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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
NOTE: Bomber's last name in high school is now in ALL CAPS
NOTE: NAB means Not A Bomber
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/01/09
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5 Bombers and Theresa Hammer sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane LEE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phyllis MAFFEI ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen FULCHER ('79)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Electric Scooter
I know a lot of alumns are taking part or all of the care of
ageing relatives.
Mark, our warehouse technician, lost his mother a while back. He
has one of the electric scooters like you see advertised on TV .
I believe it is an M-11 model. New cost was over $9,000. It is a
little over a year old and in excellent condition. Mark and his
brother would like to sell it for $4500 OBO. That is what the
Scooter Store would give him for it. It is in the Olympia, WA area.
If anyone is interested in this chair please contact me:
larrymat@pyrotech.com and I will put you in touch with Mark.
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN (Last Great Class of the '50's .. '59)
Re: Maintaining Activity
Thank you for your very inspirational message once again. I love
these pep talks! You've got me revved up and going. I'm going to
be taking a walk around the block in just a bit. Like you said
"self launch". You just have to get started and "do it"!
I bet that the "pups" really enjoyed their first hunting
experience and some "alone time" with dad. You'll have to take
your camera with you and take a picture or two and send them
into the Sandstorm.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
The sky is once again blue, but it got cold last night.
Have the heat on and I'm pretty sure it will stay on til
next summer. We've been by passed with the rain I think,
but the cold front is definitely with us.
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: The Controversy Continues...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richland_Bombers
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
as for keeping active, am sure babysitting grandkids qualifies.
*grin* they keep me hopping, although not as much as when they
were very little. youngest one is now 8, so doesn't need as much
"sitting" as when he was smaller. have 9 of those critters, so
they have been my reason for getting up each and everyday and,
with this blasted cancer, they are even more my reason for
getting up and out of that bed and doing things---gotta be around
to "bug" them like they have "bugged" me over the years. *grin*
Re: Jack MORRIS ('55)
glad to hear that the PET scan showed no new cancers and that he
is getting better. Bomber prayers really do work.
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: escaping the home
love that idea---go out kicking and screaming. *grin* I try
to keep my mind active, even if I can't keep my body all that
active---arthritis prevents a lot of activities---hurts my hip
too much to do much walking---quit bowling for this "go-round" to
see if that will help ease some of the pain and discomfort. also
do a lot of crossword puzzles---keep that "old-timer's" disease
at bay for as long as possible. *grin*
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: "Curves" and socializing
hey, that works, too! keeps you active, cause even though you
are visiting, you are still working out----been there and it
is a good work-out for 30 minutes, 3 times a day. like that
"trampoline" thing----can't do some of those machines---hurts my
hip and knee too much, but do like bouncing on the trampoline---
the one I go to plays "oldies from the '50s and '60s, so we
groove to good music. *grin*
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64).. according to our
weather people, we are NOT going to have anymore triple
digits for this year! woohoo!!!!! now, IF we just get a
long, cold winter I will be one "happy camper". *grin*
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Jowed Hadeed (HHS'01), Swine Flu Victim
When Jowed was first admitted to the hospital with swine flu the
doctors did not think he would survive. However, he earned the
name "Miracle Boy" by the staff when he was healed and was
released to go home. Thank all of you for your prayers.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
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>>From: Theresa Hammer (NAB)
Did YOU work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR PARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR GRANDPARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Do you KNOW SOMEONE who worked at Hanford/PNNL?
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) is a federal law passed by Congress in July, 2001.
The intent of the law is to award medical and/or monetary
compensation to workers in the Atomic Weapons Industry in the
event the worker developed an occupational illness caused by
exposure to a toxic substance at a Department of Energy (DOE)
facility. There are over 370 DOE sites around the country
covered by this law – including Hanford and the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) - and the law is retroactive to 1942.
If the worker is deceased, survivors can be awarded the
compensation. Survivors include (in order of eligibility):
o Surviving spouse
o Children of the worker
o Parents of the worker
o Grandchildren of the worker
o Grandparents of the worker
The Hanford Resource Center was established by Congress to assist
the Department of Labor with the claim process.
CONTACT: The Hanford Resource Center toll-free at 888-654-0014 or
email hanford.center@rrohio.com
-Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/02/09
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9 Bombers and Bill Dunton sent stuff:
"Pappy" SWAN ('59), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), The COLE family
Bill Dunton (former teacher)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay CONRAD ('60)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN (Last Great Class of the '50's - '59)
Re: Staying in the Game
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
It just so happens that I did take my camera, so you asked for
it, and here are some pup pics of their first grouse hunts. My
girls are still pups, big pups, but still pups (nine months old
on October 9). I took each pup separately, on her own, very first
hunt ever, so that each could have her personal, first hunt
experience with Dad. Bella and Me'a are both taking to their
retrieving duties well, despite my frequently interrupted
training efforts, over the past four months. Each has her own
quirks to work out, but we are making progress. They said that
Dad has his own quirks ... too.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Swa/091002-00.htm
The last picture is for Ron HOLEMAN ('56), who worked on the
first test wind generators, near Goldendale, WA. These things
look like big, three pedaled posies, whirling away, when the
almost constant wind blows over the foothills of the Blue
Mountains. Only when up close to them, does one get a sense of
how large they are. They are also, now common, along the Walla
Walla River, and south of Finley and Kennewick, WA. Some folks
don't like them, citing "aesthetic view pollution," but we need
power, and someone complains, no matter what the method of power
generation.
To: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: The Controversy Continues...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richland_Bombers
Gary, thanks for the link! There is a lot there, and I'm still
studying it.
To: Linda REINING ('64)
You go girl! Anything that keeps us from ... just sitting,
"vegging," or "watchin' tube" ... as Martha Stewart always said,
"Is a good thing!"
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where the days are
cooling (in the 60s) and the nights are around 40º or less,
and ... Quail season opens on 3 October, but the girls will
have to wait for a day or two, because we have a 13 year-
old granddaughter riding in the state barrel racing
championships at Walla Walla this weekend.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: "Curves" and socializing
You mentioned "a good work-out for 30 minutes, 3 times per
day"... I truly hope you meant 3 times per week :). I go each
week day. We have in our "7 am group" a lady that has arthritis
in her hip, at least, very badly and she goes on Saturdays as
well. I watch her in amazement do all the machines. On the
jogging pads, she is constantly rubbing her hip as the pain is
great. I really admire those who "just keep on going" regardless
of what ails them.
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
By the way, Pappy, I went for a walk yesterday. Felt pretty good
too. I used to walk daily for quite awhile, but just got out of
the habit. Boy, can I tell!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
Hope the temps stay down for you, Linda for the rest of
the year. It has really cooled down here during the
nights and mornings, even with the sun out. Afternoons
are still great though. Still have our bedroom windows
opened 24/7 though.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Attention '65ers
OK kids... you snooze you lose. The time has come the Walrus
said (koo koo kutcho)... we gotta make some plans... our 45th
is in 2010. Gregor ('65) is having a very hard time getting
any consensuses... we need to make up our minds on a date. I
understand that some of our members would prefer NOT to share
with the All Class [R2K+10], CDN's [cool Desert Nights] or Club
40. Fine... what would you prefer? I will be at CDN's and I will
be at the All Class which as near as I can tell will both be
June 25-26, 2010. But that's just me. I've been teaching a
constitutional Law Class for "Everyday People" (different strokes
for different folks and so on and so on...)... I immediately
explain that I do not want to interject my beliefs in to the
class... I just want them to see and hear the words... as
written... we can discuss it more in depth in another session...
that's what I'm trying to do here... Our 35th did not have the
kind of turn out I would have liked. It was held on a date other
than R2K. Yes, Richland will be crowded and GWWay will be blocked
off at times... so it is up to you but if we are going to have
one we need to set the date NOW!
Jeanie WALSH ('63): Hair? Honey those little wisps around the Rat
Fink tat are all we Indians can muster... if you mean around his
lil bod... that's just the way the ol' Master Ed Big Daddy Roth
made him... He was Ed's answer to Mickey Mouse... Ed and his
buddy's had a thing goin' with Disney... Listen to Tony SHARPE
('63) he won't steer ya wrong... I get together with a bunch of
Ed's Buddies every year at the Wrong House up in Utah every year
for the Rat Fink Reunion... most of them left Disney long ago
like Ed... course Ed has left the building all together... so
that's my story and I'm sticken too it...
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: The COLE family, Barbara ('50), Patti ('52), Karen ('55),
Judie and Jackie ('63), and John('66)
Our condolences to Carolyn ('72) and Greg of the Fran RISH
family, on the death of their mother Bet. She was a wonderful
lady, and will be missed.
http://obit.einansfuneralhome.com/obitdisplay.html?id=711160&listing=Current
-The COLE family, Barbara ('50), Patti ('52), Karen ('55),
Judie and Jackie ('63), and John('66)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former teacher)
This is Bill Dunton, a voice out of the past! I taught at
Carmichael from the fall of 1949 until the spring of 1958. First
of all I want to thank all of you Bombers who remembered my wife,
Lynn, who passed away May 9, 2009. Linda REINING ('64) and Bill
CHAPMAN ('60) made the trip down to Fullerton to be a part of the
"Celebration of Lynn's Life," the middle of July. And then the
bells went off when all the hoopla started about Roman Polanski
being held in jail in Switzerland because of his having sex with
Samantha Geimer when she was only 13.
I'm not going to get caught up in the rights and wrongs of what
he did, but an article in this weeks People Magazine did refer
to his marriage to Sharon Tate ('61wb-RIP), who along with her
unborn child was murdered by Sharon Atkins, a member of the
Manson gang. It just so happens that Sharon Tate attended
Spalding Elementary School in Richland. Her dad was in the army
and based in North Richland. If memory serves, the elementary
school in North Richland was shut because there was no more need
for workers building the Hanford Works. I think Vera Edwards came
from that grade school to teach Drama at Carmichael. And why do I
remember Sharon TATE? One of my college friends, Bob Galati, was
her 5th grade homeroom teacher at Spalding, and although Bob died
some years ago, he remembered Sharon very well.
And speaking of Carmichael, I went there when the "special" group
of picked kids (maybe two classrooms were chosen) were starting
8th grade, a full 7th grade group from all the schools arrived
(Carmichael was the only junior high then -- Chief Joseph was
not even a gleam in an architects eye), and then the next year
Carmichael finally was a "real" junior high -- grades 7, 8 and 9.
I started the Annual "Cougar" at Carmichael, and sent all copies
of each annual that was published until I left in 1958. Imagine
my astonishment to discover (as I did on Google) that Carmichael
was now a Middle School (grades 6, 7, 8) with the 9th grade going
to Columbia High School. I sent the books to the Principal at
Carmichael and haven't heard word one from him/her as to what
happened to the books, but I have to imagine that if any of the
alumni from the high school has a repository for the books that
now, at least you know where they are!
Life has been very different without Lynn. We were married in
1948, and if my math is correct, that made our last anniversary
in January number 60. I do have a long dissertation about our
life from high school until her death, and I'll get that sent to
the Sandstorm and you can ask for it to be sent as an attachment
if you want to read it. We grew up together -- which was a good
thing -- she was marrying an only child brat, and I was marrying
a multitude of in-laws so we both had a "little" bit of adjusting
to do. When asked how we stayed married so long she shot back
immediately (and I think this one comment summed up our entire
married life), "We did it for spite." She was indeed a wonderful
mother, grandmother, great grandmother and a loving and caring
friend to a multitude of people.
Thanks for listening
-Bill Dunton (former teacher)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/03/09
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
"Dick" ROBERTS ('49), Phil RAEKES ('49)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Donna NELSON ('63)
Linda REINING ('64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George BRINKMAN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Katie RIGGINS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shelly HILTY ('79)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Re: Class of 1949's 60 Year Reunion
It was a typical '49er event: enthusiastic, fun-filled, friendly,
youthful, rollicking and moderately boisterous with a trace of
nostalgia weaving throughout. Phil RAEKES and Ann Thompson,
aka Anna May WANN ('49) led the planning group including
Norma CULVERHOUSE King, Jean WILLIAMSON Dreher, Rose WEAVER Kron
and Bev KELLER McMullan. Their good work produced a delightful
outcome. Phil was our master of ceremonies, told a few great
stories, some poking fun at the mature folks and some a little
on the risqué side. Great laughs!
For entertainment -- at great effort and expense *LOL* -- the
Sandstorm Strummers, Richard ROBERTS, Carol TYNER Roberts ('52),
led the crowd of almost seventy in a rousing ukulele sing-a-long
of good old tunes from the past.
Dick HARRIS, a three year cheerleader, the greatest Bomber
cheerleader ever, led the group in the Bombers fight song.
That's Bombers with a "B", not a "P" as in plane.
Another high light was bringing back seven of the original
members of the "Pair-A-Dice" Club, Phil RAEKES, Rem RYALS,
Rex DAVIS, Mel STRATTON, Royal WEST, Richard ROBERTS and
Gary NIELD to sing one of their earlier famous tunes, "Blue
Skies"; no practice for over sixty years but still well received
by the appreciative crowd.
"OK By Dick McCOY" ('45) made a surprise visit to our affair and
declared that it was a great party and the best 60th that he had
ever seen. Some pictures attached.
[Want to get all names on the pictures... I'll get them
in another Sandstorm -- SOON. -Maren]
Cheers,
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Phil RAEKES ('49)
Re: '49er 60th Reunion
To: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Excellent write-up. Couldn't have done better myself, so that's
saying something. I think you captured the spirit of the reunion.
-Phil RAEKES ('49)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Love Reunions
Last week, [my wife] Linda and I took our RV trailer to San Juan
Island, north of Seattle, for a long overdue visit with some good
friends. One of the true highlights of the trip was having lunch
and a great visit with Dick PLOWS ('63) and Marcia Plows (Pasco
'66). Dick and I grew up together in the south end and have known
each other since grade school at Lewis & Clark. Dick and Marcia
have a little piece of heaven on Henry Island, just across the
bay from Roche Harbor. We learned that some of their good friends
on the island were also friends of ours when we lived there.
We had our diving business in Friday Harbor from 1989 - 1999 and
our ornamental iron business from 1999 - 2003. During those years
we met a lot of really super people and made some great friends.
This remote island community is very magical and special. We
camped at the San Juan County Park with the intentions of sitting
in our lounge chairs, reading some books, watching beautiful view
of Haro Straight and the great sunsets as the lights of Victoria
BC, Canada come on in the evening. However, there were so many
people that we needed to see, that we never got a chance to read
one paragraph. On Sunday afternoon we got our camp set up and
just sat down to relax, when we had visitors who came with food,
lots of hugs and so many stories. Monday we were able to get
together with Dick and Marcia Plows for lunch and then dinner
with our 16 year old granddaughter. Tuesday we thought this
was our chance to relax at the park, but we had more visitors.
Wednesday, Linda went to a Soroptimist lunch and met up with a
lot of her female friends. I, of course, had to go to the dive
store and visit with the new owners and discuss the dive
business.
It was nice to see that someone was determined to make the diving
business a success (again) in Friday Harbor. When Linda and I
sold the business in 1999, it was thriving and profitable, but it
was also a lot of work. The people who bought the business from
us did not want to work that hard, so they walked away after just
18 months. There were a couple other owners who tried to make a
go of it for about 4 years, but it was too hard for them. Now
Curt and Peggy Long own the business and we are confident that
they will do a great job.
Wednesday evening we had a group of friends at the park for a BBQ
and visit that lasted till 11:00 PM. Our little reunion was a
great success and we do miss the islands, and the people a lot.
We will be back for more visits and we will not wait 6 years this
time.
We Love Reunions and we are blessed with many friends and endless
memories.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
I'm a week out of surgery because of basal cell carcinoma. I'm
writing to say please get your skin checked by a dermatologist
if you have anything you think looks suspicious. Mine was on the
bridge of my nose and the dermatologist had been watching it and
finally did a biopsy. The rough spot never went totally away and
I had it for years.
The procedure is done in Bellevue or Spokane and is called Mohs
(named after the doctor) and it's a local anesthetic while you're
sitting in a chair, the surgeon only takes a little skin at a
time and analyzes it while you wait in the waiting room with
other patients going through the same thing, bandaged of course.
Since a lot of us grew up pre-sunscreen and used a lot of baby
oil, iodine, and cocoa butter while water skiing on the Columbia
and blistered too, that's when the damage was done.
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Wind Energy
We have those wind turbines all along the freeway in Tehachapi,
CA (about 40 miles East of Bakersfield) - think, if I am correct,
they go from Tehachapi to Mohave - they have talked about
putting them along the "grapevine" (the route on highway 99 from
Bakersfield to Los Angeles) but the public doesn't want the sight
of them deterring from the view - what view????? It's nothing but
freeway and trees!!!!! good grief - IF it will help with the cost
of utilities, what difference would it make??????
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer ('64)
Re: Curves
Yep, meant 3 days a week. *grin*
Had my first "round" of chemo, yesterday (Thursday, 10/01) - wow,
what an exhausting day. Was there for over 7 hours. 7 different
bags of stuff going into the "port". Then, they hooked me up to
the "pump" and I will have chemo for 4 days - 2 milliliters each
hour, pumping all day and night. Can't crimp the line or a buzzer
goes off and then it has to be reset - the pump is about the size
of the old transistor radios that came out in the '60s.(??) will
go back on Monday, they will remove the pump, "flush the port"
with saline, then will be done til the 29th of October, when
we start this all over, again. The nurse said I will have 4
"rounds" of chemo on a 28-day cycle, then start chemo and
radiation, then two more rounds of chemo, alone. Figure this will
take me through April. They say they will leave the "port" in
for a year, just to make sure I am cancer-free, then it will be
removed, if no more traces of cancer at that time. Possibility
that the radiation and chemo won't get rid of the mass, so they
will "shave it off" in layers, til they get a clean sample. Fun,
fun, fun.
Said my hair should fall out in about two weeks - have already
bought scarves - might go wig shopping, too. He said I will lose
hair, everywhere - didn't even think about my eyebrows and
eyelashes!!!!! Will be drawing on my eyebrows, so I will be
experimenting with those forms that Avon sells - can be different
everyday! *grin* and, guess I'll have to buy "falsies" (no, not
those), so that I can have eyelashes! *grin* he said it will all
grow back, but I told him if the hair on my legs grows back, I am
gonna be pissed, cause I haven't had to shave my legs since I
turned 40--meds I started taking back then, "retarded" the growth
of hair on my legs and I don't relish having to shave again!!!!!!
To: Bill Dunton (former teacher)
Re: Lynn Dunton (former Richland teacher - RIP))
The tribute to "Aunt Lynn" was wonderful - many laughs, many
tears, and many memories were remembered on "her" day. She was
indeed a wonderful lady and I am so glad that I had her as a
part of my life, my daughters' and grandchildrens' lives. The
dissertation that you wrote about your life from high school
to her death was a wonderful tribute. we cried and we laughed
reading it.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ cooler temps have
arrived in Bakersfield, CA!!!!! woohoo am a "happy camper".
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/04/09
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
"Dick" ROBERTS ('49), Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Willo Dean EDENS ('56), Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
John ADKINS ('62), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Nolan JOHNSON ('82)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria DAVIS ('61)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Re: '49er's 60 year Reunion Pictures
Maren, do you need some help with the names? I don't know all of
those in the class picture but maybe Ann Thompson, aka Anna May
WANN can help.
[She can, and she did... here they are .Maren]
RichlandBombers.1949.tripod.com/ReunionPics/49in09-00.htm
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
To: Bill Dunton (Former Teacher)
Who could ever forget the teaching, artsy, and singing duo at
Carmichael, Bill and Lynn. My brother Tom ('53) and I ('53) were
in that first class, which in those days about half of us were
the upper classmen at Carmichael (9th grade), and the other half
were at the High school as lowly freshman. I can remember being
in a Holiday play, I was Artemus, that Bill directed, and I can
remember Tom in the Wizard of Oz....he played the Tin Man I
think, also, I believe directed by Bill. Tom still talks about
how Bill Dunton saved his life before we left Carmichael... Tom
had gotten into a few scrapes at Carmichael, and Bill took the
time to sit him down and tell him he better shape up, that his
reputation will precede him to the high school, and that he will
be a marked man. Tom took it to heart, and to my knowledge, never
had a major problem at Col-Hi.
The two were a great influence on a lot of us just starting to
mature.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from a very nice Sacramento, CA
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Willo Dean EDENS Wilkerson ('56)
Entered: Thursday 10/01/2009 3:05:30pm
COMMENTS: Homes in Richland, Yuma, AZ, and MotorHome. Catch me
where you can! Grew up on Duane Ave, now called Geothals.
-Willo Dean EDENS Wilkerson ('56)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
Entered: Saturday 10/03/2009 6:57:09pm
COMMENTS: From what I can tell, RHS has one of the most active
alumni websites around. Even though I now live in Southern
California and don't have family any more in the Tri-Cities,
I still hit the website to try to keep "connected."
-Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers in the Military
Put on your thinking caps - what Bombers do you know who were in
the Military - neighbors - classmates - boy friends - girl friends
- Aunt Lizzy's second cousin?
Send me their names and whatever information about their service
you might know. Particularly, but not limited to, the years -
Post Viet Nam.
My list keeps getting bigger, and encourages me, more and more
that, with your help, this is a do-able project.
-John Adkins ('62) ~ Richland - Rain tonight
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
They pictures of the girls were very good. I think you've got a
couple of retrievers there with a little more practice. I'm sure
all of you are enjoying the hunt.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
Sun still shining, but getting cooler out all the time.
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Nolan JOHNSON ('82)
Entered: Thursday 10/01/2009 12:57:36am
COMMENTS: Still alive... working as a Sergeant with the Yakima
Sheriff's Office in crime free Yakima (NOT). Would be great to
hear from anyone from the class of '82.
PEACE
-Nolan JOHNSON ('82)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/05/09
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
"Dick" ROBERTS ('49), Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
Patricia DE LA BRETONNE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandi WARD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janis COOK ('68)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Morris MASSEY ('54) & Carol HORSTMAN ('53)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Re: '49er's 60 year Reunion Pictures
RichlandBombers.1949.tripod.com/ReunionPics/49in09-00.htm
Great job, Maren. It's all over but the shouting. Go Bombers.
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
All this talk about the Duntons and Carmichael has jarred my
memory and got me to thinking. I went to Carmichael in 1949/'50
and 1950/'51 and shared cheerleading duties with Patty Badger and
Gene Wooley ('53). I know I had Mrs. Latta for homeroom. She was a
wonderful teacher. And I loved Vera Edwards who taught speech. I
remember being in a play in eighth grade and I think she was the
director, but I can't remember the play. I thought I had Cynthia
Huckstep for music. Did the Duntons come after that? I am a little
hazy (old age) but think the Duntons lived close to us on Sanford
in a pre-cut and I remember going to their house for art lessons
from Mrs. Dunton. Someone please straighten me out on this. I'm
curious. I thought the art teacher was Mrs. Pearson that first
year, before a lot of us moved over to Chief Jo for ninth grade.
One teacher I would like to forget, but can't, is Roland Jantz.
I swear his passion was to see how many girls he could make cry
in class. Lots of memories coming now, but they are not to be
confused with facts. Please set me straight.
-Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55) ~ Richland
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>>From: Patricia DE LA BRETONNE ('65)
Loved the pictures from the '49 reunion! And there's our beloved
Rex Davis (Mr. Davis to me) smiling sweet as ever. Ahhh, the
trampoline...
-Patricia DE LA BRETONNE ('65)
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Funeral Notice
>>Barbara PIERCE Edens ('56) ~ 10/1/38 - 10/2/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/06/09
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), John CAMPBELL ('63)
Karen KLEINPETER ('63), Pam EHINGER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary COLLINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harvey IRBY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Willie MITCHELL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam PYLE ('69)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Duntons
To: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
Laura, the school year that you were cheerleading with Gene WOOLEY
('53) and Patti BADGER ('53) was '49/'50... they, along with
me and about half the '53 graduating class were freshman at
Carmichael that year, and you must have been in the 7th grade...
the Dunton's were there... at least Bill was that year... also I
remember the other teachers you mentioned.
Mr. Anderson was the principal, and it was the first year for a
complete sports program... football, basketball, and baseball, so
you were kept busy.
I'm sure Bill Dunton could verify this.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from very fall-like Sacramento, CA
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: Dust Storms
Marilyn and I spent the weekend in Prosser and Paterson for the
Mustang show at the Columbia Crest Winery. We stayed at the
historical Red Barn. I think our family at there when I was
preschool. Saturday night was pretty nice, but you ought to have
seen all the folks in the morning looking at the cars with dust in
every crevice of their cars - with a car show to go to. Well some
cleaned their cars and headed to Paterson and by the time they got
there the cars were covered again. Once they got there, they were
covered again and again. I heard they closed the highway by Moses
Lake because of the dust storms.
This took me back to when we moved into our ranch house on Birch
street back in about '47 or '48 I think. Anyway, my Mom was
fanatical about cleanliness (not like me). There were no lawns in
the beginning and the dust storms would blow quite often and cover
her nice shiny floors with dust. The ranch houses had aluminum
windows and I remember Mom would wet towels and put them on
the window sills to keep the dust down. I thought with all the
irrigation that those storms were a thing of the past, but I guess
not, at least not in Prosser and Paterson.
By the way, my hats off the Richland Mustang club and the winery.
They were hospitable through the whole ordeal.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63)
To: Annie PETERSON Shiffer ('69)
My dad, Jack Kleinpeter, told us the story about the band leader
who left his piano in Richland, too. The band leader in his story
was Kay Kyser. See if that rings any bells with your dad.
-Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
I also had Mrs. Latta for Homeroom in the 9th grade only I went to
Chief Jo. Did she teach at both schools? The Mrs. Latta I remember
was... well to this 9th grader... was... or seemed... very old.
I was in her class when we found out that President Kennedy was
shot. We were all sent home that day. School was closed the day
of his funeral also.
So I was just wondering if Mrs. Latta had taught at both Jr. Highs
during her time as a teacher.
Bombers Rule,
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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9 Bombers and Patricia Brown sent stuff:
Doreen HALLENBECK ('51), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Lora HOMME ('60), Patti JONES ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62), John ADKINS ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Rick MADDY ('67), Patricia Brown, CREHST (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jessie WILLOUGHBY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jon BOISONEAU ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cristy CONE ('74)
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>>From: Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
To: Dick ROBERTS ('49)
Re: '49er's 60 year Reunion Pictures
RichlandBombers.1949.tripod.com/ReunionPics/49in09-00.htm
I would like to say "thank you very much" for posting the pictures
of the Class of '49 60th reunion. The photos were great, and
brought back lots of memories for me. My sister Janet (RIP) was a
part of that great class, and being just two years behind her I
also knew several great '49rs. Wish I could have been there.
-Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: John Campbell’s ('63) entry about dust storms
In the early '50s (don't remember the exact year any more) I
borrowed my mother's relatively new Pontiac convertible to go
rabbit hunting towards West Richland. It was a beautiful day,
sunny and warm and I had the top down of course. I drove on a dirt
road for a couple of miles into the desert and parked next to some
sage brush, got my .22 out and started walking, looking for jack
rabbits, etc. About an hour out I noticed big, rolling, dirt-brown
clouds coming my way, and turned around and started back to the
car, but the dust storm went faster than me and beat me back to
the car. About the time I got back there was about 1/4" of dust
covering the entire inside of my mother's car. It took me a week
to get most of the dirt and dust out of that car with some lost
privileges as well.
Of course I had pretty much forgot the dust storms when I returned
to Richland for the 50th class reunion in 2006, even though we
had moved into our house in Richland in 1944 during one of those
memorable storms. However, even though vegetation has covered much
of the moving earth, I was quickly reminded upon arriving for the
reunion, that once again, Richland was in the midst of another one
of those wind storms with the blowing dust that we had become so
familiar long ago. Even though I have occasionally entertained the
idea of returning to the Tri-Cities when I retire (if I ever do)
because of the drier and warmer climate, I doubt that will become
a reality. The "Sandstorm" is truly an appropriate name
with which we can all identify.
By the way, John, I was at Columbia Crest Winery last month with a
friend from California, introducing him to some of the wonderful
wines we have in the North West. He's talking about coming back
next year to try some more of the wineries in Western Washington
which is a delight for me as well.
Re: A friend emailed this to me today,
Origin of Jack O’Lanterns
People have been making jack-o-lanterns at Halloween for
centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man
nicknamed "Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack
invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name,
Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the
Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their
drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and
put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the
Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually
freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack
for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his
soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing
into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree,
Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the
Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to
bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow
such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick
Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul,
would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark
night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the
coal into a carved out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with
it ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as
"Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply "Jack O'Lantern."
In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions
of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes
and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away
Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large
beets are used. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack
o'lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States.
They soon found that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make
perfect jack o'lanterns.
Information taken from the following sources:
http://www.pumpkingrowingtips.com/history.htm
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/pumpkins/history.html
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Lora HOMME Phillips ('60)
Re: Dust Storms
To: John CAMPBELL (’63)
My family also moved into a ranch house when they were first built
in the middle of my first grade year. Ours was on Sacramento Blvd.
across the street from the Spalding School playground which was
a huge Sahara with a few forlorn looking swings and monkey bars.
Every time the wind blew, not only were the Horse Heaven Hills on
the move toward pre-shelter belt Richland, but half the playground
moved across the street into our houses. If we had a Termination
Wind on a school day, our mothers had to walk us to school even
though it was just across the street because visibility was about
a foot in front of you.
My parents planted grass in the spring but the school did not. I
remember my folks out in our front yard with shovels, uncovering
the grass which was literally buried under the sand. We kids loved
it. While our parents were desperately trying to save the lawns,
we were building houses and roads for our toy cars or making mud
pies in what was just a huge neighborhood sandbox in the street
gutters to us.
My mom was also a clean freak who spent most of her time futilely
trying to beat back the relentless sand that seeped through the
myriad of cracks and crevices in ranch houses. We were having
company for Christmas dinner that year so Mom stayed up into the
wee hours on Christmas Eve cleaning the house. When we got up
Christmas morning, everything was again covered with a thick,
gray/beige blanket of sand, the tree, gifts, everything.
The next day Mom went to the housing office and went back every
day until they found us a house in an older part of Richland where
the lawns were already planted and we moved in the middle of my
second grade year. The wind still blew and we got our fair share
of Horse Heaven Hills topsoil, but it was manageable. My mom could
relax a little and I was happy, there were lots kids in the new
neighborhood too and I was back in Sacajawea where I already knew
a fair number of kids. It was a great place to grow up.
-Lora HOMME Phillips ('60) ~ In that other town, across the river
and down the road from home.
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
Reservations aren't necessary. Many Bombers do like to let us
know they are coming so please email if you wish.
