Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/09/15
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10 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Mike MILLS ('57)
David DOUGLAS ('62), Ed WOOD ('62)
Leoma COLES ('63), Ray KELLY ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Karl SOEHNLEIN ('68)
Mike DALEN ('72)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou DeMEYER ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick BOEHNING ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kandy SMITH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michael JACKSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom SCHILDKNECHT ('70)

BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill SCOTT & Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From:Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

I know I'm in the same boat with "Tooter" ('65) when it comes
to being a bit forgetful. This time, however, I know I'm in
real trouble. So much so, that one of my favorite Bomber Babes
may sic her biker husband on me. But, then again, he is one of
the younger Bombers and has learned to respect his elders, so I
may be safe.

It is with the humblest apologies that I tip the ol' propeller
beanie and offer up a sincere "Happy Birthday!" to Bomber Babe
and fellow classmate, Dona McCLEARY ('54) a whole day late.
Just don't be too hard on me for my forgetfulness. 

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR  where 
   the rain continues and the mountains hopefully get a good
   dusting of snow. Kinda hard to see cuz the clouds are so low
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>>From: Mike MILLS ('57)

Re: Mr. Harding

To: Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)

He was one of my all time favorites, too. He was my math
teacher at Chief Jo. I also remember being on the wrong 
end of the paddle! Last I heard of him he was serving as
superintendent of The Marysville School District, just 
North of Everett. But this info is about ten years old.

-Mike MILLS ('57)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

To: Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ Tempe, AZ

We lived at 412 Birch, from at least 1945 to way past when I
left for college in '62. My younger brothers graduated from
Col-Hi and our mother lived there through the 1980s, until she
moved to an assisted living center in Kennewick. Our neighbors
on the Duportail side of us were the Tuckers (Merton ('58) 
and Ronnie ('60) were my older brother's age) and later the 
Wiltons. Don't recall who was on the other side of us. Penny
Parker lived on the corner of Duportail and Birch, and I
remember playing Annie, Annie Over with her. We played Kick the
Can with all the kids in the neighborhood, often until 10pm in
the evening.

The only family I recall on the 'odd' side of the street was
the Burnetts, the first family with children my age to move
into our brand new subdivision. Dawna Kay BURNETT ('62) was in
my class. I played with her until I found Maryanne DURFEY ('62)
over on Cottonwood. I have a story about Dawna Kay's older
brother, William BURNETT ('61-RIP). I don't know how he got the
reputation, but he was considered a bully in the neighborhood
by some of us elementary-age kids. My older brother Walker
DOUGLAS ('57), with Merton and Ronnie, concocted a drink using
Kool-Aid and every hot spice, sauce, etc., they could find in
the kitchen. They took it to William and fed him a line about
how they invented a new drink using their chemistry sets and
wanted to try it out on him. He was gullible enough to fall for
it and took a drink. He never bothered us again. To be fair,
William had a very good reputation in high school - he was
elected a cheerleader, breaking the females' monopoly on that
office.
 
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ   
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)

Re: Kihei car show

We just came back from dinner in Wailea, celebrating my 71st.
On the way back to the condo we stopped at a car show put on 
by local motor heads in a shopping center parking lot. Three
Studebakers and not a Toyota in sight. What do you make of
that? And speaking of Studebakers, I remember the swamp cooler
we mounted over the back window of Dad's 1949 Studebaker. It
was literally a life saver on road trips to Arizona in the
summertime.

-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Morrison, CO   Vacationing on the Maui beach
       and headed to the up country tomorrow
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)

Re: '63 HoopLa Coming Soon

Wish I could join the class of '63 in Olympia on December 5th,
but I will be on my way to sunny California to visit my son and
his family for a week! Maybe next year, if I ever really
retire!! *LOL* I'm sure it will be an awesome time for you
guys... please post pictures!! Thanks.

-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ Lincoln City, OR   with chilly air and 
      sprinkles today. :-)
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>>From: Ray KELLY ('63)

Re: Board of Education

To: Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)

I remember having Mr. Harding apply the "Board of Education" to
my "Seat of Knowledge" at Chief Jo after being caught fighting
with another student after school. It wasn't a ping pong
paddle, either, as I recall, but a full length piece of lumber
with holes. My parents followed that up with some further
punishment at home; that's how it worked in those days. I don't
believe they even thought of complaining to the school that I
was treated roughly or unfairly! How times have changed. By 
the way, that was not the only spat I qualified for during my
school career, but I think (hope) I turned out alright. My 
7th grade teacher Mrs. Fellows might disagree, since she once
kicked me out of English class for diagramming a sentence
upside down at the board. Yes, I was a little snot like that 
at times...

        [Upside down?!? How brilliant!!!  -Maren]

-Ray KELLY (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)

To: Bruce STRAND ('69)

Re: washing machine motors

My parents had an old wringer washing machine that was green
with round corrugated sides. I think it was older than any I
had seen in early '50s, I had certainly never seen anything
like it. They moved west when I was eight months old in a '37
Chevy coupe, so they didn't bring much with them. They did have
some stuff shipped later. I was told that it did not have an
electric motor originally, it had a gas motor. We did not have
electricity on the farm (not that I was old enough to remember
that) so I am guessing the washing machine was one thing that
was shipped. Whether shipped or bought later it was changed to
an electric motor. They bought a Sears Kennmore in I think 
1955 and it was used until 1998. Dad kept it going and shortly
before he died in '97 mom said he had come back from Sears and
said he would not be able to get any more parts for it. When I
moved her back to the Tri-Cities I found some of the new parts
he had bought to have on hand. I have worked on it. The
engineering is simple, straight forward, and built like a
Sherman tank. It worked just as good as the one I bought in
1973 and both worked better than the front loader that came
with the house I bought.

