Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/05/15
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Karen COLE ('55)
Margaret EHRIG ('61), Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCLELLAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Louise HARTCORN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam EHINGER ('67)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well now; here we are five days into the new year and RIVERS ('65)
is still using stickies to try to remember things. Well, I don't
use stickies; I have a list and I check it more than twice and
hopefully remember which computer the list is on.
With all that being said (or written); the "raison d'etre" of
today's post is in celebration of a Bomber birthday. A fellow
classmate, with whom I had a nice conversation about the city
in which he now lives. Co-incidentally, it was the same city I
married my current wife 55 and 1/2 years ago. Liked the town so
much, went back ten years later.
All of this is beside the point, which is the "traditional"
tipping of the ol' propeller beanie and shouting "Happy
Birthday!" and the top of my lungs for Roger McCLELLAN ('54).
Hey, it's a long way between here and Albuquerque. Have a good
day, Roger, and watch out for the chilies.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
cold is gone (for the moment) and the monsoons have
returned for a while.
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Our daughter-in-law is a direct descendent of Ira and Susan
Woodin, who founded Woodinville. Susan Woodin would load
eggs into a pram, and row down the Sammamish Slough to Lake
Washington. There she would spend the night on shore, then row
to Bellevue where she took the stage into Seattle. After selling
her eggs, she would reverse the trip. Tough lady, tough times.
Twenty-five years ago I did our family genealogy at the National
Archives at Sandpoint in Seattle. It was tough going trying to
read the old hand writing on microfische. Things have changed
with research tools. I did find that our ancestry wasn't
illustrius, more notorius I'm afraid. The study of one's history
is so much fun if one can apply small anecdotes to the dry list
of names, bringing that person to life. One can get information
and insight into the lives and even the physical characteristics
of people through the census and voting records. You bored
retired people should try this, it's easy, fun and addictive.
Remember, after three generations, people are forgotten, and
their stories untold.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Snowy Nine Mile Falls, WA
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Re: Genealogy
Several of you have mentioned recent or previous research into
family history. If anyone is interested in more information in
the Tri-City area check out the Tri-City Genealogical Society.
We meet the 2nd Wednesday of the month at the Crow's Nest in the
Clover Island Inn at 7pm for the meeting. Anyone is welcome to
come at 5:30 for an early get together and dinner... meeting
early gives more time for conversation. We have guest speakers
every month. The organization has been going for more the 50
years so there are a lot of people who can help with additional
ideas for your research and documentation. There are a lot of
local resources available, more than just Ancestry.com
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
All this mention of geneology brings me to mention my surprise
when I called my cousin, Bobby CROSS ('62) when I was driving to
Buffalo, NY about 2002 to ask him "Don't we have a family
museum back in New York someplace?" (My dad had died in 1999, and
he had mentioned once we had other family reunions we had never
attended.) Turns out we do have one, and I was going to drive
right by it, so was able to call and get an appointment to see
it. Turns out Issac Cross married a Green, nee Buffum about the
time of the Civil War, so all said Crosses are related to
Buffums. The Buffums even have an association and have been
meeting almost yearly for over 50 years. I've attended some of
their reunions and even went on a Buffum cruise to the Bahamas,
but sadly there have been some conflicts like the 50 year of our
class of '62, so I've had to miss some of the reunions. They
have had a historian or genii geneologist for years, and our
history goes back to Buffum coming over from England in the
1500s.
So all my ancestors are on CD's and disks. I even found out my
Grandfather had been born in Buffalo, New York on that trip to
New York (all my growing up I thought we were west coast people).
But the greatest shock came at the little family museum when my
cousin showed me a photo of my grandparents, and I did know my
dad's mom, but the photo she showed me was of some strangers. So
I sent her a photo of my "real" Grandparents. Hope we make it to
the Buffum reunion this summer in Colden, New York, and I can see
if the real Cross grandparents made into the right file. That is
if the Museum survived that very heavy snowfall that area had
last fall. As Hanover was mentioned in the news, and The little
town if Colden is maybe 5 or 10 miles from there. We had actually
visited Colden before I knew it was a town my ancestors founded
when we took our kids to a little ski area right up the road from
there in the '90s. The little ski area was called Kissing Bridge.
Happy New Year to all Bombers anywhere or every where,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from Hope, IN where we've just had
one little snowfall so far, but it's suppose to get down
to -3° this week, sans snow, thank Heaven.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Moved to EXTRA - Might MIGHT be political... click to read
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/150105-politics-Bea.htm
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: The Rail Queen
I'm inviting all fans of my books to take a look at my first-ever
guest blog, which marks the occasion of the release of my new
novel, "The Rail Queen". The blog examines in detail an operation
featured in the novel, one of the late nineteenth-century's most
fascinating phenomenons: the Harvey House Restaurants and the
Harvey Girls.
You'll find the blog at my host's website
http://andreadowning.com/
Hope you take a look!
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Genealogy
Been enjoying reading about the searches some have done on their
ancestry. My maternal Norwegian, grandmother had our ancestry
traced back to Leif Erickson... she gave each of us seven
grandkids a booklet containing all the information. we even found
my maternal Norwegian, grandfather's name on the registry at
Ellis Island... he was a year old, when his family came over from
Norway. His last name was Dahl but for some reason, his family
changed it to Bue. My grandmother's maiden name was Lauritzen
but her family wanted a more American-sounding name, so they
changed it to Larsen. They all settled in Northern Minnesota. She
even gave us wedding pictures of our ancestors, including hers
from the early 1900s. It's interesting to go through it and read
where we came from and how we got here.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ still snow on the ground in Kuna, ID
and temps are "warming up" to the 20s instead of the teens.
call me "crazy" but I STILL LOVE IT.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Now there's a memory for ya... Terry DAVIS ('65) sent me a
"selfie" and then called to remind me that it was a cold night
such as this one when he got up and traipsed from his house to
Richland Lutheran Church to join us at Confirmation class in his
Pajamas... if you haven't heard that one... Terry entered the
room wearing the new "Have Gun Will Travel" 6 guns he got for
Christmas... his mother wouldn't get them for him till he was
in the 7th grade... the teacher demanded: "Terry you take
those guns off and give them to me!"... He whirled on her
and exclaimed; "Nobody takes my guns, stranger!". A night to
remember... you shoulda been there, birthday Bomber-babe, you'd
have loved it!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Pam EHINGER ('67) on
your special day, January 5, 2015 and Larry HOLLOWAY ('64) sorry
I missed yours yesterday (day before tomorrow)... love yer new
face book picture... You and GRESS ('61) look as cool as it gets
in those new-old pix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Charlie ROSE ~ Class of 1950 ~ 1932 - 2014
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