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Foundation Founder | Holidays at the WAC | WAC Artifact | Reciprocal club 32 WAC Magazine | wac.net Foundation Founder Holidays at the WAC WAC Artifact Reciprocal club Club Life E M I L I O H U E R TA S By Joey Carreon, Associate Editor is past February, WAC member Linda Kelly helped dedicate the Club's 8th Floor basketball court to her late husband, Roger Kelly. For Linda, Roger Kelly Court represents a way to remember Roger's contributions to the Club and Seattle as well as to give back to the Washington Athletic Club. "It makes me extremely proud," says Linda, who has been a WAC member since 1965. "Roger had an undoubtable impact on those who knew him." With decades of community service and leadership for the Salvation Army, Virginia Mason Hospital, Seafair, and others, Roger was a fixture of the Seattle community prior to his passing in 2006. He was also a mainstay on the WAC basketball court. Linda's donation to the WAC Foundation in memory of Roger added her to the list of WAC Foundation Founders. Additional contributions from Roger's children Scott Kelly and Kathleen Krekow, as well as friends Kirk Clothier, Jim Farmer, and others, also placed Family & Friends of Roger Kelly as the Foundation's very first Platinum donors. Roger was officially immortalized in his old stomping grounds—the 8th Floor gym—on February 9, 2023. "e Kelly family and the supporters of the effort to honor Roger recognized the value of the Foundation to the Club," WAC President & CEO Chuck Nelson says. "eir significant energy Honoring a WAC Foundation Founder Member Linda Kelly reflects on what the Club means to her family WAC Foundation Founder Linda Kelly (holding basketball) poses with friends and family during the dedication of Roger Kelly Court in honor of her late husband. u