Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/27/15
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5 Bombers sent stuff and Memorial INFO today
Tom HUGHES ('56), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Char DOSSETT ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy MALLORY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Georgia RUSHWORTH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam GRAYBEAL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark McCLANAHAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gayla ARMSTRONG ('74)
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:Tom HUGHES ('56)
Re: The Dance
Several people have mentioned how one thing has made their life
what it is today. There is a Garth Brooks song that to me has said
what my life has been. It is called The Dance.
Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance
Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey who's to say you know I might have changed it all
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance
Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain but I'd have had to miss the dance
-Tom HUGHES ('56)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
This year the majority of the GMC'63 will be celebrating our 70th
birthdays. There are a few interlopers, such as Don WINSTON, who
will have to wait another year. Freddie would have had his birthday
this month. Bobby & Billy would have turned 70 the middle of last
month, but passed away the first week of March, 20 years ago. Dick
PLOW's birthday I've already acknowledged, he was "Cool". Today
would have been the birthday of another really good guy, George "The
Wagon Master" BARNETT, who always saw the best in people and if you
looked up Loyalty in your Funk & Wagnalls, there will be a picture
of Georgie with his lopsided grin..
While some lists are getting shorter, other lists keep getting
longer and it's starting to happen at warp speed.
Let's not waste today or tomorrow.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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{Proof that I'm with the Gold Medal Class on this
one... and so close after my old Spalding buddy,
Freddie... 70 in 23 days or so. -Maren]
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Coast Guard
With so many entries regarding the Coast Guard I thought I'd
toot the horn for my brother-in-law, Jeff HARTMAN ('59). Jeff
was accepted into the Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT
after graduating from Columbia High in 1959. He graduated from
the Academy in 1963. Thirty years later he retired with the rank
of Captain.
Jeff lives in Port Townsend, WA. He gets down to see us several
times a year, usually on his way to visit friends and family in
other parts of the US. Jeff has written two books (Guarding Alaska
and Icebreaking Alaska) about the Coast Guard in Alaska that are
available at Amazon. They are interesting and informative reading.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in sunny Richland
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 100 year old best friends
http://shar.es/QTSGP
The Steve Harvey Show talks about how two 100-year-old best friends
share secrets to lifelong happiness and friendship, and how they
view pop culture.
This was sent from my friend, Blues Dawg (NAB)
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Remembering
Today is one of those days when I remember the birthdays of two
Bombers who were very near and dear to me. One was my first baby-
sitter ever and the other was a great pal with a very good sense of
humor... I miss his off color stories in my inbox in the mornings...
loved the way he always signed everything... this morning I watched
my Bengal cats and laughed at the differences between them... I
know both B-day Bombers would enjoy watching them as well... The
Alpha is about as fast and stealthy as any cat I've ever seen...
almost as fast as Terry DAVIS ('65) when he would swipe goodies
out of our hands and have them in his mouth before we knew they
were gone... At dinner one evening at Philippe's in L.A., he
actually took a huge slice of banana cream pie from me and stuffed
the whole thing in his mouth before I could complain... so anyway,
the Alpha can catch hummingbirds when they taunt him the way
hummingbirds love to taunt cats... keeps me busy saving the little
guys... the other who would like to think he is the Alpha sees the
biggest dumbest birds in the yards and crouches... then as he
begins the attack he yells: "Fill your hands with lead you SOB"
like John Wayne in True Grit... he has only managed to catch one
dove in his whole career! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Lenora HUGHES ('55-RIP)
and "By" George BARNETT ('63-RIP) on your special day, March 27,
2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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NOT a Memorial - only INFO today:
>>Re: Richy LAWRENCE ('80-RIP)
from legacy.com online obit:
"We will have a local celebration of his life in the
Tri-Cities on Saturday, March 28, 2015, as well as a
memorial at his place over Memorial Day Weekend,
details to follow."
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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