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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/01/07 ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SANDSTORM
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Patti Jones ('60), David Rivers ('65)
ALUMNI SANDSTORM BIRTHDAY Today: Has it really been 9 years? YES!
Many thanks to Gary Behymer ('64) for getting us started...
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Crum ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann Engel ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: MaryAnn Weiland ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis Haskins ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anne Peterson ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula Saucier ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kim Edgar ('79)
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
WHEN: Saturday, August 11, 2007
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
(Light green building just past the Yakima River bridge
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
Message from Patti:
Please send in reservations for the September 8, 2007
luncheon. Club 40 weekend. We will be letting JD Diner
know Thursday September 6 before the luncheon
approximately how many will be there so they are prepared.
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: More birthdays and a yellow sticky to prove it
August 1st... a red letter day in my book. Two of my mostest
favoritest people are having birthdays on the same day. We have
the classes of '63 and '66 celebrating today. The girl from '63
has always been one of the most friendly, even to a lowly soph.
such as yours truly and has always invited me to the big kid's
table. Saw her just last week and I can tell you she is as
beautiful and vivacious as she was the first day I saw her at
Col-Hi... what a gem... all the guys will agree and the girls
love her as much as the boys adore her... She has had some heavy
trials in her path recently and has come through each of them a
day at a time... she was the girl in a Couple that was the pride
and joy of all who knew them... but more about that on the 8th...
Ann Engel Schafer is and always will be top drawer in my book...
The guy having a birthday has always been there to greet me when
I hit town... one of the first I see and certainly one of the
first I look for... only caught a glimpse of him this June
outside the DQ and when I finally made my way out of the crowd in
the building he had moved on... I didn't make it over to the DI
on Saturday for Ms. Hoff's all-class so didn't see him there...
We were over at the Beaver's carrying on as usual... but it
doesn't mean I didn't miss our yearly chat... I did... I am so
glad to know and consider this guy a friend... Dennis Haskins
('66) is one of a kind!
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ann Engel Schafer and Dennis Haskins!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/02/07
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary Triem ('47), Bill Berlin ('56), Linda McKnight ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rufus "PJ" Pedersen ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet Wilgus ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick Staley ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Earl Hall ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis Strege ('71)
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>>From: Mary Triem Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
Re: Club 40
To all '47 Bombers who haven't been contacted regarding this
year's 60th celebration of our graduation:
(1) I'm sorry we missed you, and
(2) please make the effort to come and join us September 7th
and 8th for the Club 40 bash. It will be the 20th (yes indeed,
20th) anniversary of our alumni organization as well and we
would love to see a HUGE turnout of '47 grads.
-Mary Triem Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
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>>From: Bill Berlin ('56)
Re: Glen Wells, father to Alina ('64) and Bruce ('67)
Mr. Glen Wells, father of Bombers Alina Rosano (the star formerly
known as Louise Wells ('64) and Bruce Wells, passed away on July
20th in Seattle. Glen was a close personal friend of my Dad's
and my Mom and Jean Wells used to shop together weekly if not
more often. Both Glen and my Dad smoked pipes, as did Jimbeaux
Hamilton's ('63) Dad, "Hammy" Hamilton. When those three
got together with pipes fully lit and burning good in the
neighborhood, it made the Bomber cloud look like cotton candy.
SE Richland had it own cloud... if you get my drift.
Glen was a real gentleman, a bit on the quiet side and after my
Dad died, my Mom went down to Phoenix, as I recall, and stayed
with Jean and Glen for a few days and had a great time. Glen was
involved in the Water Works there and given Phoenix is not awash
in water, that must have been a very important job, way more
important than the Mayor I am sure. In any event, I was sorry
to hear of Glen's passing and will fondly remember him in my
upcoming book "Memories of a Richland Compound."
Alina, send me an e-mail with your address. Mom (aged 98) lives
here in Anacortes and would like to have your contact.
-Bill Berlin ('56) ~ Anacortes, WA where we have a full
house for the month of August. Grandkids, shirt
tail relatives, fraternity brothers, ex-Coast Guard
mates and, yes, my Canadian daughter.
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>>From: Linda McKnight Hoban ('65)
Happy Birthday dear Ann Engel Schafer ('63) on 8/1. Hope you had
a fun, fun day and to all other Bombers, I am trying to write
this on my laptop when I am used to my ergonomic keyboard but
just wanted to share that we are on our first longggg road trip
since we have been married and we're still speaking!!!!
We are trailering our 2007 Dyna Screaming Eagle motorcycle to
Sturgis (for those diehard Harley riders who are helmetless
making the trek, we are too old and too fat to ride all that
way) and we are right now in Billings, MT where I have lots of
relatives and so we spent most of the day over at my cousins'
house having a wonderful time hanging out and yakking our heads
off. My third cousin, Kaycee, made homemade egg rolls that were
to die for. There were large dogs that totally intimidated our
little Pomeranian, the largest being a boxer. We spent the
shortest five hours visiting and had a superb time. Tomorrow
we drive the last leg of our trip, and right now there are bikes
everywhere, welcome Harley riders signs, and bike wash places....
Tomorrow night I will fill you in on the night we arrived in St.
Regis, MT, and dealt with the cross-eyed lady at the River Edge
Motel .........fun!
bomber hugs,
-Linda McKnight Hoban ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/03/07
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3 Bombers and 1 future Bomber sent stuff:
Dick McCoy ('45), Wally Erickson ('53), Mike Clowes ('54)
Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry Noble ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Amanda Engel ('97)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARIES Today:
Bill Johnson ('57) & Joyce Lynn Green ('57)
George Zielinski ('65) & Debra Anne Crane ('71)
BOMBER/LION ANNIVERSARY Today:
Gary Behymer ('64) and Janis Cook ('65 Lion)
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45, '46, & '02)
To: Mary Triem Mowery ('47)
Mary
I know he isn't a '47er, but John Sullivan is back in the
Tri-Cities according to Quig. You are doing a great job on
the '47 turnout.
Love
-Dick McCoy ('45, '46, & '02)
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>>From: Wally Erickson ('53)
Re: The Coeur D'Alene bike trail and the Hiawatha bike trail with
David Mansfield ('59), his wife Nonie and Bonnie Allen ('59).
It was a fun four days of biking on the two bike trails. We
definitely developed a strong friendship during those four days.
We started at Mullan the first day (elevation above 3000 ft.);
it's a beautiful area in the mountains near where the CD'A River
starts at Lookout Pass. Our first day was on a hot day, but
starting at a higher elevation and with the shade of the evergreen
trees made it very pleasant. We had lunch in Kellogg and continued
for another 10 miles in the hot sun with some shade later on. We
decided we overdid on our first day and would bike less mileage on
the second day.
It was a good decision; our second day we continued to follow the
CD'A River with the bike trail heading south and away from the
traffic noise of I-90 freeway. The weather was about 10 degrees
cooler, the scenery continued to be fantastic. We saw several
wildlife; we saw two Moose eating in the tall grasses of a
wetland area, turtle sunbathing on a log in the water, blue heron
and many other types of birds. We saw several moose mud tracks on
the pavement... so, we knew there would be moose around. With
cooler temperatures and a very pleasant breeze made for enjoyable
day of biking.
On our third day, Nonie suggested we do the Hiawatha bike trail...
since I wouldn't be available the fourth day for biking. Thank you
Nonie for that! We started on the other side of Lookout Pass on
the Montana side. After purchasing passes and tickets for the bus
(to bring us back); we started through the first tunnel. This
tunnel is 1.7 miles long, so you must have head lamps and should
have bike lamps also. Thanks to David, he also had battery tails
lights, which made it easier for me to follow (since my headlamp
was giving out on me)... thanks David. There are nine tunnels and
seven trestles; one of the trestles is over 200 feet high. The
total distance is 15 miles of biking; that's if you take the bus
back, which we did.
The fourth day I invited David, Nonie and Bonnie to my place for
a boat ride after the fourth day of biking. They rode along Lake
Coeur D'Alene, crossed the bridge and back. It was another hot
day, so the boat ride made it that more enjoyable. On the lake it
was very calm and we were able to find a swimming spot without
anchoring. The water was "perfect" and clear. Like I've mentioned
earlier... it's better than swimming pool water. The swimming,
boating and a couple glasses of wine made for an enjoyable day!!!!
We said our "goodbyes"; and we decided we would do this again at a
new location.
We met several bikers from around the country... talked to a young
lady, she and her husband were from Wisconsin, where it's very
flat. They we're very impressed with the mountains and beauty of
the country side.
Thanks to the Sandstorm and Maren... it's what made all of this
happen!! Thank you, Maren. I also want to say what a great
"trooper" Bonnie was in staying with us during all this biking. It
can be intimidating when you're driving through the mountains and
wondering how you're going to get through all this. The trail is
very well maintained and paved all the way following the CD'A
River (from 6-10 feet in the beginning, to 50-60 feet wide
entering Lake CD'A). There're plenty of rest stops that are very
well maintained. We all had a great time... and developed a great
friendship during those four days.
Thank you David Mansfield and Nonie for putting this together...
it was great fun!!!!
-Wally Erickson ('53) ~ Where temperatures are hot around Coeur
D'Alene, but swimming in Lake CD'A makes it okay!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
Re: The Results of the Latest Debate Department
Here are the most recent numbers
Class of '45 - 1
Class of '46 - 1
Class of '47 - 21
Class of '48 - 6
Class of '49 - 8
Class of '50 - 0
Class of '51 - 4
Class of '52 - 29
Class of '53 - 6
Class of '54 - 20
Class of '55 - 8
Class of '56 - 7
Class of '57 - 33
Class of '58 - 6
Class of '59 - 1
Class of '60 - 11
Class of '61 - 5
Class of '62 - 1
Class of '63 - 0
Class of '64 - 0
Class of '65 - 0
Class of '66 - 0
Class of '67 - 0
Class of '70 - 1
Some of the usual suspects have checked in, but we are still
waiting to hear from those of you who haven't (and you know who
you are). In particular, we are waiting to hear from the Class
of '67 whose members are now eligible to join Club 40.
The process is simple, just go to: http://richlandclub40.org
Scroll down to the "2008 Regis. Form" link, print out the form,
fill it in and mail to the address on the form along with your
check or money order. Love to have you with us at the party.
Re: On another note
The Club 40 nominating committee is looking for persons interested
in running for a club office. At the present they have the follow
nominees: Connie Dean O'Neil ('60) and Judy Willox ('61 & '82)
for vice president; Karol Brimhall Smith ('56) for Secretary;
Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49) for Treasurer and myself
for president.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) ~ reporting from sunny
and warm Mount Angel, OR where the countdown to
Octoberfest continues.
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>>From: Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
Re: Don't make me go to Hanford!
Hi, my name is Kaylea Brackensick. My parents are
Steven Brackensick ('85) and Dawn Boggs Brackensick ('86).
I was hoping someone could give me some advise. The situation is
that I moved a year ago 3 miles away from my old house which put
me into the Hanford High School district. My mother has filed for
transfer back to Richland High School. We were denied a transfer.
I do not want to go to Hanford. I want to be a BOMBER! Does anyone
have any suggestions on how we can push this issue further?
-Kaylea Brackensick
Future Bomber class of 2011
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/04/07
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary Triem ('47), Richard Anderson ('60)
Ed Quigley ('62), Gary Behymer ('64)
David Rivers ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger Fishback ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken Dall ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Heidlebaugh ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judie Heid ('68)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Mike Sams ('65) & Mary Bennett ('69)
BOMBER/LION ANNIVERSARY Yesterday/Today:
Gary Behymer ('64) married Janis Cook ('65 Lion)
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>>From: Mary Triem Mowery ('47)
To: Dick McCoy ('46 etc.)
Thanks for the info on big John L. I'll give Quig and Joyce a call
to pursue.
I'm sure there are those '47ers whom I have missed, but w/o the
old data base, I was hamstrung! Give a hug to Ida for me and see
you in September.
-Mary Triem Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
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>>From: Richard Anderson ('60)
To: Kaylea Brackensick (?HS '11)
Re: Don't make me go to Hanford!
