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42 WAC Magazine | wac.net father's generation. "I'm able to comfort- ably be in all of those different settings," he says. "People think that's different about me." Consider a night this past June when Doug attended the Sorensen & Scholz collegiate rugby awards dinner at the WAC and then hit up a birthday party at Q. "at's a dance club up on Capitol Hill," he clarifies. en again, you could just as easily meet Doug at a warehouse in Kent. is is the home of NiteHawk Sweep- ers. "ey're noted for being quiet, energy-efficient, and eco-friendly," Doug says. As NiteHawk's Director of Interna- tional Dealer Development and Sales, Doug travels widely—from Dallas to Dubai. While on the road, he oen visits Rotary clubs. "Rotary has been a very constant, consistent thing for me," he says. "Maybe I'm nuts or something, but I have 100 percent attendance since I joined." at was in 1992. Whether slipping into a nightclub or commenting on street sweeper chassis options, Doug seems ever comfortable. Cruising from his Bellevue home to work and the WAC, he might turn on Bach, Handel or Vivaldi. But don't be surprised if he dials up some electronic dance music instead. He was a longtime season-ticket holder to the Seattle Sym- phony, but he's also attended the Gorge's Paradiso Festival, an event recently pro- moted with psychedelic hot air balloons. Enigma? Not really. Just a man of diverse tastes. "ere's a lot of emerging trends oc- curring right now," Doug says. "I think that's one of the things that I can bring to the Club—a perspective of being able to connect with the different genera- tions and also being able to understand them because I'm directly involved with them." As our time comes to an end, Doug is still smiling. "e WAC has an inter- esting challenge," he says. "ere's a lot of tradition, values and culture here, and we want to make sure that we main- tain those. At the same time you want to make sure that you're aware of changes in the way people dine, socialize, work, and play. People are different today." —Darrick Meneken is WAC Managing Editor. Reach him at dmeneken@wac.net. u Doug Seto and his father, Matthew, pictured after starting a kidney disease research endowment in honor of Doug's mom, Kiyoko. u Doug and Dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb, director of the Kidney Research Institute, a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine.