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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/01/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (yesterday 10pm: 78° - 74% humidity)
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17 Bombers sent stuff:
Orrin Pilkey ('52), Dorothy Wright ('54WB)
Darlene Trethewey ('56WB), Jim Hoff ('57)
Dan Noble ('58), Lora Homme ('60)
Irene de la Bretonne ('61), John Browne ('61)
Fred Schafer ('63) & Ann Engel ('63)
Lyndy Wheeler ('62), Linda Reining ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Jeff Michael ('65)
Guy Lobdell ('66), Rick Maddy ('67)
Daniel Laybourn ('70)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy Rice ('77)
More information: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
Click the lunch you want to know about.
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>>From: Orrin Pilkey ('52)
Re: Turbidity Currents
Mike Waggoner's ('60) idea as to how the giant
turbidity currents that carried the "big flood"sediment
to the Tufts abyssal plain (water almost 3 miles deep)
may well be correct. In fact, upon reflection, piling
up of the sediment into an unstable mass is probably
the most likely reason why the current formed. Perhaps
there were multiple curents. Turbidity currents can be
big things. One - on the Hatteras Abyssal Plain off the
East Coast was determined to be a 100 cubic kilometer
mass (Mt. St. Helens released 1 cubic Kilometer) and
contained shells from very shallow water (intertidal)
-Orrin Pilkey ('52)
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>>From: Dorothy Wright Woodwind ('54WB)
Re: Hello, from Dorothy WRIGHT
Hi everyone, I recently found the Bomber site. I
love to see words like sandstorm, tumbleweed, and low
humidity mentioned. Just keep talking, I'll keep
enjoying.
Marcus Whitman, '44-'49, Carmichael, '49-'51. I
never got the sand out of my shoes.
Wishing I could see my old, dear friends. Have a
wonderful 50th Reunion Class of 1954! I will not forget
you!
DOT
-Dorothy Wright Woodwind ('54WB)
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>>From: Darlene Trethewey Dunning ('56WB)
I don't write much, but read every day. In thinking
about the past I was wondering if any one knows or
remembers a man over by Spalding who repaired and
rebuilt bicycles. I was about 13 and had walked by his
place and there was this beautiful blue bike. I really
wanted but it cost $20.00 which I didn't have. After a
checking it out for several days and a few tears I
ended up with this treasure and a great memory of a
neat guy.
-Darlene Trethewey Dunning ('56WB)
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>>From: Jim Hoff ('57)
Re: Bombers Are Everywhere
After returning from a lengthy trip in Northern
Europe I have been amused by the writings about puddles
and other such events. So I thought I would send a new
topic area for us to write about. That topic is the
unbelievable encounters we have with Bombers or Bomber
related items in this large world of ours.
On August 4th my wife and I were in Stockholm,
Sweden. After a long day of sight seeing and
shopping in old town we decided to head back to our
transportation destination. For some reason I decided
we would take a short cut up this narrow winding street
in hopes of saving a few blocks of walking and also to
see an area less tourist oriented. Anyway, part way up
the street this small shop attracted me and I stopped
and decided I would enter, my wife said she was not
interested so she waited outside. After looking around
a bit the shop keeper appeared and I was astonished to
see he had a T-shirt on that said the "Bombers" on it.
So I asked him where it was from and said the United
States and I then went on to explain that I had
graduated from the only high school in the U.S. that
had the Bombers as a mascot. He asked where that
was and I told him it was Richland, Washington. He
immediately smiled and said "That is where I bought
this shirt." I asked when and why and he said "A few
years ago when I played in a Rock band and we played a
concert there." Now to make this connection even
more unbelievable I thanked him for his time and
complemented him on his fine little shop to which he
replied "It is not mine and I am just filling in today
for my girlfriend who owns it." Now I knew it was meant
to be that this chance beyond chance encounter was
clearly destined to be. I will also send with this a
photo of the fellow and the shop.
-Jim Hoff ('57)
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>>From: Dan Noble ('58)
Re: Club 40 Golf
If anyone is interested, I have 3 tee times,
starting at 7:00 AM, for Saturday, September 11 at West
Richland Golf Course. So far, there are 4 of us that
will be there. Chuck Zook, Bill Olson, Darrel Henjum
and me. There is room for 8 more and I think I can get
more if necessary. Email me.
-Dan Noble ('58)
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: The Dog Sphinx
Pappy, none of the Puddle Pals saw the lion with
a dog's head in the background of the hot tub photo.
You're probably the only one in the world who did.
However, when you say that none of us would admit that
we thought you were nuts, you're very much mistaken. I
think we all admit freely that everyone in the puddle,
especially you, is more than a little off center but
it has nothing to do with your alert observation of
mythical creatures in the bushes.
The fact that none of us responded to your comments
only means that the rest of us are obtuse and just
didn't see it so didn't get it, not that you aren't
funny anymore. Carry on!
To: Tedd Cadd ('66)
Re: If a tree falls in the forest, etc.
It has always seemed a little arrogant to me for
us to think that if no one's there to hear a tree fall
there's no sound. It would follow then that if there's
no one there to see it, there is no sunset. That would
mean that if we did something reeeealy foolish and
there were no more people, the universe would cease to
exist. That would make us more powerful than God. I
don't think so!
-Lora Homme Page ('60)
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>>From: Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
For those truly interested in exploring the concept of
NOW, I suggest reading THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart
Tolle. There are, of course, many many great minds
throughout history who have explored the concept, but
this current read is especially accessible.
-Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Now, now...
To Pappy: Nuts and twisted minds are funny ALL The
time (as long as it isn't happening to ME), sir... Now
and Forever (whatever THAT means). However, lovely
young things on the prowl seldom appreciate being
Reminded of their Chaperones. It detracts from the aura
of hell-for-leather derring-do. It's gauche to gush
about the woofer (unless you're Sgt. Preston. Then,
it's de rigueur.) woof! woof-woof!
To Juan der N: "Now and Then there's a fool such as
I.." goes the old song. I wonder which side of Now is
Then on? Is it "Then, when everything was..."; or "If I
can't go, Then I'm gonna hold my breath until.."? Maybe
it's on Both sides. So, by Laura Homme's paradigm, it
describes an illusional state which has no basis in
Reality. With regard to my Theory, I'm sticking to it.
There's "NO TIME like (ie =) the PRESENT. The apparent
movement is just a willingness of the spirit to suspend
awareness of eternity, shatter, and inhabit a lot of 3
(or 4) dimensional holograms that make everything feel
like "Time" is "going by", when it's just a string of
imaginary projections of old still-foto memories of an
imagined universe. That's all.
To Laura Homme: Oh YEAH? If there's No PAST, then where
do LEFTOVERS come from, hmmmm? I don't HEAR YOU... (i
wonder if there's anything in the fridge... it was
right here, a minute ago..? hmmm) ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Lyndy Wheeler Myers ('62)
To: The class of '62
I have some sad news. Vivian Gericke Horak's [('62-
-foreign exchange student from South Africa] only
daughter, Joanne was killed in a freak accident last
week. I am sure she would love to hear from her U.S.
friends at this sad time.
Thanks for your thoughts
-Lyndy Wheeler Myers ('62)
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>>From: Fred & Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Saturday - September 11, 2004
VISIT TIME: 11:00am
ORDER LUNCH: 11:30am
WHERE: DoubleTree/Columbia River
Take Jantzen Beach Mall Exit off of I-5
RSVP: Contact Fred or Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
if you are planning to join us!
All Bombers, Spouses & Friends are welcome!
-Fred & Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
To: George "Pappy " Swan ('59)
Re: dog in bushes/4th picture of Vicki Owens' ('72)
road trip
I thought my eyes were playing tricks, so had to go
back and look at it, again---definitely a dog in the
bushes--better than a bear in the bushes.
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - heat is still
here---105 yesterday and supposed to be
just as hot today, IF not hotter! ugh!
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Bummer, Dude
Uh Oh... I forgot to call Kathy Hoff ('64) on the
30th and wish her happy birthday!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh.
I ran up to Monterey Friday to pick up a nice little
'37 Plymouth 5 window custom... had some guys take a 23
Roadster to Pomona for me to sell and drove the coupe
down to meet them... Big Sur was beautiful and all the
stops along the way are just as nice as ever. Laid over
in Santa Barbara when the fog got too thick and then
met up with the Boys in Pomona. Ran over to Whittier to
pick up a nice Quick Change I got from a guy and had a
nice dinner with the boys at a Stewart Anderson's...
But the next morning the guy with the trailer wanted to
leave early cuz he hadda work Sunday night... after
breaking up the fight I told Trailer boy to go ahead
and go home and I'd drive the roadster home if one of
them would drive the coupe... was like throwing meat in
a shark tank... "pick me... pick me"... finished all
the rows in the swap meet... got my list almost
finished except for two items... a 4 foot brake and a
heavy tube bender... never found a brake but found two
very nice benders but the trailer was gone... oh
well... maybe in October... Drove the roadster home...
the little flathead performed just as I hoped it would
and except for the grueling sun it was a wonderful
trip... in Court the next morning guys asked me if I'd
spent a week on the beach... no... just 4 hours across
the Mojave in a roadster. I am very disappointed to
have Denny Johnson ('62WB) burst my bubble to find that
the words to 60 minute man are racey... not about a
watch... I KNEW it wasn't about a watch... I thought
the guy was a track star... now I'm almost afraid to
listen to the radio... probably find out that "Rock
with me Henry" was naughty too... Next the smut doctors
will try and bring down Hank Ballard songs... Bessy
Smith... oh my oh my... when will it end????????????
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Hey there, Bombers and Bomberettes:
Now, I've got a few comments to share. Oooops, time's
up! Excuse me, I'm on the RIGHT side of the bathroom
door (the hinges are on the left side...I don't wanna
get squished when the door flies open!)
This NOW conversation is like deja view all over again.
I'm sure we had it at Robert Hart's house during his
birthday party when he turned 14 or something. But
that was then and this is now. Besides, I may be
misremembering my own personal illusion of events that
never happened in the now, then.
So, now then, on the subject of the large critter in
the background of the touring ladies in the concrete
(fiberglass, wooden, whatever) puddle. I DID notice it
(DID TOO!) and was going to make some wise a** remark
(as usual). But then my focus returned to the primary
subjects in the photo and the animal instincts
regarding the animal receded to less primal regions
of my cranial matter. Besides, no matter, I figured
everyone else saw it too (DID TOO), so why point out
the obvious (nose on your/my face). Then when it (not
the nose... the critter) was mentioned by a fellow
Bomber, I figured, again wrongly, this was proof of the
logic of my first thesis (hypothesis, whatever), that
everybody saw the critter. Since no one seemed to sense
the humor, based solely on the lack comments, one
has to wonder: was it the lack of seeing the critter
(viewers over come by the foreground often don't track
the background---many an ambush has been based on that
premise). Or was it the assumption (which has not been
proven true or false) that everyone figured everyone
else saw the critter, so why mention it. Or, in fact,
is neither conclusion correct, but rather that no one
(for whatever reason) felt compelled to comment on the
comment about the critter! Say, what was that critter
anyway? And..."Who let the dog(s) out."
Now, for sumpin' new...I've only been in town a bit
over a year and have been busted already. Can you
believe it? I was spinnin' a few tunes in the backyard
of a fellow's house in west Pasco Saturday night. The
yard backs up to the Columbia (NICE VIEW). There were a
few (hundred) folks there...probably not many over 300
for a wedding reception. Long about 10:45 some red and
blue blinking lights arrived in the drive. (I knew I
didn't bring my bubble gum machines.) Seems someone
over the water in Bomberville didn't like my music
selections! Like, next time, just call in a request!
Guess the good news for me was, the party wound down
really quickly after that. But still...
Best wishes to Mr. Paul Beardsley, recovering at home.
-Jeff Michael ('65) ~ Where the full moon shining on
the mighty Columbia at midnight Saturday was just
soooo awesome!
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>>From: Guy Lobdell ('66)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Pappy:
Where the heck are all the Marines, Jarheads, Gyrenes,
etc., etc., from Columbia High School (AKA Richland
High School)? I thought for sure that we would at least
garner a few replies to our posts???? Ya think they
already recalled them to active duty for the latest
little fracas in the desert? N A! There's got ta be a
lot of ole' timers like us out there, or ya think
them's all computer illiterate?
That can't be the problem, I happen ta know some of 'em
and they's pretty smart ya know. Got high faluttin'
jobs in that there 'tomic area and all. Then again
there's even more who were in police jobs around here,
and that takes some smarts!
Hey, Pappy, I'll bet I know what the problem is, they
all probably figure we're goin' ta ask 'em ta do
somethin' more than just have a get together..........
-Guy Lobdell ('66)
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>>From: Rick Maddy ('67)
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Re: Illusion
Impossible for me to be suspended in the NOW, even
while pondering, for matter is a constant, unending
movement into the future's abyss. And, for
clarification, has nothing to do with mushrooms (old
Bomber joke). I was only stating the obvious. The
construct, NOW, at the snap of a finger, faster than
the blink of an eye... is the past... and because I
like digressing. My illusionary past and subtle visions
from surfaced unconsciousness shows me that one must
take precaution with information from the delusional.
1. Alone on our death bed will we find the answer to
being deceived by a false belief, or not. 2. Only one
thing better than a great glass of wine; a cold beer.
-Rick Maddy ('67)
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>>From: Daniel Laybourn ('70)
To: Wally Erickson ('53)
Don't miss the Monterey Bay Aquarium!
-Daniel Laybourn ('70) ~ the upper central Monterey Bay coast...
colhi70.org
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/02/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (Yesterday 10pm: 81° - 74% humidity)
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Ralph Myrick ('51), James Johnson ('60)
Lora Homme ('60), Helen Cross ('62)
John Adkins ('62), Gary Behymer ('64)
Greg Poynor ('66), Betti Avant ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda Lester ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gordon Mumford ('72)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Ralph Myrick ('51)
I have heard from some of the folks that had Helen
Skogen as teacher. Wow! Helen was really well thought
of as a great teacher. Judy and I will put together a
booklet with all the comments made to her. You know,
it is much better to tell her while she can hear first
hand from you guys rather than at a funeral service. I
have been to a number where all the neat things were
said about that individual and they couldn't hear a
thing. Need some more comments. Thanks to those who
have responded so far.
-Ralph Myrick ('51)
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>>From: James Johnson ('60)
Jim Hoff's ('57) story about seeing the Bomber
T-shirt in Stockholm reminded me of an experience I had
in Australia. While working in Melbourne in 1983 I took
an Easter holiday to Alice Springs. There are only two
things to do in Alice. One is to watch the Henley-On-
Todd Regatta, a race of bottomless boats made out of
beer cans and on a dry river (it should be pointed out
that in true Australian fashion they have to cancel the
boat race if it rains!). But since the Regatta is in
August I settled for the second most popular event, the
camel caravan. It's about a 3k jaunt, concluding at a
winery for a tasting and meal. I was in the back "seat"
of a two-humped camel (a sheila was in front) and from
the camel immediately behind us I heard distinctive
"yank" accents. After we got to the winery I learned
they were indeed Americans. Where are you from? "The
Pacific Northwest." Oh, really, what part? "Washington."
Oh, really, so am I. What city? "Kennewick!"
-James Johnson ('60) ~ Marietta, Georgia
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: John Brown, Jr. ('61)
Re: Now and Then
What an interesting question, which side of NOW is
THEN on? I like your answer and examples showing that
it goes both directions. I agree. Except that you can't
GET there from here because it either no longer exists
or doesn't exist yet. You can only THINK about it and
the only place in time that you can be to think about
it is the present. Like you said, there's no time like
the present. As a matter of fact, there's no other time
at all, except as neuron activity, or whatever it is,
in our brains.
Space, on the other hand, is a whole 'nother thing,
it's certainly possible to move through space. Since
space and time are, as I understand it, inseparable
within the dimensions that define our existence, how do
we get over THERE? Do we move through space trapped in
our NOW bubble? Each step I take is in the NOW no
matter how fast I run.
However, if I keep running faster, if that were
possible, and shortening the time that it takes me in
my little NOW bubble to get from A to B, eventually I
will arrive in no time at all. Then if I keep running
faster, I will arrive at my destination before I
started, thereby going backwards in time and that's not
possible because the past doesn't exist anymore.
Oh good grief! There must be some physicists out
there, didn't Einstein address some of this? What the
heck am I talking about!?
Leftovers come from poor planing.
To: Rick Maddy ('67)
If it's impossible for you to be suspended in the
NOW, where are you and how did you get there!?
-Lora Homme Page ('60) ~ Where is my puddle? I belong
in my puddle, not running around here in
space and time.
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
I want to extend my get well wishes and thinking
of you wishes to Kay Wier Fishback ('37 Bronco). I am
praying for you, as you were one of the first to teach
me to pray as one of my long time ago Sunday School
teachers at CUP. I also extend my best wishes to your
family, Alan ('61) and Roger ('62) who I remember well.
To: Lyndy Wheeler Myers ('62)
I am so sorry to learn of Vivian's daughter's
death. What a loss to any parent. I will write you to
get her email address, it is the least I can do.
And congratulations to Oma (Maren Smyth ('63 and '64)}.
It is so neat that you can be with your daughter at
this special time. I'm sure they all are so glad you
can be there with them. Enjoy.
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ W. Harrison, IN - where I
watched the sun set over the little lake tonight
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>>From: John Adkins ('62)
Re: Linda Reining ('64)
Did I read that right? Linda Reining ('64) was
"bear" in the bushes??
-John Adkins ('62)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: Bomber Mascots
Jim Hoff ('57) said "..then went on to explain
that I had graduated from the only high school in the
U.S. that had the Bombers as a mascot."
Jim:
There are a number of other Bomber mascots (;-)Bomber Mascot Website
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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[NONE of the others have a mushroom cloud. -Maren]
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>>From: Greg Poynor ('66)
Tedd Cadd ('66) in the Alumni Sandstorm of 08/31/04
raises an interesting point, but the wrong question
("If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody
there to hear it, does it make a sound?"). The question
should be, "If a husband is alone in the forest and his
wife is not there to hear it, is he still wrong?" Hmmm
-Greg Poynor ('66)
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[OF COURSE he's wrong... and/or it's his fault -Maren]
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Jeff et al:
You were asking who let the dogs out in regards
to the picture of the gals from '72. Salina, KS just
passed an ordinance that went into effect 1 Sept,
that all pit bulls and even pit bull mixes must be
registered at the court house. They even made green
collars the dogs have to wear to identify them as "such
critters". A lot of people waited until the last minute
to do it so the lines were quite long yesterday. Some
owners even indicated they would bring them in to be
euthanized rather than license them, as it would be
cheaper to put them to sleep than license them. It just
takes a few dogs to make trouble to change things.
Bomber cheers,
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Goodland, KS - where they lied
this week and it has been in the 90s
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/03/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am: 81° - 84% humidity)
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14 Bombers sent stuff:
Carole Clark ('54), Mike Clowes ('54)
Dean Enderle ('57), Jim Hoff ('57)
Linda Stewart ('57), Marlene Maness ('57WB)
George Swan ('59), Patti Jones ('60)
John Browne, Jr. ('61), Denny Johnson ('62WB)
Joe Ford ('63), Linda Reining ('64)
Shirley Collings ('66), Treg Owings ('76)
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>>From: Carole Clark Oien ('54)
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Oh no, leftovers come from GOOD planning! You only have to
cook once and then use the microwave. You learn a lot in the
extra six years after graduation. Haha.
-Carole Clark Oien ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
Re: Now
After reading the several learned discussions on the
concepts of now, then, here and there; I wonder how many
Bombers have studied at the feet of the great master Prof.
Irwin Corey ("World's Foremost Expert"). Except that the
concept of "there" does not apply in Oakland, CA, for Gertrude
Stein has already stated that "There is no there, there."
Wandering minds want to know,
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
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>>From: Dean Enderle ('57)
Re: Places where Bombers meet
I noticed a couple of recent entries about encountering
Bomber related items (Jim Hoff's ('57) bomber T-shirt in
Sweden, etc).
Anyway it reminded me of a time back in 1972 I was with
some Army guys sitting in a roof top bar in Kunsan, South
Korea and I asked one of them where he was from and he replied
"you probably never heard of it but it is Pasco, Washington
State" I then told him I came from Richland and another guy in
the group exclaimed "thats where I am from", turns out he
graduated a couple of years after me but we had a few laughs
talking about the "good/bad old days in the Tri-City area.
Just goes to show there are Bombers all over the place.
-Dean Enderle ('57)
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>>From: Jim Hoff ('57)
Re: Bombers and Stockholm
I stand corrected on the issue of only school with the
mascot of "Bomber", but I did also explain to him that it went
with the symbol of the mushroom cloud. I am sure he was every
bit as confused as anyone would be from a foreign country
talking about school mascot, atomic weapons development, WWII
etc. I have a Doctor friend who thinks the fusion (hydrogen
bomb) came before the fission (atomic bomb).
-Jim Hoff ('57)
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>>From: Linda Stewart Nicholson ('57)
Re: Agate Hunting
My cousin is coming from Indiana for his '54' reunion and
Club 40. He has expressed an interest in hunting agates while
he is here. Are there any such places left that do not have
a housing development on top of them? I would appreciate any
help in that direction.
Thanks,
-Linda Stewart Nicholson ('57)
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>>From: Marlene Maness Mulch ('57WB)
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
"What The #&*$!? Do We Know?" is a movie that is playing
locally that addresses the questions you raise.
The web site for the movie is http://www.whatthebleep.com
A review I read states that it is "a documentary about
the confluence of leading-edge science-- quantum physics,
molecular biology, neurobiology-- with spirituality. All bound
together with state-of-the-art, high-action animated special
effects." The leading actress is Marlee Matlin.
I was personally disappointed in the movie but everyone
else is raving about it. If you see it let me know what you
think.
-Marlene Maness Mulch ('57WB)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: The NOW of OLD and YOUNG
Today was the opening day of Forest Grouse Hunting
Season when old men, accompanied by their old dog
(sometimes not so old), take their comfortable old
hunting vest and cherished old shotgun and drive the
familiar old pickup to the usual old canyon in the
mountains and trudge through the favorite old Grouse
thickets. However, they're not really concerned if
they get old Mr. Grouse or not. They're just intent on
losing themselves with their best friend in the old
ways and memories of other times. A good thing too.
I didn't see a grouse nor fire a shot. But I had a
wonderful day so color me happy as in "Happy Pappy."
Darby, my Yellow Lab, had a good one also. I swear,
once she realized that we were going hunting, she had
a smile on her face. September 1 is the harbinger of
various hunting seasons every year in Washington State.
It is the date that I begin looking forward to the very
day after the previous hunting season closed.
I think the happiness sprang from a day of hunting
(something that I really love doing), watching the
dog work (something that she really loves doing), and
pondering the concept of "OLD." No doubt about it, I
am getting OLD. Well, maybe not OLD but OLDER, as in
no longer "YOUNG." There are "signs," signs like an
occasional stumble, getting tired a little sooner, and
aches and pains that never used to be there. But, I
believe that OLD is a "relative" term. I used to be
YOUNGER than most of my relatives. NOW (there's that
concept again), I am OLDER than most of my relatives.
And, even though I am OLDER, I am NOW actually happier
than when I was YOUNGER because I think that I have
developed a deeper fondness and appreciation for my
life-long interests. It's not so much of a passion
anymore but more of a contentment.
In two weeks, on the weekend of September 18 and
19, it will all come together, both YOUNG and OLD, when
I take my grandkids on the Youth Hunting Weekend. That,
NOW, annual weekend is one of the greatest concepts
developed by the Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife for the youth of our state to learn and
develop a lifelong outdoor activity. Similar to the
special free fishing weekend in springtime and the
youth deer hunting seasons in October, the Youth
Hunting weekend allows only young people under 16
years of age to hunt Upland Game Birds and Waterfowl
without adult competition but under non-hunting adult
supervision. The kids must have completed Hunter
Education training and have a valid Washington State
hunting license for small game. I have been an
outdoorsman my entire life because my dad took me along
and showed me how. I did the same for my daughter and
NOW, I am doing the same for my grandkids because I
believe that a kid raised to enjoy and respect the
outdoors is one less kid on the streets getting into
trouble.
-George "Happy Pappy" Swan ('59)
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
The Puget Sound area luncheon will be hosted by
Tom Hughes ('56) while I am away at Club 40. Hoped Tom
would make Club 40 but his busy life will allow him
time to host the luncheon. Any questions email Tom at
Re: South Puget Sound Area/Fife luncheon
DATE: September 12, 2004
COFFEE TIME: 11:30am
LUNCH TIME: 12:30pm
WHERE: Fife Bar and Grill
In between Goodyear Tire and Day's Inn
PHONE: (253) 922-9555
ADDRESS: 3025 Pacific Highway E., Fife, WA
I-5 North, Exit 136 B (Port of Tacoma)
I-5 South Exit 136
Turn left on Pacific Highway. E.
PRICE: Price range $10.00 - $14.50 includes drink and tip
All Bomber Spouses and Friends are welcome!
Bombers Have Fun
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ Browns Point, WA - The
weather is definitely not boring. The crew of the
Lady Washington I'm sure are delighted as she
arrived here in Commencement Bay as the wind was
perfect for her sailing.
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Bubble bubble...
To Lora Homme Page ('60): Hey- isn't your "NOWBubble" another
term for "Space"? It seems like there's no Time without
Movement, since, otherwise, how could you tell? If there's
no Movement, then there's no Space, either, since Movement
describes Space, which actually doesn't exist on its own- it's
just a convenient name for "a place that didn't exist until
something moved in and filled it up". Einstein DID say
something about "going faster"... how time slows down the
faster you go. So, if you could go the speed of Light, then,
maybe, you could examine the Universe in No Time at All- which
would mean that your "NOWBubble" would include Everything
(except Nothing, which has no attributes or conditions...
but you need it, anyhow- else where are you going to PUT
"Everything"?) Yes... Everything depends upon Nothing-
nothing, at all... ^.. ^
ps I look forward to leftovers- so maybe it's "poor planning"
when there isn't any. ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Denny Johnson ('62WB)
Re: Maren's insertion into the "is he still wrong?" question
I refer to the standard list of spousal responses:
Referencing husband's response #2: "yes dear"
This response is only 2nd because #1 is so pre-eminent: "yes,
dear..of course, you're RIGHT dear"
Reminding all of you fellows out there... there are several
things that supersede the importance of a Muncie 4 speed or a
57" HDTV plasma/projection/whatever-
One is a VIKING computerized sewing machine, and the other is
ANY kitchen appliance that offers convenience along with an
upscale "gourmet kitchen" appearance.
Once we men are trained to prioritize... any relationship is
salvageable.
-Denny Johnson ('62WB)
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>>From: Joe Ford ('63)
Folks;
Regarding the exchange between Orrin Pilkey ('52) and Michael
Waggoner ('60), I have a couple of comments:
The Lake Missoula floods are one of the great phenomena of the
Northwest. As an enthusiastic lay geology buff, I'm looking
forward to the Lake Missoula Flood trail. It's interesting to
read Orrin Pilkey's comments think that the sediment carried
down the Columbia as the result of the floods eventually
came to rest so far out in the Pacific. For examples of Lake
Missoula shorelines, as noted in the NY Times article, take
yourself to Missoula itself, and look up at the mountain-side
to the north (if memory serves) of downtown. There are
literally dozens of terraces marking the various shorelines of
the lake as its level rose and fell behind the glacial dam.
I like to imagine standing on the top of Rattlesnake or Badger
or some other safe high point when a head of water dozens or
hundreds of feet high came down from Spokane, slowing and
ponding around Pasco, backing up to Walla Walla and Prosser,
and gnawing its way through Wallula Gap.
Wonderful commentary on the Sandstorm.
BTW, do a Google search for Orrin Pilkey or Michael Waggoner.
We're in distinguished company here.
Best and warmest greetings to all.
-Joe Ford ('63)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
To: John Adkins ('62)
you funny. *grin*
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - too blasted HOT--over
100 for the rest of the week!!!!
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From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
**EXTRA**EXTRA**READ ALL ABOUT IT**
From 9/2/04 TCHerald
"George Brunstad, Bomber class of 1952, became the oldest
person to swim the English Channel. He turned 70 on 8/26/04.
Two days later, he swam across the Channel, becoming the
oldest person to swim the 21-mile stretch of water.
A deeply religious man, Brunstad and many other members of
his church have spent time in the town of Hinche, Haiti, where
the church sponsors an orphanage. Many young children there
lose their parents to the AIDS epidemic.
"One evening 15 months ago, I was drifting off to sleep
and a thought came to mind," he said. "I pictured myself as an
old man and there was an opportunity to do something and I
didn't do anything about it."
That something was to help build a new orphanage, school,
medical clinic and church for the children
Through Brunstad's swim, he would raise money for that
project. There is even a Web site, www.channelhopeforhaiti.org
put up by the Center of Hope.
He never expected the response he's gotten. But he
understands it.
"I've taken human performance where it's never been
before," he said. "Nobody can conceive a 70-year-old [(even a
Richland Bomber -Shirley)] doing it. I just thank God.:
More importantly, to this point he's raised $11,000 for
Center of Hope Project.
TCHerald Article
Picture of George while he is swimming the Channel
Current picture of George
Hopefully fellow Bombers are able to help George in his pursuit,
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Treg Owings ('76)
I went to the mascot page and reread all the goings on when
we had the 10.5 foot bomb in '81. What ever happened to that
bomb? Also, did the school board get re-elected who voted to
not accept that gift?