Well Kaylea, my advice is to enjoy your years at Hanford. Your
chances of getting your transfer to RHS are approximately zero;
you have a couple of problems: 1) you will be an entering freshman
(9th grader) this fall, meaning that you have not attended RHS and
therefore have no real ties to the school; and 2) you do not live
in Richland [note: I did a bit of sleuthing; Kaylea's family lives
somewhere in West Richland/Enterprise, whatever one wants to call
the place].
The good news is that Hanford is a first rate school. Academically
it is superior (much superior, actually) to RHS. It has a smaller
student body, so you will develop better "class cohesiveness". The
Hanford kids are a friendly good-natured bunch (at least the ones
I have met).
The real problem is that many years ago (in the sixties) RSD made
a bet and lost big time. It determined that the likely growth
pattern of Richland would continue to the north past Newcomer/
Catskill/Coast; so, they decided to build a Junior High/Senior
High school to serve the expansion area: i.e., Hanford.
Great to a degree; but, then along came Milo Bauder who built
Meadow Springs in 1969. The area south of Yakima River became the
locus for large-lot residential development. Then there was the
explosive growth of really large-lot development in West Richland.
The consequence is that there are two high schools serving the
geographical area north and east of Yakima River and ZERO high
schools serving the new population on the other bank of the river.
So the school district has drawn all sorts of strange school
boundaries to distribute the kids to either HHS or RHS.
The district has just plunked down roughly $100 million renovating
HHS and RHS; with any luck I'll have won the lottery and moved to
WallaWalla before the district determines that it is necessary -
vitally necessary! -- to build a new $75 million (or whatever
these things cost) high school to serve West Richland/"South
Richland" (West Kennewick?). It will be entertaining.
Kaylea, in closing, let me assure you it could have been far
worse: if your parents had moved to the Richland Wye you would be
going to -- gasp! -- Kamiakin (the Wye is in Kennewick School
District -- go figure).
Bomber (and Falcon) cheers,
-Richard Anderson ('60)
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>>From: Ed Quigley ('62)
Re: Quest for "Bombership"
To: Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
Bless your heart and good luck, Kaylea! Wish I could help you out,
but I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
-Ed Quigley ('62)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: BOMBER/LION ANNIVERSARY Today [8/3]:
Gary Behymer ('64) and Janis Cook ('65 Lion)
Janis was married on 08/03/68 while I was married on 08/04/68 (;-)
A 'dating' error by our minister Reverend Cox created a conundrum?
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: More birthdays for the 4th
That time again... last week when I put a balloon on one of these
guy's cars and had the donut boyz all sign a card they couldn't
believe he was having ANOTHER birthday... I assured them he only
had one a year and that's how old people get old... they seemed
to accept that explanation... This guy is an artist of the finest
kind and I have so much of his handy work on my cars and leather
jackets you'd think I was a traveling one man show... he is the
resident pin striper for the donut bunch and when we were kids he
was the guy you had customize your notebook... since it was the
only thing I carried... my books were either in my locker or on
the package tray of my car getting a good tan... ya kinda hadda
peel them off at the end of the semester... This boy goes by many
names in our gang... "The Big Fat Liar", "Jo's Babysitter" (when
ever we went to his house to get him the answer was often:
"I can't go... I gotta baby sit Jo")... and "Beta Male"... His
talents are legend... like there's the time his dad was watching
the house next door for a neighbor... the boy wanted to paint his
bicycle yellow... no place to paint in a prefab so he painted it
in the closet of one of the rooms next door... the evidence was
overwhelming... or the time he decided the picture of Norm
Grabowski from Life magazine would look good on his wall and he
just ripped out the page and glued it to his wall... you can see
talent just oozing out of this boy!
The other birthday is for a Kat from '64. I have so many great
memories of this guy from school. We don't see him around the
Sandstorm but I know he's out there somewhere... Pop Quiz... when
I divulge this guy's name in a minute or two I want Denler ('64),
Twedt ('64), Number 10 ('64) or one of that old crowd to let us
all know this birthday boy's nickname. Come on now... I know you
all know it... so cough it up... This guy was smart and witty...
I will never forget an impromptu speech he gave in Mr. St.John's
speech class at Chief Jo... what a quick wit... this guy would
have made a great trial lawyer the way he could think so fast on
his feet...
So now's the time to wish
JIMMY HEIDLEBAUGH ('65) and KENNY DALL ('64)
a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/05/07
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
David Mansfield ('59), Mary Judd ('60)
Jim House ('63), Roy Ballard ('63)
David Rivers ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue Erickson ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue Nussbaum ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary McCue ('67)
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>>From: David Mansfield ('59)
Re: Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
First I want to thank Wally Erickson ('53) for his commentary on
our bicycle ride down the "Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes", rails to
trails bicycle path. This was one of the best bike ride I have
ever been on. As Wally wrote, the scenery was beautiful and the
bike path was smooth asphalt for seventy-three miles. Well, it was
great for at least the sixty plus miles that we actually rode.
I have to mention too, that Bonnie Allen ('59) passed her initial
bicycle ride with flying colors. Although, she never said
anything, I am sure she was ready to kill me after the first day.
The first day's ride was 33 miles and the hottest day of the four
we rode.
Having Wally as a local host/guide was a plus for the trip. Our
boat ride the last day on Lake Coeur d'Alene with "Captain Wally"
just kind of put the whole week over the top. Well, yes the
lake was clear until I jumped in, the subsequent mud slick was
a hundred yards across. Fortunately there wasn't a fish kill.
Nonie, (my wife) and I like to downhill ski in the winter. I have
always enjoyed the Aspen tree groves while skiing in Colorado and
Utah. Their almost white bark makes for some of the prettiest snow
scenes. We did encounter many Aspen groves all along the bike
trail. Some of the Aspens along the Coeur d'Alene River are the
biggest I have ever seen.
We did observe plenty of wildlife along the trail. I am somewhat
of an expert in examining and identifying wild animal scat. As
a result, I was able to assess and forewarn the group every day
as to what kind of wildlife was around. Nobody seemed to be
impressed... I get no respect!
Our last day's ride through the tunnels of the Hiawatha Trail was
a real treat as well. This trail is a seventeen mile long gravel
trail with nine tunnels. The first tunnel and the longest is 1.6
miles. I learned two things from riding through all the tunnels.
One was that you can never have enough lights on your bike. And
two, always ... always, bring fresh batteries. Having fresh
battery packs at home or back at the motel doesn't count!
Nonie and I are thinking we would like to plan another ride next
summer. So if you like adventure, excitement and or just like
living on the edge .... watch this space!
-David Mansfield ('59)
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>>From: Mary Judd Hinz ('60)
Re: Richland School District Primary Election
We have received our Primary Election ballots, and I don't know
anything about the candidates who are running for a position on
the Richland School Board. Do any of you have a recommendation?
-Mary Judd Hinz ('60) ~ In sunny West Richland
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>>From: Jim House ('63)
Advice to Kaylea Brackensick (2011): RUN AWAY FROM HOME!
Belated happy birthday to Ken Dall ('64): I enjoyed watching your
advancement to senior management levels at JCP, although for a
while I was concerned you were spending too much time in women's
clothes.
-Jim House ('63)
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>>From: Roy Ballard ('63)
Re: Bomber or Falcon
To: Kaylea Brackensick (2011)
Kaylea, Solve the problem and move in with your grandparents in
Applewood. That might solve the problem ...............
-Roy Ballard ('63)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Big sisters make the world go round
I've kind of always wondered why I feel so close to the class
of '63... I know I admire them as a class because they seem to
stick together as a group and seem to be a gang of really true
friends... I've always said I thought of the class of '63 as being
similar to the "Fraternity Brothers" played by the members of the
4 Preps in Ozzie and Harriet while my class seemed to be more like
"Our Gang"... I'm sure most of that is from looking over from the
little kids' table to the big kids' table... but the more I think
of it, I'm thinking maybe... just maybe... big sisters could have
played a big part of it... I mean across the street I had big
sister Beth Parker ('63)... When I went over to Dale's I had big
sister Donna Bowers ('63)... Over on Johnston Street there was
big sister Ellen W. ('63) with her dear friend (gasp) Mary Lou
('63)... the list goes on and on... the same is true of the
birthday girl... as the big sister of one of the class of '65 that
I most admired and treasured as a friend, Skip Nussbaum ('65),
this big sister was always there... I've worn out the Ralph Lee
('63-RIP) motor cycle story in years past so I won't repeat it
here... but this big sister was one of those that we all sighed
over... and over... and over... Several years ago Terry Davis
('65), Heidlebaugh ('65), Beej ('65) and I decided it had been too
many years since Skip had been around and we trekked over to his
place to say hi... it was a very tearful reunion and Skipper came
around for a couple of years after that and then dropped out
again... Terry and I wanted to do another drop in but Big Sis
suggested we not... when big sis speaks we listen... but I hope
she knows how much we love her brother and how much we love her
as well...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY on August 5 to Susan Nussbaum Reeb ('63)!!!!!
David Rivers ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/06/07
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2 Bombers and 1 Bomber Offspring sent stuff:
Dick Wight ('52), Dawn Boggs ('86)
Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Caroline Westover ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay Lynch ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike Sheeran ('66)
TODAY IN HISTORY: Hiroshima, 1945
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>>From: Dick Wight ('52)
Re: Looking for an ex Navy radio operator
In writing down my memories of my 32 years in the Coast Guard, I
dredged up an old memory. In the summer of 1954 (I think!) I was
a radio operator on the USCGC NORTHWIND, a polar icebreaker. We
were operating in the Bering and Beaufort Seas, with a U.S.
Navy submarine which was operating under the ice at times. We
maintained their radio guard for them. One day we had the sub
moored alongside, and I went aboard with a handful of messages to
deliver - found their radio room - and the operator on watch was
a Col-Hi Bomber from, I think, class of '51. Some coincidence!
Anyone know who he might have been???? Incidentally, the sub later
rammed us accidently, ruptured one of our fuel tanks. Ha!
-Dick Wight ('52)
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>>From: Dawn Boggs Brackensick ('86)
Re: Don't make me go to Hanford
Thank you all who have responded to my daughter Kaylea ('11).
The responses show that many are supportive of her being able to
attend the school of her choice. I graduated from RHS in '86, my
husband the class of '85 my parents Sharon Brown Boggs-Johnson
('64), my father Don Boggs ('56-RIP), my father-in-law Ron
Brackensick, Sr. ('59), mother-in-law, Sharon Workman Brackensick
('62), my brother Jimmy Boggs ('90) and many numerous aunts,
uncles and cousins. So you can see that even though Kaylea has not
attended RHS yet, the ties are very strong. Kaylea and I recently
attended with my mother Sharon Brown Boggs Johnson ('64) the
memorial BBQ for Fred Schafer ('63-RIP) in Vancouver. Kaylea was
astounded out the number of RHS alumni still hold the Green/Gold
strong to heart. It was absolutely amazing! I could only wish
that my class was as strong. Even though we live in West Richland,
which is Richland School District, we moved only 3 miles and it
changed from RHS to HHS. I filed for a transfer and met with
the super intendant and went over the reasons as to why I was
requesting a transfer. The obvious, her parents are BOMBERS!
Well there are many other reasons – Kaylea is on track for
participating in the Running Start program once in 11th grade. She
wants to take zero hour and with her father working at Albertson’s
below the hill, made this an obvious transportation necessity.
Also, she is a Candy Striper at Kadlec, once again, this would
make it easier for her to continue this after school with just
being able to walk to the hospital. Now let’s talk about the
school mates, she has some issues with classmates (girls are not
nice) that will be attending HHS and for the best high school
experience it would be best that Kaylea not have to deal with the
same issues that she did from these girls in high school, it is
going to be tough enough!
When meeting with Rom Costillejo – superintendent at the time,
he informed me that no transfers were being approved due to the
construction and all of the portables being used. Teachers of RHS
would not even be able to transfer their children in this year. I
was told that I could check back late summer once the schools knew
what their numbers looked like and then again after Labor Day, but
most likely would be able to get a transfer next year. I do not
want to start her off at one high school and then transfer her. I
checked back last week and the numbers are not completely in yet,
but was told that by law they had to let the teachers children
transfer. Kennewick has 3 high schools and they can choose which
one they want to attend, they just need to provide their own
transportation.
