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A4 • Friday, September 13, 2019 | Seaside Signal | SeasideSignal.com SignalViewpoints Hall of Fame to celebrate inductees SEEN FROM SEASIDE R.J. MARX E ight inductees will join those enshrined in Sea- side High School’s Hall of Fame. The event takes place Sat- urday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m., at the Seaside High School cafeteria. This year’s inductees include Gloria Ray Linkey, class of 1947; Richard Schroeder, class of 1963; Tom Horning, class of 1972; Janie Lee Corbett; Kyle Camberg, class of 1993; Doug Soles, class of 1994; Emily Roley Merrill, class of 1995; and Dennis Olstedt, class of 2007. In addition to individual hon- orees, the 1993, 1998, 1999 and 2001 girls golf teams will be honored. Sign One and Pacifi c Power will be honored for their contribu- tions to Seaside sports and school activities. “We’re much more than an ath- letic Hall of Fame,” committee member Wally Hamer said. “Our main goal when we fi rst got started was to honor those people who have contributed greatly to their communities. We have always tried to honor people across the board — not just athletes but peo- ple who have been successful in all walks of life. We honor businesses as well who have supported Sea- side High School in so many ways. Without the community support we would go nowhere.” This will be the last Hall of Fame banquet at the high school as the campus prepares to move to the Southeast Hills in 2020. A location for the Hall of Fame at the new campus has yet to be determined, Hamer said. Orga- nizers are considering a revolving kiosk that would list all the induct- ees, hall of famers and teams, with an interactive display offering sta- tistics and bios of inductees and teams. Tickets for the Sept. 21 ban- quet, catered by Twisted Fish, are available at the door for $20 for adults; children and under at $12. Proceeds go to the Mork Schol- arship Fund, honoring longtime community volunteer Bob Mork, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001. The committee gives two $500 scholarships every year. Nominees for the Hall of Fame are always sought, Hamer added. Send names of potential candi- dates to Seaside Hall of Fame, PO Box 2101, Gearhart, 97138. “We want to encourage any- one in our community to nominate people who have accomplished a lot,” Hamer said. “We have a lengthy list that we look at every year. But we want more, so please let us know your nomination.” CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT 1993 team members Toni Dean, Angie Maltman, Aimee Stewart and Katie Hanson; top right corner, Tracie Hanson. The team had a strong regular season winning the district playoff s, advancing them to the state championship. The 1999 girls golf team: Kaisa Ter Har, Michelle Olson, Kelsey Hertig, Lindsey Robison, Brette Docekal and Coach Jason Boyd. The 2001 girls golf team was runner up in the state championship, with Laura Ter Har, Brette Docekal, Michelle Olson, Kaisa Ter Har, Tessa Ter Har. The 1998 team of Coach Mitch Ward, Kelsey Hertig, Kaisa Ter Har, Michelle Olson, Tiff any Leinassar, Brette Docekal. About the honorees In 1963, Richard Schroeder led his golf team to a fourth- place fi nish at the state tourna- ment. After college he worked in the investment securities busi- ness and then followed his dream and became a golf professional at the Eugene Country Club. During his golf career Schroeder has won numerous local golf tournaments, including the Oregon Coast Invi- tational and club events. Tom Horning, of Horning Geo- sciences, was a celebrated dis- cus thrower and track star at Sea- side High School. Horning serves on the Seaside City Council and as North Coast Land Conservancy secretary and past president. Emily Roley Merrill is the chief program offi cer of the Doris and Donald Fisher Fund, the San Francisco based foundation of Doris and Donald Fisher, founders of The Gap Clothing, Inc. The Fisher Fund seeks to ignite the transformation of American K-12 public education by invest- ing in entrepreneurs and organi- zations that raise student achieve- ment and increase the number of quality publicly-funded school options particularly for low-in- come students and families. The Fisher Fund’s grantees include groundbreaking organizations, such as KIPP and Teach For America, among many others. She lives in Portland with her husband Matty and their three sons Henry, SEASIDE HIGH SCHOOL HALL OF FAME The Seaside High School Hall of Fame Committee was formed