Keyword(s): Elise Fogel
Dee Arntz is one of Washington state's foremost wetlands advocates. She worked in government throughout her career, specializing in program management and grant administration, and when she moved to S...
One could say that Janet Dawes was an accidental, though effective, environmentalist. Initially attracted to environmental groups by her love of nature, Dawes, soft-spoken and unassuming, worked on Ha...
Helen Engle is an environmental activist with a formidable resume of involvement, especially in issues involving South Puget Sound. Early on she joined the Seattle Audubon Society and in 1969 co-found...
Patrick Goldsworthy's initial entry into hiking was through the original Sierra Club Chapter in his hometown of Berkeley, California, where he realized it took citizens' active participation to protec...
The Nisqually Delta Association, founded in 1970, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of the Nisqually River Delta, located 10 miles northeast of Olympia on Puget...
Vim Wright, as she preferred to be called, saw a lot in her 76 years. From an impoverished childhood in Istanbul, to society life in Baltimore with adoptive parents, to eventually becoming a primary p...
On May 31, 1936, attorney Thomas Masuda drafts a constitution for the Pacific Northwest Japanese Golf Association in Seattle, where the group is holding its sixth annual golf tournament. Masuda become...
In 1947, the Fir State Golf Club is founded by a racially diverse group of 15 men and women who, because of their race, are not welcome in the existing golf clubs in Seattle at the time. As the first ...
In 1951, 16 Chinese businessmen meet at the former Twin Dragon Restaurant in Seattle and found the Seattle Chinese Golf Club. Jefferson Park Golf Course in Seattle is established as their home course,...
In July 1968, several members of Seattle's Chinese community form a group to foster athletics and community participation among youth. The Seattle Chinese Athletic Association (SCAA) begins with 35 bo...
On October 2, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) signs the bill creating the 504,000-acre North Cascades National Park. Debates about whether or not to create a national park, and what its ...
On May 1, 1970, the Nisqually Delta Association is founded as a Washington state nonprofit organization. The initial board of directors comprises Flo Brodie of Olympia, Albert McBride (b. 1927) of Oly...
On September 26, 1986, the first three Port of Chehalis commissioners (Bill Brooks, Ed Pemerl, and Bill Wiester) are sworn in. The new port district within Lewis County follows the same boundaries as ...