I really believe that the Richland high school boundaries need
to be reexamined, we are paying more money to transport kids to
schools further from their home. For example, my younger children
were going to be bussed to Tapteal Elementary because when we
moved they no longer were in the Wiley Elementary boundary. The
funny thing is, we live right behind Wiley, the kids just go
through the gate on the fence. They were granted transfers because
they had already started at Wiley, good through their entire
elementary grades. But this just goes to show how messed up the
boundaries are.
As for Richard Anderson's ('60) response – you must not be a true
Bomber thru and thru otherwise you would not be so uncompassionate
about it.
As for saying that she lives with a relative within the district –
I would have to give up all legal educational rights for Kaylea to
whoever she was with – I am not at that point yet! Moving would be
a choice I would make before giving up any rights to my child.
What will happen to these children that’s parents get relocated
here and fall into the RHS district, they will get to attend and
could probably have cared less, since they know no different.
I am going to continue to check for updates and pester them until
they just want me to go away and give in. I am not ready to give
up the fight! BOMBERS all the way!
Keep up with the responses – just maybe if I get enough we can
start an uproar! Maybe the next thing will be an editorial to the
Tri-City Herald.
-Dawn Boggs Brackensick ('86)
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>>From: Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
Re: Bomber or Falcon
To: Roy Ballard ('63)
Thanks for the advise for me to be able to go to Richland High.
But to move in with my grandparents in Applewood I would have to
be insanely crazy. I would be bored out of my mind. To live with
my grandparents, my parents would have to give up their parental
education rights. And trust me they are not ready for that. I
would also have to physically live with them.
Thanks to all who have responded to my entry. Don't make me go to
Hanford. I really am glad to see all the responses I am getting.
-Kaylea Brackensick, Future Bomber 2011
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Will Goss ('56wb), Steve Carson ('58)
Ed Quigley ('62), David Rivers ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Bobo ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michael Peterson ('77)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Fred Schafer ('63-RIP) & Ann Engel ('63)
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>>From: Will Goss ('56wb)
I received the fake site e-mail right after entering my new e-mail
address [on the '56 home page].....
-Will Goss ('56wb)
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>>From: Steve Carson (Championship class of '58)
Interesting stuff on the development of the Richland School
System. Thank you Mr. Anderson ('60). Now I have been gone for
a very long time and will be looking for my fellow Bombers to
comment (rebut) on Mr. Anderson's comments that HHS is
Academically superior to RHS.
-Steve Carson (Championship class of '58) ~ Chicago, where the
CUBS will finally win a world series.
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>>From: Ed Quigley ('62)
To: Kaylea Brackensick ('11)
Not to encourage you to be devious, Kaylea, but couldn't you
use your grandparents' address as a "residence of convenience"?
Obviously, this means a lot to you and your family, and all the
school boundaries are is an issue of bureaucratic pigheadedness;
go ahead and buck the system. Consider it an exercise in civil
disobedience... You're going to need the experience late in life
anyway, the way things are going. Wait; maybe I AM encouraging
you! :)
-Ed Quigley ('62)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: A view from the little kids' table
As the guy with the most trips to the alter from the class of '65
(tho I do believe that my pal Mike Sheeran ('66) has me beat in
that department... belated Happy Birthday, Mike)
I sit here and wonder how many times it really happens...
boy meets girl... they fall in love... get married and live
(reasonably) happily ever after... I say reasonably because even
an old romantic such as I am knows that every life has its ups and
downs... even Donald Trump has a bad hair day... right... so it
makes me smile really big when I think of my friends who fall
into the love ever after category as opposed to the Billy and
Sue category of the BJ Thomas' ilk... As I count them I am happy
to say that I do know quite of few of the members of such love
stories... I won't say I envy them because that isn't the correct
emotion... I admire them... really admire them... one of them
stands out today as very special. She was "the catch of her
class" and he was the boy that caught her... I always loved seeing
them together even tho living as far away from home as I do I only
got to see them once or a few times a year... this year he wrote
me saying they wouldn't see me in Richland but would see me a few
weeks later in Las Vegas... the reason was understandable tho I
hate to miss seeing kids at home in our own element... I have
loved it over the years when I would see their email address in
my mail I knew there was a "good one" coming my way... they came
often and I loved to throw a few dig in my response... loved the
pictures of the get togethers and was always so happy to know them
and to be included in their thoughts... they are big kids so it
was extra special to get to leave the little kids' table with them
now and then... the KoolAid always tastes best at the big kids'
table and I'm always careful not to spill it... So many things
I would like to say but the tear ducts are already starting to
twitch... how come your nose runs when your tear ducts start to
fill? Just wondered... I know The Gold Medal Class and many others
will be thinking of these two on the 7th of August as I will...
with admiration and love... Happy Anniversary for Ann and Freddie
Schafer ('63)... the love never dies.
-David Rivers ('65)
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2 Bombers and 1 Bomber Offspring sent stuff:
Jim House (’63), David Rivers ('65), Kaylea Brackensick ('11),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bruce Strand ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Grant Ranlett ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gordy Edgar ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jennifer Harden ('96)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jim Adair ('66) & Kathie Moore ('69)
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>>From: Jim House (’63)
Re: Obnoxious Bomber Fans?
Yesterday I watched the Richland Knights American Legion baseball
team playing in the state tournament in Spokane. I happened to be
sitting amid the Spokane fans, who seemed to be outnumbered and
not as vocal by those supporting Richland. At one point I heard
comments about how good the Richland Bomber teams traditionally
were (even though we were not watching a Bomber team). Then
someone said that the Bomber Fans were obnoxious and did not
exhibit good sportsmanship. Sportsmanship has never been one of my
virtues, so I listened for specifics. Eventually it came out that
fans of the Bomber girls' soccer, softball and basketball were the
worst offenders. Their major flaw was they "were poor winners". I
never did hear exactly how that was manifested.
By the way, what do the winning players say to their opponents
during those compulsory line-ups after the game? How do you say
"Nice game, loser. We never thought we would beat you by thirty"?
-Jim House (’63) ~ Mead, WA
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: A pair to draw to...
Didja hear the one about the biker dude and his ol' lady? You
could read the back of his t-shirt when the b__ch fell off...
hardy har har... Well it's time for Willis and Willis to celebrate
another year of heavenly bliss on the 8th... yup...they been
together a fer piece now tho not as long as some others...
certainly longer than I've ever been... they seem to get along
quite well tho... specially when he works those 7/12s... or
maybe it was only 7/10s... anyway it kept him outa her hair for a
while... Gotta say these two have been life savers for me over
the years... better friends nobody could ever ask for... Hope
they know how much they are loved and cherished by so many...
me included... so let's give it up for
Jimmie Adair ('65-'67) and Kathy Moore ('69)...
Happy anniversary you two!
-David Rivers ('65)
PS Happy anniversary to Gary the collector ('64) and
Janis Behymer... maybe you guys and the Adairs can
rent the Grange Hall for a big hoedown!
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>>From: Kaylea Brackensick (Future Bomber 2011)
Re: Richard Anderson's ('60) comment about RHS
Just to get the facts straight: RHS is actually more academically
superior to HHS because even though kids live in the HHS district
they transfer to RHS because of RHS sports.
-Kaylea Brackensick (Future Bomber 2011)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn De Vine ('52), Betty King ('53)
Mike Clowes ('54), Roy Ballard ('63)
Linda McKnight ('65), Rick Maddy ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marj Qualheim ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Valerie Nielsen ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gay Wear ('69)
TODAY IN HISTORY: Nagasaki
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>>From: Marilyn De Vine ('52)
Re: Kaylea Brackensick (HHS '11) school boundaries
I am sorry to see that prejudice is ALL TOO alive in Richland/West
Richland. This is the thing of which gang-wars are made, you know?
While your mother mentioned some sort of valid reasons for you
to go to RHS (perhaps neither she nor you know, BFT has busses
running at all hours to get you from where you are to where you
want/need to be). In my opinion, family tradition is not/should
not be a factor! Think of yourself as a Blazer of New Trails, a
Setter of New Traditions! I am so boiling mad, I would take you
to task for attacking Richard Anderson ('60) but Maren would most
likely cut my remarks. I will say simply: how dare you challenge
his being a "true Bomber"... do you and your mother know he is the
one who keeps the Sandstorm going when Maren is unavailable????
Can you spell A-C-A-D-E-M-I-A??? Do you know the DIFFERENCE
between Academics and Sports? My guess is, you don't. Your mom
mentioned that "girls are not kind" or words to that effect... big
darn deal; LIFE is sometimes not kind! There are "unkind" people
and situations wherever you go. Those "unkind girls" may
unknowingly be doing you a favor by 1) teaching YOU how NOT to
behave towards others, 2) giving you opportunities to learn
diplomacy, 3) allowing you to learn forgiveness, and 4) may be
setting you up to learn some "avoidance" skills, which everyone
needs if you/they are to succeed without falling for some of the
garbage that's out there, for instance: stealing, lying, cheating,
drugs, materialism, self-centeredness, low morals, etc. But, of
course, those things may mean nothing to you and your family
compared to being a B—B----B----BOMBER. If you THINK for one
second that there are NOT unkind girls (and boys, for that matter)
at RHS, I can guarantee: you are dead-wrong!
-M. De Vine '52 ~ enjoying cooler temps and a little breeze in the
north end of Richland, near the home of the Hanford Hi Falcons
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>>From: Betty King Moody ('53)
Re: Different rolls in the Indian Nation
Some of you asked for the different rolls. Hope this helps. Too
many to answer one on one..
The Final Dawes Roll (1898-1914): Dawes is a list of those members
of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory
(Oklahoma) during the 1800s and were living there during the
above dates. IF YOUR ANCESTOR WAS NOT LIVING IN INDIAN TERRITORY
AT THIS TIME, THEY WILL NOT BE LISTED ON DAWES!! This is a list
of those Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Creeks
who were given land allotments in Indian Territory via the 1877
Dawes Act. It was the final step the US government took to break
up the tribal status of these nations and to assimilate them into
mainstream white society. The left-over land in Indian Territory
was opened to white settlement and sold prior to statehood. This
act opened the way for the famous "land runs" in Oklahoma at the
turn of the century. Not until the Indian Reorganization Act
of the 1970s were these tribes re-established and their tribal
governments reinstated. Does that mean that every person living in
Oklahoma at this time is listed on Dawes?? NO! There were plenty
of people there (intruders and others) who were not entitled to
land allotments. Dawes lists only those Indians who RECEIVED
LAND under the provisions of the Dawes Act. It also lists those
Freedmen who received land allotments as provided for in the Dawes
Act.
The Guion-Miller Roll (1909): In 1909 the US government was
ordered by the courts to make payments to the descendants of the
original Eastern Band of Cherokee (of North Carolina) for treaty
violations on the part of the US that had occurred in the 1800s.
Some 100,000 people made applications to be included in this
payment, claiming they were descendants. Each application was
reviewed and only 35,000 were proved to be actual descendants.
Therefore, your ancestor may have applied for this roll, but found
not eligible and rejected. There are records of these applications
which include name, application number and the state the applicant
was living in at the time it was made. Those who were found to
be genuinely eligible for this payment are listed on the "Guion
Miller Roll". This roll includes EASTERN CHEROKEE ONLY, but they
may have been living in any state in 1909.
1817 Reservation Roll: A list of those Cherokee living in the
"east" who stated they did not want to remove to Oklahoma and
signed up to accept a 640 acre tract of land in the eastern part
of the United States and remain there.
1817-1835 Emigration Rolls: This is a list of those Cherokees in
the east who signed up to move west, first to Arkansas Territory
and then on to Oklahoma.
1831 Armstrong Roll: This roll was done in Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana and is a listing of CHOCTAWS living in those states,
the number of acres farmed and number of people in the household.
Made prior to the removal of the main body of Choctaws to Indian
Territory under the provisions of the Dawes Act.
