Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

take the last class – so I didn’t take Practice & Procedure. But anyway, it was fine. We were
all in it together. We had Saturday classes, so we didn’t have much of a life. It was all law
school.
Hughes: Were there some natural kinds of bonds among the women in that class.
Dimmick: They shoved us into that one little ladies room so we had to know each other
fairly well. (laughs) We had like seven lockers and one bathroom for all of us.
Hughes: Did you make some good friends from that class?
Carolyn Dimmick wth her law school class at the University of Washington in 1953. She is in the front row, third from right.
Dimmick: I did, I made some wonderful friends.
Hughes: To this day?
Dimmick: Well, Dulsi Young was a woman who did graduate. She’s now deceased. And
Eleanor Edwards graduated with her husband. He’s now deceased, but she’s still practicing
law. … Law school was kind of a blur to me because I worked at night for the Seattle P-I.
Hughes: You were elected to the Law Review, but you couldn’t do that, as I understand it,
because you were working at the newspaper?
Dimmick: Yes. I decided not to take the Law Review. I would continue to work instead.
Hughes: There’s a comment in Charles Sheldon’s biography that you found out that you
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