GOTO-HEALTH

"Lloyd Nordstrom, representing a group of Seattle business leaders, awarded the franchise to start the Seattle Seahawks football team", was part of the BIG news in 1974. Sam came home one day that week and said, “Lloyd Nordstrom was in Dr. Sproule’s office today and he told us about creating the team.” 

 

Sam was Dr. Sproule’s lab man from 1958 to 1969, when Sam created his own Goto Dental Lab. He still did all of Sproule’s lab work but all the patients were sent to Sam’s Lab to take the shades and Dr. Sproule and Sam consulted each other, in person, regularly.

 

One of our baby sitters when we lived on Capitol Hill married Ron Howard, one of the original team members. Of course, we bought some season tickets, but they were in the end zone of the King Dome and we decided not to keep them because it didn’t fit our budget. We have followed the team through the years. An added coincidence was that we had built a house on Mercer Island the year before in 1973 and were living a couple houses away from a Nordstrom residence.

 

We were excited to follow the Seahawks during the Coach Pete Carroll years, especially because Pete named Lou Tice as one of his mentors. Our daughter, Kelly, was hired to do the calligraphy for all the graduates of the Tice personal growth seminars at one time. Plus, Tice’s seminar tapes were the first such seminars that became part of our success with our In-home Nutrition and Family Counseling business, which still survives the 50 years since we started in 1976.

 

Today, January 2026, I am excited to embrace the Seahawks as they go the Super Bowl this year! I am excited about the philosophy of how all the management, coaching and players, in all the interviews, first talk about how they all “stay in the moment”, “do their job” and “work as a team”. It is an example of my own resolution to name “CONNECTIONS”, expressing gratitude in overcoming hardships and finding my own skills to contribute to our community.