Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/09/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) David RIVERS ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SETBACKEN ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tere SMYTH ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy WEIHERMILLER ('66) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) To: Duane LEE ('63) and Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65) The plot thickens. Duane writes that the Hanford Calendar says: "On Easter Sunday, 1944, the first sample of Plutonium was delivered to Los Alamos from the Hanford Project." And Patti writes that this cannot possibly be since the Hanford production reactor (B-Reactor) did not become critical until after Easter, later in September 1944. But, the first shipment of Plutonium could not have come from Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge did Uranium (the Hiroshima bomb). Hanford did Plutonium (the Nagasaki bomb). Ergo, what we have here is a simple typo. The Hanford Calendar should read "On Easter Sunday, 1945 ..." (not 1944). -Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: efforts/results Sue... did Duane LEE ('63) say "sue"... bring 'em on... put up yer dukes put up yer dukes... I'll fight 'em with one paw behind my back... uhhh... wow... that usually doesn't happen... so lately there has been a lotta talk about solar in the valley... I mean great place for it... so the door to door hawkers have been coming in droves to set up solar for a metering agreement with the local energy company... I've done my best to check it out and looks like a number of hoops have to be cleared before it is worth the moola and effort..sooooo I set up an appointment with one of the companies to give me the full pitch, with a written proposal and the whole 9 yards... 10am this morning was the time... now it is the beginning of hot rod season so I am in the middle of making sure all cars are safe and sound for the long drives at various times this summer... the Shore Patrol sold yesterday to a guy from Alberta so one down... I couldn't bring myself to sell the Shelley- mobile so I had it ready to tear down the brakes and get the process started... at 10:20 the guy was a no show so I began pulling the brakes off the front of that car as the phone rang... hands full of axle grease, I slimily answered the phone and it was this kid running late... life's a bitch I told him and told him not to contact me again... What do they teach people today? No concept of the difference between efforts and results. As he protested I hung up... reminded me of when my daughter Sarah was little and in a bowling league... she was awful (well not as bad as my sole and only experience in PE when I let go of the ball in mid back swing and almost broke Linda MONGOMERY's ('65) leg... never picked up a ball again)... at the end of the season I picked up Sarah from one of the bowling allies Michael Gaughan had in all his Casinos and she was carrying a trophy... wow I thought... I misjudged this kid... I asked what it was for... "showing up" she said disgustedly... "they're afraid our little feelings will be hurt if we don't get something." That's my kid alright... I stopped hiring associates long before I retired because no matter where they finished in law school (1 or 2) they wanted the same thing... 9-5 with no responsibilities... "I can't find it" or "it isn't out there" was an acceptable answer to them when I would send them to find a case similar to the one I was working on... DAMN, had I EVER said that to my mentors when I clerked or when I was an associate... I'da been out on the street... which is not to say they weren't after they gave me that answer... but I mean it didn't cross their minds NOT to give up and quit looking... efforts... without results... My law Partner's dad was a very good surveyor in the valley back inna day... When Mike would come home with a 98 on his paper, his father would tell him, people don't pay for 2% error... I can just see some kid in the military saying "Sir, we almost hit the target but they got away... I'll do better next time"... OK so I'm onna rant today... what else is new... maybe it is because after today I have only one more "W" birthday and it's gold star time again!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Tere SMYTH ('65), Gary SETBACKEN ('64) and Cathy WEIHERMILLER ('66) on your special day, April 9, 2015!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** Bomber Memorial >>Carol RICE Forister ~ Class of 1962 ~ 1944 - 2015 Bomber Memorials *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************