WHEN: Saturday, October 10, 2009
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
Gray building with red trim just past the Yakima Bridge
on the right.
heading west from Richland on the right side)
TIME: 1:00 P.M.
PRICE: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served all day.
Prices range from $4.50 - $13.95
(add drink, tax, and tip)
Bomber spouses and friends are welcome! Looking forward to also
seeing out-of-town Bomber visitors.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: Dust Storms
I would have thought that the dust storms like we grew up with
were a thing of the past too, because of the irrigation and all
the growth of towns in the area. Also I would think that the
wind break of trees helps, at least around the ranch house area.
I can remember having to lie on the ground if we got caught in a
dust storm outside... we girls wore dresses back then, and the
dust and sand hurt as it hit [bare legs]... I got some in my eye
one time and I scratched my eye trying to get it out and the
doctor came and gave me some salve for my eye.
Just part of the memories of the good ole days of growing up in
Richland.
Prayers to all in need,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Grandview, IN where cooler fall weather
has come and the trees are starting to turn, but the flowers
are still in bloom.
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: coming to R2K'nX [R2K +10]
R2K'nX committee would like you to start thinking about attending
the All School Reunion to be held June 25th through the 27th of
2010. That will be a busy weekend in Richland, as the dates
coincide with Cool Desert Nights.
The following Hotels are holding blocks of rooms for R2K'nX
attendees, now is the time to make reservations.
Hampton- - - - - (509)943-4400
Marriott - - - - (509)942-9400
Clarion- - - - - - (509)946-4121
Shilo - - - - - - -(509)946-4661
Days Inn - - - - (509)943-4611
Economy Inn - - - (509)943-9899
Bali Hi - - - - - - (509)943-3101
Red Lion - - - - - (509)946-1611
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
R2K'nX committee
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Problems fixed
OK, I gotta say this... Richard Anderson ('60) "saved my life"...
my computer life... again...
I had a little problem with NoteTab text editor software that I
use EVERY day -- ALL day long as I put the Sandstorm together.
I'm not sure how I did it, but I managed to loose all my settings
and hadda put everything back the way I had it... NOT easy.
HINT: When you rest your mouse over different icons and all sorts
of stuff on your computer, the little bits of text that show up in
a box next to the icon is called a "tool tip".
I did not know that and found myself missing those tips. Richard
knew what they were called and that saved me.
THANK YOU, RICHARD.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA - 85° at Midnight
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: Dust Storms
NASA took a picture of that dust storm:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40590
I remember years ago at the Portland Swap meet trying to sell my
'57 Olds convertible. Just as it was about to close up a wind
storm came up and started blowing dirt and sand, probably most
coming from the fairground itself. I was talking to someone about
taking his '64 Rivera in trade (never did happen) and I said it
was like back at home. He asked, "Is there any place like this?"
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Road Tripping
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Mad/091007-00.htm
I took off on another summer road trip. Alone. I prefer being on
my own. I am at my happiest when out in the middle of nowhere and
alone. Brings on all sorts of phobia and deja vu. 10,300 miles. I
was gone eight weeks one day. Twenty-one states. I've been home
about ten days now. And I saw some Bombers along the way. Really
grand to have friends on trips. Couch surfing is certainly one of
my favorite pastimes and Fred has a widescreen. Nevertheless, I
still prefer my bedroom in the back of my Ford Ranger PU with
canopy when it comes to sleep.
First stop was at Rick WARFORD's ('65). I thought Rick should
retire after some forty years in education so he could hang out
with me more. I know he is getting close. Some people love their
job so much they will almost do it for free... well, maybe at
least $3 an hour like Warford because he just won't retire...
period. I know he has a bad knee from playing ratball sometime
around his junior year in high school. I can't believe he can
teach P.E. with that knee. Maybe he won't.
While I was at Warford's on Alki, Steve SIMPSON ('65) came by and
we all headed to some waterfront lunchtime restaurant in Redmond.
I think it was Redmond. Very nice to see Steve. I had not seen him
for a good five years and considering the harrowing experiences
he has been enduring with one traumatic illness and then a couple
more serious ones during those five years, Steve looked great
and was in very good spirits. Well, considering none (okay, most)
of us don't look that great any more. Steve drove. Warford and I
were white knuckle all the way. Steve was driving a new Jeep. Just
kidding Steve. I was in the back seat and not white knuckled. I
believe Steve should be living in Richland again by now. He was
talking strongly towards that goal.
Warford and I had a small world moment when we passed Susan
SHEPARD ('67) at Northgate while I was on a Chatham smoked salmon
strips mission and Warford was looking for P.E. shorts. Susan
looked great. She always has. That is why I had to add "(okay,
most)" in last paragraph... because of Susan. I had to miss the
class of '67's sixtieth birthday party because of this road trip.
Last year I had a small world thang go down with meeting Susan
Shepard and Barb GORE McCleary ('67) in Post Falls, ID... of all
places; considering Susan is in Seattle, Barb north of Denver and
I'm in Huntington Beach, CA. We had lunch.
I then headed for Lewiston, ID to see my granddaughter, Anna. She
will be fourteen in January. My only grandchild. I had to pass
through Richland first with the route I chose. I emailed ahead of
arrival to get some of the old gang in the same place. I stayed
with Fred MORSE ('63). Some of you knew him as 'Dink' and others
as 'Fast Freddy', maybe still do. I've known Fred since I was
eleven. We met one day at the front door of Dick CHOATE's ('63)
parent's house. He said something like, "Get outta here kid!" So,
I did. Then we met again when I was twenty-three and we have been
good friends for thirty-seven years now.
Time was against me. So, for one day, Gary NELSON ('67), wife,
Mary DEAN Nelson ('72), Phil COLLINS ('67), wife, Lois (KHS I
believe), Tim CURD ('67), Penny CORNELISON Williams ('67),
husband, Craig (North of Seattle guy), Fred MORSE ('63) and I
visited for the day. Penny's husband, Craig, and I met in 1968 in
the Bremerton Navy Hospital (BNH). He was well into his second
Vietnam tour when he sliced his hand open running wire, I believe.
Didn't heal, so back to the world and next to me in the infected
ward of BNH. Introduced him to Penny... the rest is history. Many
of you might recall that Craig was once the Chief of the Richland
Fire Department. Spent around 30 years there and retired. Ken
WEBB ('67) and wife Chris were in Vegas. Rex FLAUCHER ('69) is
difficult to get out of his house. Although I did talk on the horn
with Rex's wife, Sharon (Davis HS – Yakima). Sharon has been very
ill for the past year and it was good to talk with her. Rex is
doing well. And Fred and I went over to Ron HANSEN's ('67) home to
stir the pot. Ron is only older, if you know what I mean, had a
fairly bad accident at work that has him hobbled and using a cane.
Not a good scene. Still the eccentric love-bunny I have always
known. Really a thrill too see my old friends that gave me so many
fond memories of my youth. CURD left before I remembered I had a
camera. They are all my brothers and sisters in my heart. I love
them all.
Other than WEBB ('67), who had a brain when we were young, all
these men are Vietnam era veterans along with probably half or
more of the classes between 1964-1972. Nelson (Army), Flaucher
(Army), Hansen (Army), Morse (Navy), Collins, Curd, Williamson,
and I (USMC). I joined the Marine Corps with Phil Collins. We went
through boot-camp together starting July 31, 1967 on the buddy
system, graduated boot, and then never saw each other again until
the smoke settled in the early '70s.
And then I visited my family in Bothell (son), Wenatchee
(daughter), Chewelah (mother, sister) and headed East. This time
doing my genealogy project in Gage county, NE; Lucas county, IA;
Adams county, OH; Coffee county, TN; Jackson county, GA. Then
headed for St. Augustine, FL looking for the Fountain of Youth. I
stayed about 200 yards from the fountain for three nights. I used
to feel sorry for Lewis and Clark. Now I sort of feel sorry for
the Ponce and his men (1513)... even if he really did land a bit
further south. Sometimes pay back for being a creep is justified.
They had to feel they were just this side of hell in that place.
The oldest town (Inc. 1565) in America is a great place to visit.
Interesting!!
...across the South on the Gulf... Biloxi... Pensacola... blasted
by NO [DAMN! Ya could have taken me to lunch, pal! -Maren], been
there... San Antonio, TX – The Alamo; couldn't the Texans give us
a bit more field of fire here? The Alamo is choked to death with
no parking and skyscrapers - non-thinking America is a drag
sometimes... like people that own beach... absolutely absurd!!...
Fort Stockton, TX took a right... Roswell, NM for a probing...
Flagstaff, AZ at 7000 feet and 32°... brrrr... and home. A real
hoot. I will spare you of all the hootness. Awesome trip. Too
long. Loved every minute of it. I love America!!
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Patricia Brown
Re: Tombstone Tales - October 23 & 24, 2009
Tombstone Tales is a living history tour of Richland's Resthaven
Pioneer Cemetery. Step back in time as tour groups are lead by
the Grim Reaper to individual gravesites where actors in period
costume will give a brief monologue of their life as an early
Columbia Valley pioneer.
These unique cemetery tours offer a look back to an era when women
hand washed clothes outdoors and spent much of their day in the
kitchen, men and horses plowed thousands of acres in the
relentless summer heat of Eastern Washington, children walked to
their one-room schoolhouses, and people's main source of
transportation was by foot or horseback.
Tombstone Tales returns October 23 & 24, 2009. Tickets are
available now. Get your tickets early, the 2008 performances sold
out weeks before the event!
Patricia Brown
Administrative Assistant
Columbia River Exhibition
of History, Science & Technology
95 Lee BLVD, Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/08/09
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9 Bombers & Bill Dunton sent stuff & 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Richard ROBERTS ('49), Judi PEARSON ('54)
Connie MADRON ('60), Gary LANGE ('60)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Rick MADDY ('67)
Kevin QUANE ('77), Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan SHERWOOD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gene BURRILL ('67wb)
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
To: Doreen HALLENBECK Waldkoetter ('51)
Thank you, Doreen. The '49ers are still a great class and
your sister, Janet ('49-RIP), was a major contribution to our
greatness. I liked her and I miss her.
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Judi PEARSON Parker ('54)
Re: Carmichael Jr. Hi
To: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55) & Jim McKEOWN ('53)
I agree with Jim. I was an 8th grader that first year that
Carmichael opened. I remember Jim and others as being 9th graders
that same year – '49-'50, but I don't remember that there were
7th graders. My mother, Thelma Pearson, was the art teacher at
Carmichael until Chief Joseph opened then she taught there. Mary
Esther ANDERSON's ('54) dad was the principal. The school yard
was dirt so that had to be the first year the school opened. I
remember Bill Dunton also.
There was a wonderful Algebra teacher in 9th grade that turned me
on to math. I think his name was Mr. Klaus.
-Judi PEARSON Parker ('54) ~ In always sunny Phoenix where fall
is here – it's 90°
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
To: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: R2K+10
John, have you or anyone else coordinated with the Class of '60's
fifty year reunion for next summer? It is difficult for some of
us to come to both R2K+10 and our own reunion if they are at
different times.
The Class of '60 ran into this problem at the first R2K. It split
our class apart. If anyone is beginning to plan for the '60
Reunion, I would like to hear from them and the date next summer
they have chosen. If I can be of help from a distance, I would be
happy to do so.
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ Port Ludlow, WA for another week or so
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>>From: Gary LANGE ('60)
Re: Class of '60's 50 year reunion (2010)
Could you tell me when the reunion is for next summer?
Thank you
-Gary LANGE ('60)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Me thinks it was either Snuffy Smith or His Eloquence David
RIVERS, Esq., who referred to people who had "Done 'em wrong", as
"Shiftless Skunks". Well them Shiftless Skunks (Robert McNamara,
Ho Chi Minh and General Giap) have got me again, and I'm really
ticked off. The first time was cancer caused by their necessitated
use of Agent Orange. Now I've been told I need a hearing aid,
precipitated I suppose from spending too much time in Officer's
Clubs listening to Filipino bands playing Credence Clearwater
songs. Isn't this a disability worthy of a Purple Heart and maybe
33%? How can I get even with them?
Roaring, Roaring, Roaring on the Ribber.
-jimbeaux
p.s. Do any of you Vietnam vets remember "The Thad Swift Show"?
He was an Aussie who did bull whip tricks with his cast of
"entertainers", and wasn't exactly "endorsed" by the USO, if you
receive my drift. He played a lot of aircraft maintenance hangers
up in Military Region I.
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: A record?
Not sure... but I think MADDY ('67) set a record with his post
yesterday... yup... it was something...
I know I'm way late on this but for all you fans... the Fabulous
Wailers are playing tonight (October 8, 2009) at the Snoqualmie
Casino Ballroom.. hosted by Pat O'Day ("KJR Seattle Channel 95!")..
the theme is 50 years since the Castle!!!!! Be there or be square!
I think getting older is cool... you can do all kinds a things...
drool... leave crumbs on your chin... and best of all... you can
admit all those crushes you had on girls back in school without
looking like a stalker... or even if you come off like a stalker
they just say... "ahhhhhhhh so cute... and at his age..." For
me... the birthday girl was like having Juliet Prowse or Julie
Newmar right there at Col-Hi... I mean... I will always consider
the picture of Beth ('63) and Pook ('63 RIP) as Best Dancers a
really cool shot... but the picture of the birthday girl and Joe
KAVEKIS ('63) as best dressed was a real keeper for me (well her
half anyway).. so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Susan SHERWOOD ('63) on the 8th
of October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: 10/07/09 TC Herald "Richland Teen Trying to Tame Twitter"
"Richland's Joe LANGEVIN ('08) is trying to take Twitter to a
new level. The ultra popular microblogging and social networking
service that allows people to send out short messages generates
mounds of information. And the 2008 Richland High grad plans to
help marketers and consumers make sense of it by customizing the
data in simple categories."
tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/744995.html
Joe is also a graduate of Christ the King School in Richland.
Way to go, Joe!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Apology
Maren,
I was expecting that from you and it certainly has warrant. I
was seriously burned out by the time I came into Louisiana. I was
going to spend three days and two nights in New Orleans as I was
in San Antonio. Plans to have lunch with you were certainly on top
of the "A" list of my itinerary. By the time I got there, and I
had been in both places before... it was late evening in New
Orleans and I just blew by. Did the same in San Antonio except it
was 6:30 AM after driving all night. I had had enough. I was in
serious condition. I had been arguing with myself the day before.
The one with the squeaky voice, an unnerving din for sure, won. I
needed to go home. My apologies my dear chief-editor-in-charge-of-
everything. Won't happen again. I'll be Bach.
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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[You're forgiven... Looking forward to your next trip -Maren]
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>>From: Kevin QUANE ('77)
Re: Tombstone Tales, October 23 & 24, 2009
The concept sounds wonderful, I wish I could go. My first job
was a grave digger/grounds maintenance at Resthaven and Sunset
Memorial Gardens. Five of the most fun years of my youth.
-Kevin QUANE ('77)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
The comments about the dust storm that Central Washington just
endured triggered a few remembrances. One of our high school grads
(Class of 1946) took a school librarian's position in Washington,
just before the mountains -- I've forgotten the town but it was
all done in classic Bavarian style [Leavenworth?. -Maren]. At any
rate, he was in Spokane when the earthquake devastated all that
forest, etc., sending walls of mud traveling into the Columbia
River. He said driving in that storm of volcanic ash was the
scariest thing he had ever done.
And sometime back one of the RHS grads wrote that he/she found
graduation tickets for Columbia High School in a relative's
collection of stuff and couldn't remember anyone ever using
graduation tickets.
[That was Dennis HAMMER ('64)
AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Ham/090926-GradTicket64.jpg]
Graduation in "the" days was always scheduled for the [Bomber
Bowl] (and I'm so glad it was renamed Fran Rish Stadium) but just
to be sure Plan B was in operation, the school issued a specific
number of tickets to grads so if a sand storm came in the day of
graduation, those tickets would be good for entry into the gym and
the holder(s) would be guaranteed seats. True to form, it usually
blew up a storm on graduation day.
Fran Rish is yet another story. He asked me one time if I would
teach him piano lessons. Offhandedly I said I would, and then,
thinking he was just putting me on I forgot all about it. One day,
years later, I was at Col-Hi and we were looking around and went
into Fran's office in the Gym -- it had a huge picture window with
one-way glass so he could be in his office and still check on the
gym goings on. (Side-bar: It was a really unsettling experience
to be standing there nose-to-nose with kids on the gym floor side
who were busy fixing their hair and they didn't even know we were
there at all!) There in the corner of his office was a Spinet
piano Fran had somebody move into his office, and he had taught
himself to play! And he played very well -- good classical music
to boot! Remarkable man! I have a hunch he is one of those people
who would always succeed at anything they really wanted to do.
Would that this country was filled with many more of his caliber.
Sorry to bore you with yet another story of "days gone bye" -- but
living those 10 years in Richland was such a novel experience --
remember all the kids running after the machines that were
smogging the mosquitos? -- think that was some witch's brew of
DDT, et al -- kept down the flying biting critters, but I have a
hunch too many kids got a present then that grew into something
they didn't want or need when they reached senior status!
-Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
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>>Sara POLSTER ('06) ~ 2/25/88 - 9/19/09
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8 Bombers and Theresa Hammer sent stuff:
Bill BERLIN ('56), Dee WALLACE ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61), Betsy FOX ('63)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Pam EHINGER ('67)
Theresa Hammer (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki SMITH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug MARTIN ('80)
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>>From: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Mattingly
Greetings from Dalian, China where I have been for a week. The
National Holiday, the Communist Party's 60th Anniversary and the
Moon Cake Festival all fell in the same week. Get this. It is
estimated that 516,000,000 people traveled during the holiday
week. In China now is a very good time to get married and to get
things started off for the lucky couple they shoot off fireworks,
thus the Bloom in the Sky guy... old Lar. I guess there were half
a dozen great shots last night when we walked to dinner, a couple
very memorable. Not long in duration but impressive just the same.
Good to be back in China after 2 1/2 years absence. Great weather
(75F in the day and 55-57F at night) and boy, did I miss the food.
Business has been very good and the recession, albeit somewhat
obvious, is not as bad here as it is at home. Two or three
building projects, one at 40 stories, are stopped but the business
activity is very good and the business climate very positive.
Back to the USA on October 16.
-Bill BERLIN ('56) ~ in Dalian, China where we are going to the
Gibson Guitar factory today.
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>>From: Dee WALLACE ('60)
R: Class of '60's 50 year Reunion
I am planning on coming to the 50 year reunion, but I want to make
sure I see as many classmates as possible. It sounds like the
other event (R2k+10) might be a conflict. Could someone let me
know which one would be the best bet.
-Dee WALLACE ('60)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Like to wish my brother Chuck ('63-RIP) Happy Birthday... he would
have been 65 today. He was a good brother, husband, father and
soldier. Several of his friends passed away way too early also:
Pooker David SMITH, Ralph LEE, Freddie SCHAFER, Terry WEBB,
Shelley McCOY, Bill and Bob HYATT... seems like the class of '63
has lost a lot of classmates.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Betsy FOX Vance ('63)
Re: Blooms in the Desert
Dusty windstorms... searing heat…sagebrush... Treeless plain...
our new home. Bloom where you are planted. I never fully
appreciated what that meant until I witnessed the great spirit
in what all of those newly transplanted construction workers,
scientists, engineers, doctors and their wives and children
created and accomplished over 60 years ago along the shores of
the majestic Columbia River.
It was here that thousands of people descended upon this little
piece of ground in the '40s and '50s – yanked up from their
communities all across the country – New York, Iowa, Kansas,
Tennessee. DuPont, A.E.C. and General Electric were the operative
words. Secrecy abounded. No one could talk about their jobs. Wives
were left to raise children and fix lunches for their husbands as
they boarded the buses out to ---- "THE AREA" --- said in hushed
tones lest a stray FBI agent be nearby and overhear any mention of
ANYthing.
Being the strong, determined, brilliant, positive types that
these early pioneers of "THE AREA" were, they made the best
of the situation. In the middle of this desert, in the middle of
loneliness, isolation, secrecy and uprootedness... They began
creating. They created music, plays and theaters. They built parks
and swimming pools and stores that even had escalators in them.
They created long-lasting connections with each other and made
friends with the desert, the river, the sun and their new life
and community.
Out of this mix of places, people, life styles, foods and accents
that these early people brought came one of the largest musical
groups that continues today – The Mid Columbia Symphony. It is
one of the flowers that bloomed from these amazing newly planted
people. Other flowers bloomed – The Community Concert – Richland
Players – Treble Clef – all with their assorted casts, fragrances,
flavors and delights that soon became a part of our lives and new
culture.
I was 5 when our family came from New York. My dad was a
metallurgical engineer hired to work at Hanford. We were lucky
enough to draw a house right on the river - and that river (and
our subsequent boat and dock – and our neighbors) became the
centerpiece of our lives for the next 20 years.
If any of us is to achieve immortality, then we must write our
own song. This is what this diverse group of people did. To carry
on what these people so nobly started so long ago, in the middle
of a little, hot, dusty desert is an honor and a privilege. Many
are gone now – but their music continues on.
To my parents, Marge and John Fox, to Karl and Wanda Diettrich,
to Jack and Virginia Heffner, to Rhoda and Milton Lewis, to Dr.
Phil and Alice Fuqua – and to Diana and Van Van Wyck and all the
others who stayed and molded this community into what it is -- who
brought their music and gave it to us, I give thanks. I am so
grateful to have been shaped by all of these wonderful people and
by that whole generation.
As I sit in the Richland High School Auditorium, listening to the
Symphony and Mozart making it's way to my heart, and muse what a
great, green, alive place this has become today, I am reminded of
a simpler time in life. Before cell phones, computers, passwords,
fax machines, DVD+Rs, DVD–Rs (!!!), CDs, Bluetooths (Blueteeth?),
ipods, iphones, twitter, tweet, 20 microwaves, gigantic hi-def
TVs that take a post-doc Physicist to figure out the zillions of
cords and remotes that make it run.
And I think of those people who created such beauty, fun, music
and joy on a small patch of arid desert.
I hope to offer some of our families wealth to this city and it's
wonderful groups, so that I can now water those plants that were
so carefully planted many long years ago.
-Betsy FOX Vance ('63)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Mr. Dunton, in addition to the probable, but as yet not analyzed
or quantified so far as I have heard, damage we incurred from
bicycling after the mosquito foggers, I have heard that it is
nearly certain the disappearance of the nighthawks - those
beautiful flying machines that bring to mind Jonathan Livingston
Seagull - from Richland can be attributed to their nightly intake
of hundreds of mosquitoes not yet dead from ingesting the DDT. I
loved the dusk ballet of nighthawks swooping, jerking, veering and
darting, almost within reach of our hands at times, to feed on
whatever insects were there, mostly invisible to us in the last
light of day.
Regards, ecb3,
-Earl BENNETT ('63) ~ from the end of a beautiful fall day in
central Virginia.
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
So this Morning’s Seattle Times says that the Wailers are playing
the smoke filled Snoqualmie Casino. The article went on to say
that the gate was only $10.00. Now I’m pretty sure that’s a
bargain, even with inflation. I think it was 1965 or so that Dick
PLOWS ('63) and I paid about that amount to see them at the Social
Club, even if one factors in the buck for gas, the half rack of
warm Oly and the pack of heaters.
I think I might treat the Forever Young and always Lovely Miss
Nancy ('65) to a night on the town. Need to bring one’s M-17
Protective Mask, if not for the ciggy smoke, but to protect
oneself from Husky Fever.
Dun-dun-dun-dunnnhhhhhh, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: how time flies
Sorry to HEAR JIMBEAUX ('63) CAN"T HEAR! Join the crowd, Dad. My
right eardrum has a huge "Effing" hole in it" at least that's the
way my Doctor put it... course he is also the one that told me:
"Oh gawd, David you're Effed" when I was paralyzed by the broken
bones shoving my spinal chord... I need to find a Doc that didn't
go to the George Carlin School of Medicine... he has such a way
with words... We have such fond remembrances of our little trip to
Southeast Asia don't we, Gang... I must say that I missed the guy
that cracked the whip and the girls singing roaring on the
ribber... Marines are so left out of the fun stuff...
I see Maddy ('67) hadda do his latest post in two volumes so I am
now sure he holds the record. But he types pretty darned well for
a guy whose elbows (well their not really elbows) were set for the
specific purposes of accepting change and driving... ("Eddie would
go!").
But I gotta get to the heart of this matter... gotta Bomber-babe
just waiting to see her name in lights on her special day, October
9, 2009... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Vicki SMITH ('63)... Hope it's a
great day!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Bill Dunton
In regards to the DDT Foggers! Yes I was one of them thar kids
that ran behind it!! We on Wilson St... use to play tag in it!
Well I'm 60 and going strong! The best thing is Mosquitoes don't
like me! They might land but they don't bite me! So maybe I've got
DDT in my blood or something! I really have not heard of anybody
that I know who ran through the fog state they got cancer or any
other really bad stuff! So maybe it really wasn't all that bad!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Theresa Hammer (NAB)
Did YOU work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR PARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR GRANDPARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Do you KNOW SOMEONE who worked at Hanford/PNNL?
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) is a federal law passed by Congress in July, 2001.
The intent of the law is to award medical and/or monetary
compensation to workers in the Atomic Weapons Industry in the
event the worker developed an occupational illness caused by
exposure to a toxic substance at a Department of Energy (DOE)
facility. There are over 370 DOE sites around the country
covered by this law – including Hanford and the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) - and the law is retroactive to 1942.
If the worker is deceased, survivors can be awarded the
compensation. Survivors include (in order of eligibility):
o Surviving spouse
o Children of the worker
o Parents of the worker
o Grandchildren of the worker
o Grandparents of the worker
The Hanford Resource Center was established by Congress to assist
the Department of Labor with the claim process.
CONTACT: The Hanford Resource Center toll-free at 888-654-0014 or
email hanford.center@rrohio.com
-Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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10 Bombers and Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Mary Esther ANDERSON ('54)
David MANSFIELD ('59), Helen CROSS ('62)
Joe FORD ('63), John CAMPBELL ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Rick MADDY ('67), Connie McCULLUGH ('74)
Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanette HABERMAN ('73)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Rivers of Ink Event Today
I'm counting my blessings in a community like ours that values
the arts. Sculptures and paintings already exist and are still
being planned along the waterfront and in public and privately-
owned buildings. I can go to plays, musicals and other fine
performance arts. For years CBC and WSU Tri-Cities have presented
literary artists to inspire me. Today, October 10, the Richland
Arts Commission, in Cooperation with Richland Parks and
Recreation, is offering a brand new literary event.
"Rivers of Ink - Readers and Writers Connect" will feature local
authors. It's free, offers free refreshments and will be held in
the Richland Community Center, 500 Amon Park Drive, from 1-5 p.m.
today. Local authors will read from their books. Adventures
Underground will sell these books, and authors will sign any you
choose to buy. You can talk to individual authors and participate
in panel discussions on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, stories for
childhood, or books for young adults. This event will be fun for
anyone who enjoys the printed word.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
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>>From: Mary Esther ANDERSON Lippold ('54)
My brother, Roger ANDERSON ('57), just alerted me to the letters
about Carmichael and the ones from Mr. Dunton. Roger is up at
Pullman for the ball game tomorrow [10/10] and it's 43° and windy
- here in Kennewick it's 55° and perfectly still even though high
winds and dirt were predicted. During last Sunday's dirt we were
down at the Paterson Winery at a car show (Mustangs) where all
the cars were light brown.
Now, to get into the Carmichael thing, where I had the stigma of
being the principal's daughter, I agree with Jim McKEOWN ('53)
and Judi PEARSON Parker ('54) - the first year there were 8th
graders and ninth graders. I don't think that Carmichael had
opened when I was in 7th grade at Lewis and Clark. You might
think I would know but I don't remember. I just remember how much
my dad (Chris Anderson) loved that school, the faculty and the
students. I think he knew everybody in Richland by name. Roger
used to say that going downtown with Dad was like being with
President Eisenhower. Hi Mr. Dunton - I remember falling off the
top riser during a choir concert - back then I could just climb
back up, probably was missing for only a few seconds.
Jack LIPPOLD ('54) and I didn't make it to this year's reunion--
there was a reason but don't ask me what. I do enjoy reading the
alumni Sandstorm. I read it in fits and starts and backwards
starting with the current date. Thanks Maren for all the work you
do. I'm going to hurry and send this before my laptop sends it
into cyberspace never to be seen again.
-Mary Esther ANDERSON Lippold ('54)
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>>From: David MANSFIELD ('59)
To: Jeanne Swan [Mrs. "Pappy"]
Thanks for the pictures of the Coles and Pappy shooting out at
The Rattlesnake Quicksdraw Compound. Looks like it was a good day
to shoot.
Oh my God! Pappy, is that a dress you're wearing??
David Earl
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
and Pam EHINGER Edinger ('67)
I too was one of those kids who grew up running behind the DDT
foggers, and sadly, I don't think it helped me escape lots of
future mosquito bites. I am sad and not surprised to learn that
it led to the death of lots of birds. I don't know exactly why,
but it seems to me that there are fewer mosquitoes in most places
across the U.S.A. that I've been to in the last several years,
be in Lake Pend Oreille where we ate dinner outside to here in
Grandview, IN, we just are not faced with as many mosquitoes as
we were when we were growing up. (Now I haven't been to Rosseau,
MM since the '80s, but they had lots of mosquitoes the summer we
were there for about 3 weeks, but we did have cans of bug spray
we used to fight them off then.)
I can still remember getting the car ready to go to the drive
in movie out in the Richland "Y", which we did fairly often as a
family. It consisted of rolling up the windows and killing all
the mosquitoes that were in the car, and maybe we then sprayed
the interior of the car??? I don't remember doing that, but as we
had no air conditioning in the car or the house, and no screens
on the car windows, it seems like my killing all the mosquitoes
in the car before we started out to the drive-inn was a pretty
senseless thing to do...
I guess we liked going to the movies more than we minded the
mosquito bites, which were just a (large) part of growing up...
Re: Bill BERLIN ('56) on China
Interesting report on how China is fairing economically, as I
understand that we are now borrowing money from there. I just
wonder did all these countries ever repay all the money we have
loaned to them over the years before we started getting on the
down side of this international loan business....
How do you feel about being excluded from the list of people who
need the HINI vaccine if you are over 49 years of age? The first
recommendations I read covered people up to age 64, but what I
just read in our weekly newspaper said up to age 49....
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Joe FORD ('63)
Re: The USO shows and other thoughts
Folks;
Jimbeaux HAMILTON ('63) asked in a recent Sandstorm if any of us
in I Corps (northern part of South Vietnam) remembered Thad
Swift, a USO entertainer. The answer from this corner is no.