1835 Henderson Roll: These Cherokees were living in Alabama,
Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina IN 1835 and signed up to
remove to Oklahoma under the 1835 Treaty of New Echota (contains
16,000 names). Just because they signed up doesn't mean they
actually went, but they registered their intent to remove.
1848 Mullay Roll: This is a list of those Cherokees who REMAINED
in NORTH CAROLINA after the others left in 1838. It contains 1,157
names.
1851 Siler Roll: An act of Congress in 1850 forced the United
States government to make a payment to some members of the Eastern
Band of Cherokees. These are the names of those who were found to
be entitled to receive this payment. Contains 1700 names.
1851 Old Settler Roll: This roll lists those Cherokees IN
OKLAHOMA who were still living in 1851 who were already living in
Indian Territory when the main body of the Cherokee arrives in the
winter of 1839. These people are known as the "Old Settlers". They
were already in Oklahoma when the Cherokees who removed under the
1835 Treaty of New Echota got there.
1852 Drennen Roll: This was the first census of the new arrivals
of 1839 and is today known as the "Trail of Tears" group.
1852 Chapman Roll: This roll lists those Cherokee who actually
received the payment based on the names Siler had.
1855 Cooper Roll: Listing of CHOCTAWS remaining in Mississippi,
Alabama and Louisiana at this time.
1869 Swetland Roll: Lists those Eastern Cherokee and their
descendants who were STILL LIVING IN NORTH CAROLINA in 1848 and
who were considering removal to Indian Territory.
1883 Hester Roll: Lists the Eastern Band of Cherokees in 1883.
These were the people who were still in the east and had not
removed to Indian Territory. This roll contains ancestors, age and
Indian name, plus English names.
1908 Churchill Roll: Again, lists only those members certified
as Eastern Band of Cherokee. Includes degree of blood and lists
rejected.
1924 Baker Roll: This was supposed to be the last roll of the
Eastern Band of Cherokee. Their land remaining in the east was
to be allotted to them individually rather than communally-held
tribal lands, and they would become regular US citizens.
Fortunately the Eastern Band of Cherokee was able to avoid
termination of their tribal status, unlike those who had removed
to Oklahoma. The Revised Baker Roll is the "base roll" for
membership in the Eastern Band of Cherokee today. One must be able
to PROVE a direct blood line back to someone listed on the Baker
Roll, plus meet age and blood quantum requirements, to be enrolled
today in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
-Betty King Moody ('53)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
Re: The "Wait, There's More!" Department
Here are the latest [Club40 celebration attendance]figures:
Class of '45 - 1
Class of '46 - 1
Class of '47 - 23
Class of '48 - 6
Class of '49 - 8
Class of '50 - 1 (finally)
Class of '51 - 5
Class of '52 - 30
Class of '53 - 7
Class of '54 - 24
Class of '55 - 8
Class of '56 - 9
Class of '57 - 41
Class of '58 - 9
Class of '59 - 1
Class of '60 - 12
Class of '61 - 5
Class of '62 - 5
Class of '63 - 0
Class of '64 - 3
Class of '65 - 0
Class of '66 - 0
Class of '67 - 0
Class of '70 - 1
A reminder that registration will close on Friday, August 31st, so
be sure and get your registration in before the deadline to insure
that you will have a seat at "the big kids" table.
Registration forms can be found at: http://richlandclub40.org
Remember to scroll down to the place on the page where it says
"2007 Regis. Form", click it on, print out the form, fill it out
and send it to the address on the form along with your check or
money order. Sorry we do not take plastic.
See you at the Party,
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR, where
it is partly cloudy today
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>>From: Roy Ballard ('63)
Re: Academics and Champions
I have been told, but I'm not sure of the fact, that the Champion
Bomber baseball team of this year was also the top academic team
of the State. Can anyone tell me if that is true, I believe that
the Athletic Director of RHS, Mike Edwards, told me that.
-Roy Ballard ('63)
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>>From: Linda McKnight Hoban ('65)
Been to Sturgis and on the way home!
Well, I planned to write every day but that didn't happen and
the motel we stayed in Billings, MT for some idiot reason would
not send my e-mails. There they are all stacked up in my outbox...
grrrr... Wanted to get to an internet café and send my updates
like a real Bomber editor, but couldn't find one of those. Did see
some interesting goofy looking aging frat boys having belly shots
at the One-Eyed Jacks Saloon, which was the risque thing I saw,
and heard it cost $25 for that.
Bikers everywhere... oh my – more leather and tattoos in one place
ever... It was a sight to see.
So we are now on our way home from the most amazing five days of
amazing bikes and bikers in the whole world. Hubby bought me a
shirt that is all sparkly and says Biker Babe on it and now I am.
I am a good behinder rider, as in sitting behind my hubby, but now
I can say I even rode in my shorts... I would never have done that
a few weeks ago, but it was so beastly hot and I was on vacation,
so what the heck. We stayed in a nice campground that had lots of
trees and we had a cabin with air conditioning. So, that wasn't so
bad. Our campground was actually pretty quiet compared to others I
heard about. Except for the one morning where six big ole Harleys
started up one at a time at 6 am. I love, love, love the sound of
Harleys so it was really music to my ears. Our little doggy Sunny
loves Harleys too, and when we came through town the first day,
she was hanging out the window sniffing the exhaust and inspecting
each bike we passed. We are so glad we went early because by the
weekend, August 5th especially, you couldn't even move. It was
like walking your bike all over town and then on the 6th some
friends of Denny's from the Chicago area met us at the Rapid City
Harley Davidson store, under the American Flag. Ha! It was another
huge event with bikes by the hundreds and vendors and food
everywhere. We all found each other and had a blast. The only
drawback I had was walking so many miles to see everything in my
bike boots. Would rather have had my real walking shoes.
One last thing, South Dakota and Sturgis were quite a surprise. It
was very beautiful and green. Heard they got a lot of rain in the
Spring which made it so.
Anyway we are now all settled in at the Best Western in Ritzville,
WA. Not sure I will get to call and meet up with friends in
Richland like I wanted to. We are kinda anxious to get home to our
own bed, but I will try to call.
And by the way, hubby and I are still speaking, MT, not so bad for
a nearly 2600 mile trip at over a week with a hairy little four
legged critter.
Bomber hugs to all
-Linda McKnight Hoban ('65)
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>>From: Rick Maddy ('67)
Re: HHS
Richard Anderson's ('60) comments that HHS is possibly
academically superior to RHS is only interesting in that someone
would actually suggest it. I have seen people fired from sports
television broadcasting careers that were not blonde and blue eyed
for less of a suggestion. I agree with Mr. Anderson ('60) on the
conditions of an assumption with a smattering of scientific
observation... I was just a mere lad and the FBI came to my dad
asking about the new neighbor. This was CA 1958-60. Soon after,
Richland saw many of these neighbors, certainly not all, slowly
migrating into north Richland and buying those not-so pre-
fabricated types of houses thus ending the physics geek living
next door to the laborer in the south end. Sort of like Baltimore
moving to Indianapolis... who noticed? It was subtle. It was one
o'clock in the morning. I proudly stayed in the south end with
dad. My assumption would be the kids were smarter in the north end
due to the gene pool migrating there and eventually into the HHS
Falcon boundary line, thus making Mr. Anderson's ('60) comments
correct. I'm positive reassigning school boundaries so the test
scores are never skewed by the south enders could ever happen
geographically. The gasp from the HHS crowd in fear of losing
those Federal dollars for not being able to teach a bunch of kids
within their borders how to read would be heard as far away as the
old rose bowl site... NEVERTHELESS, if true, the RHS educational
system can rebound from such scrutiny... I know it can... Bombers
are can-do folks... and the rumored eugenics program started by
G.E. has nothing to do with the plan... the people who teach our
children in public school only need to get some intestinal
fortitude... and just say NO to Disney movies as aids for teaching
American history and just say NO to teaching only to the S.A.T.
(Y.A.W.N!!!) which leaves most of our children having ZERO
interest in going to college right out of high school with nothing
to look forward to every single morning except four years of
boredom, sitting at a desk looking like they have a learning
disability and taking a pill for that and the depression
associated with it... I'm not done... also leaving behind those
students wanting to learn not only how to balance a checkbook, but
learn a profession within an intrinsic apprenticeship outside
the classroom... with future monetary value... for love of an
occupation that is enjoyable to get up in the morning for... AND
starting in their freshman year of high school. Teachers all know
by the end of the eighth grade... on the most part... who the
science guy is... who the girl headed for the penitentiary is...
and vice versa. The Chinese language skills can be taught in the
mandatory evening class to keep then busy enough and tired enough
to not tag the B.A. and go home and get some sleep. When teachers
teach to the 10% prospective scientists, mathematicians,
biologists, chemists, lawyers, etc. etc. the government is looking
for in our high schools, when not importing them from Mexico, and
leave the other 90% of the student body dying on the vine facing
a future somewhere between ultimate cage fighting, unfinished
tattoos and cleaning toilets at a local nuke facility... it is
time for change... possibly home schooling... or a really really
special educational school that teaches a skill taught by a
skillful teacher, just like they are doing with the SpEd kids
right now... but for a tiny bit different reason... and then let
the kid choose Bomber or Falcon for the rest of the "after school"
activities like basketball, football, volleyball, baseball, Texas
Hold Em and other functions maiming more warriors at an earlier
age than warfare while the more than a few use both means as a
life and limb gamble to pay for a college course when they are
finally ready... not when dad and mom are ready... "after school"
activities that should be farmed out to the AAU anyway, but never
will because some chest beater has convinced us all that high
school sports is the glue, or some other 3M product, that binds
and defines school spirit... while calling us a liberal wimp out
the other side of their mouth... uh, maybe we have a problem,
maybe we don't... AND leaving band, debate and drama in tact in
the belly of the beast - GO BOMBERS! Then... and only then... we
might actually evolve and Kaylea Brackensick ('11) can live where
she wants to and still be a Bomber. I could be wrong, I've been
wrong before. And kudos to Richard Anderson ('60).
Re: Richland
I left Richland for the last time in 1979. I cannot believe the
change. Certainly not the same place I knew. The growth has
changed much of the surroundings, particularly the highway coming
into Richland from the Y. I was amazed and taken aback. Even
getting lost, confused and dazed at times until I could see a
familiar piece of real estate... like the Columbia River. Mr. Rex
Davis' ('49) tennis court at L&C Elementary, gone. Nighthawks,
gone. Jackrabbits, gone, roaring hydroplanes replaced by turbine
whiners, the A&Dub, gone, dry-hot replaced with hot-humid because
of... wine, I guess... and the stretching to unknown limits of the
mighty Columbia Basin... is it still a project... nothing lasts
forever is very true.
To: Steve Shockley ('67)
Steve, you are the best. Thanks for taking the mic at our Class
of 1967 40th reunion. Excellent night. Way Fun! I'm hoping the
medical marijuana laws have passed by the time our 60th birthday
party bash happens... just for the laughs alone... and of course,
the pain... in the hip... the nagging knee injury... the low
back... the psychosis.
To: The rest of the Class of 1967 organizers
...and to all who put together our reunion
My utmost thank you to all of you. I found the party to be most
relaxing in an already stressful situation when thoroughly
organized and the hardest part of the whole experience was losing
count at the included, nerve stabling, three drink maximum wine
table.
-Rick Maddy ('67)
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11 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike Bradley ('56), Nick Nelson ('56)
Terri Royce ('56), Steve Carson ('58)
Kaylene Henjum ('60), Tom Verellen ('60)
Judy Willox ('61wb & '81), Ed Quigley ('62)
Roy Ballard ('63), Cindy Payton ('65)
David Rivers ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Helen Bartlett ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mack Richardson ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis McGrath ('63WB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jo Marie Roberts ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rod Collins ('67)
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>>From: Mike Bradley ('56)
Re: Club 40 Reunion - September 7, 8, & 9, 2007
To: All members of the Class of 56
Let's get on the ball and get registered for the September event.
We only have 9 people registered at this point and that is
ridiculous. I sure hope to see more of you than that!!!!!
-Mike Bradley ('56) ~ Kirkland, WA where the sun is out & all is well.
