Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/06/14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9 Bombers sent stuff: Mike CLOWES ('54), Larry MATTINGLY ('60) Margaret EHRIG ('61), David DOUGLAS ('62) Jim HAMILTON ('63), Linda REINING ('64) Pat DORISS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66) Betti AVANT ('69) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary COLLINS ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harvey IRBY ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Willie MITCHELL ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam PYLE ('69) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Boy! Did I miss one? I'm probably now on the proverbial list, maybe even worse. I forget Gina WILLIAMS' ('54) birthday [10/5] yesterday. Oh, the shame, the horror, the humanity. And I can't blame the ol' propeller beanie for this good. I could, but we all know it can't read. I could even say that I lost the "stickie", but I don't use them, so there you are. A belated birthday greeting for this Bomber Babe, fellow classmate and fellow worker (for a time) at the North Star. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the weather guessers are calling for "nice" weather through next weekend. By "nice", they mean no rain. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60) Re: The Great Pumpkin Caper At Entertainment Fireworks our business is fireworks displays for a huge variety of reasons. While July 4th is over 50% of our business the rest of the year we never know what the phone may ring for. But client's request comes first (safely of course). Last Wednesday the 1st of October Jackie and I left the house at 5:45am headed to an undisclosed location near LaCenter, WA where we were to blow up as many as 50 pumpkins in front of very expensive professional level high speed cameras. The results were to be used in a "Pumpkin Busting Sale" promotion, including a TV campaign. We drove up to a crowd, Make-up lady doing the face of the actress, a full movie-set crew running cables and lights and screens to filter the sunlight. A director was viewing the scene and setting camera positions. They wanted to do all of the actress work first. But I suggested a test shot so they would know what to expect. So the client says "OK pop a pumpkin". I had tested several shots a couple of days before so I would look as if I knew what I was doing in front of cameras. I pushed the button and the pumpkin went bang and the pieces flew in perfect formation for high speed photography. Everybody cheered, and got down to business. After we shot about 15 shots the client says "that's a wrap" and turned to us and said "you have so totally satisfied our needs that we have more then enough film that is perfect in all respects". "Mark your calendar as we will do this again next year". "E-mail us your invoice and we will cut the check immediately". "This was a very satisfying experience" and he shook my hand. Everybody tuned to and helped pick up the pieces. The worst part was what someone called "pumpkin snot" was sticky, slimy, smelly, goo caused by the explosives and was scattered all over the area. Our client is confidential until they are ready to break it out. But it will be on U-tube sometime on the 14th of Oct and the TV campaign will begin shortly after that. You can see a sample of what we did on Jackie's blog. Click on the URL below. http://www.travelpod.com/z/jackies-world/133/1412558802 "Happiness is popping pumpkins" -J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ from Home south of Tacoma on a very nice sunny day. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61) Judy WILLOX ('61) Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) Re: All Bomber Lunch ~ aka Patti's All Bomber Lunch To: All Richland/Col-Hi Bombers It is time to start raking leaves. Football has started and it is almost time for the pumpkins to be carved. Grab some friends and come join us at the All Bomber Lunch held the second Saturday of each month. WHEN: Saturday, October 11, 2014 (always 2nd Saturday) TIME: We gather about noon or 12:30 WHERE: JD DINER, 3790 West Van Giesen, West Richland (Second building on the right after crossing the Yakima River Bridge.) -Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61) -Judy WILLOX (Classic Class of '61) ~ Richland -Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David DOUGLAS ('62) On this day in 1998, Patty BEZZIO ('63-RIP), my first genuine love, left behind the ethnic folk music she enjoyed to join a celestial choir. I was Patty's first date and first boyfriend. Our first date was to our German class Christmas party at the Army Officers' Club in North Richland. When I asked her to go with me, she screamed, and we had to come in after school to write 200 times, "I am a menace to the good of society," in German. A few nights before the date I dreamed that when I went to pick her up for the party, she was wearing blue jeans. I called her the next day and she assured me she was going to wear a lavender dress. I was about to leave to pick her up the night of the party when her mother called. Patty was sick and couldn't go. I told her if Patty couldn't go I didn't want to go either. About a half hour later her mother called again to say Patty was feeling better and would like to go, if I still wanted to. I said I'd come get her. She was indeed wearing a dress and I managed to pin her orchid corsage on without drawing blood. We got to the party after everyone had finished eating, but they had saved some food for us. I ate mine, but Patty took a few bites and spent the remainder of the evening in the restroom throwing up. When Christmas vacation was over I asked her to go to a basketball game with me. She didn't scream or throw up that time. Later she admitted she was so nervous on our first date that she made herself sick. In spite of that, she became my steady date