I did see Ann Margaret, along with Bob Hope, in Chu Lai around
Christmas of 1969. It was at a gathering of approximately 8,000
GIs who collectively appreciated the young woman and endured the
old man. Even from a distance, she looked very nice.
In regard to the hearing problems Mr. HAMILTON reports, I suggest
the UH-1 (the workhorse Huey helicopter) as a source of hearing
problems for thousands of us who served our country in uniform.
Don't blame McNamara for your hearing, or General Giap, or bar
bands, Jimbeaux. As David RIVERS ('65) might have noted, it's the
"effing" Huey!
Best to all.
-Joe FORD ('63)
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: The Wailers
Marilyn and I joined a couple of friends and drove out to see the
Wailers last night at the Snoqualmie Casino (North Bend). I had
seen them for the first time a couple of weeks ago in Tacoma with
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63). Jim H. was right, it was a great deal - I
looked for him and "Pitts", but we didn't connect. Anyway, the
band was in great form. I had remarked to a friend of mine how
much Kent Morill sounded like Roy Orbison on some songs. It turns
out that Kent does a tribute show in Vegas and was named
performer of the year, twice. He will do his Orbison show
sometime in the future at the Casino.
Pat O'Day served as MC and was entertaining. Most folks know Pat
as the spokesperson for Schick Shadel Hospital and the voice of
the Hydros during Seafair. Some of us older folks also remember
him as a DJ from KJR in Seattle. He was instrumental in starting
concerts in the Northwest beginning with the Spanish Castle -
hence the link with the Wailers. He recalled some stories
including one about a kid who offered to loan his amp when the
bands lost their power - the kid was Jimi Hendrix. Pat went on to
form Concerts West. He signed his book "It Was All Just Rock And
Roll". He's going strong considering he was born in 1934!
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Yer a dirty Roooooooooobber
Life is good... This morning I got up BEFORE the alarm... I
needed to work on a car and get it ready for the Bakersfield Hot
Rod Reunion Run next weekend... little '55 Gasser... got most
everything done last Sunday before running to do the Momster
chores... in trial this week so couldn't do anything in the
mornings but Judge gave us today off so I was at it early...
carefully drilled a hole next to another one with a small cable
in it... drill slipped... yup... cut the cable... found more
cable in the trunk... work like mad to fix mistake then do what I
was doing... button it up... nope ain't workin'... tear it apart
again... now I'm late... dang I'm late... call my car pool
buddy... ok she's late too... Message on phone... no time...
shower... apologize to the bunny... sorry can't play "watch the
bunny run around with his toy" this morning... bunny's ears
drooped... feel awful... but really late... button my braces and
find a loose button... should I fix it?... If I do I'll be really
late... just be VERY careful slipping the ol' holster inside the
waste band and I'll be fine... carefully position the holster
where it has to pop the button... pop... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh...
thread the needle... (NOT an easy task)... fix the button...
better listen to the message... lotsa noise... sounds like a
concert... Know the song that's gonna come on... only three guys
savvy enough to call during "Dirty Robber"... Kent's best vocal
ever... Pook's ('63 RIP) not around so rules him out... SIMPSON
('65) was silly enough to put together a reunion music sound
track with some Portland garage band's version of Louie Louie so
he's for sure ruled out... Pitts ('63) probably doesn't have my
cell number so now we've narrowed it down to an old deaf guy
whose wife ('65) would be kind enough to float him the ten bucks
admission fee... Thanks, Jimbeaux ('63), for thinking of me! You
made my morning!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Joe LANGEVIN ('08)
Richland teen trying to tame Twitter
The link I used for my entry a few days ago [10/8] did not work
for me, so I printed the article from the TCHerald just in case
you had a hard time viewing it. Maren said that you would have
had to copy and paste the link into your browser instead of just
clicking on the link in the Sandstorm. However, if you attempt to
do so now, the article is no longer available.
[We're not gonna publish the whole article in the Sandstorm,
Shirley... the link still works... just tried it:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/744995.html
-Maren]
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
To: David RIVERS ('65)
The elbow story is really one of my favs, as you well know. The
Navy doctor asking me what I wanted to do with that left arm;
play golf, change light bulbs, scratch my butt, unzip my
trousers... only girls wear pants, as the Gunny used to say...
and my answer was drive a car. The surgeons whipped out the old
protractor and like magic I have an almost perfect left arm for
holding a steering wheel, a can of beer and... okay, I could get
crazy here, so I will tone it down a bit... write really long
posts in the Alumni Sandstorm that nobody reads except Maren...
she needs to make sure it is family friendly, of course. But
that's okay. An exercise in futility from a guy who has not
touched his face with his left hand in over 40 years, eats
hamburgers with one hand and typing this with my pointer finger
on right hand. I have found taking one for the Corps has been a
better deal than complete deafness... or a lot of things for that
matter. Thank gawd the hearing goes first my dad would say. No
complaints, my friend.
Semper Fidelis
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Connie McCULLUGH Brown ('74)
Hey Cristy CONE Penny ('74)
Say it was your birthday yesterday [10/7]. How about giving me a
shout. Haven't heard from you in ages.
-Connie McCULLUGH Brown ('74)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 6
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091010-410-415.htm
G.E. Road Sign advertising the areas attributes, Penny Drive,
222-S Lab Room woman working in open faced hood with a Hanford
made "Poppy" alpha probe, sign above walkway to 100-KW, Woman
holding G.E. Pins?
To: Betsy FOX Vance ('63)
That is so true. Richland was the ultimate melting pot. Every
original resident I've spoken to can tell you where all their
friends arrived from. What powder plant, part of the country,
which Manhattan Project city, and something they never told
anyone outside of work, what they did. Many of them worked side
by side before coming to Hanford to start up the plant or build
it. Simply amazing. Much of their early work is carried on site
today and affected the other atomic operations that followed. In
some cases those operations neglected lessons learned at Hanford
and suffered the consequences. Great piece of writing Betsy, we
owe a debt to those who stayed and helped the desert bloom.
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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4 Bombers, Don Sorensen, and Jeanne Swan sent stuff:
Shirley Rae DRURY ('51), Tom TRACY ('55)
Dee WALLACE('60), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Don Sorensen (NAB), Jeanne Swan [Mrs. "Pappy"] (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jefferson SAUNDERS ('69)
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>>From: Shirley Rae DRURY Crume ('51)
To: Rick MADDY ('67)
I'm impelled to reassure you, Rick, that a read-a-holic like me,
does read your long posts, marveling at your ability to put words
together in such admirable fashion. (David RIVER's ('65), Pappy
SWAN's (59), Larry MATTINGLY's ('60), and others whose names
escape me now, too). Thanks!
In the 60 year class photo of the '49ers, I was delighted to
see sitting in the front row Phyllis BENJAMIN McElheney ('49).
Our mothers were best friends. Through the years I've wondered
about Phyllis who was very kind to me when she was a popular,
knowledgeable teen, and I a naive, gawky girl-child. Through her
Email address in the Columbian classmate entries, I've now been in
contact with her, so now know that she lives and where. So, it's a
good thing to keep our Email addresses in there up to date.
Writing from a mostly cloudy Kennewick, with present temperature
of 38°F, wind N at 8 mph and humidity at 48%. It's supposed to get
down to 22° tonight.
Cheers to all,
-Shirley Rae DRURY Crume ('51)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Judi PEARSON Parker ('54), Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
Mary Esther ANDERSON Lippold ('54) & Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Judy: Our 7th Grade Homeroom Classes were at the South Hall of
Carmichael. Mrs. Pearson, the Art teacher at Carmichael and Chief
Jo was a talented and treasured educator. I was in Mrs. Latta's
homeroom class and agree with Laura Dean about the considerate
teacher Mrs. Latta, who shared her love for gold-mining hometown,
Cripple Creek, CO; similarly to how we recall the richness of
Richland's and its products. Although, gold is certainly a
valuable commodity; have you priced an ounce of Plutonium or
Uranium recently? It's so valuable... it's not even listed on the
stock exchanges. Just pretending you have some can bring dramatic
attention from the rest of the world. If one doesn't think so,
just ask the Iranians.
The best WWII stories in Carmichael were from Mr. Clayton's Math
Class. Sharon TEMPLEMAN Watts ('55), Mary Lou FOELKER ('55), Pete
HOLLICK ('55) and I especially enjoyed Mr. Clayton's recollection
of when he was on the sinking aircraft carrier, USS Lexington.
Once the sailors knew the ship was going down, someone hauled up
all of the priceless "ice cream" from the officers' freezer and
they shared it on deck. The Lexington managed to travel 200 miles
before it finally sank. That Battle of The Coral Sea (Just North
of Aussieland) was the worst one in the history of the Pacific.
Australian friends still credit our winning that victory as
the battle that saved their nation. Mr. Clayton reiterated our
thoughts... there never was nor will ever be a good war. But once
you're in, it's well worth winning. Another Veteran, Wallace
Warwick, 8th Grade homeroom/history teacher encouraged us to join
a paperback book club... we ordered classics, non-fiction versions
for $.25 ea. The guys class favorites were "Kon Tiki", "Sands of
Iwo Jima", and lots of others. During homeroom, we got a break
(recess). Ron SNOWDEN, Denny OLSON, Chuck CURTIS and others from
circa '55 stepped out on the South porch and shared jokes we
heard on "Can You Top This Radio Show"... a weekly radio hour of
constant jokes were shared & Later at RHS George Gobel became our
favorite.
While bragging a bit about M. Whitman, Chief Jo, RHS, my
Granddaughter asked if we had any kids who were caught using
drugs. I had to admit to her that we only had one incident at
Carmichael. It wasn't drugs, but during our 8th grade year, one
kid was disciplined for eating library paste. Not sure if he made
it through rehab., but we all had high hopes that he did.
The Carmichael experience had some "blurry" spots... some valued
teachers are not remembered. Vera Edwards' upbeat attitude made
speech classes a joy to behold. Same for Tom Sullivan and Bill
Dunton. Mrs. Olney was our Health Teacher and offered that safe,
but separate-and-unequal portion of boy/girl curriculum on human
reproduction. It was a carefully crafted birds and bees sex-ed
project that ensured that your daughter or son would never, ever
be compromised by a grasshopper, bee or bug of any kind. (Mr.
Dunton reminded us that the street DDT sprays followed-up with
another dose of protection. It could have promoted todays jingle,
"There Ain't No Bugs On Me".). Some of the guys, however, tried to
get Mrs. Kleinsorge - our diligent science teacher - to enlarge on
the birds/bees subject. She referred us to other sources... our
parents. Well, no one wanted to ask such questions at home in the
'50s. Some of us remember the 4 years old who asked his Dad about
reproduction... the awkwardly, embarrassed Dad said, "Why don't
you go ask your Mom"? "Gee Dad, I don't want to know THAT much
about it".... or so the story goes.
The most innovative and highly desired component of Carmichael was
the rumored "Indoor Swimming Pool" under the gym floor. Maybe cost
overruns eliminated that. Seems like a $3.5M cost created havoc
for the contractor and government auditors. We did benefit from a
magnificent Jr. High facility. Principal Christopher Anderson kept
it that way. I think he was an administrator at RHS before he took
the Carmichael job. Other teachers recalled were Earling Oakland
(former All State Basketball player-in the Seattle area), was P.E.
Teacher and coach at both Carmichael & RHS.
One innovation installed, 60 years ahead of its time, was the
Ultraviolet Lights used inside the Carmichael heating/ventilation
systems. You could see the reflection of the UV light, but few
asked about it. It is used now in advanced water and air cleaning
systems worldwide. Some things in our town were ahead of the
curve. Smart engineers and caring parents made a big difference.
The UV bacteria killers probably contributed to high attendance
records at Carmichael (My patent attorneys in D.C. helped me
protect some of this technology for use in commercial and
corporate jet aircraft water treatment systems a few years ago.)
I don't remember the UV air treatment systems at Chief Joseph or
RHS, but their applications are valued and coming into greater use
today.
Living on Iry St. just across from Carmichael; Bill GRIFFIN ('54),
Loren CLAUNCH ('55), Joe VALDEZ, Kenny PLUM, Ralph MYRICK ('51),
and others in the neighborhood, enjoyed the large, abandoned (Pre-
Carmichael) cherry orchard loaded with the most delicious Bing
Cherries during its last season before it was bulldozed away for
Carmichael Jr. High. The orchard was available before and after
our frequent swims in the adjacent irrigation canal that headed
South to the Yakima River.
Attempts by our Mom to deny swims in the canal were made by
hanging our swimming suits on the clothes line just outside the
prefab's kitchen window... it sometimes took an hour for my Levis
to dry before I could go back home. The swimming remained dry on
the line and provided some confidence that we were safely pursuing
other recreational events. During that season, we could dry out
duds our while sitting in one of the trees enjoying the dark
purple-red, mouth-watering, cherries. Those were the days... with
good thoughts to all the great Moms, classmates and teachers of
Carmichael scholars.
Bomber Bests to all
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Dee WALLACE('60)
It is great reading the Sandstorm every morning, but I am having
trouble putting faces with names, it will be great to see who you
are at pour] big 50 [year reunion] next year.
I have been living in Northern California the last 30 years. I
live in a small little hamlet called Sierra City (pop 250) on
highway 49 about 60 miles from Nevada City. Right now we are
getting our wood in for the winter and honing up our cross-country
skis.
When I retired (6 years ago) I started going to a gym two days a
week in Grass Valley. The gym offered a tai-chi class and I have
been a student of tai-chi for the last 6 years and it has made
all the difference in the world to my well being. I have added a
spinning class I do before the tai-chi class a couple of years
ago. It feels almost like a job sometimes, but it has made a big
difference in my life.
Don't get me wrong; I am ALWAYS chasing that 20 pound bulge in
front of me and once in a while I gain on it, but then i relax and
BOOM! -------- there it is again.
Well, I am starting to ramble.
Talk to you soon.
-Dee WALLACE('60)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
The Fabulous Wailers concert was just that. I hadn't seen that
any "Members Only" jackets since the No Hope, Lost Cause Class
of '62's last reunion.
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another installment of 6
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
Looks like a G.E. NEWS employee May 195?, Safety Case located in
front lobby of REDOX Separations Building 202-S, self explanatory,
? , 327 Building Fuel Examination Facility & typical Richland
kitchen.
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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>>From: Jeanne Swan [Mrs. "Pappy"] (NAB)
Re: Pappy's Shooting Attire at Rattlesnake Mountain Gun Club
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Swa/091011-00.htm
To: David MANSFIELD ('59)
Dear David Earl, you wrote in The Alumni Sandstorm: "Thanks for
the pictures of the Coles and Pappy shooting out at The
Rattlesnake Quicksdraw Compound. Looks like it was a good day to
shoot. Oh my God! Pappy, is that a dress you're wearing??"
So that the other readers know what you were referring to, last
Wednesday, Billy and Pattie CRIGLER Cole ('59), were over from
their home at Port Ludlow, WA, and met Pappy, aka George SWAN
('59) and I for lunch at the Shadow Mountain Grill in Benton City.
And, then we went to the Rattlesnake Mountain Shotgun Club for
some trap shooting. Pappy told me that the club facilities were
built, and are maintained and operated by the all volunteer
membership. A new club house is in the planning stages, and will
be constructed once they get a grant to help build it (with indoor
plumbing and all). One can also shoot skeet and, at certain times
of the year, "sporting clays." And, there are other ranges for
rifle and pistol shooting. We killed a lot of clay "pigeons," but
they're still boiling. Pappy says that the "dang things" just
don't seem to get past being tough (in that thick black gruel,
that I'm not touching). A link to the pictures that you referred
to, is included. Anyway... a good time was had by all.
You have already acknowledged, by personal email, our common aging
problems of mental sorting and filing, that you meant to respond
to the '59er email group, rather than Alumni Sandstorm, a mistake
due to your "big thumbs," so ... let's move on to the bigger
question. "Does Pappy wear a dress, when trap shooting?"
Well David Earl, the answer is, "No ... but sort of..." There is
just no other way to say it, except that Pappy got ... "FAT" over
the last few years. And, being the "Incredible Shrinking Senior
Citizen" that he has become, he is also ... short. SIDE NOTE: One
of Pappy's other nicknames while growing up in "Bomberville" was
"Shorty." Years later, when I found this out, I had difficulty
remembering it correctly, so I developed a bad habit of always
calling him "Stubby."
Well, throughout our years together (now going on 27), it has
become apparent that he likes my cooking, and his cooking, in
fact, he likes anyone's cooking! Consequently, as Pappy grew
older, he began not only shrinking, but gaining weight, thus he
was growing shorter and wider. During the winters, with all of the
good holiday food, the side seams of his clothing often split out.
Last winter, he reached the astounding weight of 224 pounds, in
conjunction with his shrinking from an original height of 5'9-1/2"
to a mere 5'7" at the last tape stretching. He said that he was
just "settling into old age."
That was about the time that he felt the need to get on this
"activity" kick of his. His first effort was by doing "push
aways" (somewhat like horizontal push ups) where he would push
away from the table, prior to second helpings. His next effort was
to purchase any new clothing in sizes, one or two larger than he
actually wore. He said that this gave him "freedom of movement"
for his "being more active." But, I know that he did this,
at least partially, as an effort to hide the "puddling" or
gravitational pull of his whole being ... toward his belly. And,
you know about his bike riding effort. He had to back off on
oversized clothing there, after it kept getting caught and winding
him up in the chain, and the neighbors got tired of carrying him
and the whole tangle back to deposit on my doorstep.
Consequently, when he bought his new shooting vest for the shotgun
range, he got a size XL, overlooking the fact that larger-sized
clothing is also longer-sized clothing. So, now his arms are
almost, not quite long enough to reach the shotgun shells in his
pockets. And, as he shrinks, his pockets keep moving farther
away... toward the ground. So yes, "Stubby" the shotgun shooter,
appears to be wearing a "shooting dress." But, after all of these
years, I just humor him, as his "activity" thing seems to be
working, because he now steadily weighs in at about 205 pounds.
And, I am married to a short, stubby, outdoorsy guy who wears a
shooting dress. And his pups just roll their eyes and accept him
for what he is.
-Jeanne Swan [Mrs. "Pappy"] (NAB) ~ Burbank, WA where life is
never dull with Pappy, two pups, two cats, and a whole
bunch of peanut loving squirrels, who sit in the trees,
throwing walnuts at Stubby, as he waddles about below,
trying to catch up on long overdue yard work ... in
between frequent trips afield with his two favorite
girls (Bella and Me'a). No, he only wears the dress at
the shotgun range. When he goes hunting, he wears an
XXL blaze orange "smock." He says that is so it will
fit over his jacket. P.S. Pappy put these words in my
mouth.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/12/09 ~ FEDERAL HOLIDAY ~ COLUMBUS DAY
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9 Bombers and Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
David MANSFIELD ('59), Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Donna NELSON ('63) and Susan ERICKSON ('59)
John TAYLOR ('63wb), Kathy KRAEMER ('67)
Marjo VINTHER ('77), Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim CLANCY ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roma HARROLD ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley SHERWOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eric SCHMIDHEISER ('81)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45)
Re: Peaches
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
I remember those cherries on Lee and Thayer. I also worked
construction on Carmichael. If you lived in that neighborhood,
you must have enjoyed the Hale peaches that existed in there.
There were many such fruit farms in the Richland of old. The soft
fruit was the earliest ripened in the valley, thus being the best
priced. The government really ripped off those early farmers.
-Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45)
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Re: Thoughts From Long Ago
It was distressing to hear of Barbara PIERCE Edens ('56-RIP)
passing. Her family came to Richland about the same time we did
and lived just across the open space from us. We lived at 1320
Stevens Drive. One of the first things I remember in Richland
was going outside and meeting the first girl I knew who spoke a
foreign language it was Barbara with her intact Texas drawl. We
were in most of the same classes in Sacajawea and some in Chief
Joe, and graduated the same time from Columbia High School.
I have a memory of a challenge game of soft ball in that field
between the Girls and us macho boys about 1946-'48... it would
have included the DeGood boys, Larry Lee, Billy EVERT ('56), me
and my brother Terry ('55-'56) and possibly our little brother
Allen ('60) among others. The rowdy girls would have included
Barbara ('56), Deloris PIERCE ('5?), possibly Sandra PIERCE and the
MOORMAN girls Scooter (Bobby Jean) ('53), Shirley and possibly Sue
('60). Also Lou Ann LEE ('51) and Billy’s sister or sisters (can’t
remember how many he had) and of course my sisters Marjorie ('49)
and Beverly ('50). Ok the boys lost and had to provide a treat.
I remember this well but have found no one else who does. Wm. P.
Evert; Billy’s dad and Barbara’s dad were probably involved. A
most embarrassing afternoon for us boys. Notice how many times I
use "I cant remember".
Re: Class reunion (;49) pictures
http://richlandbombers.1949.tripod.com/ReunionPics/49in09-00.htm
There are two more well remembered name from my youth Pat MONROE
('49) and Betty lou HISER ('49) they were household names at our
place as friends of Sisters Beverly and Marjorie.
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56) ~ From warm and sunny Martha lake,
Millcreek, Bothell, Lynnwood, WA
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>>From: David MANSFIELD ('59)
To: Jeanne Swan (Mrs. "Pappy") (NAB)
Bless your heart for covering up for me and my big thumbs. The
pictures you posted and your explanation was very good. I think
I now know where "Pappy's" writing talents originate.
-David MANSFIELD ('59) ~ We had a good freeze last night here
in Eugene Towne and a promise of lower temperatures
tonight. So Nonie and I are going to strip the garden
this PM as soon as it warms a bit more. The gleaned
tomatoes get put in the garage and should last till
Thanksgiving as in past years.
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
To: ALL BOMBERS
A REMINDER From Tom HEMPHILL ('62) and the rest of the local
committee.
Hello Bomber Friends,
PLEASE plan to join us and bring some other Bombers with you to
our October Fest Bomber Lunch!! You'll Be Glad You Did!!
WHEN: Saturday, October 17
TIME: 11:30 AM - till whenever
WHERE: Red Lion Inn at the Quay Restaurant
100 Columbia Street - Vancouver, WA
Right under the I-5 Bridge
Please RSVP to: Tomh2491@comcast.net
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63) and Susan ERICKSON Kuntz ('59)
Re: Wenatchee Bomber Lunch Reminder
WHEN: Next Saturday, October 17th
TIME: noonish
WHERE: the Applewood Grill, 29 N. Columbia.
one blk off Wenatchee Ave behind Arlberg Sports
Come early and follow the signs to the Farmers Market not far
from the restaurant for what else... apples!!!
No reservations needed
-Donna NELSON ('63) and Susan ERICKSON Kuntz ('59)
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>>From: John TAYLOR ('63wb)
Re: Doctor DeNicola... know him? If so, please write
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091012-Tay-Sig.jpg
Hi... does anyone recognize this doctor's signature? Maren thinks
it could be DeNicola, but she doesn't remember his first and
middle names. He practiced medicine in the '40s and early '50s,
and possibly longer.
If you know the family or his relatives or know anything about
this good doctor, please let me know via email. Thanks so much.
Apart from the rest of my life, this is actually important. Your
info is greatly appreciated.
-John TAYLOR ('63wb)
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>>From: Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
Re: Sorensen's picture #419-WHO
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
This is the Kraemer family ... that's my dad (Phil) holding
Marlene ('75) with Susi ('72) standing. Me ('67), brothers Ken
('68) and Mike ('69) in the car with sister, Cindy ('71). We all
graduated from Columbia High ... I'll get the exact dates and
where/when/why the picture was taken from my family and let you
know.
My Dad called and said the picture was from a "human interest
story" in the GE plant (Hanford) newsletter... we were living
on Perkins and heading out on a family vacation... Dad couldn't
remember why they took the picture or the year (we figured
1958-'59)... and yes, that was our old Oldsmobile.
-Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
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>>From: Marjo VINTHER Burt ('77)
Re: Don Sorensen's photo #414 (from 10/10 Sandstorm)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
Yay! I recognize someone! My dad, Paul Vinther, is the 3rd from
the right in the dark/striped shirt. He says the woman beside him
is his secretary Pat Rettinghouse and the man next to her in the
suit is Elmer Filip. Dad thinks the picture was taken at H Reactor
where he was the Processing (Operations) Manager and Mr. Filip was
the Plant Manager.
-Marjo VINTHER Burt ('77)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 6
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm
G.E. Payroll?, Time Clock w/workers "punching in", Typical
Richland family room, Bantam Colt League Champions, PRTR Fuel
bundle handled by G.E.'s Reactor Folks & TV Antenna adjustment
device?
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
Loved your 10/11/09 entry about Richland teachers. What a great
opportunity to learn from those who experienced WWII. Wished I'd
had the wisdom in my youth to ask more questions of those men and
women. Thanks.
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/13/09
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13 Bombers and Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Deanna CASE ('55), Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Gus KEENEY ('57), Tom MATTHEWS ('57)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Patti JONES ('60)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Roy BALLARD ('63)
Dave HANTHORN ('63), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Kathy KRAEMER ('67)
Vic MARSHALL ('71), Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wanda WITTEBORT ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David EDGAR ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Julie ALEXANDER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry GILSTRAP ('83)
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>>From: Deanna CASE Ackerman ('55)
After reading some of the discussions of the first years at
Carmichael Jr. High, I thought I'd offer my recollections. In
1949-'50, I was in 7th grade at Carmichael, which I believe was
the year it opened. It was a 3-year school, with part of the 9th
graders at Columbia High and part at Carmichael. I still have
the "yearbooks" produced in '50-'51 and '51-'52, with blue
construction paper covers and, of course, typed on typewriters of
the period and mimeographed in the school office. Bill Dunton was
listed as the Advisor both years. The '50-'51 yearbook sold for 25
cents.
-Deanna CASE Ackerman ('55)
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>>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
To: Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
Re: Sorensen's picture #419-WHO
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
Oldsmobile? I don’t think so, More like '57-'58 Desoto. But I rely
on my not so good memory!
-Grover SHEGRUD ('56) ~ Still nice here in Bothell, Mill Creek,
Martha Lake, Lynnwood, WA
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>>From: Gus KEENEY ('57)
Re: Sorensen Photo 423
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm
Sure looks like Dennis BARR ('58) second from left and maybe
George MULLIGAN ('57) behind him. I recognize the face but am
unsure about the name.
It almost has to be Darrell COWGILL ('57). I don't think George
MULLIGAN was as tall as Dennis BARR!!!
-Gus KEENEY ('57) ~ Sunny Yuma where it is going to be in the low
90s today!!!!!
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>>From: Tom MATTHEWS ('57)
Re: Sorensen's Picture #424
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm
That's classmate and friend Tom MOORE ('57) with his first wife
Priscilla and their two children.
-Tom MATTHEWS ('57)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Don Sorensen's Picture #427
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm
This is of 3 Ham Radio Operators setting up a beam antenna. The
man on the right is Bill Shanks father of Jeannie ('60), Carol
Ann ('56) also brothers Rod and Tom but I don't know their class
years. I knew the other 2 men but cannot bring them out of my
memory.
Jackie and I visited the LIGO complex Saturday, and got the tour
including the control room. Afterwards we had a long conversation
with Senior Scientist Richard Savage. He has been with LIGO since
it's inception. LIGO is the worlds largest science project at
present. There is a matching complex in Louisiana and Japan and
Italy are building similar complexes. They are looking for gravity
waves moving through the galaxy. It is very base science work
having to do with Einstein's theories about space and time. This
was my 4th trip to LIGO. I find their programs very interesting.
Jackie has a blog at:
http://www.travelpod.com/z/jackies-world/58/1255300950
She has posted pictures LIGO and a short video sweep I did of the
control room.
They have tours the 2nd Saturday of the month. If you like science
at all, and can get there, it is worth the couple of hours. This
is a rare chance to see basic science at work. It is 212 miles
each way from my house but worth the trip to me.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ from home south of Tacoma. Fall is here
and the colors in Snoqualmie pass were at their peak and
perfect in the noonday sun.
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
To: The class of '60
Re: 50 Year Class reunion
Two months ago the class committee formed for making the Class of
1960 50 year reunion happen. It was decided at the first meeting
that our reunion date would be September 10 and 11, 2010. This is
in conjunction with Club 40. The reunion will be held at the
Clarion Hotel.
Anyone who wants to join the committee it is announced in the
Sandstorm, Date, time and place, just before the meeting.
-Patti JONES Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: Sorensen's picture #419-WHO
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
That's not your Father's Oldsmobile... more like a '57 Plymouth.
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: Role Model, John Wooden
-Roy BALLARD ('63)
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>>From: Dave HANTHORN ('63)
Re: Previous entry with link to Role Model
Roy, John Wooden has long been a man I deeply respected. Another
basketball coach of the same mold (in my opinion) was a guy named
Art Dawald. Both were always a model of decorum and respect on the
bench and anywhere in public. I have heard about both that they
were tough as nails on their players during practice. I can't
think of any better formula for a successful coach.
Thanks for the article,
-Dave HANTHORN ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
Thank you for your very inspirational writing in 10/11's
Sandstorm. It's been quite awhile since you've given us such a
read. Thanks again.
-Carol Converse Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
It's suppose to rain starting this afternoon and go
most of the week. I'm guessing that our "summer" fall
is done for for another year. Sure hope that the rainy
season isn't upon us quite yet. But, by the Midwest's
snowy conditions already, I'm thinking we're in for an
early winter here as well.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Bomber babes are the best
All the chatter on the Fabulous Wailers concert has me jazzed...
I've got a Live album... well CD in my little F-1 and was running
around yesterday getting spare parts to take on the Bakersfield
run... did a major garage clean a few months back and trying to
remember where stuff went is kind of a pain... made a list...
kinda... has been helpful... Have a noise I can't identify and
called one of the boyz to see what it could be... have had the car
on the drag strip with the noise but just wanted to make sure...
Big Mike thought it was either the torque converter or a water
pump... so I pulled a new pump (thought I had one of everything
in the garage and the rest in storage... no way I was that
organized)... all bolts on the converter seem tight so just not
sure... seem to have the gas and timing right but starting in the
mornings just to make sure... Saturday went to take it to the
donut shop... hate to start an open header car early in the
morning... dang thing was flooding so just bagged it and rode with
Heidlebaugh... (this story was going somewhere)... Oh yeah... so
anyway yesterday was driving around with the CD going from Dirty
Robber to Rosalie Rosalie to Louie Louie ... then got home and
blared Lynrd Skynyrd's latest, "God n Guns"... especially the
"That Ain't my America"... but that Wailers' album kept me pumped
all day long... hadda put street tires to replace the big M&H's...
dang that stuff is heavier as we get older...