-Treg Owings ('76)
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[Treg -- NOT 1981 -- more like 2001. -Maren]
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/04/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (Now: 77° - 78% humidity)
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18 Bombers sent stuff:
Anna May Wann ('49), Betty Hiser ('49)
Jim Jensen ('50), Charlotte Carlson ('52)
Dore Tyler ('53), John Bruntlett ('54)
Laura Dean Kirby ('55), Spencer Hinson ('56)
Max Sutton ('57), George Swan ('59)
Joanne Rolph ('59), Lora Homme ('60)
Mike Lewis ('60), Jay Siegel ('61)
Tim Avedovech ('61), Anita Cleaver ('63)
Pam Ehinger ('67), Vicki Owens ('72)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard Johnson ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick Southam ('80)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
Re: Club 40 reunion
Karol Brimhall Smith ('56) and I are signing up people to
help us on the registration desk Friday and Saturday evening.
Hopefully you would have just a one hour shift – Friday we are
operating from 4:30 to 9:00 and Saturday from 4:30 to 7:30.
If you can, or would, help us will you please let me know.
Karol doesn't have e-mail so I am your only alternative. Karol
has everything nicely organized so it should be an easy and fun
job. We do have some people already volunteering for the 4:30
shift, but if you can help "whenever" we will use you.
Karol would also like a couple of "big" guys to help direct
traffic as there is only one door into the room and we want to
keep people moving instead of congregating in the doorway.
Please e-mail if you can help.
-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Re: Finding Bombers in Strange Places
I was an adult member of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and
attended a conference in San Francisco in 1956 (during an
earthquake that was rattling the entire city and aftershocks
lasted about 4 days). We were standing in line to register. I
handed my registration card to a gal and when she looked at it
and poked the guy next to her in the ribs and said, "Here is
that town you told me to look for." I looked up and there was
Jim Massey ('46 or '47). I could not remember his first name but
I said to him, "I know your last name is Massey - and I also
know that you are not Pinhead." Pinhead (Delbert) was in the
same class as Jim but they were not related.
Re: Congratulations to George Brunstad ('52)
I used to work with his mother, Helen, when I worked for GE
in Purchasing in the 700 Area.
Re: Richland Arrival
On September 14, 1944I started to Richland on the train with
my mother, sister, and 6 other people from the small town I
lived in (Kings Mills, OH). We arrived on September 17 in Pasco
and my dad was there to meet us. They had just finished building
our house ("A" House in the 500 block of Duane - now Goethals).
Our furniture arrived and Housing discovered that we had bedbugs
so they fumigated the house before we moved in September 21 (4
days before the start up of B Reactor - my father - Floyd Hiser
- was there when B started up - he told us if people ever found
out what they were making at the plant the world would be
shocked and that is all he ever said) during a good old
"termination wind". We were going across the Yakima River bridge
and you could not even see the bridge. School was 2 weeks late
starting - train loads of people were coming in - one trainload
alone was from Denver. I was supposed to go to school at Lewis
and Clark. An overload of 5th and 8th graders so they sent me to
Jefferson - just completed construction and the gym was loaded
with boxes. In 2 weeks 72 students were packed in one room so
they sent some of us over to Sacajawea (OLD Sacy) and 120
students showed up - 2 rooms. They sent us home and told us to
come back the next day. They decided to split us up into 4
classes - I ended up going to school from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(just in time to miss the 5 o'clock bus). At Christmas break
they told me to report to Lewis and Clark as they would have the
new addition finished. HO HO. I went to school for the remainder
of the '44-'45 school year from 1 to 5 p.m. What did I learn in
the 8th grade - not a whole lot.
The good Lord willing and the crick (creek) don't rise I
will have lived in Richland for 60 years on September 21.
-Betty Hiser Gulley 49er ~ south/government Richland - where it
has cooled way down - I had to sleep with a light
blanket last night. I will warm up for the Club 40
doin's though.
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>>From: Jim Jensen ('50)
Re: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) posting of 9-3-04 about
George Brunstad ('52)
Outstanding! The last time I saw George was in 1950. He was
somewhat tall for his age, wore a pleasant expression and was a
generally affable guy. What a life of positive contributions. I
raise my congratulatory glass (of de-caf Coca-Cola) to George
and express my thanks to Shirley for sharing the article and
pictures with us.
Re: Now
It has been a kick reading all of the Bomber comments on
"now." I never studied philosophy in or out of school. For
that reason I'm certain that I'm out of my depth in even
contemplating on any element of the subject. Still, as I read
the comments (many, in my opinion, learned) I wonder why no one
mentions physical evidence. If the past is purely a metaphysical
recollection how does one explain the absolute fact that the
pyramids and other physical forms of evidence clearly establish
that something "physical" - not imaginary - existed a very long
time ago? Further, that human life had a great deal to do with
the creation of such forms of evidence? What am I missing?
Bomber cheers to all from Katy, TX, a land that "enjoys" the
same searing heat and unbearable humidity as Louisiana - where
Maren is hangin' out.
-Jim Jensen ('50)
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>>From: Charlotte Carlson Terry ('52)
Re: Meeting Bombers in odd places
This topic reminded me that when my husband and I went to
Hawaii (Maui) we called to have a car delivered so we could take
the trip to Hana. A young man delivered it (we were in Lahina)
and we chatted with him on the way back to drop him off at the
rental agency - he said he was from Richland, WA - I said, me
too, long story short, his UNCLE Jack Dawson ('52) and I went to
school together from 6th grade thru Hi School!!!!
Yes, it's a small world.
To: Maren
Congrats on the new grandchild - they are too wonderful for
words - enjoy!!
To: George Brunstad ('52)
Congratulations fellow '52 Bomber - what an accomplishment,
and what a wonderful reason to do it. We were in Wood Shop
together, remember??
-Charlotte Carlson Terry ('52) ~ Prescott, AZ
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>>From: Dore Tyler ('53)
Re: Strange Bomber meetings
While on army leave during my 2+ years of vacation in
Germany (US Army, 1/28/55 th Mid Dec, '57) I was traveling
between Hamburg Germany and Copenhagen when a very insistent
GI, in uniform tried to force his way into our very crowded
railroad car. I was about to administer a lesson in RR etiquette
when I recognized him as Don Jenne ('52).
The train crossed The Baltic by virtue of the cars being
pushed onto a trainship at Kiel, Germany and pulled off at the
south end of Zealand (Denmark).
It would have been far more interesting during daylight and
being sober.
Incidentally, Don and I had a nice chat.
Years later I (and my former spouse) had the pleasure of
purchasing a new TV set the day of New Years eve '62 or '63
from Don (then manager at the Rainier Beach, Seattle, House of
Values.)
-Dore Tyler ('53)
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>>From: John Bruntlett ('54)
Re: Class of '54 50th Reunion Registrations
The number of 1954 classmates registered for the 50th
Reunion has passed the century mark. As of September 2nd there
are 103 registered. A list of those registered is available on a
link from the 1954 Class web page: RichlandBombers.1954.tripod.com
-John Bruntlett ('54) ~ Cheney, WA
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>>From: Laura Dean Kirby ('55)
Happy Birthday to classmate Richard Johnson ('55). You
finally caught up with me! Hope Texas is treating you well and
that you have a wonderful birthday. RS 11 We'll miss you next
weekend at the Club 40 reunion. Billie says "Hi". Laura Dean '55
in Richland on a cloudy day.
-Laura Dean Kirby ('55)
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>>From: Spencer Hinson ('56)
Beth Pederson ('61) recently released her first solo CD
"Everything Must Change". Three other CD's that Beth and Cinde
Borup made are now available. The two of them performed for many
years thoughout the Northwest and Canada. You can visit Beth's
website at: www.highmoonmusic.com
-Spencer Hinson ('56)
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>>From: Max Sutton ('57)
To: George "Pappy" Swan (59)
Pappy, I couldn't agree with you more about the outdoors. I've
been going with my Dad, my sons, and my wife for over 50 years
now. I haven't been in three years because of my knees but that
is over with new replacements. Really looking forward to this
year. We raised and field trialed Brittany Spaniels for years.
Even had a couple of Dual Chs. in the bunch, but now it's just
me and an old Lab named Cody. We both hunt about each other's
speed, but we'll get there.
-Max Sutton ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: What is Stucco?
All of the mind bending philosophical discussions and
thoughts about nonsense song titles of late have stirred up my
gray matter, both on top and inside of my cranial facility.
Thinking, although minuscule, stirs the inside while scratching
my head for answers musses up the outside but I never comb it
much anyway. I am still reeling from that question posed years
ago by the learned, Bill Cosby, "Why is There Air?" I myself
have long pondered, what undoubtedly must be one of life's
greatest questions, "If you were going down a stream in a
rowboat and all of the wheels fell off, how many pancakes would
it take to stucco a doghouse?" Just recently, I have completed
my calculations, considerations, and an extended vision quest
resulting in excessive hallucinations to arrive at my considered
solution (secret recipe), which is -- about six bags of mortar,
twelve dozen brown farm-fresh eggs, several ladles of Alpaca
moo, 42 slices of individually wrapped goat cheese, 7.627 cups
of finely chopped jalapeno peppers, and a tiny pinch of baking
powder -- because the ice cream defrosted anyway.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA -- Where Mrs. Pappy
went to town for breakfast and Rooster Cogburn and his
ladies are having rather stiff pancakes for breakfast this
morning near the little puddle (AKA Pappy's Puddle) in the
driveway near the peach tree in front of the tall corn but
not too far from Pappy Swan's Great Punkin Patch. Eat your
heart out, Charley Brown!
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>>From: Sunnie Andress, aka Joanne Rolph ('59)
To: Nancy Mallory Johnson ('64)
Yes, Nancy, I know it has been hot, dry, humid, hot, hot,
etc. in many places this year! Places that are usually at least
a bit cooler or at least less humid in the summer! Our children
and grandchildren in Oregon, Washington and California have
complained about the heat and the dry (or humid) weather out
West. (and everything being brown!)
We have been in Vermont now for about 11 years... and this
is one of the strangest summers we've had. I love the cool
weather (I'm not a summer person!) but feel sorry for those
either who live here, or those who come intending to enjoy our
usually nice summer weather to swim, boat on Lake Memphremagog,
camp, cycle and hike. Also we have a short growing season so
cold weather during the summer causes garden problems. We have
had a lot of rain so everything is beautifully green... but
perhaps you heard about the PHISH concert a couple of weeks ago.
That concert brought between 68,000 and 70,000 people to our
little area and the rain made the fields where the concert was
held a sea of mud! We felt sorry for those who had traveled far
to see this concert... the last for the PHISH group... and we
had heavy rain for at least two of the 4 days folks were here.
Last week I actually turned on the heat in the house for
a couple of days!!! It was so cold we were wearing extra
clothes... and this is August!!! Really strange. I do wish I
could send some of the rain to all you folks who are sizzling or
steaming in the heat. Autumn is on its way here... some of the
trees in the woods are beginning to turn those beautiful colours
of reds and golds. We reach peak foliage season in early October.
Hope it will be a little cooler for you soon!
-Sunnie Andress, aka Joanne Rolph ('59)
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: Carole Clark Oien ('54) and John Brown, Jr. ('61)
Re: Leftovers - A topic I'm a lot more familiar with than time,
space, here, there, etc.
In my opinion, the value of leftovers is entirely dependent
on two things: quality and quantity. That is, the quality of the
cook and the quantity of what's left. You both are obviously
better cooks than me and have that talent which has eluded me,
to plan ahead for more than one meal. Not to imply that there
aren't other talents which have eluded me, but that's another
topic.
I never seem to prepare precisely the right amount to come
out even. No matter how many whole meals I manage, there is
always that little bit left that's too much to throw away and
not enough to keep. So, of course, I keep it. It goes in the
refrigerator where it stays until it turns green, begins to ooze
ominously over the side of the dish, and leers at me when I open
the door or, in desperation, I ruthlessly throw out perfectly
good stuff because I need the room in the refrigerator. (For all
you righteous conservers out there, my mother has already given
me the lecture on the starving of the world so please don't. I
tried giving some leftover macaroni and cheese to the Red Cross
one time and the guy made a horrid face and slammed the door.
Re: Bubble bubble toil and trouble... or something like that.
Nope, my bubble isn't another term for space, John. It's
a bubble of NOW. Space exists independent of time and is an
entirely separate dimension. Just as height is separate from
width, depth is separate from flatness, and like that. Or maybe
not.
And now you've added Everything and Nothing to Now and Then,
and Time and Space. I had enough trouble with NOW! You ask where
am I going to "PUT 'Everything'?" Hummm. Heh heh heh.
-Lora Homme Page ('60) - Wondering is it's really my
responsibility to find a place to put Everything.
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>>From: Mike Lewis ('60)
On the now and then and the bubbles in space and time. When
relativity was first invented it was assumed it would take many
generations to adapt to it, but nothing could be farther from
the truth: most living organisms are already familiar with what
was once a goal of mathematics -- making the equations covariant
so they made sense.
It turns out that schools of fishes and flocks of birds sweep
around and turn in essentially instantaneous transition because
their resonance in the electric field is so wideband and tight
they communicate vast amounts of information about what they
are doing to the rest of the flock. They--and we--already are
adapted to the fact that it takes electric field waves and the
information they carry some nonzero time to reach one organism
from another. We just learn to confuse it with artifice and lose
track of it the natural truth. Look at basketball. How can a
player know which team another player is on who is behind him
among several? He's resonant with the team and knows the nature
and spectrum of opposition. On the court, the team gets to
resonating like a flock of birds and turns as a whole unit. I
could only do that at moments which were unpredictable for me
but watching the teams is very enjoyable now. That's one reason
I read the Sandstorm email avidly, it's good to reminisce
however slowly with people I knew and remember.
Species resonance is just like with sound waves. When we see
lightning, or when Larry Mattingly ('60) sets off a loud flash
bomb in the sky on the 4th and we see the flash, we know easily
that it is the boom following it that started toward us when
the flash occurred. The same thing is true for light, it's just
faster.
It takes like about six millionths of a second to travel a mile,
and there are many chemical events in us that happen in much
less time than that. The idea of species should be familiar, it
is the same as the glow, or aura, that some mysticists talk
about.
If one has it backward and thinks the light comes from the
future, that tends to leave us surrounded by a mysteriously
obstructive sphere which could be confusing. But almost nobody
naïve, such as children, is every confused about species.
One last point: species is a word in international finance where
bankers pride themselves on being tigers, lions, and so on. If
one describes one exhausted self as "spent" it's fairly accurate
to say he or she has lost something of the human species to the
cunning and shrewd. Others become sophisticated at keeping their
species in a safe.
-Mike Lewis Col-Hi 1960 where I spent my senior year reading
nothing but science fiction.
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>>From: Jay Siegel ('61)
Re: Does anyone remember?
I have been laid up recuperating from rotator cuff repair
and have had considerable time available to contemplate the
years gone by. A name popped into my mind the other day along
with a vaguely remembered picture of a pert pony tail. Does
anyone remember Mary Ellen Duffy? She didn't go to high school,
so it would have probably been either Chief Jo or Jason Lee that
I knew her from.
It would be nice to put this long remembered individual into
the right time frame in my life.
Clear blue skies and warm, gentle breezes,
-Jay Siegel ('61)
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>>From: Tim Avedovech ('61)
Re: What the Bleep
I had this e-mail written out, and accidentally hit some
button and lost the whole message.
SO I try again.
I saw the movie "What the Bleep" when I was in a Pacesetter
Leadership Dynamics course run by PSI Seminars. I thought the
movie was slow, in the beginning. As the movie progressed, I saw
what it was truly about, and it just got better and better. The
movie is about how we live our lives. When I say that, I don't
mean that we live our life exactly as they do in the movie, I'm
talking about the resistance and thought patterns we experience,
and how we handle this. Their reflection of this in the movie is
actually very well done.
When the movie came out at a theater in the Arizona State
University district, I thought it would last a week or so.
However, the next week it was still there, and the next, and the
next, and now I believe 3 months later it is still running. Most
people who see it, get it, and I think this is why people keep
flocking to see this movie.
However, I almost walked out in the very beginning of this movie
because I am an impatient person, and it seems that when a movie
starts out slow, that is it for the rest of the movie. This one
just progressed from slow to excellent as time went on. Since
most people see what is really going on in this movie, I would
encourage anyone to go check it out. It's "different". If anyone
has had a chance to experience the personal growth seminars run
by PSI Seminars, then absolutely you must go see it. It truly
rocks your mind as you see your whole thought processes and
internal resistance visually manifested on a movie screen very
cleverly.
-Tim Avedovech ('61)
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>>From: Anita Cleaver Heiling ('63)
Re: Missoula Floods
To: Joe Ford ('63)
Regarding the Missoula floods a friend of ours wrote a
book (along with John Eliot Allen and Sam Sargent) entitled
"Cataclysms on the Columbia." We live on Rocky Butte here in
Portland and a geologist found sandy river soil up here when
we were driving piles for our house. (We're 600 feet above sea
level) She gave us her book after we were telling her about the
soil.
Interesting book. Enjoy.
-Anita Cleaver Heiling ('63)
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>>From: Pam Ehinger Nassen ('67)
Re: Agate Hunting
Bickilton use to be a great place for the red agates and
Then there is the almighty Ellensburg Blue but you have to know
what you're looking for to find them! I've been agate hunting
ever since I was old enough to walk. My grandparents were rock
hound and made Jewelry and they even sold it to several of the
stores in the Old Uptown! This was way back when! But those are
just a couple of places. The Beaches over by Seattle are great
too!
Good Hunting!
Bombers Rule
Pam Ehinger Nassen (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Vicki Owens ('72)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Sorry I'm so late in responding to Pappy's prose! My
personal road trip continues, as I'm trying to see as many
people in as many places as possible before I fly back to Uganda
in less than two weeks. That makes my email access sporadic, at
best. I'm presently in Pullman, Washington, my third hometown
(since a friend just pointed out to me that I've now lived in
Kampala even longer than in Richland, with Pullman a distant
third (19, 18 and 12 years, respectively).
I'm so glad to learn that you weren't calling one of us road
trip girls a dog! ;-) The cute, lion-like creature in the bushes
is none other than Teddy MacKenzie, personal and familial
watchdog and pet of Remy Neill MacKenzie ('72WB). The camera
seems to have brought him nearer than he actually was, and you
were right, we didn't notice him! Hey, we were too busy sucking
in our stomachs and trying to look like "babes"!
Thanks to all of you who shared our road trip through
pictures and notes, most of which were off line. There may be
enough interest for us to plan our next road trip in a
convertible Greyhound!
-Vicki Owens ('72) ~ presently shivering in Pullman and dreaming
of the warmth of Kampala
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/05/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (3am today: 79° - 83% humidity)
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick Roberts ('49), Dick Pierard ('52)
Lora Homme ('60), John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Ed Quigley ('62), Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
L. Tom Coleman ('66), Shirley Collings ('66)
Annie Peterson ('69), Barb Belcher ('72)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carolyn Halstead ('61WB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanie Hutchins ('62)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Richard "Dick" Roberts ('49)
Re: Meeting Bombers in strange places
Reminds me when we had a my retirement celebration in Hawaii
in 1988 with the whole fam damily. Coming off of flight from
California to Hawaii and walking down the concourse to the
baggage claim, here's George Gillette ('47) and his family
getting ready to board for home. We had a moment to make sure
it wasn't mistaken identity, passed greetings and bon voyage.
-Richard "Dick" Roberts ('49) ~ Grover Beach, CA - where it has
been sunny, balmy and starting to get wild as the
San Joaquin Valley empties for the beach and the
dunes this holiday weekend.
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>>From: Dick Pierard ('52)
Reading Betty Hiser Gulley's ('49) account of her arrival in
Richland reminded me that the 60th anniversary of Burt's ('59)
and my arrival passed during the summer as well. It was a hot
day in the middle of July when we came to Hanford with our
Mother and were met by our Dad. He had gone west from Chicago in
January to work at this top secret government project. He had
left the car with our aunt (his sister) since Mom could not
drive, and purchased a house trailer in which we would live
until he could arrange to have it and us brought out to Hanford.
He hired a young fellow who was going to work at Hanford to
drive the tiny trailer with a distraught mother with two
energetic boys, aged 10 and 3 1/2, all the way to distant
Washington. We started out in early June and it was a journey of
epic proportions, as the recapped tires we had on the 1937 Dodge
pulling a heavy trailer kept blowing out on the blistering heat
of the Midwestern highways. We finally were marooned in a town
in western Iowa and the driver went on by train to his job at
the project. Dad pulled every string he could to get some new
tires for the car from the ration board (not an easy task in
those wartime days), and finally we were able to get started
again with a new driver. This time we traveled at night and
slept in the day, and after 3 or 4 days on the road we finally
made it and were ensconced in the our new home, the massive
Hanford trailer park. Living there was another story in itself,
but I have chattered long enough.
-Dick Pierard ('52)
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Why there is air
There is air, "Pappy," to fill your little NOW bubble so
that it doesn't collapse in and crush you. I believe this is
know as The Big Crunch in astronomical circles.
To: Jim Jensen ('50)
Re: Physical Stuff in the NOW
Like you, Jim, I never studied philosophy or physics so I
was going to abandon NOW to the mathematicians who know what
they're talking about. But then you brought up physical stuff,
matter, which caught me back into brain strain.
Time exists so it must, by definition, pass. It's just that
human beings are each riding the current, trapped in their own
NOW bubble busily affecting matter which cannot be destroyed. It
can be changed, but not destroyed. The builders of the pyramids
built them in their own NOW and they exist as ruins at this
point in time in our NOW.
According to those folks who should know, all creation
is ruled by mathematical laws which are irrevocable and
irrefutable. Our understanding of those laws changes and grows,
but the laws do not. It seems to me, then, that mathematics must
be God's language and those people who "speak math" can learn
about creation and interpret for us who don't.
At least up to the present time, (NOW, if you will) nobody
can escape his own personal NOW bubble, the past and future
existing only as thoughts. Maybe some future Einstein will
discover that the "physical" past and future exist somewhere
and find a way for us to get there, I fervently hope so!
I personally believe that, based on human history, if we,
meaning mankind, can think it, we will eventually find a way to
do it. At one time, most people believed that we'd never get
off the ground. "If God wanted us to fly, He'd have given us
wings." That has only been a very short time ago, historically
speaking, but we're now contemplating the very real possibility
of exploration of outer space!
I remember when only a very few people were even aware
of the concept of computers but today I'm sitting here
communicating with anyone in the world who has the equipment
and desire to log on to the Sandstorm. Someone thought it so
someone eventually did it.
And that's the way we are.
-Lora Homme Page ('60) - Sitting here thinking I'd like to jump
into the future to see where we're going and what
we'll find there!
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Agates
My see-through "potato" is still with me... a knobby fistful
of amber, with casting marks & internal bubbles, like the eyes
of a spud, intact, barely weathered down from a short tumble
along the bed of the mighty Columbia, from a basalt casting
somewhere upstream of the old Richland Ferry. I picked it up on
a fishing trip with a friend, Jerry Kelly, around 1959. My guess
is that many more might turn up, especially at low water, on the
gravel bars between Ringgold and Pasco. Fishing at the base of
the flume that emptied just downstream of the ferry was how
I happened to notice a response to electric field effects on
waterfowl, that flew up from the river in the evening, and at
some point lifted up, as a group, as if they were being pulled
straight up, to fly in a great arc over the power lines. Since
every flight of birds acted the same at about the same
distance from the wires, I decided that they could "feel" the
electricity, and flew upward to avoid it. Years later, in the
Siskiyous, an old Polish prospector who lived in a cabin near
the top of a hill where power lines swept low, showed me his
"electrical system"-which was a 50 gallon drum full of scrap-
iron, with old copper household service wire wrapped around it,
running down, under his house, to his porch- where he had a 12V
light bulb that stayed on all the time. "I read out here,
mostly", he told me. He had a little platinum placer that he
worked, just to keep his scene "legal"... he had been a mining
engineer in Europe, before WWII... and he knew some stuff. I got
my first taste of Bickleton agate a year ago last May, when my
wife and I were coming back from the Wa Native Plant Society
"study weekend" in Richland. Our Sunday field trip took us to
Bickleton to view flowers and plants peculiar to the Bickleton
lithosols... and we left from there to start home, heading
toward Goldendale. About halfway there, we noticed a nice patch
of flowers behind a tumbledown barbed wire fence, and stopped to
look more closely. The patch of ground was stony, and had never
been plowed for that reason; and it also offered little in the
way of grasses, which had probably kept the cows away, and
allowed the flowers to grow unhindered. There were 2 species of
camas, and owl-clover, and some lovely buckwheat flowers, and...
agates! I'd never seen big,fat agates, sitting in the place
they'd grown, and weathered out of the surrounding basalt,
before! I picked up 2 or 3 before I realized what I was seeing.
After that I just looked around, marveling... it was like a
museum experience... a bit of the Wild West, like it had been,
way back (Waaaay back). The agates were dark orange, with
reddish zones, with spherical pits, not weathered much. There
was also a lot of beautiful orange quartz fist-sized rocks all
over- along the road, etc.- and I took about a gallon of them
with us. I found another whopping agate, kinda like my "potato",
out by the fence near the showers at the campground near Horn
Rapids- the place with the off-road track, and pink phlox
growing everywhere (in May), on that same trip. There's
beautiful petrified wood and glassy-looking "fossilized(?)"
stuff across from Vantage, in the old diatomite diggings,
there... and the Beezley Hills, West of Ephrata. There's a book
on Wa rock-hounding, by a fellow named Lanny Ream, that's worth
its weight in quartz crystals for the specific details, incl
trails, roadcuts, etc that he discusses.
To: Mike Lewis ('60)
I claim the same malady... musta been right behind you,
working through those storybooks, from Asimov to Van Vogt.
Surely we have warped our species in similar fashion, to
some good (yet unexplicated) purposes... surely (not just
knuckledraggers on the holodeck).
To: Laura Homme Page ('60)
Space without Time? What separates your Now Bubble from
everything else? Is yours different from everybody else's?
Or, are we all in this together? hmmm... this could get...
political...
^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Ed Quigley ('62)
For JB, Pappy and others concerned with. . ."Now"
While considering all the points you guys are bringing up,
something began "niggling" my memory, and sent me scrambling
to the book shelves, where I found something for you! From
"The Space Child's Mother Goose", by Frederick Winsor:
"Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to Postulate How."
And:
"There was a man in our town,
An Astrophysicist,
Who found a place
In Hyperspace
By just a twist of wrist.
But when he sought the Nearer Now
And gave another twist,
He found that he'd
Become somehow
A cyberneticist."
("HYPERSPACE: Regular space is high and wide; Hyperspace is just
outside.")
If you can find a copy of this wonderful little book that I
scored somewhere back in the late '60s, you'll find that it's
full of wonderful little illustrations, to go with the poems!
-Ed Quigley ('62)
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>>From: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
Re: Hurricanes
I know all these recent hurricanes are awful.. It frustrates
me that weather people don't talk about EITHER Hurricane Betsy
(1965) or Hurricane Camille (1969) any more - both category 5
hurricanes. I think they're too young to remember.
We moved from Richland to Louisiana in 1964, so Hurricane
Betsy was the first for me. I was visiting my future in-laws in
Buras, LA, when we all evacuated for Betsy. We spent the night
at the Holiday Inn in Metairie, LA, watching the Miss America
pageant {9/9/65). I proudly told all my future in-laws that
Kippy Brinkman ('62) was in the pageant, that I knew her, and
that she was a Richland Bomber... I "made" them come watch her
on TV. The power went out AFTER the pageant. My in-laws had 22.5
inches of STANDING water for FOUR days in their house.
http://www.hurricanecity.com/betsy.htm Check out Betsy's
path... She hit south Florida and then got into the Gulf of
Mexico and headed straight for the mouth of the Mississippi.
As if Betsy wasn't bad enough, along came Hurricane Camille
barely 4 years later... and she was WORSE than Betsy!!! Camille
is said to have been worst storm ever to hit mainland United
States with winds IN EXCESS OF 200 mph -- yes, that's two
HUNDRED miles per hour. Camille had tides (storm surge, wave
wash, whatever you want to call it) over 20 feet that wiped
out everything within a couple of blocks from the beach...
EVERYTHING... GONE... Where DID Pass Christian, MS go???
http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm
My daughter wonders why I don't want to MOVE/live here! I know
there are other Bombers who experienced one or both of these
hurricanes. Jon McDougal ('64)? Frank Whiteside ('63)?
Bomber cheers,
-Maren Smyth ('63 & '64) ~ New Orleans, LA
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>>From: L. Tom Coleman ('66)
Re: Bomber in Hurricane Frances
The eye of Frances is due in around 8AM in the morning
[9/5/04]. Winds are around 40mph now with higher gusts and
strong bands of rain. Tonight will be very long since this is
such a big storm and moving slowly. We don't have much hope for
electricity after midnight so I thought I would shout out now to
see if any other Bombers were in her path. The last hurricane
(Charlie) left some without power for two weeks in Orlando so I
may not be able to let you guys know what happened for a while.
Not much to do but hunker down for now. From beautiful Lake
County Florida where the ducks and tree frogs are having a grand
ole time.
