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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<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Sure, yes.<br />
Hughes: We were talking earlier about life just being sort <strong>of</strong> a crap shoot, you just wonder<br />
why things happen. It’s interesting.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I’d say they dropped into my lap, more or less – all my jobs.<br />
Hughes: So you’ve been blessed in your life. You’ve worked hard, but you’ve had some<br />
good luck, too?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Right place, right time, right sex. Sure, you bet.<br />
Hughes: And you’re thankful for that?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes, I’ve enjoyed it. I’ll take it where I can get it. You bet.<br />
Hughes: Funny how paths keep crossing. I first met Don Eastvold in the 1960s – speaking<br />
<strong>of</strong> Big Bands – when he had married Ginny Simms, the popular singer from the 1940s who<br />
was fronting a restaurant and night club at Ocean Shores.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: That was way after he’d been attorney general.<br />
Hughes: Yes. He was at Ocean Shores, and lobbying for local-option gambling. I don’t<br />
know whatever happened to the Don and Ginny thing.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: They went to California, and then Ginny eventually died, and then Don died<br />
within the last few years.<br />
Hughes: She was a good singer.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: She was … They moved to Palm Desert, or Palm Springs. We saw them one time<br />
when we were down there.<br />
Hughes: Eastvold was a champion debater at the Law School in ’48.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: He was in law school with my husband, who was in the Class <strong>of</strong> ’48. And they<br />
went in the service together, as I recall. And the story about Don Eastvold during the<br />
war was that he always needed money. He’d be lying in his bunk, and he’d think about<br />
something. He’d get some guy to do this. He contracted with the stationery store to print<br />
the soldiers’ names on the top, and then he sold them around. But he had other people<br />
doing the legwork. He’d be lying in his bunk making money.<br />
Hughes: That’s a great story. … But you didn’t know Cyrus <strong>Dimmick</strong> back in ’48.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: No. I met him when I went to the Attorney General’s Office (in 1953).<br />
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