Nany Evans oral history.indd - Washington Secretary of State

and fall. One son lived out here; one son lived in the East. And then eventually they
started having babies.
Hughes: Like people do after they get married.
Evans: And it was fine. We still had enough room (for visits). But then the other son a
few years later is engaged and married. So when they would come to visit we had two
bedrooms and one bath downstairs. We decided we should build another bedroom. So
we took part of this huge storage room and we built a bedroom with a little sitting area and
a bathroom. It’s sort of a suite, you know, downstairs. So we have three bedrooms and
two baths.
I remember looking at drawings. You’d look down the hall toward our bedroom and
there was the door to the bathroom. And I said, “Oh, that’s not good.” That’s why you
work on paper with pencil with an eraser. And we all agreed. So the architect just took the
eraser and we changed it. “Oh, that will do it.” I mean it was really sort of fun, the process.
Hughes: Is Dan just a civil engineer?
Evans: Civil and structural.
Hughes: So these are the sort of details he knew about.
Evans: Yes, he really enjoyed that. The house that we rented was not very far from here,
and he would drive over every day. And we had a good relationship with the contractor.
Probably a lot of the workers wished he’d go away because he would sort of critique and
ask a lot of questions. I would be over here almost every day too.
Hughes: How soon after you get back home do you get involved with Whitman College,
your alma mater?
Evans: I was asked to become a trustee in 1994.
Hughes: Was Dan a UW Trustee at the same
time, so you could spar about who had the
better school?
Evans: Well, it’s a “regent” at the UW.
(Governor Lowry appointed Dan Evans in 1993.)
Hughes: What else do you get involved in right Nancy at a Whitman College trustees’ dinner, 2007.
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