But the real portant info for today is that our own Julie
ALEXANDER ('65) is celebrating sweet 16 on October 13, 2009, so
please join me in a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From:Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
Re: Kraemer Family Picture - Newspaper clipping
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091013-Kra-419.jpg
Well, thank you all for getting my family to talking and
remembering about that family picture. My sister, Susi ('72) even
had the original newspaper clipping (she found it when she was
putting together birthday things for the folks), with caption
(attached) ... nobody is sure of the date, but 1959 seems to be
the most likely (we moved from Perkins to Long in late summer
1959).
Thanks again ... be well
-Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
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>>From: Vic MARSHALL ('71)
To: Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
Re: Sorensen's picture #419-WHO
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-416-420.htm
I really got s kick out of the picture of your family. 6 kids and
2 adults in a 2 door coupe. I always knew your family was close...
now I can understand why.
Hard to say how many kids were "mentored" by your Mom and Dad in
CYO but they were a big part of our lives as teens in Richland.
Who out there remembers how we looked forward to those CYO dances?
-Vic MARSHALL ('71)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another installment of 6
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-428-433.htm
Looks like 100 Area photo, Girl Scouts Employee Good Neighbor Fund
(precurser to United Way), Looks like a Fishermans Club, Air Car,
quitting time 300 area photo used in F P D Booklet, Taken from top
of 3705 (?) Building.
To: Marjo VINTHER Burt ('77)
I should have recognized your Dad... I've seen his picture many
times. Glad you found him!
To: Kathy KRAEMER Fisher ('67)
I always loved that photo! But are you sure its an Oldsmobile?
From the fins and wheel covers looks a lot like a Plymouth.
Beautiful family. Does your husband work in the Area??
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/14/09
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3 Bombers and Bill Dunton sent stuff:
"Dick" ROBERTS ('49), Betty BELL ('51)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
When Carol TYNER Roberts ('52) and I were in Richland last month,
we made a visit to RHS to buy a t shirt. The halls were filled
with youngsters that stirred a memory or two. I noticed a couple
of nice looking girls dressed in Bomber garb. I stopped them and
asked if they were cheerleaders. Yes, they said, so I told them
that I had been a cheerleader back in 1948. They went gaga gaga
over that. We talked a few minutes more before they went along
their way to stir the imaginations and enthusiasm of their fellow
Bombers to win that victory. They were so cute that I couldn't
resist sending the picture along to fellow Bombers. The second
picture is a visit to our 60th reunion by the Bomb, brought to
us by someone in Club 40. Thanks for sharing whoever that was.
Bombers rule!
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091014-Rob-00.htm
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Betty BELL Norton ('51)
The Easy Swing Band will play for the Richland Seniors
Association's Friday Dance on Friday, October 16 from 1pm to 4pm
at the Richland Community Center. $5 at the door and all are
welcome. Pre packaged finger foods are always welcome.
-Betty BELL Norton ('51)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Carmichael
I have the Carmichael Cougar year books for the years '51-'52,
'52-'53, and '53-'54 if anyone needs any information from them.
I have kept all the year books from my first year in Carmichael
through graduation in '57 at Col-Hi... they are fun to go through
and see the faces of friends long forgotten.
Also, I am glad the make of the Kraemer family car was corrected
it was the first time I ever heard a Chrysler product called a
GM product, HA. I had the privilege of working at times with
Phil Kraemer during my early years at Hanford. He was a straight
shooter and a really good person.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
Maren, Before I do anything else I want to thank you for the name
of that "Bavarian" style town north of Wenatchee -- it was indeed
Leavenworth. We (Lynn and I) spent several weeks there with one of
the kids who graduated with us from high school. Seems the town
was rapidly being divested of people, kids leaving because there
was no industry, etc. to keep them there, so the City Council
contacted the University of Washington and the suggestion came
back that the city should pick some kind of urban environment that
was "different." The city fathers picked Bavaria and when we were
there, the buses were filled to the brim each and every day with
visitors from Seattle. Wonder how things are going now in this
economic recession.
Several of your correspondents have written wondering about
things, so I decided to answer what I know about some of their
questions. Somehow this being a sage is not my style, because I
have a problem with looking in the mirror and seeing a man of 81
(next month) rather than the man of 30 I think I am!
To: Deanna CASE Ackerman ('55)
When I got to Carmichael in the fall of 1949 for the '49-'50
school year, all the 7th graders in Richland were in attendance
(no Chief Joe yet), and the 8th graders were a picked group that
had, as 7th graders, opened Carmichael just after Christmas, 1949,
in a shake down cruise for this brand new edifice. No 9th graders
yet! In 1950-'51 all the 7th and 8th graders in Richland were at
Carmichael, the 9th grade was that special group of 8th graders
from the year before. After that all the 7th, 8th and 9th graders
in Richland came to Carmichael until Chief Joseph was built.
And yes, I was the advisor for all the Cougars from the date of
that first edition until the day we left Washington. Sent my
copy of each book to Carmichael and asked the principal there to
put them in the library, or if he/she knew of an place were alumni
groups put that kind of thing, maybe they could be sent there.
(Found out, to my absolute amazement, that Carmichael was now a
middle school, for grades 6, 7 and 8, and that ninth graders
apparently went to the high school.) By the way, I sent a batch of
my old high school annuals back to my high school and received a
letter from the Superintendent thanking me because I had sent
several they didn't have in their archives; he sent the rest of
them to the Historical Society Museum. That sounds like I was in
high school for 20 years, but when one graduates with a class of
only 34, you have to figure we had a yearbook that had pictures of
all the classes from first grade through graduating seniors.
Compare that Superintendent's consideration to Carmichael --
haven't heard word one from them! I've always thought that every
campus, and every district is in the image of the person in charge
-- Richland is a different place now!
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
One day I went to Chris Anderson and was wondering why I didn't
have a choir room -- using a room with no risers was not a good
thing. It was the first day of class in my first classroom that
was to be a music room - the first one in the math wing - with
windows out onto Thayer Drive. I had the kids sign in when they
came in the room and then sat down behind my desk and called each
name separately. Asked the kid to stand up so I could attempt to
be a name with a face. Everything was going according to hoyle
when I called one name and nobody stood up. I called the name
again, and still nobody stood up. After the third call, my hand
slammed down on my desk and I'm shouting, "Somebody out there is
being clever -- when I call your name I expect you to stand up!"
And then from the back of the room comes this tiny unchanged male
voice, "I am standing up." He was but I couldn't see him for the
big kids who were sitting in front of him. So being properly
chagrined over that episode I went to Chris. He let me rave on,
and then pulled out a set of blueprints and showed me a school
with a choir room, swimming pool under the gym floor that was to
be opened and closed as the coaches determined the need, and an
auditorium with a balcony. I asked him what school that was (I
think he said Robert Gray Junior High School) and then told me I
was standing in it! Originally the plan for the school district
was to have just one junior high period, over and out. But a group
of educators from Washington State University came to town and
convinced the Atomic Energy Commission who ran the district that
it would be more educationally sound to have two junior high
schools and thus give more kids the opportunity to be in sports,
leadership roles, etc. So the AEC determined with the stroke of a
pen and no input from anybody in the educational world that Robert
Gray Junior High School was to be re-designed for a smaller
student body.
The problem was the government had spent so much money on planning
for the RGJHS that the feds couldn't stand the thought of throwing
all those plans out -- and besides, they had already determined
the new JHS would be built on a hill and that necessitated much
moving of dirt which had already been finished. So, they named the
new JHS "Carmichael" after the people who owned the orchard that
was leveled for the new building, and cut the size down. All the
schools in the rest of the district were named for historical
figures of that early era of exploration.
I had always wondered why in the world the auditorium was in the
shape it was -- big windows on one side which let in dust and
noise, and long and narrow like a telescope, with NO balcony.
Then I checked out the original plans again and discovered the
auditorium was supposed to be again as wide as it exists today,
and the balcony went the way of all flesh!
And you were right -- Iowa senator Bert Hickinlooper (sic) was
screaming about the $4 million dollar cost (and those in 1946
dollars) for a school of 700 students! Part of that total dollar
cost was the fact that a lot of the things charged to the
Carmichael building account were, for reasons of easy ordering
charged to Carmichael although they never were intended nor
delivered to the school. For those of you who remember, there was
a Steinway on the auditorium stage that I swear was the biggest
grand piano I had ever seen. Used to kid that it was long enough
so I could sleep on it. We used it for rehearsals, etc., and
cursed its size when we were putting on a show. All of a sudden an
auditor appeared and wanted to know where the 7 grand pianos were!
I told him the one he was looking at was "the" one for Carmichael,
and then found out that all the United Protestant churches and
the building downtown where the teen club was each had a Steinway
grand! Amazing how the federal government can foul things up!
I well remember going down to the Industrial Arts shop one year
at the end of school, and there the two IA teachers were actually
counting one by one the number of nails and bolts that were going
to be part of next year's inventory. For those of you who don't
purchase nails in any great quantity, the usual practice is to ask
for X number of pounds of a given nail size. But no -- Leonard and
Woody couldn't weigh what was left over -- it was count EACH name
and bolt! Talk about red tape!
To: Mary Esther ANDERSON Lippold ('54)
Now that you mention it, you were the principal's daughter. And I
can just imagine the digs and slurs you received from classmates
who didn't have your savvy about how to act in a class. We had
five kids -- and all but one went to La Habra High School where
I taught from 1958 until 1989. At that time we had a strict rule
that you had to attend the high school in your area -- a rule
to avoid having all the athletes go to a school with a winning
record, etc. The four of our kids who went to LHHS asked to go, so
I did the paper work and had to promise to provide transportation
to and from school, and that none of them would be in competitive
sports for a year or two. I thought things were going well for
each of them, until one day in our faculty cafeteria one of
the science teachers asked me if I had a son at LHHS. I didn't
immediately answer him, and he went on to tell me that he had
asked this kid whose name was Michael Dunton if I was Mike's dad.
It seems that Mike told him, "No, our last names look alike but we
pronounce them differently."
And I remember your parents very well. They arrived in Pasco to
pick us up from the train when we first came to Washington. Had a
terrible time with the railroad tickets -- they had NO record of
any such place as Richland. After your folks dropped us off at our
new home (a precut instead of a prefab -- a much larger house than
we were entitled to but we had sent our furniture out by van and
they had no place to put it except that precut -- and 405 Robert
was our home until we left town! And the next day your folks came
back to get us (we had no car) and took us to Kennewick to one of
the Carmichael teacher's fruit ranch -- and for the very first
time in my life I picked ripe pears and ripe peaches off the tree
-- after all those years of enduring what was called a "fresh
peach" -- little hard things that were picked green so they
wouldn't rot before delivery to the wilds of Minnesota. And we
used to see you dad every summer he came to Long Beach to do his
Navy stint -- a grand man, a lovely wife -- and two kids that were
a joy to know as well!
To: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Yes, living in Richland starting in 1949 was an experience that
had to be experienced to believe. Nobody was born there (the
original inhabitants had been dispossessed and their ranches, et
al, taken by the government to provide a space for the HEW
(Hanford Engineering Works) to be built. One time I was sent to
the District Warehouse to pick up some tempera paint for Thelma
Pearson. I called over to make sure it would be opened, and asked
the "proprietor" what his name was -- he told me "Tilman Tweet"
and I laughed. It really was his name. At any rate, I hoped he
forgot about our original introduction, and he acted the perfect
gentleman! He opened the back door from that office and I stepped
into the hugest quonset hut I had ever seen -- age does weird
things to memories I know, but I swear that place was at last a
football field in length. And it was filled almost to the brim
with old desks and chairs all stamped "HEW." When I asked him why
that stuff was stored when it was no good for anything, and surely
some district somewhere would like to have it, or that was no a
possibility then destroying it would be a good thing -- only to be
told that "HEW" meant it was owned by the government and couldn't
be destroyed, or given away without approval from the AEC. There
was no US Department of Education then. And I just bet he had to
inventory that vast pile of junk just as the IA teachers at
Carmichael had to count nails!
When we first hit Richland there was ONE telephone in each block!
It would be a year or so before we had a phone. GTE was the phone
company that had the franchise for old Richland, and the franchise
went with the territory so when Richland went from 150 people to
15,000 GTE still had the franchise, but equipment for a town of
maybe 1000! At any rate, we were told who had the telephone in our
block, so we went the two doors down from our house and knocked
on the door. This great couple introduced themselves as "Art and
Jessie" and welcomed us into their home. We called collect to
my folks, and after the phone call was over the four of us sat
down and talked. Of course, out came the coffee pot -- that's a
Midwestern mark of welcome! Believe it or not, they were the aunt
and uncle of two of my very good friends! It is indeed a small
world!
Richland was also lily-white in those days. When the first black
couple was issued a rental house in Richland they ended up two
houses away from us. Our oldest son had never seen anyone of any
color except Caucasian. Each summer we would go to Minnesota, but
in my home town there was just one family color -- a Japanese
couple who worked for the local hatchery sexing chickens --
rooster chicks were usually drowned -- the hen checks were
valuable as egg layers. Our son was not happy with the new
neighbors, and they were so damned nice Lynn and I couldn't figure
out what his problem was. Finally he allowed as how we were
always telling him to wash his hands because they were dirty, and
"those" people were dirty -- why didn't they wash? Fortunately
it was in late summer, so Lynn pulled down his shorts and showed
him the white color of his skin where he was protected from the
sun, and the deep brown where he wasn't. He got the message
immediately, but just think of the poor kids who still are happily
bigoted because their parents don't come to grips with reality.
To: Maren
One of my favorite stories is about the "Wise Men and the
Elephant." Remember? Each of them was asked to describe the beast,
and depending on where they touched it they thought it was a wall,
or a tree, or a snake or a pedestal -- AND they were all correct.
When one doesn't have the full picture you have to live with
perceptions and perception is truth! So, all of us in Richland had
our own perceptions of what was happening, and what I try to do is
to be honest about what my perceptions were! Richland was a time
in our lives that was very special -- and I wouldn't have given
up the privilege of teaching there, knowing the kids, knowing my
peers, and knowing that we were doing what we thought was the best
for all the students in our classrooms. Thanks to all our former
students who have contacted us, and answering your questions over
this domain is fine with me -- IF Maren can find the space and the
time.
Bye until next time.
-Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/15/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 3 Bomber funeral notices today:
Anna May WANN ('49), Kenny GARDNER ('54)
Deanna CASE ('55), Tom TRACY ('55)
Ruth PATTY ('56), Steve CARSON ('58)
Brad UPTON ('74), Kellie WALSH ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathie McGRATH ('64wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl EVANS ('66wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherrill WIATER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karla BIERLEIN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob FRENCH ('71)
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
It has been a while since I have sent in a couple of words, but
couldn't resist when Richard ROBERTS ('49) commented about the
two guys who brought in the "Bomb" at our 60th reunion. Richard,
the guy who brought in the Bomb and welcomed us was our Club 40
President, John ZIMMER ('66). The big fellow who was taking our
picture with the Bomb was Pete OVERDAHL ('66) the Vice-President
of Club 40.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091014-Rob-00.htm
As for those cheer leaders they were dolls!!!! Can't believe we
were ever that young.
Then I have to go back to Pappy's comments about his mother
and the trials he has gone through with her illnesses. When he
mentioned her exercise equipment, I had to laugh. Cause there in
my living room sits my "air stairs". What you need to understand,
our intentions are good, when we order this equipment and we do
get our exercise – Walking around it!!! At one of our conventions
each person there was given a block of wood about 2 inches square.
We were told to put it on the floor and walk around it at least 3
times. Then we could tell people we walked around the block 3
times today.
But reading about you young folks and what you are having to
go through with your ageing parents, scares the "h-e double
toothpicks" out of me. Hoping that my kids won't have to take care
of me when I get old. Right now I'm not ready to get old, but who
knows what tomorrow will bring. Anyway it makes me realize I need
to get things more in order and take better care of myself and
hope that God protects my kids from having to take care of me!
That's one heck of a statement!!
But I was so pleased at the number we had at our 60th reunion and
how most of us are still in fairly good health for a bunch of
"old" people. We set a good example for the rest of the Bombers.
It is starting to be winter on the West side of the State. The
rain came back tonight!! Frankly I liked summer better.
-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49) ~ from wet Bothell, WA
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>>From: Kenny GARDNER ('54)
gators did it again, but not by much... good thing Tebow is ok...
he took some heavy blows and is ok...
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
Do you think the gators will go all the way this year?
I lived on Cedar Ave, but I spent a lot of time on Barth with
Lloyd KENT ('54)... to this day I still talk to Lloyd and
Betty... they are still good friends after all these years.
Lloyd should have made All State in football---your Barth buddy.
Thank you for your kind words about me. Your '55 classmates were
good sports guys... to be proud of.
Tom, I have a sheet on all state football players for RHS. If you
would like a copy please email me at kenjgardner@bellsouth.net -
send me your address and I will send you a copy.
Bombers---Bombers---Bombers
-Kenny GARDNER ('54) ~ Orlando, FL
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>>From: Deanna CASE Ackerman ('55)
I wanted to thank Bill Dunton for his 10/14/09 entry and setting
the record straight on Carmichael Junior High's first years. You
provided a wealth of fascinating, historical information. I hadn't
realized that the school actually opened mid-school-year with 7th
and 8th graders. Thank you for responding.
-Deanna CASE Ackerman ('55) ~ Roseville, CA
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Dick McCOY (Beaver, Bronc, Bomber ('45-2009) and Beyond)
The peaches on the Carmichael property were great. The downside of
getting to them was the sand burs were thicker than a hop vine
and made peaches somewhat forbidden fruit. Whenever our Springer
Spaniel got out and dashed over to the orchard, it took an hour
to get the burrs out of his paws and ears. Picking peaches and
cherries on the Carmichael plot, was a bit like my Grandfather
used to say..."Just like Lickin' Honey off of a Thorn"...
Glad to know someone who worked on the Carmichael project. What
kind of work did you do? During the time I was Facilities Chairman
of The Boise Schools, I got to fly around the country looking at
all kinds of schools... from the inner city to the best funded
private facilities, but never saw any as well built, staffed
and equipped as Carmichael and Chief Joseph. Even Richland's
elementary schools had the most comprehensive facilities...
separate lunch rooms from gymnasiums... some even had shower
facilities... nowadays people think that providing a gym-
lunchroom-auditorium "multi-purpose" facility is cool... but it
provides more educational interference... especially during bad
weather. Carmichael had it all. We chartered a small plane and
flew into Richland the year that the Hanford K-12 School was
planned to open. It was a great idea... that someone changed. The
facility was elegant... but we later heard it had been vandalized
by students who didn't want to be excluded from Richland High.
Does anyone know why they decided to cancel K-12 at Hanford? I
appreciate not wanting to be separated from your friends. They
did that twice to some of us in Richland. I was supposed to leave
Marcus Whitman for 6th grade. Spalding was two blocks from my
house, but I'd had enough of being pushed around and slipped back
to Marcus Whitman for my 6th year. I just didn't tell anyone we'd
moved. It was easier than I thought. But it didn't work when they
told us to go to Chief Joseph for 9th Grade and leave all our pals
and team mates at Carmichael. I don't know of any classmates that
made it across that boundary line. To some it was like being
forced to leave their native land. Getting back with all of our
classmates at RHS for our sophomore year was like old home week.
Wish they could have kept us all at Carmichael and merged the kids
from Hanford & RHS later as well. RHS had more clubs, groups and
activities than any high school I've ever seen. Seems like we had
nearly 40 different clubs, events, activities. You Broncs and
Beavers should have pushed the city leaders to merely double the
size of Carmichael. Just think of it... Water skiing on Wellsian
Pond... Your group should have paved the way for our under-the-
gym floor swimming pool in any event. Your classes from '46-'49
were our biggest heroes. There was something magnetic... maybe
it was the radiance of the water surrounding Richland... The
most famous swim was made by one of our most notable peripatetic
scientists-in-residence, Enrico Fermi... who was with a group down
by the Yakima River and decided to simply drop his trousers and
take a swim across the Yakima River and back. When General
Groves found out about it he really hit the ceiling and severely
reprimanded Colonel Matthias who was responsible for all of the
happenings at Hanford/Richland sites.
He couldn't have been too severe about it, because Col. Matthias
was the guy who got things done, kept the secrets and the faith!
At times we may have grumbled, but I remain grateful for the
brilliant men and women, the hard-working families from everywhere
who came together and made our excellent traditions, spirit and
epoch making school and community events as well as those who
planned our facilities, curriculum, parties, proms, parades,
musical presentations and church picnics. I love them all. If we
had only known what was being accomplished North of town, we'd
have been even more proud at the time. Thanks to all of those who
are sharing their history and memories. Especially to Deanna CASE
Ackerman ('55) for keeping a Carmichael Annual from '49 and '50.
Hope they can be scanned and included in our Bomber records. I
never knew we had them. Thanks again. (most of us were too busy
moving around to keep up with all the good stuff that was going on
in our schools.)
P.S. Dick: Only a few of us are Broncs and Beavers... but lots of
us are Cougars, Warriors (now converted to Eagles) and Bombers.
Best to all who still enjoy Bing Cherries, Peaches and the spirit
of Richland's Schools.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Ruth PATTY Holesworth ('56)
Re: Carmichael and Chief Jo
The school year of '50 to '51 I was in 7th grade. Carmichael
didn't have room for all the 7th grade classes.
I stayed at Sacajawea for my 7th grade. We had only one 7th grade
class and it was my understanding that all of the grade schools
had one too.
Chief Jo was completed in 1951 and I went there for 8th and 9th
grade.
-Ruth PATTY Holesworth ('56)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Thanks to Bill Dunton for the history. Very interesting.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58) ~ Chicago, IL
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)
Sorry Bombers, I'm plugging dates again. I hope you don't mind
this commercial interruption! I'll be in Owing Mills, (Baltimore)
MD this weekend with The Masters of Stand Up on Saturday night.
This is a show that you can take anyone to--ages 18 to 80 will
love it! I'm opening for Joan Rivers on the following dates:
Nov. 4th St. Paul, MN
Nov. 5th Sioux Falls, SD
Nov. 6th Dubuque, IA
Nov. 7th Crystal Lake, IL
Nov. 8th Kansas City, MO
Joan's shows AREN'T for everyone. She's a great stand up, but
she's very blue. I'll also be at The Tri-City Convention Center on
Nov. 27th and 28th. That's Thanksgiving weekend. I have upcoming
dates in 2010 with Johnny Mathis as well. I do about half
the dates with him. You need to go see Johnny Mathis if he's
performing near you. He's the last of that generation. It's money
well spent. He looks great (just turned 74) and can still really,
really sing! You won't regret going! Check his website for dates!
I've got to pack.
-Brad UPTON ('74)
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>>From: Kellie WALSH Patterson ('77)
Re: installment - pic # 426
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm
On the far left is Monty Stratton. Monty and Laura still live on
Hunt Point, I think.
-Kellie WALSH Patterson ('77)
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Funeral Notices
>>Carol Harris Tolmie ('57wb) ~ 3/9/38 - 9/1/09
>>Carletta Cristman ('68) ~ 5/28/50 - 9/11/09
>>Daniel Reynolds ('61) ~ 2/9/43 - 10/10/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45, '46, & '02), Buddy Gene KELLER ('50)
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Tom TRACY ('55)
Burt PIERARD ('59), Helen CROSS ('62)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judith PORTER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave HANTHORN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Carol & Claire REDISKE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck FELDER ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian BELLISTON ('81)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45... & '46 & '02 too.)
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
There are a few thorns amongst the roses in all out endeavors.
However, those hale peaches extended well out to the West beyond
Thayer. Last I looked there were a few trees still left in those
prefab yards. they are pretty old by now, maybe they don't produce
much.
Yes I worked on a survey gang at Carmichael. One fun thing we did
was give the painters lines on the basketball court. We used a
rules book and laid them out, squared them up with a transit. We
used a template made up in the yard to put in the circles at the
head of the key. I am sure you trampled those lines many times,
Tom. We also laid out that swimming pool, but, without foresight,
neglected to put an entry to it.
I was a Mohawk and Greyhound back in Minnesota, and a Bronc,
Beaver and Bomber at CHS. I lettered in the last three.
To: The Class of 1960
We are happy to have you aboard at Club 40 for your 50th reunion
next year. Also we will celebrate '45, both of us; '50, is someone
out there? Just kidding. '55, my brother's wow Class; '60, of
course, and '65, I don't know you.
It was nice to see Richland put Hanford and that new Pasco school
in their place.
-Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45... and '46 and '02 too.)
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>>From: Buddy Gene KELLER ('50)
It has been almost 60 years (June 1950) since our class graduated
from RHS. Hopefully, we will have our 60 year class reunion with
Club 40 this fall. I say that because we seem to take our time
about getting ourselves motivated or something. We are a great
class and I hope a lot of our class show up in September 2010. I
have talked to Art MARTIN ('50) who still lives in Richland and we
will be getting together to do some planning, Boy, that class of
1949 sure looks good. Of course I remember all of them because my
sister Beverly ('49) always talked about them.
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
I really like to read what you write to the Alumni Sandstorm
about those early years in Richland. You write about things
that I remember and was a part of in many ways but I think what
you really tell is the spirit of those early days when we all
loved our school, teachers, and community whether we came from
Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma or any place else in the country. We had
a spirit that grew and is still there today. I still look at the
newspaper to see how the Bombers are doing in all the different
areas of school. It's great to have this web site and our thanks
to Maren.
-Buddy Gene KELLER ('50) ~ from cloudy Tacoma
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: '54 ladies lunch
Just a reminder for all of our lady classmates to come to Granny's
in Kennewick today, Friday, October 16th around 11:30 am for
lunch.
We will have an out of town classmate join us. All of us love this
gathering and have fun exchanging memories. This month we will
share pictures from our 55th reunion and even some we haven't seen
from our 50th!!
I am asking all of you to keep Norma MYRICK Nunamaker ('54) in
your thoughts and prayers as she had surgery yesterday to have her
spleen removed. She should be home today. Norma is the head (and
tail) of OTY (Operation Thank You) and feels bad she will miss,
for the first time, a soldier's welcome home at the Pasco airport
tonight. Her group sends hundreds of boxes and items to our troops
in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the wounded at Walter Reed Hospital
and never takes time for herself.
All of our booklets and pictures of our 55th class reunion went
out to those who wanted them and I even received notes and cards
from classmates from NY and Indiana anxious to get started on
plans for our 60th in 2014!! Now that is positive thinking!! One
of these days I will get the pictures I took of the reunion in the
Sandstorm as soon as I figure out how to put the text on them of
the names. Would appreciate some help!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco where it feels a
little like spring in the 60s for a couple days. Am so
happy to be over the cold last week as I was looking
over my granddaughter and her two sons next door who
had the swine flu. Never did see them, but did their
shopping for juices and prescriptions. They are all
well now!!
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Dick McCOY ('45)
How about Bill Dunton, our former Music Teacher?! He answers
questions before we finish asking them. You should have picked up
the Original Plans and built that school twice as large after all.
Looks like the powers that be had to hide the cost by cutting
downsizing and splitting it into two schools, hiding pianos around
town, etc. It was a small price to pay for what they got in
return. Whether congress liked it or not... those who came and
landed on the desert beach heads along the Columbia’s Beach
heads, camped out and lived in small trailers deserved some good
things—we got it in our well-built schools, unsurpassed faculties,
unity of spirit and a few extra pianos to boot. Be sure to give
some fired-up chili flavored biscuits to the UW huskies.
To: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
Special thanks for clearing the deck on Carmichael's rumors and
extraordinary facts.
Very interesting that seven Steinway concert pianos were stashed
around the community. The story is a classic. Guess someone
thought we had to hide them somewhere. Let's see, if we had seven
"stretch" Steinways in 1950, how many cars could we have traded
them in for? The Steinway Model D Concert Piano is now worth
$79,000... so in 1950 its price would have been $9,000 (per CPI).
That would have given us a dozen stretch Cadillac Limos for music
contest trips, athletic events, state tournament transportation
and varied luxury excursions. The vocal music, school concerts,
marching bands, special music, school musical productions, parades
were unsurpassed in Richland's schools. It was well worth it. I
admired our many talented musicians... would that I could have
been teachable... but alas, I only mastered the Hi-Fi record
player... after two or three years of intensive practice in
sound proof booths at Korten's Music Store in Uptown Richland.
Someone probably forgot to put the HEW AEC metallic labels on the
pianos. We had them on everything else. (if we look closely, we
might even find a Hanford Engineering Works tattoo on David RIVERS
('65), one our loyal and famous RHS contributors and legal
scholars.) Our great music instructors could always testify to
congressional critics: "You only gave us 7 Steinways... We gave
you One Giant VJ Day!" David could help adjudicate that with a
single Tatt. (Who could argue with that, once he rolled up his
sleeve in court? Did you see his tattoos?)
Robert Gray would have been an excellent name for Carmichael,
since he captained the 3 masted-ship (privately owned) Columbia,
the first U.S. vessel to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed a
ways up the mouth of the river and named it after his ship. I'll
wager Mr. Kelly, our history teacher knew about all of this.
At Marcus Whitman, we used to sing, "Columbia The Gem of The
Ocean"... but I never knew the history of the ship, the lady
"Columbia" or witnessed the pictures of the beautiful woman. She
would have made a great cheerleader in one of her WW I costumes.
Thanks Bill . You honor us with facts to support some of our
memories... even though sometimes our beautiful theories and
rumors are destroyed by brutal gangs of facts. We appreciate
knowing.
To: Kenny GARDNER ('54)
Re: Florida...
They look invincible. Glad your QB is back. He's up for the best-
off-the field-community contributor as well. It's nice to see that
Nice Guys Finish... and Nice Guys Last. (regardless of what some
say). Tim Tebow is one of the best.
I agree with you about our next door neighbor, Lloyd KENT ('54),
being an All State Football Quality Player. He was one of RHS'
greatest... and an even nicer neighbor than he was a football
player. Hey, we lived on Cedar Ave. for a couple of years before
Barth. Yes, I remember Lloyd and Betty very well. She looked
exactly like Jane Russell... are you sure she wasn't?
I think Florida should win it... but some think our BSU Broncos
might be a contender before its all over... .
Bomber bests to all.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
To: Mr. Dunton (it wasn't until High School that I figured out
teachers had first names)
I waited a day before responding in the hope that you won't think
my "nit-picky" comments are a challenge to your memory, which is
actually incredible!!! I originally was just going to comment on
a subject you brought up (the Project Telephone System, one of my
favorite historical research projects) but what the heck, I might
just as well comment on a few other items while I'm here.
I have always heard that the Robert Gray to Carmichael name change
was decided about half way through construction (August 1948 -
February 28, 1949). Anyhow, I have the original roll of mylar
drawings and the Title Block referred to Robert Gray - apparently
they never felt the need to change the name even up to the recent
remodel, 4 or 5 years ago when they pitched the drawings. Any how,
there was no swimming pool or balcony although there is an 8-12-48
note on the plot plan that said it replaced any previous plans.
