Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/10/16
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Bud BARTLETT ('51)
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Brad WEAR ('71)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doreen HALLENBECK ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie DEAN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lee UPSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna FREDETTE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet DEVINE ('69)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Larry BOWLS & Donna YOUNG ('64)
BOMBER LUNCH: Patti's All Bombers, 12:30, JD Diner,
W.Richland (every 2nd Saturday)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY:
2:30pm CT ~ ND #18 - Nevada Wolf Pack ~ NBC
4:00pm CT ~ UW #8 - Idaho Vandals ~ Pac-12N
6:30pm CT ~ LSU #21 - Jacksonville State Gamecocks ~ ESPNU
9:15pm CT ~ WSU @ Boise State Broncos ~ ESPN2
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
Re: Club 40
To: John ADKINS ('62)
John, when you have a minute, please email me
regarding a Club 40 board.
Missed you tonight at the Club 49 bash.
Thanks,
-Mary TRIEM Mowery (a '47 Bomber) ~ Richland
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>>From: Evan "Bud" BARTLETT ('51)
Re: The Magic Bank Account
This is a great email. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did
The author is not known. It was found in the billfold of
Coach Paul Bear Bryant, Alabama, after he died in 1982
https://contextualscience.org/the_magical_bank_metaphor
-Evan "Bud" BARTLETT ('51)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Alley Oop
Alley Oop was a late '30s to early '50s comic strip. that
dealt with Alley, his girl friend Ooola and King Gus and his
pet dinosaur called Dino if I remember correctly.
I was pretty young but it seemed to me he had the ability to
go back and forth between prehistoric times to modern day.
Ooola and her minimum costume made her a favorite with the
boys.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Downtown Hanford, CA where we had a
cold snap this week. It dropped all the way down to the
low to mid nineties. It is so dry here that I have been
warned not to tell my jokes till it rains.
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["Alley Oop" - Hit song by The Hollywood Argles in 1960.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6IpmmYSXA -Maren]
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Ya know for a place that's supposed to be closed for lunch,
looks like the Desert Inn/Hanford House/Red Lion dinning room
is going to be quite busy today. All those "old geezers" from
the '40s classes and members of The Class of '54 gathering
for our "big" birthday party. Maybe, we'll be nice and let
the "old folks" share in "our" birthday cake.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ out of Mount Angel, OR
for the moment and in Richland until Sunday morning.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Sandscript
Aha! So it was classmate David DOUGLAS ('62) who laboriously
typed and produced the 1962 edition of Sandscript. Here from
an unfaded memory is the scoop on two of the short stories
that made the cut, plus the stranger-than-fiction story
behind these stories.
Yours truly submitted two candidates. The first short story
was about a very simple lad named Budge and his day-to-day
life in backcountry Appalachia; "Tragedy in the Hickory Ridge
Country." Toward the end, and in the backwoods dialect, we
one day find Budge's treasured pet piglet submerged in a
favorite mud wallow as the sun dries it up. The mud hardens
and cracks before Budge discovers the tragedy. His piglet has
expired. A slump-shouldered Budge is last seen (art work
included) staring into the western sunset contemplating the
mortality of both piglets and mankind (shades of our required
reading of Orwell's Animal Farm!).
The second story was an even less positive response to my
second-quarter and undeserved C in senior English. Upon being
confronted with full documentation of my shaky B- record in
course work, Mrs. Macy simply grinned, "Yes, I know, but I
think you need waking up!" Unbeknownst to her, I had been
putting in too much time every day as the editor of the
struggling yearbook. To allocate my hours I had decided that
coasting in to a B- in English was the prudent thing to do,
rather than going gangbusters toward what could never be more
than a B+. Now, very fully awake, I was carting off a C to
the home front. (Nuff said about that.)
So the second story in the end-of-year Sandscript had more of
a barb in it. The story-"Silent Words" - was set in ancient
Egypt. The crushing upper class demanded the piling up of
granite pyramids in celebration of themselves. One lower
class was the corn merchants (the "Cobbs," notice the C and
the b's). The leader of the Cobbs was one Euphonius who
discovered that their verbal double-entry bookkeeping could
be written on mud and hardened into permanent records
("Silent Words"). Such fixed records enabled more widespread
marketing and the accumulation of new and vast wealth.
Elitist granite quarries were limited, but common mud was
everywhere: "thus a wealthy middle class arose in the land
of Egypt" - an obscure metaphor for a possible student-class
uprising! The telltale barb was the embedded line that the
much-disdained upper class held their back room meetings at
4:00 p.m. on (I think) the Tuesday of the first full week of
each lunar month-the exact same time and date as the monthly
Col-Hi Faculty Meetings... I do not recall being
complimented by our headmaster for spinning such a yarn.
Thanks, David, for disseminating such high literature to the
masses.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA ~ Go Dawgs!
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
So, apparently his Barristerness, esq's feckless Post-a-Note
reminder calendar system has gone viral and infected my
cerebral calendar and I failed to purchase and mail an
Anniversary card to two old friends in a timely manner
They've found their way back to the Promise Land after living
everywhere else, and although I know they're in Seattle this
weekend tending to their Enoteca on Elliott Bay, I'll use
this very "Cult Page" to wish a Gold Card worthy 50th
anniversary to Sherri and Kurt Johnson. May you share many,
many more.
For those of you not familiar with the Ward Johnson Winery
http://www.wardjohnsonwinery.com
we encourage you to visit and enjoy a 100% "Cru Bomber"
product at your first opportunity. It's a kinda complicated
story as two Wards and two Johnsons are involved, but they do
bottle up some very worthy stuff, and it's not just us who
thinks so.
The forever young and always lovely Mis Nancy and jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: ahhhhhhhhh
the smell of chlorine... people have been posting pictures of
the "big pool" on face book and I swear I can smell it alla
way to Vegas!... I remember it all so well... no running and
no cannonballs... the first a rule of safety... the second a
rule of self preservation lest one of the Bomber-babes posing
beside the pool get her hair wet and ruin the pose... but
what I can't remember is Jerry... the guy who taught swimming
in the '50s last name... heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp... but for now
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Donna FREDETTE ('65) on your special day,
September 10, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[David, I'm sure you mean Jerry DUDLEY (53-RIP)...
alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics07/RIP53DudleyJerry07.htm
betcha didn't know he was a Bomber, did ya??? -Maren]
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
To: Dwight CAREY ('68), et al
That's Robert Barnard and Hank Sauer.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Big Birthday
Geez, I am in a lot of trouble! Good thing he's in Australia
for a little longer. A belated Happy Birthday to a great
friend and one of our most famous alumni. Happy birthday to
Jim MATTIS ('68), on the 8th. Hope it was a good one.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in Plano, TX where the dove hunting is
great.
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