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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/01/06 ~ APRIL FOOLS' DAY
Early Reminder: TOMORROW (4/2) Spring Forward at 2am
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
George Swan ('59), Betti Avant ('69)
Vicki Owens ('72), Lisa Lysher ('79)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed Mitchell ('69)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
To: Linda Reining ('64) and Derrith Persons Dean ('60)
Re: Bouncing with the Best
Thanks Ladies for the info on the "all purpose" benefits of
Bounce. If two -- count them -- no less than two Bomber ladies
recommend Bouncing, who am I to question and not comply. I have
put Bounce sheets everywhere, in every pocket, in all vehicles,
in my garage, and all rooms of the house. I am bouncing -- Big
Time! My yard now looks like a winter festival as I have
tied Bounce sheets to every tree and bush and all lawn care
implements. Elves are now quite easy to spot wearing their little
Bounce capes. Lowiq has made a hang glider covered with sheets of
Bounce. My entire homestead is Bouncing. Darby is bouncing with
bounce sheets streaming from her collar. I have also discovered
that Bouncing is quite fashionable. Now, when I go to town with
sheets of Bounce streaming from Lil' Ricky, Darby, and myself,
other drivers and envious shoppers stare with obvious admiration.
Some even go as far as attempting hide their jealousy, as they
ask, "So what's with you and the cheap white hankies tied all
over you ... and what's that odor?" To which I cleverly reply,
"I'm Bouncing!" I can tell that they like the idea as they smile
a lot (some even laugh hysterically) and point at me. However,
there is a down side to this new craze. Our grocery bill has gone
out of sight due to all of the "Bounce" that I bounce into my
basket. And, Mrs. Pappy is even hiding her disappointment at not
discovering the benefits of Bounce before I did, by cleverly
yelling, "Where the H@*!! is all my Bounce going?" Bouncing is
Beautiful! Thanks and Bounce on my fellow Bombers!
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Bouncing in Burbank, WA where by the
way Derrith, Lowiq saw your email about the Big Boy's Toy
(The flying model of the Tomcat Navy Fighter Jet) and now
he has to have one! So, he wired the Green Team in Ireland
requesting a little pot o' gold so he can purchase one. I
fear that the safety of the neighborhood may soon be in
jeopardy ... once again!
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Well, I lucked out and got a coveted pit pass for Saturday's
races. It seems they were a wee bit reluctant since I'm not an
elf or frog. I said they have a horde of believers and followers
and just need to know how the Burbankers do. Report of the race
tomorrow, stay tuned..........
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacy, WA
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>>From: Vicki Owens ('72)
It's always nice to receive encouragement, especially when it
comes from an unexpected source. Last week I was honored (in
absentia) by my alma mater, Washington State University (WSU).
For those of you who may have wondered what's kept me in Uganda
for 20 years, I hope the last paragraph of the press release
below will help to explain.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Any/060401-Owens-WSU.htm
-Vicki Owens ('72)
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>>From: Lisa Lysher Fuller ('79)
Re: Pacific Northwest Bands
While reading the recent Sandstorm entries regarding fellow
Bombers and their music, it reminded me of my father, Wayne
Lysher's ('57-RIP) band, The Royals, in the late '50s, with
Grant Ross ('61), Larry McDermott (?), & Larry Coryell ('61).
I had a tribute done for my father's band thru a website that I
know all of you would love to look at. It's called the Pacific
Northwest Band website. Sam is the webmaster for the site and
does a wonderful job of posting Pacific Northwest Bands. Here is
a link to his website:
http://pnwbands.com/nwtributes.html
The website has lots of information on local bands throughout
the Pacific Northwest. If any fellow Bombers have a band, get it
posted on his website with pictures. It's really nice to have
something for future generations to see. I know my daughter loves
looking at the website and seeing her grandpa there. What I
like the most is pulling up my father's band and hearing their
recorded song play, Thunder Wagon.
We recently sent the link to Larry Coryell ('61) and he replied
back saying how really neat it was to see the old pictures and
read about the band. He thought the tribute was wonderful.
If you get a chance browse thru the website, I think you'll
really like it.
-Lisa Lysher Fuller ('79) ~ Kennewick, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/02/06 ~ SPRING FORWARD @ 2am
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8 Bombers and 1 NAB sent stuff:
Jim Jensen ('50), Curt Donahue ('53)
Tom Tracy ('55), George Swan ('59)
Helen Cross ('62), Carol Converse ('64)
Betti Avant ('69), Maureen Sullivan ('76)
Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry Coryell ('61)
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>>From: Jim Jensen ('50)
Tomorrow brings the ever joyous conversion to day light savings
time. I've often wondered why this ritual is STILL observed.
A few days afterward a far more important occasion arises and
there is no wonder concerning its observation... on April 5th
Ann Pearson Burrows, a lovely 1950 classmate, will add another
candle on her birthday cake. Many happy returns to a fine lady.
-Jim Jensen ('50)
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>>From: Curt Donahue ('53)
ToO: Vicki Owens ('72)
Congratulations on your selection for that outstanding honor from
WSU. Stronger congratulations for what you are doing with your
life and your abilities. May God grant you continued success in
your endeavors. Your name should be near the top of "Bomber
Achievers." Stay safe and continue to serve.
-Curt Donahue ('53) ~ Federal Way, WA
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>>From: Tom Tracy ('55)
To: Vicki Owens ('72) and Judy Allen
You make us proud to be from Richland, where so many friends,
teachers and neighbors reached out and picked us up, encouraged
us and tried to help make our days worth living. We lived in
a powerfully giving community. Your sacrifices and dedication
reflect the same and it makes you and Judy champions indeed. I
salute you and Judy. Just the thought of your service revs up the
Bomber engines. May the radiant nuclear sun shine warmly on you
and your honored colleagues.
-Tom Tracy ('55)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Beyond Basic Bouncing
This morning, I was reminded by my much younger sister, Marilyn
Swan Beddo ('63), who was apparently bouncing off the walls in
Salt Lake City (with nothing better to do), of some additional
backlashes or bonuses from bouncing (depending on how you view
the phenomenon). I must admit to the many times that I have
walked about with Bounce sheets hanging or falling out of my
trouser legs as a result of their being "bounced" in the dryer,
yet another bonus of bouncing. I once spent a most uncomfortable
morning in a meeting, fidgeting and squirming in my chair only to
finally discover and remove the object of my discomfort upon a
blessed bathroom break. Apparently, a sheet of Bounce had bounced
into my BVDs during the last drying cycle. And then there was the
time that I was making a presentation to a prestigious party of
esteemed fisheries researchers. Only when I raised my arm to
point out something on the projection screen did I realize that
a sheet of bounce was protruding from my jacket sleeve. Reacting
quickly, I plucked it from my sleeve, daubed my nose like a
Victorian gentleman, and calmly placed it into my breast pocket
... all to the applause (and laughter) of my colleagues. And,
Marilyn told me of a lady she knows who pulled on her panty hose,
went out in public, and sauntered about all day with a nice
Bounce sheet tucked neatly inside her panty hose ... at ankle
level.
Re: More Dreams
Another recurring dream that plagued me in my younger years was
being confronted with some villain out to commit dastardly deeds
in the form of rendering bodily harm upon my head and shoulders.
So I prepare to defend myself. I would pulverize the perpetrator,
lambaste the lout, and eliminate the aggressor. In this dream, I
unleash a horrendous hit aimed squarely at his glass jaw.
Suddenly, everything shifts into s...l...o...w ...
m...o...t...i.....o......n.... My fist seems to take an eternity
to even begin to arrive at its destination (if it even gets
there). If it does make it to its mark, it seems to implant
embarrassingly gently like a little pat on his cheek. And, the
dream is over. What was that all about?
Then there was that one where I react to yet another "fight or
flight" decision. I am sure that making it this far up the (or
down -- again, all depending on how you look at it) age ladder,
is due to recognizing when to "skeedaddle outta there." In this
dream, no matter what is pursuing me, I instantly decide that
"booking is best" ... so I run. Except, once again that slow
motion thing kicks in. Instantly, my legs are like two chunks
of lead or bound by unseen restraints and I am going nowhere
rapidly. Fortunately, this dream always ended before my demise.
I wonder -- If I ever see the end of one of these dreams -- will
it be the end?
And lastly is the dream where I am flying. No, not in an
airplane, just me flying about, flapping my arms ... soaring and
gliding, banking and turning, and buzzing and zooming ... up and
over ... tall buildings. And, I am not even wearing a cape. I
never seem to get anywhere, I'm just flying ... around. However,
my wife, Jeanne, whom I suspect has attained a higher level "of
some state" when compared to me, "just floats" in her dreams. She
just peacefully and calmly floats about watching fools, fools
like me expending all that energy and ... going nowhere.
The interesting thing about dreams is that sometimes they seem so
real until I wake and either feel a sense of relief that it was
"just a dream" and it is over or I find myself thinking, "That
was good!" And then, I try to go back to sleep and carry on.
-George "Pappy" Swan ~ Burbank, WA where it seems to be raining
"Cougs and Dawgs" today! So, here I sit, looking out the
window, watching the puddle refill, and ponder the thoughts
of dreams "bouncing" around in my head.
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
CongraTulations to Vicki Owens ('72) on her achievements as
Woman of the Year candidate from WSU, and congratulations on a
very successful career in Uganda.
As to musicians from Richland, I remember going to see Beth
Pederson(sen?) ('61) in Spokane, WA in the late '60s when I
was in graduate school there.
I haven't heard from or of Beth from years, but as she was also a
CUPer she and her music were a part of my growing up, and are a
part of my happy memories there.
Happy April's Fool's Day!! Now I'm wondering if we change our
clocks forward tonight or Sunday night, hopefully I'll hear the
answer on the news tonight.
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ West Harrison, Indiana in the house by
the little lake, where spring has sprung, and lots of birds
are coming to my bird feeder now. I've seen cardinals and
blue jays and others I can't identify this morning. (It's in
the 60s to 70s in the daytime, my kind of weather.)
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>>From: Carol Converse Maurer ('64)
To: Vicki Owens ('72)
Congratulations on the honor you have received. Keep up the
good work that you have started!
-Carol Converse Maurer (Boomer Bomber Class of '64)
Eureka, CA where they are saying that this spring is perhaps
the wettest spring since 1887 or so since they've been
keeping records. I can believe it and here, Linda Reining ('64)
would really like more of the wet stuff. If I could send you
some I would gladly be of service to you.
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
1 April 2006...crack of dawn on a rainy morning
Report of the 1st Annual Lacey Pond Frog Races
The pond greeted out of town elves from across the state. One,
a handsome dude from Burbank, WA showed up with a broken leg
suffered in a duck race a few weeks prior. I believe they call
him Bogart. He showed up with his pal Lowiq representing "Pappy's
Puddle Pals" of Burbank.
Once the races started it looked like it was going to be their
days. They were in opposite brackets lest to meet only in the
finals. Then their luck of Irish blood ran out. The first
semifinal included Bogart. He was "jumped off" breaking his other
leg and suffering a concussion. He was heard to say, "Pappy's
going to kill me!" While he was being loaded into the ambulance
Lowiq's race started. Lowiq had been drinking "hot toadies"
most of the night and fell off in the first turn. He would have
drowned if it hadn't been for the Froggy EMT unit. They both told
this reporter to pass a message on to Pappy. "We're sorry, but it
was a lot of fun meeting with all these other elves and we want
to come back next year." They both will spend a few days in the
local hospital. Bogart will be in a wheelchair for a couple of
months and Lowiq swore off "hot toadies". They will be arriving
at Burbank International Airport aboard Goose Airlines, flight
#13 on Wednesday, April 5th at 6:66 PM. In talking with Lowiq
later I asked him, "why the 'hot toadies'?" He said everyone told
him how good they are and nonalcoholic. I questioned the barkeep
at the Lily pad Pub and asked exactly what is a "hot toadie"? He
stated they are a drink served in a frosty 16 ounce mug with
no set amount of what is added to it. Everyone is different as
perhaps someone else would have mixed the next one and so on.
When asked how they could serve such drinks to a race participant
and an out of towner to boot, he said he kept flashing a big wad
of cash. As to the number of "hot toadies" poor Lowiq consumed,
it is open to debate. They said they quit counting at 5, but do
believe after that the drinks were mainly water (or so they
claim).
Thanks Pappy for telling me about this event as I hadn't been
told. I'm just sorry the results weren't as expected, but there
is always another race as they say.
-Betti Avant ('69), "little person reporter" ~ Lacey, WA
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>>From: Maureen Sullivan Fleischman ('76)
To: Dave Flaherty ('76)
Geez, it's been a long time since I checked the Sandstorm! My
brother Denis ('62) called and relayed your kind comments about
the quartet! You always were a charmer! The talent & creativity
of the people at RHS during those years I was there ('74-'76) was
fun to witness. From Brad Upton ('74) to Michael Peterson ('77)
and everyone in between, hanging out with all of you gave me such
great memories (and a sore stomach from laughing all the time!).
I look forward to seeing you at the reunion in August. Maybe we
will jam again with Paul Barber and Galen Irby, like at our 20
year.
I too am living through my kids, and enjoying the next generation
of musicians. My son Brian plays and sings in Hogans Alley, a
struggling young band here in Seattle. Check them out (or have
your kids check them out) at http://www.myspace.com/hogansalley
They are trying to scrape together money to get back into the
studio. It's good to know the dream lives on. I remember being in
the Mattingly's basement, singing back up for Michael Peterson
(and you!) belting out Doobie Brothers tunes. It was ironic
that, years later, Michael McDonald, lead singer of said Doobie
Brothers Band, ended up singing BACK UP for Michael Peterson on
his album "Being Human". Isn't life interesting? Especially when
you're a Bomber...
-Maureen Sullivan Fleischman ('76)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
Re: Opening Day Baseball
To: All 1953 Bomber Little League Players
With opening day just around the corner thought it would be
worthwhile to send in some baseball pictures.
1953 LITTLE LEAGUE CHAMPS
6519-1-neg-a ~ 6519-1-neg-b ~ 6519-1-neg-c
6519-1-neg-d ` 6519-1-neg-e ~ 6519-1-neg-f
6519-1-neg-g ~ 6519-1-neg-h ~ 6519-1-neg-i
-Don Sorenson N A B
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/03/06
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser('49), Mike Clowes ('54)
Nola Davey ('56), Stephanie Dawson ('60)
Irene de la Bretonne ('61), Betti Avant ('69)
Julie Smyth ('69WB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leslie Hutchinson ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Garry O'Rourke ('66)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Daylight savings time: I hate it with a purple passion. How can
we get rid of it? It was put in force during the Second World War
to enable the farmers to have an extra hour or two for the war
effort. It was not forced on people - you did have a choice. I
remember going to Kentucky - you could go from one town to the
next and either lose or gain 2 hours. I'm not sure - but I think
they also used it during the First World War for basically the
same reason - more time for farming. After the Second World War
the people across the hill voted for it so THEY could play more
golf. Boo Hiss!!!
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - Spring
has sprung and sent us a few showers to make everything green
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
If you haven't visited the Club 40 website in a while, I invite
your attention to the fact that the schedule of events for the
September Reunion is reasonably complete. Check it out at:
http://richlandclub40.org
Just scroll down to the proper box and there you are. Music
on Saturday night will be by the Easy Swing Band, featuring
the musical stylings of John LaChapelle. According to the
entertainment committee, you can hear yourself think from
close range with this group.
Registration forms are also available from this site. Finally,
as a fair warning, the next issue of the DustStorm should be in
the mail by the end of May.
So beware of strange geese trying to sell elves. Thought I saw
some the other day out front of a Safeway store.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) ~ reporting from showery
Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
Re: Class of '56
Is there anyone from the Class of '56 who knows Dan MacKenzie ('56)
really well. I have a phone # I would like someone to try.
Please email me or phone: [Phone number deleted for Nola's
privacy... email her if you want her phone number. -Maren]
-Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
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>>From: Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Little League photos
Those were great! Now, does anyone have photos of the Dawson-
Richards Little League teams? Or did I miss them in the days/
years when I was too busy to read all the Sandstorm entries
and check out the photos?
I remember attending hundreds of games (it seems like) in the
good old days. Mills Meuser was the coach and Hi Meyers was
his assistant or the manager, I think. John Meyers ('58-RIP)
regularly hit home runs, frequently breaking the bat as he did
so. Pat Crook ('58), Curt ('57) and Johnny ('60) Jetton, so many
guys showed the athletic promise that later bloomed in junior
high and at Col-Hi (and beyond). I remember sitting in those
aluminum bleachers, drinking Green Rivers and shelling peanuts.
Ah, those lazy old days!
To: Mary Judd Hinz ('60)
Re: Dancing stars
Saw you and your hubby dancing on stage at the Mid-Columbia
Symphony's StraussFest in Pasco last night. You two looked great!
I didn't even notice the other couple. If you haven't done a lot
of that, it may have taken a bit of gumption on your parts to get
up on stage in front of an auditorium of people and dance. My
congratulations! The dancing was a very nice addition to the
music. And gosh, you don't look a day over 39!
Bombers in and around the Tri-Cities, if you haven't been to a
Mid-Columbia Symphony performance lately (or ever), and if you're
still willing and able to stay up until 10 pm or more and then
drive home (!), you really should check out their events. We have
so much terrific entertainment and such a variety of events in
the Tri-CIties that some weekends it's tough to choose which to
attend and which to miss!
-Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
To: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
You asked about Beth Pederson ('61). She lives in northern Idaho
and continues to make beautiful music. I have several of her CDs.
You can find her at High Moon Music or http://bethpederson.com/
-Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
I just got back from visiting Bogart and Lowiq in the Toadyland
General Hospital. They are both doing well and anticipating
getting to Burbank as planned on Wednesday evening at 6:66pm.
Bogart says to remind Pappy he will need a wheelchair to get
around in. They also want to thank all of you out there;
Burbankers, Bombers, and any others who sent gifts and flowers.
This is one event they won't soon forget.
-Betti Avant ('69), "little person reporter" ~ Lacey, WA
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>>From: Julie Smyth Moss ('69WB)
To: Darlene Napora Shuley ('69)
I know it was difficult for you, and now that UCLA crushed LSU,
I know how you feel. Except that Texas didn't get crushed the
way LSU did last night. I'm still crying, kind of. What makes
me happy is that the prognosticators didn't ever feel LSU had a
chance. The only game they said we'd win was against UCLA and we
lost. Oh, well---it was a good run, and getting to the final four
was a big shot in the arm for the state. I even had a group of
girls here watching the game. Of course, when I say girls, I
really mean old lady friends.
Geaux Tigers!
-Julie Smyth Moss ('69WB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/04/06
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11 Bombers and 1 NAB sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice:
Dick McCoy (45), Betty Hiser ('49)
Harvey Chapman ('56), Terri Royce ('56)
Floyd Melton ('57), George Swan ('59)
Mary Judd ('60), Helen Cross ('62)
Linda Reining ('64), David Rivers ('65)
Robert Avant ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan Nelson ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy Erlandson ('67)
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TIDBIT FOR TOMORROW, April 5, 2006:
On Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1am the time
will be.....
01:02:03 04-05-06
This won't happen again for another 1000 years.
Tidbit sent by 3 Bombers:
Betty Conner Sansom ('52), Gary Behymer ('64), Jeff Michael ('65)
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>>From: Dick McCoy (the tin can class of '45)
Re: Daylight savings
I have always loved daylight savings time. I remember during the
depression, I was envious of people in NY and CA, who observed
it. In Minnesota, we didn't. During WWII it was a year round
thing, to conserve electricity. In the St. Paul winter I didn't
care for it so much, as I walked to high school in the dark. It
could be very cold.
-Dick McCoy, from the tin can class of 1945
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
As I was writing the article yesterday about the First and Second
World War I remember watching a TV news show and the guy says,
"Right after World War Eleven --." Do we send people to college
to learn about ALL the world wars?
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - looks
grizzly today - my arthritis says it will rain or the
barometer will fall.
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>>From: Harvey Chapman ('56)
To: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
Nola, give me a call with number and I will call him.
-Harvey Chapman ('56)
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>>From: Terri Royce Weiner ('56)
Re: Daylight Savings Time
To: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
What's with the Boo Hiss about GOLF? The more daylight the
better for this beautiful, challenging, heartbreaking game.
-Terri Royce Weiner ('56) ~ in "will-it-rain-or-not" Seattle,
where our Mt. Si Ladies' Club tees off every Tuesday, and
coyotes share the fairways on Bellevue Municipal.
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>>From: Floyd Melton ('57)
Re: Daylight Savings Time
What a wonderful blessing Daylight Savings Time is to the average
person. It gives one more time after work to do the things around
the home that didn't get done on the weekend, it gives more
daylight hours in the evening for family activities, it is a
good plan. I wish we were on it all year long.
-Floyd Melton ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
To: All Mariner Fans -- Today's the Day (of course when you read
this, it will have been yesterday) but right now, I am a Happy
Pappy! The boys of summer are back! I am squirming until the
first pitch -- about five minutes from now. My fellow Mariner's
Fans -- Say Hallelujah!
Re: Bomber Stuff & Elfin Events
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
Bob ... or Mike (which one do you prefer?), as a co-rep to Club
40 for Class of '59 (Last Great Class of the Nifty Fifties), I am
getting excited about the upcoming September Reunion. For a guy
who stayed out of "Bomber Stuff" for many years, and thanks to
my "much younger sister," Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63), who dragged
me kickin' and screamin' back into "Bomber Awareness," I look
forward to each year and getting to know more Bombers from the
whole range of classes. I must admit that I have not sent in my
registration and dues yet. I am still trying to persuade Mrs.
Pappy to attend with me. As she went to school in Fairbanks, AK,
she says, "I hardly know anyone." Any "hints to convince" from
those of you Bombers who bring your (NAB) spouse?
And I always look forward to my mini-reunions with my "not so
much older than me" folding buddy, "Nickjustnick" Nelson ('57) at
the DustStorm folding parties. A kid can learn so much from these
"older guys!" So, on Wednesday, May 24th, I will again join Club
40 folks in the Gallery Room of the Richland Public Library at
9:30 AM to fold together the DustStorm. I will make it a point
to be there since there might be Spudnuts and coffee and spring
turkey hunting will be over.
To: Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
I echo your accolades for dancing stars, Mary Judd Hinz ('60) and
hubby. I have enjoyed the good fortune of watching them dance on
two occasions. They can really cut a rug and make an old guy like
me wonder, "Why didn't I just learn to dance?"
[They get my vote for "Best Dancers", too! -Maren]
To: Betti Avant ('69), Associated "little person reporter"
Thank you so much for the, "Report of the 1st Annual Lacey Pond
Frog Races." It is so hard for me to keep up with the antics of
my elves as they have this inherent ability (when they want to
use it) to be everywhere at once and shift instantly in shape and
size. Witness Bob's (or Mike's) observance of geese attempting to
sell Elves in front of a Safeway Store in Oregon. Initially, it
was thought that the Geese were flying the winners of the Lacey
Pond Frog Races around the region for appearances in local
supermarket parking lots for photo opportunities and autograph
signing. However, rumors run rampant around the puddle. The
latest has it that the Duck and Goose Union, Quacker's and
Honker's Local No 12, is threatening to strike in protest of
Lowiq's straying from the standard use of ducks and geese for
aerial/amphibious transportation and racing. And, Derrith Persons
Dean (60), I knew that video would stir Lowiq up... again. Even
with Bogart and Lowiq convalescing, it just keeps on keepin' on.
Apparently, a truck backed into my driveway yesterday while I was
out by Benton City shooting trap with Mick ('66) and Tom Hemphill
('62). When I got home, I beheld a large packing crate marked
"Tomcat" and a stack of lumber setting near the puddle.
-George "Pappy" Swan ~ Burbank, WA where Lowkey and I sit with
Darby discussing these recent events. So, Lowiq, if you are
reading this little dude... I told you to lay off the "hot
goosies!" "Hot toadies" are probably just another version
that you conjured up. We will have a tiny wheelchair
(complete with straight jacket) waiting at Burbank
International Airport for the arrival of Goose Airlines,
flight #13 on Wednesday, April 5th at 6:66 PM. And, Bogart
... I'll deal with you later.
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>>From: Mary Judd Hinz ('60)
To: Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
Re: Mid-Columbia Symphony
Thank you! Aren't you the sweetest thing! Although we thoroughly
enjoyed the experience, I don't think I'd want to do it again.
Much too stressful. I agree that we are really lucky here in the
Tri-Cities to have so much entertainment and activities going on
all the time. All this fun and no traffic jams!
-Mary Judd Hinz ('60)
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
I want to thank Irene de la Bretonne ('61) for giving me the
website for Beth Pederson's ('61) website. I will look into that
more fully in a few days, and I hope to return to the Sandpoint,
ID area and maybe hear her again.
To: Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
My father, Ken Cross, used to coach American Legion Baseball when
I was in grade school and I remember going to tons of baseball
games too. My dad taught me to be his scorekeeper so I did have
something to do. I remember John Meyers ('58-RIP), and many
others (sorry, I can't remember last names now, can it be a
senior moment!) who went on to being great players, at least as
Bombers were on his teams.
Last night there were some record storms around here, we were
untouched in our area, but I know others weren't so lucky. Hope
the farmers are pleased with all the rain we had.
My husband, Warren will finish his studies at United Theological
Seminary in a few weeks and graduate in May!! These 3 years have
gone by quickly, and who knows where we will be next.
I hope it will be somewhere out west.
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ West Harrison, IN - in the house by the
little lake where we are seeing more birds every day. And
a white-tailed deer just ran past the house.
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
re: Daylight Savings Time I agree with Betty Hiser Gulley
('49)........I also hate it with a purple passion! I understand
the need for it back during the War years, but now, it is just
a blasted nuisance! makes twice as much sense to have the extra
hour of daylight in the Winter, when it is way too dark way too
early, than to have an extra hour in the Summer, when it already
stays lighter, longer!!!! besides, it takes me too blasted long
to adjust my sleep patterns when they change the time!!!!! *grin*
-Linda Reining(Boomber Bomber class of '64)...in Bakersfield, CA,
where we are expecting another storm to bring more
rain........sorry, Carol Converse Maurer('64), in Eureka,
CA, but I am LOVIN' it!!!!!!! *grin*
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
It was August 1990, as I opened the door to my house after
unloading the car from a 10 day trip to Richland the phone rang.