I have the Carmichael Cougars [yearbooks] from 1953 - 1957. Floyd
Melton ['57] is sending me the 1952 issue for scanning).
I'm not sure if they were born in old Richland but there were
certainly many original residents around, most notably: John Dam
(of Nelson & Dam grocery fame), Ed Peddicord continued on as
Postmaster, Lester FISHBACK ('34-RIP) & Kay WEIR Fishback ('37-RIP)
were still around until their deaths a few years ago, etc.
Now to the phone stuff. GTE was not involved in Richland until the
Govt.'s sale of its entire phone system along with the houses and
other properties in the late '50s. GE, as prime contractor since
1946, was running the system at its sale. I'm not sure why there
was only one phone in your block in 1949 - that certainly was not
the case for most of the rest of the Village, except for the new
'48-'49 Ranch House development which had one phone box at each
intersection for local use.
As far as the original phone system takeover, in March 1943,
the Government condemned all the lines from Kennewick through
Richland, Hanford, and White Bluffs including all their associated
switchboards and other lines & equipment and turned them over to
the Army Signal Corps to design all the temporary and permanent
installation for Construction and Operations. Ironically, DuPont
then turned around and contracted with the 3 local independents to
install Construction services from their previous systems and also
add temporary switches at Richland and Hanford to increase the
capacities. In Nov. 1943, the 702 Bldg. was completed in the 700
Area which took over all the Richland Load. This is when my Dad
entered the picture. When he arrived in Jan. 1944, one of his
first jobs was the allocation of the residential phones but we
have talked about that before.
Bomber Cheers,
Burt Pierard (59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Dates for Reunions
As a person who has always had to travel lots of miles to attend
reunions, I wish we could just set a date for all of them. I
really liked being with Club 40 one night of our last reunion in
2007, I guess it was my 45th. I don't like the idea that sometimes
the reunions are in one month to coincide with this or that. I
really liked the chance to get to see a few friends in other
classes. I met Richard Anderson ('60) of Maren's back up fame at
Club 40, and had a great visit with Ken FREE ('59) and Judy POWELL
Free ('61), that I otherwise would have missed had we not spent
one night with Club 40.
It's just a thought, but it would also help to plan out in the
future, if I knew when our next reunion might be...
Prayers for our nation as we approach this nationalized health
care.
Re: Sorensen's photos
[Helen is responding to the 8/12 Sandstorm here. I don't
know which of these pictures she is talking about. -Maren
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-422-427.htm ]
I think I know more than one of the men in this photo, but I'm not
coming up with all the names. I think the 3rd man from the left is
Herbert Parker. I used to date Henry PARKER ('62) and I'm pretty
sure that is his dad... the man next to him on the right looks
like the man who used to be Robert Young in Father Knows Best, one
of my favorite T.V. shows... I always thought his assistant, Dr.
Kiley (I believe) was so good-looking. He is now Barbara
Streisand's husband... [His name is James Brolin. -Maren]
I had to go back to see my favorite dentist to get a new front
tooth, one more saga of this aging thing...
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Don Sorensen's Photo
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-426-Who.html
I believe that the gentleman on the far right is I.D. Behymer
(Payroll). Several other Dads look very familiar in that photo but
'time' is not on my side.
[My Wife] Janis ('65 Lion) & I just returned from Sandpoint, ID,
where we spent 4 days reading, walking and yes gentlemen dare I
say TALKING? My read for the long weekend was a second time thru
"Stolen Valor".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Birthdays
OK... I do not want to diminish the first birthday boy's day in
any way but am heading outa town for a week and don't wanna miss
any birthdays while I'm gone. I also don't want to confuse my best
ex with a buncha birthday greetings with "please hold till" on
them... well it's not so much her I'm worried about confusing as
it is me... I'd mess it up I know... I ordered some items on eBay
I never got and finally did a complaint... naturally I got the two
mixed up so if those naughty sellers actually respond they may be
as confused as I was... kinda like the time I had a receptionist
in our office send out my bills/checks years ago... all the checks
went into the wrong envelopes... never did that again!
Sooooooooooo I just gotta wish the following Bombers a total HAPPY
BIRTHDAY on their respective special days and hope they understand
this mass mailing:
Dave HANTHORN ('63 10/16);
Connie FOSTER McLean ('63) and Lucy FOSTER Smith ('65) on 10/21);
Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63 Wailers Rule on 10/24) and
Sally SHEERAN Heath ('58 on 10/26 - good to see you, Chuck,
Colleen ('56) and Rob ('55) the other day...
That's Sarah with an H!)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/17/09
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8 Bombers and Bill Dunton & Theresa Hammer sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
John ADKINS ('62), Sonny DAVIS ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Linda REINING ('64)
Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Pool
I am surprised that Burt PIERARD ('59) still doesn't know about
the swimming pool at Robert Gray... er Carmichael.
-Dick McCOY ('45) ~ Lotsa gray here at Big Lake, WA
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>>From: Shirley ARMSTRONG Dvorak ('61)
Re: Sorensen's Picture #426
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-426-Who.html
To: Don Sorensen (NAB) and Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I believe the man in picture 426 (4th from the left) is Mr. Ken
Rucker (Larry MOSS ('59) or Tom HEMPHILL ('62) might verify this)
father of Janice ('55), Jack ('59) and Roberta or Bobbie ('60). We
used to live near them when we lived on Duane. A very nice man, he
passed away very young. Mrs. Rucker still lives in the same house,
when I am in town I try to go by a visit with her.
-Shirley ARMSTRONG Dvorak ('61)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers in the Military
More and more names are being added the "Bombers in the Military"
list. I continue to contact people who might give me more names,
and I know there are some on the Sandstorm roles who have some
information I could use. Take a minute and think of your friends
that served, and that they deserve our tribute.
Send me an e-mail and let me know that you or your friends served,
the year of graduation, the branch of service and their rank if you
know it.
We should all get behind this - it is a worthwhile venture. The
unveiling of this tribute will be at the R2K'X [R2K +10] next June -
don't miss it.
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland - my autumn blaze maple is living up
to it's name this year
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>>From: Sonny DAVIS ('62)
Re: Don Sorensen's Picture #431
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-431-Who.html
The gentleman with the Air Cushioned Vehicle (ACV) is Bob Smithers.
He built it in his garage. He lived with his wife Corinne and son or
step son Bill. They lived at 1629 Horn? (the street between Davison
& GWWay) This was taken in '55-'57. I think I was there when the
picture was taken. A lot of kids in the neighborhood came over to
gawk.
P.S. It never worked very well... he got it off the ground but
couldn't guide it well enough to leave his driveway. I occasionally
held one of the many ropes attached to keep him from going out of
control. Pleasant memory.
-Sonny DAVIS ('62)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Santa Clause is coming to town...
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091017-Smy-Gpa.jpg
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 57° at midnight
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
All the information from Bill Dunton (former Carmichael teacher) has
been so interesting to read.
My journey is still on-going. this chemo has been tougher than I
ever thought possible---not exactly sure what I thought it was going
to be, but this has been rough! Told the doctor I know WHY they
don't tell anyone just how tough chemo will be, cause IF they did,
nobody would take the blasted cure!!! The mouth sores, inside and
out, have been difficult---can't chew, so eating lots of puddings
and mashed potatoes!!!!! Have another round of chemo at the end of
this month, then one at the end of November, then radiation and
chemo, then I don't know what happens after all that. Good thing---
have lost weight and am wearing sizes I haven't worn in years! This
isn't a diet I'd wish on anyone, but, "good things come in the least
expected places". Am just glad I had the excess weight to lose or I
might have ended up in the hospital, cause 20# in less than 2 weeks
is quite a lot to lose!
Oh, and by the way, bald might be beautiful on Yul Brynner, Telly
Savalas, and/or Sean Connery, BUT on this 63 year old broad, it
AIN'T!!!!!!! Lost my hair today, so now, I'm wearing scarves... just
can't handle looking in the mirror and seeing that shiny pate! *grin*
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ cooler temps are in
Bakersfield, CA but we are still using the a/c.
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Maren --
Received an email from somebody whose first name was Peter (I think),
RHS grad in the '70s, asking about some historical data I might have
re when the District went from AEC control to local/state control.
I had a phone call I had to answer so I punched the button on my
computer that says "keep as new", and instead hit the delete button!
It's grand to be almost 81 so I can blame the damned machine for
making an error!
Would you print this in the Sandstorm and if Peter still wants to
contact me, I'm ready, willing and able!
-Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
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>>From: Theresa Hammer (NAB)
Did YOU work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR PARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR GRANDPARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Do you KNOW SOMEONE who worked at Hanford/PNNL?
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) is a federal law passed by Congress in July, 2001. The
intent of the law is to award medical and/or monetary compensation
to workers in the Atomic Weapons Industry in the event the worker
developed an occupational illness caused by exposure to a toxic
substance at a Department of Energy (DOE) facility. There are over
370 DOE sites around the country covered by this law – including
Hanford and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) - and
the law is retroactive to 1942.
If the worker is deceased, survivors can be awarded the
compensation. Survivors include (in order of eligibility):
o Surviving spouse
o Children of the worker
o Parents of the worker
o Grandchildren of the worker
o Grandparents of the worker
The Hanford Resource Center was established by Congress to assist
the Department of Labor with the claim process.
CONTACT: The Hanford Resource Center toll-free at 888-654-0014 or
email hanford.center@rrohio.com
-Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/18/09
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8 Bombers and Bill Dunton sent stuff:
Carol BISHOP ('57), Floyd MELTON ('57)
Ken FREE ('59), Margo COMPTON ('60)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Cindy PAYTON ('65), Peter TURPING ('70)
Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack LOWREY ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob CHILES ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith HUNTER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert HINKLE ('75)
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>>From: Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
Re: Don Sorensen's picture #430
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-430-Who.html
That is Chuck Crowder ('49-RIP)...
Thank you.
-Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
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[Which one, Carol? There are SEVEN men in that picture. -Maren]
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
I just learned that we lost another bomber to cancer; Daniel A
Reynolds passed on October 10, 2009 in Richland and as I looked
back I do not see any mention of his passing. One can see the
obituary on the Einan's website or by going to the Bomber memorial
for him at:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics09/RIP61ReynoldsDaniel09.htm
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Ken FREE ('59)
Re: Don Sorensen's Picture #419
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091011-419-Who.html
According to one of favorite books in my library (Monstrous
American Car Spotter's Guide - Tad Burness), the car is a 1958
Plymouth Savoy Two Door Hardtop Sports Coupe. Limited Production
only 16,000 built. Sweet!
-Ken FREE ('59)
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>>From: Margo COMPTON Lacarde ('60)
Re: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA)
Just to let you know this works. It took about five years of
trying and being turned down once before it was approved, but
we kept at it and got the money.
-Margo COMPTON Lacarde ('60)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Sorensen's Picture #426
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091012-426-Who.html
To: Shirley ARMSTRONG Dvorak ('61)
I looked that the photo #426 and I think that you might be right
about Ken Rucker. I've printed the photo and I'll show it to Jan
RUCKER Meyer ('55) and get her input. Jan lives close to us in
Vancouver, WA and we see her often. I'll also see Helen Rucker
(Mom) this Thanksgiving. You are right, Kenny was a wonderful man.
He taught us kids a lot and there are many stories that I could
tell about living next door to the Rucker family for several
years. My brother Mick ('66) may recognize Ken in this photo. It
sure looks like Ken, but I do not recall ever seeing him in a suit
and tie when going to work.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Linda Reining ('64)
Keep the faith girl... you can do this difficult journey!! We are
all behind you. You are in my prayers! Not withstanding the way
you are losing weight, just think you can be a skinny minnie
afterwards and we'll all be jealous of you. Think of it this way,
God planned for you to go through the majority of this during the
cooler weather. You won't be as miserable as you would be in 100+
degrees. God is with you!
-Carol Converse Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
where the last couple days have been very warm and
sunny. Today, we are back in the rain.
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>>From: Cindy PAYTON Hoffman ('65)
To: Linda Reining ('64)
Bald or not, you are still beautiful to all of us. Keep up the
fight and a stiff upper lip. We are all thinking and praying for
you.
Bomber friend,
-Cindy PAYTON Hoffman ('65)
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>>From: Peter TURPING ('70)
To: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
Bill - Yes that was me and that was the question: if you knew when
the school district went from AEC to local control. Thanks again
for all the interesting info in your submission to the Sandstorm.
-Peter TURPING ('70)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
I need to reply to some of the Sandstorm letters from 10/16/09.
Sometimes I read something over and it says exactly what I meant
it to convey, but then discover when somebody else parses my
writing, they have found the flaws that turn my writing from
history into fairy tales because I have missed dotting an "i" or
crossing a "t." When Lynn was alive I always had her read what I
wrote, and she immediately would find those goofs and by the time
my writing got to the publication part of the journey it was a
real deal and not a "Huck Finn raft trip."
The decision not to build Robert Grey JHS had nothing at all to
do with the eventual cost of building Carmichael. The original
architectural plans had been drawn for RGJHS because (1) even the
AEC recognized that there would have to be a junior high school to
take care of an expected influx of students of that age group. And
the mantra of those days included the premise that a junior high
school would be the way to go. Then the AEC asked WSU to send down
a panel of educational experts to do a survey of any possible
future school campuses so the kids attending district schools
would get the best education. That committee recommended that it
would be a better move educationally to build two junior highs,
and (2) what could be a better geographical location for one
junior high school that that area that the Carmichael family had
owned? After all, the football stadium and baseball fields were
just across the street from the planned junior high school. There
was some dirt moving on the Carmichael site because the decision
was made to build Carmichael on the top of the hill, and that
required leveling that pad and adding soil to the lower story
where the gym was going to be built.
The plans Chris Anderson showed to me were the "original" ones...
period, over and out. I have no knowledge of when the name was
changed from RGJHS to CJHS, but it was done while the actual
construction of Carmichael was taking place.
Somehow I gave the opinion that our Steinway grand didn't have the
HEW tag on it. Please! Everything in our district had that label
somewhere on it. I'm still amazed they didn't tattoo the district
staff too. The warehouse had an office at the front and a long
quonset hut behind it full to the brim of old broken desks and
chairs, and all of them with that HEW brand! Which meant they
couldn't be given away, or sold, OR destroyed in the days! And
the AEC was using what was the accepted practice in those days --
getting a bill through congress was just as tough then as it is
now. And things had to be purchased ASAP to keep things in gear.
If I recall some of the bills now being disputed in congress, the
"black box" appropriations are the most contentious and the most
secretive. And so it was with "stuff" being ordered for the HEW.
No one ran off with any of the Steinways. I bet I could go there
right now and probably find most of them, still being used by the
churches or civic groups as was intended all along.
Hickenlooper started his investigation of the cost of building
Carmichael AFTER the building was completed. He was a Republican,
and the GOP had a majority in the US Senate at the time, Harry S.
Truman (love the fact the "S" stood for nothing) was the Democrat
President, and politics were just as difficult and bitter then as
they are now. Maybe not as public a scene, but I do remember
when Harry had that balcony built on the White House, some wag
suggested he make it portable so he could take it back to Missouri
because Dewey was going to defeat HST at the next presidential
election. Ever hear of a President Dewey? The inference of
malfeasance of office went right out the window, and after a mea
culpa or two or three, that "scandal" amounted to no more than a
hill of beans.
And as to the cost of Carmichael -- it, and most every other
edifice, location, army base, etc., etc., etc., done in WWII at US
government in expense was built on a "cost-plus" basis. In other
words, contractor(s) would bid on a project, the government would
chose them to do the building, and if the contractor found out
later he had underestimated his costs of building, he would just
bill the government for the higher cost and the payment was
automatic. I think we all forget that both Hanford and Oak Ridge
were built on the basis of a teaspoon of material that was created
under the closed football stadium at the University of Chicago
(by the way Lila Hildreth who was Chris Anderson's secretary when
I first went to Carmichael worked as a secretary on that project
which is yet another story should anybody want to hear it), so the
top governmental honchos knew that fission would work. But they
weren't quite sure which kind of fission would work so they build
HEW as one way of creating fissionable material, and Oak Ridge as
the other and gambled on the fact one of them would work and work
well. And, heavens to Betsy, they both worked! And you don't think
that was all done under wraps? Neighbors of ours in Richland told
us they could never figure out why train after train of hundreds
of cars were hauling something to the "area" but nothing ever
was hauled out. Keeping what was doing at HEW as a secret was a
necessary and completely unbelievable job.
We moved to Richland before there were any water meters... period.
Every yard had a pipe somewhere near the street that issued
irrigation water for yards and of course we had a separate water
system for household use. Somebody decided that Richlanditers
should pay for the water we were using, so they came to our precut
and started digging down where the water entered the house,
followed the entry pipe until just outside the front foundation,
and put a meter box in the only garden we had. When I suggested to
one of the inspectors that it seemed to me very strange that they
didn't continue with their digging down to where the curb would
have been (we didn't have a sidewalk or a curb) put the meter out
there and save my garden.
The inspector took me down to the area around Lewis & Clark and
showed me that the original contractor had run the water pipe from
the street in concentric squares all the way up to the place the
pipe disappeared under the home. He said they had to put the meter
next to the houses because they knew where the water pipe was. And
yes, there were plans showing how the water pipes were supposed to
run from the street to the house, but they had been ignored by the
contractor. Another case of "cost-plus" governmental contracts.
Somebody mentioned Korten's Music Store. Bet you didn't know Mr.
Korten played a wicked musical saw -- and played it very well too!
He also asked me (and four other piano players) to form a piano
quintet. He gave us the music to learn and we played at civic club
meetings. He would transport a Spinit piano for each one of us to
the meeting place and then return them to his store after the gig
was over. I do have fond memories of him -- and of Robley Johnson
and Mickey McQuire who had the only shoe repair store in Richland.
Bye for now. The weather today is in the 90s without a cloud
in the sky! Now I know why people from the Middle West came to
California in droves after WWII. I mean, Minnesota does have four
seasons -- fall, winter, spring and the Fourth of July! We finally
had some rain last Wednesday, and one would think that was THE
news of the day -- removing almost everything else from the front
pages of our newspapers and the talking heads of the TV group. The
rain we received was something under and inch and it took a day
and a half to get that much on the ground. I keep getting E-Mails
from our Minnesota relatives and friends, asking us how we are
doing with all the brush fires and the mud slides that were going
to follow the fires. My only comment is, "We're not rich enough
to worry about those problems -- living on the flat lands (and far
enough away from the ocean to be able to shrug our shoulders about
tidal wave warnings) is great!
-Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/19/09
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7 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Betty Lou CONNER ('52), Carol BISHOP ('57)
Mary Lee LESTER ('58), Jean ARMSTRONG ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), Ray STEIN ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanie TURNER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray RICHARDSON ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry DAVIS ('80)
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>>From: Betty Lou CONNER Sansom ('52)
Re: Sorensen's Photo 430
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-430-Who.html
Far left, back row, is my husband Doug SANSOM's ('52) father, Ralph
Sansom. I don't know the others - and Doug has a bit of a problem with
remembering anything. I have contacted Doug's brother, Gary SANSOM
('56) who lives in Grandview. They are dealing right now with the
death and funeral of his wife's (Gayle REYNOLDS Sansom ('57)) brother,
Daniel REYNOLDS ('61-RIP). So - I'll get back with listing of whomever
Gary can remember.
I'd like to know myself, as there is somewhere in our many moving
boxes, an identical photo. Dad was a real sweetheart, and we miss him
all the time. He died in June, 2000. If anyone else can identify any
members of the group, let us know. I do know that Dad loved going
Salmon Fishing, and went nearly every year. That fish he is holding is
his real prize. He was very excited about it. I imagine a lot of those
men in the photo were regulars on his fishing trips.
All our children, and grandchildren are fishing fanatics. My youngest
son, Troy, worked as a Fishing Guide at a Fish Camp in Sterling, AK.
He returns every year and renews his friendship with the "ones that
got away" and the ones he turned loose on purpose. I suspect he has
photos of every fish he every hooked. I've accused him of naming them.
How else would he have that many pictures of fish?!
Oh - by the way, Doug had his 75th Birthday on the 15th of October.
Past years, he has been listed in the Sandstorm Birthday listing.
Thanks for our daily Sandstorm, and all the photographs, and other
memories.
-Betty Lou CONNER Sansom ('52) ~ Now living in Vancouver, WA
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[Betty, See the next entry. -Maren]
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>>From: Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
Re: Don Sorensen's picture #430
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-430-Who.html
I thought about that last nite... that I forgot to say which one was
Chuck Crowder ('49-RIP). He is on the top row and in the middle...
3rd from the right and 3rd from the left...
Thanks for putting it in [yesterday] anyway...
-Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
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>>From: Mary Lee LESTER Yarborough ('58)
Re: Carmichael
Don't know when name was changed. However, I seem to remember Robert
Gray stamped on our lockers at the gym.
-Mary Lee LESTER Yarborough ('58)
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>>From: Jean ARMSTRONG Reynolds ('64)
Didn't see my daughter's birthday on the Sandstorm, so thought I
would send it in.
Happy Birthday Kelly GAINES-FRANKLIN Nicholson ('84) yesterday.
October 18th.
I'll write more later. Been busy, busy, busy.
-Jean ARMSTRONG Reynolds ('64) ~ Goodyear, AZ still waiting for it to
get cooler... high was 99° today.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: cooler weather
You know, I hadn't even thought about the weather... but you are
right... will be much easier in temps of 60s than temps of 100+!!
*grin*
When my brother, Tim ('71wb), found out I had lost my hair, he asked
me to send him a picture... wants to put it in his shop... 'spose it
will become a dart board. He always was a smart a** and hasn't changed
one bit with age! *grin*
Thanks to you, Carol, and all the other Bombers who send me good
wishes, thoughts, and prayers, in private and through the Sandstorm...
your prayers really mean a lot, they are working/helping, and I am so
glad to be a part of this huge "family"... we really did grow up in a
different place and time than anyone else and we can be very proud of
the heritage that has given us and the feeling of belonging to a great
group of "kids", no matter what year we graduated. Bombers are a group
that just cannot be explained... "we just are". I am PROUD TO BE A
BOMBER
-Linda Reining (Boomber Bomber class of '64)
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: This date (Oct. 19th) in Bomber History
Some sixty-four years ago, Col-Hi students were trying to decide
between "Richland Atoms" and "Richland Bombers". The October 19, 1945
issue of the Sandstorm gave each competing moniker it's own article.
One headline said, "Atoms Disintegrated by Blue Devils" and another
said, "Pasco Bulldogs Gain Victory over Richland Bombers".
see: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/1945-10-19-SS-P3.jpg
In the same issue, Pat ALLEN ('47) and Dee BERGGREN ('46) both
suggested that the Sandstorm be changed to an Atom-type name.
see: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/1945-10-19-SS-P4.jpg
I'm not sure why "Atoms" wasn't chosen, but I think it faded from
memory because atom words never got paired with bombers in our sports
lexicon. Nobody ever wrote "the atom bombers", or "the atomic
bombers", or even "the A-bombers". Our mascot was called simply "the
bomb", not "the atom bomb".
In a way, the first part of that old Sandstorm headline was prophetic,
"Atoms Disintegrated . . . ", 64 years ago today.
-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Proud to be a Bomber! (I would have been proud to
be an Atom or an Atomic Bomber, but that's not how things worked out.)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Jowed Hadeed (HHS '01) Swine Flu Victim
"An ordeal that nearly claimed Jowed Hadeed's life began with a simple
cough" is covered in the following 10/17/09 TCHerald article:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/757222.html
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Funeral Notice
>>Roland Lawrence ('62) ~ 1/11/44 - 6/27/08
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/20/09
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5 Bombers and Bill Dunton sent stuff:
Ray LOESCHER ('57), Burt PIERARD ('59)
Helen CROSS ('62), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul KNUTSON ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carolynn HAMILTON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn BAIRD ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leo WEBB ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue OBERG ('79)
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>>From: Ray LOESCHER ('57)
Re: Memories
I'm glad someone mentioned Korten's music store. I'd forgotten
its name. It was upstairs in the same building that housed Uptown
Furniture. I had a janitor's job there during my junior and senior
years of high school. Jobs for kids were scarce in those days too but
I almost didn't take it because the offer coincided with try outs for
Bomber basketball. Basketball was my first love and I had wanted to
play for the Bomber varsity ever since grade school. I played on the
junior varsity during my sophomore year ('55). But those varsity teams
of '56 and '57 were loaded. If I had a chance to make it at all, it
would have been as last man. So, since the job was a sure thing, I
took it. My only claim to fame was when Art Dawald came and asked me
why I wasn't trying out.
The job provided some funds for college, but I think I missed what
might have been one of the great experiences of my life. If I had it
all to do over again, who knows, maybe I could have beaten out Pete L.
for that last spot? What do you think brother?
Fifty plus years later I still look for Richland to be the power they
once were. What a thrill that would be!
-Ray LOESCHER ('57)
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
To: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: Bombers' Name Change
I thought I had conclusively proved that the name change occurred at
the Pep Assembly on Friday, October 12, 1945 but apparently, some seem
to have forgotten (or ignored) that so I'll repeat it again. According
to Keith MAUPIN ('47-RIP) and every other old Alum I interviewed (who
remembered anything about it, except Dale GIER ('48)), the name change
was voted upon at a Friday Pep Assembly in the Auditorium and was a
straight up or down vote on whether to change to the Bombers. It
wasn't unanimous but obviously, the Bombers won. I, too, was intrigued
by the two different references in the October issue of the Sandstorm
as the students were tossing around the "Atomic" theme but I suspected
that the only significant one was the reference to the October 12
Pasco game, where the student sportswriter first used the Bombers
name. To test this thesis, I checked out the Pasco Herald for a
contemporary, adult sportswriter and non-Richland account. It turns
out that the Pasco Herald was a Thursday only paper (like the
Villager) and their Thursday, Oct. 11 issue carried an account of the
upcoming game (the next day) against Richland in which they referred
to us as the Richland Beavers. The Thursday, Oct. 18 issue carried the
recap of the previous Friday's game and referred to us as the Richland
Bombers. Thus, when the Oct. 19 issue of the Sandstorm came out, the
Bombers name had been in place for a full week.
As to your statement that "...atom words never got paired with bombers
in our sports lexicon..." has led to them fading from memory, what
planet have you been on for the last 8 years? What do you think this
whole battle about the "Day's Pay Fraud" has been all about? The
Atomic Bomb connection was documented in the Foreword of the '45-'46
Columbian and has existed ever since, most notably, the last 38 years
in the official Trademark of the school, the "R-cloud."
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: John ADKINS ('62)
John, Do you want people who were called up for 6 months in the
Reserves or just those who went on active duty?
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Happy Birthday to Carolynn Hamilton ('60), where ever you might be.
Something about again not wanting to spend her birthday at home
(Chattanooga, TN), possibly precipitated by my sending her a
prosthetic leg (left, one each) a few years back. I think she's in
Spain, or that's from where my last e-mail was sent. She has her
husband do her bidding, something about saving he nails for tickling
my feet. For those of you who haven't talked to her in a while, she
still thinks she is Auntie Mame, and she is. They'll send her back
when she shows them her toes.
-Jimbeaux
p.s. She responded the next year with sending me the plaster cast of
someone's dental work mounted on a board, with little tiny twinkle
lights.
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Harry S Truman Trivia
Although oft repeated, it is not entirely true that the "S" in Harry
Truman stands for nothing.
I remember reading (I believe in The Reader's Digest of the '70s) an
article about this subject. The author had written a paper about Harry
Truman and was graded down because he did not put a period after the
"S". He argued to no avail that a period was not needed because it was
not an initial. After this he wrote a letter to Harry Truman and asked
which was proper. Unfortunately the reply did not come until after the
school year was over. The letter was printed in the article and Truman
said that both of his grandfathers had a name that started with an S,
and not wanting to slight either one of them, his parents used "S" for
his middle name to represent the names of both grandfathers. Therefore
it was proper to not put a period after the "S". I don't remember, but
I think he said it was acceptable either way.
Re: On confirming something you know, but too late
This does remind me of something that happened to me at WSU. We had a
speaker who was supposed to be an "expert" on Alaskan politics. In the
'50s I had watched and really enjoyed a movie on TV made by Lowell
Thomas Sr. & Jr. about their trip to Tibet just before it was invaded
by the Red Chinese. (I sure would like to see it. I have tried to find
it from time to time, but as far as I have been able to find out, it
is not available anywhere.) After that, for a number of years, I kept
an eye out for anything done by them. I knew that only a year or so
before that Lowell Thomas Jr. had run for Congress from Alaska and
lost, so when it was time for questions I asked if he thought Lowell
Thomas Jr. would try running again. I still remember exactly what he
said, "Well I don't think so . . . . I think he died." The entire
classroom erupted in laughter and I got the distinct feeling they were
not laughing with me; they were laughing at me.
Well I didn't think that was right, but who knows, could have
happened. Soon after I was able to confirm that not only was Lowell
Thomas Jr. still alive, but at that time, Lowell Thomas Sr. was still
alive. I don't know if Lowell Thomas Jr. ever ran for Congress again
or not, but in the '70s he was Alaska's Lt. governor; and is if fact
still alive. I always wished I could somehow re-assemble all the
people in that room and inform them that maybe I knew something the
"expert" didn't know.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ from a lonely Bomber outpost in Kennewick
Lion Country
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Maren -- Did it again! Pushed the wrong damn button and was just about
to answer an Email asking me about Lila Hildreth. Sorry to be such a
clutz -- would you ask again in the Sandstorm who it might have been
and ask her to write to me and this time I'll make sure I take my time
and check everything out BEFORE I push any buttons at all!
Do remember she said she came to Carmichael as an eighth grader and
stayed through her ninth grade year there as well.
-Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
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[Bill, did you look in your "Deleted Email" folder? -Maren]
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Ken ELY ('49), Marlene Larsen ('56wb)
Dee WALLACE ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Ray STEIN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandra WITHERUP ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie FOSTER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lucy FOSTER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha JEPSEN ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jenny ANGUIANO ('98)
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>>From: Ken ELY ('49)
To: Burt PIERARD ('59)
Liked your article re: The Bombers but I have one "nitpicking"
comment. As I recall, the Pep Assembly where we voted for the name
"Bombers", was held in the gymnasium.
-Ken ELY ('49) ~ Orangevale, CA
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>>From: Marlene Larsen Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Memories of North Richland & John Ball School
11/13/02 Article by John Hebert
12/15/02 Article by John Hebert
To: John Hebert
Hi John:
I lived in North Richland from 1948 through 1952 and went to John Ball
School. We, also, lived in the houses and/or duplexes in North
Richland. I guess we were lucky that we didn't have to live in the
trailer park which I understand now was the largest trailer park in
the world.
