Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/12/15
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0 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Shannon CRAIG ('50), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Judy WILLOX ('61)
Helen CROSS ('62), Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Betti AVANT ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: McGregor FOX ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Monita McCLELLAN ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia HUTCHINS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Aaron HOLLOWAY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David MASON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan BELLISTON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherrie SMITHWICK ('68)
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>>From: Shannon CRAIG Hightower ('50)
Re: FBI in Richland.
I started work 8-7-51 for GE and was stationed in the central
mail room for a year and then to the duplicating shop (a union
job). As a mail carrier I went to all the areas and buildings
on the plant. Even after transferring to the printing I was
still under the same management and with all the same crew so
I assisted with the mail and training of the new kids. When
delivering the mail in the 700 area my run included a building
in the 700 square with the entrance facing Swift, on the corner
of Swift and Jadwin. That building was where the FBI was
stationed. I had to enter the front and walk (with the mail)
thru to the far end to the secretary who received the mail.
That area was one big room with desks for men who all wore
a gun on their hip and everyone there stopped talking and
watched me take that walk. That was a little scary for a shy
country girl. All those men were charged with the security
investigations required of the Hanford workers to have a
security clearance. I don't know where they were after that
(1952). When the new federal building was built those 700 area
(703-760) buildings were torn down and/or moved to the outer
areas.
-Shannon CRAIG Hightower ('50)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Re: FBI
They were more of a presence in the '40s and '50s than in later
years. Remember that if you got hired to work for the Prime
Contractor or any sub-contractor and that work was in the area,
you got a background check from the Feds. You probably got
checked out if you worked in any establishment in town,
especially the bars. Sometimes the drunk sleeping it off in the
corner may have been an agent. However, none of the agents
looked like Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
rain comes (occasionally) and goes (frequently lately).
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: FBI presence in early Richland
To: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
I think it was 1946 when we moved from a B-house to an H-house
only bout 1/2 block away. The house next door was reserved for
FBI families and there were several during the time we lived
in that H-house. I remember one incidence in particular on a
fourth of July, after my brother and I were put to bed and
asleep, my parents went next door for a little neighborhood get
together and the wife of the FBI agent went out to shoot off
her gun at midnight to celebrate the 4th. Of course it woke
and scared me and I ran out looking for my parents, screaming.
I guess I sort of broke up the party. Apparently she was
considered a marksman (markswoman) with the 45 automatic. We
did get to know at least 3 different FBI families during that
time in that house next door. None of them had children which
at the time was my interest.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Judy WILLOX ('61)
To: Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
Re: Graighill
Yes Mary, it was Craighill. I lived on that street until I left
home with marriage. What block did you live in? I was in the
300 block. And there was something to be said about the soil
in that area. It did make good mud pies, dirt roads for Tonka
trucks, great tunnels and grew massive pretty flowers! Ones
that came back year after year. Also lilac bushes and apricot
trees grew well in that soil. Good ole Craighill!
-Judy WILLOX (Classic Class of '61) ~ Richland where the
weather suits me just fine.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Iditarod Question
Can anyone , even if not a musher -- attend the banquet?
I hope to go see the Iditarod someday, and I think that sounds
neat to attend the banquet once.
[I don't know, Helen, but I will see if I can find out.
-Maren]
Re: FBI in Richland
I think I remember that someone's dad worked for the FBI, but I
can't remember who that was.
My dad had worked for the FBI in Washington, D.C. In the early
'40s before he went into the Navy in '44 and for a short time
after he came out of the Navy. but we didn't move to Richland
until '48 and he had left the FBI by then.
My dad died in '99 and I found a letter signed by J. Edger
Hoover congratulating my parents on my birth in '44.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ still in Gardnerville, NV awaiting
the birth of my 2nd grandchild... her original due date
was April 18 and each day as she gets closer to that
date, I wonder why they moved it forward to early March.
After 2+ weeks of the doctor saying "any day now",
hopefully it will arrive soon!!
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH ('63)
To: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Our next door neighbor was an FBI agent. I don't remember their
name, but I remember talking with the father and him showing me
his badge. We lived on Hunt and they lived on Symons.
-Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Simi Valley, CA
Home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Re: FBI in Richland
I remember them very well. I would see them in the neighborhood
as well. They did come to our house once and asked me a bunch
of questions about a person. I can't remember who now. This
person was being hired for a highly confidential job at some
company. Also, seems to me that when I was hired out to
Battelle, they came to ask a bunch of questions. I remember my
father said it was weird that they would be asking as he had a
file where he worked and they should have used that. I might be
way off base on this memory though.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ a cloudy day in
Kennewick
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
To: Jean BRUNTLETT ('62)
Re: FBI in Richland
Oh, yeah, they were (are?) here, but I can't tell you about it!
-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Yes to the FBI
The answer is "Yes." to my cousin Jean BRUNTLETT ('62) to the
FBI in Richland. Remember that one year when I was going to
take a job with them in Washington, DC as a file clerk? I had
to go to the Federal Building and meet with the local agent for
a spelling test. He had kids around my age. I never knew he was
FBI until my late mother told me.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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Bomber Memorial
>>Richy LAWRENCE ~ Class of 1980 ~ 1962 - 2015
Bomber Memorials
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