I dropped everything and answered it. "It was magic wasn't it"
the voice on the other end said... "yes it really was magic" I
responded... I had just returned from a road trip to Richland for
our 25th reunion. Tony Harrah ('65) was calling to let me know
how much he loved his first reunion since graduation. My road
trip was prompted by my desire to visit my home town sober and
revisit all my old haunts... By the time Tony and Terry Davis
('65) arrived... I had found almost all the houses of our old
gang and then some. I had been home only once before in 1985 for
our 20th and had been in a drunken stupor the entire time. The
only remarkable thing about the trip was the huge bar bills
Heidlebaugh ('65) and I had run paying for rounds for everyone
from our class hanging around the pool on one of the days...
Saturday I think... But the 25th was truly magic... all of the
old rivalries... all of the old hurts... had vanished... nobody
was trying to impress anyone... the love and wonder from
Kindergarten had returned and we were all friends... each reunion
thereafter has been better than the last all filled with magic...
shortly after that we began to meet every year... as Warford
('65) put it... "five years is just too long to wait to see each
other"... I know you all feel the same... whatever class you are
in... And so... it came to pass, that on April Fools Day 2006 a
large crowd of us got together to say farewell to our loved one,
Dave "Pook" Smith ('63-RIP)... Jimbeaux ('63) organized it, while
others (I'll let Jim mention them lest I forget someone) did the
leg work and had the most beautiful green bench... in front of
the Marriott at Columbia Point marked with a wonderful green and
gold plaque celebrating Pook's life... It rained in the morning
and we all scouted Richland for umbrellas... I had commented to
some of my staff before leaving that I wasn't sure there was
a place left in Richland to buy and umbrella... but we found
them... all shapes and sizes... Hoff ('64) even had one with the
stars and stripes... Mine on the other hand was purchased at the
Antique store in the Uptown and was described on the sales card
as "adorable"... it was of course... pretty blue with lovely
flowers and a bamboo handle... The rain stopped an hour before
we gathered... I, naturally handed my "adorable" purchase to Wick
('65) to avoid further abuse... I understand she and Jimbeaux
have quite a collection of disabled umbrellas and it will make
a fine addition... Jimbeaux was naturally decked out in slacks,
a blazer and tasseled shoes... the rest of us were in various
stages of rain attire... Nancy Erlandson Ballard ('67) was
dressed in her birthday suit... no... that doesn't sound right...
(HAPPY BIRTHDAY 4/4/06)... Jim asked several of the group to
speak and the laughter and tears blended together as each speaker
took a turn... #32 ('63) had managed to recall (from memory I'm
sure) each basket Pook had ever scored in his entire career...
the sentiment of the group and all who spoke was that Pook loved
life... perhaps he loved it too much and perhaps it didn't always
meet with his hopes and expectations... but it was clear that he
loved his friends, his family and that he was loved... It was
magic... we then retired to "Jack Sons" for lunch... I made a
gallant play for Hoff's heart only to be out maneuvered by Rob
Hills ('63) in a beautiful play that seemed to include talk of a
treadmill... It got Dick Boehnig's ('63) attention and must have
been a skillful maneuver indeed... I will figure it out later for
use in the future... instead of "hi baby... what's yer sign"...
I will tell the object of my desire about my new treadmill... I
learned to my shock that Judy Campbell ('64) is NOT taller than
I am... I finally realized that the pedestal I had her on all my
life must have made her much taller than in flat shoes... Lunch
was so enjoyable... so nice to get together with kids you don't
get to see often... talking to Rosalie ('63), Teresa ('64) and
the rest of the group around the table(s) was great... getting
all caught up on what was going on with each of us... somebody
said there were over 50 people gathered at the bench... that
didn't include the jogger and the two ladies who were nice enough
to walk around the circle (Jogger not so nice)... it did include
two of my classmates who were attracted to the large crowd and
green and gold balloons... Simpson ('65) and Beaver ('65) showed
up as we were heading for lunch... I won't even try and mention
everyone who was there... I will state that Frank Osgard ('63WB)
had to be escorted off the premises when he began to recount
every girl he'd ever wined and dined and had carnal knowledge of
since 3rd grade... singling out virtually every married girl in
the group... He smiled a HUGE grin when Mary Lou's ('63) name
was mentioned... Jimbeaux explained that Frank had been on some
serious meds lately and was not invited for that reason... I also
need to say tho that I did NOT hug Hoff too many times... One was
for her life-long friend Heidlebaugh ('65) aka TBFL... and so if
number 32 didn't give one of his hugs to Ray ('64) then we KNOW
who got too many hugs!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Robert Avant ('69)
Re: Ahh...Spring
How I remember the joys of Spring in East Texas. No need for
expensive trips to the doctor to find out why your eyes were
swollen shut and your nose turned from a sensory receiver to a
faucet with a Drano Professional clog. Just look at the cars,
streets, and the occasional small animal and see the delightful
yellow of pine pollen. Nor can one ever forget sitting at the
computer or TV with the Weather Channel on tracking a line of
"potentially dangerous" thunderstorms moving across the screen
at about 30-40 miles an hour and you remember passing on the
chance to have the dead limbs of your oak trees removed for a
few hundred dollars; now realizing they will probably go for
free and possibly through your roof... Yes, nothing like Spring
in East Texas
-Robert Avant ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
Re: More Baseball Pictures for Stephanie Dawson Janicek ('60)
Found some more Little League pictures.
1951 Little League Baseball
2149-neg-a - Tournament Winni.jpg
2149-neg-c - Tournament Winni.jpg
2149-neg-f - Winning.jpg
2149-neg-h - All-Star Team.jpg
1952 Little League Baseball
4249-neg-a Opening Game in Me.jpg
4249-neg-b Opening Game in Me.jpg
4249-neg-c Opening Game in Me.jpg
-Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
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Funeral Notice scanned from the TCHerald
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Vonna Lomon Eller ('53) ~ 10/2/35 - 2/22/06
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14 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser ('49), Betty Bell ('51), Nola Davey ('56)
George Swan ('59), Ruth Miles ('59), Susan Erickson ('59)
Mike Brady ('61), Ed Wood ('62), Jeanie Walsh ('63)
David Rivers ('65), Chuck Smith ('69), Dennis Strege ('71)
Vicki Owens ('72), Angeina Noland ('96)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann Pearson ('50)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Daylight Savings Time: I'm not objecting to golf - good exercise
- but I can't walk very well any more. I never liked Daylight
Savings Time (even as a kid) because we had to switch back and
forth. What I would like if that we stay on standard or daylight
savings time all year around.
Hi Floyd - ex-neighbor - how are you doing?
-Betty Hiser Gulley 49er - south/government Richland - did
sprinkle yesterday - can't figure out what it is
going to do today.
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
I just wanted to let friends and classmates know that
Wilma Jean Smith McGill ('51) died in San Leandro, CA on Friday,
March 24th. She was born June 1, 1933. Her funeral will be Monday
April 10th in Trout Lake, WA at 10:00, at the cemetery there.
Her sister, Wanda Smith Osborn ('50) still lives in Richland.
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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>>From: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Nick Nelson is a member of the Class of '56.
-Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Only so much light and so little time
I have often wondered ... If summer has "Daylight Savings Time,"
how come winter doesn't have "Nightdarkness Spending Time?" We
"save" all that daylight to do outdoor stuff in summer just so
we can "spend" all those hours of darkness doing indoors stuff
during the long nights of winter. Hmmmmm?
-George "Pappy" Swan ~ Burbank, WA where ... Hmmmmm ... Every
time the time changes, I realize that I never got around to
changing the clock on the radio in my little truck ... the
last time. But, at least its right ... half the year. So,
half the year, I'm on time and half the year I'm ... you
know ... late ... or ... let's see ... is it ... early?
Whatever.
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>>From: Ruth Miles Bruns ('59)
Re: 01:02:03 04-05-06
I think I've seen this one more often than almost anything else
that floods our in-boxes. Actually, it will happen again in one
hundred years. So it's cute, but not hugely extraordinary.
-Ruth Miles Bruns ('59)
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>>From: Susan Erickson Kuntz ('59)
Re: Judy Jo (Ehlers) Evanoff ('59)
I would like to inform the friends of Judy, that she has been
diagnosed with breast cancer and is undergoing surgery today
(the 4th) at Kadlec Hospital in Richland. I know she and Dick
would appreciate your thoughts and prayers as she seeks treatment
for her cancer.
We're thinking of you, Judy, with love and best wishes for a
complete recovery.
Your friend,
-Susan Erickson Kuntz ('59)
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: Memorial Bench Dedication for Pook Smith ('63-RIP)
I wasn't able to make it to Pook's memorial last Saturday. How
did it go?
-Mike Brady ('61)
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[See entry in yesterday's Sandstorm from David Rivers ('65). -Maren]
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>>From: Ed Wood ('62)
To: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
You're right that Daylight Saving Time came into general use
during WW2, but Ben Franklin first advocated Daylight Saving Time
as early as 1784! His idea went nowhere until Wm Willett began a
long process of lobbying the British Parliament in 1907. But if
a one hour time change drives you crazy, be thankful Willett's
original idea was never adopted. He proposed a 20 minute time
adjustment on each of four Sundays in April, with a fall
adjustment being 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in September.
Talk about confusing!
-Ed Wood ('62)
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>>From: Jeanie Walsh Williamson (Gold Metal Class of '63)
To: Linda Reining ('64) in Bakerfield, CA
You go, Girl!
-Jeanie Walsh Williamson (Gold Metal Class of '63) ~ Simi Valley,
CA - Home of the Ronald Reagan Presidental Library
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: New Topic
I have a rather burning question which will not interest anyone
who graduated before '63 in the least but is kind of interesting
to those of us who were in school say in '62 and later... Very
late in the evening... around 9:30 last Saturday... I came in
from dinner at Henry's in Richland and found a few of the Gold
Medal kids still up and wide awake... Dave Simpson ('63)
recounted that he was pretty sure the first kid in Richland to
wear black low cut Converse as a fashion statement was Steve
Denler ('64)... Naturally being the thoughtless big mouth that I
am I said oh no no... Tony Harrah ('65) was the first when he
returned from Portland in '62 or so... but of course, that's just
always been MY belief (my apologies Dave for being such a jerk).
So now, I'm really wondering... of course it could have been
Denler and it could have been any number of others... sooooooo...
does anyone recall who was the first to wear black low cut
Converse in Richland????? (Any answer after '63 will not qualify
as the "FIRST"). I'm sending a copy of this to Tony and would
send one to Steve but I don't have a new email address for him...
he seems to have gone "off-line" about a year after R2K... If
anyone is in touch with him would love to know when he got his
frist pair of the subject foot wear!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Chuck Smith ('69)
Now that I'm back in the swing of things with the Sandstorm, I'm
really starting to enjoy al the entires that are being sent in.
For those of you that like the daylight savings thing... hmmm,
can't say I agree with ya... it's such a pain going around the
house trying to find all the flip'in clocks to change them...
and even worse, remembering how to change the ones in our two
vehicles... always have to look in the owner's manual. Can't wait
to move to Arizona... they don't do daylight savings...YAHOO!!!
I will have to agree with Terri Royce Weiner('56) though, about
getting out earlier to the Links... it's great being the first
on the Tee and finishing before 11am... The mornings are flat
GORGEOUS...
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Those Little League pics you included sure brought back
memories... I played with Nevins Flying As... Let's see that
would have been 1960, 1961. Hey, the pics at the Opening
Ceromonies... wasn't that taken down below the Bus Station at
Columbia Park... that use to be the Fastpitch softball field.
I played with Olympia Beer (1969-'70). Oh, and before that, I
hooked up with all my Buds from the Morman Church and we played
in a league down there, also... Anyone remember the Morman Team?
What memories...
Chuck Smith ('69er)
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[Chuck -- have you checked out the "Baseball" web page at:
http://all.sports.tripod.com/Baseball.html -Maren]
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>>From: Dennis Strege ('71)
Re: Class of 1971 Reunion
The 35 year reunion for the Class of 1971 is August 11 – 13 at
the Red Lion Hanford House. We are preparing to send registration
forms and we need to make sure we have the latest email and
street addresses for as many classmates as possible. Please send
your information to RHSBombers71@aol.com as soon as possible.
Golfing, a wine tasting bus tour, a river boat brunch, and more,
you don't want to miss it!
-Dennis Strege ('71)
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>>From: Vicki Owens ('72)
To: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Your mention of "World War Eleven" dredged up a memory from
many years ago when Lawrence Welk, obviously reading from a
teleprompter, introduced the songs of "World War Eye Eye".
-Vicki Owens ('72) ~ ~ it's raining in Kampala
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Angeina "Angel" Noland Larsen ('96)
E-Mail: None given
Tuesday 04/04/2006 1:19:15pm
COMMENTS: I Live in Tacoma, WA [Site Administrator deleted
street address and phone number]
-Angeina "Angel" Noland Larsen ('96)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/06/06
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16 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Dick McCoy ('45, '46, '02), Betty Hiser ('49)
Shirley Segrest ('52), Nola Davey ('56)
Gus Keeney ('57), George Swan ('59)
Mike Brady ('61), Denny Johnson ('62WB)
Dave Hanthorn ('63), Freddie Schafer ('63)
Ann Engel ('63), Gary Behymer ('64)
Ray Stein ('64), Jeff Michael ('65)
Linda Sargent ('67), Frank Hames ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: TWINS: Barbara and Kathy Berkeley ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy Dykeman ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jacqueline Tallant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy Raekes ('82)
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>>From: Dick McCoy ('45, '46, '02)
Re: Switching
Pooor babies have to switch their clocks twice a year. How else
are you going to know when to change the batteries in your
alarms? your computers and vcrs all change on their own, except
for next year, when they increase the daylight savings hours.
-Dick McCoy ('45, '46, '02)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Ed Wood ('62): I have received a lot of comments about having
Daylight Savings Time all year long - I would love that. My
stomach and my dog object a lot!!
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - so so day
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>>From: Shirley Segrest Telford ('52)
Here's a cute little poem I received from a friend that I
thought everyone would enjoy:
http://www.creativereunions.com/poem.html
-Shirley Segrest Telford ('52)
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>>From: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
Re: Lost Classmates of 1956
We keep losing or misplacing our classmates. I want to try one
more time. Here is who we are looking for:
Larry D. Anderson, Joann Beatty, Clara Bolin Toss, Paul Cox,
Carlton Craven, Jean Eaton Gladwell, James Green,
Laurli Griffin Coughren, Carol Groves Nielson,
Wanda Hamilton Harding, Ronald Jackson, Charles Johnson,
Judith Kaiser Hostetler, Caroline Kirk, Marlana Little,
Jack Mattson, Nellie Sue Mayberry Kingry, Linda Reitzel Swarm,
ElnoraMae Roestel Richardson, David Lynn Rowe & Frances Sims Rowe,
Dick Sievers, Dale C. Stone, and Dan MacKenzie.
Thanks for any help,
-Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
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>>From: Gus Keeney ('57)
Re: Las Vegas Lunch Pictures
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-Vegas/00.html
-Gus Keeney ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Old Friends
To: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
Thanks Nola. Actually, I thought my friend NickjustNick Nelson
('56) was much older than that so I was just trying to be nice
to him by shaving off a year ... and get even because he looks
so much younger than I do. Now I feel more like a kid. Just
kiddin' foldin' buddy.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where I have been doing
yard work in the rain and marking time until 6:66 PM when
Lowkey, Darby, and I will mount up in Ol' Henry (my other beat
up old truck), the '81 Ford F-150, 4X4. That's when we'll
mosey down to the Burbank International Airport to meet flight
#13 of Goose Airlines and pickup Bogart and Lowiq. At least
now that we're on DST, it'll be daylight and we won't have to
light the bonfire beacons and Darby won't have to run around
in circles with green and a white flashlights tied to her
head. We have two traffic lights in Burbank now and maybe
someday we'll get a rotating beacon at the airport. Right now,
Burbank International, the Elfin Airport, where Goose Airlines
operates out of consists of an inlet on the sloughs with a
stretch of sandy beach (accommodates floats or land), one of
my old socks fluttering from a pole (wind sock), an extension
ladder (for when the really big birds come in), and a
wheelbarrow (people and elf carrier). I'll be glad to see them
as they're two of my favorite elves but don't anyone tell
them. It's hard enough now trying to keep them under control.
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: Converse lows
I remember Bruce Smith ('61) used a knife and scissors to make
high top Converse into low tops... low tops? I thought that was
kinda of cool and tried it but ruined a decent pair. Bruce was
always ahead of the curve!
Re: Mormon teams
To: Chuck Smith ('69)
I played on Mormon softball and basketball teams in the late '50s
and early '60s. We played our softball games on the Riverside
Park field (is it Howard Amon Park now?) and our basketball games
at Spalding Elementary School. I played with a great bunch of
guys including Richard Dall ('61), Phil Maxfield ('62), Jerry
Fehrenbacker ('62), Bruce Smith ('61), Bill Seely ('62), Steve
Palmer ('61) and Coach Dick Rhoten. It's ironic, with all my
Mormon exposure I never became a Mormon, but both of my sons are
Mormons. If any of you guys are reading this entry, thanks for
the good times and memories.
-Mike Brady ('61) ~ in Kirkland, WA where I'm back to school
today for my final quarter... at least final for this
time around!
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>>From: Denny Johnson ('62WB)
Re: black, low cut Converse...
Wasn't there... can't swear... but I'd be mighty surprised if
Dean Hoff ('62), that trend-setting fashion icon wasn't the first
to spring into class with the aforementioned footgear.
hasta pronto
-Denny Johnson ('62 coulda woulda shoulda)
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>>From: Dave Hanthorn (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Bad dreams and nightmares
All the talk in recent Sandstorms about strange dreams made me
think about the following:
1. Being faced with a test for which you hadn't studied at all.
2. Coming to the end of the semester and realizing you had a
class that you had never attended.
3. Having a major homework project due the next day, and you
haven't even started on it.
For a person (like me) with attention deficit disorder (ADD),
these weren't just dreams, they were actual real life
occurrences. Of course, back in the '50s and '60s, nobody had
ever heard of ADD, so when you suddenly found yourself in such a
predicament, you had to struggle to find a way to "fake" your way
through it, sometimes successful, but more often not. I am sure
there must have been other '50s and '60s Bombers that had similar
experiences with ADD when no one knew there was such a thing. I
would like to hear from you if you would like to "compare notes"
about living with ADD before it was recognized, or living with
ADD as an adult.
-Dave Hanthorn (GMC '63) from Mercer Island, WA re we have had a
couple of beautiful, sunny, springtime days with "the
bluest skies you ever saw".
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>>From: Freddie Schafer ('63) and Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
Re: Pook's Memorial Bench Dedication Pictures
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/Pook/00.html
Over 50 classmates and friends and family were present at Pook
Smith memorial. The BC cartoon was in the Sunday paper the day
David "Pook" Smith ('63-RIP) left us
-Freddie Schafer ('63) and Ann Engel Schafer ('63)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Many thanks to Mr. & Mrs. James House ('63) for stopping by the
corner of Main & Canyon, here in downtown Colfax, WA to share
a Wednesday lunch with me, at none other than the 'Top Notch'
restaurant. Fellow burger lovers, Bill Gates (Microsoft) &
Lou Piniella (Seattle Mariner former manager) have partaken
there also.
All Bombers are welcome any time.. advanced notice is appreciated
if you would like a tour of 'Small Town' America!
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: Ray Stein ('64)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
You can add this 1955 photo to your Richland Little League
collection. The team is H.A.M.T.C. (ham-tech), a rather scruffy
bunch sponsored by the Union that represented Hanford hourly
workers. The photo has historical value since it dispels the
belief that wearing a ball cap off center is a recent phenomenon.
As the picture proves, the fad was started in the '50s by our
own iconoclastic Bomber, Randy Free ('61).
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Any/060506-Stein-HAMTC.jpg
A bit larger picture of just the FACES is at:
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Any/060506-Stein-HAMTC-faces.jpg
-Ray Stein (Col-Hi '64)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
Well, youse guys (non-gender use of the noun) get a break for
about 10 days. I'll be off the streets of the Tri-Cities again.
But after that, Look Out!
Grand kids in SoCal have a two week Spring Break and their mommy
works (she actually had Spring break a few weeks ago when she
went to Israel with my wife). So... we are kid sitting again. But
this time, we added a new twist. We are taking them and a friend
each to Arizona to see their great gramma and do a little get-
away. After gramma in Scottsdale, AZ it's up to Pinetop for about
a week. Yup... I do mean "up" as well as up on the map (north).
The place is at 7500 feet altitude. Haven't been that high since
I left Colorado (take that however you see fit). So we hope to do
some snow stuff, horseback riding and such. Will miss another DJ
Diner thing.
But after that... I'll be in town all summer, for the most part.
I've got almost every Saturday booked from 29 Apr to the end of
August. Some of those are out-of-town gigs, but like Spokane,
West Montana and the like. I'm pretty excited to have gotten that
much business. Thanks to all who have referred me or spoken well
of me to other folks. Maybe we'll be seeing you at some of those
events.
Maybe also see you at the not-on-a-Saturday home games for the
Dust Devils. By the way, speaking of them, I have 2 season
tickets for two folks and can't use those Saturday seats, or even
some of the other ones. If someone is interested, I'd be happy to
give the tickets to you for the dates I'll miss. That way, Darrel
(the GM) still has a couple folks in the stands to cheer the team
on. I found the games to be fun. Seats are very near the first
base line between the dug-out and the bag.
Yeah, I hate changing clocks, too. But I love the extra hour of
sunlight! Been making use of that already! The year-round thing
makes the winter mornings VERY dark, especially for school kids.
Change the clocks every week 8 out of 52 weeks?!! Now THAT would
be onerous! (Slipped that word in to see if David Rivers ('65)
is on line).
Guess the wee folks at Pappy Swan's ('59) don't have watches...
they always sleep late and party all night! Saw a wee bonfire
over there around 2:15 AM the other night... long after Pappy
went to sleep (chickens were long roosted). The little guys
(again, no sex [gender that is] intended), were celebrating the
six digit, sequential time/date designation. That used to be a
closely guarded, once in a hundred years ritual for the little
fellows (again... you know). But with the internet and email,
there are no more secrets, just blabber mouths. Speaking of
such... I've gotta shut up and get set up for an afternoon gig
at Stoneridge Events Center. Maybe I'll see you there.
dj jeff Michael ('65), perhaps the first of the Boomer Bombers to
turn 60. Hasn't happened yet, but I feel the pressure (aches
and pains, memory loss... when is that birthday, anyway?).
Remember when we dreaded leaving the safety of the under
thirty (and thus believable) set? Then we became "Thirty-
Something" and totally "Unbelievable". Now we are nearly
"over the hill" and like Totally AWESOME, dudes (or dudettes)
Tri-Cities, cloudy, drizzle, chilly...
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>>From: Linda Sargent Evans ('67)
Re: Judy Sargent Scott ('59)
For those of you who remember my sister, Judy, I wanted to let
you know that she's fighting a valiant battle with brain cancer.
She has been upbeat and strong through all of this, and her
wonderful sense of humor is helping all of us cope and be
optimistic. I know she'd appreciate your good thoughts.
-Linda Sargent Evans ('67)
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>>From: Frank Hames ('69)
Re: East Texas
Robert Avant's ('69) description of East Texas was spot on. Last
weekend my wife was in Austin attending a teacher convention so I
decided to ride my Harley from Dallas to Nacogdoches, TX to visit
our son who is a sophomore at Steven F. Austin State University.
The wild flowers were in bloom, the pine smelled fresh and I
haven't been able to breathe since.
-Frank Hames ('69)
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by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Linda O'Neal Delawder ('65) ~ 5/16/47 - 3/17/06
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/07/06
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16 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary Triem ('47), Keith Arndt ('60)
Mike Brady ('61), Mike Rice ('61)
Donna Bowers ('63), Jim Hamilton ('63)
Carol Converse ('64), Dennis Jones ('64)
Gary Behymer ('64), Linda Reining ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Donna Fredette ('65)
Betti Avant ('69), Chuck Smith ('69)
Robert Avant ('69), Debbie Lukins ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kelvin Soldat ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Anne Lauby ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda Phillips ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melissa Dykeman ('98)
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>>From: Mary Triem Mowery ('47)
To: Shirley Segrest Telford ('52)
The poem you sent in was fantastic. Reminds me of a comment a
beloved classmate of ours said when we were starting Club 40
(in 1987): "we'll keep going until we have wheelchair races in
the parking lot". That's a quote from Jean Bobo DeBerry ('47-RIP).
I believe she would have done just that. too!
-Mary Triem Mowery ('47)
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>>From: Keith Arndt ('60)
Re: Little League
http://all.sports.tripod.com/Base/1955HAMTCLL.html
To: Ray Stein ('64)
Ray, thanks for the photo of the mighty H.A.M.T.C. team. At our
country club, as we gather around the bar and swap lies, we have
several former college and pro athletes who often regale we mere
mortals with their past athletic accomplishments. Now, I can't
wait until the next such event when I whip out my team photo and
brag that, during my H.A.M.T.C. days, I rubbed shoulders with
future Bomber greats such as Dennis Waltman ('60), Randy Free
('61), Jack Glover ('61), Bob Mitchell ('62) and, of course Ray
Stein ('64). Who cares about the Minnesota Vikings, Michigan
State, Ohio State, etc. anyway?
-Keith Arndt ('60) ~ from Parrish, FL - sunny and 80°, the sky is
blue, the golf course is green, and the fish are
biting. Life is great.
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: HAMTC & Jack Glover
http://all.sports.tripod.com/Base/1955HAMTCLL.html
I saw a lot of familiar faces in Ray Stein's HAMTC Little League
photo in yesterday's edition of the Sandstorm. Randy Free ('61)
and his little brother, Jack Glover ('61), Bobby Mitchell ('62),
Craig Guse ('61), Jim Waltman ('60), John Browne ('61} and of
course Ray Stein ('64) all stand out as reminders of my youth.
That must have been one fantastic team! Another thing, Jack
Glover looks identical today as he did then. I saw him at our
reunion in 2001, and believe me, he still looks like a kid... or
is it the other way around... he always looked like an adult!
-Mike Brady ('61)
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>>From: Mike Rice ('61) and Donna Bowers Rice ('63)
Just to let the sandstorm know that Gordie Shogren ('61)
passed away in Seattle last Friday.
