Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

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