in 2001 by a group of former Seaside coaches and educators including Wally Hamer, Larry Elliot, Stubby Lyons, Jim Auld and Gene Gilbertson. They’ve opened the doors beyond the athletic fi eld and over the years honored musicians, mathema- ticians, scientists, soldiers and more. Gus and Teddy. Kyle Camberg has served as executive director of the Police Bureau Sunshine Division since 2011. He is responsible for increasing visibility in the com- munity, expanding food and fund- raising capacity and enhancing operational effectiveness of the organization. Doug Soles coaches the Great Oak Track and Cross Country pro- gram, for 19 years building one of the top high school distance pro- grams in cross country and track and fi eld in the nation at Great Oak High School in California. Soles manages many large invita- tional meets for athletes from all over the country. Gloria Linkey is a member of the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Foundation, both nationally and the Oregon Chapter. She serves as administrator of the Pacifi c North- west Living Historians. She is for- mer secretary/treasurer and past president of the Seaside Museum and Historical Society; a board member of the Knappton Cove Heritage Foundation; and presi- dent of the Friends of the Colum- bia River Maritime Museum. Janie Lee Corbett was a 1983 member of the softball Little League team that placed second in the nation. Corbett was recently inducted into the Clark College Hall of Fame and the Eastern Washington Hall of Fame. Dennis Olstedt won var- sity letters in track and football from 2003-2007. A three-time All-American at Lane Community College conference record-holder and national semifi nalist. Today, Olstedt is a successful teacher and coach. The 1993 girls golf team of Toni Dean, Aimee Stewart, Angie Maltman, and the Hanson sis- ters, Tracie and Katie, Seaside girls golf team had a strong reg- ular season winning the district playoffs, advancing them to the state championship. Three of the golfers placed in the Top 10 for individual scores in the 36-hole tourney. The 1998 girls golf team of Kelsey Hertig, Tiffany Leinas- sar, Michelle Olson, Brette Doce- kal and Kaisa Ter Har placed fi rst in the league and second as a team at the state tournament that year. The season was topped off by the fourth-place state individual per- formance of freshman Olson, Coach Mitch Ward recalled. The 1999 group of Coach Jason Boyd featured golfers Kaisa Ter Har, Kelsey Hertig, Lindsay Robison and and returning golf- ers Olson and Docekal. The team was described as “an incredible group of young ladies,” by Boyd, who now serves as Seaside High School’s assistant principal. The team won the district tournament to be considered one of the best in the state. Senior Kelsey Hertig was medalist at the district tour- nament at the Astoria Golf and Country Club, shooting a 92 on Day One and 85 on Day 2. The 2001 girls golf team, coached by Dave Foust, earned runner-up position in the state championship. Olson was third in state with a two-day total of 166. She was joined by team- mates Kaisa Ter Har, Tessa Ter Har, Laura Ter Har and Docekal. “Michelle earned all-state hon- ors,” Foust remembered. “These girls were hard workers and fun to be around. It was an honor to be their coach.” Corporate honoree Sign One has been operating since 1996. In these 23 years we have had a fer- vent desire to do our part in the Seaside community and the sur- rounding areas of Clatsop County. From being a longstanding mem- ber of the Seaside Booster club, to Seaside High School Hall of Fame recognition board donation and creating jerseys for the youth pro- grams in the area. We take great pride in producing apparel and sign work for the communities through the county including Sea- side Kids Inc. and the Seagulls. Pacifi c Power is an electric utility serving customers in Ore- gon, Washington and California. In Clatsop County, Pacifi c Power serves approximately 24,000 cus- tomers. While Pacifi c Power is headquartered in Portland, the company began in 1910 in Asto- ria, and has been serving this com- munity for over 100 years. In Sea- side, Pacifi c Power is a member of the Seaside Chamber and the Downtown Development Associ- ation. Pacifi c Power is also proud to support many Seaside organiza- tions such as the Seaside Rotary, Seaside Library, Sunset Empire Park and Rec, Providence Seaside Hospital Foundation and Seaside Kids Inc. Throughout the County Pacifi c Power’s employees volun- teer their time to give back