-Mike Rice ('61) and Donna Bowers Rice ('63)
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>>From: Jim Hamilton (Gold Medal Class of '63)
As I recall, the genesis of black low cut Converse as a fashion
statement was a Basketball player at WSC named Terry Ball. Cougar
history has him lettering in '60-'62.
My sister Carolynn ('60) who was a "student" in Pullman at the
time, also recalls him wearing them on and off the court. When
they did become popular, she always called them "Terry Ball
Tennie Runners". David Pugh ('62) on the other hand always called
them "Mag Pie Wingtips".
I got a pair as a reward for something, maybe for getting a "C"
from Senor Maruca, but I don't recall when. I don't think there
was ever a "look" more resplendent than a pair of tan Levi 13's
with about 8" of white socks showing, a short sleeve white Oxford
cloth button down and a really skinny tie. Worked for me, that's
probably what won me naming rights to the forever young and
always lovely Miss Nancy ('65).
I think Bill Redmond and Dave Schulz still have and occasionally
wear those same ties.
Semper Bomberus
Jimbeaux
-Jim Hamilton (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: Carol Converse Maurer ('64)
To: Shirley Segrest Telford ('52)
Thanks for sharing the "reunion" poem with us. I've copied it
off to send to friends and family. I really enjoyed it and it's
soooo true.
It was great to see the pictures of Pook's memorial gathering.
I'm so glad so many people turned out for the event. Makes me
wish I were lots closer to be able in participate in things like
this.
-Carol Converse Maurer (Boomer Bomber Class of '64)
Eureka, CA - was sunny yesterday and it's sure trying
to stay out today.
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>>From: Dennis Jones ('64)
Re: "Pooor babies have to switch their clocks twice a year"
OK you pulled my chain. How about the poor babies who can't get
out of bed an hour earlier unless everybody else in the country
changes all their clocks?
-Dennis Jones ('64)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Convoluted Conversion of Converse or The Conversion Theory
"1962 – Converse develops the low cut version of its All Star,
called an Oxford, which soon became the shoe of choice for
pro players and started a new and relaxed west coast lifestyle
statement that quickly spread eastward."
http://www.converse.com/LiveFiles/7/11/Timeline.pdf
Ok... as I see the picture, the chances of the 'low cut' version
of Converse tennis shoes showing up in Richland early on in 1962
MAY be correct because of 'our' relaxed lifestyle (;-) I'm also
thinking that Bomber basketball players may have a 'leg up',
HOWEVER, I'm almost betting that Coach Dawald may NOT have
allowed the first pair to be worn by a 'dapper' Bomber ball
bouncer?
I do know that the most lovely Carol Converse (No pun intended)
('64) treated her boyfriend, at the time, with 'pink shoe laces'
to go with his tennis shoes. Then again, that wasn't 1962...
Being a one time holder of 6,500 different high school yearbooks,
I can safely say that 'styling' throughout Americana in 1962
to 1964 was pretty general, whether you lived in Katy, TX or
Anaheim, CA.
Next to be covered... The Sockanian Theory... you know... that
period during the sixties where it was 'styling' to show 1 to 3
inches of your white crew socks (;-)
-Gary Behymer ('64)..somewhere close to the Top Notch Restaurant
in downtown Colfax, WA...
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
to: Shirley Segrest Telford('52)
loved the reunion poem---so true, too.
Linda Reining(Boomer Bomber class of '64)........thought we
were going to need to grow web feet here in Bakersfield, CA,
but they say the rains have stopped and we should be in the
70s by Saturday, so all those that are "sun-lovers", will be
happy campers, once again. *grin*
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Black lo-cuts
Leave it to Denny Johnson ('62 WB more than anything in the whole
wide world even the new stroker motor in his car) to opine on
something about which he admits he wasn't even there... No wonder
he and The Big Fat Liar used to be roomies. Anyway, Tony Harrah
('65) has responded that he was wearing black Converse lo-cuts
in December 1962 when he returned from Portland... Now... if we
can just find Denler ('64)... was he at '64's 40th? I missed it
because I was in trial with a bunch of rich casino owners suing
another bunch of other rich casino owners over money that they
will just spend on silliness (like suing each other) anyway...
so I wasn't home for that one... bummer... I can't help but
notice, however, how this burning question has not stirred up any
interest except from a guy who wasn't there... oh well... I think
I'll go to the Top Notch and see Behymer ('64)... he always has
something to contribute... I can't go to sleep because Hanthorn
('63) reminded me of my awful "Coming to the end of the semester
and realizing you had a class that you had never attended."
dream... I'm sweating and shivering all over from it... I really
HATE that dream... it is sooooooooooo real! By the way... it is
not that I do not think that Dean Hoff ('62) isn't cool enough to
be the first guy to wear the now famous foot wear... I just know
that Denny doesn't know... and by the way again Denny... Pete's
memorial is this Saturday... leaving from the donut shop.
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Donna Fredette ('65)
Happy Birthday to Barbara and Kathy Berkeley ('63)!! They are
really beautiful people and I have wonderful memories from my
childhood growing up with them.
Bomber Cheers!
-Donna Fredette ('65)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: suggestion
Can I make a suggestion regarding submitted pictures to the
Sandstorm? When you have a luncheon somewhere can you put names
to the faces, please? Also, any pictures of past things such as
little league pictures or whatever if you have any names that go
with the faces add them in. It would help some of us who somewhat
recognize faces but aren't sure if it is really them or not.
Thanks and Bomber cheers,
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA, where it is supposed to warm up
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>>From: Chuck Smith ('69)
Hey Mike... I too had A LOT of exposure to the Mormons. They
tried to recruit me on a number of occasions, but I was a
Protestant and wanted to stay that way... but, playing basketball
and softball (at Riverside) with them was a blast!! Rhoten was
my coach too... let's see if I can remember all the guys names...
Doug Carlisle, Mike Swallow, Adrian Baird, Brad (?), Phil Jones,
coach Rhoten's son... ? Wow... that hurt trying to remember
them... Most all of played both sports, too... Can't remember
where we played basketball... but we went to Regionals every
year in both sports and made Salt Lake on a number occassions,
too... Great memories... and a lot of fun.
-Chuck Smith ('69er)
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>>From: Robert Avant ('69)
Re: More East Texas Spring
Frank Hames ('69) jarred my memory about motorcycles and the
glory that is East Texas. There maybe no finer bike riding state
in the Union than Texas and East Texas with its plethora of FM
(Farm to Market) roads are great. 70 mph ways that wind through
forests, farms and cattle ranches away from the Interstates is
glorious riding. Hitting the small and not so small towns on
those roads can be treasures of time spent talking High School
football, fishing, deer hunting, and wild boar eradication with
friendly strangers over ice tea is choice memories.
-Robert Avant ('69) ~ Kirkland WA..where we are holding out for
hybrid or bio-diesel bikes
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>>From: Debbie Lukins Lee ('78)
Re: Ray Stein ('64)
The picture of the HAMTC Little League shows my grandfather, Dale
Curry, on the far right. He was an awesome grandpa who raised
me on the "Big Red Machine" during the '70s. He loved kids and
baseball and I would love to have a copy of this picture. If you
could please contact me, I would be most grateful.
Thanks for the memory,
-Debbie Lukins Lee ('78)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/08/06
Dateline: Richland
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Bell ('51), Lenora Hughes ('55)
George Swan ('59), Mike Brady ('61)
Carol Converse ('64), Bruce Strand ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Max Case ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John Wingfield ('66)
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
To: Shirley Segrest Telford ('52)
Shirley, I evidently missed the "Reunion" poem recently, and
would like to read it. Is it possible to submit it again? Or is
it somewhere on-line?
Thanks.
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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[Betty, the poem is indeed on-line at:
http://www.creativereunions.com/poem.html
Shirley posted the link in the 4/6/06 Sandstorm --Richard]
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>>From: Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55)
Re: Las Vegas Bomber luncheon
I want to thank Gus Keeney ('57) and "Em" DeVine ('52) for
sending in the photos from our Las Vegas luncheon which was held
on the 1st of April:
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-Vegas/00.html
I hope he doesn't mind my sending in the names to fit the
faces.
Photo #1: Standing, Nancy Moore ('70) and next to her is her
friend whose name I can't recall. Seated is Ferna
Garoutte Hicks ('58)
Photo #2: Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55) and spouse Robert
Bejarano (NAB)
Photo #3: Gene Horne ('57) and Carol Bishop Horne {'57)
Photo #4: "Em" DeVine ('52) and Gus Keeney ('57)
Not pictured, but our good and faithful attendees Roberta
(Robbi) Hill Karcher ('49) and Ginny Nelligan, spouse of Jim
Nelligan ('50). Jim was unable to attend and he was
sorely missed.
We have such a great time at our luncheons and they are a
great source of bringing back many wonderful memories. One
person brings a memory up and it brings ups another and another
and another and we just have a "memory feast" so to speak.
Hopefully one of these times we can get all of our locals and
our part-timers there at one time! What a blast that would be!
Bomber cheers!
-Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55) ~ In Las Vegas where the weather
has been up and down temperature wise, but has been
pretty nice just the same. It won't be long before it
gets HOT and so I am enjoying this weather while
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Elf Homecoming
To: Betti Avant ('69), "Associated little person reporter" ~
Lacey, WA
The threatened strike by the Duck and Goose Union, Quacker's and
Honker's Local No. 12, proposed in protest of Lowiq's straying
from the standard use of ducks and geese for aerial/amphibious
transportation and racing, was averted at the last minute.
Following their transfer from the Toadyland General Hospital in
Lacey, WA, two of my favorite elves are, once more, safely back
in Puddle Land. Bogart and Lowiq arrived safe and somewhat sound
at Burbank International Airport late this past Wednesday
afternoon prior to dark thanks to..... Daylight Savings (hee
hee)..... on Goose Airlines, flight #13 with Captain Gander in
command. With a steady rain afallin', 'twas nearly a dark and
stormy night and my old "wool windsock" hung soggy and loosely
from the stick. Flight #13 was escorted by a squadron of sleek
Pintail Ducks who performed a low loopty-loop announcing their
return all to the tunes played by the Doo-Whacka-Doo Band and
cheers and quacking of the welcoming crowd. Their flight over
the Cascades had been rather bumpy due to the stormy weather but
it arrived on time with the two elves hanging on for dear life,
each clutching one of Cap'n Gander's webbed feet. Gander,
displaying supreme piloting skills as he made a slow flight pass
at a speed just above stalling and shook the two elves loose
with perfect air drop precision. As Gander banked off for a
water landing, the elves plummeted precisely but softly onto the
huge pile of duck and goose down that the local sympathetic
waterfowl population had literally plucked and donated from
their own breasts. Talk about giving "the shirt off one's own
back!" There was really no need for scolding the little guys as,
visibly shaken, they began promising to behave immediately,
before anything could be said. Yeah Right! Just give them a few
days to recover and we'll see. There was no need for the
wheelchair and straight jacket (for Lowiq) as we ceremoniously
transported them back home aboard the down-lined "Burbank
International elf and very small people mover" (my beat up old
wheelbarrow) pulled backwards by Darby who was assisted by the
happy cheering throng of elf and local wildlife well wishers.
All I had to do was follow happily along behind. Nearing the
puddle, Lowiq was already eyeing the pile of lumber and the
large crate marked "Tomcat" -- well, large to him, anyway. All
was well and life about the puddle was once again..... GOOD!
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where Lowkey sits
shaking his head, Darby sits rolling her eyes, and I,
in a weak moment, serve "Hot Goosies" all around the
bonfire that dj jeff [Michael ('65)], saw on his
drive-by.
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: Gordie Shogren ('61-RIP)
Gordie Shogren was a great guy. I'm sorry to hear of his death.
I hope more information is coming so I can read about his life.
To: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: 1961: The class that led the curve
Convoluted Conversion of Converse or The Conversion Theory
"1962 - Converse develops the low cut version of its All
Star, called an Oxford, which soon became the shoe of choice
for pro players and started a new and relaxed west coast
lifestyle statement that quickly spread eastward."
So, Bruce Smith ('61) DID lead the curve when he used a knife
and scissors to cut down his trusty Converse basketball
sneakers. The Class of '61 may not have gone to State (first
time in 10+ years), but we can PROUDLY say, "we led the curve."
BTW, I just heard that Beth Pederson will be performing at the
Folklife Festival in Seattle at the end of May. We oughta get a
group together.
-Mike Brady ('61), The Class That Led The Curve
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>>From: Carol Converse Maurer ('64)
To: Gary Behymer ('64)
I copied the address for the "Converse file timeline". I plan on
printing it out to add to my files. They only put in a very
small part of the original history of the company. It was fun to
see the timeline up to this point. I keep thinking that one of
these days, I really need to buy a pair of "Converse" tennis
shoes just to keep for future generations in the family to see.
If I could find a pair of low tops, I would probably wear them
now.
-Carol Converse Maurer (Boomer Bomber Class of '64) ~ Eureka,
California
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>>From: Bruce Strand ('69)
To: Chuck Smith ('69)
Welcome to AZ when you get here. You will enjoy. You will also
need to join us in the AZ Bomber reunions. At the last one there
were three 69ers.
See ya soon,
-Bruce Strand ('69)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/09/06
Dateline: Richland
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete Overdahl ('60), Betti Avant ('69)
Anna Durbin ('69), Mark S Culverhouse ('76)
Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tere Smyth ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy Weihermiller ('66)
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>>From: Pete Overdahl ('60)
To: Linda Reining ('64)
I can't help but laugh when I read your Sign Off each time you
send in your stories to the Alumni Sandstorm: "Linda Reining
(Boomber Bomber class of '64)".
One of the former Kiwanis Club Presidents in Kennewick who is a
Port Commissioner for Benton County is Linda Boomer. The next
time I see Linda Boomer I will pass on about our Richland
Boomber Bombers. Even though a little different spelling from
Boomber to Boomer.
-Pete Overdahl ('60) ~ from the Bomber City [Sorry Petah, I
checked your telco prefix (it's 628, a CLEAR CASE of
West Kennewick); you don't live in "the Bomber City".
--Deputy Editor Richard]
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Pappy, I'm glad the "little guys" made it back safe and sound.
Thanks for the update.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA, where the promised rain has come
once again
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>>From: Anna Durbin ('69)
To: Carol Converse Maurer ('64)
Carol: Good news for you. My daughter lives in low-top Chucks.
She gets them on Zappos.com, though they aren't cheap. Search
the net. You might do better. Or Ebay. My husband is famous at
the high school for wearing his dress Chucks: Purple High-Tops.
-Anna Durbin ('69)
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From: the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Mark S. Culverhouse ('76)
COMMENTS: Great site, can't believe it took me so long to seek
it out. OK, where are all you 76ers? By the way, who's Mike
Davis??? Just kidding Mike. A great day to all. Mark
-Mark S. Culverhouse ('76)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
To: All Bomber Chuck Taylor wearers,
Here are some Chuck Taylor's in use. Circa 1951.
[Note from Deputy Editor Richard: those who click on the
following link may wish to avert their gaze; the people are --
gasp! -- your parents (maybe grandparents); as I say, forewarned
is forearmed.]
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Soren/060409/SpaldingSchoolAdultRecreation_1952.html>
-Don Sorenson (NAB = Not a Bomber)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/10/06
Dateline: Richland
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Viva Webster ('53), George Swan ('59), Pete Overdahl ('60)
Mike Brady ('61), Betsy Fox ('63), Ray Stein ('64)
Deedee Willox ('64), Linda Reining ('64), Shirley Collings ('66)
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>>From: Viva Webster Metz ('53)
To: Mark S Culverhouse ('76)
Hey Baby Boy! This is your mother speaking. Sure glad you've
discovered the "Sandstorm"! I've been enjoying it since its
inception. Never miss a day. It puts us in touch with our
wonderful past of growing up in Richland and keeping in touch
with fellow classmates. Please stay tuned.
-Viva Webster Metz ('53)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: "Tenner Shoes" Reference
The recent discussion of Converse shoes reminds me of a piece of
writing by one of my favorite authors. The following is pretty
much straight out of "Tenner Shoes", a chapter in "They Shoot
Canoes, Don't They?" written by Patrick F. McManus, the famous
outdoor humor writer from the Spokane area.
His wife is reacting to his balking at her effort to get him to
throw away all of his old shoes: "Stop! Stop!" my wife screamed.
"I give up! You can keep them! What I wish, though, is that
somebody would invent a pair of shoes that could be used for
everything."
He writes, "Well, as a matter of fact, somebody once did. I wore
them every summer when I was a kid. The shoe's inventor, I
believe, was a Mr. Tenner. At least that's what we called them --
Tenner shoes."
McManus describes how, in his younger years, a rich kid tried to
tell him and his buddies that the shoes were not "Tenner" shoes
but "Tennis" shoes. He and his friends were skeptical as they
had never heard of anyone named Tennis. However, Pat suspects
that Mr. Tennis might have had a son who became an English poet
but he doubts that either knew anything about shoes.
He describes the ultimate, all-purpose footwear as ugly, black,
rubber-soled shoes with little round patches over the part that
covered your anklebones. He goes on to assure his readers that
Mr. Tenner designed them that way on purpose so girls wouldn't
want to wear them. And, he mentions feeling sorry for the poor
kid who could not afford Tenners like the other boys so he
painted his feet black, complete with little round white circles
over the anklebones.
And that's just a sample of McManus's dissertation on the
subject of growing up with "Tenner shoes", which is highly
reminiscent of my younger years, as I too grew up in ankle-high
"Tenners". I don't remember if they were "Converse" or "U.S.
Keds". I didn't care, whatever they were, they were "the best"
running, jumping, wading, hunting, fishing, hiking, and
"scuffing about shoe" in the world. And, they never wore out,
'cause I just got into dad's paint in the garage and
periodically reapplied them.
If you have never read the writings of Pat McManus, I highly
recommend him for outdoor reads that will leave you with a big
smile and chuckling, thereafter. He has a long series of books
to his credit. He wrote for "Field and Stream" magazine for
years and now is featured in "Outdoor Life" magazine with his
monthly column, "Last Laugh".
A few years ago, I attended a small, up close and personal, one
day seminar that he put on at Columbia Basin College. Ever
since, in my attempts at outdoor humor, I use many of the ideas
and techniques learned from him.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where once again, the
sun shines gaily after a day of rain recharged the
puddle and if you watch carefully, under the
shrubbery, you can see wee people darting about in
little black Tenners. Oh, the ones with little green
Tenners would be visiting ... from the Emerald Isle.
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>>From: Pete Overdahl ('60)
To: Richard Anderson ('60), Deputy Editor, Alumni Sandstorm
At it again, Richard?, Well maybe it is time to take a little
class #101 in Telco Prefix as you stated in your little PS to my
sign-off on the 4-9-06 issue. I stated "from the Bomber City"
and you replied,
[Sorry Petah, I checked your telco prefix (it's 628, a
CLEAR CASE of West Kennewick); you don't live in "the
Bomber City". --Deputy Editor Richard]
If you are correct then I best see a good attorney as I have
been paying Property Taxes in Benton Co. for the past 8 years
and it states right on my statement District, Richland SD 400,
City of Richland which is in the Real Property, Legal
Description (Leslie Canyon Block 2 Lot 7:, Location 1406 Canyon
Ave., Richland, Wa. 99352 which is a parcel of 10,454.40 ac/sq
ft. And, the last time I checked, it is public information, and
while you look that up you might check my Utility Statement for
the City of Richland and it indicates the same address listed
above for the Account Type showing I pay the city of Richland,
Electricity, Water, Sewer, Refuse & Storm Water.
I remain in good faith in payments of both the above mentioned
STATEMENTS.... Oh yes, don't forget to check all the local Phone
Books and they all state Richland for the place of address
followed by the prefix of my phone # 628. There are other
numbers in Richland that start with 783, 627, 375, besides the
old WHitehall, and 943, 946 numbers [94-n numbers *are*
WHitehall numbers --Richard]. Know Any Good Attorneys????
Yes, our family moved to Richland in 1944 and I spent 23 years
in the Tri-Cities with the Washington State Patrol and I have a
pretty good idea where city limits start and finish.
-Pete Overdahl ('60) ~ From the Bomber City of Richland
PS-- By the way, my friends call me Pete not Petah, both in the
City of Richland, and all points worldwide. [May God strike me
dead, I cannot resist: "You like tomato and I like
tomahto ..." (Ira Gershwin) --Richard]
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Soren/060409/SpaldingSchoolAdultRecreation_1952.html>
Thanks again, Don Sorenson for the great pictures you posted in
yesterday's Sandstorm. Although the gym shorts look funny
compared to newer standards, they still look a lot better than
the culottes the kids are wearing today.
And btw, Deputy Editor Richard, I enjoy your way with words; e.g.,
{Note from Deputy Editor Richard: those who click on
the following link may wish to avert their gaze; the
people are -- gasp! -- your parents (maybe
grandparents); as I say, forewarned is forearmed.}
You must be (have been) a journalist or English teacher!
-Mike Brady (Class of 1961: "Leading the Curve")
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>>From: Betsy Fox Vance (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Caregivers Support Group - Monday, April 10
A note to all regarding the Caregivers Support Group. We are
still forming and certainly welcome anyone in any kind of a
situation where you are in that role of caring for a parent in
any way - directly or indirectly. We have had two meetings, and
both have produced a lot of great sharing, ideas, wisdom and
support for all. It is an absolutely wonderful group of people --
all RHS graduates. We have not settled on one day -- but, hope
to within the next few weeks. We are trying to meet twice a
month. Our next meeting will be this Monday, April 10 at 7pm.
Please call Betsy for more information. Thank you to all of you
who have written in ideas and shared similar experiences relating
to this whole area. It has been very helpful.
-Betsy Fox Vance (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: Ray Stein (Col-Hi '64, Boomber Bomber)
To: Richard Anderson ('60)
Re: [Sorry Petah, I checked your telco prefix (it's
628, a CLEAR CASE of West Kennewick); you don't
live in "the Bomber City". --Deputy Editor
Richard]
I can't believe you told Pete Overdahl ('60), "you don't live in
'the Bomber City'." Richard, Richard, Richard, WE ALL LIVE IN
"THE" BOMBER CITY. It's located in the state of mind. If there
is anyone who is "from the Bomber City", it's Pete!!!
-Ray Stein (Col-Hi '64, Boomber Bomber) ~ from "the Bomber City"
prefix 467 (so you don't need to look it up)
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>>From: Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
To Deputy Editor Richard:
I beg to differ. My sister, Carol, has a 628 phone number and
she lives in RICHLAND, our Bomber City.
-Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64), Boomber Bomber Babe in Burbank
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>>From: Linda Reining(Boomer Bomber class of 64)
to:Pete Overdahl(60)
re:spelling of Boomber/Boomer
geez, how many times have I misspelled that and nobody caught
it, til now??????? must mean that 90% of us have "senior"
eyesight, huh? LOL
Linda Reining(Boomer Bomber class of 64)......Bakersfield, CA--
--no rain, just plenty of sunshine---the birds are chirping,
trees and flowers are blooming and my hayfever is giving me
"fits".
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>>From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
To: Richard Anderson ('60)
Re: RETRACTION DUE
Sorry Richard, but Pete Overdahl lives in RICHLAND.
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/11/06
Dateline: Richland
Hey! A note from Deputy Editor Richard:
Maren will be back tomorrow. She's busily wading through
three days' worth of emails and putting up Little League pix
and, and, and......
There is a wondrous typo in one of today's submissions that
I did not correct. Yours to find and, sorry, no prize for
finding it.
Finally, if you want to irritate people under, say, 45,
just quote a Dylan lyric to illustrate something. Here's mine:
<http://bobdylan.com/songs/tomthumb.html>. Yes, yes, I know,
it's the whole song!
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Peggy Nelson ('55WB), Jan Bollinger ('60)
Lora Homme ('60), Mike Brady ('61)
George Barnett ('63), Frank Stratton ('64)
Marsha Hopfinger ('67), Anna Durbin ('69)
Kathie Moore ('69)
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>>From: Peggy Nelson ('55WB)
Hi! This has probably been discussed hundreds of times, but I am
a late comer and was wondering if anyone remembers the North
Star Theater in North Richland? Also, there was a clothing store
out there and a drug store. I don't remember their names, but I
remember going to the drug store to get cokes and everyone
wetting the tips of their straw papers and blowing the papers
onto the ceiling.
When I was there in North Richland in 1950 I belonged to a Girl
Scout troop. One of our projects was to make a formal dress to
wear to a dance and invite a boy to go to the dance with us. We
made our dresses (with our mothers' help, I'm sure) and invited
the boys. The night of the dance the girls were so excited they
couldn't wait for the boys to show up, so they left before they
got there. When the boys showed up, with corsages in hand, they
were told the girls had gone ahead to the dance. The boys
brought yoyos to the dance and the girls lined up on one side of
the room, while the boys played with their yoyos on the other
side of the room. I don't remember anyone dancing. Do any of you
remember this?
I was also thinking about the Teen Age dances we had in 1954 and
1955 in one of the Army Quonset huts every Friday night in North
Richland. One night we found we could climb up on the sinks and
go over the wall into the rest of the dark, unoccupied building
where we played hide and seek. I have a picture of the group
that attended those dances at that time, but am having a hard
time identifying everyone.
-Peggy Nelson ('55WB)
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>>From: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: Lost In the Sixties?
This is getting worrisome, all these classmates who don't seem
to know where they are! Pete Overhaul ('60) claims that he lives
in Richland but Richard Anderson ('60) says that Pete's all
wrong, he CLEARLY lives in West Kennewick. And just last month,
Lora Homme Page ('60) submitted a post that listed her location
as Richland, but I've been to her house and would SWEAR that
it's in Kennewick! Lora maintains that she didn't provide a
location with her post (because she didn't know where she was?),
so apparently one was chosen for her.
This is all too confusing for people our age and I sure hope it
isn't some latent disease we were all exposed to on graduation
night. I'd hate to think of a whole class of Bombers just
wandering around the Tri-Cities, wondering where home is! AND,
are there more classmates out there like Pete, who don't even
know their own name? I'm thinking this could get serious!
Probably what we should do is appoint a Special Investigator.
The obvious choice for that job would be Pete, given his long
career in law enforcement and years of involvement with alumni
activities. So, Pete, why don't you just go ahead and do a
thorough investigation of where you live and what your name is,
then determine where Lora lives, and see how it all jibes with
Richard's records and whether he suspects that other '60s
classmates are existing in a similar kind of fog. We need to nip
this thing in the bud!
