voyageurs will study various maps to compare then and now, ask many questions, and upon encountering some prominent landmark like Beacon Rock, an eight hundred-foot tall volcanic remnant that looms high in the mist below Bonneville Dam, hurry to the ship's The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No. 3

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Don't miss the opportunity to add one of these beautifully printed, full color books to your own collection. The books are available through the Museum Store, for $22.45 with your Museum membership discount. library to read what Lewis and Clark wrote about it in 1805 or 1806. Even the several bridges that span the modem river relate to its historic landscape.

As much as we might wish it, we cannot travel back in time, yet through visiting landscapes of historical significance we can go back to experience a place and make emotional connections between ourselves and the past. One of the enduring appeals of leisure travel along the river, either by boat or automobile, is learning about and exploring the Columbia's historic landscape, which includes not only Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea, but also Gray, Vancouver, and a host of other interesting characters.

Like Sam Hill, for instance, a prominent but eccentric businessman who erected his Maryhill mansion on a high and treeless promontory overlooking the Columbia River opposite what is now the town of Biggs, Oregon. At this place where "the sunshine of the East meets the rain of the West," he purchased seven thousand acres of land in 1907, hoping to build a Quaker agricultural community that would mature into a large city. Little came of his dream except Hill's "ranch house," a large building in the style of

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The rain-washed waterfront of Astoria. Looking up from the 14th Street Docks.

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poured concrete for fire protection. Nearby, he also erected a concrete replica of England's Stonehenge as a World War I memorial. In 191 7 Hill began the process of converting his mansion into a museum: he filled it with Rodin sculptures, which became the centerpiece of a massive collection of nineteenth century French Art. He even persuaded Queen Marie of Romania, the granddaughter of both Queen Victoria of England and Czar Alexander II of Russia, to travel to remote Maryhill in 1926 to dedicate his still unfinished museum. Today it is open to the public as the Maryhill Museum of Art. Anyone who takes time to study the Columbia firsthand realizes that every portion of the river landscape is in transition. Abandoned sawmills and forsaken fish canneries have become increasingly common features along the waterway during the latter half of the twentieth century; each one of these industrial ruins testifies to massive economic change and dislocation.

Consider too the fate of the mighty and

picturesque cataracts at Celilo, east of The Dalles, where voyageurs of the Hudson's Bay Company once labored to portage their heavy bundles of furs and trade goods. All the white water is gone now. The falls, and a way of life for Indian tribes that fished there for millennia, disappeared in 1957 beneath the forty feet of slack water created by The Dalles Dam. From the 1930s through the 1970s, dams were widely viewed as good and useful legacies bequeathed to future generations.

Young men in the 1930s dropped out of college for a year or two to join in the important and thrilling work of building Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams. During the Great Depression, both of these dams seemed to symbolize the triumph of engineering technology over wild and unpredictable nature. But by the 1980s and 1990s many Pacific Northwestemers would condemn these and other dams on the Columbia because of rapidly declining fish runs and the inadequacy of their supposedly limitless supply of electricity. In April 1992, the conservation group American Rivers The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No. 3

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The Columbia River at Umatilla where the river widens until it seems to merge with the sky.

placed the Columbia-Snake River system at the top of its list of the twenty-five most endangered rivers in the United States, mainly because of the hydroelectric dams widely believed to have caused a massive decline in the river's population of wild sockeye salmon.

Just below McNary Dam is a maze of sluiceways and multicolored pipes, some of which loop high into the air and to the untutored eye look suspiciously like an amusement park for fish. This is one highly visible part of a federally funded salmon recovery plan: the purpose of the complex is to collect and load fish aboard barges that will take them past the dangers posed by dams. At one time it was believed that hatcheries alone would solve the problem of declining salmon runs. But during the last fifty years, even with hatcheries pumping millions of fish into the Columbia River system, salmon runs have continued to decline dramatically.

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a major economic setback in 1984 when the Diamond Fruit Cannery closed with a loss of more than three hundred jobs. Then the local timber industry slumped, causing a loss of still more jobs. But with the new sport of windsurfing came an unusual form of economic windfall.

