Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/08/01
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>>From: Kay Weir Fishback (37)

Re: Basketball
    I had an E-Mail from Loren St. John (55). He has been
trying to find out names of some of the pre Hanford day
coaches. I guess none of your readers know - so maybe some
of you would like to. I did answer his letter at great
length but I won't put you through all of it.
    The team in our school days were called the Broncs -
when the new school was established I guess everything had
to be new so the team name was changed to the Beavers. Of
course you all know the Bombers were NOT named after our
product but after the Plane bought by Hanford workers
donating a day's pay.
   The coach in 36-37 was named Putnam the next one I Know
for sure was 37-38. His name was Earl Whitehead - he was
also the Supt. of Schools and taught in the high School.
After all when the district consists of two schools with a
total enrollment of between 200 and 225 students everybody
had multiple jobs.
    Hope this is of interest to some of you. That is
today's History lesson from what some of us choose to call
THE REAL RICHLAND.
    My dad stayed here and went to work instead of looking
for another farm and in those days everybody asked
everybody where they were from and those of us who stayed
said we were from here. People either thought we were some
sort of strange native species or were like one woman who
said "Young lady, you know there was nothing here before
the govt. came and there certainly were no schools."

-Kay Weir Fishback (37)
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