-L. Tom Coleman ('66)
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>>From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
Re: George Brunstad ('52)
I am unable to find an email address to forward your comments
to George. The only information provided in the news article was
a mailing address and phone number:
Center of Hope
P.O.Box 844
Georgetown, CT 06829
(203) 438-3527
Go ahead and make a phone call. I mean... just how many
other Bombers do you know who swam the English Channel at age
70? OR... for that matter how many other people of ANY age do
you know who swam the English Channel? I'm sure he would LOVE
to hear from his former classmates!
Remember, too, it is "George's desire that 100% of the
proceeds raised by this effort be used to fund the Center of
Hope at Hinche, Haiti. Perhaps it will be your desire to support
them in this endeavor by sharing from your heart and relative
bounty."
Your tax deductible check can be made out to Center of
Hope, c/o French Speaking Baptist Church of Stamford and mailed
to the above Georgetown, CT address. So far, $11,000 has been
raised! COME ON BOMBERS ~ HELP SUPPORT ONE OF OUR OWN AND HIS
OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENT!
Thank you and God bless you!
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Annie Peterson Shiffer ('69)
Re: Artist
My dad and I are trying to remember the name of the artist
who carved beautiful wooden birds and other creatures and sold
them, among other places, in Jaid Gallery in the '60s and '70s.
We think he might have been a Col-Hi art teacher before he moved
to California. He never signed his pieces because he said his
signature wasn't part of the bird. His first name might be
Ted (we're not thinking of Ted Neff, the fabulous metal
sculpturist).
Thanks for your help,
-Annie Peterson Shiffer ('69) ~ In beautiful, sunny, 70*F Spokane
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>>From: Barb Belcher Valinske ('72)
To: Vicki, Sharen, Terri, and Remy ('72)
Along with everyone else, I really enjoyed your "50's" Road
Trip recently. You found a fantastic way to celebrate the big
5-0! My husband, Pete, took our family on a cruise to Alaska for
my 50th this year, and on the cruise ship, I ran into another
'72 Bomber: Donna Green Holloway. Donna had been on the lost
list for our 30th reunion in 2002 so now she's been found. What
a fun coincidence. I also met strangers who have family living
in the Tri-Cities.
Re: Agates
Anyone in the Tri-Cities wanting to look for agates without
driving too far can come on out to West Richland. We live not
far from Flat Top hill, where most of the roads are still dirt
and gravel. We occasionally see people parked along the side of
the road and walking slowly with their heads down. If you can't
find any, give me a call - I have jars and jars of agates 'cause
I can't seem to leave one lying in the dirt. My kids and husband
bring them to me as well, or hide them in the flower beds for me
to find.
By the way, 2005 is the 50th anniversary for West Richland.
The committee is looking for old pictures to use.
Re: Reunions
I enjoyed all the letters this summer about reunions. Having
been on all the committees and heading up the 30th, I know that
it would be great if more people would attend. Everyone has
their own reasons for not coming and we should respect that. At
our 30th we had quite a few "first timers" and they all said
they wished they hadn't missed the others. The classmates who
always attend these events have a blast and that's what it's all
about. I'm keeping a data base of everyone's whereabouts, so if
you change addresses/e-mail, please let me know. Hopefully, it
will be easier to find everyone for the next big reunion (40th
in 2012!).
Also, I still have a few books from the 30th for $6.00.
Happy Labor Day, especially to expectant mothers.
-Barb Belcher Valinske ('72) - West Richland - where it's
finally cooler but of course windy.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/06/04 ~ LABOR DAY
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (5am today: 81° - 74% humidity)
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15 Bombers sent stuff:
Anna May Wann ('49), Dicksy Poe ('50)
Bev Smith ('52), Jim McKeown ('53)
Allan Cross ('59), Missy Keeney ('59)
Lora Homme ('60), John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Roger Gress ('61), Donni Clark ('63)
Frank Whiteside ('63), Dennis Hammer ('64)
Linda Reining ('64), Nancy Mallory ('64)
Brad Wear ('71)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vernon "Bud" Van Dusen ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Thomas C. Hann ('61)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
John Heffner ('66) & Melanie Dukes ('67)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
Received Club 40 registration from Jo Dresser Dudley ('44).
She is in need of a 1944 annual. Hers was destroyed in a fire
and she would like to find a replacement. If you have one, or
know where we can get one, would you please bring it to the
registration desk this coming weekend and we will see that she
gets it. Thanks
If you have not mailed your reunion reservation in by Sunday
evening September 5th, it won’t arrive in Bothell in time for it
to get on our records. There is no mail delivery Monday and I
am leaving early Thursday morning for Richland, so bring your
registration form and your money to the Shilo and we will take
care of you there. Remember the registration room is the Yakima
Room, across from the ballroom.
Looking forward to seeing all of you... also looking forward
to your warm sunshine!!!!!
-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
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>>From: Dicksy Poe Creek ('50)
To: George Swan ('59)
You are truly funny and an excellent writer. I think you
once wrote that you were writing to the Sandstorm in order to
test and prepare for publishing. Go for it. It's a realistic
goal.
To: Annie Peterson Shiffer ('69)
I don't know who the sculptor is, sorry.
However, your last name rang a bell with me. I assume it is
your husband's name. I have been working on a simple family
genealogy and have had some success on my mother's family. But
not on my father's family. His mother's name was Tabitha Minerva
Shiffer born January 5, 1869 and her father was John Andrew
Shiffer born December 10, 1845. Both were from Pennsylvania. If
you have any info on their line please email me.
-Dicksy Poe Creek ('50) ~ Vancouver, WA
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>>From: Bev Smith Jochen ('52)
Re: George Brunstad ('52)
The most recent email address that I have for George on the
'52 website roster is two years old (from our 50th) but worth a try...
-Bev Smith Jochen ('52)
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>>From: Jim McKeown ('53)
Re: George Brunstad ('52)
I noticed that the address given for George is Georgetown,
Conn. Interesting!! When I was working in New York at the
Corporate Office for good old JCP, we lived in a small community
near Danbury called West Redding. About 2 miles down the road
is the very small town of Georgetown. If George is living there,
the postman probably knows him personally. The town would make
Burbank look like a thriving Metropolis... gas station, great
country western bar and cafe, and a small family store.
-Jim McKeown ('53)
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>>From: Allan Cross ('59)
Did you see the comments about Beth Peterson ('61)? She has
a CD out now solo.
-Allan Cross ('59)
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>>From: Missy Keeney ('59)
The class of '59 will meet on the Deck outside the lounge at
the Shilo on Friday, September 10th from 2pm til 5pm.
I need a semi-competent to nearly professional videographer
to video our chorus performance on Saturday night. The video of
our show in January was really disappointing and visually left
out those of us who had parts at the side mikes. Any takers from
amongst the Club 40 gang!!??
Everyone travel safely. We are going to have a GREAT week-end!
-Missy Keeney ('59)
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: The NOW Bubble
The bubble is just my inadequate attempt to describe the
indescribable: NOW as separate from the Past or Future. That
portion of time that we're allowed to inhabit that carries all
of us through Space.
Going back to the question that started all this: How wide
is NOW? It looks to me as though NOW is immeasurable with
no beginning and no end. It's infinite and eternal in all
directions and encompasses all of us and everything. There
simply is no other Time that any Thing (Matter) can inhabit
physically, at least that we're aware of so far. We are
absolutely, irrevocably locked into living physically in the
RIGHT NOW. No matter where you go or how fast you go, it's NOW.
You ask if my bubble of NOW is different from everyone
else's. I don't think NOW has "characteristics" that could be
different for different people. It just IS. Our concepts of
Reality can be different as we're swept along in the NOW, but if
there are ways to describe Time, I sure don't know them. God and
mathematicians probably do, but I don't.
To: Ed Quigley ('62)
I love your little poems, the black hen is a girl after my
own heart. Thanks!
-Lora Homme Page ('60) - In the Positive Now wondering how the
black hen got to the Relative When.
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
To Lora Homme: One of my favorite guys (who no longer has a
Personal Now- his NOW is EVERYWHERE, living under assumed
names), Werner Heisenberg, figured that you couldn't pay
attention to anything without affecting it, somehow... and
you're on the same tack, or track, it seems... sweet! The thing
about mathematics is that it's more like the Language for
describing the Laws- it's not the Laws its ownself- like the
Bill of Rights is in English, but the Law isn't "English"
(although there's people who may disagree, hehe). My own
impression is that you juggle this headful of conceptual stuff
as well as some of the people who may do this for a living... so
you better watch out that you don't end up as a notorious
philosopher, in your Golden Years (there's better money in a TV
ministry, anyhow).
To Ed Quigley: Oh, man... this guy, Winsor, is Awesome! I'm
gonna look for this one (along with some other Space Children
on this list, prob'ly...) Thanks! ^..^
P.S. Wonder if there will ever be a hurricane named Kippy? ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Roger Gress ('61)
To: Carolyn Halstead Edgar (Classic Class of '61)
Happy belated Birthday.
To: Tom Hann (Classic Class of '61)
Happy Birthday.
-Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
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>>From: Donni Clark Dunphy ('63)
To all Bombers and Bomberettes
As always it is great to read all of your stories and
comments... There are so many things I would like to chime in
on but life has been a little hectic lately and I find it hard
to keep up with even the reading. Thank-you to all of those who
wished me a "Happy Birthday". My husband took me to "Brigadoon"
at UCLA. It was wonderful! One of my favorite plays. Reminded me
of how I miss all those old wonderful show tunes! For those of
you who remember Debbie Gibson, she played the part of the Meg
and was great.
Does anyone have any more great was stories to recommend.
I'm always looking for good books for my husband and one of our
sons, and right now they are into war stories. I just finished
reading one called "Devil at My Heels". No Bombers in it but
the story is about Louis Zamperini's life. He goes to my son's
church and so my son heard his story and got quite a few books
for the whole family. He was a prisoner of war in World War II
and an Olympian. As the wife of a Marine, we had to sing the
Marine Core Hymn at every family gathering! I salute all of you
in the Military once again!
Jeanie Walsh ('63) and I have been planning a Bomber
Reunion in Southern Calif. for next July or August. Since she
is on the City Council in Simi Valley she can get us our own
personal tour of the Reagan Library. The Air Force One Exhibit
will be done around that time. Details have not been worked
out yet but we want to hear from you first. How many would be
interested and could come? Please e-mail me, Donni, and let me
know if you are interested and we will take it from there. Any
of you passing through on vacation might also want to join us.
Well, I was so looking forward to going to club 40 this year
and meeting all my new Puddle Pals but my parents and daughter
need me now more. So have fun and I am sure I will hear all
about it!
-Donni Clark Dunphy ('63) ~ La Mirada, CA - where there is
nothing new under the sun! It's just Hot!
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>>From: Frank Whiteside ('63)
Re: Hurricanes
Yes, Maren, you are quite correct. There were quite a number
of Richland and Tri-City families living on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast at the time of Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane
Camille in 1969. Betsy wasn't much on the Miss. Gulf Coast,
mostly high winds and don't recall too much damage. Louisiana
caught most of the brunt of Betsy. My wife's family home was
surrounded by 3-4 feet of water, and they couldn't leave for
about a week in New Orleans. Other places had water to the roof
tops.
Camille was much worse. My parents lived in Long Beach, MS,
several blocks from the beach, and my wife-to-be and I just
happened to be staying over with them at the time. My parents
were friends of the people who managed the Richelieu Apts where
the famous "hurricane party" was held. My parents tried to talk
them and several other elderly friends into leaving, but they
decided to stay. We headed to Jackson, MS where we managed to
accidentally meet Governor John Bell Williams directing traffic.
We had nowhere to go, so he offered to put us up in his vacant
family home in Raymond, MS next door to his mother. After
Camille did her horrible deed, we headed back, expecting the
worst. We drove through tons of wreckage and made it back to the
street where the house was. We were totally shocked to see the
house still standing with only a bent TV antenna and a few
kicked-up shingles. The trees in the back yard were snapped like
twigs. The scary part was that every single house across the
street, all the way to the beach (hundreds of houses) were
totally gone, with only the broken slabs remaining. Everything
was totally flattened--huge beach front mansions and entire
shopping centers. And, of course, my parents' friends were among
the hundreds killed. We were definitely grateful not to have
been there.
Re: On another subject - eBay listing
My brother, Al ('60) and his wife, have their home and
Antique Mall/Barbecue Cafe listed for sale on e bay under the
real estate section. I f there are any Bombers on the East
Coast/Eastern Shore of Maryland/Chesapeake Bay, or if anyone has
any friends or relatives in that region looking for a home/and
or business, they can see them on e bay by typing in the
following numbers: home--4322942381 antique mall--4321332238 If
interested, contact info is in the listings, or you can send me
an e-mail and I can contact him directly. Thanks.
-Frank Whiteside ('63)
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>>From: Dennis Hammer ('64)
To: Dick Pierard ('52)
Re: Tires
Your talking about your dad, "pulling every string he
could," to get new tries during World War II reminds me that
when I moved my Mom, I found an legal sized application form my
dad and filled out during WWII to buy a tire. As he was a farmer
at the time he probably had less trouble than some others in
obtaining fuel and tires. I have not been able to find it since,
and every few months I tell my Mother to save it for me if she
finds it. Every time I mention it she acts as if it is the first
time she has heard about it. Truth is, she has probably already
found it, cut it up in little pieces and thrown it away. She has
no trouble remembering other things, I think she just has no
interest in this.
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Re: Time Travel
I am no expert in the theories of time travel, but I think
it would not just be a problem of travel through time, but also
through space. For example, If you are living in Richland,
Washington and you want to travel two hours into the future, you
might end up in the Pacific Ocean because in those two hours
time the Earth has turned. But it has also traveled through
space at a very high speed. Exact calculations would have to be
made to account for the spinning of the Earth, movement through
the solar system, spinning of the Milky Way Galaxy, movement of
the galaxy, and who knows what other space traveled. Can that
ever be done precisely enough?
I, myself do not think it is possible, because if it were
possible, then it will have already been done sometime in the
future, and they will have traveled back to our time. Of course
they could have been better than Captain Kirk at obeying the
"prime directive" and not made themselves known.
On the other hand, maybe I could take some simple technology
that I knew people in the past would buy, go back a hundred
years, and become a multi-billionaire by selling something they
would all buy, like a computer operating system.
-Dennis Hammer ('64) ~ somewhere in time, or space
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
Re: Hurricanes
I can't even imagine living through all that destruction.
Maren, the pictures and articles about Hurricane Betsy and
Camille were heart-breaking. I have no idea how anyone prepares
to live through something like that.
We live in earthquake country and I'll take that to a
hurricane OR tornado any day! At least they are over in a matter
of seconds or minutes, NOT days on end! We keep prepared for the
"big one", and we try NOT to stress too much about it---we just
learn to live with the "faults" and the little rumblings that
the earth makes now and then. We keep flashlights, batteries,
plenty of bottled water, canned foods (we can always use the
BBQ to heat up soup, beans, etc.), Top Ramen, and other non-
perishable items on stock. Even the kids have to take an
"earthquake kit" to school and keep it in their "cubbies" til
the end of the school year (in case an earthquake happens while
they are in school and parents aren't able to get there right
away). I don't know how you would prepare for a hurricane--other
than "head for the hills" at the first hint of one! With a
tornado, you are supposed to head for the cellar or basement,
but I can't imagine staying in one of those and listening to the
roar of all that wind----I hated the winds in Richland, in fact,
I hate wind, period---puts my teeth on edge---can't imagine
hearing those winds and keeping my sanity!
I have friends living in Merrit Island, FL and haven't heard
anything from them. I'm hoping they fled to Georgia, where they
have family, so I'm keeping fingers crossed that they were able
to escape the destruction and that they are okay.
IF there are any Bombers in the path of these hurricanes, I
hope you are safe---you will be in my thoughts and prayers.
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - had a cool breeze
yesterday, so the temperature was only in the 80s, but
the heat is supposed to return today and be in the high
90s for the rest of the week! Even though I don't like
this weather, guess I better quit my *itching and be
thankful for where I live.
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>>From: Nancy Mallory Johnson ('64)
To: Sunnie Andress, aka Joanne Rolph ('59)
Sure would love to have some of your cooler weather. We
actually had a couple of very unseasonably cool days in August.
As far as rain goes, we get it by the bucket loads here. My
sister (living in Kennewick) wants me to send some of it to her,
which I would be glad to do. We, of course are still running the
air and won't need heat for two or three months yet. A few days
of running neither heat nor air would be nice (and save a penny
or two).
My daughter and I tried a garden this summer. Our best crop
was weeds, followed by cucumbers and yellow squash. No tomatoes
which I really wanted.
When we lived in Mississippi my husband (RIP) managed three
gardens a year (early cool crops, followed by those that liked
it hot, then cool crops again).
A retired couple in our church is going north (not sure
where they will start) and follow the colors down. Maybe some
day I'll have a chance to visit that part of the country.
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Are you sure you would like to jump into the future and see
where we're going. It might be fun, but it could be scary too.
To: Florida Bombers (one is Carole Staples Emmons ('54))
I know the thoughts and prayers of all of us are with you.
-Nancy Mallory Johnson ('64) ~ it is still warm in western
Tennessee
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>>From: Brad Wear ('71)
Re: Agates
My vote for a great agate site is Bickleton. There are two
sites that are full of them. One is west of Bickleton on Box
Springs Road, it's pretty well marked, about three miles off
the road is a big meadow with a creek though it that's full of
agates.
Another site is on Stage Road, it's just before Box Springs
Road (about a mile) and those hillsides are covered with them.
-Brad Wear ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/07/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am today: 82° - 70% humidity)
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11 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCoy ('45), Dave Brusie ('51)
Marilyn DeVine ('52), Bill Berlin ('56)
Burt Pierard ('59), Larry Mattingly ('60)
Lola Heidlebaugh ('60), Lora Homme ('60)
Mike Lewis ('60), Marilyn Swan ('63)
Jeff Michael ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa Peterson ('71)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45)
Re: Request for the '44 annual for Jo Dresser Dudley ('44)
I have one, but it will have to be copied, as I only have
one. Will have to announce J... it's the Class of 1944's 60th
reunion.
-Dick McCoy ('45) Class rep '44 and '45
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>>From: Dave Brusie ('51)
To: Ralph Myrick ('51)
Ralph, by all means pass this on to Helen Skogen.
Of all the teachers in the high school Helen was well remembered
by me. She always had time for us when we had a question, and
I wish I had asked her quite a few more questions!!! Helen you
and Mrs. Buescher made my four years a holiday. You are a very
special person. My best to you in the years to come. Your friend
and former thankful student.
-David W. Brusie ('51), "The skinny kid on the Basketball Court"
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVine Dow ('52)
Re: Please note change of address
I tried to send a change of address earlier but apparently
it didn't take. Have not received any Sandstorms in quite a
while. I lost all my address book when I lost my carrier, and
will happily take all the help I can get for filling my new
address book up!
[In case you didn't get my response, Em, I changed your
address and your Sandstorm has been bouncing every day since.
Been waiting to hear from you with a DIFFERENT "new" address
so you can start getting your Sandstorm again. -Maren]
I am getting ready to move. My kids bought a house in West
Richland and i am in the process of buying one in the Clipper
Ridge subdivision, a little bit north of town. The hardest part
is getting my house ready to sell!!! Aargh---what a job! But it
will be worth all the work in the end.
Hope to see lots of old friends at Club 40, this weekend.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVine Dow ('52) ~ in cool and beautiful Richland
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>>From: Bill Berlin ('56)
I am off for another adventure to Hong Kong, China and
Singapore tomorrow. This trip will take me to Beijing and I want
to check out the progress the Chinese are making on the 2008
Olympics. It is my understanding that 35% of the venues are
completed and by this time next year the facilities should be
done. Infrastructure facilities are also well along as well so
it will be interesting to see how it is shaping up.
Going to try to access the Alumni Sandstorm from one of our
two project sites this trip. New computer and new "egg head"
skills should help. I am now Wi-Fi so if the hotel fails me I
can go to one of the hundreds (maybe thousands) of Cyber Cafes
in China and get on line.
-Bill Berlin ('56) ~ Anacortes, WA. Last day in Paradise and
fellow Bomber, Dr. Dave Priebe ('57) is up at his second
home on Gabriola Island, B.C. Guess our votes for
President will cancel each other out.
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>>From: Burt Pierard ('59)
To: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
Re: 1944 Columbian
Club 40 published the 1944 Columbian in 1990 from the
original mockups preserved by Jo Dressler (Editor) & Bob Ross
('45). The 1944 Columbian never got sent to the printer,
probably because of the move from RHS to Col-Hi in April of
1944. I'm sure I have some extra copies in a box somewhere. If
not, it is on CD with a couple of corrections (Maren & I made
up a new Cover Page with a Bronco instead of a Beaver and the
pics of RHS & Col-Hi were reverse captioned).
To: Any Club 40 people who want to do the River Cruise
As of today, we have 53 sign-ups for the 62 available
positions in the two boats. Ann Thompson, aka Anna May Wann ('49)
has also had an inquiry saying 3 more people were interested and
she told them to get their registrations in, soon. This is on a
first come, first served basis, so the first 9 registrations we
receive will be accepted. You might need to use Express Mail or
Fed-Ex since Ann has to receive it by Wednesday (she is leaving
Thursday morning for Richland).
Bomber Cheers,
-Burt Pierard ('59) ~ President, Richland Club 40
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: Agates
While I am not a "rock hound" I occasionally pick up one
that catches my eye. I will almost always pick up an agate for
no particular purpose. There are two sitting on my dresser now.
A couple of years ago I gave away probably close to 100 pounds
of agate I had in boxes in my shop taking up space. Most of them
I had picked up while deer hunting near the very high voltage
BPA Transmission line near Bickleton. I would drive in along the
line a mile or so from the highway and camp in a little clearing
out from under the lines. Invariably I would be bent down
picking up agates when a deer came into view. I missed countless
chances but I usually got my deer and always pockets full of
agates. I know little about agates except to admire them. But
I do know that the areas described are full of them in good
variety.
January and February in Quartzite, AZ boasts one of the
largest gatherings of rock hound in the US. Straddling I-10 just
a few miles from the CA line, the event draws thousands of RVs
of all descriptions. It is fun just to drive up and down the
dirt roads and see what is there. There are/were doctor's
shingles, barber poles, even a dentist with tooth sign, all in
RVs. Our pyro convention is in mid February at Lake Havasu and
my oldest daughter, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren live
in Phoenix. The road between leads through Quartzite. I have
several times spent a day wandering around watching the goings-
on. The variety of people and their interests is endless.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry Mattingly ('60) ~ Anchorage, AK - Looking forward to
flying South tomorrow evening. Alaska is great place and so
are the folks who live here. But I want to be home for a
couple of days at least before going SE to Club 40 via a
business appointment in Portland. I have written a travelogue
with some nice pictures of Alaska, only to find that my
laptop is only USB 1.1 and won't handle the 2.0 download from
my new camera. So I will get it upgraded in the next couple
of weeks and get them off to the Lady Maren for your perusal.
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>>From: Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Saturday - September 11 (yes I know it's Club 40 weekend -
but some folks can't go to Richland right now)
VISIT TIME: 11:00am
ORDER LUNCH: 11:30am
WHERE: DoubleTree/Columbia River
Take Jantzen Beach Mall Exit off of I-5
RSVP: Please contact Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
if you are planning to join us!
Thanks to everyone who joined the fun at the August 14 Picnic -
it was great to see everyone! Have been without a computer since
then - but want everyone to know I appreciate your joining us!
Thanks to those who sent word to Fred & Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
- I got those too!
All Bombers, Spouses & Friends are welcome! See you Saturday.
-Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Language
You're right! "mathematics" isn't the "law," it's just a
word, a unique collection of sounds that is instantly
transformed in our minds into a concept. How do you suppose that
takes place!?
Not only that, but we can take the representation another
step and write the word "mathematics." Now we have a series
of little marks that symbolize sounds and are recognized and
transformed in our heads into the word mathematics, which is
itself a symbol of a concept. And all that happens
instantaneously!
The word, mathematics, encompasses the concept of a
collection of different marks that represent numbers and symbols
that can be manipulated to tell us things about our universe
that we can learn in no other way. And all of this is dependent
on the ability of a few gifted individuals, the interpreters, to
think great thoughts and then convert them to sounds and chicken
scratches which represent things like the Theory of Relativity,
Quantum Physics, and the illusive Theory of Everything.
I think I gave myself a headache.
To: Dennis Hammer ('64)
Re: Time Travel
Fortunately, Dennis, I don't have to do the math or decide
the morality of Time Travel and probably no one ever will, but I
like thinking about it and wondering "What if..."
To: Nancy Mallory Johnson ('64)
Yes, Nancy, I'm sure that I'd like to hop around in time.
I would like for the technology to be fairly advanced before I
took off, but I'd go in a heartbeat if I could be reasonably
certain of getting back. I'd go forward and backward. I wonder
what would happen if you went sideways in time? Would you stay
in the Present?
-Lora Homme Page ('60)
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>>From: Mike Lewis ('60)
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Lora,
I agree with you. There is no set limit on how far into the
past or future one's sense of NOW extends. Now does extend as
far as we are willing to let it or dare to imagine. It's hard
for some, easier for others.
It partly depends on how old one is, because a person can
see (subjectively) into the future about as far as he or she can
see into the past, so a child does not have much of an attention
span and can't really transcend, say, a decade at all and even
next year is (for a preschooler) a long, long time. We get to
high school we learn to join a kind of social consciousness that
extends into living memory as it exists among older people so we
can "remember" events that happen for a few decades before we
were born. If we are sympathetic to those who lived through the
Great Depression -- my parents, who have both passed away by
now, told me of it so vividly I caught the sense of what it
meant to the nation. If we really LIKE history, we can get
"into" the civil war and he has real continuity, place and
human meaning.
Some people with a lot of pain or distress have trouble
remembering much. If they try, with courage and persistence
they can increase their tolerance for the range of feelings
and emotions, and then experience greater ranges of memory.
Like dynamic range on a music system, they don't overload as
easily then.
A recent development that made it easier to extend ourselves
into past and future was the discovery that time and energy are
sort of at right angles to each other. With stable energy one
can predict or remember much greater intervals of time. And all
the lamps like neon, mercury vapor, sodium and so on have
intense, perfectly stable energies in their various colors.
Also one can practice their attention span, by putting the
past on say, the left, the future on the right hand, and
considering how many seconds or minutes, etc. can be kept in
mind with continuity.
When you get to a few years try this: If you're thirty nine
years old, say, then consider all the stars within 39 light-
years of Earth. That's your bubble. The light of your existence
has reached those stars but no farther. When you're fifty, your
existence then includes stars out to fifty light years away.
With Jurassic Park on one side and Star Trek or Andromeda
on the other, it can make you feel like a true guru -- highly
speculative but it makes us wonder if human civilization will
make it around the galaxy at least once.
-Mike Lewis ('60)
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>>From: Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
To: Donni Clark Dunphy ('63)
Keep us posted on the possibility of touring the Reagan
Library. That is something I would really like to do. Perhaps
that would be a good time for me to come down & do that visit
with you & Gary that I have been putting off for so many years!
Leaving here (Salt Lake City) tomorrow morning for the
Puddledom of Burbank, WA. My much older brother, "Pappy" Swan ('59)
has all kinds of projects lined up that he thinks I am going to
help him with. Little does he know that "I am here for the
party" coming up this weekend at Club 40 & meeting all my new
Puddle Pal friends that have been chatting online. Plus, making
new acquaintances from Club 40 sounds like a plan to me.
-Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Hey there Bombers & Bomberettes...
Bless you Maren, for you have returned a missing word to
my vocabulary. Ever notice how the proper names are the first
things to go?
I was fortunate to be serving you all from Sondrestrom,
Greenland at the time of the big blow, Hurricane Camille. We
decided that we wanted to do something generous for the people
that suffered losses due to the winds and rains. So, we, the
AFRTS Radio Station, held a public dj marathon. We set up a
studio in the rec center and began having the crew work on air
shifts as long as they could stay functional. We got a 5 minute
break each hour while the news was on. The rest of the time, we
ran the board, took the phone calls and played music. How did
that help the hurricane victims? Well we set-up challenges all
over the base for the guys to do or stop doing something for a
pledge. My favorite was this one: We started playing the great
hit tune "Ma h Nah Mah Nah" back-to-back, over and over. We
would get a pledge to stop, then a bigger pledge to keep playing
it. Keep in mind, these were the days of vinyl ...you couldn't
tell the cd player to repeat the cut. Seems like the final
pledge (to stop playing it, naturally) was something over $500.
During my on-air stint (55 hours), my favorite cut was the full
length version of "Inna Godda Da Vida". It gave me a chance to
run to the men's room...which allowed me to do more productive
things with my five minute break at the top of the hour. Don't
recall how much we raised, but it was in the thousands from a
bunch of lonely GIs stuck alone (no families) on a frozen rock,
just 15 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Could not remember the
name of that storm. Camille...Camille...Camille.
To: Missy Keeney ('59)
...Are there any funds for this taping, and what time of day
will it be? I have friends that are professional or almost that
might be able to do the job for you. Of course, a professional
is one who gets paid...
To: Donnie Clark Dunphy ('63)
...noticed your use of "Bombers and Bomberettes" on your
last post...hmmm.
dj jeff Michael ('65) ~ In the Tri-Cities, where it's time, and
the weather is perfect, for more "swinging" research
activity. Deadline's almost here!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/08/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (6am CDT today: 76° - 64% humidity)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCoy ('45), Jim Jensen ('50)
John Northover ('59), Lora Homme ('60)
Patti Jones ('60), Guy Lobdell ('66)
Kim Edgar Leeming ('79)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley Armstrong ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Adele Paulsen ('63)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45)
Re: 1944 Annual
After writing re the annual for Jo Dresser Dudley ('44),
I had one but said I would have to find it. Hooray, I found
another copy, and Jo, It's yours.
