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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/01/09 - FALL BACK at 2am
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6 Bombers Bill Dunton and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), Rich BAKER ('58)
"Pappy" SWAN ('59), Derrith PERSONS ('60)
David RIVERS ('65), Peter TURPING ('70)
Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy WILLOX ('61wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Micki LUND ('63)
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>>From: Marlene Rose LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
This is a reply to the posting by Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
which was in the October 30th Sandstorm. It is regarding John Ball
School in North Richland.
My question is: Did John Ball always have just 12 Quonset huts or
were more added in later years? I lived in North Richland from
1948 through 1952 and it seemed to me that John Ball had more
Quonset huts than 12. However, I saw the picture of the school
that Maren just posted a few days ago and it definitely only has
12 Quonset huts.
http://richlandbombers.com/allbombers/0gspicsJBt.html
I was interested in learning that there was no "A" Street but
instead just 3 rows of houses along the bluff of the Columbia
River. I lived at 901 "B" Street in a duplex. Our house was on the
west side of "B" Street and our back yard sloped up to the row of
houses on "C" Street. We have pictures of us kids sitting on the
sloping back lawn.
It was also interesting to learn in another website that our 2
bedroom duplex rented for less than $40.00 a month which included
all the utilities including stove oil. I remember my uncle from
Coulee City who drove a Richfield oil truck coming and filling
up our oil barrel, along with everyone else's barrel. It is
surprising that I remembered the monthly rental charge before I
read about it on the web. Why I remember that figure is beyond me.
If anyone out there can tell me whether John Ball School ever had
more than 12 Quonset huts, I would appreciate a reply. Thanks.
One other question. Were all the houses, duplexes and trailer
park removed? I saw the website of the John Ball School foundation
and is it still there or was the foundation removed also? I also
have heard that there are now large homes located on the site of
North Richland. Does anyone know for sure?
Re: More memories of North Richland in the late '40s and early
'50s.
I remember trading comic books and walking up and down "B" Street
in North Richland, trading comic books with other kids. As a
remember, the comic books cost 10 cents each. Hard to believe!
My sister, Linda *'60wb), and I remember playing along the bluff
of the Columbia River. One time we even made a baseball field and
played baseball. Linda said she used to collect arrow heads along
the river and wishes she had kept them.
Another memory is when Harry S. Truman and his wife and daughter
were campaigning and their train stopped in Pasco in 1948. We were
there and saw and listened to him speak when he and his family
were standing on the rear portion of the train. We have a picture
which was taken that day.
One other thing I remember was when the Uptown Richland theater
first opened and how fancy it was. I especially remember the
reclining seats. How wonderful!
-Marlene Rose LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Rich BAKER ('58)
Re: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
While living in Japan, I have had the opportunity to visit both
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I had a great desire to visit Nagasaki
because my Dad started as a "D" Operator in 1943 at "B" reactor.
He eventually worked his way up to the "B" reactor manager. I
believe it was actually called 105 building process manager.
Then in the early '60s I worked in the 100 areas on one of the
supplemental crews so also spent quite a bit of time working at
"B." It seems like my visit to Nagasaki kind of closed the loop.
Craig BUCHANNAN ('56) was on the same supplemental crew with me.
Attached are some pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I labeled
each picture so I hope they come through.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091101-Bak-00.htm
The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was one of the
few ground zero buildings that did not completely collapse and has
been retained as part of the Peace Park. In one of the pictures of
the Hall, you will see Dave Silver (Benton City '56) and his wife
Anna who were visiting me at the time.
-Rich BAKER ('58) ~ Kobe, Japan where the air is becoming crisp.
I am leaving tomorrow for Shanghai where I will meet my
wife who is flying in from Atlanta. We will spend the next
17 days taking in the sights and sounds of China.
