SOCIAL NOTES
— Homemaking —
Happenings About Town
— Gardening —
Of This and That
By BETHA DIGREE
With brightly painted walls and
banks of lights, Sears, Roebuck
& Co. new Catalog Store shows
promise of being a most attractive
place . . . One of which Kodiak
can well be proud to number
among the business establishments
in town. Altho the work in the
quarters located in the space for
merly occupied by the USO is not
yet completed, crates and cartons
are arriving daily, and merchan
dise is being put on display. Miss
Inez Tomlinson, Sears representa
tive from Seattle, has been train
ing personnel and the store should
soon be formally opened . . .
John and Katie Rogers are
spending a few days in Anchorage
with their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Peterson and
family . . . They are especially
looking forward to a trip outside
Anchorage over Memorial Day . . .
—o—o—o—
We shall miss Phil and Doris
Anderson when they return to
College this weekend . . . The An
dersons have made their home in
Kodiak the past year, but have
decided to move back to College.
While we were working at our
desk Wednesday afternoon we
suddenly became aware of some
one calling “Left . . . left . , .
left, right, left . . Our curiosity
aroused, we reached the door just
as seven young ladies came march
ing past carrying a ladder . . .
hose, brushes and other items in
their hands. Senior Girl Scout
Troop No. 10 went swinging down
the street on their way to wash
more windows to earn money for
the Griffin Memorial Hospital
Fund. When we arrived home in
the evening we were ha$>py to
find that we could finally see
through our own windows, thanks
to the efforts of the girls. Con
gratulations to Candace Wilson,
Linda Bettis, Svea Breckberg,
Dawn Jarvella, Virginia Valley,
Joan Benson and Connie Trent for
work well done . . .
There is much activity in the
Labor Temple next door . . . car
penters busily sawing, hammering
while they install partitions. The
building is being made ready for
Naugh ton’s Bakery which will
move in as soon as possible. Then
we will have an even shorter walk
for those mid-morning snacks . . .
Culb Scout Den No. 3 members
donated their essay writing prize
money to the hospital fund this
week. These community - spirited
youngsters are Ned and Robert
Farber, Martin and Dennis Lock
miller, John Butler, Robert Breck
berg, Joe Lester, Steven Ihde,
Den Chief Weston Fields, Assist
ant Den Chief Richard Herbert.
Mrs. N. W. Farber is Den Mother
for the group.
A A A
Girl Scout Troop No. 21 has also
contributed toward the hospital
fund, and the following girls de
serve the thanks of the commun
ity: Judy Acheson, Jean Brunstad,
Kristen Butler, Carol Ann and
Susan Cannon, Terry Coker, Pan
Clemens, Kathy Evans, Nadine
Flotre, Lois Howard, Robin Nico
let, Pauline Peterson, Sue Ann
Ramaglia, Carlene Ray, Alison
Rickey, Chris Shipley, Barbara
Sutliff, Cindy Thompson, Mary
Turner and Gretchen Veerman.
Speaking for the Hospital Advis
ory Board, we wish to thank each
one of these young people who
are thinking of the welfare of all
residents of the area by helping
keep the hospital in operation . . .
Visitor Here
From Mainland
Miss Betty Jordan, manager of
Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog Sales
Office in Mountain View, arrived
in town Thursday morning.
Miss Jordan will assist Miss
Tomlinson and the local office
staff in readying the new store
for the opening on June 2. She
expects to return to the mainland
June 3 or 4.
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MRS. HOPE CARRITHERS
Sense of Adventure Dominates
Life of Mrs. Hope Carrithers
By Miriam J. Angell
Long before we met Mrs. Hope
Carrithers, wife of Gale H. Car
rithers, 17th Naval District Public
Works Officer, we heard her quot
ed, wittily, and extolled, as sweet,
remarkable and “quite a person.’’
Introduced at last we found her
every bit the woman we had ex
pected, and more.
At first meeting Mrs. Carrithers
seemed to us a gentle, young look
ing grandmother (which she is,
five times over) with a delightful
smile that comes from her eyes
as well. There is a sparkle there
which should have warned us what
to expect, but admittedly, the first
witticism came as something of a
shock, said in such a quiet, casual
way with her benign, sweet smile.
