Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/08/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7 Bombers sent stuff: Ken HEMINGER ('56), Jim HAMILTON ('63) Bill SCOTT ('64), Dennis HAMMER ('64) Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65) Bruce STRAND ('69) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dona McCLEARY ('54) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Spencer HOUCK ('71) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56wb) Re: Board of Education The talk of the paddle reminded me of my time at John Ball in North Richland. There were times when I and one or two of my cohorts were led down to the gym by Mr. Harding who incidentally was my favorite teacher of all time. Once there we were informed of the reason we were there, and the consequences of our actions. We were then told to grab the ankles. We then received a swift swat with a ping pong paddle. At that point we fought back the tears but they were as big as road apples and hard to do. All in all, Mr. Harding was a great teacher; he didn't take any guff but was fair. He was again one of my teachers at Chief Jo. I have often wondered what ever happened to him, and if anyone has any info as to whatever became of him, I'd appreciate hearing from them. I went into the military in 1955 and pretty much lost track of all my old friends. -Ken HEMINGER ('56wb) ~ Great Falls, Mt. Temp 58° *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63) Re: Social Event of the Season Before the list of Breakfast with Santa venues is published, it's time to get everyone committed to attending what has to our almost 30th annual Gold Medal Class of '63 Marching Caroling and Chowder Society Christmas Gala and Red Sweater Cotillion in Olympia on December 5th. As per usual, Brother Leo has again put his reputation on the line and promised the maître d' at the River's Edge Restaurant that our deportment will no longer be an issue this year. DATE: December 5th TIME: We'll again muster at 10:00am WHERE: Rivers Edge Restaurant at the Tumwater Golf Course http://www.riversedgetumwater.com/dinnermenu.htm Entries for the much coveted "Frank Whiteside World's Most Lamest Excuse Oscar" need to be received before the pies are out of the oven on the 26th November Put it down on your calendars in ink and we look forward to seeing you. RSVP: 63CamlinSurvivor@gmail.com Frank Osgard Sunshine Committee Conscience -jimbeaux -Jim HAMILTON ('63) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Bill SCOTT ('64) Re: Swamp Coolers We had a big swamp cooler in the basement of our "E" house on Jadwin. I don't think it came with the house. Dad was quite the handyman in those days, and I think he installed it. It was hooked into the heating vent system of the house, so it could blow cool air into all the rooms upstairs. I don't really recall getting any noticeable relief from it. When we built our new house out on Davison in '62, it didn't have a/c either, so the only a/c we ever had growing up was a block of wood in the window. On another note, November First I finally gave up and cut down my giant tomato plant that had reached over five feet high. Collected a final bunch of tomatoes that are now turning red in our kitchen. The final tally: I picked 99 tomatoes, and left at least a dozen little ones on the vine, and the blasted thing was still putting out yellow blossoms for more when I cut it down. Too bad they were all quite small. But very tasty! Bill Scott (writing as B J Scott) http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com http://www.amazon.com/author/billjscott Angel of the Gold Rush Angel's Daughter Legacy of Angels Light On A Distant Hill The Rail Queen Profiles and excerpts of all my books and read my blog at http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com -Bill SCOTT ('64) ~ from beautiful Sherwood Oregon, where I bet the fall colors almost rival New Hampshire. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) To: Floyd MELTON ('57) Re: Swamp coolers and hay fever I too have hay fever. I started having it just a month or two before moving to Richland, I have heard people call the Tri- Cities the "allergy capitol of the world." A year or two or three after moving to Richland I was at someone's house for an evening who had air conditioning and my hay fever seemed to clear up while I was there. I told my parents about it and soon after dad bought a used air conditioner from someone he worked with. We ran a wire from the breaker box in the back of the basement of the "B" house to the front window so we would have 220 to run it. Come bedtime parents wanted to shut it off; I wanted to leave it on and said I thought they bought it for my hay fever. It was left on, but soon after mom got up and shut it off. I got up and closed my door to try to preserve the air quality I had in my room. Parents complained it was too noisey and dad took it back the next day. I don't think it was any louder than any other average air conditioner and they didn't even give it a chance; we only used it for maybe six hours. Boy, was I mad about that! However, in these past 55 years, (and I can only speak for