Also several other copies have turned up. We should
definitely have one copy in our archives. This annual has a
very interesting history, Burt Pierard ('59) touched on it in
the Sandstorm, but I will expand on it in the upcoming DustStorm.
-Dick McCoy ('45)
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>>From: Jim Jensen ('50)
Re: Maren Smyth's ('63 & '64) 9-5-04 posting on hurricanes
I am one of the guilty parties who didn't recall Betsy
(preparing for my assignment to Vietnam), but I vividly recall
Camille.
My family and I were enroute from New Jersey to Manila.
Reports of the devastation were continuous on our car radio. One
report indicated it was literally "raining snakes" that had been
picked up and then slammed to earth. By the second day the
accounts of destruction were more explicit. The Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico shoreline that I had known in 1953 (stationed at
Keesler AFB at Biloxi, just down the road from Pass Christian -
the place Maren spoke about) was no more. [That radio report was
a little off. Pass Christian (where the eye came ashore) was
GONE... damage further east and west of Pass Christian was very
extensive, but it was not total... the closer one got to Pass
Christian, the worse the damage was. -Maren].
Oddly enough the most sweeping damage in Biloxi occurred
between the railroad and the shore. The railroad bed was located
about 1-1/2 miles from the water's edge. All but two of the
hotels, all of the restaurants and all of the other businesses
in that corridor were totally flattened and blown away. {In Pass
Christian, that was true, but not in Biloxi. Damage was bad in
Biloxi, but I know of at least 2 hotels IN BILOXI that were
still there as I went over there after Camille to work for
Hartford Insurance and we set up an office in two rooms at the
Admiral Benbow Inn in Biloxi. -Maren], One of the remaining
hotels (The Edgewater?) had to be essentially rebuilt.
I was once again assigned to Keesler in 1972 and the folks I
met who remained in Biloxi after Camille all had gruesome tales
about the storm. {Oh, the stories I could tell. -Maren]. One
family owned an older frame home about 100 yards north from the
railroad bed. It sustained only minor damage while the brick
homes in the immediate area were leveled. Maren's pictures were
a stark reminder of nature's fury.
Re: Meeting Bombers in Strange Places.
It was 1954. I was stationed in the mid-Pacific at Johnston
Island. Our basketball team scheduled some games at Hickam AFB,
Hawaii. One afternoon, between games, a team member and I were
walking down Kalakaua Boulevard seeing the sights. I looked up
and saw former classmate Maryilyn MacLeod ('50) descending the
steps of a government building. The next day I visited the
MacLeod home on Kawananakowa Avenue and enjoyed visiting with
Maryilyn, her dad and sister Bobbye ('51?).
The following day I was headed for Waikiki near the
Surfrider (hotel) when I ran into Marshall Woolbright ('50)
who was waiting for a bus.
The next month our team was at Kwajalein Atoll (Marshall
Islands). I boarded a bus for a tour of the place and found
Vernon Allen ('50), U.S. Navy, staring disconsolately out of a
window. We had a great visit which brightened the day for both
of us.
Bomber Cheers,
-Jim Jensen ('50)
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>>From: John Northover ('59)
Re: Meeting Bombers in Strange and Unlikely places ...
Several years ago at a BBQ, in Glendale CA., at my Brother-
in-law's home... I was talking to my sister-in-law ... [I had
recently remarried and was finding out about all my new
relatives ... ]
I had asked her where she was from ... She asked me where I
was from... I said. "Washington." Usually that ends that part
of the conversation because if you say Richland ... it takes a
while to get their mind in the right quadrant of the state ...
as most people think of Washington rain, and forest all in one
concept. Most people would not know Richland from that place in
Egypt!!!
Anyhow ... she then said. "Where in Washington?" ... I said,
"A small town in the south eastern corner of the state." ... she
just would not stop ... she wanted to know the name of the town
... I said "Richland."... She said, "My boss is from Richland!"
"Well who would that be?", I asked. She said, "Kathy Graham" ...
I just about dropped my champagne ... WOW!! ... what a small
world!!!
I said, "I think she was in the class of '60" ... and she was.
The next BBQ they had they invited Kathy ... Kathy and I had
a great conversation ... as we had many congruent friends ...
some parallel ... some obtuse and some oblique ... even though
our social planes were never on the same angle during H.S.
Now wasn't that quaint??
v.r
john 7 41
-John Northover ('59) ~ Paradise ... for sure
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: Mike Lewis ('60)
Re: NOW
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "There is no set
limit on how far into the past or future one's sense of NOW
extends." I don't see how NOW can "extend." If you mean our
knowledge of Time, I think I understand. Time extends forever,
as far as I know, in both directions but NOW is only right NOW,
this second, one tiny little piece of infinity at a time. It's
where we live.
To: Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
The Puddle People are ready and waiting, Marilyn. Have a
safe trip and we'll see you soon!
-Lora Homme Page ('60) - Living in the NOW right now, I think.
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Re: Puget Sound Area Luncheon/Fife
The South Puget Sound area luncheon will be hosted by
Tom Hughes ('56) while I am away at Club 40. Hoped Tom would
make Club 40 but his busy life will allow him time to host the
luncheon.
DATE: September 12, 2004
COFFEE TIME: 11:30am
LUNCH TIME: 12:30pm
WHERE: Fife Bar and Grill
In between Goodyear Tire and Day's Inn
PHONE: (253) 922-9555
ADDRESS: 3025 Pacific Highway E., Fife, WA
I-5 North, Exit 136 B (Port of Tacoma)
I-5 South Exit 136
Turn left on Pacific Highway. E.
PRICE: Price range $10.00 - $14.50 includes drink and tip
All Bomber Spouses and Friends are welcome!
Bombers Have Fun
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ Browns Point, WA - Yeah! Time for
Club 40. Will miss the rain coming in. Hopefully the
weather will stay warm in Richland.
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>>From: Guy Lobdell ('66)
Re: Note of condolences to all Bombers in Florida
I just wanted to take a moment to say that Nola Alderman
Lobdell ('69) and my prayers are with all of the folks in
Florida, especially Bombers, who have been ravaged by two storms
so far, and it looks like Ivan might be headed that way.
While I was in the service I had the opportunity
(misfortune) to be stationed near several large cities in this
country, and that's the main reason I was glad that Nola did not
want to move to a big city after we got married. After 26 years
in law-enforcement/security related work I had to retire and I
am glad to say that we are remaining in the same house that we
bought 30 years ago right here in Bomberville!
Why??? We may have some minor weather difficulties here in
the Tri-Cities, but we don't worry about sliding into the ocean,
having the ocean dumped on us, or for the most part we don't
worry about hurricanes (do we need to change the name to make it
politically correct)?
Semper Fi
-Guy Lobdell ('66)
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>>From: Kim Edgar Leeming ('79)
Re: Young Eagles (Airplane Rides For Kids)
I just wanted to mention a program that offers free Airplane
rides for kids ages 8-17 years old. This is a way to give the
kids interested in aviation the experience of flying. Many
airports around the country have pilots who offer these flights.
My 10-year-old son (who insists he's going to be a pilot
when he grows up - doesn't surprise me, both his grandfathers
were pilots, one flew a helicopter in Vietnam, the other flew a
"spitfire" plane in WWII), took a flight this weekend, he was
taken up in a two seater plane, flew around Bremerton, then over
the Puget Sound near to Seattle. He had a blast, the pilot let
him fly as well. He had the biggest grin ever when he landed.
Anyway, here's the website link to locate a pilot near you.
http://www.youngeagles.com/default.asp
Bomber Cheers!
-Kim Edgar Leeming ('79)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/09/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (4am today: 81° - 74% humidity)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCoy ('45), Linda Stewart ('57)
Mike Lewis ('60), Jim House ('63)
Brad Upton ('74)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob Clancy ('51)
Starting tomorrow: Club 40 Reunion in Richland.
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45)
Re: Scholarships
Now that we have the '44 annual problem solved, I have a
request for three volunteers to help me with the Richey/Conley
scholarships. I will be announcing the kick off at the Party
this weekend, and we will need to have a meeting, perhaps
Saturday or before the Board meeting Sunday.
I think this will be a lot of fun, and is long overdue. We
already have a few hundred $ pledged.
-Dick McCoy ('45)
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>>From: Linda Stewart Nicholson ('57)
Re: Agates
Thank you to all that sent info on places to hunt agates.
My cousin will only be here for two and 1/2 days so will
probably try West Richland and Bombing Range Rd.
To: Larry Mattingly ('60)
My husband and I live in Tonopah, AZ during the winter
months and have been to Quartezite and were amazed how the small
town grows during January and February. The surrounding desert
is filled with almost as many RV vehicles and people as there
are rocks. It is the biggest flea market and rock show that I
have ever been to. If anyone plans on going it takes more than
one day to take it all in.
Looking forward to Club 40 this week-end
-Linda Stewart Nicholson ('57)
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>>From: Mike Lewis ('60)
Lora,
You're right. I misused the word now, especially as you
used it, because you mean the instant now or present moment,
clock time. I'll have to think about it, which might take some
time...It IS confusing. Of course that depends on what the word
IS is. : )
When looking at the clock I look at the whole time briefly--
hour, minute and second. Then more slowly look at the second
hand until it makes sense, then the minute, which takes a little
longer, and then the hour hand. Sometimes I give up on the hour
hand because that's work and it's too much to span a whole hour
most days. Fishing time is something else.
Specially with, like, purple dinosaurs on the TV. So
dinosaurs were more than an hour ago. And robots are running
around on Mars. There's a writer in England who says time
doesn't actually exist, that it's just a clock thing.
-Mike Lewis ('60)
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>>From: Jim House ('63)
Attention Marines:
A small group of Marines are getting together for lunch in
Richland on Saturday, September 11th at 1:00 PM. All Richland
Marines are encouraged to attend. The will be no saluting, no
marching and hopefully no singing. Just comrades sharing lunch
and a few "true" stories.
Any Marines interested in joining us please send an e-mail
directly to me. I will confirm the location by Friday once we
have an approximate head count. Sorry about the short notice.
I hope to see you there.
Semper Fi,
-Jim House ('63) ~ Mead, WA
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
Re: Hurricanes & Jimmy Buffett
I am currently sailing on Royal Caribbean's Adventure of
the Sea. We have diverted our course to just off the coast of
Caracas, Ven. In about an hour we will be directly south of the
eye of Ivan, north about 100 miles. The sky is black and the
seas are really starting to roll. The front lower deck of the
ship has been closed due to water coming over the top. What am
I going to do? See if I can handle the treadmill as it bounces.
We are supposed to go behind Ivan later today and sail into
St. Lucia tomorrow.
Yesterday I met the ship in Aruba, where I flew into. I had
time to wander around a bit once I stashed my luggage in my
cabin and found out that I didn't have to "work" until Saturday.
As I was walking around one of the little shops I was staring at
this guy that I was sure was Jimmy Buffett. Before I could say
anything he looked at me (I was wearing my Richland Track &
Field hat). He asked if that Richland on my hat was Richland,
WA. I said that it was and I realized that it was Buffett.. He
told me that someday he wished he could meet Mike Davis.
So far so good--out in the Caribbean,
-Brad Upton ('74)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/10/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (6am today: 80° - 81% humidity)
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12 Bombers and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Dick McCoy ('45), Doug Sansom ('52) and Betty Conner ('52)
Paul Ratsch ('58), Marilyn Baird ('60)
John Browne, Jr. ('61), Tim Avedovech ('61)
Gary Behymer ('64), Mike Franco ('70)
Greg Alley ('73), Brad Upton ('74), Mike Davis ('74)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doreen Hallenbeck ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna Fredette ('65)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Doug Sansom and Betty Conner ('52
WHAT ELSE TODAY: Club 40 begins!!
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45)
Re: Club 40
I'm off to the big party see y'all there. Then we go to
Canada & Montana for 2 weeks.
-Dick McCoy ('45)
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>>From: Doug Sansom ('52) and Betty Conner Sansom ('52)
Re: Anniversary
Just wanted to let you know that today, September 10,
will be our 50th Wedding Anniversary.
-Doug Sansom ('52) and Betty Conner Sansom ('52)
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>>From: Paul Ratsch ('58)
DID IVAN GET YOU?
-Paul W. Ratsch (F345806) ~ Dallas, OR
SMWIA LOCAL 66 (58)
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[Nope.. not me! Ivan is DAYS away from any U.S. mainland -Maren]
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>>From: Marilyn Baird Singletary ('60)
Wishing a very good friend, Connie Dean O'Neil ('60), a
Very Happy Birthday. Will be right behind you in October.
-Marilyn Baird Singletary ('60), AKA: "Cookie" ~ Enjoying
the weather in Vallejo, CA
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[WHEN is Connie's birthday???? -Maren]
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Illusedative Theories
To: Lora Homme
Thank you! I said the word "mathematics" over and over
to myself, until it had absolutely No Meaning! Why do you
suppose the mind does That? (Next, I tried "afterburner"...
same result.) I think we learn to link the visual word to
the spoken word, ie it's mostly "rote memory" (wonder
where the "W" went?); and the spoken words we get from
explanations with Other spoken words, accompanied by
gestures, physical examples, facial expressions, tonal
modulations, etc- all those things that parents and teachers
do. Some of this stuff is probably genetic, though- like,
All baby animals are "cute"- which is an obvious universal
protective mechanism (which says to me that, far from being
Innocent, newborns of every description are displaying an
ancient, genetically coded wisdom, to keep from being
eaten).
Years ago a friend gave me a small pamphlet, printed
in India at the turn of the nineteenth century, which
postulated that Tamil was the "Base language" from which
Sanskrit had been derived; and declared further that Tamil
was so ancient that it had words to describe the Himalayas
as "that new range of mountains, over there". It also
purported to describe geographic features from the
Kamschatka Peninsula to the British Isles, when these place-
names were broken into their single syllable components and
compared to the ancient Tamil meanings.
One of their arguing points for this reality was that
the Dravidian Hills in S. India had been unaffected by
catastrophic events longer than any other place on earth;
and that's where Tamil was first spoken.
Re: "sideways in Time"- it doesn't seem possible, because
Time is forward and back, ie kinda 2-dimensional (which is
why "time-space continuum" is a necessary concept, to give
it more dimensions); and Now is where it is... experienced,
i guess... ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Tim Avedovech ('61)
Re: Quartzite
I live in the Phoenix area, and one of my first years
here, I "stumbled" on to the rock show at Quartzite on a
cool day in January or February, and I thought I had run
into Richland all over again, like in 1943 when it was a
"boom" town. It was HUGE!!!! You cannot possibly do it all
in one day, or maybe even two. It is worth the experience.
TRY IT.
-Tim Avedovech ('61)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: Mike Davis/Jimmy Buffett
"He told me that someday he wished he could meet Mike Davis."
Davis & Buffett might get together but not if Buffett shows
up for a 1974 reunion!
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: Mike Franco ('70)
To: Brad Upton ('74) (my former "customer")
You saw Jimmy Buffett and he told you he wanted to
meet Mike Davis ('74)!?!?!? Sad, I ran into Buffett in
an Everglades floating Denny's and he swore he was off
drugs... now he wants to meet Boo Boo... sounds like he
fell off the wagon, pity.
-Mike Franco ('70)
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>>From: Greg Alley ('73)
To: Dick McCoy ('45)
Re: Ray Conley/Don Richey Scholarship Fund
That's a great deal having a scholarship named after
those guys. Ray was a great guy and I know he would be
looking forward to your club forty this weekend. I received
information about my AARP card so I could be a bit closer to
Club 40.
Re: Sausage Fest
The annual Fest is a week from tomorrow on September
17th and 18th. This year is a celebration of 50 years of
Christ the King. I would hope to see some of my class of
1969 CKers somewhere on the grounds of the school (probably
beer garden for me). Uniforms are not required but maybe
someone will wear those brown pants and brown sweaters that
we had to wear every day.
-Greg Alley ('73) ~ In comfortable and cool in the mornings
Richland.
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
It's smooth sailing now! St. Lucia supposedly took a
direct hit but it looks fine to me. We are on the leeward
side of the island, maybe they got blasted on the other
side. I went into a little bar by the beach and I'm staring
at this guy and he's staring at me. Finally he says it that
unmistakable voice, "Is that Richland on your hat Richland,
Washington?" Now I know that it's Jack Nicholson... there's
no mistaking that voice. "That's the one," I reply. "Wish I
could meet that Mike Davis fella sometime." True story.
-Brad Upton ('74)
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
To: Upton
Buffett is an all right guy - nothing real special.
I'll tell Jagger you said "Hi"
M. Davis (74)
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["nothing real special"????? You're breathin' a scab on
your nose, Davis!!! -Maren]
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Funeral Notice scanned from the TCHerald
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Carol Ann Moss Haymaker ('61) ~ 1/28/43 - 9/6/04
FuneralNotices.tripod.com
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/11/04 ~ WE REMEMBER
Dateline: New Orleans, LA
(6am: 80° - 86% humidity - keeping an eye on Ivan)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Lora Homme ('60), John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Jeanie Harscher ('68), Betti Avant ('69)
Brad Upton ('74), Mike Davis ('74)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Heidi Davis ('00)
BOMBER LUNCH Today: Portland/Vancouver
Club 40 Reunion continues.....
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: Mike Lewis ('60) and John Brown, Jr. ('61)
I'm not sure what to make of you guys. Mike is sitting there
by the hour watching the hands of the clock go around in an
effort to "understand" them and John is sitting there saying
mathematics over and over until he becomes comatose, or
something. The strangest thing that I do is write in to the
Alumni Sandstorm and make a fool out of myself by trying to
comprehend the incomprehensible. Heh heh.
I've been really busy the last couple days so haven't even
had time to read the Sandstorm until right now and you both
have brought up topics that really got me going but I still
don't have time to respond today. I have to get ready to go
to Club 40. No, getting ready isn't what I've been doing for
the last two days, but it probably would have been a good
idea. Nah, too little, too late.
Hope to see all you Time/Spacey people there.
-Lora Homme Page ('60) ~ Here in the Tri-Cities, trying to
find some real clothes that fit to wear tonight.
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>>From: John Browne, Jr. ('61)
Re: Celeb Stew
To: Mike Davis ('74)
WOW! You know Dean Jagger??!!! Cool!.. I didn't realize
that he was still alive! Who can forget "Sheriff Horn" in
"Bad Day at Black Rock"??... not me, buddy! ^..^
-John Browne, Jr. ('61) ~ Vashon Island, WA
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>>From: Jeanie Harscher Wittner ('68)
Re: Happy bday
Wishing my very best friend, Jan McCallum ('68), a very
happy birthday
-Jeanie Harscher Wittner ('68)
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[What day??? And who is Jan McCallum? Not found on the '68
BOMBER class roster... maybe she's not a Bomber?? -Maren]
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
I'm going to do something tonight I haven't done in a
long, long time. I am attending the local high school
football game with a co-worker. She has a son on the team
and they are playing not only their big rivals but the
school from the town where she grew up. It should be most
interesting as the locals went up there last year and beat
them in their homecoming game, 39-0. The head coach has been
suspended, probably for the entire season, if not fired for
his actions before school started. Twice he attempted to
burn down his house and probably was responsible for
vandalizing his own vehicles. A lot of people think he was
"crying for help", as less than a week before the Shrine
Bowl game in which he was to be a coach, he decided not to
attend it. It is an honor for coaches as well as players. At
least before the arson attempts he told his wife to take
their 6 month old and go out of town. The fire was caught
before little damage was done, however. Three cheers for the
Black and Gold Cowboys from Goodland High School.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ I still love sports of all kinds, Go Bombers
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
To: Upton
Yea, Jack and I have been know to "cut up" a little.
Brad, it's okay that you are using my name to further your
career. You need it since that Rogaine deal fell through.
Also, did a hear a murmur from the Mike Franco of Bomber
fame? Nicholson and Buffet, they ain't nothing! I have been
recognized by Mike Franco. Put that in your toilet and float
it, Upton!
-M. Davis (74)
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
Today I am in St. Maarten. As usual, I try to find a bar
that can best be described as "rustic." The bar is attached
to 2 palm trees, it has a plywood roof. A very large lizard
runs across the floor, a couple of chickens wander between
the chairs. I'm working on a Red Stripe. There is only one
other person in the bar and she is gorgeous... I recognize
her immediately. I send her a Red Stripe (that's a Jamaican
beer). She turns to me and says thanks. "Down here trying to
forget Eric?" I ask. "I never loved him" she replies. I ask
her to join me and she does... I'm now sharing a beer with
Halle Berry in St. Maarten. No, I had a man that the press
never found out about. His name was Mike Davis. It's a long
story but he broke my heart. I asked him to join me on a
trip to Portugal this summer but he told me he couldn't
go... said he didn't want to miss his 30th class reunion...
I hope he had a good time. Then I asked him to come down
here to St. Maarten with me. I didn't hear all of his
answer... something about Finley, 25th year, science, speed
of light, I don't know... I hung up the phone and have been
crying ever since.
Well, I'm no idiot. Just like 30+ years ago, it was time
to swoop in on one of Mike's throwaways. Time to move in and
take one with a broken heart at a weak moment. "I loved you
in Monster's Ball," I said. She brightened up and said
thanks. I just want someone to make me feel good, she said.
I think we all know how this turned out.
Thanks, Mike. I owe you one.
-Brad Upton ('74)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/12/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (4am today: 81° - 85% humidity)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike Lewis ('60), Linda Reining ('64)
Betti Avant ('69), Mike Davis ('74)
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WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY:
South Puget Sound (Fife) Bomber Lunch
Club 40 continues in Richland
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Mike Lewis ('60)
To: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To be honest, time has become a really big wave globally
what with the new millennium. Now we all look forward to Y3K
but it's 900 years away. Methuselah should live so long.
Scientists started looking forward to 3000 AD with the
Manhattan Project. They knew Bombers were a big thing even
then and it was no wonder they named the first H-bomb
"Trinity."
I've been working with microseconds on up since radar in
the Navy, and now computers are in nanoseconds. About twenty
years ago after getting a telescope and like thousands of
other amateurs, I started in on planets and the galactic
rotation which is the long-term end of the time scale.
(Galactic rotation scales with natural history--dinosaurs
and all--well.) One big goal is to distinguish galactic spin
from annual and diurnal spins.
It was SO serious until buying one of those "atomic"
radio controlled clocks, they are very cheap now. They show
the 'now' cleanly and are a great relief in the competitive
world which is always claiming a cut of one's time.
It may help to know that time and energy have a special
relationship, which was discovered in physics early in
the last century. Other pairs of concepts do, also. Like
computers, this is vintage stuff, based on three thousand
years of slow work. Enjoy.
-Mike Lewis ('60) ~ Seattle
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
Re: Bakersfield Bomber Lunch
DATE: Sunday, September 19, 2004
TIME: 2:00pm
WHERE: Coco's Restaurant on Rosedale Highway.
DIRECTIONS:
99 freeway to Rosedale exit; West on Rosedale;
stay on Rosedale all the way to Jet Way, make a
left at the light and follow the road into the
Coco's parking lot
All Bomber Spouses and Friends are welcome!
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - blasted heat is
still here-----was 108 Friday and more of the
same is predicted!!!!!!
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
I see my name has changed, oh my. I'm not Batty, I'm
Betti.
[Bomber apologies, Betti... I fixed the online version...
all I can do about yesterday's Sandstorm is mention my
screw up today... So sorry! -Maren]
Well, the locals beat the visitors, 33-8. Once again the
Cowboys defeat the Indians. The marching band didn't have
enough bodies last night, but they stood in formation and
played some "Earth, Wind, and Fire" stuff. Even 2 of the
cheerleaders were out there with their instruments. The rest
of the band were in T-shirts and jeans. Perhaps I'll get to
another game this fall, who knows.
Go Seahawks, I see by some peoples' picks they should
represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Goodland, KS - where all week it has
been in the 90's (too hot for this time of year
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
To: Funnyman Upton
Anytime I can help you out, Brad! The more things change,
the more they stay the same. I believe I was getting you
chicks 30+ years ago and believe me it was a lot easier -
you actually had a part on your head.
You and Halle have a good time and tell her I'm sorry. It
just wasn't meant to be. Tough nut -she'll recover. You and
her ought to hit it off quite well - she needs some humor in
her life right now and you can provide that (even when you
are on stage)
M. Davis (74)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/13/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA
(3am CDT today: 77° - 83% humidity -- REALLY watching Ivan)
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13 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser ('49), Dicksy Poe ('50)
Dorothy Stamper ('54), Lenora Hughes ('55),
Lois Weyerts ('56), Gary Persons ('57)
Jan Bollinger ('60), Judy Willox ('61)
Mike Brady ('61), Deedee Willox ('64)
Bill Wingfield ('67), Brad Upton ('74)
Debra Dawson ('74WB)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy Clugston ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul James Hodson ('05)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steven Adair ('08)
BOMBER CALENDAR: www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
For those of you who missed the Club 40 - shame on you -
especially those who live in the Tri-City area. Some Bombers
who live in Richland have never attended a single reunion or
Club 40 event. I contacted two and they both said, "Well, I
wasn't popular in school" - who cares - come on down!!!
I enjoyed everything and all of the hugs I received and I
received a whole bunch. Thanks to all of you who gave me
hugs. After you have had cancer (twice) your whole life
perspective changes and that is why I collect hugs.
A BIG thanks to all of you who worked on the Club 40 event.
Please plan on attending next year's "doin's" We are losing
a few each year so we need people to fill those slots.
-Betty Hiser Gulley - '49er ~ south/government Richland
where the weather has been fantastic - had 15 drops of
rain and a little wind but other than that it was very
nice for Club 40.
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>>From: Dicksy Poe Creek ('50)
Re: Photograph Copyrights
Any professional photographers among the Bombers? I have
a borrowed 1951 portrait photograph from my sister. It was
taken by Day's Studio in Kennewick. I want another. I can't
find any telephone listing for Day's Studio. Perhaps they
have gone out of business. Two local photograph copier
businesses have given me different copyright rules. One
says every professional photograph starting in 1952 is
copyrighted. The other says photograph copyrights are valid
for 75 years. Maybe these statements are not contradictory,
but what is the copyright law on photographs? If my borrowed
photograph is copyrighted and the photographer can't be
reached, how can I get permission to copy it?
-Dicksy Poe Creek ('50)
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>>From: Dorothy Stamper McGhan ('54)
What a wonderful 50th reunion we have just had.
Marguerite Groff Thompson ('54), and all who helped, did
an outstanding job of putting it together and seeing it
through. Donna McCleary Belt ('54) and Jim Watts ('54) were
super MCs. It was wonderful to see and talk to so many
classmates and get so many hugs!
Also so good to see Harley Stell, and Gordon Pappas and
see their joy in being there. Fran Rish was there for a
while and we got to shake hands with him.
The memory book is outstanding! Who of us could ever
forget having the current Richland Hi band salute us as we
walked to the river to commemorate those of our classmates
who have "crossed over"? What a touching experience that
was!
Everything was great -- what more can I say?!!
Many thanks to all!
-Dorothy Stamper McGhan ('54)
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>>From: Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55)
Re: Sigfried and Roy Special
Our son, Chuck Bejarano, was the photographer for the
Sigfried and Roy Special with Maria Shriver that will air
this coming Wednesday night, September 15th. I hope everyone
gets to watch it. I am sure it will be good. We are proud of
our son. He has won an Emmy and countless other awards for
his work. Works for just about all the networks, network
and cable programs. Just completed a program for National
Geographic channel. I think it has to do with electricity. I
haven't heard the air date for that one yet. I will put it
in the Sandstorm when I find out.
-Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55) ~ Las Vegas, NV - where we
have had some amazing thunder storms in the past
couple of days. Temps are going down at last. I am
ready for the cooler weather.
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>>From: Lois Weyerts Harrold ('56)
WHAT: Class of '56 Ladies October Luncheon
DATE: Tuesday, October 5
TIME: 11:00 am
PLACE: Karol Brimhall Smith's house in Pasco
[address deleted for Karol's privacy. Email Lois for
the exact address if you want it. -Maren]
RSVP by Sunday October 3:
[phone numbers deleted for privacy. -Maren]
Because we often have salad luncheons in our homes we need
to know how many will attend. We also need people to bring
salads so if you can do that let us know. The hostess,
Karol, will provide beverages and dessert. She needs a head
count to plan for seating. We look forward to seeing some
new faces so come join us. We usually meet the first Tuesday
of the month.
-Lois Weyerts Harrold ('56) ~ Richland - where we just
finished a great Club 40 Reunion and had
24 classmates from 1956 attend. Way to go!
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>>From: Gary Persons ('57) and Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: Spokane Area Bomber Lunch
NEW LOCATION - NEW LOCATION - NEW LOCATION!!
The Spokane Bomber alums will be meeting at a new location
next Sunday, as follows:
DATE: Sunday, September 19, 2004
COFFEE TIME: 11:30 am
LUNCH TIME: 12:30 PM
WHERE: The Cathay Inn (Chinese and American menu)
ADDRESS: 3714 North Division (Look for the large sign on
the east side of the street. Our tables will be
in the back corner of the restaurant, under the
windows.)
