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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.
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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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