Family Roots
Brian's father, Randal John Lewis, was born in 1898 in this largest industrial city in Great Britain.
What is Birmingham?
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasted that Great Britain was declaring war on Germany on this specific historical Sunday.
What is September 3, 1939?
Brian matriculated at the young age of 14 in 1944, passing exams that included Distinctions in these two subjects.
What are Mathematics and Chemistry?
Brian sailed for the New World on Sunday, September 14, 1952, aboard this old ship of the Home Lines.
What is the M.S. Italia?
Brian joined the Seattle Jaycees in August 1958 after being invited to speak to the commerce and industry committee regarding the problems of bridging this body of water.
What is Puget's Sound?
Because of a lack of money, Brian's grandparents made an arbitrary decision to educate every other boy and send the others out to work; this oldest brother went off to India into cotton and textiles.
Who is Gordon?
During the heavy London air raids in the winter of 1940, all five family members slept downstairs underneath this large piece of furniture.
What is the dining room table?
Brian played this specific position in the front row of the forwards on his school's rugby football team.
What is a hooker?
Upon arriving in New York with seventy dollars in his pocket, Brian was taken by friends for lunch to Lindy's located on this famous thoroughfare.
What is Broadway?
Brian officially became a citizen of this country in December 1959.
What is the United States of America?
Brian's maternal grandfather, Henry (Harry) Chaston, held this very rare and unusual honorary title from the City of London.
What is a Freeman of the City of London?
When Brian attended Goldsworth Road Elementary School in Woking, one of his early hobbies was collecting the numbers of these roaring machines as they crossed the railway tracks.
What are steam locomotives?
At the annual school speech day in 1947, Brian received the mathematics prize and won the annual Declamation Trophy for the best speech selected by this school official.
Who is the school Headmaster?
To supplement his $120 monthly fellowship at the University of Delaware, Brian spent his weekends engaging in this manual labor for one dollar an hour.
What is cutting tress/ swinging an axe?
In November 1963, Brian was appointed to serve on the Board of Adjustment for this Washington city where he lived.
What is Bellevue?
Brian's mother, Marjorie Pauline Chaston, was officially defined as this type of Londoner because she was born within the sound of Bow Bells.
What is a Cockney?
Brian took his university matriculation exams in June 1944 at the height of these German weapon attacks.
What are V-1 Buzz Bombs?
Brian won the Open Scholarship in Applied Science given by this university in the north of England in March 1948.
What is the University of Durham (or King’s College)?
After transferring to UCLA, Brian moved into an apartment house located at the upper end of this collegiate row.
What is Fraternity Row?
In January 1964, Brian organized the first State Governmental Affairs Seminar for the Jaycees inside the State House of Representatives Chamber located in this capital city of Washington.
What is Olympia?
This uncle of Brian's made the mistake of using a downstairs toilet whose seat had just been repainted, resulting in a portion of his skin remaining stuck to the seat and never visiting them again.
Who is Gordon?
Within his school house named after Drake, Hawkins, Nelson, and Raleigh, Brian was placed in this specific house.
What is Drake?
While attending King's College, Brian joined this volunteer reserve branch, which paid more, provided pilot training, and caused an uproar with his parents.
What is the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR)?
After leaving a consulting job and Southern California Edison, Brian moved to San Francisco in March 1956 to work for this largest architectural firm in the country.
What is Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)?
In addition to his local chamber of commerce activities, Brian actively participated in the affairs of both the Seattle and Bellevue Chambers, focusing particularly on the topic of these infrastructure routes.
What are roads and streets?