For years the settlers in The Dalles and Hood River areas had cursed the winds that howled through the Gorge. Although gusts of wind can still flip a semi-truck on nearby Interstate 84, sailboarders love the wind and waves on the river, and their dollars contribute to a robust new economy in the Hood River area.

The transformation of Hood River offers a vivid example of how important tourism and outdoor recreation have become to the Pacific Northwest, helping replace dollars lost when the once basic extractive industries-the sawmills, mines, and canneriesshut down. Another good example of a long-term transformation can be seen at Paterson, Washington, on the Columbia

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Going through the locks at the McNary Dam on a sunny October morning.

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River west of McNary Dam, where Columbia Crest's 2,100 acres of vineyards have emerged from the sagebrush covered hills of southeastern Washington. Wine, in fact, is one of the Pacific Northwest's newest industries, and numerous wineries have opened in the region. During the last three decades of the twentieth century, the wineries of Washington grew from a mere handful to more than seventy, and vintners now brag that they produce more premium wine than any other state except California, which remains far ahead. Much the same transition occurred in Oregon.

Regardless of the many changes occurring along the Columbia, as long as there is a Pacific Northwest, the Great River of the West will form one of its important landscapes-perhaps the defining one. In the Pacific Northwest, as in few other parts of the United States, regional identity is almost wholly linked to natural setting. Thus the Pacific Northwest without its mountains, rugged coastline, evergreen forests, and vast

interior of sagebrush, rimrock, and big skyand especially its Columbia River to link all these natural features together- is as unthinkable as New England without its Revolutionary War heritage, the South without its lost Cause, the Midwest without its agricultural cornucopia, or California without its gold rush.

Regional symbol, scenic wonder, natural resource, recreation getaway, transportation corridor, and object of environmental concern.

The river is every one of those and so much more. Study the Columbia River in all its facets-read about it, explore along its banks, or visit a treasure of historical information like the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria-and you will soon discover a gateway that leads to greater understanding of what the Pacific Northwest is today, how the region evolved in times past, and some of the major challenges its people face in the years ahead.

Indeed, Roll On, Columbia!

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Museum Matches Meyer Challenge Grant In July of 1999, the Charting a New Course expansion project garnered the support of the Meyer Memorial Trust, one of the region's largest private foundations. The Trust, a general-purpose charitable foundation based in Portland, Oregon, approved this $1.2 million challenge grant for the Columbia River Maritime Museum. The Museum had only 12 months to match the Trust's funds dollar-for-dollar in new pledges that could only be donated by individuals. With the support of you, the members of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, this challenge was achieved.

With 11 days left to match the Meyer Memorial Trust's Challenge grant, the Museum announced to the press that we had gone over the top with the challenge matching funds. The Museum has raised $1,220,784 to match the foundation's $1,200,000 challenge.

Board president Robley Mangold stated that there is one thing to remember about the Columbia River Maritime Museum: "this Museum is on the move." And move ahead it has. The Columbia River Maritime Museum has raised approximately $4,450,000 of $5,000,000 total project dollars. Mangold notes, "Museum staff and trustees will continue to work tirelessly to solicit donations until our entire campaign goal is met."

With the generous support of our members we are now moving forward with this innovative and exciting campaign. Our special thanks go out to all of our contributors to the Meyer Matching Challenge. See the full listing on page 12!

Construction Begins!

The Columbia River Maritime Museum invites you to help us celebrate another giant step toward fulfilling Rolf Klep's greater vision of the Museum.

Join us for the groundbreaking ceremony to launch the Museum's remodeling and enhancement project November 17th at 4:00 PM.

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News and N ates

• The Museum was proud to host the christening of the new 75-foot pilot boat Chinook for the Columbia River Bar Pilots.

This bright yellow vessel was designed from the start to work the rough bar conditions of the Columbia. With a top speed of over 30 knots, it will be hard to catch heading out to sea! The Chinook is the largest boat in the world designed to be self-righting.

• What's a maritime museum without a large propeller? Thanks to the generous assistance of the Navy, the Museum received The Quarterdeck a 14-foot diameter propeller from a Charles Volume 26, No. 3 The Quarterdeck is Adams Class destroyer. Weighing in at 12 published four times a year tons, the prop will be featured outside the new by the Columbia River expanded entrance to the Museum.

Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, Oregon 97103.

Telephone: (503)325-2323 Fax: (503)325-2331 E-mail us at: information@crmm.org website: www.crmm.org Editor: Zoe Ulshen Editorial Staff: Betsey Ellerbroek, Jerry Ostermiller, David Pearson, Silver Fox, Jeff Smith Printed at: Pacific Design Team Corvallis, Oregon

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• The Museum's Research library and archives are officially closed in preparation for the expansion project. This will be an inconvenience for many researchers during the next year, but when completed, the library will be double in size and have many new upgrades, making it one of the best maritime libraries on the west coast.

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• The Museum was one of the first in town to have a new trolley stop installed. The good-looking design is a welcome addition to Astoria's waterfront, and is a great hit with visitors and residents alike. Over 14,000 people rode the trolley this past year.

• The Norwegian Wind, a premier cruise ship, made a call at the Port of Astoria this September.

With almost 1,800 passengers in all, she was welcomed into port by the fire boat and Coast Guard helicopter. Many passengers took the opportunity to explore the Museum.

Fall is our cruise ship season. The Museum will host an amazing 68 visits by area cruise ships. The cruise ship industry on the Columbia has been a success for all involved and continues to grow.

• We are proud to announce our Capital Campaign Raffle Winners. Winners were drawn by Captain Jay Wiek of the Queen of the West. The raffle was a huge success, with all proceeds going to support our expansion project. And the winners are ...

The Grand Prize of a 5-day cruise aboard the Queen of the West: Julie Werner of Astoria First Prize: Chris Maletis, Jr., of Portland Second Prize: Alice Wood of Astoria Third Prize: Chris Graeff of Portland Fourth Prize: Bob Wells of West Linn Fifth Prize: Katherine Holtz of Portland The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No. 3

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$4,400,000 of the targeted Capital Campaign's goal of $5 million. Rob will pursue a Master's degree in the Winterthur Museum program at the University of Delaware.

• We bid farewell to Patricia Turner Custard, Director of Education and Visitor Services Manager for the past seven years. Trish has produced numerous award-winning programs that now link the Museum with school children In Memoriam locally and across the country. Trish and her Coast Guard husband, Buddy, now live in It is with sadness we note the passing of Annapolis where she is a senior associate at Museum Trustee and master model-maker the Institute for Leaming Innovation.We will Dr. Niclaus H. Marineau. A leader in Oregon miss her and wish her the best of luck! dentistry, Dr. Marineau was also an avid builder of museum-quality models of Navy • We are happy to announce one promotion and three new additions to our crew. Betsey ships. Four of his award-winning models have Ellerbroek, Museum Education Assistant, was become cornerstones of the Museum's promoted to Director of Education and Visitor permanent galleries. These include USS Services Manager. Betsey comes to the Reuben James, USS Oregon, SS Star of Museum with many years of teaching experiOregon, and escort carrier USS Gambier ence, most recently in Nehalem where she Bay. served as a CRMM Ambassador.

Applying his great skill in dentistry to model-making, Dr. Marineau added amazing • Karen Custer has joined the staff as Museum Education Assistant. Karen has years detail and accuracy to his scale models. of experience teaching first grade through He was a dedicated Museum Trustee from adults. She recently developed and coordi1983 to 1990, and was active in the developnated a structured mentoring program in ment of the Museum. Dr. Marineau will be California. best remembered for bringing history alive • Julie Broughton has come on board to help for thousands of visitors each year at the out in Visitor Services. She has worked at the Museum with his scale models.

Museum of Western Colorado and will be a nice addition to the staff.

• Mary Davis, Media Relations Manager, also left our ranks. Mary has been instrumental in elevating the visibility and reputation of the Museum through her energetic work with the media, the local community, and tourism groups statewide. She is now working for the Oregon Wine Advisory Board in Portland promoting all of the wineries of Oregon. Best of luck, Mary!

