Retired City Light Employees Association (RCLEA)

Dunn Gardens Tour - Wednesday, May 21st. This is a docent-led tour of the gorgeous Dunn Gardens in NW Seattle. Designed by the Olmstead brothers in 1915, this historical garden is a Seattle treasure. Tour is $10. Reserve your spot by May 16th.   Sign-up form here.

Volunteers needed for an SCL oral history project 

ARSCE 

New Retirees:

Adler, Gary – 9/5/24;
Byers, Stephen - 11/30/24:
Cheng, Benjamin – 1/8/25;
Clement, Diane - 12/4//24;
Cuba, Michael – 1/15/25;

Diaz, Fiel San Luis - 12/5/24;
Gibb, Andrew – 9/17/24;
Holmes, David – 11/1/24;
Houseknecht, Aaron – 1/15/25;
Paulman, Lawrence - 11/30/24;
Salmon, David – 9/5/24;
Tucker, Jr., Samuel – 8/28/24;
West, Jean Chin - 12/1/24

Deaths:
Caravan, Walter – 9/25/24
Carter, Donald – 12/26/24
Clark, Kathleen – 11/26/24
Fredrich, Paul – 1/9/25
Gallagher, Patrick – 2/14/25
Grant, William K. – 12/24/24
Karosich, James – 12/28/24
Marino, Ricky – 12/22/24
Maxwell, Jay – 12/3/24
Modrell, Patrick – 10/1/24
Odell, Elton – 9/24/24
Olson, Archie – 12/19/24
Robbins, Jeffrey – 12/27/24
Swanson, Weldon – 10/14/24
Young, Jeffrey – 10/6/4

 Volunteers are needed for an

Seattle CIty Light Oral History Project. Scroll to bottom of this page for information about the project and contact info.

Check out bios of our new  Board Members on the Board tab, including our new President, Tom Parks.

Tom Parks wrote a lovely article about some SCL retirees & friends who recently volunteered to build a tiny house. See what he learned here!

RCLEA Spring Luncheon  - Tuesday, May 8th at Ivar's Salmon House.  The doors open at noon with the buffet served at 12:30pm. The cost if $35 for dues paying members and their guests and $45 for non-dues paying members and their guests. 

The Spring luncheon is a great time to get together with other retired City Lighters.  Reservations close on May 2nd.   Sign-up form here.

From an Email RCLEA recently received:  

​My name is Salma Elmallah and I'm a researcher at Arizona State University. I'm emailing because, along with Veronica Jacome, we are working on a project where we are collecting the oral histories - the recorded memories and experiences - of Seattle City Light workers who were employed by the utility at any point in the 1960s through the 1990s.

I got your information from the Retired City Light Employees Association (RCLEA) website - we've also interviewed one of your officers, Larry Works, who pointed us to the association. Thanks so much!​

Retirees/Deaths

News

Our Spring 2025 Newsletter will be here shortly.

If you want an electronic copy of the newsletter, please send Mary Pat DiLeva your email address at mpd12000@hotmail.com

If you do not have access to a computer and require a hard copy, dues-paying members can drop us a note and mail it to our PO Box.  We will snail-mail you a copy of the electronic version.

RCLEA Newsletter

Webmaster

All retired employees from City Light, are automatically a member of RCLEA. But by becoming a dues-paying member, you become eligible to vote or run for the board, attend luncheons at a discount, and help defray our administrative costs.  

To have SCERS automatically deduct your $10 dues from your February check, please print and mail this form to us.  Thanks!

*Dues were raised from $6/yr. in 2022  because of increased costs.

 Mary Pat DiLeva

mpd12000@hotmail.com

​​​​​Dues $10 per Year*

RCLEA
P. O. Box 27204
Seattle, WA 98165-1604

Mailing Address

Board Meetings

Board meetings are the second Wednesday every month.  The meetings start at 1:00pm and generally last an hour or so.  We hold the meetings in a branch of Seattle Public Library.

If you are interested in attending, please contact our President, Tom Parks at tomparks2@msn.com

Upcoming Events

ARSCE Website is here.

RCLEA is an organization of retired Seattle City Light employees.  Our mission is to provide opportunities for members to keep in touch with each other.

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(Note: RCLEA is not the same  as ARSCE which is an organization of Retired City of Seattle Employees. Many RCLEA members are also members of ARSCE; www.arsce.org.).

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