PRICE: Most lunches $5.95 - $7.95
RSVP (for head count) to JAN or GARY
All Bomber spouses and guests are welcome.
-Gary Persons ('57) and Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
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>>From: Judy Willox ('61), AKA Gramma
To: Paul James Hodson (2005)
To one of the neatest kids in the world (I am NOT a
prejudice Gramma), I want to wish a happy birthday to.
Today my little boy (little?) turns 18.
Sooooo, happy birthday, child of my heart!
Happy Bomber Birthday to you,
Happy Bomber Birthday to you.
Happy Bomber Birthday Dear Paullllllllll,
Happy Bomber Birthday to youuuuuuu.
And Mannnnnny Moooooore!
I love you Sweetheart!
Gramma
-Judy Willox ('61) ~ Richland - Where the town now rests
peacefully after a very busy Bomber weekend that
was fun, fun, fun!!!
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: Beth Pederson's ('61)
I just picked up a copy of Beth's new CD, "Everything
Must Change." Her voice is just as beautiful as I remember
it over 40 years ago.
-Mike Brady ('61)
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>>From: Deedee Willox ('64)
Re: Club 40
I went to the Club 40 reunion last night and really
enjoyed it. I didn't see anyone else from class of '64,
which surprised me. Our class members are the "babies" of
Club 40 and I guess I must look a lot younger, because one
man asked me if I was Judy Willox's ('61) daughter!
The program was great, the food was great, and last but
not least, I finally got to meet George "Pappy" Swan ('59)!
I also got to meet Dick McCoy's ('45) wife, Ida - nice lady.
The program was a mock up of Rowan & Martin's Laugh In.
That was my favorite TV show in its day, so I thoroughly
enjoyed it. They had it all: Ruth Buzzi hitting the old man
with her purse, Lily Tomlin as the phone operator, Jamie
Worley, Goldie Hawn, Phyllis Diller, and poems by Henry
Gibson. It was great fun!
My hubby actually went with me and he ran into someone
he knew from their Railroad days. Not that my hubby has
to KNOW anyone to talk to them! For him, there are no
strangers, only friends he hasn't met yet.
What a nice evening!
-Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA - where it has
cooled off some (but not enough).
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>>From: Bill Wingfield ('67)
To: Jeanie Harscher Wittner (68)
Re: 9/11/04 Sandstorm Entry: "Wishing my very best friend,
Jan McCallum ('68), a very happy birthday"
I'll say thanks for the birthday notice for my sister
Jan Wingfield McCallum ('68WB). Jan and mom told me you guys
had a good time. They said you still look like you did in
high school.
To: Maren
Re: "[What day??? And who is Jan McCallum? Not found on the
'68 BOMBER roster... maybe she's not a Bomber? -Maren]
Maren,
Jan Wingfield McCallum's birthday is September 11th. She
is a (168wb). Unfortunately her 2 daughters Megan & Kelley
McCallum are growing up to be Falcons. Megan graduated last
year and Kelley has one more year at HHS, but I still love
them, and am proud of them.
How about adding her to the '68 BOMBER class roster.
['68 doesn't appear to have a complete roster page and
I don't see an email address for your sister that could
be added to the '68 email page. -Maren]
Maren, PS thanks for all you do. I still can't get going in
the am w/o my Alumni Sandstorm and coffee fix.
-Bill Wingfield (BRC '67) ~ Augusta, GA - we are headed off
to play tennis, and watching which way Ivan is headed.
It's path was going directly over Augusta, but appears
to be moving West, so should miss us. Our prayers go
out to the people who have been hit by the hurricanes
and our service men and women.
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
So today I'm wandering around San Juan, Puerto Rico. I'm
still amazed thinking about the conversation that I had
yesterday in St. Thomas, V.I. I had run into a couple of
English gentleman in their early 60s (who I recognized
immediately).. We were the only ones in the bar, but I
couldn't help overhearing their conversation when they began
to talk about the best places to find agates. Since I had
performed the night before on the ship several passengers
stopped by to tell me how much they enjoyed my show. None of
the passengers recognized the gents sitting near me. After
a couple more people recognized me I turned to the English
chaps and said, "I'll bet you guys are wondering what it's
liked to be recognized in public." They both had a good
laugh with that one and asked me to join them for a pint of
Boddington's. I was sitting with the last two... Paul and
Ringo. They started to introduce themselves, but I told them
I knew who they were. I turned to Ringo and asked him what
he thought Pete Best was doing right now. Ringo laughed
hysterically and then threw up on his shoes. Paul told me
they were just talking about the fact that there was almost
a fifth Beatle and how that would have changed destiny. Paul
told me there was a chap from Richland, Washington named
Mike Davis that was supposed to have been in the band, but
his parents wouldn't let him leave home when he was eight-
years-old. Paul and Ringo concluded that Mike probably would
have stolen the limelight and been an even bigger deal than
they turned out to be.
Anyway, today I'm walking around San Juan and I run into
Jennifer Lopez. I congratulate her on her latest marriage.
She starts to cry. "Things not going well?" I ask. "My heart
is aching," she replies. "Still not over Ben Affleck?" I
ask. "No, it was someone else," she starts to say. "Mike
Davis?" I interrupt. She looks at me like I'm Kreskin.
"How'd you know?" she asks. "Long, long, story. Can I buy
you a drink?" "I'd like that," she replies...... and this
story ends like my day with Halle Berry. Thanks, Mike!
-Brad Upton ('74) ~ San Juan, Puerto Rico
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>>From: Debra Dawson Fogler ('74WB)
I've been offline for awhile and must have been deleted from
the Alumni Sandstorm mailing list. Anyway, sadly, I must
announce the passing of a Bomber mom, Marge Dawson. She died
peacefully in Cheney, September 11th, at age 78. Mom was a
loving and generous person, and she will be missed by more
than just her 4 daughters: Gayle Dawson Muir ('65 Bomber),
Esther Dawson Powell ('73wb), Debra Dawson Fogler ('74wb),
and Michel Thompson ('75wb).
-Debra Dawson Fogler ('74WB)
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Yet another note from Deputy Editor Richard: there
has been a convergence of "odd things which happen from
time to time". Maren is near to being in the eye of a
hurricane -- Ivan this time around -- and Richard is in
the eye of an eye which doesn't work. Anyway, I will be
in Seattle for cataract surgery and won't be back until
Friday (Saturday's issue); and Maren may have to evacuate
the lovely town of New Orleans (she'll be taking the
trusty Sandstorm laptop). The upshot (downside?) is that
there might be an interruption in the daily Sandstorm for
a couple of days -- our first interruption in service in
over six years. But, be forewarned, we'll catch up with
all of your submissions soonest -- we won't miss a single
one.
Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/14/04
Dateline: Richland
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11 Bombers sent stuff today:
Dick Roberts ('49), Ralph Myrick ('51)
Gloria Adams ('54), John Adkins ('62)
Jim House ('63), Linda Reining ('64)
Tedd Cadd ('66), Mike Davis ('74)
Brad Upton ('74), Brian Denning ('77)
Beth Young ('81)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAYS Today:
Vicki Owens ('72)
Sheila Ramerman ('72)
Melissa Holmes ('92)
BOMBER CALENDAR: <Richland Bombers Calendar>
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>>From: Richard "Dick" Roberts ('49)
To: Dicksy Lee Poe Creek ('50)
Re: Making Copy of "Copyrighted" Photo
Hi Dicksy,
What do you think would happen if some afternoon you
went to Wal-Mart with the picture, made a copy of it, had
it framed, and hung it on the wall to honor your sister?
Think about it. Or, any friend familiar with photo tech
on the PC probably would be glad to do it for you as a
favor. I would.
-Richard "Dick" Roberts ('49)
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>>From: Ralph Myrick ('51)
I have been watching the services for Bob Mars and
listening to all of the kind words of admiration and love
for that man. Too bad that he had to die to have all the
remarks said about him. This was why I put out a quest
for all those who had Helen Skogen to write them down so
that I could give them to her while she can appreciate
them. Keep them coming in. I would like to compile as
many messages that I can for her. When they are all
placed into a booklet, Judy and I will give it to her for
her birthday.
I wonder if we shouldn't considered thinking about
other people who have had an impact on our lives and tell
them so before the good Lord comes to take them home.
Just wondering.
-Ralph Myrick ('51)
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>>From: Gloria "Skippy" Adams Fulcher ('54)
Re: Class of '54 Reunion
What a wonderful time!!!!!!!! Thanks many times over
to all of you who worked so hard to put it together. The
ultimate success is a tribute to your efforts. The emcees
for our program on Saturday afternoon, Dona McCleary Belt
and Jim Watts, were outstanding, of course!! You're
professionals at this I think.
What is the best way to get the word to the Richland
High Band to thank them over and over for being there
with us?? That meant just as much to me as any of the
other events. Some of our classmates had tears in their
eyes walking down the aisle between the band members on
our way to the river. I thanked the band leader at that
time and his comment was, "You guys deserve it!"
Clarence ('51) and I are both sure glad we attended
all the functions. How special to have so many life-long
friends.
-Gloria "Skippy" Adams Fulcher ('54)
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>>From: John Adkins ('62)
Re: Club-40 Photo CD Album
Ok Club-40, the weekend is over, it is time to do the
photo album.
For those of you who choose to share your pictures
with everyone at Club-40! If you took your pictures on a
digital camera: the best mechanism is to copy the
pictures to a CD and mail them to me. The second best is
to send them to me via email.
If you took your pictures with film based camera: the
best mechanism is have them developed and also placed on
a CD. The second best method is to scan them.
The most important part is to get as many pictures
from as many attendees as possible. That's what makes
these photo CD's "rock".
-John Adkins ('62) ~ ya all left too soon; we got rain
this morning
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>>From: Jim House ('63)
Ten Richland Marines and four guests got together in
Richland on 9/11. The impromptu lunch was hastily
arranged to coincide with Major General Jim Mattis's
('68) visit with family while enroute from Iraq to a new
assignment in Virginia. The group included veterans of
WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Desert Storm, and the current
engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Marines attending were Terry Ault, Jerry Free ('62),
Randy Free ('61), Jim House ('63), Larry Jacobs, Jim
Mattis ('68), Tom Mattis ('66), Len Sevigny, Pappy Swan
('59), and John Worrell ('59). Special guests who added
to the enthusiasm included Ben Jacobs ('69), Bob Jacobs
('70), Gerald Mattis, and civic leader John Nolan (WWII
Army vet) who has a grandson in the Marines. The
fortunate waitress for the event has three brothers
currently serving in Iraq.
The atmosphere was special. It seemed like an hour
passed before anyone ordered. General Mattis was just one
of the Marines; yet, we all sensed the presence of a
great leader. The Marines were hesitant to "question" the
General until Bob Jacobs finally asked, "How's it going
over there?" Jim went "off the record" to share his views
of the enemy, the tactics and the performance of his
Marines. Pappy Swan observed that he could not help but
marvel at the quiet confident air of this man and the
two-way feeling of common respect that exists between the
"Band of Brother Marines". He said just getting to know
Jim and the rest of the Marines made him even prouder
than before.
I apologize for the short notice to other Marines who
could not attend due to conflicting commitments. We were
fortunate to find a window of opportunity to meet with a
key player in our war on terrorism and whose schedule was
tenuous and whose "days off" include phone calls from the
Pentagon.
I thought one of the highlights was when Jim asked
the waitress about her brothers. One by one she explained
what unit they were in. For each one he explained what
that unit was doing and for each one he said, "He will be
okay." What class!
All Bombers should be proud of this modest leader
from the Class of '68.
Semper Fi,
-Jim House ('63) ~ Mead, WA
PS To: Brad Wear ('71) and other (male) Marine officers
I suggested to General Mattis that his first duty in
Quantico should be to go to Fredericksburg and meet
with the President of Mary Washington College to make
sure all is well with the coeds and the lieutenants.
Oh my!
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
To: Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
Re: Club-40 and the Laugh-in review
You had written that you always liked that show and
that the skit included the things that were done by
Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, etc., and then you said, Jamie
Worley -- think you meant Joanne Worley -- Jamie was in
our class -- don't think she was ever part of the Laugh-
in crew. I know, chalk it up to a "senior moment".
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA ~ was only 88
today -- and they claim the HOT temperatures
have left for now -- am keeping fingers
crossed -- I have had all the blasted heat I
want for this year!!!!!
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>>From: Tedd Cadd ('66)
Re: Great-Grandparenthood
I'm wondering if there are any other of our '66
classmates who are great-grandparents? Pam Hunt Cadd
(`66) and I "married" into the role last Friday when our
daughter Amy Cadd ('90) became Amy Milne and the
stepmother to four children ranging from 11 to 21 and
grandmother to an 8-month-old granddaughter.
We went from the parents of two to the great-
grandparent role without the usual grandparent middle
step.
-Tedd Cadd ('66)
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
To: Brad Upton
In regards to your meeting my ex, J-Lo, just remember this...
"She loves you, Ya, Ya, Ya!!!"
Paul and Ringo, such the kidders!
See ya in Liverpool.
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
What are the odds? Today I'm wandering through the
small shops in St. Thomas, V.I. I recognize this
superstar immediately. Of course, when you're wearing
pink shorts and feather boa, you're not hard to miss.
"Hey Reggie," I say. (I call the legendary Elton John by
his real name.)
"Hello, mate," he replies. I then asked him if he
found anything to go with his outfit. He replied,
"Shopping makes me feel better when I'm heartbroken. I
just lost the best lover I ever had."
"Mike Davis?" I questioned.
"How did you know?" he asked.
"Long story, Reggie. Did Mike constantly make fun of
you because you've lost most of your hair?" I asked.
"Yes and it hurt me a bit. Why'd he act like that?"
"Don't worry about it Reg, it's a defense mechanism
that makes him feel better about himself. He means no
harm," I told him.
Elton replied, "I miss my Boo Boo."
"You'll get over it. Nice meeting you," and I
wandered off. You didn't think I was going to try and
repair that broken heart did you?
-Brad Upton ('74) ~ We've just been told that there is a
new tropical storm near us that may not allow
us to dock tomorrow in St. Maarten! I'm
supposed to get off this boat tomorrow and fly
through Ivan on my way to Dallas.
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>>From: Brian Denning ('77)
To: Brad Upton ('74) and Mike Davis ('74)
Hooo-Whee, it's raining here in Richland today and
I'm not still not sure why I'm wearing my boots ..... but
whether it's the depth of the damp T/C construction dust,
or the depth of both of y'all's Bull-Oh-Knee. (Maren will
probably let that one get by.) Both of you keep up the
banter ..... as I'm think'n an appearance of someone
named Charley, Frances, or Ivan might be some welcome
entertainment here since the Hydros and Cool Desert
Nights left town.
-Brian Denning ('77)
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>>From: Beth Young Gibson ('81)
To: Dicksy Poe Creek ('50)
Re: Photograph rights
As I was assembling my photo book of Richland, I had
to be very careful about copyright protection. I am still
not completely certain of the rules myself.
I do know that all photos taken before approximately
1924 are automatically public domain. Any photos taken by
a government agency (e.g., DOE), are automatically public
domain regardless of year taken because they are paid for
with taxpayer money. When you get into private studios it
is a lot more touchy. If you are just making a copy for
private use I, personally, would probably not worry about
copyright. However, someone like Kinko's will still balk
at copying it for you. If you have a friend with a good
scanner and printer, you might try that. Before doing
anything, though, I would recommend talking to Corrine (I
think it is Hulse) at the East Benton County Museum in
Kennewick. Their phone number is 509-582-7704. I'm sure
she could find out for you in the archives whether Day's
changed hands. She could also find out whether the Day
family that owned the photography studio has any living
relatives. If not, as far as I can recall, you are free
to use the photo if there are no living relatives.
Many of the old Richland pictures you see have the
name Ellis on the photo. There is no Ellis studio in
Richland anymore but there is an Ellis photographer in
Walla Walla. Same family I'm sure. So there would be an
instance where you would not want to copy without asking
first. Maybe someone else can chime in on the ins and
outs of this; it is very complicated.
-Beth Young Gibson ('81)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 015 - Ivan Evacuation
Dateline: Zachary, LA
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Only 1 Bomber today -- ME (Maren)
Made it to my sister's last night about 10pm... 7 hours to
complete a trip that normally takes no more than 2 hours.
So, we're Ivan Refugees -- and "we" is me, my daughter and
her two little ones (20-month old Abby -- ForeverAbby.com
-- and the newest, Maddie, born 8/20/04), my son-in-law and
his mother. Son-in-law's dad and grandmother are on the road
in traffic having not departed the New Orleans area until
2am this morning.
Still don't know where Ivan will make landfall and I don't
even have the laptop set up. That means I haven't downloaded
email PLUS this this won't even get posted to the website...
ONLY those of you who get the Sandstorm in your inbox will
see this update...
As Richard said yesterday, we'll catch up with EVERY
Sandstorm entry --- eventually -- but not today... just
wanted everyone to know that I'm safe.
Bomber cheers,
Maren Smyth (classes of '63 and '64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 9/16 Ivan Return
Dateline: New Orleans, LA
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Only 1 Bomber today -- ME (Maren)
Made it back to New Orleans today. Took 7 hours to get there
and 4 hours to get back today -- the trip normally takes no
more than 2 hours.
Ivan gave us a break, but any Bombers near the Alabama coast
are probably hurting right now...
This won't get posted to the website... ONLY those of you
who get the Sandstorm in your inbox will see this update...
As Richard said on 9/14/04, we'll catch up with EVERY
Sandstorm entry -- eventually -- but not today... just
wanted everyone to know that I'm safe... and working on
tomorrow's Sandstorm now. MAY even have an update on
Richard's eye surgery for tomorrow's Sandstorm
Bomber cheers,
Maren Smyth (classes of '63 and '64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/17/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA
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20 Bombers and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Betty Bell ('51), Gene Stephens ('54)
Marguerite Groff ('54), Marilynn Working ('54)
Mike Clowes ('54), Judy Crose ('58)
George Swan ('59), Betty Neal ('62)
Helen Cross ('62), Deedee Willox ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Jeff Michael ('65)
Shirley Collings ('66), Lonnie Draper ('70)
Brad Wear ('71), Vic Marshall ('71)
Joe Schmitt ('73), Terry Hutson ('74)
Mike Davis ('74), Karen Davis ('76)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY 09/16: Suzie Gunderson ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY 09/16: Karen Kleinpeter ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY 09/16: Cathy Moore ('80)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dena Evans ('64)
BOMBER LUNCH Today: Girls of '54
BOMBER CALENDAR: FuneralNotices.tripod.com
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
Re: Friday Dance
The Richland Seniors Association is sponsoring their
"All Ages" dance on Friday, September 17th (TODAY) from 1:00
- 4:00 at the Richland Community Center. The Easy Swing Band
will again provide the music. Even if you don't dance, it is
good to hear our favorite songs and visit with old and new
friends. Tickets are $4 at the door and refreshments will be
served.
Hope to see you there!
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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>>From: Gene Stephens ('54)
Thanks for a great reunion. Thanks to Dona [McCleary
Belt ('54)] and Jimmy [Jim Watts ('54)] for a great job of
hosting.
Very nice to see you, Carol.......as beautiful as ever.
I hope Maria Jo will let Harold play golf next time.
-Gene Stephens ('54)
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>>From: Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54)
This is just a quick note to Class of '54 Sandstorm
readers. I just tried to send an email to a member of our
class and got a "not deliverable" note. The address I used
is the one that is located on our website
RichlandBombers.1954.tripod.com/
The purpose of this entry is to request that all of you
check your email address on our web page. If it isn't there
- or - if it is incorrect, please send John Bruntlett ('54)
your current email address.
With the wonderful friendships that were renewed this
past weekend at our 50th reunion, there will be more
connections being made via email.
If you are waiting for the photo of the reunion
attendees, or a copy of the Memory Book, please be patient.
I will be getting them out soon. I am, however, expecting my
brother, Phil Groff ('58) and family, to visit this weekend.
That means I need to get caught up on the things I've let go
over the past couple of weeks leading up to the reunion.
Then - I'll address the envelopes and get them mailed. I
want to thank all of you for making this reunion such a
success. Those of us that worked on it had so much fun
getting ready for you. Now we just have the warm feel of
success.
We'll have our monthly lunch Friday [today] and will
probably relive the whole weekend and enjoy it all over
again. Also, thanks for your kind words. I still think we
have more fun than anyone.
-Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54) ~ Still in Richland where
the weather is just here - a little bit of rain,
some sunshine and of course, wind.
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>>From: Marilynn Working Highstreet ('54)
To: Dicksy Poe Creek ('50)
Re: photo copyright
Dicksy:
A friend of mine had a picture copied locally and had
to sign a "release" because the store wasn't sure if they
should copy it. She told them the picture was 61 years old
and the photography place had gone out of business. I know I
have tried copying a photo at Wal-Mart on their machine for
enlargements and they wouldn't let me when I took it up to
pay they noticed it was a professional picture about 10 yrs.
old.
To: Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55)
Congratulations to the great success of your son, Chuck.
You are and should be very proud of him. It feels good when
our kids are successful and do good. I'll try and watch
Sigfried and Roy Special on Wednesday night [last night].
"Big Brother 5" isn't on that night, so it should be easy!!
Amazing Race, too.
I just returned tonight from a "surprise" birthday get
together for a wonderful friend, Norma Myrick Nunamaker
('54) at the Dairy Queen on Highway 395. She was really
surprised when her son, Rick, brought her there for ice
cream, only to find red, white and blue balloons all around
the patio area put together by the ACES group that she so
graciously give all her time to. She said she commented to
him, "boy someone must be having a party". They sure were
and it was for HER!! Sorry to see it wasn't on the birthday
list at the top of the Sandstorm today, the 14th!!
Anyway, Norma, many, many more happy years.
Boy, talk about censorship. A gal that attended the
party said she went to vote today wearing a shirt that had
a picture and saying about John Kerry (I won't say what it
said) on the back and they wouldn't let her vote!! She went
home and put on another shirt with a bad word on the back
and they let her vote!! HMMMMM
Re: Our 50th!!!!!
What a wonderful time Friday and Saturday. It was so
rewarding to get the compliments on the memory book and
"little people" we worked on and the many laughs from the
MCs, Dona and Jim. I took 2 full DVDs on my Sony video
camera and will be making copies. It starts with the class
reunion at the Community Center and ends with Saturday night
Club 40 so I could have it complete. If anyone wants copies
I will figure out how much it will take and you can email
me your desire to have a copy.
-I'm Marilynn Working Highstreet ('54) ~ and I approve this
message!! from the Tri-Cities where I am going to sleep
a lot this week! Nice cool weather to do it!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
Re: Ellis Photography
I believe the Ellis Photography Beth Young Gibson ('81)
referred to in yesterday's paper was Kennell-Ellis. The
studio was located in Uptown near the Uptown Tavern. The
principal photographer "back in the day" was Sam Ellis.
There is (or was) a Kennell-Ellis studio in Eugene, OR.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) ~ still decompressing
after the 50th.
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>>From: Judy Crose Snowhite ('58)
Re: Mrs. Aline Brinkman
Just wanted to let everyone know that Mrs. Brinkman
passed away Wednesday morning [7/15/04] at 7:15. She was a
retired 5th grade teacher at Lewis and Clark. She was 97
years old. My condolences go out to Mr. Loris Brinkman,
Sandy ('58), George ('60) and Kippy ('62). If anyone would
like to send a card please email me and I will send you
Mr. Brinkman's address. Her service will be Monday -
grave side at Einan's at 11:00am and Memorial at South side
Church following at 1:00pm.
-Judy Crose Snowhite ('58)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: It led me right to Club 40
Did I have fun or what? I will be eternally grateful to
my much younger sister, Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63) for pushing
me into first reading Alumni Sandstorm about a year ago.
That eventually led to my writing to Sandstorm, which led to
the creation of an imaginary little Puddle World, which led
to being the recipient of much fun and rotten fruit and
vegetables (figuratively speaking of course), which led to
many new and renewed acquaintances who either rallied to my
support or informed me otherwise, all of which led to an
avalanche of exchanged email, which finally led me right
to the Club 40 Weekend. So many of those acquaintances
blossomed into friendships this past weekend. I was able
to match so many faces with written names. Puddle Pal
acquaintances became friends. Names acquired faces as they
found me or I found them but there were also many that I did
not find if they were there. If I missed you, I was looking.
Perhaps I hindered the location process a bit when I shaved
off my beard on Saturday morning as part of my warped sense
of humor to see how many would recognize me that night.
And, one gentleman reassured me that he enjoyed reading my
entries, even though they still are too long. I found great
humor and satisfaction in that statement. I think God loves
a happy man. So, once again, color me happy. Also, my thanks
to Coach Rex Davis ('49) for looking me up. I enjoyed our
all too short conversation before I was spirited away. And
Max Sutton ('57), I missed you Sunday morning therefore, we
have to go bird hunting for sure so we can spend some more
time together.
I have no idea how many times in my fisheries work that
I made the trip through the Hanford Reach by boat from
either end but it was pleasant for a change to kick back and
leave the driving to someone else and watch the scenery,
the fishermen (catching their fish), the wildlife, and
occasionally losing myself in memories when not visiting
with my wife, Jeanne, or fellow voyagers. When the boat
arrived back at the dock, I hastily departed for one of the
high points of the weekend (for me), the Marine lunch
honoring Major General Jim Mattis ('68). Jim House ('63)
described that proud gathering rather superbly in
yesterday's Sandstorm.
One of my newfound Puddle Pal friends, Jan Bollinger
Persons ('60) summed up the entire weekend and a Sunday
mornin' comin' down as, "...wanted to say what a great time
we had with the Puddle folk! What a wonderful coincidence it
was for Club 40 to coincide with the formation of the Puddle
Pals! Who knows when we may all have met, otherwise? I am
sure the whole weekend was a healthy (and appreciated) break
for Lora Homme Page ('60), too. I think I enjoyed our
casual, quiet, unorganized visiting on Sunday the most!" We
agree Jan, what a great little sub-grouping of Bombers. The
only thing that might have made the weekend more memorable
would have been for another Puddle Pal, Patti Jones Ahrens
('60), to have bungee jumped from the ceiling during the
Saturday night program.
Marilyn and I hated to finally pull ourselves away on
Sunday afternoon. "Parting, is, such sweet sorrow" but
family duties called. However, it still was not over yet. We
took our 86 year-old mother, Millie Swan, to see Ron Monk
('57), an old family friend (that Sandstorm and Club 40 had
reunited us with) play with the dance band at the Pasco
Eagles and then we all went out to dinner. Thanks be to
Maren and Richard for Alumni Sandstorm and to all those
whose efforts made Club 40 happen. All of this led to a
smiling and a very "Happy Pappy."
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
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>>From: Betty Neal Brinkman ('62)
Re: The death of Mrs. Brinkman
I'm sad to announce the death of my Mother In Law,
Aline Brinkman, today [9/15/04]. She was a teacher at Lewis
and Clark Elementary school for many years and I know many
of the Sandstorm readers had her for 5th grade. She would
have celebrated her 98th birthday on October 4th. She leaves
behind her husband, Loris, her children, Sandra ('58),
George ('60) and Kippy ('62), three granddaughters and three
great grandchildren. I think the funeral will be on Monday,
but since I'm not in Richland I'm not too sure just when it
will be.
-Betty Neal Brinkman ('62)
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
I was doing some much needed cleaning out today and I
ran across one of my high school annuals today!! I have some
photos of old classmates. Dick Fitcher, Mildred Strode, Doug
Lukens and I were together in Kindergarten out in front of
old Spalding!! And I found a copy of my confirmation class
at CUP in l959 I think. Kippy Lou Brinkman, Bob Mitchell,
and Bob Bergdahl as well as many others are on it. As soon
as I can figure out how to get these sent I will do so, as I
think it's great to look at old photos.
Helen Cross Kirk (62)
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ by the little lake where we
fortunately just expect some rain as a fallout
from Ivan's terror.
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>>From: Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
To: Linda Reining ('64)
Re: Joanne aka Jamie Worley Oops!
A senior moment for sure. Won't Jamie ('64) be surprised
to find out that she was part of Laugh-In?!
Re: HEAT WAVE
By the way, it has cooled off here too, thank God! Jean
Armstrong Reynolds ('64) called me yesterday and it was 108
in Phoenix! Waaaaay too hot fore me. Bakersfield gets that
hot too at times, doesn't it? When it's hot, I spend a great
deal of time downstairs; so much cooler. We turned our
family room into our bedroom (the kids are all gone now), so
I have a HUGE bedroom. The only drawback was that there were
no clothes closets, so we bought a couple of armoires. It
works.
I divided the room into bedroom and sitting room,
combined three shower curtains to hang between. That gave it
kinda the two-room feel and also blocked the light from the
window in the sitting room part. I used to get terrible
migraines, so blocking the light to my bed was essential.
Fortunately, I don't get them anymore; doc found an Rx that
prevents them. Hallelujah! I later added TV, VCR, DVD,
Coffee Pot, Microwave, and Small Fridg. I grew up in a
basement room, so it's quite normal to me. And it's quiet.
I do have a phone in there, but the ringer is turned off. I
usually take one of the cordless phones in there and remove
it if I don't want to answer calls.