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: More Pappy's Ponderings
To: Dick McCOY (the Tin Can Class of '45)
Re: Monikers (or ... Turkeys Are Us)
You wrote, "Why not B. Franklin's turkey, an honorable bird, and
good to eat." I echo both of those admirable attributes of the
Wild Turkey. They are also a very interesting bird to study and
they can be quite challenging to hunt. Contrary to popular
opinion, "wild turkeys ain' no dummies!" If the wild turkey could
smell, as well as it can see and hear, hunters probably, would
stand little chance of taking one.
And, wild turkeys provide one of those lessons in life, by the
fact that, they are in reality, an ugly bird, and just the
connotation associated with their name, belittles them, as in,
"He's a turkey." Yet, eagles are much more impressive in
appearance and behavior. But as you say, "Politically correctly
they now are the EWU Eagles, WHICH IS MOSTLY A SCAVENGER [my
emphasis]."
So, let me see now ... the turkeys work hard to raise a family,
make a living, and protect their flock, whereas the eagle is more
of an opportunist. The eagle does a little hunting for its own
food, but mostly just soars about, watching the turkeys and other
critters hard at work. But mostly, the eagle just takes advantage
of another animal's misfortune or another predator's hard work, by
scavenging, or in other words, the eagle mostly lives off the hard
work of others.
So, in reality, who is the real turkey (in the derogatory sense of
the word)? The wild turkey is indeed, "an honorable bird." So, as
long as we are engaging in this argument about the pros and cons
of the "R Cloud" (which I support), we should also reconsider
"Uncle Ben's" argument that we do away with the eagle and take on
the turkey, as our national symbol. Go turkeys!
To: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57) ~ from sunny Tucson
Re: Speaking of weather
Yesterday, the rains ceased for a while, and the winds came, as
they always do around here ... following a rain. It seems to be
the unwritten duty of the winds, after an excessive downpour, to
dry out the terrain, which actually ... I like. So, I ventured
forth into the wilds (ok, one of the wildlife habitat areas
along the Snake River), with my girls. We were in search of the
wily (and seemingly non-existent) rooster pheasant and those
diminutive, feathered, clandestine operators, known as quail.
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department reported that the
population of upland birds is up this year and hunters will have
great hunting. Huh? Methinks that their crystal ball was clouded,
as I have not talked to a bird hunter yet, who has found this
year's lauded good hunting.
But, always trying to look for the bright side and maintain my
sanity, my dogs and I made the best of it. We trudged about in the
yet, wet grass and weeds, and did flush two pheasants, but always
out of sight, behind thick brush. And, these birds were crafty, as
there was no cackling, so we have no idea if they were roosters
or not. And, the quail, like turkeys, are no dummies either, as
they were high in the trees, waiting for the grass to dry out,
and easily eluded a stumbling old guy and two eager pups.
Consequently, the report is, "No shots fired."
Now, one could easily ask, "So Pappy, what was fun about that?"
Well, my girls and I all got a lot of exercise on a day of windy,
but otherwise, great weather. In fact, the exercise turned out to
be a bit excessive, unintentionally. At one point, emerging from
the wet brush and pausing to decide on our next course of action,
I glanced down and noticed a branch-like stick. This was no
ordinary stick, as the longer I looked at it, the more it looked
like a deer antler, which indeed ... it was, a 4-pt Whitetail deer
antler.
As I picked it up, I pondered the probability that its mate (the
other side of the buck's antlers) could be nearby. As I stood
there studying it, I realized that Me'a was sniffing something in
the wet grass, near my feet. So, staring at the grass in front of
her nose, I began to make out just the tip of the other antler,
not three feet from the first one. You may wonder, "What's so
great about this discovery?" Well, we found both antlers from
the same buck, in the same spot, a very unusual happening.
Furthermore, the antlers are in very good condition. They would
have to be from last years buck, as it is too early for this
year's bucks to have dropped their antlers. And, they show no sign
of rodents having chewed on them (a usual occurrence by the little
buggers seeking the minerals in the antlers).