myself) it has not seemed to matter if it is swamp coolers or air conditioners hay fever seems to be about the same for me. Anytime I found a pill that helped it only worked for about a week, except one summer I got some from the VA that really knocked it out all summer long and I only took them once a day instead of twice like I was supposed to, but the next year they didn't work at all. Once, instead of buying one of those little HEPA filter units I bought a box fan and a high efficiency filter and duct taped it to the back of the fan. I thought I would have a big pollen catching filter aimed at the head of my bed; didn't help a bit. The most effective treatment I have found for hay fever is join the Navy, not a lot of pollen out on the ocean. -Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ I have said for years when I retired I was going to move to the coast where the prevailing wind is blowing off the ocean, but here I am, still in the "allergy capitol of the world." *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Linda REINING ('64) Dick WIGHT's ('52) entry about taking a car without permission, reminded me of when I was a Junior at Col-Hi and Carol WILEY Wooley ('63) "stole" her dad's car... she had told her mom she was sick so stayed home from school... I get a note in class saying to come to the office,,, my mom is on the phone... Carol did a good imitation of "my mom"... she got both me and Barb MEYER ('63) out of class... met us in front of the school and off we went on an adventure of epic proportions... *grin*... we knew we couldn't stay in Richland... drove to Yakima... we weren't smart enough to disable the odometer but don't think her dad ever bothered to check it since we didn't get caught. We were back home before school was over so that we could be dropped off at school and walk home... Carol lived around the corner from me so no way could she drive me home plus she had to get the car back into the garage before her dad got home... he would get home before her mom. First and only time I "played hooky"... and just "knew" I'd get caught since my mom always seemed to know what I was doing... must have had a guardian angel that day cause she never knew till years later when I told her. -Linda REINING ('64) ~ weather is getting colder in Kuna, ID and weather-guessers are saying we could get snow, late Sunday or early Monday... MY kind of weather *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: What is wuz, wuz football Well that ain't gonna work... for anyone who ever heard me speak of sports... you know that's a bigger fatter lie than being captured by pirates... wait maybe I could tie that in to the shores of Tripoli... make it a "Marine thing"... people question it and I just say: "It's a Marine thing... you wouldn't understand... " but who would back me up??? Nobody... hmmmmm... well I ain't got no big oornge drink so the football thing is definitely out... I couldn't drink a big oornge drink... the truth? Ahh geez... not sure 'bout the truth... you can't handle the truth... no... I can't handle the truth... truth is I'm stupud, dumb, iggerent, hay-wired and just down right dim witted... so when I write my yellow stickies, I try... try to keep same day b-days onna same line... often there's just too many letters involved to make that werk... yesterday, when I checked my stickie I saw there would be two more b-days today... wrong... there were three more but they were for the same day... I mean the other day I also managed to miss Dickie RHODES ('65) and found out I been spellin' his first name wrong since second grade!!!!!!!!!!!... so the truth is I screwed up and shoulda wished Dan HAGGARD ('57), Jimmy WEAVER ('64) and Julie SMYTH ('69 I don't do that WB stuff) a very Haaaaaaaaaaaappy Birthday but I read my stickie wrong... and that's the way it is! [All on the 7th] -David RIVERS ('65) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Bruce STRAND ('69) Re: More on Swamp Coolers The discussion on swamp coolers brings back many fond memories. My Dad, the chemical engineer by education turned nuclear engineer by OJT, was quite clever with a washing machine motor. As a young kid on Sanford in a prefab we had one of those wringer type washing machines (remember those?) that something went amiss with the machine but not the motor. My Dad took the motor from the washer and mounted it on a reel lawn mower, so for a time we had an electric reel mower. I don't remember if it was before or after moving to a ranch house on Birch, but at sometime the washer motor went from the mower to the swamp cooler mounted in the bathroom window of the ranch house. I believe that the old washer motor and swamp cooler served us well for many years at the Birch house. To: David DOUGLAS ('62), Mesa AZ (a neighbor!) Where about on Birch were you guys? We were half-way down the block from Duportail at 415 Birch from about '58 to '68. I don't recall the Douglas' but I should because our Mom was a Douglas from Eastern Montana. -Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ Tempe, AZ where it is a gorgeous sunny 78°. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************