• We welcome Zoe Ulshen as the new Director of Marketing and Public Relations. A recent transplant from North Carolina, she has Crew members of Gambier Bay tell experience in sales and marketing in for-profit stories around the model of their ship and non-profit organizations with a focus on university communications.

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Museum Staff: Russ Bean Celerino Bebeloni Chris Bennett Julie Broughton Frances Burham Karen Custer Betsey Ellerbroek Silver Fox Josh Gianuario Charlotte Jackson Jim Nyberg Jerry Ostermiller David Pearson Sheila Radich Arline LaMear Hampton Scudder Jeff Smith Zoe Ulshen Patric Valade Rachel Wynne Christina Young

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Fifty-seven years ago the Navy Air Station commissioned its first Escort Carriers into the US Navy fleet for the war effort in the Pacific theater. Between July 8, 1943 and July 8, 1944 fifty Escort Carriers, all built by the Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, were commissioned by the Navy in Astoria. Commissioning a ship is a long-standing naval tradition. Once the new ship has a full compliment of officers and crew, the ship is put into active service and officially taken under command by the Navy.

The ships were the smallest aircraft carriers in the Navy, and were essentially a cargo ship (Victory class) with a flight deck welded on top. Known as the Casablanca class, they had a top speed of 18 knots and a crew of 900 men. The ships were the first all-welded aircraft carriers and were assembled at an incredible pace using all prefabricated parts. They were commissioned for duty on an average of one every seven days.

Once the vessels were launched from the Kaiser yards in Vancouver, they were brought to Astoria for their final outfitting

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and crew assignments. When the work was approved by the Navy, the ship was commissioned into the active US Navy fleet.

From Astoria the ships were immediately sent into the ongoing battle in the Pacific with the Japanese. Of these 50 ships, six would be lost at sea.

For the crew of these ships, Astoria would be the last stop before heading out to sea.

Astoria almost tripled in size during the early 40s with all the servicemen in town, and there was a craze of activity. The U.S.O. was the center of this activity, and when the weather was right, they would sponsor great dances on the decks of these new aircraft carriers. For the servicemen that passed through Astoria, this town is still remembered with great fondness, even 57 years later. As a testament to these memories, the USS Gambier Bay Reunion Association recently visited Astoria and the Maritime Museum to relive some of those experiences, and to hold a memorial on the Museum's plaza. Gambier Bay

was lost October 25, 1944 during fierce fighting at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. Of the 860 crew onboard, over 200 were lost.

The Columbia River Maritime Museum was proud to be one of seven sites in the country chosen by the Escort Carrier Sailors & Airmen Association to display a set of three plaques that tell the story of these brave sailors and their contribution to the war. The plaques are currently on display in the Naval History Gallery in the Museum.

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Education The three fourth-grade classes from Warrenton Grade School visited the USCG Cutter STEADFAST on June 8 as the culmination of this year's Adopt-A-Ship/Adopt-AClass Program. On this special day the students participated in many learning stations that the crew had set up for them. The students learned how to make rope and tie knots. At another station students practiced man overboard drills. Law enforcement was covered, and the finale was trying their hand at using pepper spray and handcuffs. The fourth graders also learned about fire fighting.

The last activity involved boating safety.

Students were taken out on the river in the rigid hull inflatable boat. Crew and students alike enjoyed this end-of-the-year event.

Look on C.G. Bear's web-site through the Scuttlebutt link to see pictures of this exciting day!

Membership and the Education Department teamed together and sponsored a contest for six through 12-year olds this summer. The subject was "What the Columbia River Means to Me". All of the entries were printed in the Coast Weekend. All contestants were given a "Welcome Aboard" gift and a free family pass to the Museum. Winners of each age level also won a night aboard the Lightship Columbia for themselves and their family.

Pirate School was offered in August as part of Scuttlebutt Saturday. Run-EmThrough Rachel and Beastly Betsey led the The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No. 3

pirates in many activities throughout the morning. They learned about some famous pirates, where pirates sailed, and some pirate phrases. The children divided into teams and then looked for items in the exhibit galleries pertaining to their "pillage" list. When they located the item, all the members stood in front of the exhibit and the first mate took the group's picture.

