Dunn Lumber president Mike Dunn has added a title that's extremely rare among LBM executives: film producer.
Dunn was the executive producer and driving force behind Us Against the World, a short documentary about the rowing team from the University of Washington that won gold in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The documentary focuses on team member Joe Rantz, whose granddaughter Jennifer Hoffman has won fame as a rower and who, with Dunn Lumber's support, has spearheaded construction of a local boathouse.
Hoffman narrates the film, which premiered earlier this month at the Seattle International Film Festival and can be seen online at usagainst.org.
Dunn Lumber has special connections to rowing. It has had a yard since 1930 on Seattle's Lake Union, where generations of University of Washington crews trained. Dunn Lumber signs can be seen in the background in films showing the 1936 team.
The connections go even deeper. Charles Dunn, the second generation of the family to lead Dunn Lumber, was a member of the 1923 Husky crew that became the first West Coast team to win a national championship. Dunn Lumber also has produced a video on Charles Dunn and that achievement.
