Carkeek , like his mother and sister , was passionately interested in the history of the Seattle area , and he served briefly as president of the Seattle Historic Society , which his mother had founded in 1911 , and was a founding officer of the Associates of Eighty-Nine , which was established in 1919 to perpetuate remembrance of the Great Seattle Fire . In the early 1930s he financed the acquisition of theater historian J. Willis Sayre 's private collection of 12,500 theatrical programs for the Seattle Public Library . Carkeek also established the " Vivian Carkeek Prize " which is annually awarded " for the best student contribution to the '' Washington Law Review '' on a point of Washington law or any point of peculiar interest to Washington attorneys "
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Vivian Carkeek