I have been e-mailing Maren Smyth ('63 & '64) regarding some classroom
pictures taken at John Ball School. I was in the graduating class of
'56 (however, we left North Richland in 1952 and moved to Citrus
Heights which is near Sacramento, CA.) My dad went to work on Folsom
Dam and we have lived in California ever since. I now live in Modesto,
CA.
Do you still live in the Richland, WA area? What was your address in
North Richland? We lived at 901 "B" Street.
Have you heard anything about the possible health problems that
children who lived near Hanford may get in their later years? My
sister, Linda ('60wb) has thyroid problems and ovarian problems. She
had trouble getting pregnant. I am 4 years older than my sister and
have never had the same problems she has had.
Maren has added some new class pictures to the John Ball School
website. Have you seen them?
Hope to hear from you. My e-mail address is mrogers@thevision.net
-Marlene Larsen Hegseth ('56wb) ~ Modesto, CA
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>>From: Dee WALLACE ('60)
Re: Korten's
I worked all summer in the pea cannery in Milton-Freewater just to buy
my first tunable bongo drums at Korten's music. I bought all of my
music at Korten's... I remember buying Elvis Presley's "Don't Be
Cruel" on a 45 RPM record.
Korten's also had a very good guitar teacher who was one of Larry
Coryell's ('61) teachers.
On Saturday afternoons when we were not old enough to drive, but too
old for bikes we would "cruise" UPTOWN on foot and always stop in
Korten's and check out the latest records.
Now, those were "good old days".
-Dee WALLACE ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Burt PIERARD ('59)
Hey Burt, I was on the same planet Ray STEIN ('64) was on, and I was
on it a year earlier than he was. I also don't remember being called
the Atomic Bombers when I was attending RHS, every day of high school
until I graduated... I remember Atomic Frontier Days which was the
city-wide celebration, but I agree with Ray... we were the Bombers,
not the atomic Bombers... I never even heard about the Day's Pay plane
until I read it in the Alumni Sandstorm....
Even if you proved all you proved, there are a lot of interesting
trivia in the proving, and some people have gotten off on some of the
trivia points along the way, since l945 did you say...
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Grandview, IN where it got up to the
low 70s and we had such a nice fall day for driving over
to St. Louis, MO, where we had lunch with Carol RICE
Forister ('62) and her husband, Gary (NAB). And I got
my mom's clock from them, as they had driven out to
Washington last summer, and stored it until we were
able to match schedules and meet today. As it was, they
had to hurry back to make a grandson's soccer game in
Kansas City... But it was great to see them if only for
a little while. We hope to go to Nashville, TN later
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
To: Burt PIERARD ('59)
Re: Bomber name change
Thanks for your quick response to my October 19th post. I was
disappointed that you didn't come up with some obscure sports report
that used a term like "the atomic bombers". After all, if Bombers was
derived from Atom Bomb as you claim, shouldn't we be able to find an
atom adjective in front of Bombers? If not, an unbiased observer would
think the word bombers stands for a type of military airplane. Maybe
I missed it, but I have never seen either "atom bomber" or "atomic
bomber" used in any sports report. I have however, seen our teams
called "The Fly Boys" in newspaper accounts and also in two different
yearbooks '47 and '48.
But, "Richland Atoms" (or Atomizers) was clearly a name to honor our
atomic heritage. It was talked about in the September 1945 Richland
Villager
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/1945-09-13VillagerCritPara.jpg
Note the comma after Bombers. Ordinarily, two similar items connected
by a conjunction like "or" would not have a comma, but here "bombers
or atomizers" are not similar. The author puts a comma after Bombers
because Atomizers is the only name being considered because of "the
nation-wide publicity the village has received as the home of the Atom
Bomb". The fact that "Richland Atoms" also appeared in the October
Sandstorm shows that the Student Body could have picked the name
"Atoms" and forever made a connection to the great work that went on
at Hanford to make the bomb that effectively ended WWII. Why, how, or
when did they reject "Atoms" and instead pick the name "Bombers"?
Burt guesses that they voted at an assembly on Oct. 12th. The old
Sandstorms talk about lots of specific assemblies, but there is no
mention anywhere of an Oct. 12th assembly and vote. The '45-'46
yearbook is no help. It's theme is the Atom Bomb, but is doesn't even
hint that "Bombers" is derived from the Atom Bomb. I challenge anyone
to find a Col-Hi publication from that era that says bombers came from
either "Day's Pay" or "the Atom Bomb".
Maren, let me get in a few more jabs. I know you're about to cut me
off, but in the past you've given Burt a free ride to disparage Day's
Pay. I've always looked at this debate like the old song line, " . . .
there ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy, there's just you and
me and we just disagree . . .". So, if everything I've seen logically
leads me to believe the genesis of "Bombers" is "Day's Pay", does that
mean I'm an A-Bomb critic? No, it means that everything I've seen
logically leads me to believe that "Bombers" can be traced back
to "Day's Pay". I've heard all the he said, she said, and yes, I
find Dale GIER ('48) the most credible source. He was an elected
representative in '45-'46 and a person who was in a position to know
how the name change was made
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/2001-FinalDuststormGier.jpg
Burt, I agree that the mushroom cloud has been our mascot since 1971,
but not before. My sister Judy STEIN Mitchell ('71) thinks her class
was the last one to have an airplane on the backs of their cheerleader
jackets.
Peace,
-Ray STEIN ('64) - Mead, WA, USA, planet Earth
PS - Maren, please tell Burt that you can verify that I
paid $5 for a mushroom cloud name tag holder
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[Verified.
See the Bomber name timeline at:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot.html
See the "debate" (Bomber Nickname Research Project)
between Burt and Ray at:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/00index.html -Maren]
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>>Jenny PARCHEN Gabel ('64) ~ 3/24/45 - 10/11/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/22/09
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Karen COLE ('55), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Michael RAGLAND ('57), Gloria FALLS ('58)
Burt PIERARD ('59), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Marsha LAWELL ('60), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leoma COLES ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Trisha SAUCIER ('77)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (Tin Can Class of '45, and a Bronc, Beaver, Bomb)
Re: Good Grief
I hope we are not going to get into that Bomb-Bomber argument
again. It just doesn't matter. I DO know that Dale GEIR ('48) is
the only person from those days who insists on the Day's Pay. I
was back for my ninth semester of hi school when the matter was
voted on. I was miffed that they changed from Beaver to Bomber.
Still am. Now reading the debate, the word "or" is introduced.
Sounds a bit like what "is" is. Burt PIERARD ('59), relax. Most
of the old gang that made this mascot is fading into the past.
As for you, Ray STEIN ('64), wouldn't it have been dumb to use
the term Richland Bombs? We are wasting ink here.
Oh, I was back in school to get past Washington state history.
Didn't make it past Margaret Thompson. Did learn to type, tho.
Cheers, Margaret, Dale, Ray, and Burt.
-Dick McCOY (Tin Can Class of '45, and a Bronc, Beaver, Bomb)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
To: Ken ELY ('49), my good old '49er buddy
Are you sure it was in the gymnasium? I thought it was in the
auditorium; I can almost picture where I was sitting. Now, how's
that for a memory?
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
My '55 class ring has a mushroom cloud. My cheer leading sweater
has an airplane on the back. I didn't realize my possessions
were subject to controversy! I had never heard of "Days Pay"
until reading it in the Alumni Sandstorm, and had always
considered "The Bomb" as our representative mascot. The saga
continues...
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA
Beautiful colors and crisp football weather.
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Hanford Construction Camp website
http://richlandbombers.1944.tripod.com/44HCC/1944HCC.htm
Hi Maren, Your website about the Hanford Construction Camp was
very interesting. The figures of how much food was prepared for
each meal was hard to believe.
These must have been the men who were working there who were
single with no families. Is that right?
Is there any record of what the average hourly pay was during
this time frame which is the late 1940s and the early 1950s? I
know the monthly rental for the houses in North Richland were
around $40.00 a month, depending on the size of the home. My
sister told me that she remembers the monthly rent for our
duplex was $40.00 a month. I wonder what the monthly space rent
for the trailer park was? We lived in North Richland from 1948
through 1952 and I remember that all the trailer spaces had
wooden awnings but I read that in the early days that there were
no awnings of any kind. I didn't know that.
How much did each of the meals in the mess hall cost? It was
interesting to see the meal ticket card and how it was punched.
If any of the people reading this can answer my questions, I'd
love to hear from you. My e-mail address is
mrogers@thevision.net
Thanks in advance.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Michael RAGLAND ('57)
Re: Bomber name
Like many of you, my family moved to Richland somewhat late in
the game. We did not arrive until the flood of 1948, even though
my Dad had been working there for a year or more prior to his
being able to obtain a pre-fab on Wilson street for the family
to move into. We backed up to the bus area at the time, then
later moved to Wright street in a ranch house.
In any event, try as I might I cannot remember a plane being on
the backs of the cheerleader uniforms, even though I attended
nearly every sporting event. Perhaps that was because I never
concentrated on the back of the cheerleaders. I never heard of
"Days Pay" until I read of it in the Alumni Sandstorm
controversy. I do remember that we were always proud Bombers and
even though we were acutely aware of the atomic bomb (remember
the bomb drills in grade school where you got beneath your desk
and crouched with your head covered), never once in high school
did we worry about the source of the name. Of course, I didn't
get there until fall of 1954 and the Bomber tradition was well
established. Never even heard of the Beavers in the context of a
school mascot.
I guess the bottom line is this; Burt and Ray, I really don't
care where the name came from. The industry created materials
that were used to build atomic bombs. Somewhere along the line,
everybody gave a day's pay to build a bomber that was sent to
Europe. Nothing changes the unique community that is the Bomber
nation, regardless of some minute fact about the origin of the
Bomber name. While the debate is entertaining, we will never
really know for sure (except for the two of you) and nothing
will change our heritage as Bombers. I will never forget my
youth in Richland nor my experiences (both joyful and painful)
growing up in this community. We are Bombers forever no matter
how far we wander from our homeland. There can never be another
Bomber Nation, as it was the creation of a unique set of
experiences only facilitated by a top secret, controlled
population, where the secrecy masked for the most part all class
distinctions. Our dads got on a bus every morning and got off a
bus every night.
I did have one classmate, whose father was high in management
and drove downtown to work, tell me that he felt inferior
because his dad did not ride the bus like everyone else.
-Michael RAGLAND ('57)
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>>From: Gloria FALLS Evans ('58)
To: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Memories Of N. Richland And John Ball School
That was the neatest school ever. I have many memories of the
area... lived there from '48 to '59. We lived in a trailer. It
was the biggest park in the world. I hope everyone of my classes
remember it too.
My dad took care of the roads and grounds there. There will
never be a place like it ever.
I am still in touch with some of my friends who lived there.
-Gloria FALLS Evans ('58) ~ Spokane, WA
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
To: Ken ELY ('49)
Sorry Ken. You had a perfectly understandable, slight memory
jog. I believe your Senior year was the first year in the new
Boys' gym thus that was where the '48-'49 Pep Assemblies were
held. Prior to that (specifically Oct. 12, 1945), the gym was
what became the old Girls' gym, with the half-seating on just
the South side. That's why all assemblies were held in the
Auditorium.
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Bombers in Michigan?
I am off to The Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, MI area for 4 days.
Any Bomber alums thereabouts? Will be there Friday, Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday. Will be doing some Special Effects for
Kalamazoo Wings Hockey Saturday night. Since I am using the
Firelinx Omni wireless firing system, we will be taking some
video and stills for publicity use later.
My main reason for going is family business. But I can't resist
the opportunity to light something. :)
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60)
Maren, Billie LAWELL Neth ('55) called and asked that I submit
this meeting notice for her as her email is not working. Please
add to the meeting notices:
Club 40 Board Meeting - Saturday, October 24 at 1:00 PM at the
Richland Red Lion Hotel. Folding party for the DustStorm to
follow the meeting.
Contact: Billie LAWELL Neth ('55), Club 40 Publicity Committee
Thank you
-Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth Lyrics
Re: Richland???
Reading the entries of two of the most dedicated Richland people
I know took me to the lyrics of Stephen Stills song "For What
It's Worth" (You can look them up)
That leads me to a 'grass roots' movement' to change the Mascot
name to... what else? S P U D N U T S! I know that I more
closely resemble a Spudnut these days than a B-17 bomber (Days
Pay) or an atomic bomb.
We are the S P U D N U T S.. The Mighty Mighty S P U D N U T S..
The connotations of '...my high school could blow your high
school up' would be gone. Cheerleaders WOULD have a different
look & the 'fast break' would be gone from the game as the
'water boy' would bring spudnuts to the floor each time-out.
(...with apologies to Ray & Bert)
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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[BEHYMER has spoken... -Maren]
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12 Bombers and Theresa Hammer sent stuff:
Tom TRACY ('55), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Ray LOESCHER ('57), Ferna GAROUTTE ('58)
Susan ERICKSON ('59), Linda LARSEN ('60wb)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Deedee WILLOX ('64)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), Ray STEIN ('64)
Alan LOBDELL ('69), Shannon WEIL ('82)
Theresa Hammer (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jackie RICHMOND ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ECKERT ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark O'TOOLE ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim O'NEIL ('76)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Mr. Dunton –(former Carmichael Teacher)
About spelling, grammar and sentence structure…please remind
those concerned about such that your comments are much in demand
from all of us; and that you have permission to tell them what
I sometimes do…"I kin rede ritin, but I caint rite redin". We
treasure your comments, history and remembrances.
Everyone, including the vocal, instrumental and drama students at
Carmichael, Chief Joseph and RHS who attended Carmichael during
your era will always remember the excellent performances, the
songs, the talent and experience we enjoyed during the early
'50s... even in our cars, circling Cousin Ben's Request Show
By's Drive-In to Korten's sound proof listening booths in uptown
Richland, and finally TV, where we could enjoy the latest hit
parade tunes.
Harley Stell's comments were always "music has a therapeutic
value and have a positive effect on everyone. and Gordon Pappas',
"Our music students help everyone share a deeper appreciation of
the traditions of Columbia High School and our nation."
I remember buying a ukulele at Korten's. My success with it
matched my piano playing capabilities. Mrs. Beardsley, one of
Richland's most patient and kind teachers tolerated my lesson
performances from Book 1. They seemed to be okay, until she
realized I was using the finger positioning numbers instead of
learning the notes. Well, hey; as I reminded my Mom, the notes
were a foreign language and I already knew the numbers and that
many famous painters had many works copied by the number. Mom was
not amused. Mrs. Beardsley realized that basketball practice was
a better option. I reminded Tony DURAN ('55) about my ability
with numbers and capability of dismissing piano lessons. He
continued through his lessons with Mrs. Beardsley, to become
a talented musician and one of RHS' finest trumpeters. I
was grateful to the dear Mrs. Beardsley for her patience,
understanding and helping me with support an acceptable option
to piano lessons. The music world will never know, nor long
appreciate the value of what it was able to avoid.
I always enjoy the great performances of others and highly
respect the dedication and effort required for vocal and
instrumental events. Favorites are the performances I was able to
witness in Boston by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Symphony . His
group was almost as good as our RHS orchestras during the '50s.
I never told him so, because he was noted for not talking to
admiring people after performances. Someone once entered his
dressing room after a concert and remarked, "I'm one of your
best fans"... He replied, "Then why aren't you still out there
clapping and cheering"? He also reminded us that most audiences
are usually applauding themselves... for recognizing the songs.
I loved Fiedler, a lover of all kinds of music. He was a fire
chaser... and for one of his birthdays, the City of Boston gave
him a Fire Engine... He drove it to work on several occasions.
Fiedler would have been pleased if he could have seen our music
programs in Richland. Vive la Bomber Musicians.
To: Ray Stein, Burt Pierard and others:. Thanks for the inserted
articles and references about icon preferences, loyalties and
traditions.
It's interesting to learn about all of them and the snippets of
history, archival, near-apocryphal, personal memory, preferences,
declarations, condemnations, and sometimes embellished
recollections of various loyal contributors. It takes decades
to build traditions. Lots of them are worth keeping. In the
Sandstorm article someone attached, was the notable comment
about RHS football and Famous Club 40 pioneer, Dick McCOY, ('40s)
Beaver, Bronc, Bomber, "inserted into the lineup, who helped slow
the Pasco offense". Dick is still one of our heroes-being a 3B
makes him a "triple threat".
My first view of the Bomb and the team was as a 3rd grade student
in Prosser's Elementary School. That year RHS coach Barker's
(father of Jan BARKER ('55)) team came to Prosser's gym. Gene
CONLEY ('48) performed the first "dunk shot" I ever saw. The gold
warm-ups and classy team were a compelling attraction along with
the Bomb-on-wheels that carried a towel rack and basketballs. It
had a special meaning when Dad said, "Remember when we lived in
Los Angeles and we drove down to San Diego to watch your Uncle
John's ship come home? Well that "blockbuster bomb" was the thing
that kept him from having to help land more troops on Japanese
beaches, like he did in the Iwo Jima and other places." "The
explosive stuff was made in Richland". The next year we moved to
Richland... and I had already "bonded to the Bomber name, The
Bomber basketball rack, The Bomb, the team, The Fission symbol,
Day's Pay, the Cloud, and any new symbol that represented
Richland and RHS. You name it and I'll add it to my box of
collectibles.
So, take your pick or combination, whether you're an Atom,
Atomizer, Beaver, Bomb, Bronc, Cloud, Bomber, Day's Pay fan or an
RHS Wannabe, it's Richland's unsurpassed spirit of the students,
educators, parents, government, private industry, and community
unity that remains paramount IMHO. What a composite opportunity
to grab off a couple of new icons for the famous Bomber
Community. Why "ration" the "Bomber Nation?"
Our finest hours are when we support loyalty to some aspect
of Bomber Tradition, whether large or small. Our alumni are
passionate about maintaining the 1st, 2nd and all the rest of the
amendments to the Constitution. We could probably add another one
as well... that reads: "Here in America Richland Alumni can say
whatever they think... and even if they aren't thinking... they
get to say it anyway"! (excuse me while I dust off my RHS icons,
arrange my mascots, annuals, emblems and memorabilia.) Oh, and I
forgot the amendment that allows RHS cheerleaders, song leaders,
majorettes, and pep club the special right to bare arms. As long
as you're an alumni, RHS friend, or a wannabe... even if you're
wrong, speak up and exercise your RHS rights. Keep the faith.
Bomber bests to all.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: New Grade School Pictures on the '56 website
http://richlandbombers.1956.tripod.com/gs/56JB5th-Daugherty.html
http://richlandbombers.1956.tripod.com/gs/56JB6th-Hensley.html
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Ray LOESCHER ('57)
Re: More Memories
I went to the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History in
Washington, DC about 7 or 8 years ago. There, in an area
dedicated to important happenings of the '40s, was a display
case containing our high school flag with the mushroom cloud.
Kinda made you proud to be a Bomber. How many other high schools
have their flag in the Smithsonian?
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/smithsonian.html
-Ray LOESCHER ('57)
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>>From: Ferna GAROUTTE Hicks ('58)
Re: North Richland
I remember living in the little trailer for about a year... The
table made into one bed and the couch was the second bed. I do
not know how my mother kept her sanity. All of us kids in the
neighborhood decided to make our own swimming pool. We dug a big
hole under the clothes lines and then tried to carry water from
the bath house. But of course the water just soaked into the
sand... So we covered the hole with cardboard and covered that
with sand. It was suppose to be our club house but that ended
with the first mother falling through. Great memories.
-Ferna GAROUTTE Hicks ('58)
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>>From: Susan ERICKSON Kuntz ('59)
Re: Wenatchee/East Wenatchee Bomber Lunch
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-NCW/00.htm
Donna NELSON ('63), and I hosted a fun, but small lunch Saturday,
the 17th, at Applewood Grill in Wenatchee. Peg SHEERAN Finch
('63) and Gene HALL ('48) joined us for some lively conversation.
I shared the fun I had at my 50th reunion, Gene talked about
being active with Club 40, Peg talked about her family and some
of the goings on this past year, and Donna is so happy to be
retired, she is planning the rest of her life. :)
Respectfully submitted by...
-Susan ERICKSON Kuntz ('59)... Forever a Bomber
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>>From: Linda LARSEN Wheaton ('60wb)
Re: 2 New Grade School Pictures on the '60 website
http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB1st-Pugh.html
http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB2nd-xx.html
-Linda LARSEN Wheaton ('60wb)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Current Portland/Vancouver Bomber Lunch
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-PDX/00.htm
Our October 17 lunch in Vancouver was fun. We had a good visit
and got caught up on a few stories.
We also made the decision to have our Portland/Vancouver Area
Christmas Party:
WHEN: Saturday, December 5
WHERE: Beaches Restaurant on the Columbia River - in the Sun Room
1919 S.E. Columbia River Drive - Vancouver, WA 98661
Located just one mile east of I-5 on Highway 14.
Take Exit #1 – Drive straight to the river and into the
parking lot. It's very easy to find.
TIME: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
XMAS FUN: Bring a gift for the White Elephant exchange event
ALL Bombers and their friends and family members are Welcome. We
will be in the Sun Room, which is set up well for socializing.
Please bring photos & yearbooks to show, and some stories to
tell. Bring a gift for the White Elephant exchange event. Your
lunch is your choice off of the regular menu.
We need a confirmed count for the restaurant, so… PLEASE RSVP
to: Tom Hemphill
360-574-1963 / 360-609-5477 - tom@hemphillironworks.com
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Harry S Truman Trivia
My husband, who is a great guy (except for being a bulldog
instead of a Bomber), has the middle name of D. His grandfather's
name was Daniel and they think that's what he intended, but he
was drunk and didn't fill out the forms correctly. He later snuck
mom and baby out of the hospital without paying the bill. Just
a little bulldog trivia... but a good story for the family
genealogists.
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Hang in there, girl! Or as Kay Arthur (an awesome Bible teacher)
would say, "Hangeth thou in there, oh baby!" You are definitely
in my thoughts and prayers. I am praying for God's hand to heal
your body and that He will carry you through this awful time.
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA where the days have
been cool, but not really cold yet.
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Atomic Frontier Days in '50s Richland (76 Photos)
Re: It's a Small Small World...
(3) members of a WSU business class came to the office today to
work on a class project. One of the college seniors was a 2005
Richland Bomber. She was able to confirm 'Spudnuts' to fellow
office workers. We swapped stories along with sharing 'family'
names of those families we both knew.
-Gary BEHYMER ('64) ~ Colfax, WA
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: Jenny PARCHEN Gable ('64 - RIP)
I was saddened to read about the passing of Jenny PARCHEN Gable
('64-RIP). It kind of jolts you back to realize the important
things in life when you see that another classmate is gone. We
weren't close friends, but she was a part of those school years
from Jason Lee to Chief Jo to Col-Hi. I felt bad when I saw she
lived the last part of her life in Richland. I know some don't
want to be visited under those circumstances, but I do think they
enjoy a call or a card. I wish I had made contact.
On another subject, Burt PIERARD ('59) and I are back to shouting
insults at each other only via private email. My apologies to
anyone who might have been offended, especially to those whose
scroll keys weren't working.
-Ray STEIN ('64)
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>>From: Alan LOBDELL ('69)
Re: Military Service
To: John ADKINS ('62)
Is there somewhere a person can check on who you already have on
the military list so we don't send duplicates?
-Alan LOBDELL ('69)
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>>From: Shannon WEIL Lamarche ('82)
Re: Larry's Special Effects
To: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
You might find a new aspect to your business in the film industry
here in Michigan, Larry. The remake of "Red Dawn" has been
blowing up various parts of Detroit for over a month now. I am
currently producing a feature film based on the book and true
story "Child P.O.W." by A.L. Finch, who is from Tacoma. If you're
interested, stay in touch with me - at some point in the next
year or so, we'll be blowing stuff up, too!
-Shannon WEIL Lamarche ('82)
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>>From: Theresa Hammer (NAB)
Did YOU work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR PARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR GRANDPARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Do you KNOW SOMEONE who worked at Hanford/PNNL?
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) is a federal law passed by Congress in July, 2001.
The intent of the law is to award medical and/or monetary
compensation to workers in the Atomic Weapons Industry in the
event the worker developed an occupational illness caused by
exposure to a toxic substance at a Department of Energy (DOE)
facility. There are over 370 DOE sites around the country
covered by this law – including Hanford and the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) - and the law is retroactive to 1942.
If the worker is deceased, survivors can be awarded the
compensation. Survivors include (in order of eligibility):
o Surviving spouse
o Children of the worker
o Parents of the worker
o Grandchildren of the worker
o Grandparents of the worker
The Hanford Resource Center was established by Congress to assist
the Department of Labor with the claim process.
CONTACT: The Hanford Resource Center toll-free at 888-654-0014 or
email hanford.center@rrohio.com
-Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/24/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45, '46, '01), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Bonnie STEEBER ('57), Steve CARSON ('58)
Janet FORBY ('60), John ADKINS ('62)
Peggy JOHNSON ('63), Charlotte NUGENT ('64)
Greg ALLEY ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve RECTOR ('69)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45, '46, '02 Loving Bronc, Beaver, Bomber, Husky, old guy)
Re: Heroes
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
I alwaze rede yur ritin. It is so gude ya shude rite fur the
DustStorm. Do as I and get a keyboard, it is much easy.
To: Ray STEIN ('64) and Burt PIERARD ('59)
Stop shouting at each other. No one should shout at "Air Ray",
athlete, educator, Cougar, (Cougar??) oh well, no one is perfect.
Aside, why do the cougs still have that WSC logo? It's supposedly
WSU These days.
Anyway, no one should shout at Burt either, historian, avid
Bomber, web site genius, past prez of Club 40.
To: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64) Tireless worker, all-around genius
Why oh why do we continue with those parens around the grad
(year). That is hunt and peck stuff. See below.
[Parenthesis are for consistency. The apostrophe
before each class year - it replaces "19"/"20" in
the class year - is that so people don't think the
class year is the person's age. -Maren]
-Dick McCOY '45, '46, '02 Loving Bronc, Beaver, Bomber, Husky, old guy.
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Future Class of '60 - Mrs. Bern's 5th Grade Class Picture
http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB5th-Bern.html
I found a boy, Dan McKEE ('60) front row #9. Dan was the son of
some friends of my mom and dad. We have lost contact with the
family and were wondering whether it is possible to find an
e-mail address for Dan. His parents were Hazel and Virgil McKee.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57),
I'm a late bloomer but really wanted to add my 2 cents worth to
older columns.
Re: Pappy SWAN ('59) 9/26 entry "Gong Home"
I was all set to read you the riot act but re-read your 9/26 entry
again and enjoyed it more the second time 'round. Are you a
Gemini? Seems so since you seem to see all the different sides to
a picture! I just wanted to say, "You can ALWAYS go home!" Sure,
there will be changes, the people won't be the same that you grew
up with, but that's part of life. Home is always home, though, no
matter how you find it. It's a feeling! I left Richland over fifty
years ago and all it takes is to get within a few miles of the
Tri-Cities and I feel that I've "arrived!" After living on both
coasts and Europe, my visits "home" were limited while raising
kids. Once they were through school, marriages, etc., I found that
it was now time for me to do the traveling since my parents were
beginning to slow down and it was easier for me to visit them. So
started the annual trips back to "home" territory. Eventually the
class reunions and Club 40 weekends were my excuse to "go home"
since my parents and brother had passed away. Unfortunately, I'm
not a real outgoing personality and I hadn't kept in touch with
school friends, but still enjoyed going and sitting with a few
friends even though I didn't know many others. I always had my
sister-in-law, Janice LUDLOW Steeber ('57-RIP) until this past
April, and she and I were each other's "dates." After attending a
few Bomber lunches in the Tucson and Phoenix areas, I've renewed
or made acquaintances with other Bombers. "Once a Bomber, Always a
Bomber!" Each year, I've looked forward to my Club 40 weekend,
seeing Gus Keeney ('57), "M" DeVine ('52), even meeting you and
your Missus, making my excursions to my favorite place (the park
by the river) and just soaking up that good old Richland air.
After a few days, I always want more but console myself by saying
there's always next year.
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Linda I have never had the fortune to meet you but feel that I
know you a little from your entries in the Sandstorm. You are my
inspiration. You have such a sense of humor and such a fighting
spirit. On September 22nd I was diagnosed with colon cancer, had
surgery on October 8, and I'm now back home waiting to see what my
schedule with an oncologist will be. My husband has been my anchor
(but I'm ready to send him out to the golf course!!!) Everything
has happened so fast. Keep up the fighting spirit! I can relate
to all you're going through. Please share some of those Bomber
prayers with me!
Re: Danny REYNOLDS ('61-RIP)
Very sorry to hear of Dan's passing. My family and the Reynolds
family were neighbors for many years. Gayle Reynolds ('57) and I
were friends for several years, but like other friends, we drifted
apart and went our separate ways. But the parents, Grant and Edna
Reynolds, and the whole family were special people. My condolences.
-Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57) ` from sunny Oro Valley, AZ, just
north of Tucson.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship class of '58)
Re: North Richland
When we arrived in '52 we went on a housing waiting list like so
many others. While waiting we lived in a 27' trailer. My sister
Carol ('60) got the bed created when the "kitchen" table was
converted. I slept on the couch and it was not unusual for me to
wake up with my feet sticking out the door. When we moved to a
ranch on Cedar, the first day we all sat down on the couch until
we realized that we could really spread out a little.
I remember pitching pennies while waiting for the bus to Chief Jo.
Many great experiences that remain with me today.
-Steve CARSON (Championship class of '58)
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>>From: Janet FORBY Padgett ('60)
Re: Mr. Dunton's Annuals
Hi All, I am a former student and neighbor and babysitter for Bill
Dunton and family, just to let Bill know who I am. Yesterday I was
made custodian of Mr. Dunton's annuals from Carmichael Jr. High,
(1948 - 1958) in addition of other artifacts important from that
time in our school history. The Class of 1960 will celebrate 50
years in 2010 and our planning committee is putting in place what
we want to celebrate. I stopped in at Columbia River Exhibition of
History, Science & Technology (CREHST) to ask about access to city
building photos and to get other ideas to use in decorations, etc.
It was just a casual conversation about resources available, when
Ellen Low, Executive Director, mentioned that the museum had
annuals from Richland schools in their archives. I asked if there
were any from Carmichael Jr. Hi and she did not recall seeing any.