-Jan Bollinger Persons ('60) ~ Mmmmmm ..... Spokane, I think.
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>>From: Lora Homme Page ('60)
Re: We poor souls who can't remember where we live or what our
names are
I have these little movies that run through my head upon
occasion and one just did as I read the Sandstorm. I see us
wandering aimlessly through the midnight mist in our green and
gold Bomber sweatshirts, our arms out in front of us like the
zombies in a B-grade horror movie, moaning "Whooo am I, wheeeere
am I?" It's really pathetic and more than a little scary!
-Lora Homme Page ('60) ~ In that other town.....
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>>From: Mike Brady ('61)
Re: Esteemed Deputy Editor
I have to smile..... no, laugh (that Prozac must be finally
kicking in)..... Deputy Editor Richard, you ARE a trouble maker!
-Mike Brady (Class of 1961: ahead of the curve)*
*I'm working on the right wording..... maybe
our esteemed Deputy Editor can help..... on
second thought......
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>>From: George Barnett ('63)
Re: Overdahl/Anderson feud
OH BOY, Look Poopsi, "It's the Bickersons!"
This is obviously a case of "contempt of cop" or at least mopery
with intent to gawk. Pete, I know a lawyer in Las Vegas who
could file a writ of "hokis Pokis" on your behalf.
We former Pigs gotta protect our digs.
Bye Geo.
-George Barnett ('63) ~ in Tucson where the "Heat" is on.
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>>From: Frank Stratton ('64)
To: Anna Durbin ('69)
Thank you for the lead on Converse "Chucks" tennis shoes. Just
what I have been looking for. Leo Bustad's (Class of '64) wife
is putting together a 60th birthday party for Buzz at the
Petroleum Club in Anchorage, AK on May 6th (OMG -- the oil guys
helping out the medical guys, we have no hope from this
"cartel"). The theme is a 60's look and the word on the street
is it may well be the social event of the season. And as a last
note, please be nice with any correspondence to Leo regarding
his advancing years..... remember he is a cardiologist and we
may need that expertise down the road!
-Frank Stratton (Boomer Bomber '64)
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>>From: Marsha Hopfinger Sork ('67)
Notice from: Class of '67 40th Reunion Planning Committee
Hello to all '67 graduates of Richland (Columbia) High School.
Yesterday [Sunday, the 9th], a small group of Bomber alums met
to begin planning the 40th reunion of the Blue Ribbon Class of
1967. We are in the early stages of choosing a site and getting
ideas for how to bring as many Bombers as possible together for
a great time. We need more ideas and more people to help. If you
can set aside Saturday, May 20 2006 at 6:00pm to join the
planning committee at Applebees in Kennewick we would be
grateful.
If you will join us, please send me an e-mail or call me at
(509) 783-9353. Those of you who live in the Tri-Cities, please
seriously consider helping so we can make this a great memory in
2007. If you live out of town and can come to the Tri-Cities on
May 20th, please join us at Applebees in Kennewick at 6:00pm.
There are plenty of ways to help from any distance. The more
volunteers we have, the less time any one of us has to give to
making the reunion great for all.
Hope to hear from some of you soon.
-Marsha Hopfinger Sork ('67) ~ New Committee Member
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>>From: Anna Durbin ('69)
To Ray Stein ('64):
Thank you for that thought, that we are All in "The" Bomber
City, located in the state of mind.
I feel that way, even though my feet are in Pennsylvania,
whenever I come to the Sandstorm. Even though the house I grew
up in is sold and my parents are gone, I can still see the
pictures in my mind of Rattlesnake Mountain, and the Columbia
River, and the Yakima River, and smell the sagebrush. Not to
mention the Bomber Gyms! (oh my). You guys who are still there,
enjoy the physical things for us, but we are with you in spirit.
And thanks for bringing those pictures back to us again and
again.
-Anna Durbin ('69) ~ (nostalgic tears in eyes)
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>>From: Kathie Moore Adair ('69)
Re: 627/628 telephone exchanges
We live in West Richland. Our back yard borders on Bombing Range
Road, near the new turn-around, and have had a 627 prefix since
1992. Our next door neighbor has a 628 prefix.
I believe the 627 started with Meadow Springs area, or very
south Richland. Now they have 627 and 628; from our area through
Meadow Springs, both prefixes are used.
-Kathie Moore Adair ('69) ~ from the windy and rainy West
Richland ~ Badger Mt. looks like green velvet, but
probably not for long
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/12/06
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15 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Betty Hiser ('49), Betty Conner ('52)
Dave Rhodes ('52WB), Stan McDonald ('53)
Mike Clowes ('54), Floyd Melton ('57)
Ernie Trujillo ('59), Nancy Stull ('59)
Derrith Persons ('60), Jan Bollinger ('60)
Bill Scott ('64), Deedee Willox ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Jeff Michael ('65)
Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Monita McClellan ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Aaron Holloway ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan Belliston ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherrie Smithwick ('68)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
Peggy Nelson ('55wb): The name of the department store in
North Richland was Herman's (which later moved to the Uptown
Richland). Don't know anything about the drug store but I did
go to the movies at North Star several times.
I was deleting all of the mail from those people I don't know
and found one about flowers. I was brought up during the
depression as most of those of my age were and the one thing
that people where I lived was never to give dead flowers to a
dead person. That is my little quirk. I have been criticized
for this all my life. But I feel if I really liked that person
I would have given them flowers while they were alive. When I
worked on the Project I was always being criticized for doing
this. Anyone else have this quirk? Must be my Scotch background
- I will donate money to buy live flowers for the family or for
the grave.
Another thing that puzzles me - how do the lending outfits get
by with going over the usury laws?
My Bombers/Bomberettes know everything.
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - rain and
sunshine.
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>>From: Betty Conner Sansom ('52)
To: Peggy Nelson ('55WB)
I lived in North Richland from 1948-1951. I don't remember you -
but then I didn't go to John Ball. I did attend NRUP Church.
(North Richland United Protestant). We had a marvelous group
that lived out there at the time. And we had some really fun
times. Weenie roasts, baseball team, kite flying (in what was
later revealed was where there was considerable radiation
released from 300 Area) (At least two of us have had thyroids
removed. I was described by my Dr. as a 'typical downwinder' -
but later others told me that it would be 'hard to prove' -
so I quit all the paperwork that was going around. There are,
apparently, thousands, that are in on the lawsuit - which won't
be settled in my lifetime. I'm just grateful that it wasn't
malignant and I am fine, as long as I take my daily thyroid
replacement.)
The drug store was "Hand's" - and they sponsored our girl's
baseball team.
The clothing store was "Herman's" - which later opened in
Richland.
There was a great grocery store - I loved to watch them grind
hamburger, and slice meat. They did it where we could watch....
Not later, as I observed in an now-extinct small grocery store,
where I watched them run the meat through the meat grinder,
while adding pitchers of water. Later, a charge was made that
formaldehyde (a type of preserver) was added to it also. I was
too young to follow the Tri-City Herald's articles on that. I do
know the store was soon after closed.
The North Star Theater was across the street from the Greyhound
Bus Station, and close to the monstrous cafeteria where the
workers were fed. The big tavern (I don't know if it had a name)
was between the North Star and Herman's and the Post Office.
I know we paid fifty cents to get into the movies there. I don't
remember any Saturday Matinees; I never went to any of those. We
attended movies often, the movies being changed twice a week.
When we first moved there, the theater was often full to
capacity. By the time we moved, there were only a few people
there at times. I remember walking home from a movie, in the
snow, under the bright lights all the way, and walking under the
big steam pipes that carried heat throughout the area. It was a
great experience, that left lasting memories.
If you go out there now, you would find no signs of the busy
place of the town of North Richland. I'm sure there are photos
that abound of all of it.
-Betty Conner Sansom ('52)
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>>From: Dave Rhodes ('52WB)
Re: North Richland
Peggy Nelson ('55wb), I too lived in North Richland, but left in
June of 1950. I remember the North Star Theater, the grocery
store, the drug store and I do remember that there was a store
called Hermans. I think it was a clothing store. I have lost a
lot of memory over the years. I guess that teaching at the high
school level for nearly 40 years has warped my brain.
When I attended the teen club dances they were held in a women's
dorm. I do remember having a lot of fun at those dances. I have
recently moved back to the Tri-cities area and now live in west
Kennewick.
I was gone from here for a long time, but am very glad to be
back home.
-Dave Rhodes ('52WB) ~ It is great to be a BOMBER
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>>From: Stan McDonald ('53)
Re: Recent trip to Europe
Maren:
I would not expect a full reprint of my journal of our recent
trip to Italy (part of a 9-week stay in Europe for my wife and
1 month for me). But you could perhaps do an attachment for a
brief statement directed to Wally Erickson and the class of 1953.
Anyway, I'll try this...
-Stan McDonald ('53)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54)
To: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: Where do they live?
Don't know if this will help much but the "official" Club 40
Roster lists Mr. Overdahl's home address as being in Richland,
WA 99352. On the other hand, Ms. Page's home of record is still
on the right side of the Columbia, but in Kennewick, WA 99336.
Fortunately for both, there is no mention of Pasco.
To: Peggy Nelson ('55 WB)
The Drugstore in North Richland was "Red" Green's. It was sort
of an early day Wal-Mart; complete with restaurant, cocktail
lounge, soda fountain, all sorts of other things to look at and
buy including clothing. It was even rumored to have a pharmacy.
The North Star Theater was the "cultural" center of North
Richland. After all, what else was there for a teen-ager to do
except wait for the bus to the big city.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) ~ not living at the present
in either city, but instead in beautiful downtown Mount
Angel, OR 97362 where the weather is currently showery.
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>>From: Floyd Melton ('57)
Re: Richland/Bomber
I think this discussion of living in the Richland boundaries
crazy. It has been stated by someone that "home is where you
are". Richland has always been home to a real Bomber. So no
matter where you are or where you live, if you are a true Bomber
you are home and therefore you are in Richland. So we all live
in Richland where home is and always will be as we are all
Bombers.... Tony Tellier ('57) and Gus Kenney ('57) should have
some philosophical comment to this.
-Floyd Melton ('57)
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>>From: Ernie Trujillo ('59)
To: Linda Sargent Evans ('67)
Re: Judy Sargent Scott ('59)
Linda, you mentioned all the right words, strong, upbeat, sense
of humor and optimistic. Those of us who have battled the big C
can attest that she has the right approach. Please tell Judy to
hang in there and that our thoughts and prayers are with her.
-Ernie Trujillo ('59)
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>>From: Nancy Stull Knutson ('59)
About not knowing where you are. Don’t you remember the stories
about people wandering into the wrong house because they all
looked alike? And South South Richland very well could be West
West Kennewick. There’s no mistaking Pasco, though. It’s across
The River and has changed considerably but it’s still a foreign
country. I know where CBC is, the airport and Unemployment
(which has since moved to Kennewick), but that’s about all.
Richland remains my favorite.
-Nancy Stull Jewell Knutson (’59, The last class of the Fabulous
Fifties)
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>>From: Derrith Persons Dean ('60)
We do have fun!!
My church is putting on a play and there are only two nights
left!! Tuesday and Wednesday. The play starts at 7pm
"Eternity" - A dramatic production about Life After Death
the Ultimate Experience. . .
Admission: FREE
Yes! there are Bombers in the play!!!
Desert Streams Bible Church, 2505 Duportail St., Richland, WA
Come and enjoy! Come early for a good seat!!
Bombers have fun!!
-Derrith Persons Dean ('60)
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>>From: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: "Wondrous Typo"
To: Pete Overdahl ('60)
I'm pretty sure you (and our deputy editor) recognized the
misspelling of your last name in my post yesterday as one
committed by Spell Check. It's an unlikely keystroke error and
your name has been familiar to me for many, many years. I do
want to apologize for failing to rein in the sneaky Spell Check.
Sorry! I don't know how the error qualified as "wondrous," but
at least it titillated the deputy editor.
-Jan Bollinger Persons ('60) ~ Spokane, which seems more like
rainy Seattle, lately.
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>>From: Bill Scott ('64)
I am sorry to report the passing of my mother, Mardelle, on
Monday, at age 88. Mom came to the Tri-Cities in 1945 as the new
bride of a new Hanford worker, my father, Harold Scott. When she
stepped off the train in Pasco for the first time, she took one
look at the desert and told him, "I'll stay six months; find
another job." Like so many, she never left, remaining in the
Tri-Cities the rest of her life. She was a Cub Scout den mother,
member of CUP Church, and administrative secretary for Vitro
Engineers Hanford for 12 years. She leaves three children,
five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. There will be
a memorial service in her honor Friday at 2 p.m. at Einan's
Funeral Home in Richland.
-Bill Scott (Boomer Bomber Class of '64)
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>>From: Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64)
Poor Pete Overdahl ('60). First his first name is changed to
Petah; now his last name is changed to Overhaul?!
To: Linda Reining (Boomer Bomber class of 64)
I thought you spelled it that way on purpose. I like it like
that.
-Deedee Willox Loiseau ('64), Boomber Bomber Babe in Burbank
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Dylan ain't Dylan no more
Ok... Richard's comment hit a nerve... I wasn't gonna say
anything about this and then he quoted Like Tom Thumb's Blues
and now I can't hold it back any more... When I WAS gonna say
something it was gonna start out like this: "Once upon a time I
dressed so fine I threw the bum a dime in my prime and the only
person I could play my Dylan records around was Alan Multhrop ('64)
........)........... that's what I was gonna start with but now
I just wanna know... When did Dylan become a reggae "pop star"?
I'm sorry... but when I go to a concert... I go because I like
the artist and the songs that made me like him... done at least
closely to the way he DID them... If Bobby Fuller was still
alive I would want him to do "I Fought the Law" the way he did
it then not with a new melody all moderned up... If Buddy was
alive I'd wanna hear him do "That'll Be the Day" the way he did
it in the day! I have been to three concerts I hated. The first
was in '69 or '70... I went to see Stephen Stills... He got up
and said flat out "If you came to hear my hits... yer outa luck
because I'm gonna sing what I like"... It sucked... apparently
he and I don't have the same taste in music... The first concert
I ever walked out on was Hank, Jr. when he was so drunk he
couldn't find his A_ _ with both hands... until then I never
walked out and I haven't since... But then Dylan showed up in
some kinda Flamingo outfit playing a funky key board with a
Lounge band playing so loud they drowned him out... which was a
good thing because he had changed the "melody" to every song he
did... he tooted on his harmonica a couple of times with no tune
or sequence to it at all... just a toot like some guy with a New
Year's Eve noise maker... all the time people were yelling "Go
Bob" "You're still the man"... HUH? Did I miss something? If I
wanted to go see some young group called Rocky and the Squirrels
I'd go see them... but if I wanna see Dylan I wanna see Dylan...
I kept hoping it would get better... It didn't... I left before
the encore... Glad I got that off my chest!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
I swear, I am not confused in the least! My Prozac is working
(Thank God) and my feet are currently in Pine Top, AZ. But at
moments like this, when I'm in the Sandstorm, I am totally a
Bomber! (Ray Stein ('64), right again!)
When I first returned to the Tri-Cities, nearly three years ago,
I lived in Meadow Springs. I just cringed when I tried to come
to grips with this being Richland. Just didn't work. For a
short time, I lived out by Hanford High. Now that was Richland,
although a bit north, but certainly not North Richland as I
remember it. But there was Rattlesnake Mountain and the cloud
of something white rising from the "plant".
Now, though still a Bomber, my home is near the banks of my
beloved Columbia River. It's legally, geographically, postally
and telephonicly in Pasco, Franklin County, WA, USA, Earth. My
phone prefix is "544", but you'll more easily reach the Bomber
in me (the REAL me) by calling an "888" number. No cost to you
anywhere in the USA. If you called the number buried under the
"888", it would be a "619" number, and if we are both in the
Tri-Cities, it seems kinda silly for you to pay for long
distance. So...
As for Richard, sometimes we just never can imagine the can of
worms we will kick over while in the simple process of putting
our foot in our mouth.
-dj jeff Michael ('65) a Boomer Bomber in Zonie-land. Went
horseback riding in the hills yesterday looking at
early cartoon characters emblazoned on smooth rock
faces. Was this the earliest known case of "tagging"
in North America? S'posed to get near 100 by the end
of the week. Guess I'll head back the cooler climes
of San Diego.
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Richard-I believe I found the typo you mentioned. Under Jan
Bollinger Persons' entry it said "Pete Overhaul". Is this what
you meant?
Bomber cheers,
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA, home of the "Lacey Pond Frog Races"
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Funeral Notice scanned from the Seattle Times
by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Gordon Shogren ('61) ~ 3/22/43 - 3/30/06
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13 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Hiser ('49), Gloria Adams ('54)
Laura Dean Kirby ('55), Gus Keeney ('57)
Tony Tellier ('57), Gloria Falls ('58)
George Swan ('59), Richard Anderson ('60)
Denny Johnson ('62WB), Gary Behymer ('64)
Linda Reining ('64), David Rivers ('65)
Gary Turner ('71)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)
North Richland: I had a lot of friends who were married to soldiers in
the US Army. My girl friend, Peggy, was going to give me a permanent at
Lou's and she had washed my hair but we got notice that Lou's husband
had been taken to the Army hospital for emergency surgery. We hopped in
Peggy's car and took Lou to the hospital and we went into a beer joint -
tavern (I thought it was Red and Green's). Since I looked like a mess
the bartender told me if I could give him 3 proofs of birth that I was
over 21 he would give my friend and I a free drink. I had my Hanford
pass, my driver's license and my Civil Air Patrol pass. I was 24 and she
had just turned 21. First time I was given a free drink that wasn't from
some fellow trying to get on the good side of me!!!
Did anyone live in the precuts when they were new? I currently live
in one and was wondering what type of storage was in the original
bathrooms?
-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - weather so so.
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[Betty -- Probably depends on if you're talking about a
2 bedroom "U" house (Precut) or a 3 bedroom "V" house (Precut)
Maybe you can tell from clicking on the floor plan of each. -Maren]
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>>From: Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
Re: The old Community Center
I'm not sure if someone has already mentioned this, but for anyone who
would like a keepsake of the old community center your last chance may
be this coming week-end.
A man and his sons have all the wood that was taken down and made
trellis' out of the wood.
They did a nice job, painted them white and they're selling them for
$10.00 each. They're hoping to sell the last of them. They will have
them in the yard at the corner of Lee and Thayer, across from
Carmichael.
We bought one today as we have many, many good memories, including the
fact that's where Clarence ('51) and I first met.
-Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
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>>From: Laura Dean Kirby Armstrong ('55)
To: Peggy Nelson ('55)
Peggy, I remember you of course, and we may have been in the same Girl
Scout Troop in North Richland. I went to John Ball in 1948-'50. I
believe the drug store was "The Green Hut", although that may have been
only the restaurant area. Yes, the clothing store was Hermans and I
think the grocery store was Dietrichs. Bleilers had the service station.
My first date ever was at the North Star theater with Larry Wiggs.
I too live in Richland and have a 628 phone prefix. It feels like
Kennewick, being only a few blocks North of Pete Overdahl. I have always
been a Richland Bomber, even when I was living in Illinois for a couple
of years.
I agree with David Rivers ('65) about hearing people in concert. We pay
the money to hear the hits! Last night's American Idols didn't do
"Queen" any favors!
-Laura Dean Kirby Armstrong ('55) ~ from the far edge of Richland.
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>>From: Gus Keeney ('57)
Re: Home is where I hang my Hat
To: Floyd Melton ('57)
I will always be a Bomber at heart.
Since I spent 33 Great years in St Helens, OR, and am Living in Yuma, AZ
at this point, I return regularly to "The Windy City" for my "Bomber
Fix"!!!
I should be there by late June for this year's "Fix". I hope to travel
more around the NW this year and see a lot of folks that I have missed
since Sue got sick. Em is great about getting me out and around again.
So, I guess home is where I hang my Hat!!!!
-Gus Keeney ('57) ~ In Yuma where it is supposed to reach the high 80s
or low 90s by late this week!!
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>>From: Tony Tellier ('57)
Is "Petah" Overdahl ('60) living out by the Highland Ranch Market? Or
The Flume? Or the "Buck Private" at the "Y"? Or "The Mad Turk"? Or "Wild
Bill's": "No Meal is a Meal Without Spuds"? In any event, he must be
closer to Bunch-Finnegan's than the "Drift Inn" so that makes him
Richwickian.
Mentally, always a "Bomber".
Anthony Tellier
Wordsmith
-Tony Tellier ('57)
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>>From: Gloria Falls Evans ('58)
I lived in North Richland from '48 to '59. What a treat to have lived in
that community. I remember the stores, the movie and the area. We had
little trailers and big wash houses. We rode the bus to school and had a
great driver.
I have lived in St. Louis, Seattle and Moses Lake and now in Spokane. My
son still lives in Richland where the Rattlesnake Mountain was. There is
a big housing development there now. We visit often to see the family
living there. He is the CEO of Lemaster and Daniels accounting firm and
also owns the Tri-City Americans hockey team.
-Gloria Lee Falls Loman Evans (Bomber '58) ~ Spokane - Like Jan said, it
is rainy but sort of warm now
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
To: dj jeff Michael ('65)
Re: Foot in mouth disease
" ... sometimes we just never can imagine the can of worms we will kick
over while in the simple process of putting our foot in our mouth."
We're still chuckling over that one.
I sit here this morning, slowly emptying my rather large "cupa" extra
dark "day starter" with my diminutive friend and mentor, Meditor, on
my shoulder, who takes his, with both hands, from a uniquely shaped
thimble. Normally, residing in meditation, within a tiny hidden hermit
hut, 'neath the lee of a large rock, not far from the puddle, in a
location known to but few of his confidants -- Meditor, an ancient elf
"Master," often comes to me, in my times of puzzlement and quandary. Of
diverse background, yet somewhat reminiscent of another "Mastah" who
often referred to his pupil as, "Grasshoppah," Meditor, counsels me.
He speaks ... "Payshuns catapeerah, da inch worm is srow but da reaves
ah payshun ... foh you shaa see, "A foorah and hees credaberaty ah soon
potted..." (Rong sirence.)
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) Student of Meditor, the tiny ancient one ~
Burbank, WA where we are now contemplating, "Was Bob Dylan ...
confused?" Leaving for a few days of turkey hunting and further
contemplation.
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>>From: Richard Anderson ('60) (Sandstorm Deputy Editor)
Re: Richland
I added my comment about Pete Overdahl's ('60) not living in "Richland"
-- he lives across the river in West Kennewick / West Richland, whatever
you want to call it -- on purpose. There is a world of difference
between a community of actual people and a "community" defined by some
bureaucrats drawing lines on a map. Stein (Ray ('64)) knows that and
pointed it out immediately.
To dj jeff (Jeff Michael ('65)): I'm afraid that I put my foot in my
mouth entirely on purpose and hoped that there would be worms in the can
when I knocked it over..... and hoped that people would care.
And now to worse news (and I'll end with one of those ever-irritating
Dylan quotes), the following appeared in the Wednesday, April 12, 2006
issue of the Tri-City Herald:
RICHLAND SCHOOL BOARD DEBATES BUILDING NAMES
Richland School Board members aren't sure if they want to
start naming parts of existing buildings in memory of
former Richland teachers or coaches.
"We might get ourselves in a position that will offend
folks and that's not our intent," said Jim Peterson,
board member.
The board discussed the issue because several people in
the community approached the board about naming the new
Falcon gym at Hanford High School after former teachers
and coaches Fred Strankman or Jim Murphy.
The board's current policy indicates that new or
existing facilities should be named after persons who
have made great contributions locally or nationally, but
it does not specify if facilities refer to an entire
building, or parts of a building.
"When people change the names of things, like Toyota
arena, it throws me," said Rick Janson, board president.
Ever-irritating Dylan quote for RSD Board members (why what you are
contemplating is A VERY BAD IDEA):
"Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?"
--Bob Dylan
Bomber cheers,
Richard Anderson ('60)
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>>From: Denny Johnson ('62WB)
Re: typos
Not sure to what the editor is referring, but beside the obvious
mispelling of "hocus pocus" in reference to the esteemed Las Vegas
attorney, the only other major gaffe I found was "...they left before
they got there." Has to be a serious problem for the space/time
continuum. Rereading the statement, one can sort out what was meant,
but nonetheless, taken on its own - there is some confusion.
"lenticular obfuscation predominates"
from the consistent-weather capital of the world (my world, anyway)..
=Denny ('62WB) Johnson
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Watch out...Rivers ('65) has gone 'nonsensical'' This is for you Dave.
'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'
"Say, don't you remember they called me Al,
It was Al all the time.
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal --
Say, buddy, can you spare a dime?"
Call me Gary 'Al Mota' Behymer
http://www.wbr.com/paulsimon/lyrics/you_can_call_me.html
The 'Al Mota' photo page (;-)
http://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/AlmotaElevatorPhotoPage.html
-Gary Behymer ('64)...within 2 blocks of the Top Notch (;-)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
to:David Rivers('65)
re:performers who don't sing "their" songs
I agree with you all the way---first time I paid money to see an act in
Las Vegas, we went to see Bobby Vinton('1977, I think)--can't remember
the name of the casino that he was appearing in, but Milton Berle was
also on the "bill". I was so disappointed---first, Milton Berle came out
and told jokes and had THE filthiest mouth I had ever heard!!!!!! I grew
up watching "Uncle Miltie" on TV(think it was Friday nights)and my face
was red as a beet with the words coming out his mouth!!!(years later
I learned he is Howard Stern's uncle, so explains a lot)! then, was
further disappointed when Bobby Vinton came out on stage and sang
nothing but show tunes from Broadway!!!! I had expected to hear him
sing, "Blue Velvet", "Blue on Blue" and his other songs! was VERY
disappointed that I had spent $80 to have my ears assaulted with filth
AND songs that I had no interest in listening to!!!!!!!! BUT, my money
was well-spent a few years later when we saw Captain and Tenille in
'Vegas and they sang ALL of their hits! had taken my two daughters, who
were 12 and 8 at the time, we slipped the usher $20 and he sat us right
down front---we were so close that when Toni Tenille sang, "Muskrat
Love", my daughters reached out and touched her hand. now, that was
worth the money!!!!!!! *grin* sad to say, I haven't been to an act in
'Vegas since then. I did see Johnny Cash perform in Anaheim(a GREAT
show)and also saw Ricky Van Shelton perform in Bakersfield, but won't
pay for an act in 'Vegas anymore---content to spend my money on the
slots. *grin*
-Linda Reining(Boomber Bomber class of 64).....Bakersfield, CA
.........we are due another storm Thursday and Friday and more next
week. haven't gotten any of the flooding that the rest of Northern
and Central CA have gotten....Governor Schwartzenegger has declared
7 counties as States of Emergency---Fresno County is one of them,
about 80 miles North of here.
