Seems Like Yesterday

Published 10:44 pm Wednesday, March 5, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Members of the Advisory Board of Providence Hospital met at the hospital early this week. They were Sister Carmelina, administrator, and board members Donald McCall, Harold Walsh, Jud Norway, Russell LeRoux, Dan Duryee, George Duecy, Loren Forman and Dan English.

Easter Seals began arriving in homes throughout the county and across the nation today as the annual campaign started to raise funds to support the activities of the Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Some of the money would go to the Handicapped Center on Rockefeller Avenue in Everett. Working on the seals were Phyllis Nelson, Eva Ingraham and Sophia Leto.

25 years ago (1983)

Old buildings were being reborn in Everett. Bill Finley and Kent Langabeer converted the old Watson Bakery at 1812 Hewitt Ave. into attractive office space. Other examples were the Surgical Center at Pacific and Rucker avenues, the Commerce Building, the Culmback Building, the Wasson Building, Roma Hall, the Darigold Building and 2101 Colby Building.

When Kevin Wayne Smith of Everett recently took part in a recruit division at the San Diego Naval Training Center, his personal cheering section included his mother, Evadeen Brockway, and her mother, Evelyn Chapman, who traveled from here to California for the graduation ceremony.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library