A table was set up in the Great Hall during Regatta week for children to make sailboats. This activity was very popular with children and parents alike.

Karen Custer, our new Education Assistant, has already begun Museum in the Schools programs. This summer she went to Lewis and Clark Elementary for their SMART program. She is presenting programs on tugboats, the South Jetty, and ships in the river. We receive phone calls daily requesting the programs that she is offering this fall.

An educational resource, Nicholas Finch on the Trail ofDiscovery, will be available for teachers this fall. The booklet targets grades 4-6. It is a workbook about a young boy visiting 15 sites along the Lewis and Clark Trail in Oregon and Washington.

Students will compare Nicholas' journal entries with those of Lewis and Clark, learn more about the expedition, and participate in many hands-on activities. This project was funded by a Challenge Cost Share Program from the National Park Service.

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COLUMBIA Contributors to the Meyer Matching Challenge Thank you for your generous support! Because of you we are be able to move forward with this innovative and exciting campaign.

Viola Abrahamson John & Helen Acton Mike & Tami Aho Edward Aho Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Anderson Timothy & Anna Anderson Beverly Aspmo The Daily Astorian Sara-Jane Babbit Norwood Robert Backen Anna Mae Baker Laurie Bakkensen-Odlum Graham Barbey Ernest & Virgina Barrow Dennis & Darlene Battles Frank Bauman Dorothy Baxter Ike Bay Glen Bay David & Chita Becker Roger & Lorraine Berg Beatrice Bergey Bruce & Kristina Berney Virginia Beugless Roma Bigby Max & Judith Bigby, Jr. Kent & Barbara Birdeno Daryl Birney Robert & Susan Bish C.M. Bishop Mr. & Mrs. William Bishop James & Sue Bisio Harvey Black Wayne & Margaret Blake Ronald Bline Ronald Bolin Fred Borg & Susan Horst Andrew & Darlene Borland Roy & Dorothy Boyle

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Mr. & Mrs. Paul McCracken Donald & Edith McDaniel Anne McDonald Duane & Barbara McDougall Patricia McGill-Reese Mr. & Mrs. John McGowan Mr. & Mrs. George McKelvey Velma McKelvey Dr. Bud & Jean McKinney Robert McNannay Ken McRae Roger Meier Raymond & Kathleen Merritt Steve Merryman William & Mary Merzke Dorothy Mickelson Don Miller James Miller Annabell Miller Clarke & Susan Miller Miller Family Dr. Rodney Miller Edith Miller Bill & Wanda Milwee Gainor Minott Jan Mitchell Robert & Kathleen Mitchell John & Lucille Mitchem Mr. & Mrs. Molnau R.P. & Carol Moore Don & Anne Morden Duffy Morgan Ellison Mrogan Gary Muehlberg Thomas Murray Libby Myers Diane Natt David Natt Hester Nau Harold & Virginia Nelson John & Susan Nelson Walter & Eleanor Newbert Max Nicolai Phil Nock Ronald Nordtrom Ken Novack Walter Noak Mr. & Mrs. Victor

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MUSEUM Arthur Smith Harold & Jeanyse Snow Mrs. Harvey Somers June Spence James Spencer Henry Steinbrugge Peter Stott John Supple John & Jan Swanson Lloyd & Patricia Swearingen Glen & & Judith Swift George Swindells George Talbott Joseph Tennant Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tevis Captain & Mrs. J.R. Thomkins Ken & Alice Thompson Helen Malarkey Thompson Scott Throm Debra Twombly Warren & Elinor Ulrich Marie Vandewater John Vitas Susanna Von Reibold Margaret Waisanene Margo Grant Walsh John Warren Frank Warren Theodore Weller Sion & Eleanor Wentworth Dana Weston Bob & Aklha Westerberg Captain & Mrs. C.S.Wetherell Jerry & Alica Whalen Mr. Samuel Wheeler Mrs. Coleman Wheeler Norman & Becky Whitten Thomas & Nancy Wilcox Harold Wilde Dr. David Williams Anne Witty Frank Wolfe Daniel Yates James & Karen Young Donald & Molly Ziessler