So... after this brief visit I promptly drove up the Carmichael,
introduced myself to three gentlemen, as a member of the Class of
1960 Reunion Committee and asked to talk to the Principal. All
three identified themselves as a Principal and I asked if anyone
of them had received a package of annuals from Mr. Dunton. It
turned out I was talking to the right guys, and Mr. Tim Praino
knew all about these books. They were sitting on the work shelf
in his office, just waiting for a home. In addition, he had other
artifacts that may be of interest to CREHST. I have arranged to
meet with the Curator, Connie Estep and Registrar Rene Legler on
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM. I will send an update after
the meeting. Keep those memories of Richland life alive in our
fading minds. I want to have a history to pass on to my children
and grandchildren. I can not remember it by myself. Thank you.
-Janet FORBY Padgett ('60)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers in the military
To: Alan LOBDELL ('69) and others who have asked.
Here is the list (as of 10/23/09) of Bombers that have served in
the Military. Please have a look and if you notice some missing
names let me know who they are.
Every day I get more, so every day the list grows longer.
[John, The list is WAY too long to put in a Sandstorm
entry. When you get it online somewhere, let us know
where it is. -Maren]
Thank You,
-John ADKINS ('62)
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>>From: Peggy JOHNSON Tadlock ('63)
Re: New Orleans trip
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091024-Joh-NOLA.jpg
Photo taken November, 2008 when we [Johnson siblings] were all
in New Orleans for Steve's 60th birthday. We found out that Larry
CORYELL ('61) was playing at a local club so we purchased tickets
and surprised him. It was a wonderful evening and we enjoyed
Larry's performance. We had a nice visit with him when his show
was over.
Re: Boise Area Bomber Lunch
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-Boise/00.htm
The Boise Richland Bomber's Alumni had a wonderful visit at their
luncheon September 26th. We missed all those who couldn't make it
and hope more can attend next time. The lunch was at the Goodwood
BBQ again and as usual the food was great. It is nice to be able
to have these luncheons and catch up with old friends.
-Peggy JOHNSON Tadlock ('63)
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>>From: Charlotte NUGENT Hardy ('64)
Gary BEHYMER's ('64) Spudnut thoughts were soooooooo cute! Thank
you for helping me start my day out so happy. I am helping my
friend with her packing so she can move from New York to Utah in a
couple of days and it has been exhausting so that was refreshing.
I'll be in Richland for two days the first of November. I am so
glad my son and his family are back there again so I can return
and soak up some memories.
Thanks again, Gary.
-Charlotte NUGENT Hardy ('64)
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>>From: Greg ALLEY ('73)
To: Ray STEIN ('64)
Just a note about your sister Judy STEIN Mitchell ('71) and the
plane on her cheerleader outfit. My wife Kathy FEASTER Alley ('75)
was a cheerleader in 1974 and 1975 and she has the rally squad
jacket to prove that the plane was on the back of it. I can`t
vouch for anything beyond 1975 but actually have proof in our
closet.
To: Tom TRACY ('55)
Thanks for the great post about just being a Bomber or Beaver, or
Bronc or whatever. I was born in Richland and will probably live
out my life here and still think the name Bombers is unique. I go
to as many sporting events as I can and even though its not quite
the same as it was, cheering for your home town is still fun. I
hate to still use the term bandwagon but the fans usually come
out for a winning team as in many levels of sports. The Bomber
football team is finishing strong but will not make the playoffs
unless they beat Walla Walla on the road, a tough task.
My last subject is the Bomber campus. The first football game I
went to I walked through campus but now it is in lock down. It's
all gated. I can see it for security reasons and the many events
that have happened at schools across the country. Maybe someone
can shed a light on that. I am just wondering what I need to do to
get to Dawald gym for a hoops game. ASB card, password, retina
scan?
-Greg ALLEY ('73) ~ In rainy Richland and it sure is fall time
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/25/09
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8 Bombers and Bill Dunton * Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Bill BERLIN ('56), Darlene TRETHEWEY ('56wb)
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), Mike BRADY ('61)
John ADKINS ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Linda REINING ('64), Ray STEIN ('64)
Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
Don Sorensen (NAB),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara Franco ('67)
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>>From: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Back from China
I have been going to China since 1981 and man and boy, every time
I go back there are more changes. This is the first trip in over
two years and the changes every time, two years or six months
later are amazing. We visited two of my favorite Chinese cities
of Dalian and Qingdao, home of Tsingtao Beer. Qingdao was the
venue for sailing and some rowing for the 2008 Olympics so we
visited the location for those events and they were first class.
Think there is not money in China? We saw six marinas, or Yacht
Clubs, with all kinds of 50 to 75 foot yachts in them, all owned
by Chinese people.
As always the food is outstanding and very wholesome and if it
were not for the copious quantities of beer, a guy could sure lose
some weight eating this way. The annual Qingdao Beer Festival, a
total copy of Munich, beer tents and ohm-pah music to boot, just
finished and more than a million people attended. The Chinese have
a great sense of humor so when they asked my why I had come to
China, I replied, "...just bringing my clothes back home..." and
they loved it. The also wanted to know if I had a Chinese name and
I said I did... Yao Ming... also a hit with them.
It was good to get back and see old friends and meet new ones.
I gave an hour economics lecture at a friend's class at the
University of Shanghai, all in English. Half an hour of topic and
the balance of the hour, actually an hour and a quarter, for Q &
A. It was great and when we were through, the students took the
Professor and me to lunch. My friend is a Canadian, former Air
Canada pilot and former Economics professor at the University of
British Columbia that just loves Shanghai. Enough geography lesson
for now.
Re: Cool guy from Lynden going to WSU
A good student, fine receiver of football and probably an All-
Conference player from Lynden, WA is going to WSU. So what you
say? A lot of guys from Lynden have gone Cougar on us so what is
the big deal with this guy? His name is Brian Bomber!!! He just
went to the wrong high school
Re: My Heroes
I have always had heroes ever since I was a little guy and the
list grows ever so slowly over 70+ years. My first heroes were the
military as my Dad was in the Army and during War II I was based
with him at Camp Roberts, CA and got the run of the camp, fired
some light weapons, flew in a T-5, which challenged me to learn
to fly, and all kinds of neat stuff. I subsequently added the U.S.
Coast Guard, which is what I joined, the U.S. Navy, which brother
Bruce (Kennewick '61) joined and the U.S. Marines because of a lot
of close association with them over the years, especially in Nam.
Big, big, big on my heroes list are the men and women of the U.S.
military. Later in life I added to my hero list the police and
fire fighters given their laying their lives on the line for us
every day.
The latest addition to my heroes list are cancer patients
and those going through chemo. Four years ago I had to take
Vancomiocyn via IV and at $400 per session at home or zero cost at
the local Infusion Center, guess what I took? There were probably
a dozen or more reclining chairs in the room and for most of
the time I was the only non-chemo patient there. I was mighty
impressed with the sense of humor I got there, so being kind of a
card, I shared a number of jokes that I have in my portfolio and
they shared back. We had fashion shows with hats or caps only, a
skit or two and a lot of talk, coffee and cookies. The whole time
there I was blessed not to have cancer but those there became
my new hero group. Linda REINING ('64), keep up the humor because
if you lose that in times like this, you lose it all. Best of luck
because you have made my heroes List.
Re: Sandstorm perspective from a Blanchet grad
Recently whilst in China my traveling associate needed to use my
laptop and one afternoon I left the Sandstorm on the screen for
him to see. Actually with the time difference, the Sandstorm came
to me in the afternoon, which was kind of weird but appreciated
just the same. He was amazed because I guess that Blanchet sends
out an alumni e-news once a month but to get a daily just blew him
away. He even said that "...it really seems like a lot of these
Richland people actually have a life too..."
-Bill BERLIN ('56) ~ Anacortes, WA "East, west, home is best."
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>>From: Darlene TRETHEWEY Dunning ('56wb)
I haven't written to the Sandstorm in quite some time, but I
always like to read & reminisce!!
Talk about going to Carmichael... no mention of the 7th graders
that had to go the first year I believe to Marcus Whitman as
Carmichael wasn't big enough for all. I had been going to Spalding
in the 6th grade, which had two 6th grade classes, one of which
went to Carmichael & the other to Marcus Whitman. The class that
went to Marcus Whitman was not happy as we felt we were big kids
too & had to stay with the little kids & miss out on some of the
fun that the rest of the 7th graders were going to enjoy. Oh to
bring back some of those memories.
-Darlene TRETHEWEY Dunning ('56wb)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: John Ball School Crossing Guard
http://richlandbombers.tripod.com/1940s/48/1948-49JB-CrossingGrd.htm
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Mike BRADY ('61)
Re: Mrs. Bern's class
I counted 34 kids in Mrs. Bern's 5th grade class. That's a lot of
kids for one teacher. I wonder if most classes were that large in
those days. We did have art, music, physical education teachers
and librarians to assist them. Regardless of class size, we got an
excellent education.
-Mike BRADY ('61)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers In the Military
I have placed the file "Bombers in the Military" in an HTM file on
a web server.
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/bombersinthemilitary.htm
Have a look at it - see if it jogs your memory and you think of
others that should be added.
The list is by class so you should have a reasonably easy time
finding what you want.
Because this file is an ongoing "work in progress" it will be way
out of date within a few days. So I will very likely remove it
within a week or two. If you changes, additions or just want to
make comments, feel free.
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Re: WSU logo
To: Dick McCOY ('45)
With some imagination, by focusing on the lower jaw you can almost
see a U in the WSU Cougar logo. At least, that was the rationale
extended to me when I attended in 1963-'64-'65, shortly after that
change occurred. No one wanted to expend the emotional energy it
would have required to foist a new logo upon the alumni, not to
mention the hard cash for thousands of cases of paper products and
all the clothing, cougar paraphernalia and mementos that would
have had to be replaced, and the untold person-years of time and
arguing involved in designing a new logo.
To: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
While it is easier for me to pray for something/someone when I
am emotionally invested - Linda REINING ('64) was a next door
neighbor for a couple of years before we moved to Jason Lee
territory - I will now include you in my prayers so that Linda
doesn't have to pass those to you. If you want to increase my
emotional investment, just send me some more information about
yourself and your needs, whether illness or other.
Regards, ecb3, from a nice, but wet, fall day in
central Virginia with ridiculous numbers of leaves
being plastered to the ground by the rain; 2.5 acres of
oaks/poplars/maples/etc. generate over 25 loads per
year in my 32-bushel leaf collector.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
Re: cancer/prayers
You will definitely be in prayers and many Bombers will be adding
to them. I have been very lucky - have received many more prayers
than I ever thought possible - Bombers are a wonderful group - we
can't be explained - we just are! We are unique and came from a
unique time and place. Sorry to hear of your diagnosis, but you
will make it - Jim Hamilton ('63)has been a great source of
inspiration for me - he has already walked this journey and his
input on chemo and the side effects were a great help to me - you
will go to a place you never thought possible, but you will come
out, stronger than you ever thought possible, too. Keep close
contact with your oncologisit - I have two of them and call them
constantly. My daughters have been with me through this and I
don't think I could get through it without them - I live with my
oldest daughter and her family, so she has really been "put
through the wringer", but she keeps telling me it's just "pay
back" for raising her and her sister. Take care, Bonnie, you will
come through this.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ cooler temps have
arrived in Bakersfield, CA - woohoo, am a "happy camper". *grin*
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
To: Dick McCOY ('46)
Relax Dick, I'm not hollering at Burt PIERARD ('59). As my wife
said awhile ago and again yesterday, "Ray, you and that Burt
fellow must be the only people in the world that argue about this
stuff". See, I need Burt.
I just like a puzzle. For example, when I look at page 4 of that
Oct. 19, 1945 Sandstorm, my eyes immediately go to the "I Hear.."
column. There towards the end it says, "Dick McCoy alias Daniel
Cooper . .".
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/BvB/1945-10-19-SS-P4.jpg
Most of you know that famous alias as D. B. Cooper. The "B" of
course came from Bronc, Beaver, or Bomber, your choice. Now, some
may jump to the conclusion that our McCOY might be that 1971 plane
hijacker that presented himself as Dan Cooper and parachuted out a
plane with $200,000. But, you're too late, there's already a book
out on the subject.
see: D. B. Cooper: The Real McCoy
also see: http://www.ldsfilm.com/movies/DBCooper.html
-Ray STEIN ('64)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
To: Janet FORBY Padgett ('60)
Janet, I knew I was doing the right thing by giving Maren the
information about those annuals. And I am so pleased that they
are going to get a home where they are really wanted. Have often
thanked whatever controls my destiny for aiming me at Richland way
back in 1949, and giving me the opportunity to start my teaching
career in a place as marvelous as Richland. Went to a dinner last
evening at Disneyland honoring "Teachers of the Year, Orange
County," and was relating my excitement about going to Richland
and another of my board peers told me he had visited Richland to
try to sell General Electric one of the products his company was
manufacturing. Long story short -- he in turn raved on and on
and about being in Richland was like being in a small town again
because everybody was so helpful and friendly. It really is a
small world. I've been on the Board with him since 1992, and until
last night never knew about his Richland trip!
At any rate, Janet, thanks for telling me about what happened to
the Cougars I sent back to Carmichael. I was afraid they would be
recycled!
-Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another installment of 6
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091025-434-438.htm
To: All Bombers
Model Shop 700 Area(?), scale model of reactor pump houses,
criticality model, new patrol suits, ?, Patrol Firing range South
end of Gable MTN. (Maren I know the pic numbers are not in order.
I realized the first three I had already sent)
To: Bill Dunton (Former Carmichael Teacher)
The black family that moved in do you remember their names? Did
you live on Smith Street? Also Lila Hildreth used to be Enrico
Fermi's secretary when she worked in Chicago. She was Lila Krug
then. I would guess Norton met her there.
To: Betty Lou CONNER Sansom ('52)
Nice to hear from you. Ever remember the woman who told the story
of her time in the Japanese Prison Camp?
To: Janet FORBY Padgett ('60)
Would you please send me an e:mail. I have some stuff you might
find interesting. We have talked about this before.
To: both Ray STEIN ('64) & Burt PIERARD ('59)
I have found the debate very informative!! I am not a Bomber as
you well know. But I understand tradition and have a strong
fondness for it. The R Cloud should not go away. In the future
folks will try to change it, that's inevitable. A solid foundation
has to be maintained to keep that erosion at bay. As far as Home
of the Atomic Bomb well I think Los Alamos and Oak Ridge might
have a word or two concerning that. But it is the Home of the
BOMBERS that is a fact no one can dispute.
Respectfully,
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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9 Bombers and Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Betty McELHANEY ('57), "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Myrna BOLIN ('63), Dennis Hammer ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Shannon WEIL ('82), Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sally SHEERAN ('58)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (Tin Can Class of '45)
To: John ADKINS ('62)
I do have a couple of adds to your military. Merle D. LA GROW
('44) was in the Army and killed in WWII. Also, Hilbert ASKEW
('45) was in the Army and MIA in Korea. After this much time, it
is realistic to assume he is dead. However, I do not know if that
is official. I am going to put my American Legion on the case and
see if he has been declared dead. That could have happened and we
wouldn't know if his family lives elsewhere.
To: Earl BENNETT ('63)
I don't there was concern for the jackets etc. or the money (tho
maybe), the WSU logo wasn't changed because it is so cool.
Everyone recognizes it.
To: Ray STEIN ('64) you detective, you. I am found out. Yes,
Daneil Cooper was my alias in those days. When the D. B. Cooper
story came out I read that a certain McCoy guy was a suspect. I
was worried that the old Richland Cops would put the coincidence
together, and I would be in deep trouble. That never happened.
However a few old friends called.
Maren SMYTH ('64) I never asked that the apostrophe be removed,
that item is necessary. I was after the parens. You presume the
year is parenthetical, I feel it is a add to the name. I checked
the UW and EWU newsletters neither of which use parens. But you
are the boss. However, when describing a year of class, no parens
should be added, (as below).
-Dick McCOY from the Tin Can Class of '45
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: John Ball Elementary School - North Richland
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
Smilin Jack, aka Jack SMITH ('55wb), forwarded a picture to me of
John Ball School. I don't know where he got it from. [He found it
online -- it was submitted to the Alumni Sandstorm in 2005 by Gary
BEHYMER ('64). I added it to the John Ball website. -Maren] I was
happy to see this picture because it always seemed to me to be
bigger than this (I thought it had more than 12 Quonset huts but
this picture proves me wrong.) If you notice, the two quonset huts
on the far right of the picture are larger than the others. I
don't remember that.
[Can anyone tell us which direction the camera is pointed
in the picture? I looked for John Ball School here:
http://richlandbombers.1944.tripod.com/44HCC/1944HCC.htm
but don't see it. Maybe somebody can help us. -Maren]
Re: Another Question
I think I went to Chief Joseph for my 8th grade but am not sure.
Do you know if John Ball only went to the 7th grade? I know I
took a Spanish Class in my 7th grade year and had to take a bus
somewhere else. But, I can't remember where I went during my 8th
grade. Isn't that strange?
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57)
Re: Don Sorensen picture #237
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091025-437-Who.html
Thank you so much for picture # 437. I was hoping that one would
come up someday. That's my Dad, Allen S. McElhaney, Sr. He was the
model for the new uniforms. The picture was in the Hanford News
and I have a copy some where and will have to try and find it. He
was the father of Allen Steve McELHANEY, Jr. ('53), Sue McELHANEY
Stewart ('54), and me, Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57). The picture
was on the wall at 200 East Patrol Headquarters and was hoping
that someday I could get it. The other men in the picture look
familiar but can't put a name to the faces.
-Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
To: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
Re: Pappy SWAN ('59) 9/26 entry "Going Home"
Bonnie, you wrote: "I was all set to read you the riot act but
re-read your 9/26 entry again and enjoyed it more the second time
'round. Are you a Gemini? ..."
According to someone, who once did one of those astrology reading
things for me, "they" said that with a birth date of 1 July (3
days short of being born a firecracker), I was a Cancer, but also
something about "Gemini rising," and I am married to a Gemini. So
apparently, some of that Gemini "stuff" may have rubbed off on me.
And you said: "Seems so since you seem to see all the different
sides to a picture!"
Well, I do try to see the different sides, ... but, at times,
pictures do come with some distortion, and thus, understanding
may become ... somewhat trying. But, I certainly agree with you,
"You can ALWAYS go home!" Some may not want to, some may remain
indifferent, but I think for many of us, as we grow older, "going
home," for us, becomes more of a brief visit to a special place in
our own personal "memory bank," regardless of the reality of the
changes in physical place and people, we may find when we get
there.
One can think of many concepts of "Home." For example, living near
"Bomberville," I can "go home," physically, within a few minutes
of driving. However, "Home" in that sense, while still right
there, has changed ... greatly. But, I like you, have found that,
"Eventually the class reunions and Club 40 weekends were my
excuse to "go home"..." And so, through "Alumni Sandstorm," class
reunions, and the annual Club 40 gatherings, I can periodically
find my own special place, in my own mind, where I can reunite and
recall the things that mean a lot to me. "Semper Bomberus" and,
"Once a Bomber, Always a Bomber!"
And, Bonnie STEEBER Frasca, you are a good lady! I knew that, when
you sought me out ... to share the story of "Ginny, the little dog
who saved cats," with me. So, always believe that there is always
... a next year, for going home! I am not overtly religious,
but there has to be a higher power, since, even as a schooled
Zoologist, I cannot accept that this great natural world just kept
progressively reinventing itself after it POOFED out of a cloud of
gas, once upon a time, without some divine help. And, so, in my
own way, I too, will say some of those Bomber prayers for you and
some of our fellow Bombers! Get well soon Bonnie! R2K+10 and club
40, 2010 are not really that far off, since time seems to now
accelerate, as the years add up. There must be some "Murphy's-
like" rule about, "The older one gets, the faster time flies," or
something... Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing you again, on
the next round of "Going Home" again.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA, where hunting season
has begun, I'm finding fewer birds, but missing even them,
and my "big" pups look at me like they're thinking, "After
all that work, how about you doing your part?"
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>>From: Myrna BOLIN Turner ('63)
Re: 1960 Cougar Yearbook
I asked my '63 classmates for a 11960 Carmichael year book and got
this response from Carole SLEDGE Jones ('63):
Myrna, the yearbook you asked about is the year 1960
and it has a cartoon cougar on the front in a hula
skirt and a lei. Picture a big Z; the top says 1960,
the line zigzagging down has the dancing Hawaiian
cougar in the middle of it (he's turned sideways), and
the bottom of the Z says COUGAR.
On the inside it says....
The 1960 Cougar greets Hawaii
Carmichael Junior High School
Richland, Washington
Carole Sledge, Editor
-Myrna BOLIN Turner ('63)
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>>From: Dennis Hammer ('64)
To: Dick McCOY ('45), Earl BENNETT ('63), and fellow Cougars everywhere
Re: WZZU logo
While attending WSU ('66-'68) I was in a room with a few other
guys one evening. One of them was in ROTC and apparently they
were told to sand down their white helmets so that they could be
repainted. He was sanding away and started noticing something
underneath the paint. He kept working on it and was able to
sand off the last layer of paint without disturbing the image.
Apparently the top layer of paint was much softer because it
didn't take him long and it did not disturb the decal. It was the
same Cougar head logo but WSC instead of WSU. We all knew it had
been WSC, but did not know that they had modified the logo. The
mouth of the Cougar was formed by the "C," which was then reshaped
into "U" and turned it up. So there was a modification to the
logo, it just was not a very big one. However, I do believe there
has been another modification since them. It seems to me the "U"
was shaped different and had the seirf on it like the "W" still
does. Needs some more research, guess have the check my junk in
storage or go to a WSU Library. Online search shows only what is
in use now.
To: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Patrol Firing range
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091025-439-Who.html
Ah yes, the good old Thompson submachine gun. (looks like a see an
ejected shell in the air) I got to fire one once in the Navy. That
was a kick!!! Sure would like an opportunity to do that again. Too
bad the only thing I had for a target was the Pacific Ocean, but
hey, I hit it every time.
Which reminds me of this: I had a suit make in Hong Kong on that
last cruise. Double breasted had come back in style so I had one
made of dark blue cloth with pin stripes, double breasted, wide
lapels and had the buttons covered in the same material as
the suit was made of. Not that I am a "dedicated follower of
fashion," but double breasted soon went out of style again. I
had in mind using it as a Halloween costume. Getting a wide tie,
a big flower to pin on the lapel, an appropriate hat, scrounge
up a violin case to carry, and go as a 1920's gangster. One should
avoid having clothes made in Hong Kong because they use material
that shrinks over time. Every year that suit kept getting smaller
and smaller until before long I could no longer get into it. Same
thing happened to my old Navy uniforms.
-Dennis Hammer ('64) ~ Kennewick, where there was frost on the
pumpkins at the store last night.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Heroes
Thanks for including me in your list of heroes, but am not at all
sure I qualify. I am just walking a journey that lots of others
have walked and for whatever reason we have to walk it. As for
humor at the cancer center. I go, once a month, for my initial
infusion of chemo (then, I come home with a pump that pumps chemo
into my "port", 24 hours a day, for 4 days--pumping 2 milliliters,
every hour), you are right - there are lots of laughs, joking, and
"eats". We are very lucky in that we have a male nurse there who
keeps us laughing and takes excellent care of us.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ higher temps have
returned to Bakersfield, CA - mid 80s predicted for today
(Sunday) and most of next week.
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Re: Don Sorenson (NAB) Photo #439
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091025-439-Who.html
While I do not recognize any one in the photo, I just wanted to
comment on the firepower that these guards are training with.
The Guard in the foreground is shooting a 1927 A-1 Thompson
Submachine Gun, While the 3 Guards in the background appear to be
holding M3 Submaachine Guns.
This is some pretty serious Military Ordnance for guards to be
toting around!
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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>>From: Shannon WEIL Lamarche ('82)
Re: Bomber Annuals
All this talk of annuals made me think of something. If anyone
knows where I can get an extra 1980, '81 and '82 Columbian
yearbook, I know a soldier from my class who would really
appreciate them. I figured if anyone knew it would be my fellow
Bombers!
-Shannon WEIL Lamarche ('82)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 6
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091026-440-445.htm
Office pool?, Same area different direction, 1000th G E Pensioner
(if anybody know who this is maybe the pocket sign is still
around??), looks to me like someone in Accounting. Billing
perhaps??, ?, this ones pretty new late '60s??. Getting to some
numbers about the Hanford Construction Camp. The number of 51,000
workers has seemed to be a common understanding. After reading
some 1944 Construction Progress Reports the number is around 44
to 45,000. With family members 51,000 could have been the camp's
population. The biggest trailer camp in North Richland?? My bet
is Hanford Camp June 1944. After looking up some data this is what
I found. Approximately 145,000 workers have been employed. On
October 1944 the work force was 17,420. 27,676 less from a peak of
45,096 on June 21, 1944. I would wonder out loud if half of the
100,000 who left had stayed would it have made a difference??
Hmmm???
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/27/09
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8 Bombers & Don Sorensen sent stuff
and 1 Bomber and 1 honorary Bomber funeral notices today:
Mary JUDD ('60), Duke CAMPBELL ('61)
Helen CROSS ('62), Mary Ann VOSSE ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Ray STEIN ('64), Julia ALEXANDER ('65)
Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shawn SCHUCHART ('78)
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>>From: Mary JUDD Hinz ('60)
Re: Sorensen's Pictures #440 and #441
To: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Your pictures 440 and 441 were taken very early in the '60s. My
first job at G.E. was working as a Buyer's "Girl" in the 1166
Bldg., the big warehouse known as Stores.
Picture 440 was taken in the "Flexowriter" room. Those ladies
typed all the multiple copied bids that were mailed out to
vendors. The 3rd lady in the row of machines on the left, I
believe is Sandy Rowley. The 2nd lady in the row on the right is
Flora Muse, and the lady standing at the back of the room looks
like my sister-in-law, Nola LOHDEFINCK ('58). She was secretary
to the manager of these two groups.
Picture 441 was taken in the adjacent room where the "key punch"
operators worked. The lady in the back of the row on the right is
Millie Lawrence. I recognize a couple of the other ladies, but I
can't remember their names.
-Mary JUDD Hinz ('60)
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>>From: Duke CAMPBELL ('61)
Re: Sorensen's Pictures #437 & #442
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
In picture #442, the person on the left is Paul Allen (father of
Bombers Paula ALLEN ('60) and John ALLEN ('66), a close friend of
our family. My recollection is that Paul was head of employee
relations or possibly public relations for the Project.
In picture #437, the person on the right (holding the shirt and
tie) is Sam Campbell. Sam was father of Bombers Duke and Judy
Campbell. Sam was Chief of the Hanford Security from the 1950s
to the early 1970s. Sam came to Hanford in 1943. My mother and
I joined him in late 1943 or early 1944 (I was nine months old!).
-Duke CAMPBELL ('61)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: John ADKINS ('62)
Allen CROSS ('59) Washington State National Guard
Robert CROSS ('62) Washington State National Guard
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Please add my prayers for support for you during your cancer
battle. I recently supported a friend of ours who walks in a 3 day
60 mile event yearly to raise funds to defeat breast cancer...
cancer is so prevalent now, but treatment is getting better, I
believe...
Love and prayers,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Grandview, IN where we just celebrated
50 years of worshipping in our building by adding a steeple,
which was in the original plans, but omitted due to funds...
(It was 70° and sunny today around here with lots of leaves
in the yards.)
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>>From: Mary Ann VOSSE Hirst (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: John Ball School
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
Maren,
The photo of John Ball was taken from a plane from above the
river. We lived in North Richland, across the street from John
Ball, in the latter part 1952 while waiting to get a house in
Richland. We left North Richland right before Christmas to a house
on Goethals. Our house in North Richland would have been just to
the right of the school in the picture. There was a section of
VERY small houses in North Richland; I'm sure they were some sort
of prefabs, but seemed very small to me and I was seven. John Ball
was right next to the river. Our house was on the corner of B
Street and (?) Street, and our backyard (if you could call it a
backyard) backed up against the house that faced A Street which
was river-front. The school was across (?) Street from us. I
remember playing after school in the sand bank that went down from
the school toward the river.
In the second photo down that you tried to locate John Ball, it
might possibly be about one inch down on the right side of the
photo.
Of course these are the memories of a then seven-year-old.
-Mary Ann VOSSE Hirst (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ from cloudy,
rainy Lacey, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Going Home again
You're "Murphy's-like" rule about, "The older one gets, the faster
time flies" was put very well in the current issue of "Tidbits."
Not sure this is the exact quote, but it is close: "Life is like a
roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the faster it
goes."
Speaking of Murphy's like rule; would that Pvt. Murphy's rule?
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Aquarius ~ Just dumped some water on the
Tri-Cities yesterday
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: High School Yearbooks...
To: Shannon WEIL Lamarche ('82)
I have a 1981 Columbian that I would donate. Please let me know
his address & I will be happy to mail it from Colfax.
Here is part of my collection (;-)
http://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/UsedHighSchoolYearbook.html
-Gary BEHYMER ('64),
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: WSU Logo
This website shows the old and modified logos and includes a
history on the logo's creation:
http://wsucougars.cstv.com/genrel/070507aad.html
On a related note, is there something similar for our mushroom
cloud coming out of the "R" (the R blast if you will). Someone
wrote that it was designed in, or about 1972 in J. D. Covington's
math class. But I never heard if it was a group effort or the work
of one individual.
-Ray STEIN ('64)
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>>From: Julia ALEXANDER ('65)
Re: John Ball School
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
Maren, I am getting confused... am I correct in remembering John
Ball School was in North Richland (sort of where Battelle is now)?
[I have no idea where Bettelle is now. -Maren]
The picture you have in Marlene LARSEN Hegseth's ('56wb) entry
is of Camp Hanford (many miles away from North Richland). I think
there are some other entries that have confused those two also.
If I remember correctly North Richland became the "home" of the
military that ran and protected the missile silos. Please correct
me if I am not remembering right. After the trailers left the
roads were where a bunch of us learned how to drive.
[I'm hoping Burt PIERARD ('59) will submit a map showing
where everything is in relation to everything else. -Maren]
Bombers Cheers!
-Julia ALEXANDER ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another installment of 6
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-446-451.htm
To: All Bombers
Mid Columbia Symphony?, Federal Building Employee's, seen this one
before K Power Jess Brinkerhoff, Federal Building, ?, Science Center.
To: Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57)
Glad you found your father. Question are you related to the Pasco
Hudspeths? There was a Hudspeth featured in a Hanford Construction
Camp documentary film from 1945.
