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DG: This is totally different: "Mountaineers."

NS: Oh, the Mountaineers was a fun group because we had children and we enjoyed going out into the mountains and hiking and skiing. And we even took our children and went up to the Mountaineers' cabin and helped them build a new cabin up at Mount Baker. It was one of the fun groups that we joined. And I would cook blueberry pancakes for 'em and help them. It was just kind of a fun weekend when we took our sleeping bags and joined the Mountaineers.

DG: Tell me about starting the ski school.

NS: The ski school? Which one?

DG: The public school.

NS: The public schools, yes. It was just when skiing was beginning in the Northwest. There was a friend and I that thought a ski school would be a good idea, and I think we had the cooperation of the Times paper. And we got together and chartered a bus, signed up students who wanted to go skiing, and took them up to Snoqualmie Summit and had a few women that would act as chaperones. And I think we started with one bus and then ended up having many buses go up.

DG: And this is the Seattle public schools.

NS: That was Seattle public schools. That was when my children were still in the public school.

DG: In the 1960s, late '60s?

NS: Oh, I don't know.

DG: I think around there, late '60s, '70s maybe?

NS: No, it was earlier than that because my boys were, I think, my eldest son was a sophomore when we went to private school.

DG: Oh, so that was in the late '50s.

NS: Yes. Uh-huh.

DG: Because almost everybody goes to ski school now.

NS: Yes. So this was when they were still -- that was ten years before.

DG: Okay, in the '50s.

NS: Early '50s.

DG: Early '50s. Wow.

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