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: spell check
Spell check shore do change the meaning of things don't it! I said in my
message yesterday that Dylan showed up in a Flamenco outfit... after the
editor... whom I love dearly, hit spell check... it came out that he
showed up in a Flamingo outfit... while he did act a turkey on stage...
he wasn't dressed in pink.
-David Rivers ('65)
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[David--Guilty as charged... Bomber apologies. -Maren]
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>>From: Gary Turner ('71)
Anyone who was in the music program at either Carmichael or RHS during
the late '60s will remember Armand Boatman as a brilliant musician and
an inspiring educator with a passion for all things musical. During a
Spring Training road trip to Scottsdale a couple of weeks ago, I was
fortunate enough to catch Mr. Boatman's Phoenix Jazz Quartet at a local
coffee house/wine bar. Spent the evening listening to some great music
(go to CDbaby.com and search for Phoenix Jazz Quartet for the latest CD)
and reminiscing. Mr. Boatman has great memories of his days in Richland
and brought up a lot of names of band members that he still remembers 40
years later... for better or worse! We had a great three hours of music
and "Whatever happened to...?"
Anyway, he asked me to pass his email address along to any former
students... he would like to hear from anyone who wants to get in touch
with him. Rather than post it I would ask you to contact me directly and
I will pass it along.
-Gary Turner ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/14/06
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Missy Keeney ('59), Patti Jones ('60)
Mike Brady ('61), Roy Ballard ('63)
Gary Behymer ('64), Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave Brusie ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robin Corley ('69)
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>>From: Missy Keeney ('59)
To: David Rivers ('65)
I KNEW you meant "flamenco" and NOT "flamingo!" I have just returned
from Knoxville, TN and a pink flamingo themed 90th Birthday party for
my favorite Aunt Barbara. I don't care if I never see another pink
flamingo as long as I live!
To: Gus Keeney ('57)
I can't wait to have you and "Em" back in Bomberville! Love you lots!
-Missy Keeney ('59)
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Re: All Bomber luncheon Richland
Last Saturday was the all Bomber luncheon Richland. Finally got the
table arrangement set up in away that conversations were going every
which way. For those who give luncheons U shape worked the best ever.
No chairs in the middle. Also will probably have a photographer next
month so pictures will follow in the Sandstorm.
The following were in attendance: Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) and her
brother, Gene Ruppert ('65), Cathy Geier ('66), Fred Klute ('58),
Glen Rose ('58) and spouse Carol, Mary Judd Hinz ('60), Betty Bell
Norton ('51), Millie Bohlke ('56). Barbara Isakson Rau ('58) and myself.
Gene Ruppert has recently moved here from Western WA. So much chatter
going on I didn't ever get certain subjects to report about. *grin*
Doing too much talking myself!
Re: Pete Overdahl ('69) and where he lives. Misspelled name.
Pete's zip code is the same as mine. West Richland is 99353. The
various entries in the Sandstorm about their experience as a Bomber say
so much. I found myself visiting Bomberville every year wishing I was
here. I left for California in 1962. About the age of 36 finally decided
I would always be a Bomber and it was time to move on with my life
knowing in my heart no one could change that no matter where I lived.
Never thought I would go five years one time without returning here.
When I would speak of being a Bomber, others did not understand no
matter how I explained the situation. I did notice the misspelled name
of Pete but thought it was a typo.
David Rivers ('65) (Big Moose) Sandstorm entry a couple of days ago,
Allen Moulthrop ('64) was misspelled. This time not really knowing Allen
I thought it was me. Because of marriage his children are cousins.
Probably why I noticed at all. Went into his class to find the true
spelling. Wondered how many times I looked at misspellings of names and
didn't know it or I misspelled. Spell check doesn't hit everything!!!
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Do me a favor if you can. Control the elves for a couple of more days.
They think it is fun when I am outside cleaning the pond to try to
knock me in. I'm sure they would fish me out but the pond water is just
reaching 55°. Fish are surfacing to eat finally after a long winter.
The elves will be welcome to join my Faeries (see amybrownart.com/,
famous Washington artist who is from Browns Point where I lived) for
feeding the Koi fish in a couple of days. The Elves and the Faeries can
be so funny. They love to slide down the water fall on their fannies.
Hey Jan Bollinger Persons ('60) is your pond done yet? Let me know if
you need some help?
Happy Easter Bombers, spouses and families where ever you are!
Until next time. Always a Bomber and having fun as a Bomber
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) West Richland, WA ~ Temperature doesn't quite
know where it wants to be. Hoping the weathermen are wrong for
Easter Sunday after putting in a new patio deck. Weather supposed
to be around 60 degrees. I think the cloudiness of Western WA
has followed me. Ready for 75° and above temperatures.
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Re: Fred Strankman Gymnasium
That's crazy... In my mind it's more appropriate to name a school/
facility after a beloved teacher and coach than someone I can't relate
to, i.e. Pierce Elementary School or Grant High School. Now I don't mean
to offend any of you Pierce or Grant lovers... whoever (whomever) they
are/were... help me out you English teachers. Now, that Sacajawea, she
was quite a women!
{}_{}
(='.'=) Happy Easter!
(")_(")
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
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>>From: Roy Ballard ('63)
Richard, We went through the process a lot of years ago and had the
"BOMBER BOWL" changed to Fran Rish Stadium and I also believe that the
big gym was also named "Dawald Gym", but one never knows what the school
board in their infinite wisdom will do about anything. The majority does
not make a difference.
-Roy Ballard ('63)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)
Re: Hanford veterans during World War II...
I received the following letter this morning that 'should' be of
interest to many of you/us! Would someone or a group of you still
'living' in the Tri-City area please consider taking this project on?!
*****
Dear Gary:
The Atomic Heritage Foundation has taken over the website of
the Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association Inc.
(MPHPA) following the death of MPHPA executive director Michael
Vickio. We are currently updating and revising the website to
make it easier to navigate and include additional Manhattan Project
information.
As you will notice from the site, there is a lack of information
about Hanford veterans. We would love to have more information
about Hanford veterans to include in the Veterans Archive section
and more information about life at Hanford during the Manhattan
Project in general. We would greatly appreciate it if you could
assist us in contacting Hanford area children of the Manhattan
Project. It would be great if you could, as you say, "draw out"
this community by placing a notice on the alumni website of
mentioning it directly to those you know in the organization.
Manhattan Project veteran family members could easily go to the
website and follow the steps to "submit a veteran." We would
especially like to include personal anecdotes about life and
work at Hanford during the war years.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is also seeking funding to do
oral histories of Hanford Manhattan Project veterans. We are
planning a trip out to the tri-cities this summer to do so.
Again, you might mention this to the alumni organization so
that we may begin to compile a list of those we might potentially
interview.
Thanks for your offer of help!
Rebecca Lord
Program Manager, Atomic Heritage Foundation
Phone: (202) 293-0045
Fax: (202) 293-0699
http://www.atomicheritage.org/
mphpa_support@atomicheritage.org
******
-Gary Behymer ('64)...somewhere near the Top Notch in downtown Colfax, WA
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Washington quarter link
Here is a link if any of you out there want to vote for Washington's
state quarter. Governor Chris has the final say but I imagine she will
take how the people vote into consideration.
http://www.governor.wa.gov/quarter/default.asp
They had a big flap over this last week as too many votes were cast in
too short of a time. They were able to weed them out while shutting down
the site for a bit, but it is up and going once again. In fact when I
went in to print the pictures for a friend, I got a message thanking me,
but I had already voted. When I lived in Kansas the vote was given to
the school kids.
Bomber cheers,
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/15/06
Dateline: Richland
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4 Bombers and 1 Bomber Historian sent stuff:
Betty McElhaney ('57), Jan Bollinger ('60)
Dennis Hammer ('64), Anna Durbin ('69)
Don Sorenson (Bomber Historian)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy Carpenter ('61)
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>>From: Betty McElhaney Hudspeth ('57)
I just read this recently and thought it was interesting. Do not
try a spell checker on it. See how fast you can read it.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan
mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?
-Betty McElhaney Hudspeth ('57)
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>>From: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
To: Betty Avant ('69)
Re: New Washington State Quarter
Thanks for the link to vote on the proposed designs for the
Washington State quarter:
<http://www.governor.wa.gov/quarter/default-voted.asp>
I heard about the voting flap on the news last week and got a
glimpse of the three designs. Apparently all of the "illegal"
computer-generated votes were for the Indian-styled whale
design. Personally, I don't think it's a very apt representation
of the Native Americans of this state, and it looks to me like
an angry whale wearing dentures. There's something "toothy"
about the tail fin, too. No doubt someone will explain to me
that I simply lack understanding and appreciation for art of
that genre -- and they'll be right, of course.
To: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
You asked if my pond is done yet? Well, no..... but when did my
ambitions grow to having a pond? All I ever asked for was a low-
maintenance puddle..... and all I've got to date is the same
old stump. I may have to get the Puddle Pals over here to stage
a demonstration!
-Jan Bollinger Persons ('60) ~ Spokane, where the Easter Bunny
has his scouts out; we see those little cottontails
in the yard every day now. Guess I won't bother to
plant any lettuce this year.
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>>From: Dennis Hammer ('64)
To: Betti Avant ('69), et. al.
Re: State Quarter designs
Here is a link that shows all of the state quarter designs:
<http://www.quarterdesigns.com/>
You can click on the state name at the bottom of each quarter to
the US Mint page and read information about that state quarter,
or click at the top of the quarter and see some of the earlier
designs that were not chosen.
-Dennis Hammer ('64)
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>>From: Anna Durbin ('69)
Happy Birthday to my classmate, Robin Corley ('69)! I'll have to
dig up your email and send it personally, since I don't see you
on Sandstorm. But thanks for the reminder.
-Anna Durbin ('69)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (Bomber Historian)
A set of eleven pictures from North Star Theater in 1951-52:
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2006/Xtra/Soren/060415/North_Star_Theater_1951-52.html>
-Don Sorenson (Bomber Historian)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/16/06
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Ely ('47), Dave Brusie ('51)
Lenora Hughes ('55), Lois Weyerts ('56)
Patti Jones ('60), Larry Mattingly ('60)
Janet Tyler ('61), Mike Brady ('61)
Donna Fredette ('65), Peg Wellman ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken Ely ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony Sharpe ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg Jochen ('76)
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>>From: Betty Ely King ('47)
Re: My brother's 75th Birthday
My brother, Ken Ely ('49), will be 75 today. Happy Birthday and enjoy
the Sacramento Jazz Festival.
Your sister, Betty
-Betty Ely King ('47)
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>>From: Dave Brusie ('51)
To: Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
Gloria,
My Mother was the baker at the Rec Hall for many years. Before that at
the old Hanford Camp at the Bluffs she cooked at one of the mess halls.
-Dave Brusie ('51)
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>>From: Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55)
Re: Paul Carver ('55)
I am sad to report that the class of '55"has lost another member.
Paul Carver passed away on the 13th of April here in Las Vegas, NV. He
is survived by his wife, Neva, and his son, Chris in Colorado Spgs, CO.
I know many of you will remember him. He was a fine gentleman and will
be missed by those who loved him. May he rest in peace. No services have
been announced. I spoke with his wife, Neva, earlier and she is doing
okay--as best she can. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. If
anyone would like to send her a card please contact me and I will send
her address. She doesn't do the computer "thing".
-Lenora Hughes Bejarano ('55)
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>>From: Lois Weyerts Harrold ('56)
Re: Death of Ray Juricich
I got a call from my daughter, Julie, this morning saying that Ray
Juricich died this morning. Her husband's dad, Carl Cox, married Ray's
daughter, Mary. Ray had fallen about a week ago and broke the femur bone
in his leg. After surgery he didn't bounce back like they had hoped.
Tuesday he was released from the hospital to a nursing home. We aren't
sure when the funeral will be (possibly Wednesday). We have lost two
important coaches this year.
My husband, Larry ('56), and I saw Ray Juricich a few months ago when
Julie and her kids came for a short visit. He was doing great then and
he and Larry had a fun time visiting about old times at Col Hi. He was
93 or 94 so he had lived a good long life and did not have to suffer a
debilitating illness.
-Lois Weyerts Harrold ('56) ~ in rainy Richland where there is a promise
of sunny days coming in the middle of the week--finally!
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>>From: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon - Richland
To: Pat Doriss Trimble ('65)
My apologies to Pat that I forgot to list her for being at the All
Bomber Luncheon in April. She was there with her radiant smile.
Guess I need to be better about the sign in sheet.
To: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
Re: Puddle or pond
Ponds run in all sizes. Puddles to quite a few feet. There are many
ways to take care of a stump. Did get you wanted a puddle. The following
is what can be done with a stump:
http://www.birdsandblooms.com/RD.asp?ID=586&pmcode=BNB200604B&e=89921
No puddle with these stumps but would be easy to add a puddle. When you
want a demonstration let us know. Looks like vegetables come first??
Happy Easter
Bombers have Fun
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) - West Richland, WA ~ Patio poured but weather
still not conducive to outdoors yet. Guess the group for Easter
will enjoy mostly being inside. Can't complain about the rain
after all the rain along the west coast. In fact really enjoying
what rain we are getting.
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: N Star Theater
Got back from my trip to Berlin last Monday and am finally back to
normal sleep and other aspects of life. There were 330 pyro types from
33 countries at the Symposium. I did get out a couple of days for some
exploring. Visited several museums. Also got out to the German WW2 high
command bunker 6 stories underground near the town of Zossen. Had a
great dinner one evening with pyro friends from 5 different countries,
on a canal boat cruising the canals of Berlin. In Germany they sell a
Coke product called Coke Lite.... yiuk, flat, and terrible. Bottled
water was 2-3 euros and full of additives. So we all drank the very good
beer. I like a straight pilsner, but there were always 3-5 varieties. It
is inexpensive and readily available everywhere, including Mickey D's as
a McBier. We are now totally sold out of all production capacity in 06
for the new firing system we invented. It works, and works well, but I
am still a bit nervous until we actually deliver the first units to
average users in the field in May.
Thanks to Don Sorenson (Bomber Historian) for the pictures of the N Star
theater. I was only in the building once for a movie I don't remember.
But it is part of the rich history of early in Richland. I do remember
watching it being torn down and wondering how many memories of some
folks were attached to it. How many can remember some daring kissing in
the back row of some theater?
Thanks to one of you alumni for publishing the site for the new
Washington quarter or I might have missed the whole thing with my very
busy week. I voted for the one with the apples on it as I thought it
best represented Washington State. I do a lot of business with many of
the various tribes and have made a lot of Native American friends. But I
felt there was more to WA State then fish.
To: Betty McElhaney Hudspeth ('57)
Thanks for the reading test. You are right that it can be read very
rapidly if you don't try to mentally correct the spelling errors. I have
always been an avid reader. By the time I got out of Mrs. Manor's first
grade class at Lewis and Clark I had read all of the 3rd grade readers,
and I was only there for half of that school year. The first half was
at Jefferson with Mrs. Pitts. Too bad the rest of my grades were not
as high as Reading. I usually read at least one book a week on a wide
variety of subjects.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry Mattingly ('60) ~ From home, South of Tacoma where after a warm,
dry week it is raining and too wet for yard work. Oh well lots
of house work catch-up to do.
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>>From: Janet Tyler ('61)
Happy Birthday one day late to Sandy Carpenter ('61).
Where are you living now? I'm in Pasco. Write me when you can.
-Janet Tyler ('61)
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Re: State Quarter designs
To: Dennis Hammer ('64)
Thanks for drawing my attention to the state quarter designs in
yesterday's edition of the Sandstorm. My wife and I enjoyed checking
out the site. All the designs are nice, but I especially liked
Nebraska's design. It reminded me of a story Mrs. Mead or Mrs. Brazena
(sp?) read to us about the Oregon Trail when I was in the 3rd or 4th
grade at Sacajawea.
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
P.S. Thank you Sandstorm editors and contributors...I learn
something new every day!
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>>From: Donna Fredette ('65)
To: Betty McElhaney Hudspeth ('57)
Wow! That is really neat! I can't believe how fast you can read it too!
Happy Easter to all Bombers and their families all over the world. God
Bless You all!
Bomber Cheers!
-Donna Fredette ('65)
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>>From: Peg Wellman Johnson ('66)
Re: 4/14/06 entry:
"Did anyone live in the precuts when they were new? I currently
live in one and was wondering what type of storage was in the
original bathrooms?"
My folks were the first inhabitants of a 2-bedroom precut on Sanford
and it was always home to me. The only bathroom storage I recall was a
metal white medicine chest with clear glass shelves above the sink. It
had a slit in the back for used razor blades but no container to hold
them when they were disposed. So when one climbed under the house to fix
something, there were razor blades on the ground along with the black
widow spiders.
-Peg Wellman Johnson ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/17/06
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Jack Lowrey ('49), Gloria Adams ('54)
Tom Tracy ('55), Rosalie Geiger ('57)
Bonnie Allen ('59), Larry Mattingly ('60)
Jeff Michael ('65), Patty de la Bretonne ('65)
Betti Avant ('69), Cole Kids ('52, '55, '63, and '66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith Maupin ('47)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Jones ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob Thomas ('64WB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim Vaché ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Jane Smith ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim Jochen ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: "Jumbo" & "Wig" Davis ('82)
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>>From: Jack Lowrey ('49)
To: Ken Ely ('49)
Happy birthday, ole Buddy. Have a nice Easter and many more BDs.
-Jack Lowrey ('49)
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>>From: Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
To: David Brusie ('51)
Remember the old Mart, where they fed all the construction workers?
That's where my Mother made her living, making salads. They fed 5000 a
day so imagine how many salads she made!!! Sounds like we both had good
cooks for Moms.
-Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
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[http://allgallery.tripod.com/0000s/Mart.html -- The Mart
http://richlandbombers.1944.tripod.com/44HCC/1944HCC.htm -- Hanford
Construction Camp statistics (many stats on food consumption) -Maren]
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>>From: Tom Tracy ('55)
Ray Juricich - Remembering the good things about a favorite teacher,
coach, driver training expert par excellente'. I extend my best thoughts
to his family. He will be missed.
Every time I drive down a residential street, I think about Ray Juricich
who reminded us..."Always look ahead underneath parked cars... to see if
there is a tiny pair of feet or a set of tricycle wheels... ready to run
out in front of you."
"Nobody has beaten these guys yet... It might as well be us who does
it". RHS vs Lincoln
Ray Juricich gave passengers a break... He taught us to ease off the
brake just as the car stopped and before it 'rocked back'... many
techniques that helped us all become better drivers, athletes and
students... with skills and reminders to last a lifetime.
Coach Juricich would often sneak away from his track team practice to
slip up by the edge of the track as Calvin Welsch's Cross Country team
was on its finishing lap and scream as only Ray could... ALL RIGHT...
LET'S ROLL!!! It made a difference. Ray Juricich made a difference. I
really respected that man. Same for Rish, Dawald and Welsh.
I recall sitting in the back seat during one of his driving training
sessions. "There's a COP!!!" Ray screamed while a young girl was taking
her first time behind the wheel. I'm sure he never did that again.
It was an era before seat belts. Directional lights were optional.
Whitewall tires were a must and brakes on our Driver Training Car were
in excellent condition. She reacted perfectly, braked hard, leaving
hot streaks of molten rubber on the pavement... and those of us in the
back seat piled onto the floor. "You have quick reflexes" he remarked
as he pulled himself off the dash board and said, "I deserved that".
We never mentioned it again, but were always thinking... "easy on the
brake" if he screams about a cop.
Juricich's search for perfection was displayed during a '65-'66 JV game
against Toppenish. I was visiting to watch Steve Sandlin (whom I was
recruiting)... and noticed Ray's JV team shooting layups... absolutely
perfect in warm-ups, just like the varsity. No shot touched anything
except the back board and the bottom of the net. Flawless. I can almost
hear him in practice telling them... "Hey, nobody's guarding you. You
should at least be able to make a perfect layup". "We can't get you any
closer to the rim and back board than that"! "Make it a perfect shot!"
They were smooth, confident and unmatched in experience and talent. Ray
always wanted players, drivers, students to perform with a measure of
perfection. He was a true professional. When I'm driving or shooting
layups, I always remember Ray Juricich. (I think Steve Sandlin... with
Denny Duncan, Phil Neill, Panther, Grinnell, Manolopolous, Palmer,
Henniger, Nikola, Albaugh, Fortune, Sonderland, Anderson, McClellan,
Crownover; A real shooting team, beat Toppenish 90 - 55. The JVs easily
won theirs.) So many great teams, so many miles on the road... a lot
of good memories still make a difference. Thanks to Ray Juricich. I've
never seen a team shoot layups with such perfection before or since...
except the Globtrotters in 1948. Oh yes. We captured Steve Sandlin and
he was a spectacular college player.
I'll never miss Ray... because he's always driving with me... reminding
me... in his inescapable classic ways... as a good advisor. "Look for
the little feet... easy on the brake when you come to a stop sign...
With good Bomber thoughts and prayers of thanks for Ray Juricich's
family as they celebrate a life well spent... from
-Tom Tracy ('55)
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>>From: Rosalie Geiger Hughes ('57)
Does anyone know someone who may have recollections about women working
on the Project and living in the fenced barracks with a guard, and
visitors sign-in/sign-out, during Hanford construction days? This is
for a research project so feel free to e-mail me directly.
-Rosalie Geiger Hughes ('57) ~ Boise , ID
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>>From: Bonnie Allen ('59)
Re: Elf Activities on Easter
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
I'm anxiously anticipating an account of the Easter Egg Hunt for
the Elves.
-Bonnie Allen ('59)
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: Ponds and little people
Like many I have been amused reading about the sightings and antics of
little people. Now I find myself with the possibility of being involved.
I have the makings of a rather nice glen near the back of my half acre.
Made up of 4 Doug Fir and 2 very nice holly trees it is nearly private
and will be so when I get the rest of the plantings in. For 2 years now
I have had a pump and filter system setting in the garden storage along
with a heavy liner for a pond of 110 to 120 sq. ft. And setting on my
front porch is a 2 foot high "Brussels Boy". For those not familiar
with this term, he is cherub-like, naked, and ummm, shall we say "well
endowed" by well-placed piece of copper pipe. He will be the outlet for
the pump.
This year I have vowed to at least get the pond dug and plumbed with
water running in it. Now since we know the little folks of this world
have a mysterious way of knowing where friendly ponds and puddles are,
I suspect there may be visitors from time to time. It is rumored that
these communications skills were developed from knowledge gleaned from
both the Leprechauns of Ireland and the Minihuni of Hawaii. Despite it's
source, the water spray will likely serve as a nice shower for dusty
travelers.
At some point I do intend to have several kinds of water plants and some
fish and a there will be a deep end for winter hibernation. There are 2
huge rotwiellers in the yard next door but they can be easily seen and
travelers should be able to avoid getting into the wrong yard.
The house across the street has a large open pond and is served by
Mallard Air. From my front porch I can see them going in on final,
flaps down, gear down and lots of quacktivity. While this is a limited
capacity connector service, there are frequent flights daily, with first
flights at dawn.
While I was sure I saw a couple of leprechauns in my trip to Ireland
a few years ago, my experience with little people is nil. With lots of
fresh water, showers, and shelter under the thick holly, and my veggie
garden right next to the glen, what more does a person need to do for
them? Perhaps some of you with experience with them can offer advice?
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry Mattingly ('60) ~ Yea, despite the dire predictions of
heavy rain, the sun was warm and I got the lawn mowed and some
garden work done in time to have Easter dinner with friends.
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Re: Flashback
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
Greetings from sunny (now) San Diego! We had a glorious Easter with
family and friends.
Just read today's Sandstorm with another reference to the North Star
Theater. I had totally forgotten it, but I went to at least one movie
there. And I had nightmares and panics when alone for years after.
Vincent Price/"House of Wax". Need I say more (it was new then)
-dj jeff Michael (65) Have my fingers crossed that I can go sailing
tomorrow. Weather looks promising!!!!
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>>From: Patty de la Bretonne ('65)
I grew up in a 3 bedroom precut on McPherson. At our house I recall
floor to ceiling open shelves in the wall next to the bathtub for
towels and bathroom stuff that didn't fit in the medicine cabinet.
I too remember the mysterious (to me) slit for the razor blades! and
the fear of black widows.....
-Patty de la Bretonne ('65)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Old House
I got thinking about the house I grew up in after I wrote that note
about the forsythia bushes. We put aluminum siding on it 40 years ago
this spring. It was white with gray shutters around the windows. For the
past several trips I have made to Richland in going by the house they
took out the bushes and grass in the front yard and put gravel in. When
I was in town a month ago for the job interview in Walla Walla, I drove
through the old neighborhood once again. To my shock, the graveled front
yard was now one big cement slab for parking. That street was always
really narrow anyway and I guess whoever decided they needed "drive-up"
parking. It makes me wonder what the back yard looks like, as I know a
couple of neighbors had put in swimming pools. Parts of Richland look
just like I remember as a kid, and others well.........
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA, where it is a rainy Easter morning
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>>From: Cole Kids ('52, '55, '63, and '66)
We want to wish our sister Barbara ('50) a very happy birthday on 4/16.
We love you!
-Patti ('52), Karen ('55), Judie & Jackie ('63), and Johnny ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/18/06
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Jim Doyle ('49), Tom Tracy ('55)
Betti Avant ('69), Vic Marshall ('71)
Dave Fowler ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane Walker ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie Cone ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gilbert Blankenship ('81)
TODAY IN HISTORY: 4/18/1875
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the EIGHTEENTH OF APRIL, in '75;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year....
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/poem.shtml
"Paul Revere's Ride"
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1860
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>>From: Jim Doyle ('49)
To: Tom Tracy ('55)
Very nice piece on Ray Juricich. Those of us who were friends and fans
of Ray certainly agree. It's pretty rough to lose both Rish and Juricich
in barely a months time.
I first met Ray in 1947 when he was an assistant football coach for Rish
handling the defense. He was a great proponent of his players being
the "hittor", rather than the hittee". He had a rather forceful way of
getting his point across. If you were ever able to get him to elicit a
"nice hit", you knew you had really done something.