These "sheds," as dropped antlers are called, are highly coveted
by hunters, and others of outdoor interests because they can be
used for many purposes, not the least of just displaying them. I
think that I will use these next year for hopefully "rattling" in
another or possibly the same buck (which could be a six-pointer
by then). "Rattling" is the clanking of the antlers together to
simulate the sound of bucks fighting, when they challenge each
other for the area and its does. This often draws in a curious
buck to the site of the "fake fight," so that a hunter can get a
shot at him. The only draw back in this state is that the "rutting
(breeding) season," in most areas, takes place after many of the
deer hunting seasons have closed. But, there are late seasons,
especially for archers or the late Whitetail deer hunts in
northeastern Washington.
So, I praised both dogs, especially Me'a, put my antler prizes in
my game pouch and happily went off through the brush, back to the
task at hand of trying to find a game bird, hopeful for dad to hit
and pups to retrieve. I had not gone far, when I realized that my
good polarized sunglasses, that I had foolishly placed upon top of
my ball-type cap ... were missing. Well, obviously I had most
likely allowed overhanging branches to sweep them off of my head
... somewhere on my back trail ... but where? Instantly, I went
from the euphoria of having made the wonderful find of a set of
great sheds to losing my expensive shooting sunglasses. Not
necessarily a "good trade!"
And thus, began a long drawn out backtracking search, that
resulted in nearly twice the distance that I would have normally
covered on this hunt. I had circled and zigzagged so much that
it was difficult to make sure that I covered the same trail
previously taken. However, eventually, with old age patience and
perseverance, I finally (after about and hour of wandering in
circles) stumbled onto my sunglasses, still intact. Again, my pups
and I celebrated, as I bought us all a drink ... of cold water
from the hydration pack that I carry on my back when hunting (for
man and dogs).
By then, there were two pups and one old guy, all thoroughly
"whupped," so we began our trek back to the parking lot and Ranger
"Ricky," about a mile away. The walk was long and slow, but we
enjoyed each other's company, an occasional drink of water, and we
were facing into the wind. "It don't get not better than that!"
Finally, arriving at "Ricky," we had our own tailgate party as we
shared my cheese and summer sausage sandwich, and more water. Then
the tired pups bedded down in the back of Ricky, and I drove home
with no birds, but a glow of satisfaction about a good day spent
afield with close friends.
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where an old turkey
sits at his keyboard, gazing out the window at blue sky,
waving branches, and dried out grass, while two friends
contentedly snooze at his feet, in twitching dreams of
yesterday, and possibly of tomorrows to come.
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>>From: Derrith PERSONS Dean ('60)
Happy All Saints Day!! Question: did you set your clocks back??
Class of '60 lunch...
A time to get together is almost here...
If your in town or from out of town
Come on, we'll have a good time!!
WHEN: Saturday, November 7th
TIME: 11:30 am
WHERE: Sterling's, 890 GWWay
Come on lets have some fun!!
-Derrith PERSONS Dean ('60)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: OOooooooooooooops
Well, I got my B-day wish off to Bobby MATTSON ('64) for the 31st
but missed Rex DAVIS ('49)... Sorry Rex, I mean Mr. Davis, my
heart's in the right place... just didn't read the yellow
sticky... here I am... waiting to set the clocks back and waiting
for the door bell to ring... got home before dark to make sure I
was here for the kids but so far only 4 have showed up... shoulda
gotta candy I really like... gonna be some left...
We have two birthdays today (November 1, 2009) that I even emailed
to myself to make sure I didn't miss... Two Bomber-babes, my
favorite kind of course... ya might even say "A-Bombers"...
speaking of which... We had a nice celebration for the "Cold War
Patriots" in Vegas yesterday... ours was held at the Atomic Museum
at the University... they said they were holding similar events in
38 towns... wondered if they had one in Richland... well, I didn't
wonder much... I know they did in Oakridge and Los Alamos... they
had commemorative pins... just like the Manhattan Project pins
only with an outer ring with the date of the celebration... quite
nice... I got an extra for my Mom... But the purpose of this
little note is to wish the two birthday girls a Happy Special
Day... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Judy WILLOX ('61) and Micki LUND ('63)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Peter TURPING ('70)
Re: Sorenson's Picture #456
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091030-456-Who.html
The tall Gary GOTTSCHALK ('70) and Joe WIRFS ('70). It appears to
be a science project and I see they were awarded a ribbon of some
kind. It must be around 1965 as they have their Christ the King
uniforms on.