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>>From: Nick Nelson ('56)
Re: Club 40 Reunion - September 7, 8, & 9, 2007
To: All Club 40 members
If you are going to attend the Club 40 annual reunion and are
planning to stay at the Shilo Inn, you'll need to make your
reservations before August 17th. if you want to take advantage
of the special rates they have made available to us.
-Nick Nelson ('56)
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>>From: Terri Royce Weiner ('56)
Re: Kaylea Brackensick (HHS '11) school boundaries
To: Marilyn DeVine ('52)
I have never been so pleased, with a Sandstorm entry, as I was by
yours of August 8th. I heartedly agree with everything you said --
and I, too, could add some choice points, but they'd probably be
deemed too personal.
Kaylea's inability to distinguish between academics and sports is
a sad commentary on our times. Your points about all she could
learn and be, by going to HHS, is stellar. Preparation for the
real world is what high school should be about.
I've only been to Richland twice since graduation, so I'm not
familiar with HHS, but it's a universal truth that we are better
people for not getting everything we want. If this hasn't been
learned before, high school is a great place to start.
-Terri Royce Weiner ('56) ~ In cool, lovely Seattle where the dogs
are kicking up their heels.
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>>From: Steve Carson (Championship class of '58)
To: Marilyn De Vine ('52)
Re: Your Message To Kaylea
Wow, that was harsh. At RHS we never had to think about a
distinction between sports and academia, we just excelled at
both. The fact that we have had a string on State Championships
was frosting on the cake.
-Steve Carson (Championship class of '58) ~ Chicago where the CUBS
are on their way to a World Series.
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>>From: Kaylene Henjum Livingston ('60)
Re: Thanks for saying what I was thinking
Marilyn De Vine's ('52) letter in the Sandstorm yesterday said
it all, and quite nicely too. I was going to write in and voice
my opinion of going to RHS or another school, but was a little
hesitant because of the Bombers-or-nothing mentality of some
people. I am very proud to say that I am a Bomber, but I also have
to preface that by saying that I have a husband and two sons who
are not Bombers, but have managed to get good jobs and live
productive lives... I think that the Tri-Cities is very fortunate
to have several high quality schools, and they all offer students
great educations. The school that you go to does not make you
successful, YOU make yourself successful.
Lets not take the mentality of others and bring back the concept
that all Bombers are snotty and stuck up. (unfortunately, that was
what other schools thought of us back when)... Go to the school
that is assigned to you, excel in everything you do, have fun and
enjoy your youth. The world is open to you and the opportunities
are there regardless of RHS or HHS or any other kind of high school....
Sitting here at home wishing I could be picking out my High school
instead possibly my Nursing home.:(
-Kaylene Henjum Livingston ('60)
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>>From: Tom Verellen ('60)
Re: Rating High Schools
I believe that the best way to rate differences in high schools
has nothing to do with athletic records, SAT scores, or murals.
You have to check the geek, dork, greaser, ratios. (Provided
they still have greasers, who will some day repair the geeks'
transportation devices.) The dorks to fill out the lower portions
of the bell curves for grades (otherwise some geeks will be
getting less than an A). And the greasers to cause general anxiety
to round out the geeks' education. No school is complete without
them and if the ratio is to far out of line, society will suffer.
Any of you who are interested, there is a four step program
designed for all of us losers called Sterotypers Anonamus (sic).
SA meetings are scheduled for Monday but don't actually take place
until Wednesday for the procrastinators, and dyslexic. Sorry but
we have to restrict anyone who has never had or lost their sense
of humor to the rear of the room.
-Tom Verellen (09,) - Maren, this is our new class motto [I.D.].
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>>From: Judy Willox (Classic Class of '61wb and '81)
To: Kaylea Brackensick (2011)
Re: "I Wanna Be A Bomber!"
Wow Little Lady, for such a small pebble, you sure have made a big
splash in the Big Bomber Pool here in Bomberville. I am sure that
you are destined to go places with the kind of waves you know how
to make. Now, I KNOW you wanna be a Bomber--no question there.
And you have had some encouragements, some "get over its", some
ridicules and some fairly harsh words come your way over this
issue. So, my question to you is simply this: Are you SURE you
wanna be a grown up? LOL! Just kidding honey, you are surely
displaying that you are more so than some. So, you go girl and
stick to your convictions and goals. Do not ever let anyone take
your dreams away from you, okay?
Bomber Cheers Li'l Bomber (even if only at heart for the time being),
-Judy Willox (Classic Class of '61wb and '81) ~ Richland
where the days are at least tolerable right now and
the evenings are beautiful. Love the singing of the
crickets in the evenings and the birds in the early
mornings. Well, other then the crows and the magpies. ;o)
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>>From: Ed Quigley ('62)
To: Rick Maddy ('67)
Tell it like it is, Rick!
When I moved up to Tacoma in '64 (Bless you, Robert Rector ('62),
for your lasting influence on my life!), the culture shock was
amazing. Coming from a class in which 90% went on to college, and
assuming the rest of the world was like "us", I couldn't believe
what I found; a population in which divorce was rife, most "kids"
not aspiring to college, and who had no interest in reading...
On and on! It was only after leaving Richland that I truly began
to appreciate what we had. And things "out here" have continued to
deteriorate; the job applications that come across the desk where
I teach (guitar), look like they were printed in crayon by a first
grader. And the misspellings... Holy crap!! It still blows me
away when a clerk looks at me like I just pulled a rabbit out of
my ear, when I tell him/her how much change he owes me, before he
can figure it out on a calculator; happened 2 days ago, because he
"mispunched" how much I had given him, so, of course, the cash
register wasn't right. Simple math, you'd think (!!!) would be
requisite, taught in our schools. I still do not understand why,
as parents, people will put up with a failing system. When we were
kids, our parents' desire was to see their kids be more successful
than they were. The reality now, is that the kids are not going
to do as well, and many young adults now despair of ever owning
a house. And the effect that it is having on our nation has been
devastating! I am constantly fighting with one of my best friends,
who is a "big business" man, about the negative effects of
outsourcing, and the fact that our nation no longer produces our
own steel, computer chips, furniture... Again, "on and on"! As
an "old fart", I would suggest that parents of kids who are in
school right now, take a leaf from the pages of the past; revisit
the spirit of the '60s... Rebellion SHOULD be in the wind;
depose the school boards who approve teaching to the tests! Throw
their butts out and vote in people who espouse "real education".
Should this mean going back to "tracking", meaning grouping
classes by ability and teaching to that level, which is what the
class of '62 grew up with, so be it! Screw the "politically
correct" philosophy of throwing everybody together; recent history
has PROVED this doesn't work!
Sorry to go on a rant, folks, just meant to thank Rick for his
entry, and got carried away.
-Ed Quigley ('62)
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>>From: Roy Ballard ('63)
Re: Email from Ben Jacobs ('69)
hi Roy... our baseball team has been academic state
champions for 3 straight years... also, won 2 out of
the last 3 4A baseball championships... no 4A school
has ever won academics 3 years in a row in baseball...
no other team has won academics and a state title in
the same year---we have done it twice!!!... not bad
for these kids out here on the east side... ben
-Roy Ballard ('63)
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>>From: Cindy Payton Hoffman ('65)
To: Marilyn DeVine ('52)
Thank you Marilyn for saying your "piece of mind" I agree
completely. Life is not about getting what you want all of the
time. It is great to be a Bomber but why not take all those ideals
and make your situation great at Hanford High? There are four
Payton girls. Three attended Richland High, myself ('65), Angela
('69) and Kelley ('72). Karis, my youngest sister, went and
graduated from Hanford High in '79. Karis has always been active
and especially in sports. I can honestly say we all turned out
just fine after high school. Karis has a younger daughter (same
age as Kaylea) who is headed to RHS this year who Karis would love
to be going to Hanford instead.
Best wishes to Kaylea ('11) no matter where you end up. I have
found that things always have a way of working out much better
than you first believe. Just keep your chin up and go forward!
-Cindy Payton Hoffman ('65) ~ Santa Fe, NM
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: An update on my alleged illegitimate son
Well for those of you who care and maybe even for those of you who
don't give a rat's pitute... Terence Knox, aka Terry Davis ('65)
is at it again. No, he's not wearing a helmet or carrying a gun.
This time it is much worse. While waiting to make a civil war
movie in Georgia in September, Terry agreed to accept a role in a
horror film which he believes (tho I think he got it wrong... I
have looked for the web site under this name and I can't find it)
the name of the film to be "The house that Jack built" I am
enclosing (or rather sending to the proper email address) the
pictures sent to me from the make up guys who were casting Terry's
arm (he doesn't know why they cast his arm but it creaped him out
totally to see the thing) and making the mask to turn our dear
little Terry into the dreaded "Jack"... the drawing is pretty
creepy and these guys appeared to know what they were doing in the
casting process... I mean the casting of Terry's mask... not the
casting of Terry as Jack tho after you see the drawing of Jack and
compare it to Terry's face (natural face) you may wish to draw
your own conclusions on the casting of Terry as Jack... I think
I've straightened that out... or maybe not... so with all that
said, Terry is back in business again and here ya go with his
latest venture!
I found the web page... not sure how... but I did
http://www.myspace.com/jackbuilt
Pictures at:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2007/Xtra/Any/070810-Rivers-00.html
-David Rivers ('65)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry Mattingly ('60), Mike Brady ('61), David Rivers ('65)
Rick Maddy ('67), Vicki Schrecengost ('67), Dan Morgan ('83)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George Stephens ('58)
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: Kaylea wanting to be a Bomber
After getting a late night phone call for help, I was on the road
at the crack of dawn this morning to run some equipment down
south and get back to Bellevue in time for a 9 AM event logistics
meeting with a client. This young lady's desires and the wildly
diverse opinions of others were rattling around inside my brain.
After about 40 minutes of bumper cars on I-5, I decided I may as
well put my nickel's worth in.
I sometimes don't think there is anybody that hated high school
more then I did. And my GPA showed it. I got As in the few
subjects I liked a couple of Bs, and Cs and Ds in the rest. I
can still remember John Allen hammering me about "working so far
below my capability". Frankly if it hadn't been for some Bomber
pride I would have quit. It would have been easy I thought. I was
over 16 and all I had to do was refuse to go. But I couldn't do it
and face my friends who were all Bombers.
Set aside athletics and academics for a moment and think about
what it meant to be a "Bomber". Particularly up to about classes
of '60s and '70s, and a few years after, we had been hurled into
the "Atomic City". Many of our parents were working to build those
terribly destructive devices. Many of them were assigned to the
project on a war time priority and literally had no choice. By the
time we got into Columbia High School most of us realized just
how lucky we were to live in Richland and be a Bomber. It meant
something in those days. And WE WERE PROUD OF IT. At least in
those days Bomber Pride was something unique. Far as I know it
still is, but I only see Richland in passing these days.
My two daughters went to two different high schools in Seattle.
There was no pride in either one. And it showed in the attitude
of teachers, students, and the school administration. To my
disappointment, both quit high school. One in her Jr. year and the
other in her senior year. Within a couple of years both had gotten
their GED. One became a Corporate Controller, the other tracks all
intra-company money movements and accounts for it, for a large
multi-national corporation. Both make a lot more a year then dad
does. They set goals and achieved them, and they did it the hard
way because they had pride in their goals.
There is no shame in taking some pride in your goals. The is
nothing wrong with setting a path to those goals and taking pride
in the accomplishment of them. Sure, Kaylea could probably make it
OK at Hanford. But that is not the course she wants to take. Did
none of us ever pick a difficult path for ourselves? Are there no
Bombers who may have done something the hard way in life?
Some of you will disagree, but I say Kaylea should go after it.
Move in with relatives if need be to get on the other side of the
line. But make it work. Keep your goals in mind and go for it.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry Mattingly( Class of 60, aged well like fine wine)
From home South of Tacoma where my front yard looks
strange. The power company declared the cedar tree
(there when I bought the house) was endangering a
7,000 volt line and they removed it. Strange to come
home tonight and see the whole front yard lit up by
the street light that was hidden in the tree.