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COLUMBIA New Members April 1, 2000 September 30, 2000 Statesman Mr. Richard R. Ballweber Mrs. Arline Genis Mr. & Mrs. Erhart Gress Mrs. Marilyn Gudmundsen Mr. Charles W. Morbey Ms. Winnie Speas Mr. Donald Wright Ensign/Individual Mr. Tom Carter Ms. Maeve Doolittle Mr. Ralph Hawes, Jr. Mr. E.M. Jones Crew/Family Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brehm Mr. Victor Corders Mr. Art Detmar Mr. & Mrs. Barry Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Howard Grafton Dr. Gayle Harrison Mr. David Houck Mr. & Mrs. John Inman & David Inman Ms. Mary Ann Jesse Mr. D.B. Lewis & Mrs . Cindy Yingst Mr. & Mrs. Bill Lund Mrs. Colleen Moore Mr. & Mrs. Charles Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Jim Nieland Mr. & Mrs. William Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Gary Randles Mr. & Mrs. Dick Sheldon Mr. & Mrs. Marc Skogmo Captain & Mrs. Tom Sparks Mr. & Mrs. John Spring Mr. Craig Strong & Mrs. Deborah Jaques Ms. Loretta R. Maxwell Ms. Gwen Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Ron Wall Mr. & Mrs. Norman C. Whitten Helmsman Mr. Scott Carpenter Mr. & Mrs . Michael Glick Mr. Terry Hahn Mr. & Mrs. William Supak

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Brenda VanKunegan & Jon Peterson Ramon & Mary Vose Mrs . Sharon Wong Mr. Dean Anderson Boatswain Dr. Stan Barnwen Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Black Mr. Marcus Lester S. Meyer & Associates

Mr. Jerry Jonasson Mr. & Mrs. Dick Keller Mrs . Louise Larson Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Lemeshko Mrs. Edith Leslie Mr. & Mrs. Don MacRae Ms. Kay Malmberg & Mr. Bill Kyker Mr. & Mrs. Michael Mathers Mr. & Mrs. George McKelvey Mr. & Mrs. William R. Meyer Mrs. Dana Nason Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Nicklaus Mr. H.A. O'Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Pattishall Bill & Madonna Pitman Ms. Audrey Pricher Mr. & Mrs. Bob Reiter Mr. Alan D. Robitsch Mr. & Mrs. Bob Schoning Mr. & Mrs. Truman E. Slotte Mrs. Julie Sterling Mr. & Mrs. R.W. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wilson Boatswain Dr. H. Victor Adix, Jr. & Ms. Jean A. Fogg Mr. & Mrs. Michael Aho Mr. Darryl Bergerson Mr. & Mrs. Byron Broms P.M. Buff Mr. & Mrs . Theodore T. Bugas Mr. & Mrs. Ray Daniels Mr. Norman D. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Steve Drage Mr. & Mrs. Trygve Duoos Mr. William Einzig Vernon & Nancy Fowler Mrs. Leonora Dart Graham Mr. Dinesh R. Hajari Mrs. Patricia P. Hemingway Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Hjorten Mr. William H. Krohn Mrs. & Mr. Cliff LaMear Mr. & Mrs. James Maggert Rev. & Mrs. Stephen G. Maling Dr. & Mrs . Dale McGinty Ms. Ruth M. Peets Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Reiser Mr. Henry Steinbrugge Mr. & Mrs. Fenton Stokeld Pilot Capt. James Clune Dr. & Mrs. Erik P. Eselius Mr. Louis Huff, III Mrs. Hester H. Nau

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jacobi Captain Fred Jerrell Elizabeth Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Patrick Dr. & Mrs. Jukka Perkiomaki Mr. Henry T. Swigert Capt. & Mrs. James R. Tompkins Mr. Robert J. Wilhelm Dr. & Mrs. David I. Williams Captain Mr. Robert Drucker Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Ziessler

Increased Memberships April 1, 2000 September 30, 2000 Ensign/Individual Ms. Carolyn J. Homme Mr. David Riswick Mr. & Mrs. David Wood Crew/Family Mr. & Mrs. Tom Benson Mr. & Mrs. Max Bigby Jr. Mr. & Mrs . Peter Gearin C.C. Leone Jerry & Gene Miller Lucille & James Scarborough Helmsman Mrs. Alice Ala Mr. & Mrs. Donald M .