-Peter TURPING ('70)
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Re: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Pianos
Maren wrote that she had spoken to "the" piano tuner from Korten's
about the "extra" Steinway grand pianos which had been charged to
the Carmichael construction budget. The tuner (who did our home
piano too) said there was only the Carmichael Steinway in the
city. I can't swear to it now that the investigator said "Steinway
grands," or if he was really asking if I knew of any grands that
had been purchased for Carmichael. Remember, I came to Carmichael
September, 1949. Guess I'll have to fall back on my favorite
parable -- "The Blind Men and the Elephant."
Blind men were selected to "view" an elephant and then describe
what the beast looked like to them. One of them said "a wall,"
another "a snake," another "a wall," and yet another "a column."
All of them were absolutely correct, depending upon his particular
"point of view."
Those of you who have memory of the United Protestant Churches
(and there was one of those in each section of town) or the
Catholic Church, or at the Civic Center (I know there was a grand
there that "High Spot" used), I think you will remember they all
had a grand piano on their premises. I'll wager that somewhere
each piano carried the infamous "HEW" stamp denoting governmental
ownership.
You've got to understand the political turmoil in Washington.
D.C., to understand why the furor over spending $4 million dollars
for one school became a national cause celebre. Hanford and Oak
Ridge were both top secret. Secret facts are continually being
leaked from one source or another, so you can appreciate what a
monumental task it was to deliberately keep some 35,000 workers
and their families ignorant of what was going on in the "areas."
People who lived in Richland and worked on the Hanford Project
almost since the beginning told me that nobody really had the
slightest idea of what they were creating until the bomb was used
at Hiroshima. It was WWII and both Hanford and Oak Ridge were
built on the fissionable material that would just cover the head
of a pin! That "maternity ward" was under the football stadium
at the University of Chicago. Harry Truman didn't find out about
either the Hanford or Oak Ridge projects until after he become
President upon the death of FDR!
Part of the veil of security was that the President (through his
Department of War, or Navy, or Defense) could and did ask for
"black box" appropriations, i.e., very large dollar amounts for
secret projects. Appropriating money for any project only gives
the governmental OK for the project. In addition any projects
chief contractor is then required to ask for specific requisitions
in order to pay contracts and those requests would be available
for the "public has a right to know." But in black box
appropriations, only specific legislative bipartisan leaders who
sit on the Intelligence Committee see any individual requisitions.
Almost everything built or created by the government then was
covered by "cost-plus" contracts, which simply meant that a
contractor could bid for a certain job in the project. Unlike
today when contractors must keep within their bids, contractors on
WWII projects didn't have the foggiest idea how much a job would
cost to complete.
The government was not going to allow us to lose the war because
contractors wouldn't bid on projects, ergo the "cost-plus"
contracts made perfect sense. If you bid $1M on a project
contract, and the government awarded you the contract, and after
the project was finished you could prove to the Feds that the
cost of completing the project was $2M, then you received the two
million bucks, no questions asked.
There was a plethora of contracts to design, build and furnish
Carmichael school. One doesn't plan a new school and have the
edifice immediately rise like the fabled phoenix. It took years
to get Carmichael completed from concept to students entering the
front door -- remember it was changed from Robert Gray JHS to
Carmichael JHS and re-designed in the middle of things. Since
building Carmichael was included in a huge Black Box project,
what better place to hide things that had to be done "yesterday"
and not go through the long legislative process of asking for
individual requisitions from Congress?
So, along comes Senator Bert Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) wearing his
white hat and throwing accusations right and left. Headlines all
over the USA were screaming about the waste and inefficiency of
government projects (sound like anything we've been subjected
to lately re Health Care and Insurance?). The Senator from Iowa
was able to somehow delve into the costs of Carmichael JHS and
discovered almost $4M had been spent on a school for 750 students!