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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Funeral Notice
>>Jeanne Horton Clement ('66) ~ 10/13/48 - 10/21/09
>>Jeanne Henry Olson - ('?? honorary?) ~ 3/31/55 - 10/6/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/28/09
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15 Bombers and Theresa Hammer sent stuff & 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Nancy RIGGS ('51), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Kenny GARDNER ('54), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Willo Dean EDENS ('56), Donna McGREGOR ('57)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Steve CARSON ('58)
"Pappy" SWAN ('59), John ADKINS ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Tony SHARPE ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Theresa Hammer (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anna May WANN ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul PHILLIPS ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula BERGAM ('60)
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>>From: Nancy RIGGS Lawrence ('51)
Re: Sorensen's pic #441
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091026-441-Who.html
With help from my sister in law, Millie BRESINA Lawrence ('54),
we came up with all but one name: starting on the left, Ruthie
Winchester Shook, Nancy RIGGS Lawrence ('51), Carol Schmidt,
Millie in back and Esther Emmer, the lady on the far right is a
mystery to my memory. Probably taken about 1963, don't remember
anyone ever coming in and taking our picture, so was a big
surprise. Thanks for the memory.
-Nancy RIGGS Lawrence ('51) ~ in rainy Kennewick
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: John Ball School
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
The school grounds, if memory serves, were bounded on the east by
the river bluff, on the north by 7th Street, on the west by "C"
Street and on the south by 6th Street. Putting the school as a
buffer between the two sets of pre-fab houses that were on both
sides of "B" and the east side of "C". It is quite possible that
the west boundary of the school extended to "D". I do know that
"B" did not go all the way to the north, and I'm not sure if "C"
did or not. By the way, just to confuse the issue, there was no
"A" Street. East/West streets in North Richland were numbered
starting at the south end.
The North/South streets were lettered starting with "B" on the
east. I cannot remember how far numerically or alphabetically they
went. I would hazard a guess that the north "city limits" was
about where George Washington Way turns toward Stevens Drive and
the main gate.
All of the houses, and most of the trailer facilities were east of
GWWay. The steam plant, barracks and commercial facilities were on
the west side of GWWay. There were some trailer facilities north
of the "commercial district, with a buffer of warehouses on the
west side along Stevens Drive.
The picture in which Maren was trying to find the school was
actually the even larger trailer camp at Hanford. Not having been
a resident of that community, I couldn't tell you if there was a
school out there.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ trying to keep dry in
Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Kenny GARDNER ('54)
For those who sent me emails lately... could not answer...
was in hospital for 10 days
-Kenny GARDNER ('54)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Check out this picture on the Declassification site
http://www5.hanford.gov/ddrs/common/findpage.cfm?AKey=N1D0034442
It is a picture of some kids riding their bikes on a road (one
side has the little white houses and duplexes and the other side
is the trailer court.)
This must be the road that goes past the front of John Ball
School. How do we find out what the name of that street was? Was
it George Washington Way? I keep hearing people refer to that
street.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
P.S. I know John Ball School was straight south of our
duplex at 901 "B" Street in North Richland.
One winter there was a blizzard and our father walked
to school to bring my sister, Linda ('60wb)and me home
from school. I remember it as if it were yesterday.
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>>From: Dee Wilkerson, aka Willo Dean EDENS ('56)
Re: Sorensen picture #449
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-449-Who.html
The Federal Officer (as they are now called) was my husband;
Noah Lee Wilkerson ("Wilkie"). He was in charge of collecting
Classified Scrap; which was kept under lock, to be taken to be
burned at a special incinerator at Hanford. He was also well known
for the excellent traffic control at the WPPSS intersection during
peek hours. Also well known for the numerous traffic citations
written while on traffic duty. He was raised in Pasco and survived
two wars and passed away this last July, three days after our 54th
year anniversary.
-Dee Wilkerson, aka Willo Dean EDENS ('56)
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>>From: Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57)
Re: John Ball School
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
We moved to North Richland in 1948. We had our name on the list
for a house (a ranch house) in Richland. (They were just being
built.) John Ball School was made up of Quonset Huts with a
hallway running down the middle. The pictures submitted to the
Sandstorm: one was of the Quonset Huts - the other was of non-
Quonset huts (pitched roofs) but arranged in the same way as John
Ball School. Maybe the pitched roof assemblage was something out
at Hanford??? but it was not John Ball School in North Richland.
Bomber Cheers from Espanola, NM where this high desert, a couple
feet higher than Denver, is getting colder by the minute. Brrrrr.
-Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57)
PS. We moved into our brand new Ranch House in January
of 1949, and we just sold it to the 2nd family to ever
live in it this year. Is that 60 years?? oosh.
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Sorensen Picture #449
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-449-Who.html
The security guard in picture #449 is Noah Lee Wilkerson a Pasco
graduate I think. He was married to Willo Dean EDENS ('56). Lee
passed on earlier this spring and was living in AZ at the time.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Re: '58ers Graduation Week Pictures
http://richlandbombers.1958.tripod.com/images/GradWeek-Who00.htm
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Going Home again
You wrote: "You're "Murphy's-like" rule about, "The older one
gets, the faster time flies" was put very well in the current
issue of "Tidbits." Not sure this is the exact quote, but it is
close: "Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get
to the end, the faster it goes." I couldn't have said it better.
Okay Dennis, we're on a "roll" here. So then, if "TP" squares
represented "the days of our lives" (I know, we're talking a lot
of rolls here, but life rolls on and besides, I buy those big
packages at Costco), this could help to explain this acceleration
of the "older life" thing, since some jobs just seem to require
more days than others, and we all know that "the job is never
done, until the paperwork is finished."
And, "Speaking of Murphy's-like rule; would that (be) Pvt.
Murphy's rule?"
Yes, except that my cat, Murphy (who BTW is also aging), is once
again "Pfc. Murphy." I know ... he has been up and down the rank
ladder between Pvt. and L/Cpl. so many times that I had to sew
zippers onto his chevrons. You know we Irish! I think its a "full
o' the blarney" thing. However, Murphy has been doing much better,
by keeping my "Big Girls" in line, and they answer to him with
respect, as if he has become more like the legendary old "First
Shirt" (of the movies, anyway), who constantly loses and gains
stripes, but is still a leader.
Bella/Me'a are coming along in their training, with Bella showing
a little more progress than Me'a in the live-fire field exercises.
She is more serious and constantly reminds me, in so many ways, of
Darby, and will probably be the first to make Pfc. But, Me'a is my
lovable little (Big Chunk) who seems to be still trying to figure
it all out. Both pups now weigh about 70-75 lb, with Bella being
a bit more lanky and Me'a, with shorter legs, is one of those who
will probably fight a weight problem, her whole life. She takes
after dad.
Yesterday, amidst the pouring rain, both girls did an admirable
job of patrolling the yard (with a lot of horse (or big puppy)
play thrown in when Murphy or dad weren't looking) while I sang
hummed "Aquarius" and sang "Rain drops are falling (actually
blowing horizontally) on my head..." while struggling to get my
irrigation line blown ... free of water. Ah, water, water ...
everywhere! This rain keeps coming. I'm really beginning to feel
like a "Coastie," here in eastern Washington.
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where, miraculously,
today "the sun also shines (at least for a while)" and
"I can see clearly now" to catch up on my "pooper
scooper" duties. With two dogs, it can get like a cow
pasture out there ... real quick.
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers in the Military
I want to remind you all again to check out the web site:
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/bombersinthemilitary.htm
to view the current (that is current as of last week end) status
of the list of Bombers in the Military. I have received a good
bit of input based on this file, and sure hope some of you can
recognize more of our Bomber family that should be added.
The list is by class - with the exception that the 1st page
contains the names of Bombers who lost their lives in combat, you
should be able to "scroll" around and find what you want.
Thank to everyone who has responded to date and to those of you
who will shortly.
-John ADKINS ('62)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
I'm not sure if this has the wisdom one would find in a Dan Brown
Novel, but yesterday I found the attached on a bulletin board at
an ice rink here in West Bend, WI.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091028-Ham-WBBombers.jpg
This was an Epiphany for me, as I had kinda always hoped we were
named after the Charlie O'Connell lead Bay Area Bombers. If I'm
wrong, I'm on Raymond STEIN's ('64) side, I always wanted to be
able to say that I'd played on the same team as Ray STEIN.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Tony SHARPE ('63)
Re: Sorensen Picture #449
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-449-Who.html
The lady on the left Luda Castleberry, mother of Jim CASTLEBERRY ('58)
and Joe CASTLEBERRY ('63).
Re: John Ball Student Council Pictures
http://richlandbombers.tripod.com/1950s/1952-53JB-SC.html
The girl in Middle row, #2, of John Ball Student Council looks
to be Karen BREEDLOVE ('63) as in Mrs. Grosenbacher's 4th Grade
future class of 1963 pic.
-Tony SHARPE ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Sorensen's Pictures #451
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-451-Who.html
I don't know who is in the picture, but I do know something about
the equipment shown. The object on the right with the hex-head
nut and the three clamps is a connector for a remotely installed
piping jumper. In the PUREX and other buildings there was a canyon
with tanks and pipe nozzles on the walls and on top of the tanks.
A prefabricated pipe with connectors on each end could be lowered
by an overhead gantry crane into onto these nozzles. Then the
crane would lower an impact wrench onto the connectors. The reason
for the conical shape on top of the hex-head is to help guide
socket of the impact wrench in place. The item in front of his
left hand is the impact wrench that would be used. I had never
actually [seen] the impact wrench, or even a picture of one, but
I recognize it from drawings illustrating how it is done. This
allowed the piping system to be changed as needed; too much
radiation down there to send a pipe fitter to do it.
It seems like for six months to a year I worked nothing but on
designing and drawing plans for jumpers. Each one was different.
We had to calculate the center of gravity of each jumper so it
wouldn't tip while being lowered by the crane. Sometimes we would
have to add a weight, usually made from a section of pipe filled
with lead shot. I heard later that lead could no longer be used. I
guess that lead was more of a environmental concern than the fact
that the whole thing was going to be radioactive when it no longer
used and taken out.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Don Sorensen's Photo #450
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-450-Who.html
That is Sacajawea/Chief Jo/Columbia High's Toni Shepard ('64).
For you FaceBookers she can be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Toni-Shepard-Davis/1459392981
Re: Don Sorensen's Photo #451
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091027-451-Who.html
That is Calvin Welsch who taught at Col-Hi from 1948 to 1970 then
made a move to Hanford High School in 1971. His obituary can be
found at:
http://obit.einansfuneralhome.com/listcurrent
search for Welsch
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Bombers everywhere... film at eleven
Couple a things... first... Ray ('64) and Burt ('59) please never
change... you keep me in stitches.
While I was over in Moro Bay, CA last week I was hitting the
antique stores... I walked into one in a town just to the south
and thought I was at a '63 function... two girls, not nearly as
sexy or beautiful or or or (well how could they... they weren't
Bomber Babes) as our lovely dynamic duo, Ellen and Mary Lou, but
they played off each other to the point where I could have been
with the DD's (that sounds funny... not sure why)... those two
girls acted as if they'd been raised on Johnston in Richland I
swear... but I gotta admit... being at functions with our own two
is always more fun...
Got some news for you Terry DAVIS (Knox "65) fans... I told Jeanie
WALSH ('63) that Terry is making a couple of movies... on the 4th
he'll be in Yuma Arizona making "Renovation" a slasher film in
which he has small role as a newspaper editor. Then on the 24th he
heads for Luxembourg where he will be filming the "Hunters" in
which he plays a Police Chief who helps kidnap people to be hunted
in castles by wealthy "hunters". I understand that Ricky WARFORD
('65) and Lyman POWELL ('65) have agreed to accompany Terry over
for the film. Silly Rabbits... how's it feel to be the hunted!!!!!
Finally, Terry collects and reads old New Yorkers from cover to
cover... he called all excited to tell me to look up the New
Yorker magazine for February 7-16, 2009. At page 56, there is an
article under Personal History Checkpoints by John McPhee, that
discusses life in Richland during WWII. Should make good reading.
He also had to tell me a Kim Delaney story in response to a show
Jeanie had seen him on... I can't really repeat that story here...
but it involved make-up and a headband and tickling... lots of
tickling... nuff said!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Theresa Hammer (NAB)
Did YOU work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR PARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Did YOUR GRANDPARENTS work at Hanford/PNNL?
Do you KNOW SOMEONE who worked at Hanford/PNNL?
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) is a federal law passed by Congress in July, 2001. The
intent of the law is to award medical and/or monetary compensation
to workers in the Atomic Weapons Industry in the event the worker
developed an occupational illness caused by exposure to a toxic
substance at a Department of Energy (DOE) facility. There are over
370 DOE sites around the country covered by this law – including
Hanford and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) - and
the law is retroactive to 1942.
If the worker is deceased, survivors can be awarded the
compensation. Survivors include (in order of eligibility):
o Surviving spouse
o Children of the worker
o Parents of the worker
o Grandchildren of the worker
o Grandparents of the worker
The Hanford Resource Center was established by Congress to assist
the Department of Labor with the claim process.
CONTACT: The Hanford Resource Center toll-free at 888-654-0014 or
email hanford.center@rrohio.com
-Theresa Hammer (NAB)
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Funeral Notice
>>Margene Mallow ('58) ~ 7/3/39 - 10/17/09
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty McELHANEY ('57), Donna McGREGOR ('57)
"Pappy" SWAN ('59), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Robert SHIPP ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: James DAUGHERTY ('70)
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>>From: Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57)
To: Don Sorensen (NAB)
The Hudspeth you are asking about was probably A.P. Hudspeth.
Jon's Father and A.P. got together in the early '50s but couldn't
find any relation. They have to be somewhere along the lines as
there isn't that many Hudspeth's around.
-Betty McELHANEY Hudspeth ('57)
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>>From: Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57)
Re: Trailer camp at North Richland
I hadn't realized that there actually wasn't an "A Street".
Assumed it was there somewhere but don't recall seeing it. So if
that is the case, the lettered streets went from "B Street" to at
least "W Street" and the numbered went from 1-12. Our Grandmother
lived On "W Street".
We lived at 808 F Street. I don't recall for sure, but I think
the lots were 40' x 40'. Much earlier than the advent of the 80
footers. Ours was 22 feet long. We previously had a little Crosley
refrigerator that we put in the trailer and we used the ice box
for a cupboard. I say "we" - of course I had nothing to do with -
just hanging on to the parents' shirt tails. Very memorable.
Bomber cheers, still cold here in the high desert of Espanola, NM.
-Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Class of 1959 Veterans
To: Class of 1959 Veterans, and/or those friends and relatives who
can help provide information.
I have accepted the task of compiling a list of all Class of
1959 Veterans with military service. When completed, as well as
possible, this list will be posted, permanently, on our class
website by Burt Pierard, our class webmaster. I will also provide
the list to John Adkins ('62) for use in his project to compile a
list of "All Bomber Veterans" which will be on display at the All
Bomber (R2K+X) Reunion, to be held over the weekend of June 25 &
26, 2010.
I have sent out two emails to those classmate veterans, for whom I
had an email address, appealing for name, branch of service, years
of active duty and reserve time served (from/to), and highest rank
obtained. And, any additional information regarding the veteran's
service is most welcome and appreciated To date, I believe that
I have identified, with the help of others, about 45 of our
classmates who served.
However, I have received only some full and a lot of partial
information from '59 veterans themselves and/or others. Several
have not responded. To those of you who have responded, we thank
you, but if you have not responded to John Adkins' or my emails,
or if I did not have your email address and you or any of your
friends or relatives should read this, PLEASE HELP by contacting
me via my email address (above).
We also wish to acquire the same information for any of our
deceased veteran classmates, and we have reviewed the obituaries
listed on Maren's obituary link through Sandstorm. Often, these
provide only a brief mention of their service, if any. Therefore,
if any of their friends or relatives should read this, please help
us out with what information you can provide. It is our goal to
provide recognition for all who served.
I will be most grateful for any and all responses to this request.
Until then, and forever, I remain, "Semper Fi,"
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Chisholm's Chariot
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Ham/091029-Heap10-20-61.jpg
Heap of the Weak ~ Sandstorm October 20, 1961
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
Just got back from an long road trip and am slowly catching up on
my Sandstorm back log, so this comment may be a little late.
To: Ray STEIN ('64)
Ray, the mushroom cloud may not have been the "official" mascot
before 1971, but it was definitely associated with the Bombers
when you and I were in school. I, too, remember the plane on the
cheerleaders' (or maybe it was the ) uniforms, but I'm
pretty sure the new band uniforms we got in 1962 had a mushroom
cloud on the back, and my 1964 RHS class ring DEFINITELY includes
the cloud. (I just dug it out and looked at it to make sure my
memory wasn't playing tricks on me again.)
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/30/09
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7 Bombers and Don Sorensen & Andy Purdue sent stuff:
Laura Dean KIRBY ('55), Willo Dean EDENS ('56)
Bill CHAPMAN ('60), James JOHNSON ('60)
Al COFFMAN ('62), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Andy Perdue (Bomber Dad)
Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen COLE ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty PYLE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray STEIN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John THOMPSON ('82)
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>>From: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
I looked for my old Song leader sweater and found only the name
tag and the notes from the front. No Bomb or plane. My class ring
has only an "R" and my initials and a 1955. However, I definitely
remember that the green and gold bomb shell was placed in the
middle of the gym floor prior to every pep assembly. I don't
remember ever hearing anything about "Days Pay" or any other
airplane relating to us as a mascot or team name. I will always
think of us as "Bombers"... mighty mighty proud! I stand by the
cloud.
If you think about how some people want to remove the bomb, cloud
and all in order to be politically correct, and it angers you,
consider the following:
When I was in Illinois, I went into an office for a breathing
evaluation. The therapist there had a picture of a B-17 framed and
hanging on his wall. By this time (2002) I had heard about the
bomber and I asked him if he knew about Day's Pay. This opened a
long conversation about how some people were trying to rid
Richland of that perceived stigma and eliminate the bomb and cloud
from school paraphernalia. He sympathized with me and told me
about the high school where he graduated. It was in Pekin, IL
and because of the similarity, they became sister cities with
Peking, China. The school team name was "The Chinks". At prom and
homecoming dances the royalty would dress in Chinese garb and
proudly walk around the dance floor. By the 1980s the idea of
such a display irritated those who play the correctness game, and
Pekin "Chinks" were forced to become someone else. I believe it
was the "Pups" or similar animal. This doctor didn't like it any
better than I would like it if the "Bombers" were expunged from
our great school history.
The discussion of John Ball was interesting to me. I went there in
1948/'49 school year for my sixth grade. The pictures show the way
it looked at that time. After that the larger Quonset hut was
added to connect the two sets of hallways. It was used as gym,
cafeteria and auditorium. My mother taught first grade at the far
south end and my classroom was the last Quonset on the north east
side. In 1988 I attended the all school John Ball Reunion. My dad
made a mock up of the school and the guests placed statements and
predictions in a "time capsule" which was buried somewhere, I
don't recall. Any information about the school could be verified
by Irene Johnson, whose husband attended class with me in 1948. He
has since passed away, but she could be helpful about dates, etc.
At that time we lived at 807 "U" street and had to wait about two
or three weeks while they cleared the street and formed lots in
the sand. We were one of the luckier families who had a lot close
to the wash house. For those of us who were children at that time,
it was a great exciting adventure unlike anywhere we had ever
lived before. It may have been a hardship on the parents, but the
kids loved it. We lived there less than a year before we rose to
the top of the housing list and took a 3 bedroom pre-fab at 503
Sanford. My mother talked my dad out of selecting a ranch house
because they had no yards and the dust was everywhere. Our yard on
Sanford had two of the original peach trees and still produced
delicious fruit. I was in Carmichael for the seventh and eighth
grades 1949-'51 and because we moved to the other side of town, I
finished Jr. High at Chief Jo the first year it existed. We were
the class that selected the school colors and name. We chose
Warriors because of the school's Indian name. I hear they have
abandoned that moniker now.
Time marches on, things change and they call it progress.
Sometimes I wonder!
-Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Willo Dean EDENS Wilkerson ('56)
Entered: Thursday 10/01/2009 12:57:36am
COMMENTS: Homes in Richland, Yuma, and Motorhome. Catch me where
you can! Grew up on Duane Ave. now called Geothals.
-Willo Dean EDENS Wilkerson ('56)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
Entered: Saturday 10/03/2009 6:57:09pm
COMMENTS: From what I can tell, RHS has one of the most active
alumni websites around. Even though I now live in Southern
California and don't have family any more in the Tri-Cities, I
still hit the website to try to keep "connected."
-Bill CHAPMAN ('60)
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>>From: James JOHNSON ('60)
Re: Richland National Little League All-Stars (1955)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091030-Joh-Base.jpg
-James JOHNSON ('60)
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>>From: Al COFFMAN ('62)
Re: Hanford Declassified Document Retrieval System (DDRS)
http://www2.hanford.gov/declass/
Maren, Folks who are interested In North Richland may find this
[information helpful]
Use the ADVANCED SEARCH - Search for North Richland, North
Richland Construction Camp, anything you want to check out...
It is not a real good copy but it is readable. There are maps of
the camp in pages 40 through 50 which may help the memories for
bombers who lived there. If they down load it to their computer
they can open in its native form with microsoft office document
imaging. Good Luck!
-Al COFFMAN ('62)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Richland Spudnuts Continued...
I received the following in reference to the thought of our mascot
being the SPUDNUTS...
"Gary, I think your suggestion to have Spudnuts as our
High school mascot has some worth, maybe we could have
an honorary Mascot. In fact this new Mascot would have
no question to it's genesis and in fact is a descendent
of Atomic lore! (Gary now rolling his eyes a bit) If
you follow my logic you will agree and this might start
a ground swell of acceptance... First of all Spudnuts
would never be on any list of approved food to lose
weight... And we all know that the atom bomb dropped
on Nagasaki had Plutonium made at Hanford... and some
of us know that the name of this bomb was... drum roll...
"Fat Man." Now if that isn't a direct link to our atomic
roots, I don't know what is! ha!"
Signed, 'Beard' from the Class of 1964
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: He's a Bomber thru and thru
And the battle continues... what's the difference between a B-17
and a Fat Man? Not a darn thing as long as that B-17 is slamming
balls thru that basket... We are the Bombers Mighty Mighty
Bombers... dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun... daaaaaaaaaaaa dun...
da duh duh... (Peter Gun in case you can't hear it in your lil
Bomber head)... State... the Camlin... he took us there and we
loved it and we love him for it... I don't care who wins this
little debate... because we are all green and gold (or curbside
yellow as Jimbeaux ('63) calls it) underneath... I was in Cambria
the other day... little town in mid-California... one of Mary
Lou's ('63) favorite places... there is a little Amish shop there
and I have to peek in to see what's new... well a few years back
when my neck rolled off my shoulders I found a beautiful cane
there made kind of the way the guys all made bowls in wood shop
(all but me... I was an art guy... never made it in shop...)
with different colored wood laminated together... it was just
wonderful... used it till I decided I liked falling down better
than the cumbersome cane (hard to smoke, carry a cane and a
briefcase all at the same time)... I mean I don't really like
falling down... I'm just very careful when I walk unless I'm not
and then... kerplunk... so anyway, I walked in last week and there
it was... oh my... now I've sworn myself not to spending money
on nonessentials these days... but oh my... I mean words cannot
describe... so I splurged and purchased the most wonderful green
and gold (curb yellow) swirly two tone cane I've ever seen... plan
to put two of the Bomber coins on it (each side of the handle)...
luckily I still have two left in my stash... (I give them to
Bombers who come to Vegas who don't seem to show up in Richland as
an incentive to come home)... so... as I was saying... this guy
has given us so much of himself over the years... now I ain't
sayin' his Pal Number 32 ('63) isn't a fantastic Bomber... or any
of the rest of you... but as Jimbeaux put it the other day... we
all wanted to say we were on the same team as the Birthday Boy...
Now I will admit that when DAVIS (Knox '65) and I bleached our
hair back in '59 it was in honor of our boy Skipper NUSSBAUM('65).
but as Mary Lou reminded me this morning (oh my that does sound
risque doesn't it... oh yes it does... I LIKE it!)... the Birthday
boy is also a blonde... and as far as DAVIS is concerned... one of
the greatest comments ever made was at R2K when KEENEY ('65)
yelled out... "Hey, Davis, if you were gonna change yer name why
didn't you change it to somebody famous like [Birthday Boy]!"...
so for me... he can be a Days Pay or a Fat Man (well... not really
fat... after all... he is Number 10!)... But he's our home town
hero so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ray STEIN ('64) on October 30, 2009!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Andy Perdue (Bomber Dad)
Maren, On Friday, we will publish a section in the Tri-City Herald
that is a tribute to Hanford's Cold War era. The online version is
at:
http://www.coldwarhanford.com
The online version includes hundreds of additional declassified
photos from the Department of Energy. I suspect many Bombers will
enjoy this look at Richland's unique place in history.
Sincerely,
-Andy Perdue, Tri-City Herald
(And father of a future Bomber, class of 2022)
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>>From: Don Sorensen (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 6
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091030-452-457.htm
To: All Bombers
Another installment of 6 -- ?, ?, ?, 300 Area Fuel Manufacture,
?, 100 Areas perhaps D.
To: Duke CAMPBELL ('61)
Thanks for the info. Question when you came to Hanford did you
live in the Construction Camp? Also did your father keep anything
from that time frame? I would love to see anything you have and
perhaps copy it. If I remember correctly he worked for Frances
McHale.
To: Mary JUDD Hinz ('60)
I can't believe I missed Millie Lawrence. She was our receptionist
at 234-5 for years. We could always count on a friendly smile and
hello every morning. Thanks for your time.
To: Nancy RIGGS Lawrence ('51)
I had no idea you were related to Millie. Perhaps I should have
asked.
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
There was a school at Hanford during the war. They had split
shifts to accommodate all the children living in the Camp.
-Don Sorensen (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/31/09 - HAPPY HALLOWEEN
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7 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Colt funeral notice today:
Dick McCOY ('45), Bonnie STEEBER ('57)
Donni CLARK ('63), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rex DAVIS ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob MATTSON ('64)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45)
Re: Monikers
The old debate over mascots lives on, and now I see that the
Chief Joe Warriors has been tampered with. The Chief was a superb
warrior, so what is the problem?
There are still grumps about the mushroom cloud. I speak as one
from a Class that would have been fodder to storm the beaches of
Japan had the bomb not been developed. I might not have been
around to write this, and my kids would never have existed, etc.
So, I have no problem with the bomb, and the Bombers, but maybe
we should start taking it easy with the Cloud. The Japanese are
offended by it, and it is time we stopped saying "who cares?"
Sorry, Burt PIERARD ('59) et al.
I've lived thru much of this stuff. I went to EWCE in 1950 '51 and
we were called the Savages. Politically correctly they now are the
EWU Eagles, which is mostly a scavenger. Why not B. Franklin's
turkey, an honorable bird, and good to eat.
In 1995 I went back to Minnesota for my old high school's 50th.
I was chagrined to learn that they had torn down the old school,
moved it out in the country, changed it's name to West Minnetonka,
flipped the mascot from Mohawk to some bird, and also changed the
school song. Oddly, they even changed the name of the Annual from
Mohian, which sounded too Indian. Actually the name was derived
from MOund HIgh ANual. The ultimate in sublime action, throwing
the old out with the bathwater. I told my former classmates to
forget the celebration of the 50th, they should be mourning the
passing of their old school.
Maybe I suffer from old geezerism. speaking of which, happy
birthday to "Airplane" Ray Stein ('64) [on the 30th].
-Dick McCoy from the Tin Can Class of 1945 There is lots of snow
up on Cultus today.
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>>From: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
Many thanks to all the Bombers who added me to their prayer list
regarding my fight with cancer. Curt DONAHUE ('53) started it
off with a first and fast response. Harvey IRBY ('64), another
respondent, also shares one of those "it's a small world" stories
with me. Some years back, he and my youngest daughter had business
dealings in Las Vegas. During conversation, they discovered that
Harvey graduated from high school in Richland and my daughter
informed him that that was where I was from. He asked her if I
was aware of the Sandstorm website. So it was through him that
I signed on to the Sandstorm. One of these days, maybe I will
finally meet him and his wife, Carolyn (NAB), and be able to
thank him personally.
Re: Earl BENNETT ('63) Sandstorm entry dated 10/25
Earl, you wrote: "While it is easier for me to pray for
something/someone when I am emotionally invested - Linda REINING
('64) was a next door neighbor a couple of years before we moved
to Jason Lee territory - I will now include you in my prayers so
that Linda doesn't have to pass those to you." Earl, I didn't mean
to ask Linda to share your prayers for her. She needs your prayers
and I would never even think to ask her to share. You go on to
say: If you want to increase my emotional investment, just send me
some more information about yourself and your needs, whether
illness or other." Well, I've been very fortunate and have rec'd
many blessings in my life so really have no special needs (outside
of this present fight). My personal info is that I share many
memories of Richland just like most Bombers do. My family moved to
Richland in the winter of 1945/1946, right after my father came
home from WWII. I attended Sacajawea, Carmichael, and Col-Hi
and can relate to most of the things that fellow Bombers have
mentioned. I left Richland in 1958 but try to get back for my
"Richland fix" at least once a year, usually for Club 40 weekend.
Thank you for thinking of me in your Sandstorm posting.
Re: Linda REINING ('64)
Thanks for your encouragement and support. I look forward to
hearing of your progress. I have my first appointment with an
oncologist on Tuesday so hope to find out more about my prognosis.
Re: Pappy SWAN ('59)
Pappy, I think you could write a full-page description of the
daily weather report and we would find it amusing! Some people
have a way with the words and can certainly keep us entertained.
Your "words of wisdom" (?) and Tom TRACY's ('55) memories of what
used to be, are among the best and most entertaining entries to
the Sandstorm.
-Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57) ~ from sunny Tucson
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Entered: Friday 10/30/2009 10:34:39am
COMMENTS: I loved my school, my hometown, the people I grew up
with and the friends... I still call my good friends today.
Nothing can take away the memory of the fun childhood and Bomber
days we shared together. It was great growing up in Richland,
small town, USA!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 8 Steinway Pianos
I mentioned the 8 Steinways to George Caruthers (blind piano tuner
back in "the day" for Korten's). George said "NO WAY. I tuned all
the pianos in Richland and out in the area. There was only ONE
Steinway -- it was at Carmichael." He did say that later the
district bought another one from some guy names Scott, but NEVER
were there eight.
Bomber cheers,
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA 60° at midnight
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Cold War Hanford: Large Richland Family
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1566/gallery/771463-a771279-t3.html
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: What a pal
I'm sorry this will be short... been swamped all morning...
intellectual property dispute of all things and now I have to run
off and not sure I'll be back... so I gotta apologize to the
Birthday boy for October 31, 2009 (Nevada Day)... but it don't
mean I don't love him to pieces...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bobby "Tuna" MATTSON ('63 & '64)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
I hope everyone has a spooktacular Halloween
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where we've had rain, wind, and
temps in the 50s this week (warmer during the night than all
day Thursday)
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Funeral Notice
>>Mabel Deranleau Hackney ('31 Colt) ~ 4/30/13 - 10/23/09
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September, 2009 ~ November, 2009