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17 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Donna McGREGOR ('57)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Burt PIERARD ('59)
David MANSFIELD ('59), Mary ROSE ('60)
Walt BAILEY ('60), John ADKINS ('62)
Paula BEARDSLEY ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Rick MADDY ('67), Mike FRANCO ('70)
Brad UPTON ('74)
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NOTE: Bomber's last name in high school is now in ALL CAPS
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick LOHDEFINCK ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tobe ROBERTS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Dick McCOY (The Tin Can Class of '45)
You can buy the old pens in many art stores... they are the best
for pen and ink drawings.
Re: The old pic of the to be patrol headquarters and the
Transient Quarters.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/100102-00.htm
The most interesting part of the latter is the right
side of the pic where the 1944 football team played its home
games in 1944. We played Pasco in the mud and chewed up the field
pretty well. Then, for our last game, the cleatmarks froze solid,
and were not too comfortable on contact. Ah, the memories of wet
moleskins and face maskless leather helmets. maybe... that's what
is wrong with me.
-Dick McCoy from the Tin Can Class of 1945
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>>From: Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57)
Re: Fountain Pens
I have seen fountain pens and refill cartridges at WALMART even!
Can you believe that?
-Donna McGREGOR Salazar ('57) ~ n very cold Espanola, NM
where it has hit below zero
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: CC Anderson's
My mother Jessie Melton (she did not go by Jessie as she never
liked the name) worked at the Style Center until it burned down;
then she went to work for CC Anderson's in the women's ready to
wear and worked there until she retired in 1965. Also Rebecca
Anderson DeGraw worked there until I do not know when.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Burt PIERARD ('59)
To: Don Sorenson (Documentarian)
Re: 1944 Richland Pic
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/100102-1944_Richland.html
I believe your caption is slightly in error (typical DDRS
problem). The pic is (probably) of the Richland Electric &
Appliance and Paul's, Inc. business that moved in when the
Security Patrol moved to their new digs (a remodeled, unused
Women's Dorm west of The Cafeteria) in 1947. They hadn't put
up a sign yet but looking at Pic # 1 below shows that the front
had been remodeled (removing the porch overhang), it looks like
electrical stuff in the windows and a concrete sidewalk had been
poured. It looks like your pic should fit somewhere between Pics
1 & 2 below.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Pie/100103-00.htm
Pic # 1: Security Patrol occupying the old George McClendon Tract
House (unknown date).
Pic # 2: Ernie's Typewriter & Printing (circa 1993) - also notice
the rear of the Hanford House on the left to get the reference
location. According to Paul Beardsley, Ernie's was indeed, the
last use of the house and it became part of the parking lot for
The Hanford House in 1969.
To: Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
Re: Desert Inn
Your Uncle could not have been working for DuPont and living at
the Desert Inn since Vance Hotel Properties did not move in (and
re-name the facility as the Desert Inn) until 1948, long after
DuPont had left. Perhaps he was actually referring to the
Transient Quarters, which opened in December, 1943? I also, do
not believe that the single women transients who arrived on the
train in Pasco (1943 & 1944), in the middle of the night (like my
Dad did), would be left out on the street until they could catch
the bus to Hanford in the morning. The "Women's Dorm" you refer
to was actually one of the 8 permanent resident Men's dorms built
in the Spring of 1944 for the single, male Operations employees.
In Pic # 3, you can see the dorms in the upper right hand corner
and nothing else there. There were 17 permanent resident Women's
Dorms constructed at about the same time as the Men's, but they
were located between Knight St. & Lee Blvd, west of The Cafeteria
(later The Mart). I have found no indication that any of those
were ever used for Women Transients.
Pic # 3: 1945 Richland - Note the Men's Dorms toward the upper
right hand corner, the Women's Dorms just south of the 700 Area
and near the center, the Transient Quarters middle right, and the
Security Patrol Headquarters (later Ernie's) just south of the
TQ.
