Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/02/14
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7 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Gus KEENEY ('57), John ADKINS ('62)
Frank WHITESIDE ('63), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Linda REINING ('64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PIIPPO ('70)
WEEKLY BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay
(Fridays)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
To: The BOMBER class of 2014
THANK YOU - We (alumni) have tried for several years to remind
folks what the airplane meant - a patriotic contribution to the
war effort by our parents from their hard earned salaries.
Somehow, the politics (which we do NOT want in the Sandstorm)
got so embedded that the actual facts were lost.
Bomber Cheers,
-Mary TRIEM Mowery (a '47 Bomber) ~ in the cold Tri-Cities
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Math
Math has never confused me. I refuse to recognize its reality.
And with the help of a computer, I can keep my check book
balanced.
To: The Class of 2014
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your contribution to the
beautification of the 1000 building is greatly appreciated.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Adk/150102-NewCloud.jpg
Now, if only something could be done about that painting on the
gym wall (or is that too political?). I would argue in favor of
keeping the mural as it does depict something that happened on
the Hanford Reservation lo those many years ago.
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Wow! Dude! I never knew you could read. As someone's pappy once
said: "I kin read writin' when its writ, but I kain't read
writin' when its rote." (Figure that one out, math wizards.)
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
yesterday the New Year dawned clear and cold.
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>>From: Gus KEENEY ('57)
Happy New Year to all Bombers
No matter what choices you made in your life...
-Gus KEENEY ('57) ~ Sent from Sunny Yuma, AZ... Having a "Cold
Snap" today at 60°!!!
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Class of '14 Gift
I had fully intended to get this posted yesterday, I got stuck
not preparing for New Years Eve.
The "RHS" class of 2014 has made a very nice gift to the present
and future students of Richland High School.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Adk/150102-NewCloud.jpg
There was quite a long discussion on the subject at The Horn
Rapids Golf course, yesterday morning. John Richardson - Bomber
Golf Coach, Greg Sevegny - Bomber Football Coach, Dan Chubb -
Richland Alternative School Principal, and several Bomber
alumni (including me). To make it clear, the current Richland
Staff members were not expressing opinions or positions, only
responding to direct questions regarding the placement of the new
"R Cloud".
This is a montage of what I came away with:
1. The Day's Pay still flies from The wall of the Basketball
Field House [aka Dawald Gym].
2. The New "R Cloud" will be facing the Long Street entrance to
"RHS".
3. The Mascot Bomb (gifted by the Alumni) and rejected by the
School District still resides in Jimmie ADAIR's ('66) garage.
4. Phyllis STRUCK Strickler ('60) will likely need treatment for
"PTSD" due of the overwhelming size of the new "R-Cloud". ("It's
just frightening").
Happy New Year to all.
-John ADKINS ('62 still getting a laugh out of living) ~ Richland
It's still cold here (16° this a.m.) - we might see a
warming trend by the 1st of the week.
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>>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
OW!! I noticed on gasbuddy.com that the lowest price in Richland
is $2.25 a gallon and Seattle a few cents cheaper. Don?t know if
I could afford to live there with 3 cars. Not bragging, but our
Sam?s and Costco are tied at $1.71. We have the Gulf and
refineries right down the road, so that helps.
The weekend closest to January 8th is our re-enactment of the
Battle of New Orleans (January 8, 1815). I keep saying I?m going
to attend but never get to Chalmette, LA much. A special day
for me, since I am big into genealogy, is January 14th, as this
was the day in 1863 that my great-uncle, 1st Lt. James Edward
Whiteside, age 22, of the Union Army, regiment from Cayuga
County, NY was killed leading his regiment in an attack on the
Confederate gunboat, Cotton, at the Engagement on Bayou Teche
(LA). Online, his commanding officer described the battle and
called "Eddie" a hero. As he fell, he told his men to continue
until they defeated and captured the gunboat. The battle site,
strangely, is a one hour drive down the road from my front door.
I went there and found the owner of the thousands of acres of
sugar cane and got permission to use my metal detector to look
for military artifacts. I got some beeps and found a few ancient
nails and pieces of metal, but nothing of substance. The land
owner has a room full of Civil War artifacts from the battles in
that area. I have pictures of Eddie and his brother, my great-
grandfather, also a 1st Lt., Charles M. Whiteside, who was leader
of a heavy artillery unit. I have their National Archives war
records and some of their military stuff.
Also, silverware their mother bought with Eddie?s insurance money
in 1863... inscribed with "EDDIE" in his memory. I love fooling
with family stuff... have tons of it. I have family stuff back to
the early 1800s and genealogy charts that trace the family to
the early 1700s on the paternal side and on the maternal side to
1587 at Roanoke Island, the lost colony that disappeared. Anyway,
a cool hobby that I spent my first 4 years of retirement fooling
with. But, don?t have the time anymore, so have donated some
stuff to museums. Oh, sometime in the future, look for a John
Goodman movie filmed at my favorite local plantation and about
3 miles down our main road. I THINK it is called something like
"Valencia". Sounded somewhat interesting. We are now called,
"Hollywood of the South," because of our tax laws for movie
companies.
-Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Although this will be a day late, I still want to wish all
Bombers everywhere a very happy New Year!! May it be a safe,
healthy, and prosperous one for one and all!
It's been a few years that we haven't stayed up to ring in the
New Year, but I was awakened with what sounded like bombs going
off in our bedroom. Don't know which neighbors it was having
fun, but it just kept going on and on.
Going to be taking down the Christmas decorations today and get
started on making some more cards.
Happy New Year!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ a cold gray day in
Kennewick so far
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Happy New Year! We "ushered in" the New Year in our yearly
tradition... home-made chili and playing "Mexican Train"
(a Domino game). It is 5° outside, at midnight, so NONE of
us went outside to "yell in the New Year"... just too blasted
cold. We still have snow on the ground... snowed a little more
on Monday.
We felt sorry for the birds that are still hanging around, so we
decided to make "bird cakes" for them... we have a family of
quail that have taken up residency underneath the fir trees that
"line our back fence"... we tried to hang the "cakes" from the
tree branches, but we made them too "top-heavy" so every time we
tried to tie the string onto the "cakes" they'd break, so we
ended up spreading them under the trees... told my daughter, next
time I think we'll just find an old hubcap and hang it from the
tree branch and fill it with wild bird seed.
I remember watching "Flowers for Algernon ("Charlie" and crying
almost through the entire movie... loved Cliff Robertson's
portrayal of "Charlie"... was very believable.
Re: "The Cloud"
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Adk/150102-NewCloud.jpg
I am soooooooo glad it is being put on the school! I never agreed
with those who claimed "we" were named after that plane... I
NEVER even heard of that plane till I read about it in the Alumni
Sandstorm... ALWAYS was told that "we" were named after the
BOMB... am "proud of the cloud" and "proud to be a Bomber". I
agree with Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)... "no more discussion of
the Payday Bomber should be allowed".
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ loving living in Kuna, ID where we had
a White Christmas and we still have LOTS of snow on the
ground... LOVE IT.
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Bomber Memorial
>>Paul WEICHEL ~ Class of 1951 ~ 1932 - 2014
Bomber Memorials
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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