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.
(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.).
All retired employees from Seattle 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.
The RCLEA board meets once a month. Our PO Box is located out north and our Treasurer lives down south. Another northend board member checks the PO Box and either brings checks/mail to the next meeting or mails them to the Treasurer. This means our process isn't speedy and it can take some time for your check to get to the right place. If you'd like to help you can join the board.
Board meetings are the first Monday of every month. The meetings start at 12:30pm and generally last an hour or so. We hold the meetings in a branch of Seattle Public Library.
News
Upcoming Events
I received the following email:
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.
This is their ask:
Share your experience of working for Seattle City Light! We are a group of researchers who are capturing the oral histories - recorded memories and experiences - of Seattle City Light workers. We hope to speak with people who worked for City Light as an employee or a contractor in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s and interacted with customers in your role (e.g., as a clerk, customer service representative, meter reader, maintenance worker, in residential wiring, or in another role). If anyone is interested or has questions, they can reach out to Salma Elmallah and Veronica Jacome by email at utilityhistories@gmail.com or by phone or text at 862-772-1754.
It could be a fun. Hope you'll consider reaching out to Salma or Jacome.
Mailing Address
Retired City Light Employees Association (RCLEA)
Board Meetings
In Case You Wondered
RCLEA
P. O. Box 27204
Seattle, WA 98165-1604
Can You Help With an Oral History Project?
Mary Pat DiLeva
mpd12000@hotmail.com
On this beautiful Spring afternoon it's hard to believe the holiday season it right around the corner but it is!! The RCLEA Holiday Party will be on Tuesday, December 3rd at Ivar's Salmon House.
We're still working out the details and will update the website as information becomes available.
ARSCE
New Retirees:
Albertsen, Sandra Lee – 3/6/24
Anderson, Sherri – 3/1/24
Baggs, James – 1/31/24
Beedle, David Lee – 1/3/24
Braun, Ock-Kyung – 3/5/24
Dawson, Patricia – 1/1/24
Freiboth, Renee – 3/8/24
Guray, Maria Pilar – 12/9/23
Hitolin, John R. – 12/31/23
Johnson, Corey – 2/14/24
Moran, Charlene – 2/3/24
Phillips, Robert – 3/26/24
Richardson, Yvonne – 12/7/23
Saxby, Catherine 1/17/24
Shimizu, Gayle M. – 12/6/23
Stewart, Scott – 11/28/23
Trinh, Hien – 1/17/24
Trotter, Jason – 1/10/24
Woelfel, Christine – 3/12/24
Deaths:
Aprill, James – 3/21/24
Atwood, Shirley – 3/16/24
Boyd, Earl – 2/18/24
Castle, Earl – 4/17/24
Kilstrom, Brian – 3/25/24
LaMar, Seth H. – 2/10/24
Motz, John – 12/20/23
Moushey, Joseph – 3/30/24
Murphy, Richard – 1/1/24
Nelson, Jim – 8/27/23
Noahr, Gerald – 4/3/24
Noren, Dennis – 1/18/24
Ogg, Wade – 1/5/24
Paneris, Pythagoras – 2/22/24
Pearson, Richard – 3/14/24
Ruiz, Santiago – 2/18/24
Siverson, Rodrick – 2/8/24
Sugden, Robert – 2/27/24
Weintraub, Paul – 2/24/24
Wishon, Roger – 1/21/24
ARSCE Website is here.
Webmaster
Updated 5/21/24
Please contact Board President Tony Raimondi at tony14007@hotmail.com if you would like to attend the meeting or are interested in joining the board.
Our Winter 2023 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.
We are proud to announce that we now have a Facebook page, thanks to Steve Hagen.
If you do facebook, just search for "RCLEA". The FB page will be for members to connect, share memories, events, photos, and learn about RCLEA events.
Also new on the website, check out short bios of our Board Members on the Board tab.