Pic # 4: circa 1944 Pic - Note Men's Dorms on right and rear view
of the Security Patrol Headquarters on the lower left.
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt PIERARD ('59) ~ Richland
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>>From: David MANSFIELD ('59)
Re: Hanford Power House, March 14, 1947
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/100103-Man-47HPH.jpg
Here is a picture I found in one of my mother's scrap books. It
was taken on March 14, 1947 on the Hanford project. The five
gentlemen are left to right, L. Bellande, Ray Cowin, Roy or Ray L
DeMyer, G. W. "Doug" Mansfield and M. Menkins. I may have the
spellings wrong as I had trouble reading the signatures on the
pictures. Doug Mansfield is my father. I suspect that the four
on the left were all Riggers or Iron workers. The man on the far
right is probably their supervisor judging by his dress. The
building on the left looks like a power house. I think I can make
out the ash hoppers and the duct work leading into the concrete
stack. Also note the wooden ladder leaning up against the stack.
I suspect these riggers climbed the stack for some kind of
maintenance. Safety has always been a big issue on the Hanford
project. Those of you with industrial experience will note that
the ladder has been properly tied off to the stack rungs. Further
power house clues is the pile of coal on the right and the rail
road tracks leading in from the back ground.
I don't recognize the area location. Dad worked out of 200 East
and West. Although I know he and the riggers worked all over the
project. If someone else can recognize the specific area let me
know. Further, I do member Dad mentioning Ray Cowin over the
years but I do not remember any of the other names. It is
possible that DeMyer might be related to Mary Lou DeMYER
Gonza ('59).
Sunshine today in Eugene Towne and rather nice outside. I did
get out and did a bit of tree pruning.
-David Mansfield ('59)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: Entry from Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)\
Re: salary at C.C. Anderson's
I was working at Ward's Ice Cream in Uptown during 1958 and 1959.
My salary went from about 95 cents to $1.00 while I was there,
as the minimum wage was raised to $1.00 at that time. Then I
started with GE in June of 1960 right after graduation at about
$2.50/hour. Thought I was rich. Actually in those days you could
support yourself easily right out of high school. My husband
at the time and I not only supported ourselves but we put him
through 4 years of college and 3 years of law school. Most kids
are unable to do that today. ~~~ The good old days!!!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60) ~ Centerfield, UT Where we are still
under snow and expecting more today. No signs of it yet!
Thank goodness.
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>>From: Walt BAILEY ('60)
Re: Happy New Year all
As I sit by the beach and recall the wonderful times I had
growing up in Richland and the friends I have long since
forgotten, I daily read the Sandstorm to see how their lives
have been.
I feel very lucky about life. It was never perfect and not
always fun. It had had some great highs and extremely deep
lows. Different but not to dissimilar from everybody else.
I hope you all have a great 2010.
-Walt BAILEY ('60)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Desert Inn
To: Burt PIERARD ('59)
What is the building north east of the Desert Inn in Don
Sorenson's 100102-T_Q_Richland picture?
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/100102-T_Q_Richland.html
I do not recall that building.
-John ADKINS ('62)
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Burt responded:
The building in the NE area from the Transient Quarters
was the Original Masonic Temple which was severely damaged in
Richland's first case of Arson, November 13, 1948. I have no
documentation of this but I believe this is when they built the
new structure on Thayer Dr. rather than re-build the old one. By
the way, another building was torched that same night, Lewis &
Clark School.
Bomber Cheers,
Burt
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: Don Sorenson's photos
What is really dramatic to me is the lack of trees in Howard Amon
Park behind the Desert Inn. It shows how much work has been done
to make that park the wonderful place it is now. Loved seeing
the early picture of the building that became Ernie's Printing.
I remember a lot of trips to Ernie's with Dad (Paul Beardsley)...
they were good friends for so many years. I miss them both.
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Happy, exciting and fulfilling New Year to all Bombers
everywhere!!!
