Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/01/15 ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10 Bombers sent stuff: Curt DONAHUE ('53), Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56) Keith ARNDT ('60), Marvin McDONALD ('60) Mary ROSE ('60), Margaret EHRIG ('61) Leoma COLES ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64) Dennis HAMMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 65 days till the start of Iditarod 43 (March 7, 2015) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larson GRENINGER ('60) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna PARDEE ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken DEERY ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark PERKINS ('75) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FITZPATRICK ('80) BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49) & Shannon CRAIG ('50) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53) To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Mike, Math was never your strong suit, was it? -Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Pasco **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56) I would like to wish my sister Grace DeVINCENTIS Spice ('50) a happy belated birthday [on 12/31] and a healthy and fun filled new year. I know she wishes she could spend New Year's Eve with her longtime friend and fellow Richland Bomber companion Bill Clifford. They spent many New Year's Eve dinners together and she always told me how much fun he was to be with. Best wishes Gracie, I love you and hope we can be together soon. -Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Keith ARNDT ('60) Re: Sandstorm: Obey the Rules and Breathe Easy I've always enjoyed the clever, articulate writing of Jimbeaux ('63) and his latest contribution was spot on. While I'm as opinionated as anyone (probably more so) our beloved Alumni Sandstorm is not the place for our political ranting. I much prefer viewing photos of all those old people I used to know than reading someone's opinion that makes my blood boil. I can easily achieve the latter effect by talking to my brothers-in- law. -Keith ARNDT ('60) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Marvin McDONALD ('60) Re: Happy New Year Wishing all of you the very best in the coming year. Praying that 2015 will be the best year we have had and that health and wisdom and prosperity will be our greatest gifts. -Marvin McDONALD ('60) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60) So enjoyed many of the entries today. Especially the ones from Dave ROBERTSON ('60) and Dennis HAMMER ('64). Keep up the good work, Maren ,and thank you for all you do!! -Mary ROSE Tansy ('60) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61) Re: It's official! I hope this ends any further discussion of the meaning of Richland Bombers. On the front page of the Tri-City Herald this morning [12/31/14] there is a picture of the gift of the class of 2014 being installed on the 1000 building. It is the MUSHROOM CLOUD. No more discussion of the Payday Bomber should be allowed. http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ehr/150101-Mushroom_Cloud.jpg [I asked Margaret where the "1000 building" is. She said she was going by the school and would get back to me. Her response follows. -Maren] I drove all the way around and did not see the mushroom. The 1000 building is to the north of the gym but I could not see the north end of it. The 3000 building is Mac Hall (the science and math building). I did not get out and walk around but there is an inner courtyard that would be at the north end of the 1000 building so my guess is that is where it is. The only Payday airplane I saw was on the trailer that the bank uses. I think the other one was on the old tennis backstop. [It has been reported that two other Bombers went looking for the mushroom cloud and didn't find it. I now know that the "1000 building" is the main building where the original Col-Hi building was erected in 1943. http://richlandbombers.com/RHS-ThruTheYears.html RHS is now "gated"... WOW! -Maren] -Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Leoma COLES ('63) Happy new year to all my Bomber friends... my year has been really great... and I have had company for the last two weeks! Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2015!! -Leoma COLES ('63) ~ from sunny Gleneden Beach on the Oregon coast **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bill SCOTT ('64) Ed QUIGLEY ('62) was SO right on in yesterday's Sandstorm, echoing something I've had in my mind for several years: too many people these days CHOOSE to be offended. Future historians may label this era the Age of the Offended. Someone's offended by something ALL the time. I for one am sick of it. The more enlightened among us shrug our shoulders and get on with our lives. Great job, Maren, in shunting political discourse to the side. I like the way the Sandstorm has always been: light and entertaining. I've enjoyed the stories, Bomber news, announcements, etc. It's no place for political discourse; I see far too much of that on my facebook page. Ain't it amazing how anonymity brings out the viciousness in people. -Bill SCOTT ('64) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) Re: "It-Never-Snows-in-Southern-Cali-forn-ia" Hey, all you Bombers living in Southern California and areas east enjoy that show we sent you. We must have sent it because we have only had just a little trace of snow twice this year. How about you sending guys posting in some pictures in the Sandstorm of yourselves making some snow angles or otherwise playing in the snow. -Dennis HAMMER ('64) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: The day it all Happned, Baby By Robert Thom. I'm onna hunt. It was published as a short story in Esquire, December 1966 issue. Where I would have been reading a December, 1966, issue of Esquire is beyond me. Given that I read virtually nothing until late 1968 it is even harder for me to fathom. But read it I did. It took the saying "don't trust anyone over thirty" to and new extreme. I guess it could have been in a doctor's office, as some of those publications can be pretty stale, at least inna old days before every doc had CNN on his wall. I recall clearly going to see a movie in 1968 called "Wild in the Streets" and recognized it as being based on the short story. I think it was then that I learned never compare the film version with the written work... no, that was Flowers for Algernon, called "Charlie" in the movie. The short story was fantastic but the film was only so so (Wild that is)... I tried to just pretend Flowers and Charlie were two different works entirely and it helped a little... well if anyone has a copy of Thom's short story in their archives lemme know... Today, New Years Eve (yesterday, tomorrow) is very nasty and cold in Vegas... almost as cold as the winter of aught eight ... man I've always wanted to say that... now I finally had my chance... Normally we get up early and drive to State line for a car show... but after seeing the weather report, alla Donut boyz agreed we ain't gonna go sit and freeze our behinds off this year... I think it has something to do with age... the guys now in their 80s stopped going a few years back... now most of the rest of us are in our late 60s and early to mid 70s and we've joined that bunch... I know, I know... what do we know about cold inna Mojave desert... Well I got confused yesterday and thunk it was Dennis HAMMER's ('64) b-day and thank goodness the Bomber-babe in charge corrected me... I checked with Dennis and I was a month off... well, I'm pretty sure I got this Bomber-babe right so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Donna PARDEE ('65), on your special day, January 1, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************