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
I've been waiting for this all my life! Today I opened my
Earthlink web site to read the local and national news and
sports coverage. Each section was blank except for the words,
"no breaking news." I hope someday I can turn on the evening
news, and the newsman tells us there is no breaking news today
so we're replacing the news with a Seinfeld episode.
-Mike Brady ('61)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Retraction
In looking back to see what Richard Anderson ('60) / Maddy ('67)
said to create such a fervor, I realized that Behymer ('64) was
married or maybe not married since it all occurred on different
days on the 3rd or the 4th depending on who was standing next
to whom and not on the 8th as my cheat sheet (I didn't say that)
says... so now I gotta take back the stuff about the Grange
hall... tho I am sure that Gary probably went over there sometime
during that period anyway... I assume it is the hot spot...
but since Gary and his sweety weren't even married on the same
day what difference does it make when they celebrate or don't
celebrate or even if they celebrate together... wow that is so
cool... I thought my life was the only one that didn't fit nicely
in the little forms we all have had to fill out sometime in our
past, present or future... I hate those forms... simple questions
like Dad's date of birth... Heck my Dad had no clue... he knew the
day and the month but his whole family disagreed on the year...
so imagine me trying to put down his birth date or his age on MY
little form... I'm so pleased that Gary has to think real hard
when putting "Married Yes___ No___" "Date of Marriage_____"
There's no place for "maybe" on those forms... I hate always
having to put "see attached" for every question... and the answer
always starts out "well, ya see it was like this..." or as Tony
Harrah ('65) loves to say: "Well, we wuz all lickered up... "...
so anyway... I hope the Behymers... or is it just Gary and
Janis... or maybe Behymer and Behymer-Cook... or Cook-Behymer...
so anyway... I have no idea of the demographics or the Richland
School District or how they teach or why they teach or who they
teach or why... I taught school many many years ago and had to
quit before I went crazy as I could not find much teaching going
on... I made it a point to take mostly the kids who were on their
last chance at school... I will say that I managed to keep several
of them out of jail and several more alive... one is even a
Principal himself now... most of them... even his own brothers are
dead... but most of them thanked me when they finished my class...
they knew somebody cared... I left Richland for 20 years the day
after the class of '66 graduated (what a great night it was tho...
woooooooooooweeeeee... almost as good as my own)... I was home on
leave from the Green Machine... so I was a bit shocked to return
and find another high school and Fran Rish Stadium and all that
stuff... I mean I was a tad tipsy the first trip home and couldn't
even figure out HOW I got to Richland when I hadn't even been near
the Pasco bridge... .then I realized I had been on a bridge...
then couldn't find the Rose Bowl... I mean I'm tellin' you: don't
come home for the first time in 20 years drunk or you're gonna
be a might confused... luckily I have never had to repeat that
experience... so anyway... all I know... ALL I really know is
that I shore am glad I got to be a Bomber and wouldn't want it
any other way!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Rick Maddy ('67)
Re: Whatta Tomato
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2007/Xtra/Any/070811-Maddy-tom.jpg
Anyone know this girl, Patty Bauer (Pasco '55-'56?) standing on
a stool holding a tomato? I say "girl" because I am under the
belief that any female seventeen and under is a girl and eighteen
and over is a woman... stated only for any situation needing
clarification. This photo was in the Tri-City Herald... I believe
in summer, 1955. I was six years old. 520 and 522 Douglas were
owned by the Brown family – Kathleen ('59), Ron ('60), David ('63),
Russell ('66 RIP) and the twins, Randy and Janice ('72). My
parents rented the 522 side for one year in Mr. and Mrs. Brown's
duplex house that was two stories with a basement, coal chute and
all - can't remember the style.
My dad left the farm leaving four generations of Iowa farmers
behind him (1810-1937), the only son with four older sisters, but
he never forgot how to farm. He could grow anything. When my
parents lived in Kingston, WA in the '70s, Dad went out in the
woods and dug up eighty-five rhododendrons (yes, the wild, pink,
Washington state flower) and made a 100 foot long hedge out of
them. One of the most beautiful things I ever saw him do... and
this was a man that could out dig three men with a shovel - an
intrinsic aspiration causes this sort of mental illness. And if
he did this today he would be in the WallaWalla pen.
Anyway, I remember this girl showing up with a photographer and
posing with this tomato plant my father had grown in the back
yard. Although I was only five I can recall this day. The 'off the
daily norm chart' days are the ones we usually do recall. There
were several plants like this. My sister, Sheila ('66), and I
would take the tomatoes around to the neighbors in my wagon and
sell as many as we could for a treat at the store. We didn't do
too bad, actually. Interesting that we have done so well with our
society in such a short time trying to improve our life styles
from previous generations that... how many of us parents will let
our eight and six year olds run around the neighborhood on their
own selling tomatoes... or anything for that matter?
If anyone knows this woman, please say hi. Every so often
throughout my dad's life, now deceased (1919-1989), I would ask
him if he remembered the girl in the swimsuit holding his tomato.
He never answered, but always chuckled.
-Rick Maddy ('67)
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>>From: Vicki Schrecengost Carney ('67)
Re: Rick Maddy ('67) and Ed Quigley's ('72) comments
I enjoyed reading both of your entries. I, too, believe our
educational system is failing. My sister-in-law just retired from
a Washington DC school system after 35 years. She worked with the
deaf and multiply handicapped, and her problems were different
in some ways because she had to deal with parents and lawyers
who wanted the school system to subsidize a private education for
every disabled child. Many parents simply refused to believe their
children had ANY limitations when it came to learning. My sister-
in-law believes (as I understand most teachers do) the "No Child
Left Behind" Act is a total crock. And she also believes more will
leave the profession because it is so low-paying. Well, I'm sure
there are a lot of PhDs who believe they are also low-paid. Be
that as it may, I, personally, believe the biggest mistake the
school system made was doing away with trade school education.
There are many kids who just simply will never do well sitting at
a desk 8-10 hrs/day shuffling papers. So they go to college, drink
themselves silly, party hearty and scrape by with grades good
enough to graduate and absolutely no qualifications for any
gainful employment. Yet there is a stigma about being in a trade
which I just simply do not understand. The schools have adopted
this "we are all vanilla" policy. Everyone gets a trophy for
sports participation because we don't want to hurt anyone's
feelings. Hate to break it to you, educators, but the real world
doesn't go by that same philosophy. These kids get out into
the world and they can't cope. They feel entitled and pout and
complain when things don't go the way THEY feel they should. If
an assignment needs to be completed over a weekend and they have
plans, guess what? It doesn't get completed.
My husband is an attorney. He complains endlessly that the law
school graduates (Yale being one of the worst offenders in his
opinion) cannot write! They have no idea what an outline is,
they just sit down and write "stream of consciousness" at their
computer keyboards. Consequently, their briefs to the court make
no sense and they have to be redone by a senior partner. Yet,
these grads demand and are getting over $150,000/yr to start!!!!
And don't even get me started on the Blackberry issue. But these
young people have been told their whole lives how "special" they
are.
Parents attitudes toward the schools has also changed. Time was
if the school called your parents about a problem with you, you
suffered mightily when you got home. Today, many parents believe
the first thing to do is SUE! There was a case in the DC area a
few years back where a student from a private school was caught
cheating while taking the SAT. The proctor bounced the student
and the parents sued the school and probably the SAT people. In
fairness to teachers, they are afraid to look cross-eyed at a
student for fear of being reprimanded, attacked or sued. How did
it come to this?
Education happens at home. I gave up relying on the schools
and made sure my sons got what I felt they needed. Yes, it was
supplemental to the schools' education. But my sons have both
thanked my husband and me for making sure they learned the
basics--like grammar, thank you very much--and both have very
successful careers. Parental involvement is crucial. All of us
are strapped for time--jobs, traffic, church responsibilities,
volunteer responsibilities. But raising self-important children
who are unprepared for the rigors of the work world is getting us
nowhere. I don't hear about that same attitude among the young
people in India and China where all our jobs are being outsourced.
Is this the beginning of the "Fall of the Holy American Empire?"
Perhaps. So sad.
-Vicki Schrecengost Carney ('67)
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>>From: Dan Morgan ('83)
Melanie Orgill Meinhardt ('83) passed away at 3 a.m. on Monday,
August 6, 2007, in Forest Grove, Oregon.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 11, in
Forest Grove.
I am heading down there for the funeral, and when I return I can
point you toward her obituary online.
If you would like to send any messages to Melanie's family, you
are welcome to e-mail me and I can forward and snail mail them to
all of her family.
Melanie was loved by many friends from RHS and she will be missed
greatly.
-Dan Morgan ('83) ~ Richland, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/12/07
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Tom Hoffman ('47 & '48), Roger Brunelle ('61), Roy Ballard ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nat Saenz ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Aaron Roberts('66) & Robbin Ruth Henderson ('67)
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>>From: Tom Hoffman ('47 & '48)
To: All Richland Bombers
Please pray for Jack Johnston ('47). He will be having brain
surgery Sunday morning at 8am... he is a Christian... thank you
-Tom Hoffman ('47 & '48)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Roger Brunelle ('61)
Saturday 08/11/2007 6:28:21am
COMMENTS: I can still see, read, type and I usually turn on the PC
on Friday. If you want to "type the breeze" then type away, I will
respond. I don't believe in sick humor so don't "send" jokes or
any of those "great links".
-Roger Brunelle ('61)
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>>From: Roy Ballard ('63)
Wow, after reading today's Sandstorm, I'm very impressed with
Bombers. From Larry Mattingly ('60), David Rivers ('65), Rick
Maddy ('67) (a day or so ago) and Vicki Schrecengost Carney ('67)
I really enjoyed reading the comments from all of you and I go
along with what all was said. It is great to be a Bomber and
have the "PRIDE" in one's school and school events of life. I'm
especially impressed with the comments of Vicki (who graduated
with my wife Nancy Erlandson). I'm one of the ones who made a
trade my life's work. Being a carpenter all my working life gave
me a lot of "PRIDE" in all the things that I helped build along
the way. And to this day I still can stand back and say that I
helped build that structure or others. The pay, well, let's say
I thought that WE did pretty darn good, especially when I was
working. I ended up getting a worn out body from it, but I
wouldn't change anything, except learn how to lift a little better
and maybe be more careful, but then that is another story.
I agree with Vicki's subject of the school systems of today. I
believe that school district and state systems and all the rest
have done away with things that we older folks had that the kids
of today don't have or don't take advantage of. How many of
today's kids have a job during school to learn responsibility and
achieve a sense of doing a job well? A lot don't. Outsourcing is
killing this country, look at what we are getting from China,
what would happen if we need spare parts for some of our military
equipment? We will be in big trouble, how about selling weapons
systems to Arab countries? I got off the of my subject. Anyway,
The "PRIDE" in one's school namely RHS, I believe is way down,
that comes from the district and the administration, the kids
can't do a lot of things that we as kids did in our day. The
school has or is trying to change history and leaving things out
of history... why be ashamed of history? It's life and life goes
on, but we learn from our mistakes, not that all are mistakes. But
I believe that alternative schools make it too easy for kids and
doesn't force them to work... so anyway just a few more of my
thoughts. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.
-Roy Ballard ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/13/07
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary Triem ('47), Mike Ragland ('57), John Browne ('61)
Gary Behymer ('64), Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Clementson ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary Persons ('57)
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>>From: Mary Triem Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
To: Tom Hoffman ('47 & '48)
Re: Jack Johnston ('47)
Please give me a mailing address for Jack and we will have the
'40's ladies sign a card for him at our monthly luncheon. The
Club 40 database (again, thank you Anna May) has a Bellingham
address and the letter I sent him hasn't been returned yet. I'm
sure all our classmates join me in prayers for him and his family.
-Mary Triem Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
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>>From: Mike Ragland ('57)
Re: Last few days comments
We now live in a completely different world than when we grew up.
Like many of my age, I started working mowing lawns and taking
care of them while the people were on vacation when I was about
twelve. While I had some periods of unemployment, I have worked
pretty much steady since then. Had a lot of menial jobs that
didn't make me rich and famous. Most of us worked the pea harvest,
bucked bails during haying season, picked fruit and similar stuff
for beer and spending money. Worst one was hoeing beets. The
Mexicans would do three rows to our one and we were paid by the
row.
