Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/19/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today: David DOUGLAS ('62) David RIVERS ('65) Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laurel NIELSEN ('62) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lila JENNE ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda SWAIN ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark ROHRBACHER ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peg WELLMAN ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deb BOSHER ('67) BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jeff LARSEN & Barbara GILE ('67) 04/19 TODAY IN HISTORY 1775 American Revolution began shot "heard round the world" 1993 Waco ended 1995 Oklahoma City BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: David DOUGLAS ('62) Re: FBI My dad moved us to Richland sometime after Iwo Jima (he served in the Marines; I was born at Parris Island in '43). I believe his first job was a watchmaker/jeweler with the C.C. Anderson Department Store – the only watchmaker in Richland for a year. Before him, people mailed their watches to Spokane for repair. He also had to be investigated by the FBI. They interviewed my Grandfather Douglas in Eudora, AR and after that Granddad always thought he worked for the FBI. Dad later went to work for GE as an instrument technician (for years I wondered what musical instruments had to do with Hanford) when every drug store got a watchmaker. Re: Medical Compensation My mother was a recipient of the $150,000 payment. She developed the film in radiation badges, and later in life contracted breast cancer. Her four sons were recipients of the payment through her estate when she passed away. The State of Washington took a little of it as Mom was on welfare her last few years when the money invested from the sale of our house on Birch Avenue ran out. My share went into my retirement investment account. Re: Me I missed the 1961 homecoming game and dance my senior year at Col-Hi. I came down with a severe sore throat that left a huge lump after the soreness went away. I was a bit confused that my parents had to take me to Seattle to have it removed, since there were surgeons in Richland. Nora LIH's ('62) surgeon father saved my life just before ninth grade when he removed my appendix, which was about to burst. After the throat surgery in Seattle, the first thing the doctor said when I came to was, "It wasn't cancerous." Nobody had told me it might be. I had a very visible scar across my neck for a while. When people asked me about it, I told them my girlfriend Diane ZELLEY ('63) had a disagreement with me. The lump turned out to be a thyro-glossal duct cyst, which I assume had nothing to do with radiation. -David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where I'm recovering from cataract surgery in my right eye. I'll be glad when I can get new glasses - it's hard to read like this. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: Dayza wine n roses OK, so as Dick WIGHT ('52) noticed, Floyd MELTON ('57) alluded to and Earl Charles BENNETT III ('63) stated in no uncertain terms, I do get out inna ozone a little sometimes (you should see the looks the delinquents give me... the other day one of them said "you musta been a hellofa handful as a kid")... and yes, I do speak in code and nick names quite often... It's kinda like in law school... I understood the subject matter and knew the Prof did as well and would jump right in the middle with my answers (only happened once or twice till I understood the rules) instead of starting at Geneses and working my way to the end of the topic... musta figgered it out by grageashun as for years I held the record for the Bar exam (I only know that because a friend of mine who actually gave a crap was tied with me and thought it was a big deal)... As ECB3 and Floyd pointed out (ooops there I go again) I tend to forget we aren't all from the same class and didn't all run together... I have felt I have known Floyd for years and forgot till he mentioned it we've never met... I guess I could say Brian Lee JOHNSON ('65) instead of "Beej) and Terence Paul Angel DAVIS (Knox) ('65) instead of Terry or my ilugitamutt son... funny how names go... as I've said before, so many kids are still Johnny, Jimmy, Billy, Mickey, Bobby and Tommy to me because I left Richland When I joined my beloved Corps and for whatever reason didn't return for 20 years... such behavior seems entirely foreign to me now... In Richland, My Pop, Bartolo Bartholomew Rivers, was either BB or Bert... but when he moved to Vegas, he became Bart... I dunno why... I, David Joseph RIVERS, II ('65), have always been David wherever I have gone to the point that one of my secretaries once made me a T-shirt that said "It's DAVID, Damnit!" The only kid who ever called me Dave was Ricky (now Richard) WARFORD ('65) and I have known him probably longer than I have known almost any kid in town... I mentioned the giant limbs that blew off a tree the other day... I got those all cut up and was moving them from one side of the back yard to the other so I could put them inna truck and haul them to the dump... it's a bit of a fer piece to lug them damn things and I found myself doing what I so often do when I have drudgery to do... Now I have mentioned more than once that I saw The Days of Wine and Roses seven times with seven girls during the same week... I once knew whether that was a true statement or not... I think so, but... as Jimbeaux (Jim HAMILTON ('63)) often says, our BS and the truth have become so entwined, few of us know which stories are true and which are "embellishment"... I remember coming back from State after being beaten by Garfield back in '63 (or is the playoff before the end of the year?) and some of the Bomber-babes from the class of '64 mentioning they had gone to that movie a bit tipsy... one of the problems with having a memory like mine is you tend to remember the good, the bad and the ugly... before I read a book and learned I had a photographic memory, I could remember virtually all the stuff said in my presence... that of course is how I managed to grageate without reading books... of course I would never divulge the names of the babes who shared their experience, but I remember it made an impression on me. Coincidentally, it was that little trek during which I got drunk the first time and thought I had found the secret to life (Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found you... )... so back to my little story... one of the parts of the movie that made the biggest impact on me was when Jack Lemmon was working for his father-in-law at the nursery and Charles Bickford kept saying "one more tree, Joe"... that is what I always say to myself when I think I can't take another step and it never fails to get me through whatever it is that needs getting through... now all day on the 17th I was convinced it was the 18th... I even sent an old friend of mine an HB and he informed me I was a day early... well, I made sure to check the little date at the bottom of all my computers to make sure I didn't goof this one up... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Bomber-babe Editor in chief, Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) on your special day, April 19, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65) Re: Class of '65 in 2015 65 Year Reunion We have sent out email information and registration forms for our 50 Year Reunion taking place August 21-23. But so many are bouncing back. If you did not receive said notice, please contact me with your current email address or snail mail address. If you are in touch with other '65 Bombers, or people who went through many years with us, please find out if they need the information and send me their addresses. We are also offering 2 tours of the B-Reactor on Saturday which need to be scheduled through me. Hope to see ALL of you then! -Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** Bomber Memorial >>Sandy DENBERGER Koontz ~ Class of 1957 ~ 1938 - 2015 Bomber Memorials *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************