Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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Hughes: Did they have a Seattle <strong>of</strong>fice as well?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes, workman’s compensation. And that’s when I transferred up and took that.<br />
Hughes: Oh, you transferred to Seattle. Had you been dating Cy <strong>Dimmick</strong> by then.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes. So I transferred up here, and then I went to work as a prosecutor for Chuck<br />
Carroll … I was tired <strong>of</strong> Olympia by that time. And I just wanted to get back to Seattle.<br />
Hughes: Olympia in that era was pretty much a real small town.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes. And I had an apartment with one <strong>of</strong> the women who graduated a couple<br />
years ahead <strong>of</strong> me. And she smoked in bed and burned the place up.<br />
Hughes: Holy cow!<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I got out, she got out. We were on the top floor. Nobody was hurt. But that<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> depressed me. So then I moved into a little garage basement <strong>of</strong> some house. And<br />
then I thought, “I’m getting out <strong>of</strong> here.”<br />
Hughes: Your roommate is smoking in bed and nearly burns the place down, and you’re<br />
fleeing in the middle <strong>of</strong> the night in your nightgown and bunny slippers? That would be a<br />
little disconcerting.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: So then I decided, “I’d like to go to Seattle.” So I transferred up.<br />
Hughes: It’s 1954. So were you serious about Cy by then?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I probably was.<br />
Hughes: When did you and Cy <strong>Dimmick</strong> get married?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: In September <strong>of</strong> ’55.<br />
Hughes: When do you leave to go to work for Charles O. Carroll in the King County<br />
Prosecutor’s Office?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: In 1955.<br />
Hughes: But you were a single woman when you started?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes.<br />
Hughes: Justice Smith said he got a job with Carroll even though Chuck had already filled<br />
his quota <strong>of</strong> Negros – one.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yeah! He had Herbie Stephens.<br />
Hughes: Was there a quota for females?<br />
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