Mrs. Robert W. DeArmond This is Me

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1. 1. Parks and Recreation - Juneau, Alaska

   www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/14/2008   Last Visited: 5/10/2008

   This photo was taken of Bob in Sitka by Jack Calvin circa 1937.Alaska State Library - Historical Collections PCA DeArmond 2.
   
   Working for the Ketchikan Daily News --1940(circa)
   
   This photo was taken in the 1940s, on or about September 1, when the Alaska Fishing News (published three times a week) became the Ketchikan Daily News.Bob was a reporter and is holding one of the first day's run of the new paper.Alaska State Library - Historical Collections PCA 01-3706.
   
   At the Territorial Museum and Library --1955
   
   This photograph was taken in the Wickersham Room of the Territorial Museum and Library on the second floor of the Capitol Building between 1953-57 when Bob was on the staff of Governor B. Frank Heintzleman.
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   Bob was probably engaged in research for the governor when this photo was taken.
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   This photo was taken when Bob became Grand President of the Pioneers of Alaska in the 1960s.Alaska State Library-Historical Collections PCA 01-3706.

2. 2. Parks and Recreation -- The City and Borough of Juneau

   www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/8/2006   Last Visited: 8/8/2007

   Anyone embarking on an historical inquiry in Southeast Alaska (and other parts of the State) benefit from R. N. (Bob) DeArmond's work. For more than 70 years, Bob has been researching, writing, editing, publishing, corresponding, and advising on all topics historical that pertain to our region. He is the author or editor of 17 books (with additional books in progress), and has written uncountable (thousands) of newspaper columns and magazine contributions.
   
   From his current home in Sitka, he continues to contribute to The Sitka Sentinel and Alaska History. His other accomplishments, to list a few, include an entry in the 1927 Alaska flag contest, rowing from Sitka to Tacoma in a dory to go to college, serving as editor of Alaska Sportsman (now Alaska Magazine) and Alaska Journal, and as administrative assistant to Territorial Governor Frank Heintzleman.
   
   Until now, most of his non-book writings have been accessible only on microfilm or as yellowing clippings in various shoeboxes around our region.
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   According to Bob, "It had bound volumes of virtually all Alaska newspapers and these are now on microfilm.
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   And ... the redoubtable Bob DeArmond has supported our project from its inception, with suggestions, advice, and (we hope) approval.
   
   Bob has been a prolific researcher and writer, and the archives now available on our site are incomplete.

3. 3. Parks and Recreation - Juneau, Alaska

   www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/1/2003   Last Visited: 5/10/2008

   Robert attended school in Sitka and at Tacoma, Washington, where he graduated from Stadium High School in 1930, just after the Wall Street crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.He worked in a salmon cannery that summer, then got his first newspaper job as a reporter for Strollers Weekly in Juneau.The paper was sold the following spring and the new owner became his own reporter.Jobs were scarce and in the summer of 1931 DeArmond made a rowboat trip from Sitka to Tacoma.
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   In the fall of 1938 DeArmond was a member of the first crew that went from Sitka to Lisianski Inlet, Chichagof Island, to build a cold storage plant and found the town of Pelican.There DeArmond was storekeeper, bookkeeper and postmaster .
   
   The DeArmonds and their two children remained at Pelican until the end of 1944.Anxious to get back into newspaper work, DeArmond moved his family to Ketchikan and he became a reporter on the Alaska Fishing News, which soon became the Ketchikan Daily News.From 1946 until 1953 he covered the biennial sessions of the Alaska Territorial Legislature for the Daily News, the Juneau Empire and several other papers.That took him to Juneau for two months every other year, first from Ketchikan and after 1949 from Sitka where he had become a partner in the Sitka Printing Company.At two different times, while living in Sitka, DeArmond was elected to the City Council.He became a member of the Ketchikan Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska and in 1957 became Grand President of the organization.In April 1953 DeArmond became administrative assistant and press secretary to B. Frank Heintzleman, the former Regional Forester who had been appointed Governor of Alaska by President Dwight Eisenhower and who, with most of his staff, were actually employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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   While they lived in Juneau, Mrs. DeArmond worked for several state agencies including a new Department of Library Service.She then became librarian at the Juneau Memorial Library and held that position for 29 years.She also became known as a printmaker, particularly wood cuts and wood engravings.
   
   Between 1957 and 1973 DeArmond worked part time as a researcher at the Alaska Historical Library in Juneau.