In time friends learn that this
gentle lady harbors a sense of
adventure as great as her sense
of humor. The great adventure
began some years ago in Nebraska
where both she and Captain Car
rithers grew up, attended school
and later met in Teachers’ College.
For three years after she took her
teacher’s degree, Hope Carrithers
taught eight grades in a one room
school in a desolate region fifteen
miles from the nearest town.
“It was quite a wild area, she
explained. “I walked two miles to
school and back every day, built
my own fires and hauled water
from the well. They wouldn’t let
me carry a gun but I always
thought they should have: I killed
rattlesnakes pretty often.”
The Carrithers were married
when he was a civil engineer for
the state of Nebraska. In 1940 he
went into the Navy and they spent
most of these early service days
in Crane, Indiana and Hastings,
Nebraska. When he was transfer
red to the Admiralty Jslands with
the Seabees, she moved to Lincoln,
Nebraska. At war’s end and the
Captain’s return they settled in
Yorktown, Virginia, sent their son
to William and Mary College from
where he went on to a PHD at
Yale. He now teaches English at
Duke University in North Caro
lina. Their daughter is the wife
of a LCDR in the Navy, stationed
at Oxford, Miss.
In 1953 the Carrithers realized
a longtime dream when they trans
ferred to Kodiak. “Even in high
school I always wanted to go to
Alaska to teach. Spike had always
wanted the same thing but neither
of us had told the other until the
orders came.
“I’ve always liked adventure
and doing things differently from
the common, garden variety way.
I was so fortunate to run into
someone who also wanted this sort
of life and to go to Alaska. We
were both so happy here from the
very start of our first tour. We
established our legal residence
here and have kept it here ever
since. If the Navy hadn’t sent us
back we’d have been back any
way.”
That first tour Mrs. Carrithers
taught in the Naval Base school
and one year, with two other
teachers, held a most successful
summer session.
From 1955 until 1958 the Car
rithers were in China Lake, Cali
fornia; they requested and were
given a transfer back to Kodiak
two years ago. Captain Carrithers
will retire on October first.
“We plan to retire right here
in Alaska. But first we will drive
down the Alcan and spend the
winter visiting friends and rela
tives in the South Forty-eight.
We’ll come back up the highway in
the spring. Before we leave we
hope to make up our minds wheth
er we want to be on the island or
the mainland. No, we’re not town
people; if we choose Kodiak we
would live at least in summer, as
far out as Afognak or Saltery Cove
or, if it’s to be the mainland, in
a suburb. We have a couple recrea
tion tracks on Twin Lakes on the
mainland but we couldn’t live
there the year ’round, only during
the summer months. There are no
roads there; in fact, where our
claims are they haven’t even sur
veyed yet. For the winter though
we don’t want to be too isolated
because we would rather do the
things we enjoy with people. I love
people.
“Our claims at Twin Lakes have
blueberries, fish and all kinds of
game on them. Spike loves to hunt,
as you can see.”
In the living room of the Car
rithers’ quarters are two prize
trophies from the Captain’s hunts.
The bear whose skin is shown in
the accompanying picture measur
ed ten feet four inches. The hunt
ing party was unable to pack out
the skull for official measure
ments but it would undoubtedly
have earned a Boone and Crockett
pin. On one wall is a very beauti
ful Dali ram’s head which Captain
Carrithers shot in the Clark Lake
area.
“One of my husband’s fondest
dreams is for me to shoot a moose
or bear — something big. He took
me deer hunting and I was scared
to death I would see one. I
wouldn’t want to shoot a deer or
a sheep. They’re so beautiful.
“In California he wanted me to
hunt turtle doves with him. I said
I would just lead the dog around
and sat down on a rock while he
shot from a little distance away.
To satisfy Spike I started blasting
into the air, hoping I wouldn’t hit
any of those pretty birds. Doves
were falling all around, Cleo (the
beagle hound) was retrieving like
mad and Spike rushed up and
threw his arms around me and
told me how proud he was of me.
Of course he was the one who got
all the birds and I know if I hit
any it was an accident because I
wasn’t aiming at anything at all.”
Hope Carrithers says she spends
twenty-four hours a day being
wife but that she does do some
other things. She has just retired
as president of the Navy Officers’
Wives Club and “I thoroughly en
joyed the experience. I love to
work with children and I’m a Grey
Lady at the hospital. Even though
husbands complain about it some
times I think they like us better
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