Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/21/15
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Carol CARSON ('60), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie ALLEN ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Katie SHEERAN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane SMOLEN ('66)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)

Re: Puget Sound Bomber Luncheon
  http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-Puget/00.htm

A luncheon for the Puget Sound Bombers was a great success.
There were 15 attendees and we had a great time visiting. All
agreed we should do this more often. It was agreed we should do
a luncheon every couple of months.

See pictures on the link above:
Attendees: Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Phil GROFF ('58) and his spouse
Dorothy, Larry MATTINGLY ('60) and his spouse Jackie, Reuben
LINN ('58), Alina Rossano, aka Louise WELLS ('64) and her guest
Page Tulloch (NAB), Kathy RATHVON ('63), John 'Irl' FRENCH
('51), Jim RUSSELL ('58), Ruthann HUTCHINS Jensen ('58) and
Jeannie HUTCHINS Simon ('62), Steve CARSON ('58) and Carol
CARSON ('60).

-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Floyd MELTON ('57)

Re: Security clearance

Your entry in Sandstorm 4-18-2015 about having your Q clearance
being reduced reminded me of having my clearance reduced
while in the Navy. I have worked at Hanford as a Mechanical and
Piping Designer and had an L clearance. A couple of times they
needed someone with a Q clearance for a certain job and I
informed them that I had a Top Secret clearance in the Navy and
it would probably be pretty easy to get me a Q clearance, but
they never seemed to want to do that.

Just out of boot camp I reported for duty on a heavy cruiser,
which was also used as a flagship. The first day they said
since I was going to be in radio I would need a Top Secret
clearance. I was given a Confidential clearance and in a few
months North Korea shot down that EC-121 radar plane and we
found ourselves off Korea. There were a lot of Top Secret
messages going around and I, with only a Confidential
clearance, was carrying them around the ship delivering them 
to officers.

That crises was over and my Top Secret clearance came through.
They had put me in the "front room" where we only dealt with
messages after they were received. I did not have anything to
do with the crypto gear or the codes and I only remember seeing
one Top Secret message. Then the ship was decommissioned and I
was put on a replenishment ship. Actually an old oiler that had
been upgraded to also carry both fuel and ammo. When Ellsberg
gave away the "Pentagon Papers" the Navy decided to review
everyone's need for a clearance. I guess being on this crummy
old oiler they decided I did not need a Top Secret clearance so
they reduced it to Secret. Later we were off Vietnam when Nixon
decided to mine Hai Phong Harbor and things really heated up
over there. They upgraded some of our circuits to Top Secret
and I started handling Top Secret material again.

So, in the end, all the Top Secret material I handled was
when I had either a Confidential or a Secret clearance, and
virtually none when I had a Top Secret clearance.   

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ I do think I have a photographic memory,
      but no one has ever made film for it.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

Re: Nicknames

Never had one, till I became a mother... then, it was "mom" or
"mommy"; then, grandmother became: "maw-maw" or "granny"... all
of which I love. *grin* When my daughters were born, they were
given names that couldn't be "nick-named" either... Traci and
Ronda... they gave their children names that could have been
"shortened", but never were... Kimberlee has always been
called, "Kimberlee"; Kevin has never been anything else; and
Johnathan has never been John or Johnny.

To: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)

Thank you. 

To: Steve UPSON ('65)

Congrats on your son, Erik ('90), becoming police chief. 

-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID   
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: What's a warm blooded kid to do

OK I'm sure I've said this before, but every time I say it...
I mean it... I just love this birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One thing
about getting older, you getta mingle with kids (specially
Bomber-babes) you didn't get to mingle with before cuz they was
somebody's "older" sister... seems half my life I been singin'
"born too late for you to notice me... " and this is one a them
times... now the one thing you can say about Bomber-babes is
they get better every year... every time I see this Babe my
legs get all shaky and "when I say love I mean love, LUV!" Now
there's something to be said for them Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
fuzzy sweaters... I mean the memory never grows dim, but I
haven't seen her wear one lately... the thing about this babe
is that she still wears those blouses with just one button open
and the collar turned up that makes me crazy... plus, as they
say, "cowgirl butts drive me nuts" (well at least that's what
they say around here at National Finals Rodeo time)... and now
she's a cowgirl... now I've only seen the cows in a video since
two girls named Kippy and Ellen ('62 and '63) went to Richland
and saw them without me... but I can live with that for now...
tho I have seen the b-day babe try and make friends with a
moose while her sis ('58) and brother-in-law (NAB) yelled at
her to get back in the car... she's a brave one this babe...
well all I can say is it ain't long till June and I'll be in
Richland swooning over her all over again... HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Katie SHEERAN ('61) on your special day, April 21, 2015!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Brad KUIPER ~ Class of 1956 ~ 1936 - 2011 

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