Nominees Want to see who was nominated as the most influential people in Seattle and King County's first years? Check the list below. There are about names, submitted either individually or in groups. That's how they are presented here, roughly in the order in which they were received.
In some cases, specific dates were included, in others, no such information was provided. The names of readers who submitted nominees directly to The Times are included here. His wife Susie became a leader of the radical labor and civil rights movements. Named for a member of the Black Panthers. The airplane orders came rolling in and travel was changed forever. Known also for his good-humored lyrics.
Forest Service. Olympic Team. Also designed hull of Boeing's first commercial plane. Helens erupted. Assumed to have perished in the blast. President during expansion of wartime industry in Seattle. Navy explorer who named many geographic features in Made first survey of the Northwest.
Many scenes are set in Seattle's Chinatown. Hill and other prominent railroad builders. He later returned to China to build the first railroad there. He established the Wa Chong Co. His pioneering martial arts movies had much to do with reshaping images of Asian Americans and help create a new genre of action movies. This book is required reading for Asian American studies classes.
He was honored posthumously this year. Along with his wife, Louisa Maria Phelps Anderson, he designed and implemented an ambitious curriculum, hired enthusiastic educators, secured lasting funding, established an enrollment open to women on an equal basis with men and set and enforced a high standard of discipline and academic excellence that are his lasting legacy to this day.