His health began to deteriorate the last few years after the death of
his wife Marion. He had to give up his beloved golf and in recent months
wasn't able to get out much.
I spent an afternoon with him about a month ago and was able to get him
to talk a little about himself, which was pretty rare. I'll share a few
of the things I learned even though he probably would be upset a little
with me.
His parents immigrated to the US as teenagers from Czechoslovakia,
married and settled in Chicago. Both spoke Czech in the home. Both died
while Ray was in high school. He then worked part-time, supporting
himself until graduation.
He then put himself through college while working part-time and playing
football.
He served in the Army during World War II. He was scheduled to land at
Normandy on D-day but his ship collided with another ship and had to put
in for minor repairs. He landed on the coast of France on D-day plus
two.
He later fought in the battle of the bulge and other engagements across
Europe. After the war ended he left the service with the rank of Major.
He probably coached more Bombers in more sports than anybody in the
history of Columbia/Richland High. He was a hell of a lot more than
"that old curmudgeon" that taught Drivers Ed".
I have known him as a coach and friend for fifty-nine years. I will miss
him.
-Jim Doyle ('49)
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>>From: Tom Tracy ('55)
To: Patty de la Bretonne ('65)
The mystery of the razor blade slit in or near bathroom walls. A doorman
at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago once told me the magic behind the razor
blade depository in the wall below the mirror in our rooms. It was
somehow engineered to use the Gillette Blue Blades to hold up the
building. He said it with no smile on his face, so it had to be a
serious matter indeed. Your home undoubtedly has acquired through the
years the added protection of razor blade superstructure reinforcement.
...and speaking of the Conrad Hilton. Once Zsa Zsa Gabor mentioned that
she was the world's best housekeeper...when she got a divorce, she
always got to keep the house. Except, as she emphasized, when she
divorced Conrad Hilton, he got to keep the hotels...but she did get
15,000 Gideon Bibles...
Spiders. We had our share of insects in Richland. What species weren't
there already, made their way among moving vans, vehicles and trailers
from 47 other states. No city was sprayed with insecticide more often
than Richland. We usually defeated the pesky mosquitoes, spiders and
pests with jeeps -- fogging our neighborhoods. Running through the fog
became a community activity for kids. By the time Moms had warned the
kids to come in out of the fog, they'd already made their runs through
it.
I still remember well the friendly greetings of your parents at our
church picnics. Everyone spoke in complimentary terms about their well-
behaved daughters.
-Tom Tracy ('55)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Update
Hey Pappy - Sammy Squirrel just stopped me on the way to the mailbox and
asked me how Bogart and Lowiq are doing. I told him I would check in
with you and let him know tomorrow. I hope they have stayed out of
trouble for awhile?!
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA (home of the Lacey Pond Frog Races)
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>>From: Vic Marshall ('71)
Re: Bobbi Beaver ('71)
Maren - I saw the notice of Roberta "Bobbi" Beaver's passing today.
I don't recall if Bobbi actually graduated with us or not but she did
go all the way through Christ the King with our grade school class
(CKS'67/RHS'71). May she rest in peace.
-Vic Marshall ('71) ~ Beverly Hills, MI - Where the only bad thing about
being a Pistons fan is that the end of Basketball season (and
another Championship) means the start of another long agonizing
Detroit Tigers Baseball season...
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>>From: Dave Fowler ('76)
Re: Ray, A Man We Will Miss
I bought the house where Ray and his family grew up. I can still
remember the moments he shared with me as we discussed the sale of his
house. He would spend hours recalling his personal life. How he loved
his wife and missed her so after her passing. The rooms, I could hear
the family as he recalled stories of his daughters. Some would say he
spent way too much time with high school basketball and football. Yes,
even Ray told me he didn't spend enough time with his daughters. A
father that regretted giving more to his community than his family.
Ray grew up in a large immigrant family, his grandmother could not speak
English, Croatian I believe. He lived the American dream, grew up
in poor family and went to college. WWII broke out and Ray answered.
Enlisted and then an Officer. He told me of his part in the Battle of
the Bulge, as a young Captain. Ray always talked about family. One of
his favorite stories was of a coach, now Major in Europe as part of the
occupation force. He had the pick of Americas finest to staff a football
team. What a team! From Ray's description it would have been a contender
in the professional league of that time.
After WWII Ray with his new wife Marian, moved to Kennewick for a
teaching position. He told me how desolate the area was to him, his
young family's trials and hardships. Later he took a teaching position
at Richland high school. He told me of his teaching years and how long
after he retired how grown students would stop him and recall his
driving instructions. Ray would tell me "hell, I don't remember them
all. I'm having conversations with 16-year olds who are now forty or
fifty".
I gave Ray a key to my new home, his old home. I always feared that
someday he would be confused, not know where he was and would come to
the place he remembered. Ray would always be welcome here. He didn't
need to knock. Ray would stop by on occasion, and Cheryl and I would
visit him at his new digs. We had dinner at the golf course restaurant.
He was so proud at his 90th birthday, they made him a honorary member.
How he loved to golf. Ray was golfing as he turned ninety.
When Ray moved out and I moved in it truly was a passing moment. He
handed me the key and I with regret took it. I knew as I watched him go
it probably be my fate in time. Today I still get mail addressed to Ray
and/or Marian. I can tell you he was generous man. I've received request
in his name for donations to the Catholic fund, Croatian fund and from
the American native fund.
Ray moved from 1208 Symons into a retirement community. As part of the
sale I agreed to accept the house as was. Ray took what he wanted and
left the rest. The dust and all the rest were left. I can tell you he
was quite a gadget man. I think he bought every gadget that came out on
TV. I sifted threw his life as I made ready our new house. I placed in a
box all the things that I thought he might want. Ray, would stop by and
dig threw the box. I would listen as he talked about each piece. Most
stories were of a time before Richland. He was so immensely proud of
his service to our nation. I as veteran myself could appreciate his
sacrifice. We would share memories common by the friendships of our
times we had forged.
As I slowly remodel 1208 Symons, I find a token of time between the
walls. I piece of paper that says, drawn in Crayon "Keep Out"! I sit
sometimes in the living room and swear I can still hear the basketball
strategies between Ray and Teverbaugh. Still today written in pencil on
the basement supports I see the phone numbers of days past. I will not
remove them for to me they are part of a history.
Ray, as a student I thank you. As an adult and veteran I respect you. I
may be the owner of this home but your family's laughter will always be
present.
Ray, you will be missed
-Dave Fowler ('76)
PS - Ray never mentioned this, I took it from our conversations.
He missed his daughters' acceptance. His contributions to the
youth of Richland.
Please, share your memories of Ray's impact on your life. I
think, if I've heard Ray right. His biggest regret was that his
daughters did not fully understand how much he helped form our
community.
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>>Roberta "Bobbie" Beaver Cooper ('71) ~ 6/20/53 - 4/12/06
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/19/06
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Dave Brusie ('51), Jean Armstrong ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Jackie Jancovic ('65)
Dave Fowler ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laurel Nielsen ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Lloyd & Linda Swain ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark Rohrbacher ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peg Wellman ('66)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jeff Larsen & Barbara Gile ('67)
TODAY IN HISTORY
1775 American Revolution began
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life
1993 Waco
1995 Oklahoma City
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>>From: Dave Brusie ('51)
Gloria
The best cooks in the world. Trust that the family had a great Easter.
Love
C.B. & D.B.
-Dave Brusie ('51)
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>>From: Jean Armstrong Reynolds ('64)
Re: April 19
Just wanted to wish Maren a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I had some surgery
done and am way behind on everything. But, remembered this special day.
I hope all your wishes come true...
-Jean Armstrong Reynolds ('64) ~ Goodyear, AZ where it's a week of 90° weather
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: Nobody does it better
Today's (4/19) Birthday girl is someone very special to us all. When I
correspond with her I always sign off "yerbestex"... started as a joke
several years ago but I can't for the life of me recall the joke any
more... she's just my best ex even tho we have never been boyfriend and
girlfriend... oh sure she's a friend and she's a girl... bla bla bla...
so it's her special day and she always remembers it... first because
she was born on that day and second because something like the Mt. St.
Helen's eruption or some other catastrophe occurred on her day many... I
mean a few years after her birth... she is the glue that holds so many
of us together who have only met in cyberspace... even after R2K, many
of us have not met in person but seem to know each other as tho we grew
up next door to one another... as has been repeated so often the past
few weeks... we are all residents of Bomberville wherever we lived back
then or wherever we are now... I have become close to so many people
I've never spoken to face to face thru this girl's efforts it is truly
amazing... I for one would vote to crown her Queen of Bomberville for
her tireless efforts that have benefited each and every one of us... but
for the moment I just want to say:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAREN SMYTH ('63 & '64)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Jackie Jancovic Appel ('65)
Tuesday 04/18/2006 7:53:10am
COMMENTS: none
-Jackie Jancovic Appel ('65)
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>>From: Dave Fowler ('76)
Re: Ray, A Veteran Worth Remembering
I know as I write this our beloved "Web Master" will be lining me up
for a fatal shot from a Bomber Firing Squad. She has done so much, we
can never repay her. So, with the accolades paid. I meagerly suggest the
following: A "Bomber Veterans Link".
All of us know someone or have served our great nation in uniform. For
me it was cultivated from an early Bomber upbringing. Richland has truly
answered this nation call; WWI, WWII, The Manhattan Project, Korea,
Vietnam, Gulf War I, and now the Gulf War II. Headlines to quite
ceremonials, we have answered the call. I cannot begin to explain how
we all have served.
I don't think there has been a one of us who as children were not
awaken by the screams of our fathers and now mothers. Days past,
unwanted prisoners of war. We lived or re-lived through it all! Those
screen doors, how they would smack when they shut. On more than one
occasion I would catch my father ducking. It was never mentioned
except in the very late night of our Cottonwood house "those days".
Conversations, quietly spoken, never intended for young ears. Of course
mine, always attended to the hushed tones. You know "Little Pictures
Have Big Ears". Quietly ushered from near kitchen by aunts who thought
"those days" were better regulated to likes of bars.
I can always remember, Cottonwood between the ends of Elm street.
Veterans Day. From the grave yard, just past the dead train. Wavering in
the Spring afternoon, a tone ringing forth from a bugle. How mournful it
sounded, always answered with a twenty one gun salute. It wasn't until
much later that I came to know that sound myself. I didn't know it then
but that sound would bring forth veterans tears. Silent, holding back or
trying to, a tear from those who so willing gave. For those like Ray who
could not understand why he lived while others died, he lived with a
guilt. Long after the guns were quite he gave to this community born
from war.
So it was with Ray, he gave and never aspired a "Thank You". A veteran
who never stopped serving. From Europe to the halls of Richland High
School and on to the courts and fields of sports he ran. Teaching us
all, not just another lesson from a book but a lesson hard learned and
that, was of life. We will miss you!
If there was to be "Veterans Memorial" on our Sandstorm web site let be
by the son of an immigrant, a military officer, a teacher and to one of
this schools founding fathers.
"Ray's Hall Of Fame"
-Dave Fowler ('76)
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 1 RHS Teacher/Coach funeral notice today:
Betty Bell ('51), Wally Erickson ('53), Wanda Wittebort ('53)
George Swan ('59), David Sowden ('63wb), Jeff Michael ('65)
Linda Sargent ('67), Julie Smyth ('69wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck Shipman ('71)
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
Just a reminder that the Easy Swing Band (Bob Leveque, Clark Hodge,
Dave Nelson and Bob Ragsdale) will be playing for the Richland Seniors
Association All-ages Dance on Friday April 21st from 1:00 to 4:00 at
the Richland Community Center. Tickets are always $4 at the door, and
pre-packaged finger foods are welcome but never required.
And then on Sunday April 30th the Easy Swing Band with the addition of
John LaChapelle will be playing again from 1:00 to 4:00 at the Richland
Community Center. Again, tickets are only $4 at the door, and the music
is always great, whether you dance or just want to listen to good music.
Hope to see you there!
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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>>From: Wally Erickson ('53)
Re: Mr. Ray Juricich
I --like many -- have great memories of Mr. Juricich. I had Mr. Juricich
for homeroom my freshman and sophomore years. The class of '53 was the
last freshman class at Columbia High. In fact half of our class stayed
at Carmichael Jr. High and the rest of us went to Columbia High for
9th grade. We always had high respect for Mr. Juricich; not only as a
teacher, but his helping with Columbia's sports programs. He was always
there no matter where he was needed. I can't remember when he started
as a driving instructor; it seems it had just started during the early
'50s?? Mr. Juricich wore so many hats while teaching at Col-Hi. We
were very lucky during those times to have had such great coaches in
basketball, football and baseball, etc... They were not only great
coaches, and teachers, but they really cared about the students and
helping to bring out the best in each one of us. It wasn't about the
money, it was about us!!!!!!!!
God bless Mr. Ray Juricich, Mr. Francis Rish and Mr. Art Dawald... you
were the best!!
Obviously there are too many drivers out there that are too lazy to
signal when making turn... @#$%! Jerks. When I was learning to drive,
we learned from our parents and took a real driving test... not a paper
test. We had to use hand signals then, even to slow down. Yes, even in
the winter cold... so why is it so hard just to flip that small lever
on the left side of the steering wheel???? Now, I feel better in finally
getting that one off my chest.
Belated Happy Birthday Maren! Thanks again for all you do!!
To: Stan McDonald ('53)
I haven't had a chance to read your notes on your trip to northern Italy
yet. Anxious in reading it and will get back to you after I've read it.
-Wally Erickson ('53) ~ Spring is finally settling in here at
Coeur D'Alene area. Lots to do outside before it gets real warm.
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>>From: Wanda Wittebort Shukay ('53)
Happy Birthday Maren. Did you know that the whole state of Mass
celebrates on your day - April 19th - with parades and revolutionary
reenactments. And of course, Paul Revere rides from Lexington to
Concord. My kids loved it when we lived there from 1969 - 1972.
Hugs on your big day,
-Wanda Wittebort Shukay ('53)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Okanogan Easter Elves
To: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60), Bonnie Allen ('59), & Larry Mattingly ('60)
I was gone, gone, gone to "The Okanogan" outback for the last few days.
I was on a little patch of land that my buddy, Cousin Buck, and I own,
hunting some big blackish gray birds that succeeded in making a turkey
out of me. Last Saturday afternoon, opening day of spring turkey season
-- There I sat, leaning against a big pine tree, clad in my "green"
camo clothing (highly suitable for the sunny warm days of spring turkey
hunting) ... covered in three inches of fresh, new, "white" ... snow.
It was still coming down. So, there I was, cleverly disguised as a snow
drift, my hazel eyes peered from two "pee-like" holes in the snow bank.
As the early stages of hypothermia began to overtake me, my mind was
beginning to wander. It slowly bunny hopped over various thoughts like,
"I wonder if the "Yukon Jack" in the cabin is frozen yet?" Because,
there's a "Race of men who don't fit in" ... so they end up sitting in
snow banks.
I was just beginning to consider the possibility that my IQ was several
notches lower than Lowiq's as I pictured him and his rowdy buddy,
Bogart, recovering in the spring warmth while basking in little lounge
chairs around the puddle back home, when a slight movement caught the
corner of my frosty eye. In fact, it caught my entire head, taking my
"Elmer Fudd" cap right off with all of the spraying fresh white snow as
Rocky Dude, the flying squirrel crashed into the top of my snowdrift.
"Oops, sorry!" Rocky said to two small cedar cones poking out that he
thought were my eyes, completely mistaking my gray hair and beard for a
patch of old snow. "Over here," I offered. "Oh!" Rocky turned to address
the duller snow, "The local elves just wanted me to tell you that ...
you're uh ... wasting your time." "Huh?" I fought my way back to
reasonably alert consciousness. "Ya," Rocky explained, "the turkeys
are all down checkin' the mail."
Somewhat fluent in the local Okanogan outback lingo, I instantly
interpreted that to mean that they were down at the Wagon Wheel Tavern
in Malott having a beer. You know, to some of my local neighbors, ...
the post office is near the Wagon Wheel -- So, might as well have a beer
and hope you remember to get the mail before heading back home, right?
As Rocky and I chatted, over his bushy tail I noted several little forms
darting about on tiny snowshoes and upturned cross-country popsicle
sticks. Highly reminiscent of mini-Nordic Olympic racers with little
bulging rucksacks on their backs, they zipped about hiding colored
turkey eggs here and there near trees, rocks, and bushes still showing
above the snow. As I exchanged pleasantries with my friendly gliding
enthusiast, I secretly attempted to make mental note of where each
brightly colored egg was placed by casting rapid glances here and
there. "Got something in your eye," Rocky asked. But soon, it made no
difference as the basic green and white woods came alive with brilliant
sparkles and rainbows of color.
Since Bull twinkle had already began his trek back to the Yukon after
snow birding in the Okanogan, Rocky Dude called two mule deer over to
help push me up on my frozen feet. After thanking the deer, we said our
good-byes, and Rocky Dude climbed a big Ponderosa. With a wave and a
yell of, "Geronimo!" he launched to the North in pursuit of his big-
nosed buddy.
Meanwhile, back at the cabin, on Sunday afternoon, Cousin Buck and I
shared a hot toddy with an old local elf, "Sarvisberry Sam," as we sat
on our deck watching the younger elves hunting Easter eggs as they
shushed about on little snowboards made from tongue depressors. The sun
had popped out, the snow was melting, and the turkeys were still at the
Wagon Wheel, so our conversation turned to warmer thoughts, like ponds
and puddles. Sarvisberry Sam sends a message about elves and ponds,
"Build it (or dig it) and they will come!" Elves, like fairies and
Leprechauns, love water. Lakes, ponds, pools, puddles, even bird baths
-- They will come!
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ back in Burbank, WA again, where I am once
more warm and among my wee friends and Darby and Murphy. And,
Mrs. Pappy wonder's about how to keep the big elf under control,
since, "He ain't no spring poult, no more!" And I am wondering
how Betti Avant ('69) got a picture of me as a toddler after an
Easter egg hunt?
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>>From: David Sowden ('63wb)
Jean Armstrong ('64), are you the sister of Joan Armstrong ('63-RIP)?
I left Richland in December of 1961 with not many good memories (until I
recently found the Sandstorm) to join the Marines. Before I left I was a
good friend of a sweet girl named Joan Armstrong. She was one of the few
good friends I had. I was shocked when my parents sent me a Try-City-
Herald with the tragic story of her death in a fire a year or so latter.
I just want you to know someone remembers her as being a fine girl and
true friend.
-David Sowden ('63wb) ~ From Southwestern North Carolina where the
thunderstorms are promising to bring some much needed rain as
we are down over 7 inches from our annual average
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Re: Vets, etc.
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
Dave Fowler's ('76) most recent post has prompted me to pipe up. His
comments and others about Ray Juricich were very poignant.
I recall my driving lessons in a Ford Falcon stick shift. I had
practiced the clutch, gas, gear-shift motions for years in cars, chairs,
sleep and other non-moving vehicles. My folks insisted that I would have
no driving experience until taught at school. The transfer of those
stationary skills into a moving automobile were not so smooth as I had
hoped! But Mr. J made the transition less embarrassing than would have
many others. Seem he also taught me a few things about the common cold,
germs and SEX. As I recall it, my health class was followed immediately
by Driver's Ed. Two consecutive hours of Mr. J had to have an influence
on me!
I saw him once since returning to the Tri-Cities. I was shooting camera
at the Sports Hall of Fame inductions the first year back. Ray Stein ('64),
Fran Rish, Mr. J and many other folks were in the room at TRAC. I spoke
with Mr. J for a moment and thought about those early days of my life
from the perspective of the latter days of his. Quite a guy... it's nice
to hear "the rest of the story" about his life.
As for a memorial to the vets... well I think the Sandstorm as it is
today gives us a pretty good way to express ourselves as we choose to.
I hear Maddy ('67) and Rivers ('65) and others now and then with their
Semper Fi. I add my "wild blue yonder" now and again.
I have to say, I like the Vet's flag salute idea a lot, and will begin
to render that signal whenever the occasion presents itself.
While here in Sunny San Diego, I saw the John C. Stennis return to port
from Bremerton and strolled around the de-commissioned Midway, now
residing at the Broadway berth as a museum.
And yes, after 9 months, I did finally get to go sailing on a day of
unstable weather conditions on land, but breezy and clear away from the
docks. What a wonderful feeling! Toured the Bay and went a couple miles
off Point Loma for a taste of the uninhibited swells. Awesome!!
-dj jeff Michael ('65) on my last morning in SD, sunny and warm
poolside. Watch yourselves, I'll soon be cruising the streets
of Bomberville again.
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>>From: Linda Sargent Evans ('67)
I am very sad to report that my brother, Alan Sargent (’56) passed
away this afternoon [4/19] in Vancouver, WA. We will be publishing an
obituary in the TC Herald in the next few days.
-Linda Sargent Evans ('67)
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>>From: Julie Smyth Moss ('69wb)
Re: Happy Birthday, Sis!
Maren,
I've given Tere your "new" phone number... and I'll call later, but
wanted to say "YappyBoot-day" to you in the Sandstorm, too!
Love you LOTS,
Julie
-Julie Smyth Moss ('69wb)
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>>Ray Juricich ~ Retired Teacher and Coach at RHS ~ 11/19/13-4/15/06
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Pattie Crigler ('59), Jack Gardiner ('61)
Marilyn Swan ('63), Dave Fowler ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie Allen ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Katie Sheeran ('61)
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>>From: Pattie Crigler Cole ('59)
Happy Birthday to my good friend Bonnie Allen ('59)!!!
-Pattie Crigler Cole ('59)
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>>From: Jack Gardiner ('61)
Yesterday I attended the funeral of Ray Juricich. Since I've moved back
to Richland 18 month's ago I've also attended the funerals of Howard
Chitty and Fran Rish. I've always considered myself fortunate, to have
been under the guidance of men such these during my youth.
-Jack Gardiner ('61)
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>>From: Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
YO.......................
As I was enjoying reading about your weekend hunting excursion with
the "wee people" I had to wonder, Did you mean "pee-like holes" or
"pea-size holes"? Anyhoo, what a funny picture in my mind!! pea-size,
pee-like, ...............................
You be the man!!
-Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
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>>From: Dave Fowler ('76)
What a day, we were in the upper 70s. I guess its time to put away the
coats, mow the yard, get the boat ready, seriously start my garden, deep
clean the house, start the sprinklers, clean the patio furniture, check
out last summer's wear, wash the outside of the house and UGG! clean the
basement. How I love Spring, on second thought, Spring sure is a lot of
work.
Working shift work gives me the opportunity to see how our community
wakes up. In the spring and summer it is easy to see how a Richland day
arrives. At 5:00 AM the workers start out. I hear the rustling and cars
starting. Understandably, I do not hear the "Good Morning Neighbor".
Next the children pass on their way to school. Now, they are a happy
bunch. Fully rested, school is about to end and they know it. A quit
spell and the retirees start their day with a morning walk. They always
have a moment to say good morning and discuss the issues of the day.
Mostly, I spend the morning giving great thought to the chores I should
have completed last week. My wife (who works days) has left to start her
day. I sit enjoying the morning and know I will face this afternoon the
ultimate question "What Have You Done Today?". Squirrel, bird and people
watching were most definitely not on my "Honey Do List". So it is
another a Richland spring day has arrived.
Thank goodness I don't have to take stock of what went missing last
night. I have lived in places were the morning always brought a
disappointment. That was followed by a traffic jam and co-workers who
were in a bad mood for good reason. Instead I awaken to a community who
predictably start the morning. Great sunrises, workers wiping the sleep
from their eye, children happy and our older "lord knows not any of us"
out for the walk. A place I can contemplate the "honey do list". You
know, some days are made to throw that list away and go fishing. My
wife says "there are way too many of those days". Of course there is
the "Sandstorm" which must be visited.
It is 10:00 AM and the temperature is 59°. I don't have to worry too
much about the "list". I've cleaned the bathroom, changed and washed the
bedding and towels. It is now hanging on the line. We've got a dryer,
but the clothes smell so much nicer when they have spent time on the
line. The windows are open, I've started dinner. Yesterday, I mowed and
sprayed the yard.
Where is Cheryl, she is busy on another work assignment. Cruising on
the Queen Mary II, New York to London. Last month she cruised the
Western Caribbean and next month she does a Northern European Cruise. I
admire her, she stood so patently while I traveled the world during my
twenty years of military service, often traveling to places I could not
tell her about. It is her time now and I stand with my "Honey Do List".
It sure looks like a good day check out the boat.
I would, but that list plays heavy on my guilt. I need your help. We
have a small raised garden that is positioned to catch the rain from
both the house and car port. I chopped out the shrubs last fall. Cheryl
was suppose to plant it, somehow it ended up on "The List". I am
clueless, all you botanist out there please hear my cry. The garden is
3 x 12 feet, It is on the northern side and doesn't get very much sun.
What do I plant? She wants color and aroma. I would rather have tomatoes
but this is her garden. HELP!
[Mom had Lily of the Valley on the north side of our house in
Richland... and a lilac bush on the NW corner... I sure miss
Spring in the PNW!!!!!!!!!! -Maren]
Speaking of spring, gardens and work. I have two trees that Ray
planted. They bring forth a pretty pink flower around Easter. After a
couple of weeks they drop off and are replaced with a broad green leaf.
What is the name of this tree?
-Dave Fowler ('76) ~ Richland, where the sun shines, temperatures are
rising and crime is a word from another place. Schools do teach
and your high school constantly scores at the top of the WASL.
A place where children walk to school and our parents are not
afraid to walk the streets. A place where it so nice to sit back
and watch another Richland day arriving, "To Hell With The List"!
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick Pierard ('52), Bonnie Allen ('59), Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen Weihermiller ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy Metz ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Meg Cone ('70)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Gary Persons ('57) & Jan Bollinger ('60)
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>>From: Dick Pierard ('52)
We have indeed experienced the ending of an era with the deaths of
Fran Rish, Cal Welsch, and Ray Juricich. I think they must have been
about the last of the great teachers of my era at Col-Hi. Let us mourn
the passing of three fine individuals.
-Dick Pierard ('52)
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>>From: Bonnie Allen ('59)
Re: Wee People
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL WEE PEOPLE STORY!! Do I get another for
a birthday present, or am I being greedy by asking? (I just thought
I would try for it.)
