Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/05/17
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5 Bombers sent stuff and heard about 2 Bomber deaths today:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Shirley ATWOOD ('58), Rosann BENEDICT ('63)
Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan BONDURANT ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gina WILLIAMS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Christy WEIGGANDS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandi WARD ('66)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
I am pleasantly at "home" in the old house in The Butte,
Alaska. I don't have hot water or internet, yet, (writing from
the Wasilla Senior Center where I had lunch with a dear old
(long time) friend) after shopping at Wal*Mart for sheets and
a few other household items. Surely I'll get those 2 things
taken care of soon... I heated a cup of water in the microwave
to wash my face. Funny. I was happy to get my old phone number
(from 1980).
There was frost on the ground in Anchorage when I got up
Sunday morning but the day was lovely later. Fall colors
abound and there is a "skiff" of snow on my mountain out here.
(aka Pioneer Peak.) There may be more snow now, because it was
raining today at the lower levels.
Best Bomber regards,
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in the always gorgeous Matanuska Valley
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: old Thrifty Drugstore and CC Anderson's
To Lori Simpson Hogan (70)
Thank you for bringing back a memory or two with your mention
of Thrifty drugstore downtown across from CC Anderson's. I
did not know that it had burned down. My dad worked at Thrifty
Drug store for a while in the camera department and then
became manager of that store. I worked there part time on
weekends making and bottling distilled water in the basement
while in Junior HS, and then later as a weekend janitor
and then at the checkout counter next to the lunch area. I
remember selling Christmas trees for a number of years there.
After graduation from HS I worked at CC Anderson's before I
went into Army Reserve basic training and then afterwards when
I returned home and attended Columbia Basin JC. My friend Jay
McCUE ('56) one winter was on the roof of CC Anderson's
pelting me with snowballs while I was shoveling the sidewalks.
I never did know how he got up there. Those were some
interesting days.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Shirley ATWOOD Sun ('58)
Re: Swimming in PE
I have no memories of swimming in PE. I wonder if that was
something they started after I graduated or it simply wasn't
memorable for me.
-Shirley ATWOOD Sun ('58) ~ from Sunny Chatsworth, CA
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>>From: Rosann BENEDICT ('63)
To: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
I remember the KORD signoff music as being Gordon Jenkins'
"Goodbye" a very melancholy big band tune which Benny Goodman
recorded and used as his theme song in the 1930s. The tune
was also recorded by Jackie Gleason and his orchestra, and
many others.
You can listen to a couple of versions (Benny Goodman, Chet
Baker) here:
http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions
-Rosann BENEDICT ('63)
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Re: Newberry's
My best friend, Linda FLAGOR ('68), and I would go shopping
for fabric at Newberry's to make "twin" dresses every few
years. We would treat ourselves to ten cents worth of
chocolate covered raisins from the candy counter, staffed
by one of the RAMMERMAN ('66-RIP) twins that we knew from
Westside youth group and she always gave us a little more than
ten cents worth.
Re: PE and the Big Pool
I started seventh grade [at Carmichael or Chief Jo?] with my
hand in a cast and had to bring a doctor's note excusing me
from swimming. I thought it was obvious that I couldn't go in
the water. I still had to put on my suit and lie on the deck.
I hated swimming in PE because I have naturally curly hair
and no swim cap would keep my hair totally dry.[my hair was
UNnaturally curly with perm! Same results-hair FRIZZZ -Maren]
I looked like I stuck my finger in a light socket for the rest
of the day.
Re: Home Ec
I managed to put off Home Ec until my senior year since I had
been making my own clothes since seventh grade and cooking for
my family off and on when mom went back to work. I managed to
choose inappropriate material my dress but convinced Miss
Swain that it would all work out because I had worked with
that type of fabric before and knew how to handle it. I think
I got an A in sewing, at least.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68) ~ traveling in Eastern Canada
where we had a surprise cloud burst walking back to
the hotel in Toronto. Other than that, the weather
has been beautiful!
Sent from my iPad
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Heard about this Bomber death today:
Bobby MATTSON ('63 * '64) ~ 10/31/45 - 10/3/17
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Heard about this Bomber death today:
Ernie WEGENER ('64) ~ 8/14/44 - 9/25/17
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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