Re: Cartridge fountain pens
To: Burt PIERARD ('59)
As recently as 4-5 years ago, I know the Sheaffer calligraphy pen
set (four nibs of varying width) was still available in office
supply and art supply stores with the plastic cartridge refills.
I haven't noticed the refills hanging up at Staples recently, but
I haven't been looking for them, either. Way back in the late
'60s/early '70s I purchased a Parker ball point pen & mechanical
pencil set, polished steel top and turquoise-colored plastic
lower barrels, that had a lifetime warranty. I finally lost the
pen in the late '80s when it dropped between the baseboard and
the wall in a very old office building, Headquarters of the Army
Intelligence & Security Command at Arlington Hall Station in
Arlington, VA (it was built early in the 20th century as a girl's
school and leased in perpetuity to the Army near the end of WWII,
but the Army gave it to the State Department around 1988 when
they moved INSCOM to Fort Belvoir to eliminate $7 million per
year in base operating costs; State made it the new campus for
the Foreign Service Institute and the superb language training
that they give to Foreign Service Officers and attaches). State
razed the less impressive buildings there and built new brick
ones in their place, but that old headquarters building is still
the center of that facility - for all I know the pen is still
there, inaccessible without removing the baseboard. However, the
pencil stopped working properly about 10-12 years ago - the
mechanism wouldn't hold the lead out, it would slowly creep back
into the barrel - and when I contacted Parker, they honored the
lifetime warranty, even though I no longer had the warranty
paper, by sending a replacement that does still work today. In
addition to that honorable customer service experience, I like
Parker because their ball point pens seem to have the smoothest,
most consistently performing ink flow of any I've used. I bought
another one to replace the one I lost, and the refills work
as well as or better than the Cross and Mont Blanc (much more
expensive) refills called for in some generic pens I own. Parker
isn't the cheapest, but it is reasonable in cost and I would give
it a BEST BUY.
To: Paul WORRELL ('57)
Blue & Orange? Around here, that's the University of Virginia
Cavaliers, who are not playing any bowl, and will have a new
coach next year because of a couple of consecutive really bad
years. To be specific, that's navy blue - not sure which shade of
blue applies to BSU.
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Great shots! Desert Inn before the dike - in fact, was it still
Desert Inn when the dike was built? I think so, but I'm not sure.
Regards, ecb3 - from a cold and windy but sunny second day of
2010 in central Virginia.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Jay SIEGEL (Classic Class of '61)
I'm so glad that I brought up Licorice tea to Linda REINING ('64)
for her sore throat. I did not realize that it was really good
for the effects of chemo and just plain settling the stomach.
Mint tea I know is good the an upset stomach. Funny, I love the
FLAVOR of Licorice, but I do NOT like the candy. Don't like the
chewiness. Not even jelly beans (except for the black licorice
ones) and also gummy bears.
Linda, I still want to get to Safeway to see if they have the tea
there still. Like all medicinals, it's not evaluated by the FDA,
but the company supports this as a throat heath deal.
I hope everybody had a very safe New Year's eve. I'm excited
about this year and with all it brings.
To: Don Sorenson "NAB"
I don't recognize the first picture. Do you know where/what it
is? Love the Desert Inn. I wonder how long it was before they
built the dike?
To: Linda REINING ('64)
I'm glad that you found the tea.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
the sun is trying to come out and the rain has left us.
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Chuck Curtis ('55),
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Beh/100103-Curtis55.jpg
The year is 1959... shown here accepting the coveted 1st team
Little All-American Award from sportswriter Earl Luebker. Curtis
amassed a total of 2173 points during his four years at Luteville
(Pacific Luthern College) and was a unanimous choice to the All-
Evergreen Conference team for four straight years.
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Jay SIEGEL ('61)
Re: Licorice
I found the STASH Tea at our local Von's, but I don't care for
it... not enough licorice taste... it has cinnamon, orange peel,
and some other things in it, so am going to keep looking for just
plain, licorice tea. I do buy the Australian licorice candies...
love those! in fact, "Santa" put a small package in my sock.