Bertucci Mr. Robert W. Blake Mr. C. Delmer Boman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Brandt Mr. & Mrs. Bob Brumm Mr. Marvin Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Chinakos Mr. & Mrs. Kenton Cruzan Dr. & Mrs. Robert William Davis Mr. Raymond A. Dodge Mrs. Phyllis Edy Mrs. Freda Englund Mr. & Mrs. Jerome EricksonSmith Mr. Matthew Farrenkopf Capt. & Mrs. Mark Freeman Mr. & Mrs. G. Joseph Gregory Laurence Gellerman & Patricia Hartle Mr. Don Gustafson Mr. Kirk Hanna Ms. Gretchen Harvey Mr. Arthur O. Heckard Mr. & Mrs. Donald Helligso Mr. & Mrs. Marsh Hoffman Mr. & Mrs . Irv Iverson

Welcome Back Memberships April 1, 2000 September 30, 2000 Statesman Mrs. Ernestine Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Leroy C. Heinse Ensign/Individual Mr. Del Heiner Robert Jarrard & Merianne Myers Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Murdoch Mr. Russell D. Wood Crew/Family Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Chown Mr. and Mrs. Blaine N. Dymock Helmsman Mr. Henry A. Pyzdrowski Mr. and Mrs. David W. Yotter Boatswain Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Bremer Mr. Bud Carpenter Pilot Elizabeth Johnson

Memorial Donations April 1, 2000 September 30, 2000 Frank & Lucy Arnold Mr. Elmer T. Hjorten Kay Autio Mr. Michael E. Lynch Evelyn Baird Mr. James Ochal Mr. & Mrs. David R. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Donald Carter Mrs. Mildred Doran Michal Barendse Mr. Curtis Olson The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No. 2

COLUMBIA William Barney Mr. Louise Krager Ted Bellingham Mr. Arthur Chan Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Kessler Mr. & Mrs. Ernest J. Barrows Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas D. Zafiratos Mrs. Donna M. Gustafson Stewart Camgbell Mr. & Mrs. Hugh A. Seppa Vieno Canessa Captain & Mrs. Dan Lake Mr. Gerry Chogging Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Hargand Mrs. Jeanne Clifford Juue Daggall-Yuuug Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Tevis Wilma Dedo Mrs. Ruby Smith Mrs. Gladys Haglund Duncan Mrs. Dorothy Labiske Olga Forbes Lila Olsen Mrs. Lucille Perkins Ronald Gjovik Anonymous Mr. & Mrs . Charles W. Haglund Mr. & Mrs . Ernest Kairala Mr. & Mrs. James O'Connor Mr. & Mrs. Michael Aho Mr. & Mrs. Paul Phillips Mrs. Elsie Gjovik George A. Harrison Marilyn J. Anderson Mr. Henry J. Herlin Hazel Yeager Mr. & Mrs. Jim Wilkins Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Frame Mrs. Florence Kelly Mrs. Helen Johnson Esther Jerrell Ms . Estelle Duggan Glifford Johns Mr. & Mrs. Howard Henningsen Raymond Johnson Mr. Kenneth Lampi Mr. Robert Oja Mr. & Mrs. Bill Vaughn Mr. & Mrs. Dale Howe Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Rinell Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Korhonen Mr. & Mrs. Harold A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Lance Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Orvo Piippo The QuarterDeck, Vol. 26 No . 2

