Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/11/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Bombers sent stuff: Tom VERELLEN ('60), David DOUGLAS ('62) Donni CLARK ('63), Duane LEE ('63) Jim HAMILTON ('63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill McCUE ('51) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Colleen BROWNE ('66wb) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob DANA ('71) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave DORAN ('72) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Tom VERELLEN ('60) To: Mike BRADY ('61) and Carol BRADY ('60) What a shocker to read about Mary Jane's passing. In my minds eye she is still the dark haired beauty laughing and joking in our neighbors' yard from some few years ago. A treasured memory. My thoughts are for you. -Tom VERELLEN ('60) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: David DOUGLAS ('62) I'm having a miserable time reading after my cataract surgery on my right eye. With my glasses my right eye is so blurry it interferes with my good left eye. To read I have to put a patch over my right eye. If I read very long when I take the patch off I can't get my eyes to coordinate again, since the right eye is too blurry to match the image with my left eye. I had my eye refraction for a new lens last Wednesday. The technician warned me that when the new lens arrives it may magnify what I'm seeing, making it slightly larger than the left eye. It turns out I'm nearsighted in my left eye, but the new lens in my right makes it slightly farsighted. The left eye isn't ready for surgery yet. When I don't wear a patch over my right eye, my brain eventually begins to ignore it, which also makes it hard to coordinate my eyes. My dad had that problem when he was a watchmaker. He used a loop magnifier for his right eye to see the tiny parts he worked with, and eventually his left eye began wandering. The optometrist gave him exercises to do to get them working together again. To: Donna NELSON ('63) I knew it as, "Eat that. Children in China would love to have that to eat." My older brother Walker DOUGLAS ('57) once replied, when he didn't want to eat the crust on his bread, "Why don't we wrap it up and send it to them?" That was probably the last time Mom said it. When I was teaching at Tianjin University in China I liked to show my Audio-Visual class movies with some connection with China. One was the western "High Noon," starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. In it the hotel clerk tells the sheriff's wife (Grace Kelly), "I wouldn't leave town today for all the tea in China." I saw the 2000 remake of the movie, which substituted "all the gold in California." It wasn't the same, especially without the theme song of the original, "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin'". One of the movies I showed that I couldn't find any China connection was "Legally Blonde." When it got to the scene where the girls were getting their nails done as therapy for a disappointment, the class began laughing. I asked, "What's funny about that scene?" "They're (the manicurists) speaking Guangdong Province (as kids we knew it as Canton) dialect." Since the scene took place in southern California, I had assumed they were Hispanic and hadn't paid any attention to what they were saying. To: Tim SMYTH ('62) I had a similar experience when someone from a younger generation asked me how to find a business's phone number. "Call Information." "Call what?" -David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) Re: Mary Jane BRADY Wagner ('63-RIP) Mary Jane was a dear friend of mine in 8th and 9th grade. We had such fun doing goofy fun things, spending nights together, laughing till all hours, playing card games with her brother Mick and friends. In high-school we were separated and we never seemed to bump into each other much again. But I will always treasure the memories of those jr. high days that I shared with such a fun, sweet friend! This was so sad to hear. I was practically raised with sayings... some that drove messages home! Like... "Marry someone where you know the nickel is coming from"... "Love flies out the window, when poverty comes in the door"... "We don't air our dirty laundry out on the line" ... just to name a few. My favorite one was one my grandma taught me though, "Find a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!" To this day if I see a penny laying on the ground I have to pick it up because I loved my grandma So Much and it just gives me a happy memory of her. Sadly some of those other sayings did affect my life in other ways. God bless to all have a great day. It has been so beautiful in the gorge... actually a little warm for Spring, but it is beautiful... the roadies are in bloom along with many other wild flowers and my iris's are so beautiful out there waving their pretty heads! -Donni CLARK Dunphy (the Golden Class of '63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Duane LEE ('63) Had to threaten Maren with dire consequences but at last pried her home address out of her. My check is in the mail to defer some of your dedicated expenses. This should be tax deductible since it is to support such a charitable cause. HA!! Thanks so much Maren for all you do and Happy Mother's Day to you from all of us Bombers that you cheer up every day. -Duane LEE ('63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63) Re: Bomber Girls Gone Wild http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/150511-GirlsInPort.jpg Deirdre JOHNSON ('65), Debbie LYONS ('65), and the Forever Young and Always Lovely Miss Nancy ('65), celebrating Mothers Day at the Terre Dei Dogi In Festa in Portogruaro. They've got two more weeks to make more friends. -jimbeaux -Jim HAMILTON ('63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************