*grin*
To: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Re: pictures
loved the pictures of the snow at your place... makes me homesick
for it... not sure I'd want to drive in it anymore, since it's
been over 35 years since I have done that, but I miss it at
Christmas-time. miss having a "White Christmas"... remember all
the times we'd go sledding down Carmichael hill with our new
sleds or "saucers"... and, then going to someone's home for hot
cocoa afterwards... fun memories.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ dense fog in
Bakersfield, CA but no rain
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: how does time fly so fast???????????????
Hard to believe... It seems Kim Fowley on Little Steven's
Underground Garage does enjoy his Wailers... sometimes I'd like
to hear a different song but he seems to manage at least one play
per show... Outa Our Tree isn't one of my favorite songs tho I
still have the album... well I mean... it is the Wailers... but
today he played Dirty Robber... one of the best vocals Kent ever
Wailed as far as I'm concerned... just sent shivers allllllllllll
over my boooooooooooody... just sends me back in time to hear our
boyz on the radio... again... then I tend to stay lost in time
for a while... Thinking of that time Jack GARDINER ('61) voiced
the horror he felt when he realized that Salem was the dividing
line between Chief Jo and Carmichael and the reality of half his
friends going to a different Jr Hi....What a shock that was for
me too... luckily I had moved to Jason Lee for 6th grade so I
didn't feel it as strongly when 7th grade came... and then I
began to think... of "the walk"... not... not like an Egyptian...
THE walk... the one so many of we younger kids practiced... even
if we hid while doing it... I think George BARNETT ('63) even
admitted practicing the walk the last time I brought it up...
I guess the reason I bring it up today is that time has passed
and it has been over a quarter century since the Walk left us...
remember how our friends razzed us when we turned 25... the
quarter century mark? Well Chuck GARDINER ('63 RIP) has been
gone now for over that long... but today, on the 3rd, the day he
departed, I just want to remember him... he was a true Richland
hero... makin' those choices we all hadda make... cigarettes or
play B-ball this week... be a real teenager or try and be what
"they" want us to be... always reminds me of that Tommy Sands
song "Teenage Crush"... "they've forgotten when they were young"
(tho that was a pretty stupid choice Tommy made... I mean nobody
in their right mind would marry Sinatra's daughter....nothing
good could possibly come from that... by-the-way, Tommy is still
around... not great health but sometimes my ol Buddy Glenn Glenn
brings him around to the concerts now and then... one time we
even got Sandy Nelson to come out of his cave to do a little Teen
Beat (with one leg)... see how I get lost in the past... Jack,
thanks for sharin' your lil' Bro with us for the time we had him!
Thanks for being my friend!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
I know these palindromes get kicked around now and then and this
one should have been here yesterday... I didn't come across it
until today. This one is numbers:
01/02/2010, or Jan. 2, 2010, is the second palindrome date out of
36 that occurs this millennium. The first was 10/02/2001. Before
2001 the most recent date was in 1308 since days of the month
never exceed 31. The next palindrome date comes next year:
11/02/2011. In much of the rest of the world, today’s date
appears as day/month/year, or 02/01/2010. But for inhabitants
of these countries, rest assured that there will be plenty of
opportunities to celebrate even more than our paltry 36: they
will get 60 between 2001 and 3000.
--Aziz Inan, University of Portland electrical engineering
professor
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70), what do you mean "two hotels on GWWay"?
How can you refer to GWWay hotels without including the fabulous
Bali Hi?!?!?! When those other semi respectable hotels turned
their back on us where did we 16-18 year old Bombers turn for our
New Year's Eve parties????
I am ashamed that a fellow class of 1970 member would show such
disrespect for the Bali Hi. Of course those were your Pre-Hoagy
years so you were not yet enlightened!
We will cover all these activities during our 40th this summer!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)
Re: Pens & Ink
I was watching a show on the History Channel about our space
program. It said that NASA had spent several million dollars
developing a pen that would write in zero gravity... the Russians
used pencils.
-Brad UPTON ('74)
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