Dang! I wrote a BOOK! Now I'm going to have to apply for
a copyright. *LOL*
-Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64) ~ beautiful uptown Burbank, WA
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Semper Fi
Thanks to Captain House ('63) for setting up the nice
meal with Gen. Mattis ('68). I was so sorry I couldn't
attend. I was so very worried that Brad Wear ('71) would
not be able to attend and asked Jim to make sure Brad was
informed. Brad lived down the street from us and he is such
a fine fellow and an "Ossifer and a gentleman" to boot (not
too boot... I mean he is boot to me just as I am Boot to
Heidlebaugh ('65) and Tuna ('64) but that's not what I
meant) that I wanted to make sure he got the once in a
lifetime chance to meet the General. Silly me... turns out
Brad couldn't make it and has been friends with the General
and many of his staff generals for years so my worry was for
naught.
Sounds like a great time was had by all. For any of you
who don't get it... It's a Marine thing!
-David Rivers ('65) (S/Sgt USMC)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
So...I'm like wonderin': Who's the bigger blow hard; Brad,
Mike or Ivan?
Are there any classmates or teachers out there in
Bomberville that can help me on a project? I'm trying to
determine which is the greater influence: heredity (DNA) or
environment (radioactivity in the home/school). I think
some studies have been done already on male-pattern
baldness; so I'm focusing on tendencies towards class (or
maybe not so classy) clowns in prebuscent, white males. Were
Upton and Davis like this as kids, or is this more of and
adult (chronologically speaking) onset disease?
Since Brad seems to have these attacks while "wandering" in
strange places and visiting bars, perhaps the 30 meetings in
30 days program at AA would help move him past denial and
into therapy. I'm concerned with the hallucinating and self
aggrandizing (conversations with celebs...come on!), he might
just be on the verge of flipping out. I asked Dr. Phil about
Brad over Couvousoir at the Red Lion just last night...and
he said the lad needs help!
In fact, Dr. Phil turned to Dr. Laura, who was just down
the bar from Elvis Presley, who said we should intervene
immediately...with all the bad weather and conveyances, he
might be making a cry for help. They both agreed, if there
is another episode in the next 48 hours, immediate action
must be taken.
Classmates, bond together...this is surely a critical
moment.
dj jeff Michael ('65)
-Jeff Michael ('65)
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>>From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
This year Christ the King School is celebrating its 50th
year of being open. The opening event of celebration will
be the annual Bavarian Sausage Fest. It is beautifully
decorated with flower baskets, and creative Bavarian styled
booths. The Fest will begin about 5 PM Friday evening. There
are about 20 game booths on the lower level with bingo,
farmers market and many more items of interest inside the
school on the lower level, plus booths outside selling a
variety of food, especially the sausage and kraut on a bun.
Entertainment to watch on the outdoor stage while you sit
under the huge parachute until about 9 PM. The Bier Garten
is always a *gigantic* success with entertainment and doing
the 'chicken dance.' The lower level closes about 9 PM both
Friday and Saturday nights. The Bier Garten is open until
1 AM both Saturday morning and Sunday mornings. Almost every
booth is taken down Saturday night and stored until next
year. It is a lot of manpower and organization, but you will
thoroughly enjoy yourselves. You'll probably even see a lot
of former CK students there.
Appropriately I happened to find the Reverend Monsignor
William J. Sweeney's [aka Father Sweeney] funeral notice and
an article from the TCHerald this last week. He passed away
January 9, 1996. I'll bet he will look down with a smile to
see you at Sausage Fest. Here are the links:
blazer74.tripod.com/RevMsgWmSweeneyA96.jpg
blazer74.tripod.com/RevMsgWmSweeneyB96.jpg
Pray for nice weather!
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Lonnie Draper ('70)
Hi,
Emerson said, "All writing is given up in desperation."
Well, this is given up. I hope I said it halfway well. You
never know how some people will read things.
Additional Text
-Lonnie Draper ('70)
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>>From: Brad Wear ('71)
To: Brad Upton ('74)
Brad, if you're going to be in Dallas I'd love to take
in a show. The Improv? or the Funny Bone?
To: Jim House ('63)
Mary Washington, what a tradition. I hope Jim Mattis
('68) can help continue the tradition. My bet is they've
been invaded by the first wave of Marines in Fredricksburg
as school has started. Women's virtue will definitely
suffer.
-Brad Wear ('71)
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>>From: Vic Marshall ('71)
Re: Davis & Upton
All right you guys- I think it's time for you to meet
behind the bowling alley after school to decide this one- or
is that in the Senior Lot? I don't know what the Chief Jo
equivalent was- the really big "fights" at Carmichael were
always behind the bowling alley, In high school, I don't
remember as many fights but the parking lot, Zip's, and
Payless all come to mind.
Of course, Mr. Davis will probably want to meet at
Denny's for the show down- Grand Slams at Dawn!! Bear (Steve
Davis - '72RIP) would have buried you both!!!
Bomber cheers-
-Vic Marshall ('71)
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>>From: Joe Schmitt ('73)
To: Skippy {Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)]
My son was one of the Bomber marching band that was
playing for you on your way to the river. I had him read
your thank you and he was all smiles and will pass it on
to the band.
-Joe Schmitt ('73)
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>>From: Terry Hutson Gunter ('74)
To: Brian Denning ('77)
cc: Brad Upton ('74) and Mike Davis ('74)
Responding to your comment as of yesterday:
"...Both of you keep up the banter ..... as I'm think'n an
appearance of someone named Charley, Frances, or Ivan might
be some welcome entertainment here since the Hydros and Cool
Desert."
Oh please! Don't encourage them. These guys can keep going
on till the "cows come home" or what's the other expression,
"when pigs fly". And as for all the entertainment gone from
the Tri-Cities, HEY, SAUSAGE FEST IS THIS WEEKEND!! If Brad
can make it off that ### ship and catch a red-eye from
Dallas to Tri-Cities, maybe we talk Mike and Brad into
startin' off the ol' Chicken Dance for us. eh? NOW THAT'S
ENTERTAINMENT!!!
Hey guys, I'm sure there are old pictures laying around
somewhere from our old sock hop days ... hmmmm, will have to
work on that.
-Terry Hutson Gunter ('74)
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
To: Mr. Upton
Why would you be in a small shop where Elton John does his
clothes shopping? Interesting.
-M. Davis (74)
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>>From: Karen Davis Scheffer ('76)
Thanks to Brad Upton ('74) and brother Mike ('74) for the
good reading. I look forward each day to see their names in
the column of additions. Appreciate the humor guys--need
more of that these days.
Happy Belated Birthday to niece "Pooter" Heidi Davis
Mortenson (2000). Love you kiddo.
And also to your number one child Kyler Rose---happy day
youngsters.
-Karen Davis Scheffer ('76) ~ Spokane - freezing amidst the
pouring rain and too soon cooler temps. Ready to move
out of this place---but only going north to Deer Park!!
Quieter and not as smoggy---40 acres will be sweet!
-Karen Davis Scheffer ('76)
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Funeral Notice scanned from the TCHerald
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Dixie Ann Mudd Deschane ('56) ~ Passed away 9/8/04
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/18/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA
(12:01 CDT today: 83° - 85% humidity)
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18 Bombers, 1 Bomber Mom, Gordon Pappas, and 3 funeral notices today:
Betty Hiser ('49), Jo Cawdrey ('49 & '50)
Joan Eckert ('51), "Rainy" Powell ('52WB)
Millie Finch ('54), Hal Smith ('56)
Gus Keeney ('57), Paul Ratsch ('58)
Ruth Miles ('59), John Adkins ('62)
Frank Whiteside ('63), MaryAnn Weiland ('63)
Lonnie Coleman ('66), Shirley Collings ('66)
Pam Pyle ('69), Brad Wear ('71)
Brad Upton ('74), Dan Staringer ('78)
BJ Davis (Bomber Mom), Gordon Pappas (Former Music Teacher)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jackie Sheard ('61)
BOMBER CALENDAR: <Richland Bombers Calendar>
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Re: Copyrights
I don't know about photographs but book authors have
a copyright for their entire lifetime plus 75 years
afterwards. I don't think the copyright is renewable after
the 75 years.
I am a postcard collector. I bought several of the
Richland/Hanford postcards (1940s) and a man by the
name Ellis took those pictures (also some of Pasco and
Kennewick). One of his sons, brother, or other relative,
still has a studio in Arlington, WA and they/he still make
postcards. Only these cards are colored and not black
and white. Don't think this Ellis was connected with
Kennell/Ellis.
Re: Aline Brinkman (RIP)
The Brinkman family lived on Goethals Drive (now Jadwin)
across from the Lewis and Clark School. I always think of
them when I drive past the house. Please tell Loris that I
am sorry about his wife. I didn't know her but I worked with
"Brink" for a year in 100-F Area.
To: Judy Crose ('58)
Could you give me Brink's address? I want to send him a
note.
Re: Father Sweeney (RIP)
How well I remember Father Sweeney. I was going with a
fellow who was Catholic and every Sunday Father Sweeney
would say, "We need more money for the school we are
building - it is costing us $4200 each month for the
interest on the loan to build the school." I told him one
day he sounded like a "Go to Hell Southern Baptist" - always
asking for money. It must have taken them over 2 years to
build the school. Father Sweeney was also a coin collector -
like my father. If my dad went to the bank to buy pennies
and saw "Sweeney" on the wrapper he refused to buy it
because Father Sweeney had already gone through those 50
pennies (nickels, dimes, quarters, etc.).
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er ~ south/government Richland - the
weather has cooled down and we have had 15 drops of
rain (enough to mess up the windshield). Heavenly
for sleeping.
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>>From: Jo Cawdrey Leveque ('49 & '50)
Re: Pensacola and Ivan
My husband's daughter and family have their home in
Gulf Breeze, FL and business in Pensacola, FL. They lost
the roof off their brick home, her new business office,
equipment, instruments, etc. His folks, whose home was right
on the Sound, lost the dock, out buildings and the entire
house - they're gone! However, they are all safe and sound.
Jocelyn and the kids went to her sister's in Houston; Brett
and parents stayed in town, but were not injured. This is
the worst hurricane the panhandle has been hit with, but
they seem to be survivors down there and are all bouncing
back - but what a scary way to live. Thank God they seem to
know how to roll with it.
-Jo Cawdrey Leveque ('49 & '50)
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>>From: Joan Eckert Sullens ('51)
Re: Col Hi
This has undoubtedly already been discussed but I can't
remember reading about it. When did Columbia High become
Richland High... and why? Thanks.
-Joan Eckert Sullens ('51)
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>>From: Lorraine "Rainy" Powell Earp-Tanner ('52WB)
Maren...
We are so glad you are ok. We read in the paper this
morning that Ivan missed Orlando. Then we got your report
that all was ok.
Continue to take care and know that we have you in our
prayers.
Rainy/Ed
-Lorraine "Rainy" Powell Earp-Tanner ('52WB)
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>>From: Millie Finch Gregg ('54)
Maren, I too want to add my 2 cents that we are glad you are
safe. Most importantly though, is don't give the Sandstorm a
thought right now - your mission is to take care of Abby and
Maddie and their Oma!!
Really sorry all of this weather has wreaked havoc on
Florida and adjoining states nearby - so please continue to
be alert and watchful. Hope you still have your oar for the
canoe! Wish I had a pic of that!!!
Hurry home to us and let us know when you are in town and we
will have lunch.
Cheers,
-Millie Finch Gregg ('54) ~ Had an awesome reunion!!!
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>>From: Hal Smith ('56)
Hi Maren. After your recent experience with Ivan, I thought
I'd share Charley with you guys.
[OK, this file is 2,475KBs -- MUCH too large for the Alumni
Sandstorm. However, it's very interesting and you should
send Hal an email and ask him to email it directly to you
if you want to see it. -Maren]
-Hal Smith ('56)
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>>From: Gus Keeney ('57)
Re: Neck Update
Dr. Page says that the neck looks like it is starting to
knit. She says that it takes 12 to 14 months for the neck
bones to show significant knitting. She had some new shots
taken of my neck and when she gets to read them on Monday
she will have a better idea of what to do about weaning me
of the neck brace. I am supposed to call her about the xrays
on Monday afternoon after 2:30. Hugs, Gus
-Gus Keeney ('57)
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>>From: Paul Ratsch ('58)
Re: Yesterday Fights
Back in the '50s we use to duke it out at By's Burgers.
I remember many a fight back then. Used to be "fists"... now
its "guns"... the good old days are gone forever.....
-Paul Ratsch ('58) ~ Dallas, OR
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>>From: Ruth Miles Bruns ('59)
To: Marilynn Working Highstreet ('54)
I think the incident [you mentioned] in the 9/17
Sandstorm isn't really about censorship. There are rules
about no electioneering or partisan politics within (I
think) 50 feet of the polls. Since the shirt had a picture
of a political candidate, it could easily be ruled as
electioneering. There are a lot of strange and unpleasant
political things going on this year, on all sides, but I
don't think this was one of them.
-Ruth Miles Bruns ('59) ~ in beautiful downtown Goldendale,
WA, where it is actually raining!
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>>From: John Adkins ('62)
Re: Club-40 Photo CD Album
It is time to do the photo album.
For those of you who choose to share your pictures with
everyone at Club 40! If you took your pictures on a digital
camera: the best mechanism is to copy the pictures to a CD
and mail them to me. The second best is to send them to me
via email.
If you took your pictures with film based camera: the
best mechanism is have them developed and also placed on a
CD. The second best method is to scan them.
The most important part is to get as many pictures from
as many attendees as possible. That's what makes these photo
CD's "rock".
-John Adkins ('62) ~ we got rain again this morning
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>>From: Frank Whiteside ('63)
Re: Ivan
Just wanted to send a note to thank those who sent
emails about our brush with Ivan.
Living in a parish (county) that is 85% water (near the
edge of New Orleans) made us feel compelled to head for the
border. We finally found rooms in Nagadoches, TX, where we
stayed two nights and headed back Thursday after the storm
hit Alabama and Florida. We were extremely grateful that we
were spared and are sending a donation to the Red Cross and
would urge others who are so inclined to do the same. If we
had been hit on our west side, our homes could have been
under as much as 12 feet of water. It really makes you think
about moving to higher ground, even though our area has
never been directly hit by a hurricane. Glad Maren made it
though okay. I assume our other local Bombers came though
with little or no problems.
-Frank Whiteside ('63)
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>>From: MaryAnn Weiland Turner ('63)
Maren - I'm so glad everything is good for you and your
family. Take good care.
-MaryAnn Weiland Turner ('63)
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>>From: Lonnie "Tom" Coleman ('66)
Glad you and yours are ok.
-Lonnie "Tom" Coleman ('66)
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>>From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
Re: CK Alumni and Sausage Fest
If you would enjoy the opportunity of meeting some of
your former classmates from Christ the King School look for
an alumni booth set up exactly for that purpose. I'm not
sure where it is located, but I'm guessing on the parking
lot near the school. It will probably be the booth where
everyone is wearing their school uniforms (yeah, sure!), OR
perhaps some of the former nuns will be there to keep you in
line with their rulers (oh, dear, did I really say that?),
OR just a group of people you might recognize from years
gone by who are waiting anxiously to visit with you! Perhaps
you might work a shift, but you can't send anyone to the
principal's office, make someone sit in the corner, make
them stand up and say their name when you call on them, and
have them remain standing until you are finished speaking
with them. BUT, "You can have fun, fun, fun 'til my daddy
takes the T-bird away!"
Hope to see you there!
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) ~ Richland, of course, where
Sausage Fest runs from 11 AM until the Bier Garten
closes at 1 AM Sunday. Come and do the Chick Dance!!
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>>From: Pam Pyle Jewett-Bullock ('69)
To: Jim House ('63)
Dear Jim (and Maren,too):
Per Jim's suggestion, went to Bomber Class of '66 roster
on the website, extracted the email address for Tom
Mattis ('66)... (in order to communicate w/Brig Gen
Tim Mattis...'66 re: Bomber gathering in Stafford/Quantico
environs this fall)
Mail was returned...I wonder...do you think that address
link has an extraneous 't' or????? If either of you has a
better address for Tom, please do send...
THANKS!
Bomber cheers,
-Pam Pyle Jewett-Bullock ('69) ~ Stafford, VA (where Ivan
begins to call this morning with some very gray
skies and rain)
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>>From: Brad Wear ('71)
To: David Rivers ('65)
David, you flatter me. Sure I was an officer, but I was
a gentleman long before congress made me one. You know, hold
doors for women, hold their chair, walk on the curb side,
all the good stuff, I still do it. I was fortunate to meet
Jim Mattis ('68) when he was a "new" Captain, and I was a
first lieutenant. We had a "command presence"... in other
words we were required to be there or else. Jim was there
as well as Tim Larson a fellow 1st Lt. and Jim Williams, a
lowly 2nd Lt. aka a "butter bar." Little did I know that all
three would later become "General Officers" I should have
stayed in the Corps. I didn't even know Jim was a "Bomber"
when I met him, I thought I knew the name, but it was one
of those deals that we'd crossed paths before but where?
I'm proud of Jim, in fact in awe of him in all that he's
accomplished. I have two other friends that were CGs of
MECDEC where he's going now and both of them can't say
enough good things about him. I'm glad he's back, but he
truly needs to be at the front. He's a warrior leader and
his men loved him. He's leading the future leaders now
and they had better learn at the feet of the leader. Jim
House ('63) knows what I'm talking about.
-Brad Wear S/F '71, WSU 75, TBS class of H-7/75.
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
To DJ Jazzy Jeff '65:
No need for rehab for me. When I'm on the ship, I just
have a little more time on my hands than usual and I get to
writing.........
To Brad Wear '71:
I AM going to be in Dallas! April 21st, 2005 I will be
doing a benefit for Gilda's Club of North Texas. Gilda's
Club is named after Gilda Radner and is a place for people,
and families of people, that have cancer. It's a wonderful
facility and hopefully you'll never need to visit one... if
you do, there are 16 of them in the U.S. and you can find
them at www.gildasclub.org
To Vic Marshall '71:
Me and Davis fight? If we show up behind the bowling
alley, Mike will go inside for fries and gravy. Payless
parking lot? There's a Zip's across the street, Mike'll
never make it.
To Mike Davis '74:
There are many, many small shops crammed together in the
Caribbean markets selling everything including very colorful
clothing. Nice try. You'll never guess who I sat next to on
my flight home.....never mind.
-Brad Upton ('74) ~ back home now with less time on my hands.
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>>From: Dan Staringer ('78)
Re: Bomber Alumni in Campbell, CA
Hello,
Could the person who sent me an email the other day who
lives in Campbell, CA and responded to a book review I wrote
on 'Atomic Farmgirl', please send me another email. I indeed
graduated from Richland High School and wanted to reply to
you, however I inadvertently erased your email! I live in
San Jose near the Pruneyard so I'm sure we aren't far from
each other. Hope to hear from you soon.
-Dan Staringer ('78)
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>>From: BJ Davis (Bomber Mom)
Maren
So glad you and your family are safe and sound. Is that
huge alligator in your area? If so please stay in until they
catch that boy.
-BJ Davis (Bomber Mom)
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[I saw something on the news about the alligator that got
loose, but I believe it was in Alabama somewhere. -Maren]
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>>From: Gordon Pappas (Former Music Teacher)
Dear Col-Hi Grads,
Ruby and I just returned from the 50th Anniversary of
the of the Class of 1954 Reunion and are basking in the
recollection of the love and happiness that we received as
the guests of those wonderful former students. After reading
the accomplishments made by members of this class since
graduation and marveling at the variety and spectacularity
of their achievements, we are proud, humbled and honored to
have played a part in their early lives. May they continue
to live with happiness and serve with distinction for the
benefit of our country and mankind.
So many came to introduce themselves to us at this event
and to express their appreciation of our early years
together that I cannot list them all or respond to each and
every one. But we would like to give thanks to all for their
gracious hospitality and the warm, loving kindness that they
extended to Ruby and me by honoring us as their guests.
Sincerely yours,
Gordon and Ruby Pappas (Music Teacher: 1948 - 1960)
P.S. If anyone knows the email address (or mailing
address) of Jim Gladfelder ('53), please send it to me. He lives in
Fort Worth, TX and showed up just to see us again after many years
-Gordon Pappas (Former Music Teacher)
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Funeral Notices scanned from the TCHerald
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Ronald Ray Paulsen ('69) ~ 2/7/51 - 9/12/04
>>Phyllis Browning Phelps ('54) ~ 6/29/35 - 9/15/04
FuneralNotices.tripod.com
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Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am CDT: 79° - 54% humidity)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser ('49), Wanda Wittebort ('53)
Connie Dean ('60), Daniel Laybourn ('70)
Heidi Davis (2000)
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BOMBER LUNCHES Today:
SPOKANE LUNCH
BAKERSFIELD LUNCH
BOMBER CALENDAR: http://www.calsnet.net/All_Bombers
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
I think we should all pause and thank the man upstairs
for all of our Bombers in the path of the hurricanes and
that they are all right.
This is one time when you should not mess with Mother
Nature - she is bigger than all the Bombers put together.
To: Joan Eckert Sullens ('51)
I don't remember when the name Columbia High was changed
(had to be after 1980 - my youngest daughter graduated
that year) but it had to do with the school at Burbank also
called Columbia High and due to the fact that they were
building the Hanford High School.
Re: Back Problems
I am having problems with my back (three discs are
smashing two nerves). My doctor said that he would try
everything short of surgery - unless the pain won't go away
he would consider back surgery. Has anyone had this problem,
what was done, and did you eventually have surgery and what
was the outcome? THANKS! Most people I have talked to said
if they knew then what they know now they would not have had
surgery.
To: John Adkins ('62)
If you get the book put together - let me know - I would
like to buy a copy. Onward Club 40!!
Re: New Orleans
I attended a secretary's convention in New Orleans just
before they had the Worlds Fair (Expo?) and was amazed to
learn that New Orleans is under sea level. The guide told us
that people from the Netherlands visit New Orleans to look
at how they pump water out of that city.
-Betty Hiser Gulley ('49er) - south/government Richland -
where the weather is good - few more sprinkles of rain.
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>>From: Wanda Wittebort Shukay ('53)
Maren, you were smart to leave New Orleans, not like some
of my friends in Panama City who rode out the storm and
did suffer some damage, but luckily they and their house
survived Ivan. Don't think they will ever do that again.
They had just moved to Panama City from Reston, VA last
June.
Ivan visited No. Virginia yesterday with tornados
reported all day. Really scary and hairy. Especially when
they mentioned Dale City and Woodbridge (just a few miles
from my house. After visiting Western VA (even Dulles
Airport) they travelled up to Maryland. Also started coming
in from Richmond to Eastern portion towards Chesapeake Bay.
Then after 8pm last night we had torrential rains all night
and woke up this morning with more - high winds and rain.
Virginia normally gets about 6 a year and yesterday there
were at least 20 reported. Mostly coming up through the
Shenandoah (Sky Line Drive) and up from Raleigh, NC
through Richmond VA - on a northerly path. Have heard of
no deaths, but mucho damage - especially in Remington, VA.
Every TV station was tuned to these siteings from 4pm till
9pm. Hope all our Bombers in VA made it safely through the
day and night.
Glad you and family made it through this and am happy
that New Orleans was bypassed.
-Wanda Wittebort Shukay ('53) ~ Lake Ridge, VA
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>>From: Connie Dean O'Neil ('60)
Re: 1960 45th Class Reunion
Attention: Class of 1960
Let's have a 45th class reunion in conjunction with
Club 40's 2005 celebration.
If you would like to help the committee please email me.
We will update you thru the Sandstorm.
-Connie Dean O'Neil ('60)
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>>From: Daniel Laybourn ('70)
Re: Hal Smith's ('56) slide show of Hurricane Charley
Maren,
I reconfigured the Power Point presentation into a
viewable slide show for folks...
http://www.colhi70.org/charley/
-Daniel Laybourn ('70) ~ somewhere on the Monterey Bay coast
http://colhi70.org
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>>From: Heidi Davis Mortensen (2000)
Re: Aline Brinkman (RIP)
I didn't realize that Aline was associated with Bomber
Alums. [She was a teacher at Lewis and Clark and, yes, she
was also a Bomber Mom of Sandy ('58), George ('60), and
Kippy ('62). -Maren]
I cared for her the last three weeks. When she smiled,
it was the type of smile that just made the rest of your day
go better.
My condolences to the family. She was a great lady!
-Heidi Davis Mortensen (2000)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/20/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (1am CDT today: 77° - 78% humidity)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Doris Palmer ('49), Marguerite Groff ('54)
Bill "Lane" Johnson ('61), Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
Linda Reining ('64), Bill Wingfield ('67)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bruce Killand ('71)
BOMBER CALENDAR: <Richland Bombers Calendar>
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>>From: Doris Palmer Overla ('49)
I would like to send a great big thank you to all the
wonderful Bombers class of '49, who took the time to call
and/or send emails to me after Frances. We came through
with flying colors and hopefully will miss Jeanne if she
will go on out to sea.
Thought of you Maren and your family. So glad to hear
that you left N.O. We had lived there for several years and
went through some awful rain storms which were enough to
make me realize how bad the storms can be there. That is all
from the beautiful space coast of Florida. Thanks again to
all of you.
-Doris Palmer Overla ('49)
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>>From: Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54)
To: Class of '54 Reunion participants
For a copy of the list of names in our reunion
photograph, please email me and I will respond with the
list attached as a Word document. Otherwise I will (snail)
mail it to you. I will mail the memory books and photos to
everyone who placed an order and were unable to attend and
for attendees who forgot to pick up their photo Saturday
night. I'll get them in the mail early this week (with list
of names). Millie Finch Gregg ('54) created the list and the
envelopes were all addressed while our "lunch bunch" was at
Granny's Restaurant last Friday. What a great group of gals!
-Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54) ~ Richland - where the
weather was perfect today.
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>>From: Bill "Lane" Johnson ('61)
Re: On the road again
To: John Mosley ('71)
John,
Thanks for the call in the big truck a while back. Glad
you saw the sign on the back of the trailer and called me.
Enjoyed the call and the conversation and sorry it took so
long to get back to you. I knew who your sister was by
sight but didn't really know her. I do know Charlie as we
graduated in the same class. Next time you see or talk to
them tell them I said hello.
To: Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
I see your entries from time to time when I can get on
to my AOL account, and I notice that you and I apparently
are the only ones willing to take credit for being members
of the "Classic Class of '61" Stay the course "Big Dog."
I'm right there with you.
-Bill (AKA Lane) Johnson (Classic Class of '61) ~ Out here
on the super slab in my big truck.
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>>From: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
To: Daniel Laybourn ('70)
Re: Hal Smith's ('56) slide show of Hurricane Charley
Wanted to thank you, Daniel, for reconfiguring the Power
Point presentation sent by Hal into a viewable slide show
for folks..
GOOD JOB!
http://www.colhi70.org/charley/
-Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
Bakersfield had a luncheon (Sunday, September 19th) to
put in the record books! We had the largest crowd ever and
it was GREAT! Those in attendance were: Rex Hunt ('53WB) and
wife, Cheryl, from Hanford, CA.; Mike Lahrman ('63WB) from
Clovis, CA.; Donni Clark Dunphy ('63), husband Gary from La
Mirada, CA.; and Donni's mom, Ione, from Visalia, CA.;
Bob Grout ('66WB) and wife, Michelle, from Chino, CA.; and
surprise guests, Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55) and husband Bob
from Las Vegas, NV.; and me, Linda Reining ('64). It was
so cool to have so many in attendance! We missed Richard
Greenhalgh ('59) and wife, Stella (they live here in
Bakersfield, but they were in Solvang for Danish Days). See
ya at the next one in November, guys. Pictures were taken
by Bob Bejarano and Bob Grout, they will follow at a later
time. Now, you know since you made it ONCE, you can always
do it, again!
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - weather has
started to cool off---mild breeze and I think it was
in the high 70s. hopefully, we have seen the last of
triple digits!!!!!!
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>>From: Bill Wingfield ('67)
To: Lonnie Draper ('70)
Re: Kristi Heartz (87), and your entry about the Tri-City
Cancer Center Golf Tournament this coming Monday for
remembering Danny, George Dana, Sam Dossett, Jim Foss and
many, many others. "...I'm remembering someone else, but
most people don't know her."
Lonnie Draper's
Entry about Kristi
Very well written. I don't know Kristi, but your writing
made me feel like I do. You can consider your assignment
done, for sure. I was awestruck at how much you care for
your students. My hat off to you.
I do know Sam Dossett ('67RIP), as he was one of my very
best friends from grade school at Jason Lee, on thru Chief
Joe, and Col High. Please also add Pete Dullum ('67RIP) to
the list. He lived kiddy corner to Sammy growing up and left
us way too soon in '71.
Also say hi to your brother for me. I enjoyed working
with him down here in South Carolina at SRS. He'll be
disappointed to learn that Jim Bob's Used Cars is no longer
in business.
-Bill Wingfield (BRC '67) ~ Augusta, GA - cancer is a
disease that we must find a cure for. So as Lonnie
said: "So when you make any donations to St. Jude's
Hospital or the Tri-City Cancer Center, once in a
while make one in the name of Kristi or George or Sam
or Dan or Jim or someone who made this world better
and would have made it more so if given the time."
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/21/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (1am CDT today: 75° - 73% humidity)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser ('49), Char Dossett ('51)
Bill Murray ('54), Dick Avedovech ('56)
Roger Gress ('61), Jim Hamilton ('63)
David Rivers ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann Clatworthy ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike Waggoner ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dean Heiling ('63)
BOMBER CALENDAR: <Richland Bombers Calendar>
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Re: Advise for October
-Betty Hiser Gulley ('49er) ~ south/government Richland -
nice cool weather. Supposed to get up to 80 in the
next 2 or 3 days.