-Bonnie Allen ('59)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
To: Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63)
Marilyn - I, too noticed it said "pee-like holes" I figured his brain
was still frozen from all the snow and cold weather. Of course the
beers with the turkeys didn't help, either I imagine.
Keep them stories comin', Pappy... I love them.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~Lacey, WA where the sun is bright and the wind is
blowing lightly
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Gene Horne ('57), George "Pappy" Swan ('59), Dave Wilson ('81)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike Bradley ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rita Eckert ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul Hirst ('63)
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>>From: Gene Horne ('57)
To: David Sowden ('63wb)
Are u related to John Sowden who lived on Snow Ave.?
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
To: Bonnie Allen ('59)
Re: You asked for it!
Yet another episode of "Gullible's Travels."
Do you remember your party at your house when, I think we were in the
seventh grade at Chief Jo, you invited a bunch of us kids?
Now, to set the stage (from my perspective), remember, at that time, I
am fresh out of grade school. Physically, I have made the giant leap
for mankind to Junior High School. Mentally, I am still in limbo land,
entangled in the ties of a very recent sixth grade school boy who still
thinks of a party as a gathering of boys and girls who can barely
tolerate each other on the playground at recess. At that time, a party
to me, consisted of ice cream and cake, balloons, maybe a clown named
Tickles (or something equally strange). And there were those great
noisemakers that a guy could blow till they stretched out and then he
could drive girls crazy by tickling their noses with the little feather
on the end, over and over and over and, well you all remember those ...
don't you?
I could hardly sleep that night after receiving your invitation. I was
excited. I wondered who the clown would be? What kind of cake and ice
cream and what kind of party favors would your mom have?
The next day at school, I asked around and discovered some other boys
who were also invited. Great! This is getting better all the time. Guys,
that I knew well, were going to be there. I could barely wait until that
weekend for your party ... until, I mentioned that I was wondering about
the above mentioned party features. Those guys started to snicker which
turned into chuckles and almost instantly exploded into outright guffaws
of laughter.
It was then that I encountered the first of what would become a long
line of traumatic experiences in the recognition of a startling fact.
The long, loooong, taken for granted, girl/boy or boy/girl (depending on
which end you viewed it from) relationship had forever ... changed. This
was impressed indelibly into my panicky brain as those guys pointed
out that I was no longer a kid but now I was a genuine "junior high
schooler" ... A teenager. Teens don't do clowns and balloons anymore. We
are grown up and grownups play records and dance. "Huuuhh?" My response
was barely audible. They continued to torment me by informing me that
now at parties, we dance and we might even play spin the bottle. "Oh,
cool a game," I said. "Ya," they enthusiastically chimed in, "a game
that might let you kiss a girl!"
"Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes," I gasped anything but calmly.
Leaving me in a collapsed heap of blithering idiocy, they went off
down the hallway yukking it up at my expense. When the blessed bell
of freedom rang, I crawled home. Now here's where it starts to get
strange(r).
That night at home, mom and dad were occupied with the concerns of
elderly people (if I was now grownup then they must be elders) and my
much younger sister, Marilyn Swan Beddo ('63) would have been in the
middle of grade school (still in the blessed land of clowns and balloons
and having nothing to do with boys at recess) so my major mental
breakdown went unnoticed. Later, sitting on the front steps pondering
my dilemma, something strange but wonderful happened. I had a near deaf
experience. I couldn't believe what I was hearing so it had to be going
on in my head. Then they both spoke and appeared in front of me. And,
that's when I first met the elves.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where the sun is supposed to
shine for a few days and I'm thinking, "Sorry Bonnie" (and OK
the rest of you). Tune in eventually, when I can remember the
rest of this story. Hey, I'm very nearly 65 and fig newtons of
my imagination are sometimes difficult to grasp after all these
years."
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
From: Dave Wilson ('81)
Saturday 04/22/2006 0:29:59am
COMMENTS: none
-Dave Wilson ('81)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/24/06
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Nola Davey ('56), David Sowden ('63wb), Linda Reining ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leslie Swanson ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rosie Valenzuela ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ben Hausenbuiller ('98)
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>>From: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
To: Mike Bradley ('56)
Happy birthday, Mike [4/23]. A day late and a dollar short.
-Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
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>>From: David Sowden ('63wb)
To: Gene Horne ('57)
Re: John Sowden ('??)
John was my older brother, older by 9 years, when he was 17, he enlisted
in the Marines. He was with them 5 years came home for about 6 months
(1958 or '59) and enlisted in the Air Force for 4 years. Just prior to
his discharge, I enlisted in the Marines (Dec. '61) (I wanted to be like
him). So from the time I was 8 till I was 21, we hardly knew each other.
When I was discharged in '66, I was on the east coast and looking at a US
map trying to decide where I wanted to go. I picked Seattle because I
knew he was there and I wanted to get to know him. I am glad I did. He
was a great guy. Unfortunately he passed away in March of 1987 due to
cancer of the bladder. While he was on his death bed he saved my life.
After I shared with him some things I was experiencing he insisted I
go see a urologist. I did and even though the doctor said it is very
unlikely that two brothers would have cancer of the bladder at the same
time, they were able to spare my life but not his. I would not have gone
had it not been for John. I still want to be like him just not in the
grave yet.
I remember you, Bill Lusty and Fred Coffman as being some of John's best
friends. You would have known me as Butch and our sister Janie ('59).
It's good to hear from you. What's going on in your world and where are
you? Any more questions about John I'll do my best to answer.
-David Sowden ('63wb)
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
to:George(Pappy)Swan('59)
re:boy/girl, girl/boy parties
think you spoke for all of us regarding the first time we ever were
invited to one of "those" parties! I was laughing through your entire
article----could sympathize completely. it's neat to get a guy's
perspective on being a teenager and not quite feeling that you "fit in"
for all those functions and/or things that happened during those teen
years. *grin*
and, keep the stories about the elves coming----they are so much fun to
read. keep waiting for the notice that you have indeed started writing
the book(s). will be one of the first in line to buy a copy(s). I
"see" gnomes(Norwegian "little people"), but my family thinks "I am
certifiable", so they just humor me. *grin* also have two books on
Gnomes and would really love to be able to add yours to my collection,
so GET BUSY and write, write, write and become published!!!!!!!!
*grin*
Linda Reining(Boomber Bomber class of '64).......Bakersfield,
CA..........we had rain, lightning, and thunder Friday night.....and an
icy wind all day Saturday with a few raindrops--am loving this
weather!!!!!!
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by Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
>>Alan Sargent ('56) ~ 11/11/37 - 4/19/06
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim Blake ('52), Dick Avedovech ('56)
Mike Brady ('61), Helen Cross ('62)
Donni Clark ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul Ratsch ('58)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jerry Spears & Cathy Clugston ('64)
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>>From: Jim Blake ('52)
Happy Birthday Lou Ann Binns (4/26) and Bev Smith (4/27) two of the
beautiful girls from the class of '52.
-Jim Blake ('52) ~ Waco, TX (where summer has already started)
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>>From: Dick Avedovech ('56)
It is with heavy heart for me to tell you that my good friend and
classmate, Alan Sargent ('56), passed away Wednesday, April 19th, from
cancer. Alan was one of the good guys I looked up to. In spite of 18
years of severe rheumatoid arthritis, his humor and great positive
attitude was an inspiration to me personally. I shall miss him.
Alan was full of charity and his wife, Durelle, has asked that if you
wish, please give to your personal, favorite charity on his behalf.
-Dick Avedovech ('56)
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Re: Beth Pederson ('61)
Beth will be performing at the Northwest Folklife Festival on the Alki
Court Stage at 4:20pm on Friday afternoon, May 26. I've encouraged her
to sing "Up a Lazy River" which was one of my favorites that she sang
almost 50 years ago at Chief Joseph Junior High School. I bet Beth could
also sing a sweet "Fever."
It would be fun to get a group together and go visit her.
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
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>>From: Helen Cross Kirk ('62)
Re: 1st Entry today - 8:19am
I have been off line all week, as my husband and I were part of a group
of 16 people from his seminary who went down to do some work at the
hurricane relief down in Mississippi. We took 3 vans, and lots of
equipment, as most of the group were part of a choir from the seminary
and I was asked to join the choir (as they were very short of singers.)
I loved it. Now sadly my current church doesn't have a choir, so I will
be looking for a group to join.
Warren will be graduating from seminary this May 13th!! These 3 years
have gone by so quickly.
It was quite an experience to go down into the deep south like that. We
stayed at a neat retreat area in Alabama over night on the way down, and in
Methodist church member's home on our last night in Memphis, TN, as we
performed at our choir director's brother's church there.
The people in the gulf are still in great need, as there are still many
houses and sites that look untouched yet, 8 months after the hurricane.
But the business sector has bravely built itself back up, and many homes
have been restored. They are very brave indeed, as they face another
hurricane season shortly, and so much still is devastated from Katrina
force last August.
While we were at the site we worked out of in Gulfport, East Biloxi
(Maren, I can't spell it right, please correct it for me -- Helen--You
did great!! -Maren]) we stayed at a Methodist Retreat Center that was
right on 90, and we looked right out into the gulf across the sand.
Beautiful, and peaceful, but little protection from a storm.
I did go back into Ocean Springs, as it was just 20 miles away, but I
didn't get back to St. Lukes which is where the CORE camp is, where I
stayed when I went down there last November.
It is a process of individual rebuilding, and we did work on some more
clean up, some did electrical work, and some did roof work. I did yard
clean up and warehouse work. And I did get to do one social work visit
to a lady in a nursing home. But all the people we met were kind,
welcoming, and appreciative of our efforts.
Where we stayed it was a center for Samaritan's Purse, and there was a
large group of S.P. volunteers from all over. I heard several were from
Washington State, but I only met people from California there.
We don't yet know where we will be next year, as now that Warren has
completed his seminary study, our S.E. Indiana Methodist conference is
telling us that they don't have a placement for him, so we will now
"search other seas".
Being down there in all that chaos, and unsettledness still makes me
very aware of the many blessings we enjoy in our calm, secure lifestyle
up north.....
I've always known I wasn't a southerner at heart....
[My youngest sister sent this website link... it shows the total
detestation on the Mississippi Gulf coast very well.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/before_after/
Click the link at the top of the list: "Adolph Bourdin's in Pass
Christian" -- Then (to view the "after" picture) click on the "VIEW
CHANGE" arrow to the left of the "before" picture. -Maren]
Re: 2nd entry - 9:04am
I'm still scanning my email missed from last week, and I want to add
a late Happy Birthday to Maren. I still haven't made it to Louisiana
yet, but I bet it looks a lot like Biloxi. We'll be praying that somehow
the hurricanes of '06 pass all people by without harm, at least the
people who still are trying to recover from the devastation of '05.
[Some parts of Louisiana still look awful. It will only get worse every
year if we don't ALL get a handle on our oil consumption. The warm-and-
getting-warmer-every-year water in the Gulf of Mexico is what feeds the
hurricanes and THAT'S what makes a category 5 hurricane. -Maren]
Re: 3rd Entry - 11:54am
As I'm still scanning my email I see I also missed Jane Walker's
birthday. so Happy Birthday late to a fellow member of our favorite
class of 1962!!
As a female, I didn't get to play sports under all the coaches back
then. But I do realize that we have lost much of the backbone of Bomber
sports in losing Howard Chitty, who I did have as a PE teacher in
Spalding Elementary School in the '50s, Fran Rish, who I knew at the
Richland Swim Pool, and Cal Welsch who I knew a little as a member of
CUP church, and Ray Jurish. I never had him, so I didn't learn how to
spell his last name. [Juricich]
But none of us is going to live forever.
Re: 4th entry - 11:58am
I think I am now caught up on my Sandstorms, and I want to also wish
Mark Rohrbacher ('66) Happy Birthday. I only knew Mark as one of the
little kids on Olympia St. who played with my little brother, Roy ('65)!
Mark, I hope you and your family are doing well. Please give my best
wishes to your parents. Haven't seen them since my Mom's 80th birthday
in 2002. How time does fly.
-Helen Cross Kirk ('62) ~ Dayton, OH, my husband's seminary computer lab
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>>From: Donni Clark Dunphy ('63)
Re: Ray Juricich (RIP)
Hi Bombers and Bomberettes
I wanted to add my thoughts about Mr. Ray Juricich. To this day when I
am driving I can't forget the things he taught us. The three things I
remember the most are to always turn into the inside lane when turning
left, and when it is SAFE, signal and then move over to the other lane,
always leave a car's length for every 10 miles you are going between you
and the car in front you, and always leave a car's length between you
and the car in front of you when you come to a stop (that's so if a car
comes up and hits you from behind you won't get crushed in the middle).
I've only had one ticket in my life and my husband said I should have
had a warning on that. Mr. Juricich was one of my favorite teachers. He
really cared about us and I think he had a tender heart under that gruff
exterior. I'm just sorry that I never got to see him again or tell him
how great a teacher he was.
I'm sure many of you remember Mr. Stell another great teacher. It was
a sad day when he left Col-Hi to teach in Tacoma. Almost 20 years ago
when going through Tacoma on vacation I decided to see if his name was
in the telephone book. It was. I was so scared to barely talk to him
in school, he was so disciplined and strict. But I called him, and he
answered and we had a wonderful conversation. He told me all about his
family and what they were doing and asked about me etc., etc. He even
wrote me a thank you note. To those of you who didn't know Mr. Stell he
was a great chorus teacher. To sing in chorus he directed was absolutely
thrilling. Does anyone remember the Spring Concerts when we girls got to
wear our formals. We all looked so pretty! Anyway tell someone today how
much you love them and what they mean to you!
Pappy, loving your stories as always. Can't wait to hear the ending to
this last one. I remember those parties so well. Did you ever have to
kiss a girl while everyone counted to see who kissed the longest! I wish
we girls knew how tortured you guys were!
-Donni Clark Dunphy ('63) ~ in the little house in La Mirada, CA where
the weather can't make up it's mind what to do. One minute it
is cloudy and rainy and the next the sun is peeking through.
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Gloria Adams ('54), Alice Hanthorn ('59), George Swan ('59),
Irene de la Bretonne ('61), Mike Brady ('61), Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lou Ann Binns ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rosalie Lansing ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melanie Dukes ('67)
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>>From: Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
Re: Karen Fulcher Brittain ('79)
For those of you who may remember Karen Fulcher ('79), you may want to
know her husband, Larry, had a massive heart attack and fell over dead
while the two of them were sitting on their patio talking. They have 3
children, Jennifer, 23, Kristin 21, and son John 10.
Our hearts are breaking and we have a long road ahead.
-Gloria Adams Fulcher ('54)
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>>From: Alice Hanthorn Johnson ('59)
Re: Ray Juricich (RIP)
The thing I still give credit to Mr. Juricich for is my ability to
parallel park.
Remember to get to a 45° angle then turn the wheel back the other way
and it will glide right in. You know what? It works! I see so many
people pass up a great parking spot because it's between two other cars,
not me I can snuggle right in there no sweat, all because Mr. J, knew
how to teach driving. I, also, remember how to make a turn and car
lengths and all that jazz, but parallel parking is the thing that makes
you look good to other folks behind the wheel.
The year I took his class he was battling skin cancer on the bridge of
his nose, he was having radiation treatments and the wound looked like a
bad burn, very painful.
-Alice Hanthorn Johnson ('59) ~ Marysville, WA where it is a GORGEOUS
day & I'm going to go dig in the dirt!
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Re: Encounters of the Elfin kind
Part II of "Gullible's Travels"
So there I sat, on the front porch, in the post-twilight of an early
fall evening. It was one of those autumn evenings, known only to kids.
One of those evenings that ride into town every year like a well-known
stranger. The kind that brings with it an overwhelming awareness that
you just seem to take in as if you have touched, smelled, and tasted
everything at once. Along with the hint of smoldering leaves, fresh
tilled dirt and dampness, the mild warmth wraps itself around you like
a familiar old favorite shirt. Even now, in the autumn of my life, I
still feel akin to the fall season but never with that certain intensity
that I sensed as a kid.
But, sitting there, I was not really aware of any of that. I was weighed
down with what surely would be the greatest problem that I would ever
face, if I lived past the weekend. I, a mere 12 year-old seventh grader,
had been invited to a party where there would be ... girls. Furthermore,
I had been invited to her own party by Bonnie Allen, who carried the
title (very well, I might add) of "One of the best looking girls in
the whole seventh grade!" Well, I admit that for some time, I had been
noting some growing differences (so to speak) between girls and boys.
As a matter of fact, that was my main malfunction. I was the brave young
mountain man, riding academy cowboy, fisher of the finny ones, and
observant outdoors man. In essence, I was the strong and silent type (in
my head anyway) who, until recently, never gave a girl a second look.
Suddenly, I was very aware of them. But, I had developed a genuine fear
of the gentler sex. And there was no one to turn to. My "much younger
sister" was ... well, much younger, and still into balloons and clowns.
Besides, she always liked Mr. Chuckles better than Mr. Tickles. I never
understood that. Chuckles had such big feet but Tickles nose was bigger
and redder. Of course, it was rumored that Tickles tended to tipple, a
bit. There was a certain glow about him. But, I digress.
Who could I talk too? My guy friends had proven to be of no help and had
become genuine non-confidants. Talking to girls was already identified
as ... part of the problem. A guy in the seventh grade can't talk to his
parents about ... girls. I had no other relatives around. And, if I had
an older brother, he probably would have made fun of me too. Now, if
I would have had an older sister, she could have taught me to dance,
advised me on matters of the heart, and helped to banish basic
bashfulness. Thus, I was on a high lonesome. I was on my own with this
one. So, there I sat pondering the problems of puberty (presumed to
be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female), according to my,
"Random House College Dictionary." Hmmm, chronologically speaking, in
retrospect, I now see some problem potential.
Then, out of the black, there they were. But what were they? Gremlins?
Aliens? I had never seen anything like them before. Although, years
later, I would see a big one, taller than Captain Kirk, on Star Trek.
One thought filled my mind, fight or flight? I thought about leaping up
and running into the house, back to the elders and one very preteen. OK.
I'm going! Run! My mind said, "OK, do it!" My legs said, "Excuse us but
we seem to have grown into the steps." I sat there literally frozen on
a warm night. Only a few inches tall, the two mini-mystery men stood
staring into my eyes. One spoke in a high squeaky voice like he had been
sniffing helium, "Think it's dead?" "No, just scared," the other one
squeaked back. "Of us?" "Maybe but more likely ... girls." "Happens to
'em all the time." "Interesting, several thousand years in development
of their species and their genetics never overcame the PP Syndrome of
adolescence." "What?" "Puberty Predicament." "Oh."
Then one stepped forward and tugged on my pants leg, "We're here to
help." Mouth and eyes wide open and without a sound ... I jumped about
10 feet into the air. Like flowing syrup, I slid back off the roof and
flopped onto my back in the grass. They stood, one on each side of my
head, bending over me. "You OK?" One squeaked. "Aye, yi ...yi?" I
mumbled. "It speaks," the other one laughed and did a back flip.
"Who are ... What are ...?" I croaked. "We're your 'Guardian Elves,'
Lowkey and Lowiq" one of them offered. I sat up and shook my head.
Looking at the one who seemed to bounce and fidget a little with a
cartwheel thrown in every once in a while, I asked, "Are you Lowkey or
Lowiq?" "No, I'm the other one, he's Lowkey." Lowkey rolled his eyes
with a smile and asked, "What's your problem, Pappy to be?" "Girls," I
blurted out. "Hee Hee, you got that one right Lowkey, Hee Hee," Lowiq
laughed. With single bounds, each landed on one of my shoulders. "OK,
tell us all about it," Lowkey whispered into my ear.
To be continued.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where the sun again shines and
I ponder Donni Clark Dunphy's ('63) question, "Did you ever have
to kiss a girl while everyone counted to see who kissed the
longest!" After searching the dusty halls of my somewhat empty,
memory storage units, I came up with, "No," because I immediately
got my finger stuck in the bottle which ended the game of "spin
the bottle" so I was never invited to many parties. It would be
a long two years until I turned 14, qualifying me for the public
school puberty program.
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>>From: Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
The next meeting of the caregivers support group will take place at 7 pm
Friday, April 28 at [street address deleted for privacy -- email Irene
for the address. -Maren]. Please call Betsy Fox Vance ('63) if you need
directions. [Betsy's phone number deleted. -Maren]
This may be the group for you If you find yourself caring for your
aging parents--essentially, becoming the "parent" of your mother and/or
father. The group welcomes those involved in all forms of caregiving
whether you and your parent(s) live together or your parent(s) lives in
a care facility.
We have had several meetings and are still in the process of forming
so don't hesitate to join us. The group is warm and welcoming. I have
gained new insights and encouragement and a deep respect for the courage
of those who participate.
-Irene de la Bretonne Hays ('61)
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
What do we have out there...some sort of thought police? I got an email
from a lady...I've never heard of her before...from the class of '61
telling me I can't use (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve") as my
closer! Apparently, a group of '61 Bombers and Bomberettes held an all
nighter and came up with the name, classic class of '61. How creative!
Next thing, yah know, they'll be telling me I can't write in the
Sandstorm. without their approval. I've heard of the Sandstorm mafia,
but never believed it existed. Now I know better!
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
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[Mike, What's the "Sandstorm mafia" about? Never heard of that myself!
You can attach whatever phrase to describe your class you desire (within
reason) in the Sandstorm. -Maren]
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: left turns
To: Donni Clark Dunphy ('63)
Donni
I knew what you mean about when turning left turn into the nearest lane.
I was out one day in a line to turn left when the green arrow came up.
There were 2 patrol cars facing us. There were 4 cars ahead of me and
not one turned into the closest lane. I did, but then I always do. The
patrolmen ignored it. That is one corner I am at quite frequently and it
happens to be one that has the green arrow so you don't have to yield to
oncoming traffic. They are talking about putting traffic cameras at some
of the intersections, but they are now trying to decide if they "can
afford it".
I never had Mr. J as a driving instructor. My mom worked for the RPD and
hired a patrolman to teach my twin brother and I. It was just after we
got our licenses they changed the law that one had to have drivers's ed.
to get a license at 16. By the patrolman teaching us, however, it
qualified as instruction and my folks got insurance discounts.
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA here there were real ducks in the pond
today and not just the decoys who usually are bobbing in it
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[My two cents on Mr. Juricich: There was conversation about him in the
Alumni Sandstorm after the March 8, 1999 issue of "Senority," a small
magazine published by the Tri-City Herald. Read the article at:
http://all.sports.tripod.com/Basket/Juricich98.html
One person -- I don't recall who -- wrote about him stressing "BRIDGES
FREEZE FIRST." in his Driver's Education class. So, while I never knew
Mr. Juricich, I always think of him whenever I approach a bridge in cold
weather... and I slow down a little. -Maren]
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Betty Bell ('51), Marguerite Groff ('54)
Loron Holden ('57), Derrith Persons ('60)
Larry Mattingly ('60), Linda Reining ('64)
David Rivers ('65), Jeff Michael ('65)
Chuck Smith ('69), Brad Upton ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bev Smith ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve Upson ('65)
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
Just a reminder of the Richland Seniors Association All-Ages dance
coming up on Sunday, April 30th from 1:00 to 4:00 at the Richland
Community Center. John LaChapelle had planned to play with the Easy
Swing Band, but something came up and he can't this time. His protege,
a very talented young lady who plays guitar and sings, will take his
place this time. Should be a fun afternoon and we hope you will plan to
join us! Tickets are only $4 at the door, and pre-packaged finger foods
are welcome but never required!
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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>>From: Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54)
To: Class of '54 friends
A few months ago I received a request for a copy of our 50th Reunion
Book. Since I didn't have any extra, I took mine and had 10 copies
made. I have 8 left. It is nicely bound, beautiful cover, and all the
wonderful drawings by our own Carol Tighe Webb ('54); and, of course the
individual stories by your classmates. The reprint is 8-1/2 x 11; bound
on the left edge. It turned out great. If you are interested, the cost
for the book, including postage is $10. Let me know and I'll make
arrangements to get it to you.
-Marguerite Groff Tompkins ('54) ~ Richland, where it was beautiful today
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>>From: Loron Holden ('57)
Re: My memories of Mr. Juricich still linger.
1. He gave me the only "A" I ever got at Columbia High!!! (Safe Driving)
2. I still remember his statement: "Never believe what you see in your
rear view mirrors, just remember what you look like to yourself when you
look in a mirror, mirrors can lie!!"
He was one of the great class of classy coaches that we had the
privilege of sharing lessons from, all of them.
-Loron Holden ('57)
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>>From: Derrith Persons Dean ('60)
It's that time again!!
What? - Lunch - what else??
Who? - Class of '60
When? - Saturday, May 6th
Time? - 11:30 am
Where? - 3 Margaritas, 627 Jadwin, Richland
Come on. . . . let's talk!
classmate,
-Derrith Persons Dean ('60)
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>>From: Larry Mattingly ('60)
Re: Mr. Ray Juricich
I just want to say thanks to all of you who have written in with
thoughts and memories of Ray Juricich. I did not have him in a class or
activity. I hardly knew the man. He did know who I was as he knew my
father, though I know not how or why. Perhaps it was golf. Dad used to
play in a foursome with Paul Burnside, Art Dawald and Mr. Peddicord who I
believe was the Richland Postmaster. And there were others who moved in
and out of the group. The only time I remember speaking with him was
during a PE class exercise where we had to run the oval track without
stopping. He was talking with Fran Rish and after the exercise, he
came over to me and tried to persuade me to go out for the track team.
As I look back now I can't help but wonder how it may have changed my
life. But, at the time I just had absolutely no interest in track. Then
in my late 20s and early 30s I found myself enjoying a run, especially
in the challenge of rough ground. During that time, before the doctors
coerced me to quit running or be crippled with increasing back problems,
I would often think of track and Ray Juricich. It is a nice memory to
realize the many ways he touched so many young lives for so many years.
I had Mr. Carlson for Safe Driving. I can remember how frustrated he was
at my failure of the depth perception test. Remember looking in the box
and watching the 2 cars and pulling the strings to line them up? That
was the first time I realized that being blind in one eye could be a
handicap. I had been driving for over a year before I was 16. A friend's
father used to take us fishing at O'Sullivan and always had one of us
drive most of the way out and the other most of the way back. He said
there was no better way to learn but to get in and drive. I sometimes
think back that if I hadn't known how to swim he would have thrown me in
50 feet from the dock. So the driving part wasn't difficult, but I hated
the incessant copying of the procedures and rules. Now of course when I
go to a lecture, I take copious notes. 40 some odd years later I cannot
help but think if I had not hated school so much, how much more could I
have learned?
