Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/08/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff and memorial INFO for 2 Bombers today: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Dennis HAMMER ('64) David RIVERS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan SHERWOOD ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted DAVENPORT ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jackie VALDEZ ('86) BOMBER LUNCH: Patti's All Bombers, 12:30, JD Diner, W.Richland (every 2nd Saturday) COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY: LSU @ Florida ~ Postponed due to Hurricane Matthew 11:00 (CT) ~ ND @ NC State Wolfpack ~ ESPN 5:30 (CT) ~ UW @ Oregon Ducks ~ FOX 9:30 (CT) ~ WSU - Stanford Cardinal ~ ESPN BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) This is our last night for the Rambling Rovers Senior Travel Group in Branson, Missouri. It has been a great time! We've seen 2 shows a day, including "It" a musical with 5 Hughes brothers, their wives and a bunch of their kids. Terrific. The next day we saw "Puttin' on the Ritz" a GREAT show with wonderful talent. Then the "'70s Music Celebration"-- nostalgic of course. Next we saw "The Irish Tenors and the Celtic Ladies". WOW--talent galore! This show featured the same wonderful artists (songs, dance, dialogue) that we had enjoyed in Puttin' on the Ritz. Next came The Barry Williams show (Greg on The Brady Bunch) and he covered some of the '60s music. Another great show, more nostalgia! I had no idea he is so talented. He had a great support group, too. No wonder Branson is known as the Music Capital of the (world?)! On Wednesday afternoon, we boarded the Branson Belle Sternwheeler for dinner and another very fine show while we traveled around on a Lake. Flat Table Lake? Maybe. Purely delightful! Thursday we saw The Brett Family Show: Dad, Mom, 2 sons and a daughter. Gosh--lots of laughs with those folks! Then we went to Branson Landing for shopping, etc. before having dinner at the Wheelhouse Restaurant Buffet and musical entertainment. (Actually, there was, unfortunately for my bank account, quite a bit of shopping time. Eating time, too. Not an awful lot of sleeping time.) Last show of our trip was the wonderful "Million Dollar Quartet". I thought I wouldn't like it but it was really terrific. Guys impersonating Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and oops...I don't remember the last one's name but he sang "See ya Later Alligator, After while Crocodile". This show was done as a play--supposedly true to life--and I truly enjoyed it. After the show I got my photo taken with all 8 cast members (which is very unusual for me) and took advantage of the opportunity to ask the young man playing Jerry Lee Lewis (who had those moves and the piano playing down to a "t") what ever had happened to him. He is still alive and performing at the age of 81!! I didn't ask where, but I imagine Las Vegas. Every Show we went to, they honored veterans from all Military groups: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Also, every Show included a praise of God. Very touching. They sure don't worry about being "politically correct" here in Branson. Hurray for them! Storms are threatening to be in our path going home. We had lightning and thunder this afternoon but just a little bit of rain. -Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in delightfully entertaining Branson, MO ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) Re: Miss Tri-Cities (U-26) AKA The Submarine Years ago someone mentioned in the Sandstorm the Miss Tri- Cities and I knew I had taken a picture of it sitting on a pylon. I tried to find that post but gave up. Today I found the negative and scanned it. It seems like I also took a photo of the Allison engine displayed on the ground by it, but didn't see the negative so it is either somewhere else or did not take one. This photo was taken at the intersection of what is now 395 and Vista Way, Clearwater is on the other side of 395. Looking under the hydroplane the building across the highway is where a Burger King was later built and now a Walgreens is there. I believe it is at the corner of a lot that WAS a 76 gas station or what we used to call a "service station" back in the day. This photo was taken in 1968 in either July or August, just before I went in the Navy. Later on it was moved to Columbia Park until it was badly deteriorated and replaced by a newer boat. Then it sat at the miniature golf course on the Kennewick side of the Cable Bridge for years until I read it was bought by someone, I think from West Richland or Benton City, who was going to restore it. Later on read in Tri-City Herald it was too far gone to restore. http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161008-MissTri-Cities.jpg Re: Punt Gun Another negative I found today is of an uncle of mine taken in WWII. I feared this one was lost as I asked my parents after they retired where the negatives were and they said they threw them away. My reaction was "WHAT!!!" I had/have the darkroom equipment (you can't even give that stuff away now days) and wanted to re-print some of them. Most of their pictures were contact prints and some are badly faded. I used the dark room in the Architecture building at WSU (Carpenter Hall) and printed it as an 8 x 10 and didn't know what kind of gun he was holding. A classmate did know, said he had read about it in National Geographic. It was a large shotgun taken out in the water for the commercial harvisting of water foul. Shortly after my uncle showed up unannounced from about 1200 miles away and knocked on the door. I showed him the photo and he said he found it in a castle in Germany and did not know what it was. I told him what I had learned about it and gave him the photo. I still did not know much about it until I saw the movie "Tremors 4: The Legend Begins" where Michael Gross uses one against the dirt dragons as they were called in that movie. They were called punt guns because they were used on small boats call punt boats where one would lay down on their stomach with the gun and paddle out to get in range where the birds were. There use was outlawed at the turn of the century (the one at 1900) because they took too many birds. I am no expert on firearms but it looks to me like the other gun he is holding is a M-1 carbine. http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/161008-Punt_Gun.jpg -Dennis HAMMER ('64) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: Bombers Bombers everywhere and notta drop... uh... well ok that doesn't work real well... I'll work on it... the point is that no matter where you go you are very likely to meet up with Bombers... today, Ellen WEIHERMILLER ('63) was asking about a radio guy from Tacoma and wondering if he was a Bomber... I emailed him and Mark FRANCO ('70) of KLAY 1180 AM is the brother of Mark ('66) and Barbara ('67)... so it can be a very small world out there... there have been many times wearing a Bomber Shirt or driving a car with the Bomber car plaque or the Bomber license frame I have been asked if I was from Richland... Now this has absolutely nothing to do with today's Bomber-babe but it keeps me from drooling on my keys thinking of that great picture in the cut offs and sweatshirt at page 119 of the '63 Columbian... http://rhs63.tripod.com/63columbian/ss/108.html HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Susan SHERWOOD ('63) on your special day, October 8, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) Re: Max Jensen Richland Invitational ~ 10/7/16 Herald "Saturday's 48th annual Richland Invitational cross country meet at Carmichael Middle School will honor the person that started it all. The meet has been renamed the Max Jensen Richland Invitational. Jensen, who was Richland High School's first cross country coach, began the Richland Invite in 1969. Jensen guided the Bombers to three consecutive state titles from 1970-72 - part of a then- record five championships in a row. He twice was named the WIAA cross country coach of the year. Jensen later coached at Spokane Community College and Ferris High School. In 1994, he was inducted into the Washington State Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. He still lives in Spokane. 'We're going to have Max hand out some awards at the end of the meet,' Richland coach Jay Bartlett said. 'It should be a pretty cool thing for everybody.' About 2,400 runners and 70 teams are expected at Saturday's meet." -Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland ************************************************************* *************************INFO ONLY*************************** ************************************************************* not a memorial - only INFO today >>Norm HARDING ('50-RIP) Celebration of Life: TODAY, Saturday, October 8, 2016, 2-4:30pm Einan's Event Center, 915 Bypass Highway in Richland Dorothy would love for any of his friends to drop by. ************************************************************* ************************INFO ONLY**************************** ************************************************************* not a memorial - only INFO today >>Mike HUMPHREYS ('76-RIP) SERVICE: TODAY, Saturday, October 8, 2016, 1pm Richland Baptist Church, 1632 GWWay ************************************************************* **************************************************************** That's it for today. 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