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>>From: Char Dossett Holden ('51)
To: Bill Wingfield ('67)
Thank you for remembering Sam Dossett ('67RIP). I did
forward this to his daughter, Samantha and family. I do miss
him a lot. Char
-Char Dossett Holden ('51)
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>>From: Bill Murray ('54)
To: Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54)
Re: Class of '54 Reunion participants
Marguerite,
Thanks for offering up a list of names. Yes.. I would
like a list of names in the photograph. It gets harder
recognizing everyone the older I get. LOL email would be
fine.
Thanks to all of you for doing the hard work of putting
on the reunion. I had a perfectly wonderful time at the 50th
reunion and really glad I went. I visited a lot more with
classmates I only occasionally ran around with and didn't see
a few I was really close with. They lived in the Tri-Cities
too.
I joined the Club 40 and may just attend a few of those
reunions in the future. There were quite a few alumni that
graduated before and after me that I knew and also worked
with. We also had a great visit.
Thanks again for offering the list...and tell Dona
McCleary Belt ('54) I haven't used the bag balm on my
wrinkles yet. I think she just called on me because I was
seated closest to the microphone.
Take Care,
-Bill Murray ('54)
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>>From: Dick Avedovech, Jr. ('56)
To: Gordon Papas
It gave me great pleasure to see your piece in the
Sandstorm. I am one of your former students from 1953 to
1956 that played clarinet in the Col-Hi Marching Concert
Band. Being a part of that band was a highlight of my
high school days that I carry with me today in my love of
classical music. I also played clarinet in the band at
University of Puget Sound for three of my 4 years there. I
still remember in awe the concert we put on with Raphael
Mendez and Dvorak's New World Symphony is still one of my
favorites since I know every note of that piece. Although
I wasn't a particularly outstanding student in any thing
during my years at Columbia High School, I thoroughly
enjoyed the music and especially the opportunity to be
librarian for the music in my senior year. Thank you for
your dedication and patience and for exposing us to great
music of our times.
PS I remember once while learning a piece of music, you
stopped us and told to go "L", meaning the letter L in the
music. That brought a good deal of laughter to us then and
still to me today.
-Dick Avedovech, Jr. Ph. D. ('56)
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>>From: Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
To: Bill "Lane" Johnson (Classic Class of '61)
Re: (Classic Class of '61)
Thank you for noticing. Stop by and say hello and if
not we will see you at Cool Desert Nights next year.
-Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
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>>From: Jim Hamilton ('63)
I can't remember my cell phone number, I could push a
couple of buttons and find out if I knew where I left my
reading glasses. I think they're with my "other, other" set
of keys and the list of all my passwords. I guess I'm just
approaching sixty and it comes with getting up a couple of
extra times each night, and going to the EarlyBird Special
with them Heilings ('63), Boehnings ('63) and DeJongs ('63).
What I do remember is that forty two years ago today, it
was a Friday, I took the Forever Young and Always Lovely
Miss Nancy to the Uptown Theater on our first date. I think
the Bombers were playing out of town, maybe Wenatchee, or
I'd have taken her to the game. I picked her up, saw
something totally forgettable on the silver screen did a
couple of laps of Zip's and A&W, so everyone could see the
"Softmore" I had wooed and had her home by ten.
An occasional speed bump or two later, we're still here
but A&W is no more. She still makes my palms sweat. One
other thing I'll never forget is that it was the best sixty
five cents I ever spent.
jimbeaux
p.s. Don't anyone pinch me
-Jim Hamilton ('63)
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Huh? What? Maren caused what? I just looked at the power
point presentation Maren ('63 & '64) posted from Daniel
Laybourn ('70)... I haven't been reading my sandstorm for
the last couple of days but from what I can gather on catch
up... Maren was somewhere around New Orleans and caused a
bunch of Damage... from the looks of the pictures it was
pretty devastating... naturally I couldn't help noticing the
girl sitting looking at the damage in what is becoming the
new classic pose with the pants kinda low slung and the
little G-string showing... but I digress... so what is your
mother gonna say, Maren Smyth?! I mean that mess you created
is worse than any night at State outside the Camlin. Oh
those were pictures of the Camlin? The Storm pictures will
come later? OK... Nevermind.
-David Rivers ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/22/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (1am CDT today: 75° - 73% humidity)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary Esther Anderson ('54), Gary Persons ('57)
Jan Bollinger Persons ('60), Bill Didway ('66)
Vicki Schrecengost ('67), Tami Lyons ('76)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy Coppinger ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: JoAnne Bucholz ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bert Hammill ('70WB)
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>>From: Mary Esther Anderson Lippold ('54)
Thank you Marguerite and company for the great party
(having the Richland High band there was a great touch) you
put on for our 50th class reunion and yes, we (Jack and I)
do want a list of people in the class picture--most I can
identify but find I do better with our 5th grade class from
Lewis and Clark. (I think that means something but am not
sure what.) I do read the alumni Sandstorm but did so more
often before I retired from work--sometimes spent my noon
hour reading it and now that I'm retired, we don't really
have a noon hour.
I can fill in some blanks in the "Lewis & Clark Grade School
Fifth Grade - Unknown Teacher" picture.
Jerry Swain--it is fifth grade and we started out the year
with Mrs. Jean Mobley who got pregnant and back then
pregnant women didn't work in public so we ended the year
with Mrs. Inez Miller who is in the picture. (She was our
youngest son's kindergarten teacher at Spalding Elementary
in 1970-71--one of the years Jack spent in Viet Nam when our
sons and I lived in Richland.) Anyway, here are the blanks
(no offense intended) I can think of at the moment: Back
Row: 1. John Clarke, 5. Ruth Dean, 7. Annette Taylor, 9.
Forrest Goodenow? Middle Row: 12. Billy Murray?, 13. Freddie
Beem, 14. Billy Jackson, 15. Carole Wyatt. First Row: 5.
Michael Harris, 7. David Short. I'm sure more will come to
me someday.
Maren, I don't know you but do appreciate all the work you
put into this website. We were in your neck of the woods
(lived there at one time, too) last April driving our '65
Mustang convertible home from Fort Lauderdale. We spent a
fun evening there with my brother (Roger Anderson ('57)) and
his wife Diane (who taught P.E. at Col-Hi for several years)
were also driving their '65 Mustang convertible. We had been
to a car show in Nashville and went on down to Ft.Lauderdale
to go to the Bahamas. Can't imagine all the storm damage in
those beautiful places. Actually I can because Alexandria, LA
had just been hit by a huge hurricane when we moved there in
1958.
-Mary Esther Anderson Lippold ('54)
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>>From: Gary Persons ('57) and Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: Spokane Area Lunch
Another fun gathering of Bomber Alums in Spokane last
Sunday, this time at the Cathay Inn on North Division. We
had the huge restaurant almost totally to ourselves and
enjoyed great service in our own quiet corner--which wasn't
so quiet, once thirteen alums arrived! Many of the group had
attended Club 40 and shared stories of our adventures there,
and of course there were the usual assortment of tales about
delivering newspapers in Richland, Skip's Drive-In, Tim's
Drive-In, By's Burgers, Spudnuts, and getting called to the
vice-principal's office, etc. Our server even contributed to
the conversation about how to make crispy french fries (fry
them from the frozen state).
Kay Mitchell Coates ('52) had her digital camera and we
assembled for a group photo, but the camera was not
cooperating, so there's no photographic evidence of those in
attendance, who were: John Bruntlett ('54), Jean Bruntlett
('62), Dick Coates ('52), Kay Mitchell Coates ('52), Jim
House ('63), Floyd Morse ('60), Linda Davis Brede ('63) and
spouse Doug, Denny McDaniel ('60) and spouse Kathy, Gary
Persons ('57), Jan Bollinger Persons ('60), and Rick
Valentine ('63). Everyone seemed to agree that the Cathay
Inn suited our needs very well, so we'll meet there again
for our November lunch. Y'all come!
-Jan Bollinger Persons ('60) and Gary Persons ('57) ~
Spokane - Where we're looking forward to
warmer weather and more ripe tomatoes!
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>>From: Bill Didway ('66)
Re: Just a reminder
To: All the Bomber Bikers
The Anacortes Oyster Run is this Sunday, Sept. 26.
Predicted weather is partly cloudy and 70°. Hey, but this
is western Washington so come prepared.
Re: Latest additions to our family
Grandson, Mason William, born in July and just this past
Friday to my daughter Carmen a girl, Candice Marie. This
brings the total to 7 grandchildren. Truly remarkable.
Hope to see and hear from some Bombers coming over/or up
for the Oyster Run.
-Bill Didway ('66) ~ Sedro Woolley, WA - the rains came back
in Sept. after a very dry summer.
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>>From: Vicki Schrecengost Carney ('67)
Re: Bomber Photographers
My son and his fiance are getting married in West Chester,
PA next summer and are looking for a wedding photographer.
Are there any Bombers in the Philadelphia area who could
make a recommendation? Better yet, any professional wedding
photographers among the Bombers living in the Phila area?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Vicki Schrecengost Carney ('67)
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>>From: Tami Lyons Zirians ('76)
I saw Willard Scott announce that Sam Volpentest from
Richland turned 100 years old today on the NBC Today Show
this morning [9/21/04].
Happy Birthday Sam!!! (Willard...it's VolpenTEST, not
VolPENtest).
-Tami Lyons Zirians ('76)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/23/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am today: 77° - 74% humidity)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Jan Booth ('54), Bill Berlin ('56)
David Rivers ('65), Judi Lahrman ('68)
Melissa Joyce ('91)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Hamilton ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George Edward Zielinski ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve Simpson ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert Posenauer ('73)
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>>From: Jan Booth Platt ('54)
Re: '54 Reunion
I just want to add my thanks to every one who made
the reunion so great. I'm sure we all will have a ton of
memories to last till the next time.
My computer is giving me a lot of trouble these days,
so I hope this gets where it needs to go. I think I really
will need a new computer in the near future.
Also, I'd really like to have the list of names to go
with the picture. I'm like Mary Esther, I remember the
names of the grade school pictures better I think.
-Jan Booth Platt ('54)
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>>From: Bill Berlin ('56)
Re: Message from China
Dang, don't tell me I am going to miss the Oyster Run
in home-town Anacortes? Got the "hog" all polished up and
ready to rumble but have to stay in Yingkou, China another
week.
Every day is an Oyster Run here, only with bikes.
Hundreds and hundreds of them moving about 24/7/365. The
great ones are Moms with little kids riding behind (no
hands) on the way to school.
We are in NE China between Beijing and Pongyang so if
they ever launch ABM's at each other, they will sail right
over us so I feel REAL safe. Yingkou, where our project
is, is a small, rural Chinese city of about 750,000 or so.
We stay in a great 4-star hotel repleat with a Chinese
restaurant (no dah), a Japanese restaurant and a full
Western restaurant.
Back to Anacortes by 10/2/04 but am getting the
Sandstorm daily as my room has high speed Internet. Every
Sunday I have a bunch of Americans getting the football
scores in my room and later a bunch of German's getting the
European soccer scores. Our only English TV is from
Australia so we get in on the "Footie" games, Australian
Rules football.
-Bill Berlin ('56) ~ Maybe the only Bomber in China?
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: two wild and crazy guys
Birthdays... we got birthdays we got stacks and stacks
of birthdays... (Hint to tune... think Perry Como show)...
We have an upperclassman, troller extraordinaire and a lowly
sophomore having birthdays on the 23d. The Senior was one
of those... "I'm gonna be a wheel someday... I'm gonna be
somebody" role models for all us lil guys... he was cool...
could slow dance like Valentino and could put his hook in
the water for no more than 2 minutes and snag more soph
girls than you could shake a stick at... but of course he
snagged the one he wanted early and has kept her for
FORTY-TWO YEARS!!!!!!!! He showed up to the Last Sock Hop
at Hi-Spot and showed he hasn't lost any of the "IT" he had
back then...
The other guy graduated with me... met him in the 6th
grade and been buds ever since... he has adopted the dress
code of the Senior birthday boy and when the rest of us
show up in cut-offs and t-shirts he shows up in "business
casual"... doesn't matter where we are going... he is
dressed to the 9s... He will be getting married to the girl
of his dreams just two days after his birthday right there
in Richland at the new Marriot... wish I could be there
but other plans have kept me away... he says the dress is
"tropical"... for me that would be tank tops and shower
shoes... but I think he'll be a little more spiffed up than
that... course the Beaver ('65) will also be in some form
of almost dress up... even if it is his designer shorts and
some shirt that has some fancy hotel name on it... I can't
tell you the wedding is at 5PM in the Courtyard (Marriot
Columbia Point)... because RSVPs are all past due and he
would have a hard time feeding all of you so you may just
want to kind of hang around the hotel at what seems like a
reasonable hour for a wedding (did I let it slip 5 PM?)...
I mean can you imagine... like 100 un-RSVPd people showing
up... why it would be better than the time that Davis (Knox
'65) and I sneaked into the birthday boy and the bride's
room when they were first dating (geez I hope this was her)
and opened all the windows and turned on all the lights
to invite the gnats in... unscrewed the light bulb in the
bathroom put shaving lotion on the toilet seat... short
sheeted the bed and then Terry licked the card key so it
wouldn't work... then we spent the night humming "Mission
Impossible" all night at the top of our lungs... boy did
she have to go potty when they got back from Lyman's ('65)
Toga Party... and boy was she wiggling and squirming when
he hadda go get another key-card to let her in... Oh what a
night...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JIMBEAUX HAMILTON ('63)
AND STEVE SIMPSON ('65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Judi Lahrman Wallace ('68)
Thanks for all of the hard work.
My class hardly writes however it is good hearing about
all the other classes that keep in touch... I am in class
1968 and my big brother, Michael, is in class of '63. I see
his friends writing all the time especially Linda... Good
to see such love among friends... as life is so fragile and
we never know when it will end. I am a flight attendant for
American Airlines and have been for 15 years. 911 was most
divesting for me. I will never forget what happened to my
colleagues. It is as fresh in my mind as if it happened
yesterday. I so appreciate all our young men and women over
in Iraq protecting our country... The Land of The Free and
that is why they are over there. I have had the privilege
of having many of our soldiers (heroes all of them), on my
airplanes who have told us they are glad to be there so
another 911 does not happen again!!!
We need to remember what our fathers and grandfathers,
have done to save our country and that unfortunately
is what we have to do. Please keep them in our prayers.
The economy will do us no good if we are all dead...
and yes, I am a mother of three and my son served in the
Dessert storm war, and I feel Blessed that he came home. He
too was glad to serve our country and would do it again if
need be.
Sorry if this was too long I just hope and pray
that our country will understand and do what is right at
election time.
This is about our country! Land of The Free, And we
need to keep our military strong, or we will fail as a
country and be in the hands of evil people...
Maren print what you want it is totally up to you, I
guess I got a little carried away but I lost friends on 911
and it very well could have been me or my family, I was
suppose to fly that day. You have no idea what they really
went through, as the media was not told all of it believe
me.
I do as we were told of all the horrible things that
happened to them, and we had to go through extensive
training and mentoring to get through all of this, part
of the job. It was so close to home.
Thanks again as you are doing a fantastic job... love
to all of my classmates and friends... God Bless
-Judi Lahrman Wallace ('68)
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>>From: Melissa Joyce Glodo ('91)
Since we've started a new school year with a new crop
of growing Bombers, let's not forget the gifts of classes
past! The Richland School Board Decided last night to
eliminate the "R" and Mushroom cloud between the gyms and
the "Bomb" in the mixing area with the new remodeling of
those areas. However none of the airplane pieces are being
removed and only one is being down sized to fit. I, like
many of you, am excited to see the new face of our old
stumping ground. However we can make a difference, they
are still in the design stage so it would be a matter of
us writing or calling the school, and board members to let
them know we want to keep our past symbols of proud just
as much as the new ones. So in a small way it makes all
remembered.
We are the mighty, mighty Bombers, and that isn't
because we bought a plane!
With Love and Bomber Pride,
-Melissa Joyce Glodo ('91)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/24/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (4:30am CDT today: 75° - 94% humidity)
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick Wight ('52), Carol Carson ('60)
Mary Lou Watkins ('63), Lynn-Marie Hatcher ('68)
Melissa Joyce ('91)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roy Cross ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan Wade ('70)
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>>From: Dick Wight ('52)
On September 14, Ralph Myrick ('51) solicited comments
about Helen Skogen. Here's one:
In 1951, or it could have been first semester 1952, I was
taking one of Miss Skogen's advanced math classes - solid
geometry? Trig? Can't remember now. I was NOT an ideal
student at the time - my mind occupied with girls, flying
airplanes, girls, cars, girls.... I sometimes just skipped
her class, was not turning in much homework etc.. Late in
the semester she spoke to me privately after class,
outlining her formula for establishing a grade - 1/3 for
homework, 1/3 for quizzes, 1/3 for final exam. She observed
that the chances for me to get a passing grade were slim
indeed, and that she was disappointed in my performance
because she knew I could do better. She was right - I'd
been an Honor Society student as a sophomore, before my
adolescent mind skewed my priorities! Final exam day
arrived, and I took the test with trepidation. As I turned
it in, one of the first to finish, I figured I was about to
get my very first failing grade. When the class next met,
she passed out our test scores. I had nearly "aced" it!
After class she told me that I would receive a "C-" grade
because her formula for grading permitted it, though she
felt my below par performance deserved a failing grade. I
left her class room with the growing realization that she
had been more than fair with me, that she had the authority
to fail me and that is what I really deserved, and that I
was lucky to have her as a teacher. I tried harder in my
classes after that - and did better.
-Dick Wight ('52)
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>>From: Carol Carson Renaud ('60)
Re: Brad Upton ('74)
Don't know if anyone knows about the article about
Brad that was in the Shoreline/Lake Forest Park Enterprise
newspaper. Here is the link:
http://www.enterprisenewspapers.com/index.cfm?Action=story&StoryID=20049211172194
-Carol Carson Renaud ('60) ~ Shoreline, WA - where it is
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>>From: Mary Lou Watkins Rhebeck (Gold Medal Class of '63)
How could I have missed it? Just another chink in the
armor of youth...this forgetting thing... But though I'm
late in wishing Jim Hamilton ('63) a Happy Birthday, my
love and congratulations are flowing to him. As I have
said before, Jim is the spiritual leader of the chummy,
clannish, and somewhat cultish Gold Medal Class of '63. He
has kept his crew together for over 40 years; has kept us
reminiscing on Bomber memories; and has bullied some of us
into making the trek to Richland for reunions. For all
these roles, I am thankful to him.
However, my memories of Jim go way back. He was a
Carmichael guy, and so not to trusted by the Chief Joe
girls, who spent much of their time in knitting, studies,
church volunteer work, and perfecting brownie recipes for
our future husbands... hopefully some Chief Joe guy. But,
we certainly heard of him... and when we burst on the Col-Hi
scene, there he was in all his "coolness." I should have
never been his friend, since he and Craig Guse cruelly
critiqued any date I ever had and kept me in constant
trouble with several teachers. Anything either of them said
made me laugh... usually timed to be right in a teacher's
face. Our senior year was a golden time for the Class of
'63... and Jim was one who applied the gilt. I learned the
difference between Spitfires and MGBs... I learned every
turn on the road to Pullman... I learned to scream Spanish
curses hurtling down the slopes of local ski resorts... I
learned about Hamilton family vacations from their home
movies... and most valued, I had a true friend at our
graduation celebration cruise.
We went away to WSU under the tutelage of his supremely
cool older sister, Carolyn ('60). Jim was on his way to The
Forever Young and Beautiful Miss Nancy... the love of his
life and I had found a Cougar who has hung around for 38
years. But the golden ties of being a Bomber and coming of
age with this man are strong... the gang is still there...
planning our big 60th birthdays... yikes. Though he
constantly makes me jealous with stories of fun get
togethers with the Northwest crew, I still feel a part of
them all... even down here in LaLa land... and I always
know I can email, call, or visit... and get my dose of
Jim... a part of my youth and my Bomber spirit.
Happy Birthday, buddy...
-Mary Lou Watkins Rhebeck ('63) ~ Laguna Hills, CA
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>>From: Lynn-Marie Hatcher Peashka ('68)
To: Melissa Joyce Glodo ('91)
Thanks for the latest news on the attempts to change
things that should not be changed. (From Sandstorm 9/23 --
removing the "R" and the bomb, etc.).
Do you have the info (for us out-of-towners) on the
addresses/phones/e-mail addresses to which we could direct
our words of protest over this proposed travesty??
Thanks -
-Lynn-Marie Hatcher Peashka ('68) ~ Spokane
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[Deputy Editor Richard Anderson ('60) suggests:
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>>From: Melissa Joyce Glodo ('91)
Thank you, Bombers!
Your thoughts and feelings have been heard!
I was told today, that the both the "R" with the cloud in
the gym hall and the bomb in the mixing area will be kept.
We need to continue to share our thoughts on the remodel
now, as it is better than after it has been contracted and
makes it too costly later on.
I am a firm believer that we must remember our past to
understand our roll in the future. Greatness can be built
on greatness. We have a proud Bomber heritage. We should
help those who come after us to understand that these icons
are more than relics. When we do, we forge a tradition of
excellence and remind all, of those who came before and
what they've accomplished.
Thank you again
-Melissa Joyce Glodo ('91)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/25/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (3am today: 75° - 89% humidity)
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3 Bombers and 1 Bomber Mom today:
Mary Triem ('47), John Adkins ('62)
David Rivers ('65), BJ Davis (Bomber Mom),
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Hector Alvarez ('64)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Today:
LSU vs Miss State - 11:30am CDT (CBS? *crossing fingers*)
Notre Dame vs UW - 2:30pm CDT (NBC)
WSU vs Idaho - 9:30pm CDT (check local listings)
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>>From: Mary Triem Mowery ('47)
Re: Bombers
I am an older Bomber and extremely proud of it. It
seems that we have the issue of what came first, the
"bomb" or the "plane" crop up every few years. STOP!!!!
Politically correct just doesn't cut it, as the fact is,
the BOMB was first - Day's Pay wasn't a part of our plan
when electing the name for our school as it was a united
giving of our parents to help finance that plane. Please
don't keep trying to re-write our history.
-Mary Triem Mowery, a '47 Bomber
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>>From: John Adkins ('62)
Re: Club-40 Photo CD Album
It is time to do the photo album.
For those of you who choose to share your pictures with
everyone at Club-40! If you took your pictures on a digital
camera: the best mechanism is to copy the pictures to a CD
and mail them to me. The second best is to send them to me
via email.
If you took your pictures with film based camera: the
best mechanism is have them developed and also placed on a
CD. The second best method is to scan them.
The most important part is to get as many pictures from
as many attendees as possible. That's what makes these
photo CDs "rock".
-John Adkins ('62) ~ Richland ~ and the fall days are
just right
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
The latest of Jimmy Heidlebaugh ('65) and me getting
ready for the big race....
Ready to Race
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: BJ Davis (Bomber Mom)
A very Happy Birthday to Sam Volpentest. He has long
been Richland's foremost citizen. He has done so much for
our town. We all appreciate you, Sam.
-BJ Davis (Bomber Mom)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/26/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am today: 77° - 69% humidity)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Ann Pearson ('50), Laura Dean Kirby ('55)
George Swan ('59), Judy Willox ('61)
Helen Cross ('62), Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: Ann Pearson Burrows ('50)
Re: Helen Skogen
To: Ralph Myrick ('51)
Dear Ralph,
Please add my comments to the book for Ms. Skogen. She
made Algebra meaningful to me and to this day I remember
which seat I sat in (second from the front, 3 rows from the
door!). I loved Algebra, even tolerated Trig because of
Ms. Skogen. She was so pretty and it made it "cool" for a
girl to "get" math! There are so few teachers/professors
that one remembers so well. Thank you Ms Skogen for all you
did for my ego!!
-Ann Pearson Burrows ('50) ~ now living in the beautiful
suburb of San Diego called Bonita, CA.
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>>From: Laura Dean Kirby Armstrong ('55)
For those of you living in the Tri-City area who like
to write and/or read the stories of others. There is a
small group of people who meet at the Richland library on
Tuesday afternoons in an informal format. We really need
for this group to grow. The more, the better. Any genre of
writing from poetry, articles, short stories or books is
acceptable. I often read in the Alumni Sandstorm some very
inventive and humorous entries that are well written. There
are no fees and attendance is at your choice. I know there
are several of you out there who could delight us with your
stories. Gentle editing tips and great encouragement is
usually on the menu. Please email me if you are interested.
You do not have to be a Bomber to belong, but I know this
is a rich resource for great people.
-Laura Dean Kirby Armstrong ('55) ~ Richland
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
BTW [means By The Way. -Maren], also among
Sam Volpentest's many accomplishments and titles is
"Bomber Dad."
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
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>>From: Judy Willox ('61)
To: All Interested Bombers
Re: Jack Laughery, Bartender from Adrians
It is with great sadness that I wish to inform all of
you Bombers who spent many a fun evening at the old club
called Adrians years ago that we have experienced another
loss. What a place it was, and it comes to my attention
that there were a number of you out there who spent time
there and would perhaps like to know this. Jack died in my
arms night before last at the Oddfellows Home in Walla
Walla after a long illness with diabetes. He still had his
sense of humor, his quick wit, his twinkling eyes and his
beautiful head of silver hair and his silver beard right up
to the end. He was loved by all there at the home, as he
was everywhere he went. Jack was a beautiful man, inside
and out, and I loved him dearly. I know there are those of
you out there who did too. He will be remembered for his
quick wit and his infectious laugh by many.
Rest in peace,Jack, and we will see you again someday.
Re: Bombers
Mary Treim Mowery ('47) said it well. Yes, politically
correct wears thin these days and I grow weary of it when
it comes to trying to rewrite a history that needs to be
remembered. After all, has it not been said, "Those who
tend to forget history, are doomed to repeat it." Or
something like that. It is time that those of our little
community who came here long after we did, and want to
change everything about it because they don't like the
connotation, either need to just accept that they came to a
community of people who are proud of their history or just
go back to where they came from. That way you will not BE
connected to something which offends you, and you can quit
offending us, who are proud of it all, by trying to erase
it. It will never go away as long as there is a "green and
gold flows in our blood veins" Bomber who draws breath! And
that is going to be a long long time since my Baby Bomber,
who graduates this year from there, firmly believes in his
old Grams' alma mater and the true history of it--the bomb
made us the Bombers and the R/Cloud is our logo. He even
drew a great design for a t-shirt I carry in the Club40
store which has the cloud and FatMan on it. Yep, he is a
true green and gold Bomber. We came here from all over the
country, did our parts to build this fine community and do
not want to be tread on and erased like you who came here
long after want to do. Mary is right. STOP!!!! And quit
trying to rewrite our history and erasing our work and
memories!!!! I am Forever a Bomber, Proud to Be a Bomber
and Proud of the Cloud!!! And forever I will remain so!
-Judy Willox ('61) ~ Richland ~ where the weather suits me
just fine these days.
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
I just had to add Happy Birthday to my dear brother,
Roy Cross ('65). But I know I'll have to email him to get
him to read it. I've already called him early for this, but
I'll call again late.
We're still flying from the WSU victory over Arizona
down here in Tucson!! Quite a game on quite a hot day, but
cool nights. We are here with non-Bombers, old WSU ites,
like us. Speaking of WSU, Ray Eldridge is doing very well
after his 2nd chemo set of treatments following his stomach
cancer surgery. God news. Thanks for all the prayer and
good thoughts sent his way.
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ away from the little lake, but
heading back to it much too soon to enjoy all the
beauty around here.
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
To: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
Re: 9/25 Announcement of WSU game in the Sandstorm
..I you would like to bet on the WSU/Idaho game... I'd
give you Idaho and 5 touchdowns (;-)
..Now if I can just find last weeks paper to find the
score (:-) (;-)
Sorry to say the game was last Saturday at 7:00 PM...
televised by Fox Sports Network!
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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[So, I'm a CARMICHAEL Cougar... I tried!!! -Maren]
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/27/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (1am today: 77° - 65% humidity)
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11 Bombers and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Dave Rhodes ('52WB), Mick Mikulecky ('53)
Gus Keeney ('57), George Swan ('59)
Audrey Eberhardt ('61WB), Jim Yount ('61)
Deedee Willox ('64), Linda Reining ('64)
Vernita Edwards ('65), Betti Avant ('69)
Jerry Lewis ('73)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol Crose ('62)
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>>From: Dave Rhodes ('52WB)
Judy Willox ('61) hit the nail right on the head with
her commentary about newcomers wanting to make changes
about our heritage. I agree, LEAVE US ALONE!!!! Even though
I only was in Richland for my freshman and sophomore years,
I am still a Bomber at heart and always will be.
My wife, Alice, and I are trying to sell our home in
Yakima. When we have completed that we are coming home to
the Tri-Cities. Our first choice of a place to live is
Richland, but we may have settle elsewhere. Hopefully we
will reside in Richland and it is our great hope that my ex
classmates and any other Bombers come to visit us. We will
keep you posted.
-Dave Rhodes ('52WB)
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>>From: Mick Mikulecky ('53)
Re: RSD School Board Online Email
Hello Maren. I don't know if this is old news or useful
news. You can decide whether to print it. More weight on
your shoulders.
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Mick wrote to the School Board:
I feel that I must strongly protest your decision
to remove any cloud, mushroom, R from Richland High
School. You have changed the name of the School.
