About Hoo-Hoo
Hoo-Hoo Club 230
Our first club member, Harry Stuchell of Everett WA, joined Hoo Hoo in 1948. It was about this time that Harry and a couple of other people in the timber industry began meeting at an establishment in the Smokey Point area to talk shop & socialize. The group remained relatively small until 1969 when approximately 60 people began showing up. At this point, they realized they needed to organize and officially elected a club President, Secretary and Treasurer. A few of the original members still attend Hoo Hoo meetings and many retired members also still attend because of the camaraderie and outstanding events the clubs hold. We are more than a social club, we have guest speakers from Government, Industry & Academia at our General Meetings. Also we occasionally contribute to worthy causes; the Hoo Hoo museum, Oso mud slide survivors and others.
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The History of Hoo-Hoo International
Hoo-Hoo began in January, 1892 when six industry individuals found their train travels delayed in the small town of Gurdon, Arkansas. These men, brought together by chance and circumstance, listened as Bolling Arthur Johnson, a lumber trade journalist, and George K. Smith, a lumber association secretary, contemplated the idea of bringing the diverse aspects of the industry together in goodwill and fellowship. They wanted a common group to promote high ideals and a code of ethics nationwide. they also felt having fun along the way would be one of the many benefits of membership. Then and there this enthusiastic group of six set about the task of forming this new order.
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