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Oja Mrs. Gertrude M. Oja Mrs. Sylvia Rainey Ms. Esther Walman Rick Adams Thelma Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Fred Leslie Mary Anne Lancaster Mrs. Patricia Eskola Roland 'Dodo' Larson Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Knutsen Inga Larson Mr. & Mrs. William R. King Mrs. Beverly Aspmo William Loomis Mr. Ron Hoxie CliIT Magnuson Mr. Allan J. Bernhoff Mr. Fred Antilla Mr. & Mrs. Henry N. Heilmann Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Roderick Sarpola Mrs. Mary Laird Frances "Mike" McKillig Mr. George Blinco Steven McSwain Mr. Allan Maki Mrs. Carol Welch Mr. Ed Lundholm Kenneth Middleton Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert V. Kamara Louise K. Mittet Lance Cole & Shannon Brown Mr. & Mrs. Patrick McKay Mrs. Phyllis Mittet Ms. Frances Straumfjord Whitney Dillard Lawrence W. Morris Mr. Donald V. Riswick Lemgi Nieme Ms. Sylvia Mowrey David & Susan Romppanen Dr. & Mrs. Jukka Perkiomaki Mr. & Mrs. Bob Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Story Mr. & Mrs. John S. McGowan Mr. & Mrs . Ron Chaloux Mrs . Dorothy R. Mickelson Mrs. Ella P. Hill Mrs. Margaret Waisanen Mrs. Sylvia Koskela Mrs. Viola Abrahamson Clifford E. Pearson Mr. & Mrs. Arvid North Eleanor Peterson Dorothy Messenger

MARITIME Elinor K. Steward Mr. & Mrs. George E. Siverson Mr. & Mrs. Jack G. Marincovich Cagtain Ed Quinn Capt. & Mrs. Joseph Bruneau Ervin Rinell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Bakkensen Cagtain Stanley Sayer Mr. & Mrs. Bob Canessa Mr. & Mrs. George Moskovita Hortense Seabold Mrs. Carroll Seabold Donald Sterling, Jr. Mrs. Thomas E. Edison Prank Thomcss Mr. & Mrs. Herman M .

Haggren Capt. & Mrs. Dale A. Dickinson Dick & Betty Huckestein Mr. Floyd A. Wright Mr. Tommy Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Alan Ahola Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Johanson Mr. & Mrs. Arthur I. Stromsness Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mestrich Mr. & Mrs. Clarence 0. Dreyer Mr. & Mrs. Dave Lum Mr. & Mrs. David Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Dick Keller Mr. & Mrs. Ed G. Fearey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Hauke Sr. Mr. & Mrs. F. Lewis Wright Mr. & Mrs. Fleming Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Wolfgram Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Hyde Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jon A. Englund Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Hjorten Mr. & Mrs. Norman Saarheim Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Paulsen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roeser Mr. & Mrs. Roger Shannon Mr. & Mrs. Sion Wentworth Mr. & Mrs . Theodore T. Bugas Mr. & Mrs . Ward Paldanius Mr. & Mrs. William R. Orr Mrs. Barbara Parpala Mrs. Bernice Paschall Mrs. Betty Farmer Mrs. Carol Nygaard Mrs. Charlotte Hallaux Mrs. Dorothy Johnson Mrs. Freda Englund Mrs. Helen Ryan

MUSEUM Mrs. June Spence Mrs. Laura Reith Mrs. Mabel Herold Mrs. Paula T. Morrow Ms. Judie Dreyer Signe Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Chopping Ronald Trout Mr. & Mrs. George P. Ducich

In honor of ...

50lh Wedding Anniversary of Dr. Bud & Jean McKinney and Bill & Mary Williams Betsey Ellerbroek & Thron Riggs Jerry Ostermiller & Lynne Johnson Mr. David A. Pearson Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Smith Mr. & Mrs. Ron Rehn Mrs. & Mr. CliffLaMear Ms. Mary Davis & Mr. Jim Closson Trish & Buddy Custard 50lh Wedding Anniversary of Ernest & Ebba Brown Mr. & Mrs. Marvin A . Fausett 85lh Birthday of Arnold 'Chink' Curtis Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rosenfeld

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Columbia River Maritime Museum cordially invites you to the 38th Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner Charting a New Course Join us as we celebrate the recent creation of several exciting new projects at the Museum! You'll get a special preview of:

• In Their Footsteps, A multimedia production created by Astoria High School .... Students.

Friday, November 17, 2000 Elks Lodge Ballroom, 453 11th Street, Astoria No-host Cocktail Hour 5:30 PM Membership Meeting 6:30 PM Dinner 7:00 PM

• ~n American Journey, Photograp s om the ✓ CRPA · ·· · · - '"'

For more detail 503) 325-2323

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