to the community. “We want to encourage any- one in our community to nominate people who have accomplished a lot,” Hamer said. “We have a lengthy list that we look at every year. But we want more, so please let us know your nomination.” Admirers of architect Al Hansen hope to commemorate his legacy VIEW FROM THE PORCH EVE MARX O n a startlingly beautiful Wednesday evening in the waning days of August, a dozen or so people gathered on the beachfront patio of a private home in the Cove to hold the sec- ond meeting of the Al Hansen Admiration Society. Those gath- ered own and live in homes built by Albert Grunwald Hansen, a man of Dutch ancestry who began his career in Portland in 1920 where he worked alongside his father and his brothers for 10 years in in a fi rm called “Hansen & Sons.” Han- sen was not a trained architect, but he was the designer of 25 or so res- idences built in Portland, Seaside and Gearhart erected between 1937 and 1975. What is known is that in 1938 Hansen plotted an area along Sun- set Drive that became known as Hansen’s Cove. Slightly north, PUBLISHER EDITOR Kari Borgen R.J. Marx the area now called “W” Street was at one time called George L. Baker Way. Baker, so-named for the former mayor of Portland, who developed the Tides, which once included tennis courts and a rid- ing area. Hansen designed and built homes are scattered around the southern portion of Seaside. There are Hansen homes on Beach Drive, S. Columbia, Avenue T, S. Down- ing, S. Edgewood, and Ocean Vista. There are three known Han- sen homes in Gearhart; one on North Ocean, one on Marion, and one in the Palisades. There is a Hansen-built home in Arch Cape. Hansen-built homes have dis- tinctive characteristics including hipped and gabled dormers, pic- ture windows, Dutch doors, win- dow shutters, and stenciled designs on exterior shutters. Clearly infl u- enced by the arts and crafts move- ment, Hansen utilized local mate- rials. He liked stone and wood. He liked wood kitchen counters and used linoleum for his kitchen fl oors and bathrooms. He liked the masculine appearance of exposed wood beams. CIRCULATION MANAGER Jeremy Feldman ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Sarah Silver-Tecza MULTIMEDIA ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Kim McCaw PRODUCTION MANAGER John D. Bruijn SYSTEMS MANAGER Carl Earl zillow.com Seaside residents hope that Al Hansen’s work will be recognized, as the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright is in the New York neighborhood known as Usonia. Hansen and his wife Betty moved to Seaside in 1937. In 1938 he built a home for himself, his wife, and eventually his mother- in-law, who moved in with him and for whom he built an attached apartment. The current owners of Al and Betty’s house, both artists, offered me a private tour. Besides an update to the kitchen appliances, the house looks and feels pretty much the way it must have looked CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Skyler Archibald Darren Gooch Joshua Heineman Rain Jordan Katherine Lacaze Eve Marx Cara Mico Esther Moberg and felt in the 1940s. The view of the Cove and Tillamook Head pretty much knocks your socks off. The fl oor plan meanders and the ceilings are low, giving the rooms a cozy feel. The liberal use of wood paneling and a preponderance of built-ins strongly reminded me of the Usonia community located in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York, I wrote about years ago. The history of Usonia is that in 1945, a 100-acre rural tract was purchased by a coopera- tive of young couples from New York City who enlisted the archi- tect Frank Lloyd Wright to help them decide where each house should be placed. Wright designed three homes himself and approved architectural plans for 44 more to be designed by a team of archi- tects and an engineer who were all Wright apprentices. In 2012 Usonia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. So far, the goals of the Al Han- sen Admiration Society are mod- est in scope. Their fi rst task is to identify as many Hansen homes as possible and contact the cur- rent owners. The second goal is to offer owners of Hansen homes an opportunity to buy a plaque to be affi xed to the front of their home identifying it as a Hansen residence. If you think you live in or own an Al Hansen home or would like more information, contact Robin Montero at monteroarts@gmail. com. Who knows? There may be a plaque in your future. 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