Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/07/16
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7 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Steve CARSON ('58)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Betti AVANT ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan HAGGARD ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed WOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WEAVER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack CLARK ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Julie SMYTH ('69wb)

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)

Well, the other government boon-doggle is behind us. As
someone recently asked: "Just how much daylight have we 
saved and where is it?" If you can give a reasonable answer 
to that, there maybe a place in government for you.

More important things to deal with, and I'm not talkin' sex-ed
here. Couple of birthdays to get to; one is an older Bomber
Babe and 'tother is a younger Bomber. I know both of them
basically through Club 40. They were more than helpful during
my tenure as president of that organization.

And, don't confuse her with "Auntie Em" who is someone
altogether different and fictional.

A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy Birthday!" goes
out to Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) and Dan HAGGARD ('57). Hope 
the sun shines brightly for both of you on your day.

Maren: What happened to them tigers? Tide too high perhaps?

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR wondering
      what the Apple Cup will be like this year. Meaningful, 
      perhaps, comes to mind as both the "Dawgs" and the 
      "Cougs" are on top of the Northern Division.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)

To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

Jim, Say, I have the same problem with food spots. I think they
are making forks smaller.  :)

To: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)

Maren, In your aside comments about Daylight Saving Time
changing do you realize that you used "powers that be" and
"smart" in the same sentence? :) ;) :) :)

-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60) 

Re: Spot remover

To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

For years now I have used the same spot remover. It is "Resolve
Stain Stick" It is an oval tube about 6 inches long. Remove the
cap and rub the spot or stain with the stick that is inside.
There I a knob on the bottom to keep moving the stick up. 
After rubbing the spot you can drop in the washer or wash a 
week later. It is really rare that it does not remove the spot.
It is even more rare that the second try doesn't work.

I have used it on denim, cotton, wool, and nylon with equal
success. I buy a couple of sticks at a time and the last ones 
I got from Albertsons.

-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

Re: Canlis lobster bibs

Jim HAMILTON ('63) mentions that the Canlis restaurant in
Seattle no longer supplies lobster bibs, especially to the
drooling elderly. Here's the scoop about the Canlis clan of 
our generation...

Peter Canlis of restaurant fame had two sons, Tony and Chris.
Our paths crossed in the 1960s. Tony was in my five-year
architecture class at the University of Washington, and we even
did a few group projects together. By his account, what he
really wanted to do was draw cartoons and ski (he excelled at
both), but his father insisted that he get a college degree.
His cartoons were on a par with the artwork in Mad Magazine.
Draftable in late 1967, we and ten others from our class of
forty-five graduates all made a pact to go to Navy OCS in
Newport, Rhode Island, and to do nothing having to do with
stale drafting boards. Line officers and pilots every one, 
and no construction battalion engineers (CBs or Seabees).

Both of us were assigned to aircraft carriers, Tony as the
public relations officer on the USS Midway. Nearly three years
later at the Bremerton Naval Shipyard we crossed tracks again,
and he escorted me to his lofty shipboard--his light-hearted
laughter trailing behind us. It seems his commanding officer (a
four-striper) was ticked off about Tony's cartoons making light
of shipboard foibles, and had order him to knock if off. But,
as fate would have it, his was a flagship and the admiral
aboard (infinitely more than a four-striper) had taken a liking
to navy humor and, unknown to the captain, ordered Tony to
bundle up a dozen or so of his cartoons and submit them to the
world-wide weekly Navy newspaper (All Hands). The mother of 
all jokes was when the commanding officer opened his copy and 
found inside a full two-page centerfold featuring the cartoons
together with Tony's bio and photo and an endorsement from the
admiral.

The other tale possibly worth mentioning is that Tony was one
of those physical specimens who excelled at swimming as well as
skiing, and who was destined to never show his age. After the
University swim team, and as his role in the Friday night
athletic competitions at OCS, Tony entered two or three
swimming events every week for the entire eighteen weeks of 
his cadet training. I watched some of these. For the two-lap
butterfly he usually finished two-thirds of a lap ahead of the
second place finisher. He won all of his events except one
which he tied. In 1980 (now at the ripe age of 36) he was on
the United States Olympics swim team, but the entire team
stayed home that year in protest to the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan. In 1984 (now at the very ripe age of 40) he came
only one meter short of making the team again.

As for Tony's brother, Chris, he and I found ourselves standing
together in the military induction line at the Seattle
waterfront complex in the summer of 1967. A rare coincidence.
Chris was a more cerebral history major from Stanford. Later at
the Navy flight school in Pensacola he made the highest scores
ever achieved at the school. All he wanted to do was fly a 
jet, but with those achievements he remained grounded as an
instructor. And for his part, all Tony wanted after OCS was to
be a Navy SEAL, but the quota was filled for his entry month,
and one of the best swimmers of Navy history ended up writing
bland articles and secretly drawing cartoons on a flat top for
jets.

After the Navy Tony first worked as a wine merchant and
eventually took over management of the Canlis restaurant in
Honolulu. Chris is the one who stayed in Seattle and at the
Canlis discontinued supplying free lobster bibs for Jimbeaux.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA   north of Seattle, but 
      never been to the pricey Canlis.
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)

To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

Jim, Lance ('60) has the same problem. He is partial to wearing
white polo shirts. I gave up and just throw the spotty shirts
away and buy him a new ones. Works for us.

-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in still frostless Richland
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: lotsa November babies!

I was reading inna Sanstorm that the "Classy" ladies of '65
were having a lunch... I went to my Columbian and started
counting... I decided to stop cuz it seemed a good way to get
myself in trubel... I just wanna know if they issue cards or
something... if they do how long are they good for? I mean
Jimbeaux ('63) is still carrying his Hi-Spot card... good for
life I guess... so anyway before I really step onna part a my
anatomy... today I gotta couple a Classy Bomber-babes and two
ordinary Bomber guys (defined as Cool)... HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Dan HAGGARD ('57), Jimmy WEAVER
('64), and Julie SMYTH ('69wb) on your special day, November 7,
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

Re: Our next All Bomber lunch

WHEN: Saturday, November 12, 2016 
TIME: 11:30am to 1pm
WHERE: at our new venue - Sterling's on Queensgate

Hope to see you all there.

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland   
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Bomber Memorial

>>Jim COUCH ~ Class of 1966 ~ 1948 - 2016 

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