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and we traveled around putting on shows. Hughes: I hope you have some 8x10 glossy photographs of you water skiing. Dimmick: There’s some around some place. (Smiles) Hughes: Water skiing. That’s no small achievement; you need balance. So you were a pretty athletic girl? Dimmick: I was able to stand up. (laughs) I did all right. Hughes: Where did you learn to swim and learn to love water sports so much? Colleagues had this cartoon made when Judge Dimmick left for the federal court bench in 1985. The judge had been a semi-professional water skiier as a college student Dimmick: I learned to swim down at the Moore Pool in Seattle where everybody went. The Moore Pool was down where the Moore Theatre is … and where there’s now all those fancy condos. The water skiing was just a fluke. I was working at the P-I, with a good friend, Betty Langham. She’s now deceased with cancer last year. And she had two free tickets for a free water-skiing ride up at Sand Point. So we went up for the free ride and because we didn’t fall off our skis, the fellows were really interested in us. So they put us in the Follies. Hughes: Did you earn any money doing that? You said you were a semi-pro. Dimmick: Well, I think they paid our way. I don’t remember any dollars changing hands. But the managers of the Follies probably got paid for our appearances. Hughes: Did both mother and dad inculcate in their daughter that you could be whatever you wanted to be? Dimmick: Yes, definitely. 16
Hughes: How was that imparted? Dimmick: It was just that my mother would say, “You know, you can go way beyond anything that I was able to do because I was being held back, and you’ve got the whole world ahead of you.” Of course daddy just wanted me to be happy. Like I took flying lessons because I traded off answering the telephone for an airline, Kenmore Air Harbor. One of my brother’s friends was a pilot there and so he got me the job answering the phone and doing stuff. In exchange, they gave me flying lessons. So one day my father is sitting home in Broadview, and an airplane goes down right in front of him on the Sound. I’m off that day. But by the time I got home that was the end of my flying lessons. Hughes: How many flying lessons had there been. Dimmick: Well, you had to have 10 to get a student license and I had about eight. Hughes: Did you like flying? Dimmick: It was great. It was a float plane. And that’s what dumped right in the Sound in front of my dad’s eyes. Hughes: Did you ever land one? Dimmick: I don’t remember exactly what I did, but it was fun. Hughes: So is that a major regret? Dimmick: Well, I knew that was that. I mean you don’t argue (with father). Hughes: How old were you then? Dimmick: Oh about 16. When dad said something, that was it because he didn’t really exert himself unless it was something he was serious about. You could argue with mother all you wanted to, but when dad said “That’s the end of your flying lessons” I said, “OK.” Hughes: Any inspirational teachers or mentors that you remember growing up? Dimmick: Mrs. (Ella) Willard in high school. I liked her very much. And my friend and I used to go over and help her clean her house when she was having a party. She was a widow. Very nice lady. Hughes: How hard was it to get into the University of Washington in 1947? Dimmick: It wasn’t hard at all; walked right in. Hughes: You’ve got the money; they’ll take you? Dimmick: That’s it. 17
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