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry Mattingly ('60) ~ Working at home today updating safety
procedures for US Coast Guard approval of permits for our
barge displays.
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>>From: Linda Reining ('64)
re:driver's ed and parallel parking
I never was required to take driver's ed, so my folks taught me to
drive. My dad put out trash cans, then told me to park between them!
won't tell you how many times I hit those damn, metal cans, but I did
eventually learn to parallel park!!!!! My daughters both took driver's
ed and they were not required to parallel park(in CA), but they did have
to back up, in a straight line! as far as I am concerned, that is harder
than parallel parking!!!!!
to:Patty Jones Ahrens(60)
re:Yolk's Market
when my mom was alive and lived in Priest River, Idaho, she did all of
her shopping at Yolk's----only thing she didn't like was that you had to
bag your own groceries, but their food selections were great and their
prices were good, too. they carried a lot of "Western Family" products
and had a bread called, "Hazelnut" that was delicious!!!!!!!!
Linda Reining(Boobmer Bomber class of '64).........we are still getting
rain and cold weather in Bakersfield, CA----seems as though "Mother
Nature" can't decide if she wants to continue Winter or let us slide
into Spring! me?????? I ain't complaining ONE bit, as I am in NO hurry
for the 100+ temperatures that are right around the corner!!!!!!!! when
Summer does come, she's gonna come with a vengeance and then I'll be the
one *itching about the weather, while all the "sun-worshippers" are in
7th heaven!!!!!!! *grin*
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>>From: David Rivers ('65)
Re: You won't believe me anyway
Poop Poop Poop... I blew it... I admit it... you wouldn't believe me if
I told you it wasn't my fault so I won't tell you I've been tied up in
depositions and a trial for days... You won't believe me if I tell you
I finally got to look at my computer today to see the yellow stickies
saying "Ellen 4/22" and "Rosalie 4/26" on the monitor... You won't
believe me when I tell you that for some reason I had them both in
my mind as "4/29" thinking they both fell the day after my daughter,
Sarah's special day on the 28th... no you won't believe me so I'm not
gonna bother to tell you any of that stuff and will just cut to the
chase and wish both Ellen Weihermiller and Rosalie Lansing (both 63...
that's class of '63) a HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
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>>From: Jeff Michael ('65)
Re: Markets
Hey there Bombers and Bomberettes...
Attn: Patti Jones Ahrens ('60)
Don't get out much? Just thought I'd whisper in your ear so's ya don't
embarrass yersef. The grocery store is known as "Yokes" as in a funny
story told by a man (or woman, for that matter) from Wisconsin. "Yolks"
is a term reserved for the center, or yellow part of the eggs sold
therein.
When I first came back to the Tri-Cities, now, nearly 3 years ago, I
lived just off Road 68 for about a year. There was a Subway, Mac D's,
two gas stations and Yoke's Fresh Market. There is one in Kennewick,
too, and the one soon to be in West make three. The chain started in
Spokane a few years back and has made a pretty good name for itself.
Don't go there for the best prices, but considering the cost of gas,
you'll get a really good deal on produce by not driving to "town". I
dj'd the Pasco Store Crew's Holiday party the first year I was here.
Oh, Patti, you might want to check out Road 68 and the freeway now. It's
the fastest growing area in Eastern WA. A new theater being built, many
restaurants, banks/credit unions, soon to be a Lowe's and a HUGE WalMart
super store has sprung up. They are scraping dirt for more stuff on
several corners as we speak. Bombers who haven't been to West Pasco in a
few years wouldn't recognize the area. Why, Larry Mattingly ('60) was
here just last week and commented on the growth.
Attn: Mike Brady ('61)
You just keep on writing in the Sandstorm...we all know you class was a
greta class...they all were and will continue to be!! I don't know much
about the Sandstorm Mafia, can't even recall hardly any Italian/Scilian
names from my school days. But I have seen some comment criticism
vocalized...and that's OK. In fact, I think it's a good thing. No one
twists anybody's arm to read every entry. You just go ahead and be
"ahead of the curve" if you like. I'm not certain that the class of '65
has a "slogan". We all know we are "leading edge" Bombers. We are the
first wave of the Baby Boomer generation to move into our Golden Years,
and we are going to do it the same way we have done everything else
along the way...kicking and screaming! If we don't like something, we'll
get it changed! Just look at all those Harley's out there wearing gray
haired riders with wispy ponytails!
-dj jeff Michael, The Leading Edge Class of '65, on a slightly overcast
morning on the banks of the Columbia. By the way...I've started
working out and I feel really sore. With the advent of spring, I
have worked out in my yard a couple hours or so nearly every
day. Got a touch of sunburn, too. Also smashed my pinky between
a couple rocks yesterday...but that didn't stop my work out.
After all, I'm Leading Edge in this aging thing and working out
is very important!
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>>From: Chuck Smith ('69)
Re: Ray Juricich
Oh... how I remember "Mr. Juricich's" during driving school... that
rough voice of his especially. Several things I've NEVER forgotten...
parallel parking - he made it SO easy to do... pull up along side the
car in front of your space, ensuring your rear end is even that car...
and begin turning your wheel and backing slowly... it's amazing that
your front end doesn't hit the one in front of you... but, It won't.
The other thing I'll never forget, which I see folks NOT DO... is when
you're making a right had turn, move toward the right side of the road
with your blinker on and make your turn... Too many "other" folks block
the road or veer a bit left before making a right hand turn. I also
remember him from JV Basketball. Oh how he use to let out his
frustrations on the team. But, he was good at what he did... whether
it be the driving school or the basketball team. He WILL be missed.
-Chuck Smith ('69er)
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>>From: Brad Upton ('74)
Okay, Bombers... I've got some big shows to plug. June 29th at The Moore
Theater, June 30th at the Tri-City Convention Center. I have been doing
some tour dates the past year with The Midlife Crisis Comedy Tour.
Obviously we'd like it to get as big as the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. The
show consists of 4 headliners and they are: Cathy Ladman, who had her
own HBO Special and made 10 appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson. Jimmy Brogan who made 5 appearances on the Tonight Show and is
the former talent coordinator and head writer of the Tonight Show with
Jay Leno (as well as one of Jay's best friends). Buzz Nutley who hails
from Pittsburgh and is the guy that came up with the concept of the tour
and recruited the rest of us... and me. We are all between the ages of
43 and 56 and have over 90 years of stand up experience between us. It
really is a great show. The show on June 29th is a benefit for Gilda's
Club. Gilda's Club is named after Gilda Radner and is a free facility
for anyone or their family that has been touched by cancer. I've been
involved with Gilda's Club here in Seattle even before there was a
Gilda's Club. Tickets can be had (or in the next day or two) at
www.themoore.com for the Seattle show, or www.yourtoyotacenter.com
for the show in the Tri-Cities.
Since school will be out I assume Mike Davis ('74) will be there signing
autographs. Hope to see you all. Thanks.
-Brad Upton ('74)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Bill Berlin ('56), Nola Davey ('56), Tom Verellen ('60)
Mike Brady ('61), Shirley Collings ('66), Susan Lundgren ('82)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Homer Raekes ('47)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn Simmons ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dale Hosack ('69)
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>>From: Bill Berlin ('56)
Re: Ray Juricich (RIP)
Sorry to hear of Ray's passing but it sounds like he led a good life
after I left Bomberville. He was my PE teacher at Carmichael and during
one class I dislocated my thumb and went to him to see what could be
done. When I told him the problem, he said something like "it is just
because it is on your hand, Berlin." That really hurt but I didn't tell
my parents about the incident. That night just after dinner, there was
a knock on the door and it was Juricich, who had come to apologize. He
admitted that what he has said was insensitive and the look in my face
was "lower than a worm's belly" so he needed to come and apologize.
Later I had him for Drivers Education and he was surprised that I could
double clutch and had me show some other folks how to do that and why.
My Dad taught me and the summer before I was 16, I drove a truck in
Idaho where you could drive in the daylight hours when you were 15. Just
the same, the course was good and I got my Drivers License in flying
colors. Bomberville has lost a real legend in Juricich as well as Rish,
Dawald and others.
Juricich (pronounced and spelled in Yugoslavia as "Juricic") is
a fairly common Slovakian name. We have several Juricich here in
Anacortes, which has a large Slav population, and down in Gig Harbour
where there are even more Slavs.
The tulips are just about done in the Skagit Valley and they are
estimating that over 400,000 people came to visit. That means you could
not squeeze another person in to LaConner with a shoe horn. And speaking
of LaConner, an RHS grad coaches there (Bannerman, I think) and was just
inducted in to the U of Idaho Hall of Fame. Anyone know about that?
-Bill Berlin ('56)...in Anacortes, WA where the sun has been out or
mostly out for the past few days. Ah, spring. Would sure like
to see a show by both Upton ('74) and Mattingly ('60) (not
together) but I just have to get more ambulatory to do that.
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>>From: Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
I would appreciate some help from anyone who graduated from high school
locally and now lives in Virginia.
I believe that one of our members from the class of '56 is deceased, but
I have no proof. I found information from the Social Security Index and
I do believe that this information is correct:
Carleton Craven, born 8-4-1938 and died 4-1980, in Alexandria City, VA.
Could someone check the Obits from that local newspaper. Thank you.
-Nola Davey Meichle ('56)
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>>From: Tom Verellen ('60, a class that ends in zero)
An open invite to everyone. In downtown Olympia on Saturday 4/29/06 in
the evening there will be "The Procession of the Species." A unique
event to say the least, it must be experienced and is impossible to
describe. In conjunction there is an Art Walk throughout the downtown
area. Once you see it you won't forget it.
-Tom Verellen ('60) ~ From just outside of Lacey, WA
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Re: Behind the eight ball...
Well, I was one of Ray Juricich's failures! I got 12 tickets my first
year of driving. Finally, I was driving down George Washington Way in
front of Jim Hamilton's ('63) house and Bruce Smith passed me on the
left. About the time I started waving at Bruce, I struck a car that was
making a right turn. That was the end of my driving for a while. The
judge took my license away for a year. A few months later I enlisted in
the Navy and the rest is history. Did I learn my lesson? My wife holds
her breath when she's riding with me.
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve") or is it "Behind the Eight Ball"
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>>From: Shirley Collings Haskins ('66)
Re: Reunion for the class of 1966
Is there anyone able to help us locate the following classmates? If so,
please email me at the above address. Thank you for your help.
Janice Allison, Kathy Anderson, Ronald Anderson, Shisla Andrews,
Jimmy Ard, Rosemary Baird, David Barker, Rick Barnett, Sharon Bateman,
Carolyn Benoliel, Eva Birge, Ron Blackburn, Joanne Bloodworth,
Peter Bowman, Dennis Brons, James Brunelle, Barbara Campbell,
Margaret Carter, John Conner, Diane Copeland, Andrea Cotner,
James Couch, Leslie Curtis, Geraldine Davis, Dyan Dilley,
Jean Ellerthorpe, Pam Emmons, David Farnsworth, Barbara Fennessy,
Sue Forbes, Stephen Forte, Donald Fuqua, LanelleFusman, Tom Gaines,
Jack Gilchrist, Christian Hanson, Hershel Halstead, Arlene Harden,
Diana Henneman, Elizabeth Hetrick, Yvonne Hoover aka Edwards (Honorary),
Debra House, Charlotte Howard, Roger Howard, Stephan Jech, Don Jones,
Jody Kendrick, Kirby Allan, Elizabeth Larsson, William Louis,
Deidre Magula, Tom Mattis, Darren McDermott, Roger McKenzie,
Wanda Miller, Corey Morris, Virginia Mason, Christine Oman,
David Pearson, Sabra Peterson, Terri Platt, Kathy Pleasant, Billie Ray,
Regina Rendon, Mary Reynolds, Tony Ray, Caroline Rogers, Marian Russell,
Carole Saari, Teresa Sadler, Lene Saltoft (F.E.S. from Sweeden),
Kay Schafer, Cheryl Schmidt, Brenda Schnaible, Geraldine Shields,
Cole Shoaf, Christine Simek, Kenneth Smith, Kathleen Taylor,
Richard Thompson, Alexander Toth (F.E.S. from Argentina), Thomas Turner,
Linda Watson, Michael Whittle.
Thanks for looking at the names
-Shirley Collings Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Susan Lundgren ('82)
Re: Mr. Stell
To: Donni Clark Dunphy ('63)
Is this possibly the same Mr. Stell that was the choir teacher at
Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, WA 80-81?
I had the odd experience of spending only my junior year in Tacoma.
Was assigned to "study hall" for one of my classes and discovered that
studying did not describe what happened in study hall. After a few
weeks, I thought I found a way out. Went to the "choir teacher" to ask
permission to use one of the piano practice rooms during study hall as
my piano was back in Richland. Found myself the accompanist for the
choir instead, in spite of my attempts at protest. Still disciplined and
strict if it is the same man. Forced me to learn some new skills since
there was never access to a piano to practice!.
He knew I was from Richland, never said anything about his own
connection.
-Susan Lundgren ('82)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Ann Clatworthy ('54), George Swan ('59)
Tom Verellen ('60), Mike Brady ('61)
Roy Ballard ('63), Betti Avant ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike Varley ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck Shipman ('71)
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>>From: Ann Clatworthy Hogshead ('54)
To: Homer Raekes ('47)
Happy birthday to Homer Raekes [on 4/28] my good neighbor on Thayer
Drive for many years. This is your first without your beloved Georgia.
I have many good memories of my "third brother" all the years my two
brothers, Jimmy ('46) and Bobby ('51-RIP), were in the service in Korea
and Germany. Homer and Phil ('49) and their step-dad Clyde and mother
Muriel Taylor were good friends also of my mother and father Virginia
and Jim Clatworthy. Many summer evenings were spent talking over the
fence to "Tay" and her boys and petting Mitzi, their little dog. All
of our parents are gone now and Homer and I have lost the loves of our
youth Georgia and Ray ('53-RIP). Now it is our turn to talk over fences
(now electronic in nature) and remember how special days of growing up
in Richland were. My best to you, "brother" Homer, may the years ahead
be filled with loving memories, and the making of new memories with your
children and grandchildren.
Re: The inquiry about Harley Stell
Yes, it is the same person. I met him at a drive in the Seattle area
after we moved from Richland to attend the UW. He said he was teaching..
I believe he said in Tacoma. Mr. Stell sang at our wedding in 1956 in
the Central United Protestant Church where he was a member and choir
director. He was my study hall teacher in Col-Hi as well as my
Contemporary Living teacher.
-Ann Clatworthy Hogshead ('54)
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>>From: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Part III of "Gullible's Travels" and the
Conclusion of "Dancing With Elves"
Does anyone else recall that inner feeling when growing up in
Bomberville that you sensed so much and had so many questions about
life at that time and of the near future. Yet, you just couldn't seem
to put it into put into words. The easy way out is to simply say,
"That's all part of adolescence -- growing up" and be done with it.
But, who said something to the effect, "I came to a fork in the road
and I took the one less traveled?"
During those formative years and ever since, there were many forks and
I reckon we'll continue to arrive at forks until we take the final one
that leads hopefully to the "Pearlies." Fortunately, I never found
myself asleep at a fork like John Candy in, "Wagons East." Incidentally,
that last John Candy film was one of my favorite of his works.
Figuratively speaking, of course, I looked down each trail (for a sign),
picked one, nudged my horse and rode on.
Another way to look at it is, life is a series of, "What ifs?" What if,
at various forks in the pathways of life, I had reigned my horse down
that other trail? Maybe there were hills and mountains to climb or a
vast desert to cross (perhaps all with great personal discomfort). So,
I might have chosen the route that looked less challenging, or more
promising, or just ... easier. But, what if, just beyond that high
mountain pass or hot waterless desert, there was ... a peaceful, lush
green valley?
Some say, life is a series of trials and errors. Sometimes, we get
a second chance to try again. Sometimes, we don't. So, hopefully we
learned from the errors. Often, if there is a semblance of a second
chance, it may be similar but seldom (if ever) the same.
Now, with considerable years on the trail, I come to a high mountain
meadow with a high vantage point. And, a cold, clear stream runs through
it. Nowadays, spring comes late for me in the high country each year. I
dismount, loosen cinches, turn 'em out to graze, and find a comfortable
rock for my bony old, saddle-sore "Sit-upon." I take a long pull of cool
water from my old canteen and lay my hat aside. As the cool mountain
breeze blows through my hair, I look back over the trail, gazing at the
many "What if" forks now too distant to see but still fresh in my memory
and ponder whether they came just after breaking camp the day before, or
the day before that, or ...
What if I had been able to take the bull by the horns in my younger
years and had just learned to dance and speak to girls? What if the
elves had not tied me up and staked me down in the front lawn like
"Gulliver" on a long ago Saturday night. What if they had not called
on about a hundred of their little buddies to help carry me (bound and
gagged) down the dark alleyways and through the shadows of nighttime
lawns to Bonnie Allen's ('59) house? What if they had not threatened
me with revealing the fact that I saw and talked to elves if I did not
attend Bonnie's party.
There, under the shrubs, in the dark of Bonnie's front yard, they untied
me and pushed me to the door and rang the bell. Lowkey and Lowiq assured
me that they would coach me on how to act by using hand signals to me
through the windows. At the last second, they darted off into the dark
with loud elfin laughter, leaving me wondering, what if the curtains
are closed? The door opened and Bonnie, looking about, asked, "You
squeaked?" "Uh, no, uh, I ... sneezed, hay fever." "Oh, ... come in, I
was wondering if you were coming?" I was sure that she did not believe
me, due to her raised eyebrows. It was about then that I sensed that the
best laid plans of elves and a boy might be questionable as Bonnie said,
"Come on in, the party is in the basement."
I could hear music and voices (many were girl voices) coming from below.
Bonnie introduced me to her parents. I interpreted their smiles to mean
that they saw right through me as a bumbling bumpkin. My knees began
to shake as Bonnie led the way. My legs seemed to take on a feeling of
similarity to "Dumbo" the elephant's underpinnings. At the top step,
I stubbed my toe. Two somersaults later, I lay face down with my chin
resting on the bottom step, my legs curled over my back with a foot
resting near each ear. "Uhhhh," I announced my party crashing style.
Silently, I hoped they would see my action as what the elves had
recommended, a fashionable late entry.
"I'mth OKayth!" I spoke into the carpet. Springing up (I was quite young
and agile then), I assumed the red-faced demeanor of a cat that just ran
headlong into the glass patio door, (as in -- I meant to do that) and
proceeded directly to the punch bowl. As I poured two cups of pink punch
into my cup that runneth over (onto the white table cloth), I happened
to notice two little faces peering through the basement window. Lowkey,
shaking his head side to side, held his hand over his eyes as Lowiq,
bent over with squeaking laughter, fell into the basement window well.
Those little guys are a lot of help, I thought. So, I turned to face the
music ... and the faces of laughing guys and those of beautiful girls
staring at me with their lower jaws agape and hanging at about belly
button level. Bonnie, the ever gracious hostess, saved me with, "George,
let's dance." I, a lad in distress, had been rescued by a fair damsel.
However, my appreciative sense of relief instantly turned to panic as I
realized that I had uttered, "OK."
As Bonnie put on a new record, I considered dashing up the stairs and
out the door. Sensing movement, I looked up to see Lowiq's nose and
smiling eyes peering over the lower window sill and Lowkey with his
little widespread hands signaling, "Stay" as he mouthed the words, "Just
do it!" "Thanks a lot!" I mouthed back and then realized that Bonnie
was standing there, arms outstretched in dance position, looking very
quizzically at me. "Shall we dance?" she said, a bit uncertain.
We danced (I think). I attempted to lead with what Lowkey had called the
"Crumpled Box Step." When the confusing combined sense of utter pleasure
and utter torture ended, I thought, "not so bad." Bonnie limped off with
crumpled toes to put on another record and I grabbed a chair as far in
the corner as I could get. In the window well, I noticed the faces of a
grinning Lowiq and a shrugging Lowkey.
The rest of the evening is now a blur (as I think it was then). Other
than Bonnie, I cannot remember who was there. A couple of other girls
dared to dance with me, at their request, as I just could not bring
myself to ask. Bonnie, even demonstrated courageous consideration and
risk of further podiatric injury with an encore of the crumple step.
Somehow, I made it through the evening and later, the elves and I had a
long silent walk back home. The following Monday at school, Bonnie was
still limping and I was too embarrassed to talk to her and the other
girls again. What if?
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where the sun again shines
brightly from a clear blue sky and Lowkey, Lowiq, and I
recline around the puddle and recall the story of our first
meeting for Darby.
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>>From: Tom Verellen (Class of '60: "A Class That Ends in Zero")
To: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Hi Mike,
This is Vito, head of the slogan police, after searching our records we
have found that "ahead of the curve" has not been registered with the
board of sanctioned slogans. Better known as BOSS. Let this serve as
notice that you better get with it, Bub or else we will join with the
Spelling police (the people that just can't stand to see a mispelled
word without pointing it out) and then we'll all be in big trouble.
-Vito (Class of '60: "A Class That Ends in Zero")
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>>From: Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
Re: Employee Occupational Illness Compensation
After almost six years and tons of paper work, we finally received word
from the U.S. Department of Labor that my Dad's cancer and death was
not caused by radiation exposure while working at Hanford. According to
the law, a family will be compensated if there is a 50% chance or better
that the cancer was work related. NIOSH calculated the probability of
causation for my Dad's lung cancer at 43.08%. Since we disagree with
their findings, we have 30 days to file an appeal. According to the
letter I received, the appeal must clearly state the grounds upon which
reconsideration is being requested.
I'm wondering if any of you have experience in this area and can assist
me in writing an appeal.
-Mike Brady (Class of '61: "Ahead of the Curve")
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>>From: Roy Ballard (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Ray Juricich (RIP)
I remember working with Ray J. in some things... what a wonderful guy
he was. I will miss him very much. My favorite time was when I played
on the golf team in my junior year. I was playing a match against
another guy down at the Pendleton, OR golf course. Since we were the
last twosome, we were rewarded with the opportunity to play with Ray and
Daddy "D" Dawald. Boy did I sweat that day. We were on the back nine
when a cloud burst hit and it was a down pour, and Ray told me to get on
the stick and get done. Well, I hit a fairway wood and on my back swing,
I lost the club and had to go back about a 100 feet and retrieve my
club. I got lots of looks that day from both Ray and Dawald. You know I
don't even remember if I won the match, but I did get plenty wet.
-Roy Ballard (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)
Re: Thanks
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Pappy
Suzie U.R.A. Squirrel says she got a nice thank you note from Lowiq and
Bogart. I guess she is one of the cute nurses they harassed while in
Toady General Hospital. I told her they were both doing well, albeit a
bit ornery, but I said that's the way they are all the time, right?
-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where the warmer temps & blue skies abound
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/30/06
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim Jensen ('50), Phil Belcher ('51)
Bonnie Allen ('59), Joe Jancovic ('62)
Carol Converse ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: MaryLee Coates ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Louise Moyers ('65)
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>>From: Jim Jensen ('50)
Re: Goodbye
At 7:35 a.m. on Saturday morning, following five days in intensive
care and forty-nine years and three months of wonderful marriage, my
sweet wife, Alliene, left her tired, exhausted body at sleep and at
peace. This wife and mother of our home was the most remarkable woman
I've ever known. It was my great privilege and honor to have shared
my life with her.
-Jim Jensen ('50) ~ Katy, TX
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>>From: Phil Belcher ('51)
Re: Harley Stell
In high school I had both Gordon Pappas for Band, orchestra and radio
broadcasting. I had Harley Stell for choir and boy's glee. We had an
arrangement with a radio station in Kennewick, (actually our side of
town) that would put on a half hour program that we made up in class.
(I was the engineer) Biggie. Harley would let me use his 1948 Merc
four door to take the tape to the station. Pat Demille ('51) and
Gloria Middlebrough ('52) would ride along with me. (I would never
let a sixteen year old punk kid take my car once let alone every week.)
They both were great teachers with a lot of patience and I learned a
lot from them. Could have learned more but I knew it all back then.
I have a copy of the Boston Pop's "Bugler's Holiday" and every time I
play it I think back to Gordon and his triple tonguing. I remember the
road trips both in the band and the choir where we had such fun. Truly
a great time to grow up.
-Phil Belcher ('51) ~ n western Pasco where the pink dogwood is
beautiful in our back yard
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>>From: Bonnie Allen ('59)
Re: Thank You
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Thank you for the wonderful story--and three entries at that!! It
certainly wasn't what I expected when I so boldly asked you for a
birthday present!!
I barely remember the party. Obviously it wasn't nearly the traumatic
experience for me that it was for you! No, I couldn't tell that you were
scared to death of girls! Even then, I could not read minds. I knew you
were awfully quiet. Too bad. I hope you have now recovered since you've
gotten all this out in the open.
I think you also should know the truth about my limping. I actually
broke my toe running up those basement stairs, and it had nothing to do
with dancing with you at the party! It had more to do with a very large
spider on a sheet my mother had hung on a clothesline she used in the
laundry area of the basement.
I was also an expert rider at the famous West Richland Riding Academy
(see how much we had in common!). I had my own horses in Montana on my
Dad's farm there. The fact that my Dad had a farm in Montana is the
reason that I disappeared for years at a time between 7th grade and our
Senior Year.
Re: 1950s
It's a long presentation, but you'll love it! You will not only hear
the music, but see all that went along during that era. Do you remember?
Be sure the sound is turned up.
http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm
-Bonnie Allen ('59)
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From the new ALL Bomber Alumni GuestBook.
>>From: Joe Jancovic ('62)
Saturday 04/29/2006 6:48:10am
COMMENTS: Bellingham WA
-Joe Jancovic ('62)
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>>From: Carol Converse Maurer ('64)
To: George "Pappy" Swan ('59)
Loved your story, as I'm sure everybody else did. The anticipation each
day of a new "chapter" was great. Sure have enjoyed all your stories,
and I'm with others, stating that you really do need to write a book!
You are just a natural. If not, you have surely fooled us all.
-Carol Converse Maurer (Boomer Bomber class of '64)
We are to be having nice sunny weather, but so far I'm still
waiting in anticipation. We will be going down to the Merced
area next week and am really looking forward to the warm
weather, unlike Linda Reining ('64), wishing it were winter still.
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