Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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Hughes: Judge, with that glint in your eye I can’t imagine that you ever really thought <strong>of</strong><br />
yourself as just being average. Are you a person who just all <strong>of</strong> a sudden emerged from this<br />
chrysalis as a young woman and became a lot more than average?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Well, in high school, I took drama classes and appeared in two <strong>of</strong> the senior plays.<br />
I was “Lucybelle Lee from Tennessee.” My father was there watching me at a Saturday night<br />
performance, and a drama pr<strong>of</strong>essor from the UW he was familiar with told him, “Make<br />
sure your daughter takes classes from me.” And my dad told me, “There’s no way you’re<br />
going to take drama from him because he got a divorce and hooked up with one <strong>of</strong> his young<br />
students.” So that was the end <strong>of</strong> my future career on the stage.<br />
But we just drifted along in those days. There wasn’t a lot <strong>of</strong> pressure on us to do<br />
anything. We went down to Green Lake and swam, and I went to work with the P-I.<br />
Hughes: That’s a pretty bold kind <strong>of</strong> thing, though, getting a job downtown?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes.<br />
Hughes: You’re 13 or 14 years old and you get this job. There weren’t a lot <strong>of</strong> kids doing that.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: No.<br />
Hughes: Was that a really important thing to do in terms <strong>of</strong> family finances during the<br />
Depression, or was it just spending money for a teenager?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I think from that day on I always bought all my own clothes, and all my own books.<br />
My folks always paid my tuition wherever I went. They wanted me to keep going so they paid<br />
the tuition.<br />
Hughes: How much was tuition?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Forty-seven dollars in law school, as I recall.<br />
Hughes: Forty-seven dollars a quarter?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes.<br />
Hughes: I think Charlie Smith told me that he got a break because <strong>of</strong> the G.I. Bill and it was<br />
only $37.50 for him. But you don’t even want to know what it cost my wife and me to put a<br />
daughter through Gonzaga, even with good scholarships.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Sure, my granddaughter went to Forest Ridge. My other grandson is in O’Dea.<br />
They pay more there than we did for my entire education. And my granddaughter is now at<br />
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