Please don't try to change the history.This is who
we are.
John Steach, Exec. Director of Support Services responded:
Mr. Mikulecky
Thank you for your concern on this issue. While it is
true that at the School Board meeting on 9-21-04, the board
decided not to keep the "Bomb" in the mixing area or the
"Mushroom Cloud" in the gym foyer, this is not the whole
story. This issue being discussed was whether or not to
keep and reuse the exact materials from the original class
donations. It was decided that since the materials for the
"Bomb" and the "Mushroom Cloud" contained asbestos, these
materials would have to be disposed in order to create an
asbestos free school. The School Board at no time made any
statement of intent to eliminate these symbols from the
school during the remodel. On Wednesday afternoon, Steve
Neil, the architects and myself discussed the replication
of these two items and possible locations for these
replicas. The current plan is to replicate the "Mushroom
Cloud" in the new gym foyer near its present location and
the move the "Bomb" from its present location (which will
become more of a hallway) to the enlarged cafeteria where
it can be a central focus point. While we know there may be
some sentiment attached to the originals, it is our hope
that the new symbols will be close enough in replication as
to carry the same sentiment. Thank you for raising this
question and I hope you find our plan acceptable in light
of balancing asbestos requirements, building costs and
maintaining the heritage of Columbia/Richland High School.
John Steach
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-Mick Mikulecky ('53)
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>>From: Gus Keeney ('57)
To: Judy Willox ('61)
I'll have to admit that I couldn't have said it better
myself about the Bomber heritage!!!
Also, You are right about how Jack Laughery will be
missed by a lot of us who knew him.
-Gus Keeney ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
To: Mary Treim Mowery ('47) and Judy Willox ('61)
Re: Bombers
Very well said ladies. I read you five by five, loud
and clear. The long "flight of Bombers" coming out of
Columbia or Richland High School (no matter what it was
called along the way) originated long ago, before and
during World War II. Once the word was out, we all knew
what the mission of our city was. Although it may have
happened, I don't recall hearing of anyone moving away in
disgust or political indignation back then, especially in
light of the atrocities inflicted on hundreds of thousands
if innocent civilians throughout the Far East and thousands
of Allied POWs by a most unmerciful enemy. It is always
easy to look back in history and arrogantly put up a lot of
"flak" by declaring what should have been done or should
not have been done by those in the fight then.
School Boards are like pilots in command, they need to
keep the Bombers on a true heading with accurate course
information, not go back and self-servingly change the
flight log just to please themselves by blotting out
original historical entries of real events. Leave the
"Bomb" and the "Big R" on the "Big Mushroom Cloud" alone.
They are historically correct and no school board member is
going to change that, as long as they stay true to their
students, teachers, school, school board, their appointed
board duties, their country, and history! We may have long
ago reached a peace and have become friends and allies with
those former enemies now, but let us and all future Bombers
never forget our legacy and the truths of those times.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
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>>From: Audrey Eberhardt Mathews ('61WB)
Re: Tropical Storm Jeanne
Dear Bombers,
Here we are again watching Florida getting blasted and
beginning to feel the effects in Georgia. It is unheard of
four storms in six weeks. We in western Central Georgia are
not expecting to much just maybe an inch or so of rain and
wind gust 20-40. That is enough for me. I sat out a couple
of storms in south Florida, so my heart goes out to the
people there and in south Georgia where they get blasted
almost as bad as Florida.
Just a few thoughts, and lots, and lots of prayers.
-Audrey Eberhardt Mathews ('61WB) ~ western Central Georgia
where the wind is picking up.
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>>From: Jim Yount ('61)
About a year ago, my better half, Mary Anne Lauby ('73),
and I were traveling on the North Olympic Peninsula, and
were stunned by the beautiful panoramic views of the
Olympic Mountains and Dungeness Spit. The dry "rainshadow"
climate (about 16 inches a year) cinched the deal. In the
last twelve months, we've located a gorgeous piece of
property and designed and built (our last) home, about five
miles North and West of Sequim.
Next week, we'll say goodbye to Richland, lots of good
memories, and many wonderful friends. We would like to
encourage folks to drop by when they're on the North
Olympic Peninsula. This is maybe easier said than done –
our house is difficult to find. So, we've posted a web site
at: http://www.graydog.us/sequim/ with maps and directions
(and the inevitable construction photos). Our email
addresses will stay the same.
If all else fails, go to the Dungeness golf course, and
play a round. When you get to the 14th tee, go North about
100 feet, and you'll be standing in our back yard.
Now, back to packing (ugh!)
-Jim Yount ('61) ~ Richland - where the Fall weather is
just about perfect.
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>>From: Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
Re: Jack
To: Judy Willox ('61)
I am sorry for your loss. I know how much Jack meant
to you. I'm glad you were able to be there with him at the
end. For what it's worth, you have my condolences.
-Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
Re: Bomber logo
Mary Triem Mowery ('47) and Judy Willox ('61) said it
best: LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE! I get so p.o.'d when people
try to change what should NOT be messed with! I am a
Bomber, proud of it, and I wear my Bomber shirt (also have
the sweatshirt and sweat pants, and windbreaker) with pride
and I am NEVER ashamed or embarrassed to explain why it has
the logo on it or what it means!!!! I agree with Judy, IF
you are offended by the Bomber logo, go back where you came
from, OR learn to accept what our town stands for and why
so many of us are proud of THAT cloud and bomb!!!!!!!!
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - where we have
finally gotten cooler temps.
Col-Hi Bomber and !#% proud of it, too!!!
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>>From: Vernita Edwards Loveridge ('65)
In response to Judy Willox's news about Jack, the
bartender from Adrian's...
Adrian rented the other half of our duplex when he
first opened the restaurant. He and his partner, I believe
it was Jack (?) were absolutely wonderful to me. I remember
my parents were absolutely shocked at their "decor" which
was black, white and red with Chinese influences... we had
never seen anything that dramatic in a home. The two of
them spent long generous hours telling me about the world
outside of Richland, the places they had traveled, and
the people they had met. I think my folks were a little
concerned that they were filling my head with far fetched
dreams and ideas. One of my favorite memories is that they
would invite my family to the restaurant for dinner (early,
of course) and then ask me to sing along with the pianist.
Goodness, now that I think about it, no wonder the other
patrons left so quickly!
So... if it was or wasn't the same person, I share
your joy in remembering the great people from our past. As
always, when I read the Sandstorm, it refreshes my memory
about the good old days!
-Vernita Edwards Loveridge ('65) ~ Lake Allatoona, GA
where we are still 9 feet over our banks, and now
worried about more rain from Hurricane Jeanne as she
comes north. The good news is, we're not in Florida..
those poor people!
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Flatlander Festival
To: David Rivers ('65), Jimmy Adair ('66), and all other
Bomber "rodsters" out there.
This is just one of many cars, trucks, and motorcycles
in Goodland, Kansas this weekend for the annual Flatlander
Festival and Rod Run. They set up booths along Main Street
with vendors and games about this time every year.
Goodlands' homecoming was Friday night. They delayed
the start for over an hour due to lightning, wind, and
rain. It was only 6 minutes in when there was another delay
when an opposing team player was injured and the refs.
would not let the game continue until the ambulance
returned to the field. The dance was supposed to be from
9-12, but the game didn't over until about 10:00. At least
we won, 41-0.
Bomber cheers,
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Goodland, KS - where at least it is a
bit cooler today
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>>From: Jerry Lewis ('73)
Congrats to fellow '73 grad Mark Panther on being chosen
CBC's outstanding alumnus of the 2004-2005 school year.
Check out
http://www.columbiabasin.edu/includes/2004-09-18TCHpanther_alumnus.asp
-Jerry Lewis ('73)
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Funeral Notice scanned from the TCHerald
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>James Hendricks ('78) ~ 8/5/60 - 9/21/04
http://funeralnotices.tripod.com/
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/28/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (3am today: 75° - 65% humidity)
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3 Bombers, 1 School Board Member, and 1 NARB:
Lola Heidlebaugh ('60), Judy Willox ('61)
Brad Upton ('74), Ian (Not a RICHLAND Bomber)
Carolyn Joyce (Richland School Board Member)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Jensen ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darlene Napora ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toni Hausenbuiller ('98)
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>>From: Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Saturday - October 9, 2004
VISIT TIME: 11:00am
ORDER LUNCH: 11:30am
WHERE: DoubleTree/Columbia River
Take Jantzen Beach Mall Exit off of I-5
RSVP: Please contact Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
if you are planning to join us!
All Bombers, Spouses & Friends are welcome!
-Lola Heidlebaugh Bowen ('60)
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>>From: Judy Willox ('61)
To: Vernita Edwards Loveridge ('65)
Yes, that would have been Jack. Adrain had the first
restaurant up in Toppenish and then moved down here and
opened the one here in Richland. And the one here in
Richland holds so many memories--for so many people. It was
the fun place to go and Jack's quick wit and his infectious
laugh were the delight of many in that bar. And then the
food coming out of the kitchen, at the hands of Adrian and
his sister Naomi, was a culinary delight. For me, this
place was my home away from home and I worked there for a
number of years with those two. I have never worked in a
place before or since to ever match it. Not one employer
ever treated me with the kindness and the respect that
those two did and I was never as happy in a job as I was
when there. We were all a big family and you can not know
how much this meant to all of us there. When they closed
the doors to Adrian's back in 1981, I was devastated; as
were many others, and have missed it ever since. I cannot
ever go by that building that I don't see it as Adrian's
still, even though it turned into a Red Robin for years,
tried it's hand at a place called Islands and is now an
oriental all-you-can-eat buffet. It is still Adrian's to
me and always will be.
You had the best of luck growing up next door to those
two. I am sure they did keep you entertained with their
stories of places they had gone and things they had done.
They were this way to everyone and I have yet to meet a
neighbor of theirs who has not had anything but good to say
of these men. Another Bomber out of the class of '67
had parents who lived next to them in a cabin by the
Walla Walla/Oregon border, called Up The Creek, and his
parents have nothing but good to say of Jack and Adrian
also. His name is Bill Wingfield ('67).
Yes, these two men touched the lives of many and are
missed by so many friends all over. Thanks for sharing your
memories of them too, Vernita.
Is there anyone else out there who would care to share
their memories of these two and that friendly place called
Adrian's? I know that I have many.
To: Gus Keeney ('57), Dave Rhodes ('52WB), George "Pappy"
Swan ('59) and Linda Reining ('64)
Thanks for your kind words Gus. Would you care to share
any memories of your time there?
And thanks to all who commented for the vote of
confidence on the Bomber issue. It looks like we may
prevail after all. Let us all not lose hope, but then not
be too complacent either. Let us all stay abreast of this
and make sure that we and our history are not erased in the
excitement of becoming new. A new school is exciting, and
is long overdue I must admit, but an old history cannot be
re-written and our history must remain a part of the new
too! We are who we are and will always be--the Mighty
Bombers and Proud to be a Bomber! AND Forever Bombers!
To: Mercedes "Deedee" Willox Loiseau ('64)
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, he did mean a lot to
me! And yesterday I had news of another dear friend who
died probably the same day of the same disease and was not
found until yesterday. He was not a Bomber, but he was just
as dear to me as any Bomber and Jack were. His name was
Myron, and I will miss him sorely as he kept me laughing
through a difficult year! God speed Myron and we will meet
again. I will miss your laughter, but I will keep laughing,
just for you. And I will overcome my sorrow with the
knowledge that both Jack and Myron no longer suffer and are
home with God.
To: Audrey Eberhardt Mathews ('61WB)
Seeing on the news that Jeanne is doing it's thing in
the state of Georgia at the moment, I do hope that you are
staying safe and out of the devastation she has wreaked on
so many others. My prayers are with you and all of those
Bombers in Florida, and the rest of the Southern states,
who may have suffered damage through this horrible season
of the hurricanes. Thank God our own Sandstorm Queen Maren,
her lovely daughter StacEy and two beautiful granddaughters
stayed safe when Ivan threatened New Orleans.
-Judy Willox ('61) ~ Richland - where the weather has
warmed, but not too hot, and I love it.
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
Congratulations to Mark Panther ('73) on his award as
CBC's outstanding alumnus..... but how did they overlook
Mike Davis ('74)?
-Brad Upton ('74) -- Spokane Community College ('76)
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>>From: Ian (Not a RICHLAND Bomber)
Re: bombers
hey, I'm a student at mtn home [Arkansas], and just
wanted to shed a little history on our mascot, whenever
the high school was first built, they didn't have a mascot,
the students were told that whoever won homecoming that
first year would get to name the mascot, right as the very
first queen was crowned, 5 bombers flew over head, so she
named our school "THE BOMBERS" we have an actual bomber ,
like, a real one, mounted in the front of our school, it's
really cool.
-Ian (Not a RICHLAND Bomber)
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>>From: Carolyn Joyce -- Richland School Board Member
As a current member of the Richland School Board, a
wife of a Bomber Graduate, Brent Joyce ('63RIP), and mother
of six Bomber children, I want to thank you for your input
about the Richland High remodel and the mushroom cloud etc.
Those of you who need addresses and names for any of
the board etc., just go to the Richland School District
Home Page, http://www.rsd.edu/, and let us know your
thoughts. You are right, our job is to guide and steer not
to attempt to change the past.
Because of your input, there is now talk about putting
a "memory" wall in the new gym showing information about
our past in Richland, WA. If, like Mr. Steach wrote, we are
remaking the icons, we should consider taking professional
pictures of the originals, because....
Thanks again.
-Carolyn Joyce -- Richland School Board Member
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/29/04
Dateline: New Orleans, LA (2am CDT today: 75° - 61% humidity)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick Pierard ('52), Larry Mattingly ('60)
Lora Homme ('60), Helen Cross ('62)
David Rivers ('65), Greg Alley ('73)
Ray Hughes ('87 & '88)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay Mitchell ('52)
BOMBER LUNCH Today: Girls of '63 & '64 Lunch
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>>From: Dick Pierard ('52)
If they do decide to put a "memory wall" in the
Richland High School gym, I hope they get some competent
historians to write the text. Having spent 40 years as a
history prof, I can assure you that people are quite adept
at screwing up stories about the past and putting "spins"
on them to suit their own presentist concerns. Just look at
some of our current politicians.
-Dick Pierard ('52)
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: Jack and Adrian's
Like many bombers in the mid to late '60s I dropped
into Adrians sometimes 2-3 nights a week. I rarely had more
then 2 drinks but made them last. I usually sat at the bar
and watched a true professional at work. Jack was the best
and most talented bartender I have ever known or observed.
He had style. He could handle 3 or even 4-5 girls bringing
orders. He rarely made a mistake. And through all of this
he would keep up a conversation with those lucky enough to
find a stool at the bar. Sometimes it was travel, or food,
or even history. One night someone commented on the gold
Roman coin he had on a gold chain around his neck. He
launched into a verbal dissertation about gold coins that
held everybody spellbound. All the while he was mixing
drinks non-stop. He had a marvelous sense of humor. I never
saw him in a bad mood. Adrian would come in with some minor
thing about the kitchen and Jack would tease and kid with
him about it until Adrian would walk back to the kitchen
shaking his head.
I remember the night I walked in early from the day
shift and the place was jammed. When I asked what was going
on, the reply was whispered "TOPLESS TONIGHT"! First time
in Richland! Of course I watched like everybody else. It
turned out not to be the big scandal some thought it would
be. Like many I was a bit sad when they closed. But, they
had a good run while they were there. For many of us it has
a favorite place in our history and our hearts.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-Larry Mattingly ('60) ~ Resting at home after 2 hours of
the Dermatologist cutting, pealing, and freezing
moles, warts, and strange spots. At least she
said none of them were anything to worry about.
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: 9/27/04 Alumni Sandstorm entry
Right on, Pappy! One of the real historical events that
people need to remember is Pearl Harbor. WE were ATTACKED
and if we hadn't defended ourselves we'd all be speaking
Japanese today. Since we're the only country in the history
of the world that I'm aware of that ever rebuilt the
countries of military aggressors into free economic
competitors and world powers, I doubt very seriously
whether we'd have the life style and freedom of speech to
criticize that we enjoy today.
I wonder how many of you people enjoying that freedom
that the men who fought in WWII preserved for us would even
have been born if the bombs hadn't been dropped that
stopped the war instantly. How many of their young fathers
would have been killed before they had a chance to be
fathers if we would have had to win it in the conventional
way fighting a suicidal enemy who has vowed to destroy this
country?
Based on their treatment of the people in the countries
they had defeated in their quest to conquer the world, what
kind of treatment do you think Americans would have
received?
As I understand it, Japan was warned and given an
opportunity to surrender and refused. I, for one, don't
feel the least bit guilty for using every means available
to defend not only this country, but the whole world from
Axis domination. Stop and imagine a world controlled by
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It terrifies me!
-Lora Homme Page ('60)
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
Happy Birthday to fellow classmate, Carol Crose. And as
you are also a mid-westerner transplant, I don't know why
I can't get up there to visit more often.
Re: Rain
It is so dry in West Harrison that the little lake is
drying up, it is going down, but the little fish pond we
have in front really is in danger of drying up. We didn't
get any of the promised rain that Ivan offered, and the
lawns are so dusty is it funny to watch the faithful
lawn mowers on their sit-down lawn mowers stirring up the
dust. But I can't complain, as I know that these hurricanes
have really brought hardship to many people. I'll just
sneak some water on my pine trees after dark, so they make
it through to the snows of winter.
Re: Mt. St. Helens
I saw in a program on TV that there are signs that
Mt. St. Helens may be acting up again. Who'd have ever
thought that that would happen again in our lifetime.
Re: Cougs
I also was at the Tucson, Arizona-WSU game over the
week-end where we cougars won. Many times as a cougar fan,
I've felt that too was a seldom occurring event. But the
cougs looked great on the field. Go Cougs!
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ back home in Indiana by the
little (getting littler) lake
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Let's see... as I see it now thru my 20-20 hindsight
glasses... The Civil War did not happen... I really don't
think we had an American revolution Adolph Hitler was a
poor misunderstood fellow whose Mommy potty trained him
with steel wool giving rise to his little quirks and the
Japanese didn't really bomb Pearl Harbor... We have always
been one big happy world and these awful people who keep
trying to tell us differently should behave or we'll have
to give them a time out! As Charlie Brown would say so
appropriately: Arrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The bottom line is that we Bombers are BOMBERS!
Yup... Bombers thru and thru... I just bought a great
T-shirt... actually I bought two of them... one for me and
one for Heidlebaugh ('65)... It reads: "Commemorating 60
Years of Nuclear Science, Engineering & Technology"
(1944/45 to (2004/05). It is put out by the Manhattan
Project Heritage Preservation Society out of Los Alamos...
these folks and the Folks at Oak Ridge, TN are extremely
proud of where they have been... where they were raised and
the background of how and why they got there... they are
not ashamed or too politically correct to admit to the
reality of the past, present and future... these t-shirts
have the Manhattan project symbols on them and can be for
"decedent" "Veterans" (of the project) or just blank for
those who grew up in whichever of the three secret
cities... at the bottom of ours I had "Hanford Plutonium
Works" Richland, WA. I know that's probably not the correct
name but it tells it like it is...
The site for the shirts
The site for the Society
I'm very proud and fortunate have been born when and
where I was and that's that!
P.S.
I just went back and read my Dad's Bio that I placed in
the Society archives a while back... it reminded me of why
I love being from Richland!
B. B. (Bart) Rivers went to work at Hanford after
reading newspaper articles inviting workers to work in
Washington. He was assigned as an instrument tech. He was
an Apache Indian and a very patriotic individual. At some
time during his work on the project, he was involved in
some kind of a radiation spill or leak in which the other
three men were fatally injured. He attributed his survival
to the fact that he was holding a piece of masonite between
him and the radiation. His legs were badly burned and
scarred but he lived a long full life after the incident.
He remained very proud of the work on the Manhattan Project
and carried a lighter with the brass pin of the project on
it and a ring of similar design. Though he left Richland in
1964 and went to work at the Nevada Test Site, his fondest
memories were of Hanford and Richland. I don't know what he
did at Hanford and probably never will. But I am as proud
of him for his contribution as he was of me for my Marine
Vietnam service.
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Greg Alley ('73)
To all reply.
I stopped by the Big Y tavern for their Monday night
football specials and this time they were not to be found.
I also discovered the place will be demolished November
8th. The little building next to it on the island where you
loop around to the highway is a pile of rubble and it sure
makes the area look different. The Y area as we know it
will soon be a whole new look. They continue to destroy the
old bridge across the Yakima. Maybe I can get a piece of
concrete as a reminder how many times I crossed that bridge
or fished under it.
-Greg Alley ('73) ~ It's almost October and it's still
summer weather in Richland.
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Ray Hughes ('87 & '88)
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-Ray Hughes ('87 & '88)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/30/04
Dateline: Alumni Sandstorm Headquarters in WA
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11 Bombers sent stuff:
Ralph Myrick ('51), Carol Horstman ('53)
Fred Suckow ('55), Carol Carson ('60)
Michael Waggoner ('60), Audrey Eberhardt ('61WB)
John Adkins ('62), Linda Reining ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Mike Davis ('74)
Terry Hutson ('74)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tami Schuchart ('68)
BOMBER CALENDAR: <Richland Bombers Calendar>
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>>From: Ralph Myrick ('51)
Great! I have been getting some more memories of
Helen Skogen. My wife and I, Chris and Don Farmer completed
her move into Altera. She has a beautiful apartment and is
really happy. She has met many friends that she did not know
was a resident at Altera. Residents welcomed her big time.
What a deal! Judy and I plan on keeping in touch with her.
Helen is one special lady.
-Ralph Myrick ('51)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Carol Horstman Massey ('53)
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-Carol Horstman Massey ('53)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Fred Suckow ('55)
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-Fred Suckow ('55)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Carol Carson Renaud ('60)
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-Carol Carson Renaud ('60)
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>>From: Michael J. Waggoner ('60)
Those who are critical of our Bomber symbol should
remember that the bombs built from plutonium made at Hanford
helped (along with a lot of dedicated and courageous effort
from many people) to end World War II, thus saving many many
American lives, but also saving many many more Japanese
lives. They similarly helped to win the Cold War (what many
view as World War III) with far fewer deaths on either side
than were suffered in the two earlier world wars. Nuclear
weapons are terrible things, but in the 20th Century they
ended and prevented wars with conventional weapons that
would have killed far more people. We must be very careful
of them, but we must also be grateful to the people and the
communities who worked to build them.
-Michael J. Waggoner ('60)
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>>From: Audrey Eberhardt Mathews ('61WB)
Re: Hurricanes
To: Judy Willox ('61)
Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers.
Fortunately Hurricane Jeanne did not do quite as much
damage as Frances. We have been very blessed or major
problem is downed pecan limbs and wet ground. The pecan
farmers have lost several hundred trees and most of their
crop. Don't know yet how bad the rain will impact the
peanut and cotton farmers, but I am sure the harvests will
be impacted.
-Audrey Eberhardt Mathews ('61WB) ~ We are now enjoying
mild, sunny weather in middle Georgia.
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>>From: John Adkins ('62)
Re: Club 40 photo CD Album
To complete the photo CD album - I could sure use some
pictures from the Saturday morning Columbia River Reach Boat
trip. Anyone who attended the Club week, end and took that
boat trip and has pictures from that boat trip would be
willing to share those pictures on a computer CD
presentation, please contact me at my e-mail address
I would surely appreciate it.
I still have lots of room for more pictures - .
-John Adkins ('62) ~ Richland - the weather is really nice
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
Florida and the Gulf States aren't the only ones
experiencing the rath of mother nature! Yesterday, we felt
the effects of an earthquake that centered in Parkville
(a small town near 'Frisco) that was a 6.5 on the Richter
scale. Then today, we had one in Kern County that was over
5.0... caused rock slides in the Kern Canyon... and the car
was rocking and rolling at the stop sign (not the kind of
rocking and rolling generally associated with cars)!
We also made the history books in a different part of
Kern County... we are now part of space history... Mojave,
CA might just be the first airport to launch a successful
space flight and become a space port. They were successful
in their first attempt this morning... they will try for the
second attempt on Monday. If they are successful, they will
win the $10 million dollar "X Prize". Quite a coup for this
little desert community... Mojave is where Edwards Air Force
Base is located.
-Linda Reining ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA - they claim we will
be rocking and rolling for the next few days with
aftershocks.
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: The Atomic City
I collect Richland stuff... you know... the stuff we had
so much of when we were young and it was just "stuff" and
has been lost along the way. Well, I collect the stuff that
Behymer ('64) doesn't snatch from my grasp... I assume it
was he who grabbed the great Bomb salt and pepper shakers
from my grasp... but he didn't get the great postcard of
the Uptown... I also have some stuff my folks managed to
hoard... like those great decals that said "Richland, the
Atomic City" with the old symbol of an atom like Richland
Bell Furniture used to have on its sign... (May still...
somebody ask Peter Joe ('65))... and I vividly remember
Atomic Frontier Days... I know I didn't make that up... Does
anyone remember a short lived TV show maybe 5-6 years ago
called "Nowhere Man"? There is a movie out now that is
similar... guy goes to the bathroom and comes out and he
has been wiped from the memory of the planet... he has
no life... (not like "get a life" has no life... he just
doesn't exist anymore)... Well, that's what has happened to
Richland... it just faded away... I know I remember stuff
but am I just wrong? Am I like Shirley McLaine and just have
memories of past lives? Maybe I was the Mayor... wow...
but then none of us could ever grow up to be mayor... but
wait... I remember a great hotrodder... Milner or Poynor
('63) or something like that actually did "grow up" to be
Mayor... Maybe I was Doctor Corrado... no wait... I'll bet I
was Grover Dawson... Maybe I was Terry Krugel's ('65) dad!!!
No No... I wanna be Joe Carroll.yeah and own a store and be
best buds with my dad... but somehow I think I was just
David Rivers... another kid born and raised in Richland,
Washington swimmin' in the River(s) and going to Hi-Spot and
going to the grade schools I went to and Chief Jo when they
were the Warriors instead of the Butterflies or whatever
they call themselves now... The Chief Jo Apartments were
still on stilts and still called the Chief Jo Apartments...
I went to Col-Hi who played in the Bomber Bowl where we used
to go ooooooo ahhhhhhh when they shot off the fireworks...
The bomb was carried to every game and proudly placed in the
middle of the floor... the Mushroom cloud was a thing of
pride and honor and our folks made it happen... I guess that
was then... and this is now. So does anyone know why it was
called the Atomic City? Does anyone know why those people
drove around watching our houses? Does anyone know why our
dads and probably some moms hadda put out those metal boxes
full of... Peeeeeeeeeeeeeee? (Wow... I would not have liked
to be one of those moms aiming at that bottle so I want you
to know I have NO memories of past lives doing that!)...
How come our folks couldn't talk about their jobs? My Dad
carried all that to the grave with the one exception of when
he told Davis (Knox '65) how his legs were burned and why
his chins looked like alligator skin... (long story... he
was in the VA hospital in L.A. and Terry used to visit him
every night after visiting hours cuz Terry was Dad's
"nephew" and all the hospital staff knew T as Sgt. Zeke
Anderson from "Tour of Duty")... and when he (my dad) told
me the same story just before he died... course T had
already told me about it... Dad always talked to T more than
he did me... but that was it... I knew nothing else about
what he did... (I think Gaynor ('65) knew what Grover did)..
so does anyone know why??????????????????????
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Mike Davis ('74)
Greg Alley mentioned that he would like a chuck of concrete
from the Yakima bridge that they are currently demolishing.
That's not a bad idea, but I would much rather have a piece
of the old Christ the King gym floor where "Springboard"
Alley use to hit the jumper time after time!!!
-Mike Davis ('74)
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>>From: Terry Hutson Gunter ('74)
Re: Bomber changes
I recently wrote a letter to the school board regarding
the changes that have been made (or will be) to Richland
High School. And I asked them what they were doing to
preserve the Bomber history. To clarify this matter once
and for all, this is the response that I got:
Dear Ms. Gunter,
Thank you for your concern on this issue. While it is
true that at the School Board meeting on 9-21-04, the board
decided not to keep the "Bomb" in the mixing area or the
"Mushroom Cloud" in the gym foyer, this is not the whole
story. This issue being discussed was whether or not to
keep and reuse the exact materials from the original class
donations. It was decided that since the materials for the
"Bomb" and the "Mushroom Cloud" contained asbestos, these
materials would have to be disposed in order to create an
asbestos free school. The School Board at no time made any
statement of intent to eliminate these symbols from the
school during the remodel. On Wednesday afternoon (the next
day), Steve Neil, the architects and myself discussed the
replication of these two items and possible locations for
these replicas. The current plan is to replicate the
"Mushroom Cloud" in the new gym foyer near its present
location and the move the "Bomb" from its present location
(which will become more of a hallway) to the enlarged
cafeteria where it can be a central focus point. While we
know there may be some sentiment attached to the originals,
it is our hope that the new symbols will be close enough in
replication as to carry the same sentiment. Thank you for
raising this question and I hope you find our plan
acceptable in light of balancing asbestos requirements,
building costs and maintaining the heritage of
Columbia/Richland High School.
John Steach
Executive Director of Support Services
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-Terry Hutson Gunter ('74)
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[See the 9/27 Alumni Sandstorm... Read the entry from
Mick Mikulecky ('53). You'll read the EXACT response to
Mick from John Steach. -Maren]
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