Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

the University of San Francisco. She got a $20,000 scholarship; we’re still paying $20,000.
Hughes: So what was high school like for you? You were working at the P-I and going to
Lincoln High?
Dimmick: Yes. Class of 1947.
Hughes: Any other notables from the Class of ’47 at Lincoln High?
Dimmick: Not that I recall.
Hughes: So in high school did you do classic things? You’re on the swim team? You’re a
cheerleader?
Dimmick: Nah, I didn’t do any of that. I was little “L.” (Minor sports) I forget which sports we
turned out for. But no, I was working all the time.
Hughes: That’s funny. The girls didn’t get to wear a big L, like the boys got for “lettering” in a
sport?
Dimmick: We got little L’s. There weren’t a lot of activities for the girls.
Hughes: Among you girls, do you remember resenting that?
Dimmick: Our expectations were not anything other than what it was.
Hughes: But in Margaret Reaber you had a strong-willed mom. Did she routinely take you
aside and say, “Carolyn, you don’t want to just get married and have babies.”
Dimmick: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Well, there was never any question that I was going to college.
That was it. That was just it. And my brother was three years older and he was already that
far ahead of me. And he was a straight A student all the way. I was average.
Hughes: What’s average?
Dimmick: Well, B’s, whatever. … My brother was too studious. He was a stamp collector and
he sat in his room and played with all these little stamps. And then he was straight A, and an
engineer, chemical engineer, and I was just kind of going through life. I became a water skier.
Actually a professional water skier. I guess when they pay you, you’re a professional. We put
on water ski shows.
Hughes: Where was that?
Dimmick: Seattle. We put on water ski shows called the Ski-Quatic Follies. It started out at
Sand Point, and on Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington. This group became a troupe
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