Anyway, their new automatic washer had a "suds saver" on it.
You could set it so that after the clothes were washed the
water was pumped to a separate tub while the rinse water went
down the drain. Then for the next load it sucked the water out
of the tub to use in the wash cycle. When I told my wife or
anyone else about it they say something like, "Y-u-u-uck, you
mean you washed the clothes with dirty water!?!" My dad took
the ringer off the old machine and all the mechanical stuff so
it had just the legs and tub and used it for the suds saver.
The "B" house had double deep sinks so the old machine was 
left when we moved. He saved that electric motor, but I can't
remember if he used it for anything other than once when our
'62 Chevy had a dead battery and him and I put a belt from the
generator to the electric motor which we held on the fender by
hand, with precautions to keep from scratching the paint. It
worked, and I think he bought a battery charger shortly after.
I have that electric motor now, but the only thing I have
used it for is I put a buffing wheel on it and used it to
polish the stainless steel trim on my '57 Olds convertible
when I painted it.

I remember seeing a gas powered reel lawn mower when I was a
kid. I have mowed a few yards with push reel mowers. Dad had
one--sure am glad he bought an electric mower before I got old
enough to do the lawn mowing.

-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ May be a rambling post that no one is 
      interested in, but it will make sure we don't have 
      another "Sandstorm ~ NOT" tomorrow and in a worst case 
      scenario at least I can read my own post. A day without 
      the Sandstorm is like a day without Sunshine.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: I won't tell

Thanks to our Editor in Bomber-babe ('63 and '64) I was able 
to watch the sub-subject of my post from the 6th... 
     
	["What is was, Was Football"  Andy Griffith
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8  -Maren]

had I watched it before I posted I would have confirmed I
misspelled Aarnge drink... it was playing it in my head and
could hear the A rather than an O... but took a chance...
arrrrrrrrgh... well so far the reviews have been magnificent 
on the play which makes my life nice and easy... no gut
wrenching calls or anything and from what people have said 
the cast was all great... I was so very glad Terry's ('65) 
St. Elsewhere bud was there Saturday night and I've posted a
photo on face book... I'm not very good at "editing" photos and
have never learned how to use photo shop tho I can tell you I
have tried like crazy... all I've done is frustrate myself...
but who cares cuz we gots some '63 Gold Medal kids up today...
now I can be fairly safe on their ages, but then ya never
really know... I mean our concierge, Leo WEBB ('63) jumped a
year on us the other day so I won't take the same chance as i
did yesterday with Big aarnge drink... These two are two that 
I always look for when I'm around old Medal kids (not that I
don't look for others) and am so very glad to call them
friends... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Kandy SMITH ('63) and Dick BOEHNING
('63) on your special day, November 11, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)

Re: Review of "Ordinary People"

I attended the Richland Players' production of "Ordinary
People" tonight. Terence Knos, aka Terry DAVIS ('65) was very
effective as Dr. Berger. And there were a lot of folks from
the class of '65 in the audience to enjoy Terry's homecoming.
Thanks to David RIVERS' ('65) heads up, I was able to look for
Eric Laneuville and talk to him during the intermission, too.
Terry helped to fill the auditorium, which never happens for
"serious" plays in the Tri-Cities. Everyone contributing to the
production is to be lauded. It will be on for 2 more weekends -
try very hard to get tickets.

-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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>>From: Karl SOEHNLEIN ('68)

Re: Swamp Coolers

I grew up in ranch house near the corner of Cedar & Swift. As a
kid I couldn't wait for dad to hook up our swamp cooler. It was
installed in the bathroom window, and worked very well until
everyone extended their bathroom visits and kept the bathroom
door closed and locked. 

Now fast forward 50+ years. Last year my wife Lyn DREHER ('69)
and I bought a older mobile home in a senior park in Mesa, AZ.
(both our kids and grandkids live in the Queen Creek area South
of Mesa) It had been upgraded including central heat & air, but
still had a swamp cooler on the roof. We called a local a/c
company to come out, remove it and cap it. When the gentleman
took a look at it, he said it was still in great shape and with
a new set of pads it would be usable. He had lived in Arizona
all his life and gave us the run down on cooling and energy
costs. He told us the swamp cooler works great until the temp
get into the low 100s or during the monsoon season, and is a
lot cheaper to operate than the central air. We had him service
it, and he was correct on all accounts. It's amazing how some
low tech non computer controlled devices still work as well as
they did in the '40s.

-Karl SOEHNLEIN ('68) and Lyn DREHER Soehlein ('69) ~ Mesa AZ 
      where the weather is gorgeous, but we're headed back to 
      our home in San Antonio, TX where it will take a while 
      to adjust to the humidity
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>>From: Mike DALEN ('72)

30-16 Bama over Tigers!
Roll Tide Roll!
(Sorry Maren)

      [I don't think you're sorry at all...  not one little
      bit. GEAUX TIGERS! -Maren]

-Mike DALEN ('72) ~ from Huntsville Alabama in the beautiful 
      Tennessee Valley
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Bomber Memorial

>>Jim ANDERSEN ~ Class of 1974 ~ 1956 - 2015 

 Bomber Memorials
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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