Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/11/15
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5 Bombers sent stuff: 
Tom VERELLEN ('60), David DOUGLAS ('62)
Donni CLARK ('63), Duane LEE ('63)
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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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.
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>>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)
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>>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   
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>>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)
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>>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)
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>>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)
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