Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/08/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 Bombers sent stuff and Memorial INFO today: Marilynn WORKING ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54) Betty NEAL ('62), Mike QUANE ('63) Tedd CADD ('66), Dave MILLER ('67) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty RUSSELL ('54) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tammy JANES ('78) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna Sue LUKINS ('79) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Wishing classmate, Betty RUSSELL Kent ('54) a very happy birthday today. Enjoy your time up at your cabin and hope to see you at Club 40 in September!! At least you are escaping the 100+ weather here in the Tri Cities! -Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco Cooling down to the 90s *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Well, we have come to the 8th of July. The annals tells that on this date a Bomber Babe was born. It is presumed that great rejoicing was given throughout the land. How could it not be; after all she is a Bomber Babe. This is important to remember as the day wears on. Now to say that I knew her back in the day would be stretching it a bit. I knew of her, she, on the other hand, may or may not have known me. We moved in different circles together. None the less, we have come to the point in our lives when we address each other civilly; what more could one ask. In keeping with a tradition that I invented a few years back; I will now ceremoniously tip the ol' propeller beanie and lead the shout of "Happy Birthday!" in honor of Betty RUSSELL ('54) on this celebration of her 21st. I would remind her current husband/significant other that taking her to Wendy's in honor of the occasion just doesn't quite make the grade. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the possibilities of rain by the coming weekend may just be passing fancys. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Betty NEAL Brinkman ('62) Re: Women's Soccer Did you see where they spent 8 million dollars for the men's team that didn't make it through the first round? On the other hand they spent 2 million dollars on the Girls' Soccer Team that won all the marbles. Where is the equality? -Betty NEAL Brinkman ('62) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Mike QUANE ('63) Re: San Jose Bomber Connections Connections: Mike QUANE ('63), Tim QUANE ('69), Patty O'NEIL ('65), Marilyn HAMMER Strankman ('70), and Tom WESTPHAL ('05). Our community 4th of July picnic was held at our ranch this year with a few Bomber connections in attendance. The Smith family, proud grandparents and aunt and uncle of the 2005 Bomber valedictorian, Tom WESTPHAL came for the party. Graduated WSU ROTC, now Captain WESTPHAL is in the Army special operations. They spent numerous summers in Richland with the grandkids. Grandpa Tom Smith, the dean of Park Management at West Valley College (we taught together for years (actually decades) presented me with a signed copy of his new Park Management text. I told him I would have been happy to give him at least $20 for the text if he had included at least one picture of me. He turned to page 155, and I reached for my wallet. Our neighbor, Sid Melbourne, taught school for 25 plus years with Patty O'NEIL ('65) in the San Jose area and is the next door neighbor of Kevin Tillman, played minor league ball with Elliott Strankman, son of Bomber Marilyn HAMMER Strankman ('70). Then there is brother Tim QUANE ('69) who is heading to Richland (vacation) next week after 30 years away. Pictures: 1. Mike, brother Tim, and Sid. 2. Proud grandparents, aunt and uncle. 3. Tree House Bath. 4. View from Tree House Bath. 5. Not everyone arrived by 4 wheel drive. http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Qua/00.htm -Mike QUANE ('63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Tedd CADD ('66) Re: Donna BOWERS Rice ('63) and "Congrats to ... Richland." According to this morning's Tri-City Herald, Richland Mayor David Rose watched the game and wondered "if the city could recognize her somehow, but I couldn't think of anything appropriate." So: Congratulations to Hope! But not to the city government. -Tedd CADD ('66) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Dave MILLER ('67) Re: Working for the Jolly Green Let me clear up something about working for the pea harvest. Bill SCOTT ('64) mentioned [in the 6/24/15 Alumni Sandstorm] "David Miller" working at the pea harvest in 1964 and I am sure he did but a friend asked me about it. I worked there with Fred MOBERG ('67) and Mike GRIFFIN ('67)in the summer of 1966. There were two David L. Millers, one was David Lee MILLER ('65) and myself, David Leon MILLER ('67). Several times I had received things of his in class at Chief Jo and Col-Hi delivered by he office. It is funny to think that so many kids went to Dayton to work in the pea harvest. Mike, Fred, and I got hired as swather drivers by claiming we were eighteen, but we had all had tractor experience. We drove tractors picking up hay bales after we moved sprinkler pipes in the mornings and we picked up plum crates out of orchards. We drove swathers all night just following the lights in front of you and doing a little loop turn at the end of the field The next year (1967) we went there again to drive tractors but swathers were gone and replaced by a combine that did the whole job of swathers and dozers that picked up the rows we cut and spit all the waste out the back. we got hired to make sure the combine waste exit didn't get clogged up. There is another word for it that starts with an a, but I wont use it. So we gave it up and ventured to the big city (Walla Walla) and went to work for Rogers Walla Walla cannery for which I still have my union card that my dear mother saved for me. Peace to all, -David Leon MILLER ('67) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** NOT a Bomber Memorial - only INFO today Re: Dick BOISONEAU ('61-RIP) from the Einan's website: Services will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2015, at 10am at Events at Sunset in Richland *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************