until shortly after I graduated. Patty was also the first girl I asked to kiss good night. She said, "Yes, but please do it before we get to my house." We had our ups and downs, but I learned much about love from her and have many happy and poignant memories. Thank you, Patty. Rest in peace. http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics/RIP63BezzioPatty00mem.htm -David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63) Re: Buon Compleanno I've waiting to receive my Poor Work Slip from my Rosetta Stone Italian program. Back when the forever young and always lovely Miss Nancy ('65) and I were living in the Bel Paese (not the cheese), I fancied myself as being pretty damn good when it came to whippin' my Italian on the locals. I've now decided that I must have sounded like an untuned accordion and that my Señor Maruca taught Spanish (what I remembered) was not the great base for communication I imagined. When I took Vietnamese on Uncle Sugar's dime at DLISW, I reached a "Me Tarzan You Jane" level of proficiency in only about 10 weeks, you might say I do have a gift. So forty some years later and with an extended trip back to Italy in the works for next May, I've decided to "refresh" my abilities. My "Learning Mode" bus missed my stop some time back, so I'm kind'a having to walk my way and it's a good thing too, because it's a long ways, but I have seven months to get there. I digress. The Birthday Day girl, was and is, one of the South End's finest and never ceases to make me smile. I found this picture of our fifth grade class http://rhs63.tripod.com/63LC5th-Brinkman.html and it gave me pause, because at least eight of our class members have left us. I can remember nearly all the names and there are memories when I look into each face. I can see that Jerry KERN was clean shaven that day, Chico has on his teepee creepers and I sure hope that's a poorly placed rabbit's foot hanging from Bobby Chipmunk's belt. I expect I'll get a call about 8:32am, giving me Hell and telling me that I've ruined her birthday, again. Then when we muster in Olympia on December 6th at 10:00am for the GMC63MCCS Christmas Gala (see how I deftly worked in a plug), she'll pick up where she left off. Happy Birthday to Mary Margaret COLLINS ('63) one of the Atkins Street Beauties. They just don't make them like her any more, and it's a shame. -jimbeaux -Jim HAMILTON ('63) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Linda REINING ('64) Been a long time since I have written into the Sandstorm... been a busy few months. My son-in-law took a job in Idaho, so he moved to Meridian the end of May... my daughter, their two kids and I were all in Bakersfield, til the house sold... we moved up here the end of September. they bought a home in Kuna... small town outside of Meridian... we are in the Boise area... think we are about 20 miles from Boise, if that much. am LOVING this weather... 70s and 80s during the day, 60s at night. can't wait for Winter and SNOW... been over 40 years since I have lived where it snowed... everyone says this area doesn't get a lot of snow, but we are only about 45 minutes from Bogus Basin and it is the place where they all go for snow sports and playing in the snow... can't wait... course, this blasted arthritic knees and hips might keep me from actually making snow angels, but won't be from a lack of trying. *grin* another "plus" is that I am only about 4 hours from Richland, so will be close enough to go "home" and visit family and friends who are still in the area. My youngest daughter and her son are still in Bakersfield, which is only a 13 hour drive, so we will be making plenty of trips back down there, too... and they are both coming here for Christmas... can't wait... she is an elementary school teacher, so has two weeks off, so they will spend that time, here... am excited for that, too. -Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) Re: George BARNETT ('63-RIP) I just received a phone call from my friend and classmate, Beth BARNETT Vickstrom ('65). She asked me to submit an entry to the Sandstorm notifying Bombers that her brother, George, passed away in his sleep early this morning (October 5th) at his summer cabin in Pinetop, AZ. Tentatively, services will be held Thursday (October 9th) in Tucson, AZ (location and time TBD) with burial on Friday (October 10th) at the National Cemetery in Sierra Vista, AZ. Beth will provide more information/details when she has it. If you'd like to contact Beth, I can give you her email address and cell phone number.. Rest in Peace, George! -Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) Re: John FANKHAUSER ('80), front lines of Ebola crisis in Liberia 10/5/14 Tri-City Herald "As a young man growing up in Richland, FANKHAUSER, now 52, would talk about becoming a doctor and working in a developing country. ‘He's always had a real heart for missions. I've always looked up to him for that,' said his younger brother, Don, a teacher in Kennewick. ‘He didn't go into (medicine) to make a lot of money. He wanted to help people.' FANKHAUSER works with Serving in Mission, or SIM, an international Christian mission organization, at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. " -Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where our weather is in the 80s again for a few days **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Betti AVANT ('69) Re: Badger Mountain I conquered Badger Mountain again on Saturday for breast cancer awareness. I had to stop more times than I could count but came back with all 10 toenails this year. I did bandage the one I lost last year as it has just come back totally after 10 1/2 months when I was told it would take a year. I see both cancer doctors on Friday, a 4-month follow-up (had been every 3 up until this one). Have a great week Bombers everywhere. -Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************