Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/04/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Bombers sent stuff: Earl BENNETT ('63), David RIVERS ('65) Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Mike FRANCO ('70) Mike DALEN ('72) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 3 days till the Ceremonial Start of Iditarod 2015 in Anchorage 5 days till the Official re-START of Iditarod 2015 in Fairbanks BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth PATTY ('56) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki GILL ('68) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy BISHOP ('69) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WINGFIELD ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda DEVINE ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brad UPTON ('74) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich FLEMING ('73wb) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Earl BENNETT ('63) Re: Peter BAUGHER ('63) One of my favorite memories of Peter was from third-year French class when we were sophomores. A number of us had first-year French in eighth grade at Chief Jo: All but me had committed to five years of foreign language by graduation, which was the requirement to get a language class in eighth grade at the time; I was there because my first choice elective, "General language," and the alternative/second choice "Latin," were full and the registrar moved me into French without asking - giving me one of the defining opportunities of my life to study under Mrs. Sonja Harmon (RIP) http://rhs63.tripod.com/63columbian/ss/143.html I wound up taking five years anyway, three of French and two of Russian (again from Mrs. Harmon). When I dropped in on the '61 class reunion to chat with Dave STEIN ('61) while attending the R2K+1 all-years gathering, my wife needed the restroom, so I showed her where it was. When she came out, she was amazed that I was among a half-dozen-plus of Sonja's former students, singing Russian folk songs she had taught us almost forty years before. Many of us kept in touch with her for the rest of her life, she was that influential, and her daughter Sandy (Sasha) ('62) wrote personal letters to us when she died, thanking us. Backtracking off the rabbit trail, we took second-year French in ninth grade, while Peter took his first year that same year, then he took intensive second-year French at (I think) the University of Chicago during the summer. He joined us for our third year of French as sophomores with Mrs. Compton. She was such a bad teacher that I was told some parents of students that year ensured the school board did not renew her contract. By the end of the year, Peter was so advanced beyond most of us that he actually took on some of the teaching, and did it well. The one good thing Mrs. Compton did was to include in the curriculum Le Petit Prince, d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ("s'il te plait, dessine moi un mouton;" "c'est trés estrange, le pays des larmes"). Another memory is the nearly monotonous start to the roll call during most of my Chief Jo core classes most years: "ANDERSON (Paul); ARMSTRONG (Phil); BAUGHER (Peter); BENNETT (me)" ... Regards, ecb3 - from a 100-year record cold winter in central Virginia, where last week's snow is hanging on stubbornly as we sigh at a predicted new accumulation tonight of 1-3 inches, while being reminded to "spring forward" this Sunday. Check out a concept new to me this week, but intuitively sensible: "Meteorological spring". -Earl BENNETT ('63) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: What's this cold stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dang... this winter crap is really getting in my way... There's dandruff all around Vegas and rain inna middle... not just rain... freezing rain... yuk... my daughter and I have a fun contest going on between us... each gift giving event we try and find a new "I love you more" item... after the last one I gave her (I think I gave her two that time) I figured I was waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead... today she joined the delinquents for lunch and gave me a late V-day card... she also gave me a sweet ring (she had it on a chain thinking I would prefer that)... it was the same ring I gave her last time... only hers said "I love you MOST"... uh oh... the hunt is on... So today we gots us a couple a dudes celebrating... well one isn't with us but I can see him now guzzling Pepsi's with Pook ('63-RIP), Freddie ('63-RIP), Ralph ('63-RIP), Dick ('63-RIP), Shelley ('63-RIP), Chuck ('63-RIP) and a ton a other guys and Bomber-babes... Now yer gonna say "what was he thinking?"... but this guy was a long time bud and mentor of sorts... he was the one who helped me decide to join the Marine Corps... as he put it "at least you'll know your body will come back"... I remember 4 of us had these really cool Pendleton jackets without lapels... the b-day guy hadda red one, his brother Gary ('64) hadda green one, I hadda green one and Terry DAVIS ('65) hadda black one... ahhhhhhh the good ol' dayz.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Terry WEBB ('63-RIP) and Brad UPTON ('74) on your special day, March 4, 2015!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) Re: Hanford tour registration starts March 9 ~ 3/3/15 TCH "Registration begins at 9 am March 9 for Hanford tours this year with initially a choice of two tours. Visitors can choose between a tour focused on Hanford environmental cleanup, which includes a look inside B Reactor, or a more in-depth tour of B Reactor, which will include a drive past pre-World War II sites on the nuclear reservation. In April, registration will start for a third tour to be offered for the first time this year. It will focus on the sites where settlers lived before they were forced to give up their farms, homes and businesses for the secret Manhattan Project to produce plutonium in WW II." -Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Mike FRANCO ('70) Every time I read reference to Karl Marx I smile remembering Fire sign Theater, a VERY politically incorrect comedy group that put out some outrageous albums in the '60s.. One of the album covers titled "All Hail Lennon and Marx". Of course underneath that title was pictured John Lennon and Groucho Marx. Anyone remember those albums? -Mike FRANCO ('70) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Mike DALEN ('72) Re: Peter BAUGHER ('63) Didn't know Peter BAUGHER but grew up with his younger brother Paul ('72). Paul is a big mountaineering guide, and ran Crystal Mountain's ski patrol for a long time -- he may still. Paul's also an avalanche expert; he even gets to set off charges to create avalanches, improving safety around the ski areas. -Mike DALEN ('72) ~ in snowy Huntsville, AL **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************