Ours was an innocent world. We grew up in an area that was
protected from outside influence due to the secret nature of the
plant. The FBI was always there to make sure no one got to out of
line. Drugs, even Pot, were virtually unknown back then. There
weren't any steroids for the athletes either. Just a lot of beer,
and an occasional bottle of hard stuff. We could do a lot of stuff
back then because everyone knew everyone in Richland. If we got
caught by a stranger, he sure knew our dad.
Today, we have generations of kids that have been pampered since
they were small children, told all kinds of BS about their
worth and what they should earn in the work place. I owned a
construction company for some time, while my stepchildren were in
high school. I actually had some of these kids tell me that they
would not work for less than $15 per hour, when I was hiring
grown, experienced laborers for $10 per hour. I asked them what
made them special, when they had no knowledge or job skills, that
anyone would pay them more that the going wage? Their reply was
that they were educated and had more self worth than that.
I did hire a couple that agreed to start at $9 an hour, then work
up. They did acquire skills, worked hard and learned as we went.
They went on to become skilled craftsmen and earn well, eventually
becoming union tradesmen and staying working on a regular basis.
The ones too good to work for that pittance graduated from high
school and began working parking cars for the Four Seasons Hotel,
working as bus boys and similar high tech jobs for which I must
assume they were handsomely paid or they would not have worked. Or
just maybe their idea of their self worth approached reality.
In any event, there are some options for today's youth, but if we
continue to pamper them, we will destroy them. Our educational
system is a joke. With the greatest resources in the world, we
have the lowest standards and create the smallest percentage of
engineers and scientists in the industrialized world who demand
the highest wages. And we wonder why we have the speak to someone
in India relative to our technical assistance for computers. We
also wonder why the best of the teaching profession is leaving. No
discipline, no ability to enforce rules, no ability to teach to
those who want to learn. Mainstreaming was a noble experiment, it
didn't work so lets go back to basics.
Enough rambling from a grouchy old man.
-Mike Ragland ('57)
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: You want a what?.. eddication?
Have moicy, have moicy... I gotta say to my esteemed fellow
alumnuses, dos Ricardos, that it don't get no better than Them.
As my mind rolls back, over the inculcation of basic "speed"
arithmetic (muchas gracias, Sr. Wilson, grade 6, at Spalding),
the nuances of grammar from the drop-dead gorgeous Ora Cottrill
(nee Tate), the first "hands on clay" under the elevated brow of
Francis Coelho at Jefferson, my astonishment at first viewing
of the Jefferson Grade School Symphony Orchestra (by the newbie
Catholic kid from Tacoma who only knew Gregorian Chant as a formal
music pursuit) and on & on, the circumstances of all that early
mentoring by "people who KNEW something" - and could transmit it -
remains embedded (sometimes so deeply that I can't seem to extract
it) from those years of grace & wonder. Ida Mecum, PhD & published
poet, guiding me through the intricacies of dissection with a
pickled sheep's eyeball... really - how good does it get? FIVE
foreign languages, including Russian, (we weren't worthy, Sonja
P!), in a Time before Sputnik - back when you studied a foreign
language out of Curiosity (& not in Self-defense), maybe...
halcyon days! A VandeGraaf generator as big as the Ritz... an auto
shop with air tools... a small farm on the outskirts of town...
gigantic kilns, a real in-house newspaper, darkrooms, graphics,
the latest in vaulting poles & shoulder pads, free "Safe Driving"
courses, school nurses, a nutritionist, P.E. taught by PhDs (in
their field!), mathematicians & scientists teaching (mostly)
willing students (not asking what dressing you'd like on your
salad), towering authoritative "builders of men" cracking the
occasional whip (& quip) in the locker rooms, OH! sigh... it's
amazing what the government can do Right - if only enough money
is spent on it... The democracy that was endowed with the absence
of "old Families" (mostly) or ANY kind of "Baronial presence"
socially, was truly infectious... we were "all in this together"
(mostly). A year in Benton City was illustrative of the difference
with which Richland was endowed. Kennewick had the wheat farming
aristocracy and the "townies"; and Pasco had a colony of...
Ebonics-speakers (thanks to the Railroad)... the closest thing to
a foreign-language in our cultural midst at the time... & if we
listened to "Amos 'n Andy" we had a kind of clue, there.
Where did the Kultur-train leave the track? When rock-'n-roll
inveigled its way into the playlists on "KALE Corral"? When it was
pre-determined that, even crawling out from under our desks after
the "Armageddon Cold-War Showdown", we would be the equivalent
of Stone-age people? When the first reefer made its way past the
spectre of the drunken Indian as something to "watch out for"?
When it slowly dawned on those in control of our society (& our
lives) that it was "all about money"? When we "chickened out" &
didn't nuke N. Korea? When the Interstate Highway System & cheap
gas & used cars made it too easy to leave home? When college kids
started work earning more than their fathers? When the best thing
on TV was the commercials? When a lawsuit was the "doorway of
opportunity"? (hey - Perry Mason never sued anybody.) When the
Boogieman became "dwindling resources"... and our lifestyle was to
blame? Lotto? Liquor sales on Sunday? VietNam?
When my youngest daughter was 15 she knew - she KNEW - the lyrics
to enough popular songs to make an equivalency to the Iliad... and
she didn't have AC current in her environs until she was 8 (& she
probably doesn't know much about the Whitman massacre, or the
Donner Party, or the Bullmoose Party, or the marvels that G.W.
Carver performed with the peanut). She CAN build a kayak from
scratch - with hand tools - because she was lucky enough to have a
kitchen job in a fishing village, and decided that wooden boats
were "the s**t" (as kidz will avow, these days). She's a lucky
one...
Teachers today have a thankless task of trying to convince kids
that history matters, that grammar matters, that spelling matters,
that thinking through a "math" problem which involves basic
calculations matters, when there are spell-checkers, calculators
and people who make millions by being big & strong (not
"educated"), and others who make millions by composing songs that
have no necessarily grammar-critical components, &/or who have
mastered an amplifiable musical instrument... &/or who have
"beautiful" faces (& maybe bodies to match). We have millions
of kids with the best "thumb-to-eye" coordination in history -
millions of potential F-22 pilots - in a world where they can feel
superior to their teachers, as 9 year-olds, because they know
how to reboot a computer, program the clock on a VCR, and load a
wireless phone for "speed-dial" for their 10 top friends (which
they can do with their thumbs with the phones in their pockets).
Oliver Hazard Perry, anyone? Mason-Dixon line, children? Gerunds?
And maybe the teacher has some Hispanic students (& didn't need
a foreign language to get a BA & a teaching certificate). Maybe
there are some Hmong kids, & a Thai or two, a Karen, a Somali,
some Guatemalans, some really bright Eritreans (who had to know
2 African languages & Arabic before they were 10)... maybe some
teens from "traditional" families who feel that their daughters
need a new form of clothing... something a bit more modest than
blue jeans, or skirts & blouses...
It was one thing to buy black people and train them to understand
English, and to ignore the "savages" (and let cultural attrition
take its steady toll - anyone know what "shahaptin" is?); but
now we're dealing with cultures as old, or older than, our Euro
roots... and as subtle and pervasive, and self-assured - because
they're "survivors", too. Maybe we can force them all to bi-
linguality, while we don't "lower ourselves" to join them. So,
who's better off, in the long haul?
I may not have been worthy of the government largesse that my
parents (well, OK - my dad) dragged us into in Richland... but I
am grateful to have had the experience, as poorly as I may have
utilized it. (Note: the 8th grade "Iowa Tests" determined that I'd
be a fine astronomer or Forest Ranger - and I concur... they had
me pegged pretty well.) Whatever today's "Richland kids" get out
of their educational experience, the milieu in which they find
themselves is physically better than 90% of the world's other
children. The "socio-cultural" percentile will be up to them &
their parents and the greater community to advance as they see fit
to do so... chow ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: Veterans and servicemen not in uniform to salute the flag...
Legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (S.1877)
clarifies U.S. law to allow veterans and servicemen not in uniform
to salute the flag.
The bill passed in the Senate recently by unanimous consent.
"The salute is a form of honor and respect, representing pride
in one's military service," Senator Inhofe said. "Veterans and
service members continue representing the military services even
when not in uniform. "Unfortunately, current U.S. Law leaves
confusion as to whether veterans and service members out of
uniform can or should salute the flag. My legislation will clarify
this regulation, allowing veterans and servicemen alike to salute
the flag, whether they are in uniform or not. "I look forward to
seeing those who have served saluting proudly at baseball games,
parades, and formal events. I believe this is an appropriate way
to honor and recognize the 25 million veterans in the United
States who have served in the military and remain as role models
to others citizens. Those who are currently serving or have served
in the military have earned this right, and their recognition will
be an inspiration to others." This Bill was passed July 25, 2007.
Let your veteran friends know about the Passage of this Bill.
*****
Salute!
*****
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Sports
I can't believe it's that time of year--football. Right after the
post-game show for the Mariners got over this afternoon they
started with the Seahawks pre game show. I had 3 things going on
earlier; the radio was playing the Mariners and I was flipping
the TV between NASCAR and golf. I guess I'm still a sports nut at
heart.
Does anyone out there know anything about Willamette Dental Group?
When I applied for new insurance I also wanted dental coverage.
The only one I can use is the above even though my dentist is
listed in the provider directory.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA ~ where its been cooler and it
looks like rain possibly overnight
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12 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Dave Rhodes ('52wb), Curt Donahue ('53)
Joretta Garrison ('58), Dale Ennor ('59)
Ernie Trujillo ('59), Patti Jones ('60)
Richard Anderson ('60), Tom Verellen ('60)
Annette Hall ('62), Greg Alley ('73)
Cecily Riccobuono ('77), Mandy Holmes ('97)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Collings ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard Swanson ('64)
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>>From: Dave Rhodes ('52wb)
Mike Ragland ('57) you hit the nail right on the head. I was a
teacher for 39 years, all at the secondary level (HS). When I
started it was a great profession, but as I reached the end I
was very glad to retire. I don't blame the teachers for the mess
because a lot of it was caused by the courts making bad decisions
on education issues. A lack of adequate financing for public
schools was also a determining factor. Parents who gave their
children too much without having to work for it was also a big
factor. If you want good teachers they must be supported or they
will leave for another profession.
I too worked all the jobs that you listed. My family taught me the
value of working for the things that I wanted. We were no poorer
than most people as I grew up, we had enough for the basics, but
the thing I had the most was a very loving and caring family for
my support group.
-Dave Rhodes ('52wb)
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>>From: Curt Donahue ('53)
To: Mike Ragland ('57) & John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Right on, gentlemen!!
-Curt Donahue ('53) ~ Federal Way, WA
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>>From: Sue Pritchett, aka Joretta Garrison ('58)
Re: Class of '58
A note was sent to all known email addresses for our classmates.
Not unexpectedly, 2/3 came back as unable to deliver. If you have
an email address, and have not received a notice from me, please
send your info. In planning for our 50th Reunion next year, we
hope to send as many invitations as possible to email addresses--
saving us a little money on printing and postage.
It would also be helpful if you would confirm your home address
and phone number. These are not shared with others, but will be
useful when trying to find you in the future *grin!*.
When you send your email, please indicate YES or NO that we can
put your email address on the Class of '58 Website.
Re: Reminder For Class Of 1958
Please plan to attend a planning meeting for our 50th Reunion (to
be held next year). We have reserved a room at the Richland Public
Library (Gallery room) on Tuesday, August 14, at 7pm. Bring
thoughts and ideas, and be prepared to get involved.
If you can't come this time but will help in the future, please
call one of us; Barbara Isakson Rau , Judy Crose Snowhite, or me.
[All phone numbers deleted for privacy. Email Sue for those. -Maren]
-Joretta "Sue" Garrison Pritchett ('58) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dale Ennor ('59)
Re: Bomber or Falcon?
All the discussion about which Richland high school provides the
best education and how easy a life the youth of today have makes
me tired.
