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Additional Text for the 08/06/04 Alumni Sandstorm 
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>>From: John Richardson ('58)

To: Marilyn "Em" DeVine ('52)
Re: Greetings
    So very nice of you to write, and thank you for your
comments. I think we all need to laugh every day because
it's healthy and good for us. I hope that your up coming
change goes smoothly for you, and I hope to see you again 
in the Sandstorm again, you write better than you think.

To: Jim Crow ('51)
Re: Left Field
    Good to hear from you Jim, and I for one -- and I speak
for myself -- am glad to see and read your commentary. 
The Sandstorm is sort of like The New York Times, or The
Spokesman Review, or The Tri-City Herald, in that it reports
all kinds of news from all over. Each one of these papers
reports National news, from around the country, Local news,
what's happening in the Tri-Cities, Human Interest, local
luncheons etc. Obituaries and even the Comic page with cross
words and puzzles. The point that I guess that I am trying
to make is this, I cannot recall ever reading every single
page in any news paper. I read what interests me and discard
the rest. You may want to think of what I write as the comic
section, or maybe you don't think it's funny and don't like
what I write, well that is ok with me, there are some out
there who do, so don't read the section that I am in. As for
empire building, I did that when I was working for a living;
I'm retired now and just trying to have fun.

To: Mary Lee Lester Yarborough ('58)
Re: Great Sadness
    Mary Lee, Heart felt condolences from [my wife], Katie 
Riggins Richardson ('60)m and I. Our thoughts are with you.

To: Steve Carson ('58)
Re: Speak For
    Thanks Steve, We Johns know who we are!

To: Ed Quigley ('60)
Re: Radiation
    Ed, thanks to my heavy head of "Silver" hair, no one can
see my third eye.. Thanks for the thoughts as well..

To: George "Pappy Swan" ('59)
Re: "PPP Estates"
    Pappy, As you directed, I have been in contact the three
top country club and golf course designers in the U.S., and
have received preliminary drawings and artist renderings 
of the new course and facilities, and Pappy I just can't
believe the "Brilliance", the "Imagination", the "Creative
Talent" that Arnold Plumber, Jack Knuckless, And Tiger Woes
have put into this beautiful and hands-down "World Class
Facility"!!! I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I don't know, I
don't know if I can stand it, stand it!! I tell you Pappy, I
woke up in the middle of the night, sat stright up in bed,
and had an epiffany, (maybe it was gas) I had burning in 
my mind the perfect name for your "World Class Golfing
Facility". Are you ready for this? "St. Puddles" "Taa
Daa"!!! The fairways are tough but beautiful, and you talk
about tough, getting onto the greens is almost impossible.
One of the greens has a big windmill, one has a mountain...
Pappy, a mountain with a little tunnel, but I saved the best
for last, one has a big squirrel with his mouth open and you
drive that ball into his mouth (you gotta drive it hard) and
it poops right out of his tail.
    As you know, I am headed to Las Vegas this weekend for a
Puddle symposium and seminar. You know what they say in 
Las Vegas, Pappy, "What happens in the Puddle stays in the
Puddle". I will have my report for the St. Puddles Pro Shop
available for you Monday morning.

-John Richardson ('58)
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