Pierce, David Postman, Eric Pryne, Jerry Pugnetti, Kathy Quigg, Dan Raley, Carla Rickerson, Pete Rinearson, Elizabeth Rhodes, Herb Robinson, Mary Rothschild, Claudia Rowe, S.L. Sanger, David Schaefer, Gordon Schultz, George W. Scott, Edward D. Seeberger, Rick Seifert, Barbara Serrano, Kim Severson, Dee Anne Shaw, Linda Shaw, Kris Sherman, Bruce Sherman, Jim Simon, Brian Smale, Hal Spencer, Richard Stansfield, Eric Stevick, Jack Swanson, Cassandra Tate, Roger Thias, George Tibbitts, Ralph Thomas, Solveig Torvik, Joe Turner, Roberta Ulrich, Doug Underwood, Jeff De Vere, Sam Howe Verhovek, Kenneth P. Vogel, Dan Voelpel, Emily Walker, Jeff Weathersby, Robert Marshall Wells, John White, Scott Wilson, Marcia Wolf, Dave Workman, William Yardley and Caroline Young. Watch out for curve balls. John C. Hughes, 2010 Four old pros: John Spellman, Booth Gardner, former Lieutenant Governor John Cherberg, and Al Rosellini. Gardner family album. 192
Source Notes Abbreviations: Associated Press, AP; United Press International, UPI; Seattle Times, Times; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, P-I; Tacoma News Tribune, TNT; Daily Olympian, Oly. For full information on books cited, see the Bibliography. Virtually every newspaper story from around the state during Gardner’s two terms as governor was scrapbooked by volunteers and microfilmed by the <strong>Washington</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>Archives</strong>, Olympia. Reel No. 1 covers 1985 through 1987; Reel No. 2 covers 1988 through 1991. Introduction Interviews in 2009 with Booth Gardner, Chris Gregoire, Al Rosellini, Laird Harris, Joan Blethen, Dan Evans, William Gerberding, Harry Carthum, Sid Snyder, Adele Ferguson and Mari Clack. Dolliver’s assessment of Gardner (“Booth was a charming young man…”) is from his 1999 oral history with the Office of the Secretary of <strong>State</strong>: http://www.sos.wa.gov/ legacyproject/collection/pdf/dolliver.pdf Ferguson’s oral history, featuring her views on the Gardner Administration, is also on-line: http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/ oralhistories/AdeleFerguson/default.aspx “He could step in dog shit…,” Oly, March 13, 1986. “Health care is a right….,” from “The crisis in health care,” P-I, Dec. 9, 1991. “The Basic Health Care program is the first of its kind,” from “<strong>State</strong> to begin dramatic new health care program,” Times, June 10, 1987. Information on Parkinson’s from the Parkinson’s disease Foundation and the Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Care Center, Kirkland, WA. (http:// www.evergreenhospital.org/landing.cfm?id=577&fr=true) Chapter One: Booth’s Roots Dozens of books deal with the Oregon Trail era and the historic Champoeg meeting. Men of Champoeg documents the role played by Robert Moore, Gardner’s great-great-great-grandfather, as does History of Oregon, Vols. I and II. Also authoritative on Moore, Joseph Meek and Medorem Crawford are Willamette Landings and Outpost, John McLoughlin and the Far Northwest. Oregon Trail historians confirm the arrival of Gardner’s great-great-grandfather, James Marshall Moore; great-grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Moore, and great-grandfather, Ronald C. Crawford, in 1847. (Oregon Trail emigrants of 1847: Correspondence with Stephenie Flora, historian with http://www.oregonpioneers. com/ortrail.htm) The exploits of Ronald C. Crawford are documented in Living Pioneers of <strong>Washington</strong>. An unpublished interview with Laurence S. Booth, Gardner’s grandfather, was conducted on May 26, 1936, for the <strong>Washington</strong> Pioneer Project. It is in the <strong>Washington</strong> <strong>State</strong> Library Manuscript Collection, MS 31, Box 5, Tumwater, WA. Laurence S. Booth’s article Seattle the Glorious, appeared in American Mercury, January 1933. Skid Road, documents Laurence S. Booth’s derring-do in Seattle’s Great Fire in 1889. His membership in the Seattle Fire Department is documented in Seattle Fire Department, 1889. The P-I’s interviews with the workers in the cabinet shop where the fire began were published on June 21 and 22, 1889. Further details about the Booth and Gardner families were gleaned from <strong>Washington</strong> West of the Cascades, Volume III, and A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of Seattle and County of King, <strong>Washington</strong>. Also see Sketches of <strong>Washington</strong> 1907, <strong>Washington</strong> <strong>State</strong> Library, Tumwater, and A History of the <strong>State</strong> of <strong>Washington</strong>, Vol. III. Information on William Gardner is from Tacoma – Its History and Its Builders, Vol. lll, rare book collection, <strong>Washington</strong> <strong>State</strong> Library, Tumwater. Also, “Death Takes Wm. Gardner, Pioneer Plumber,” TNT, Oct. 25, 1938. Information on the 193
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student body vice-president, the re
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