Ragland ('57), we can all be glad we didn't have it like the
eighth graders in Kansas in 1895. What do you think your grade
would be with this examination?
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2007/Xtra/Any/070814-Ennor-1895Test.htm
Hell, I'd still be there trying to get 5% of the questions correct!
-Dale Ennor ('59)
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>>From: Ernie Trujillo ('59)
To: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: Salute
Gary, thanks for your post on legislation S.1877. As a young
recruit in the 1960s at Lackland AFB, TX, I played in the Drum &
Bugle Corps at Lackland and really enjoyed majesty of Retreat when
we lowered the flag every night. Since retiring in 1980 and now a
civilian, I've always suppressed the urge to salute when the flag
is presented or the national anthem is played and just place my
hand over my heart. I plan on sending Senator Inhofe a thank you
note from a grateful veteran.
-Ernie Trujillo ('59), SMSgt, USAF (Retired) ~ Dallas, TX
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon - Richland - 8/11/07
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-ALL/00.html
As Bomber Nick Nelson ('56) said a few years back at the Fife
Luncheon "takes the glue to keep the luncheons going". We
definitely have many Bombers and spouses who return each month
and more joining in. Always a reunion when two or more attend.
The following were in attendance: George "Pappy" Swan ('59), Kaye
Ivers ('60), Glen Rose ('58), Vera Smith Robbins ('58), Lorin St.
John ('55) and spouse Phyllis ('70, Glacier Hi), Marilyn Swan
Beddo ('63), Betty Bell Norton ('51), Carol Rose (spouse - '62
Sunnyvale, CA Hi), Derrith Persons Dean ('60), Fred Klute ('58),
Sabryna Ahrens ('15, my grand daughter), Dona McCleary Belt ('54),
Jeanne Swan (spouse - '62 Fairbanks Alaska), Roy Ballard ('63),
Nancy Erlandson Ballard ('67), Burt Pierard ('59), Jan Sharpe
(spouse - '65 Kennewick Lion), Kaylene Henjum Livingston ('60),
Lloyd West ('63), Betty West (spouse - '71 JFK, New Orleans),
Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63), Scott Ahrens ('81wb - Gunderson Hi -
my son), Missy Keeney ('59).
Dave Rhodes ('52wb) and Alice Rhodes (spouse - '57 Colville, WA Hi)
got missed in the pictures. Our apologies... you get two next
month. During announcements Betty Bell Norton ('51) let everyone
know that she had brought the Christmas Ornaments of all the
government houses that are for sale. When Carol Rose said she
"graduated from Sunnyvale High School, Sunnyvale, CA.", "Pappy"
stood up and sang part of the song "Do you know the way to San
Jose". I stood up when he finished and let him know I do, as I
had lived there for 22 years. Spent many summers in Richland.
Surprised "Pappy" and some others when I said this. Lorin St. John
received his Birthday Pie which he missed out on last month. There
were no birthdays for the month of August. If it is your birthday
month you will get a piece of pie compliments of JD Diner. All
their pies are home made. Yummy stuff.
Marilyn Swan Beddo was here on her yearly visit to Richland.
Everyone is always so glad to see her. She's off soon to visit the
Queen.
The next announcement was made Roy Ballard, is running for
President of Club 40. Lots of yeah's and happy sounds when Roy
stood up.
Missy Keeney ('59) sang her campaign song for everyone to hear.
My next announcement was that I am running for Vice President
of Club 40 with blessings from many. My son, Scott, and my
granddaughter, Sabryna, were visiting from Tacoma for the weekend.
He couldn't leave until I introduced him. Scott also mentioned
that he is looking for a machining job. A couple of Bombers
immediately had ideas (Go Bombers, always there to help). Scott
comes about four times a year with Sabryna and helps me out with
handy work. Always topped off with a good Bar-B-Q on Saturday
night. When Sabryna stood up to introduce herself she made sure
she had counted before to the exact year she would graduate (2015).
All the smiles and laughter was worth every minute of it. If all
goals for Scott work, he and Sabryna will be moved over here
by spring next year and Sabryna will be a Richland High School
graduate. From all the recent Sandstorm entries about boundaries,
we will be checking them when it is decided where they will live.
One happy mom/Grandma.
There is always a gathering of Bombers still talking like in the
Golden Days in the parking lot as I left: Kathy Hoff Conrad ('64)
was there. She decided to come by after being at a Bomber family
reunion. The family was Jankovic's (SP). As she left, my thoughts
were like the Golden Days checking on who's at By's, Uptown or the
Bowling Alley, later Zip's. Thanks, Kathy, for the great memories.
With a full, happy, enjoyable luncheon, it is time to sign off and
catch up with three days of the Sandstorms and see what is next
with the Bombers.
If any Bombers, spouses or your friends are attending Club 40 and
want to attend the All Bomber Luncheon on Saturday, 9/8/07, please
R.S.V.P. This helps the restaurant to prepare.
Hope to see many of you at Club 40 and the luncheon.
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA the weather
is so what I moved back here for. An 80 degree day,
sunny, birds singing (lots of gold finches in my
back yard and hummingbirds) and the happy laughter
of children playing. Left the air conditioner on
when I went out for a couple of hours. Turned it off
as soon as I got home and opened up all the doors
and windows a few minutes later.
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>>From: Richard Anderson ('60)
Re: A Morality Play in Three Acts
Act One: Richland Knights Junior American Legion Baseball
Thanks to Jim House ('63) and Ben Jacobs ('69) for providing most
of the info about the team.
All fifteen players are RHS Bombers; OK, Zach Rapacz will become
a Bomber freshman when school starts on the 29th; and Trent Sikes
is moving to East Valley (which is in Moxee; I can imagine that
he is not a happy camper about the move). Houston Castillo will
be a (very young) senior; Hayden Hilty and Mike Dunford will be
sophomores; and the rest will be juniors: Brett and cousin Danny
Jacobs, Cody Shepherd, Jamison Rowe, Jamie Morris, Stinson Ott,
Josh Rapacz, Kyle Stumetz, Eric Yardley, and Quinn Zorich.
The kids are off to Anchorage (Anchorage? You've got to be
kidding!) for their final tournament of the season.
Act Two: Anderson's "Bomberness"
I do not give a rat's patoutille about Columbia/Richland (or, for
that matter, Hanford) high school. I care A VERY GREAT DEAL about
having spent my late adolescence living in Richland which -- as
anyone who knows me understands -- I define as the place bounded
on the south and west by Yakima River, the east by Columbia River,
and the north by Hanford Reservation. The only reason that the
area south of the river is within the Richland corporate boundary
is the imbecilic tax system of Washington State. Geographically,
it makes no sense at all.
Being a Richland Bomber means to me being part of that community;
it was really spiffy that the high school of my years had a bomb
for a mascot. I trust that the school will retain that mascot
forever. Anyway, I have my Bomber Booster t-shirt for this year;
do you?
Entr'acte: Links to Interesting Maps
City of Richland Maps (the "Alphabet Home Designation" one is
particularly cool):
http://www.ci.richland.wa.us/RICHLAND/maps/index.cfm
Richland School District Boundary Maps:
http://www.rsd.edu/about/maps/
Kennewick School District Boundary Maps (to show that they are
as screwed up as RSD):
http://www.ksd.org/Portal/Content/Resources/HighSchoolBoundaryMap.pdf
Act Three: The Imperious Contemporary School District
I aver that there is no more destructive institution to a
community than the contemporary school district (RSD being only
one of thousands across the USA). It has no sense of what a
community is, no sense of geography, no sense of what the goal of
an education ought to be. It is run like a feed-lot: number of
animals in; number of animals out (minus "shrinkage", of concern
only when the number is unacceptably large). It has an attitude
of absolute dominion: its property belongs not to the community,
rather it belongs to "the district". Two examples: 1) once John
Steach, board president at the time, got the bright idea of
selling Jefferson to the highest bidder; he wasn't too happy to
learn that if not used for school purposes the property reverted
to park land; 2) from time to time the district condescends to
talk with the community about the citizens' use of school
facilities. It gets noisome really quickly.
School districts are constituted without regard to geography. The
most egregious example I can adduce is that of Sammamish (east of
Seattle): one of its high schools is in Lake Washington School
District, the other in Issaquah School District (I once read that
the two schools are roughly a mile apart ... on the same street).
Good luck in finding community in that arrangement.
Here in Richland we find the same sort of anti-community behavior.
What ever in the world are they thinking in refusing Kaylea
Brackensick from becoming a third generation Bomber? School
enrollment ought to be completely open -- obviously with a
mechanism to sort out problems of one school being oversubscribed
-- with family tradition being right at the top of the list of
tie-breakers. Of course, being a superior athlete does wonders:
Cartmells (Ben and Sam) lived well within the Hanford boundary and
magically materialized at RHS; David Lehrshall could have walked
to HHS. I am certain that there other examples I am not aware of.
Grades. Ah, grades. All those kids showing up on the honor roll.
They do not want ME to have anything to do with their grades. No
high school kid who can say "me and my dad went to Home Depot" is
going to show up on my honor roll; no high school kid with a St
Louis Cardinal cap on his head, who does not know where St Louis
is, is going to show up on my honor roll. But they show up on
today's honor roll. Students come out of school these days knowing
almost nothing. It is as though they went through twelve years of
day care, not twelve years of preparation to become productive
citizens.
Sure, there are exceptions. It is why I asserted that HHS is
superior academically to RHS. At the very top of the scale, where
you find the kids who are going to end up with PhD's (I use
National Merit achievement for this measurement), Hanford cleans
Richland's clock: one year the score was HHS 18 - RHS 1 (or
thereabouts, I'd have to do some digging to get the absolutely
correct data).
All that you can do to have any effect on the future of the
schools where you live is to become active in the affairs of your
school district. Here in Richland primary ballots are due on
Tuesday, August 21st (that's a week from today). And when the
general election rolls around in November, make certain that you
KNOW which candidate deserves your vote. Oh, and be sure to vote.
Curtain
Finally, about "rat's patoutille": I have seen Ratatouille twice
(the best movie I've seen in ten or twenty years (I don't go to
many); and patoutille seems much more elegant than "patootie"!
Bomber cheers,
-Richard Anderson ('60) [or maybe (09,)?]
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>>From: Tom Verellen ('60)
To: John Browne ('61)
1: Sha-haptin: ghetto for s--t happenen?
B: Gregorian Chant, singing political slogans in the governor's
campaign?
3: Mr. Scott, physics and steam powered cars.
By the way excellent rant. I'm pretty sure I agree. I think the
Iowa test indicated that my career path should be imprinting the
city names on the bottom of coke bottles or putting the dots on
the back side of Oly labels. I know pretty high aspirations for
the South end of Richland.
-Tom Verellen (09.)
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>>From: Annette Hall Bundrant ('62)
To: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Willamette Dental
Better hope they have better dentists over there than here in the
Tri-Cities. Not a good experience for myself and husband, Bob ('62).
Check them out and demand good service.
-Annette Hall Bundrant ('62)
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>>From: Greg Alley ('73)
I am writing with great sadness to inform some long time Bombers
of the passing of Bernie Saueressig. He was a Bomber dad, Falcon
dad, friend, my dad's friend, and friend to many others. He passed
away Friday, August 10th and the funeral is still pending with
Einan's. I can say I go back with him and Marlene cause I was in
their wedding photo 50 years ago.
Einan's Website
-Greg Alley ('73) ~ Summer is winding down and its a little cooler
in the evenings.
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>>From: Cecily Riccobuono McClanahan ('77)
Re: Class of '77's 30 year reunion
What a weekend! Many, many thanks to Deb Nelson Burnett, Deb
Bowling Lee, Jeanie LaCroix Grant and the others who helped make
this all happen. EVERYTHING was perfect. It was great to see
everyone and share stories, laughs, and tears. Trish Saucier,
you're still a riot. Lisa McDonald still knows how to party.
Sandy Oberg and Michelle Ruane, still two of the nicest, sweetest
people I'll ever know. Bill Peterson, so much fun to talk to. Your
memory amazes me. Aldolfo Zaval