The GOP disputed the costs; that's why the pianos were on the
check list of the investigating agent.
The GOP wanted to see if those pianos had been purchased or if
somebody had pocketed the money and disguised the expenditures
under the guise of buying the instruments. They wanted to hang
Harry and the Democratic Party with the reputation for being high-
spenders who didn't care how much anything cost. The very fact
that Hickenlooper didn't come up with anything substantial caused
the US Senate to quietly drop the investigation.
But the damage had been done, and Carmichael JHS would be forever
tarnished with the brush of "something must have been wrong."
I found a quotation the other day by Adlai E. Stevenson (who ran
for President and lost twice to Ike), "In America any boy may
become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he
takes." I have a hunch that HST would have roundly approved that
sentiment.
And that's the way it was!
-Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091101-458-465.htm
To: All Bombers,
First one has me stumped. It kinda looks like the old bus lot next
to Chief Jo, Richland Community Center. Looks like a G. E. comic
book in the lad's hand, End of day shift 703 Building, This might
be a toss up between a 100 area building or 2101 M, Looks like
Albertson's?, 100 Area Section of the Bus Lot, 2704-B office
building, Federal Building.
I attended the Cold War Remembrance ceremony on Friday. Saw a few
folks I knew. CREHST Museum had a few pictures from early Richland
and war time construction. Speakers were okay but I felt they
could have been a little better prepared for the Hanford folks.
Not a criticism just an observation. Should have been more photos
of workers in action. That certainly would have created more
conversation amongst those who worked there and the uninitiated.
A good start to honor the Veterans.
To: Dee Wilkerson, aka Willo Dean EDENS ('56)
The special incinerator you mentioned were the Power Houses. In
the next few weeks there will be a photo of the burning of
classified scrap. Thanks for your reply.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/02/09
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9 Bombers and Don Sorensen sent stuff:
Laura Dean KIRBY ('55), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Bonnie STEEBER ('57), "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Donni CLARK ('63), John CAMPBELL ('63)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Mike FRANCO ('70), Don Sorensen (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norma LOESCHER ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom BEAULIEU ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard JACOBS ('75)
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>>From: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
To: Marlene Rose LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
I found a copy of the Tri-City Genealogical Society Bulletin Volume
39, Number 1 containing a history of John Ball School. It is too
lengthy to place here, but it reads in part: "The school opened on
Feb. 16th 1948 with 11 teachers, a principal and sixty pupils. The
next year twelve units were added."
The accompanying photo is extremely dark, but appears to show 28
Quonset huts and the large one in the middle that was the
auditorium, cafeteria and gym.
My mother taught first grade there 1948-1951. I found this
information among some of the papers I kept after her death.
-Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
I am looking for a friend of mine from North Richland. Her name
was Joan COOPER (''56). I have located her picture in the 1956
Columbian year book that is on-line. See this website
http://richlandbombers.1956.tripod.com/56columbian/ss/027.html
She is also shown in one of the John Ball classroom pictures that
are posted under Class of 1956. I believe it is the 7th grade class
of Mr. Harding that her picture is in. If not, it is in the 5th or
6th grade picture.
Joan, if you are reading this, please e-mail me at
mrogers@thevision.net My name was Marlene LARSEN (now it is Marlene
LARSEN Hegseth). We live in Modesto, CA. We left North Richland in
1952 and moved to California and have lived here ever since.
I lived in the houses along the Columbia River and I remember you
living in the trailer park. Do you remember me?
Hope to hear from you and hope you are doing fine.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
Re: Pappy Swan ('59) Speaking of weather.
Way to go, Pappy! I knew you could do it! Thanks for the
entertaining episode of your excursion into the wilds with your
"girls." Now, what should the next subject be?
-Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57) ~ back to the eighties today in sunny
Arizona!
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
To: Maren, "Our Sandstorm Leader(ess)"
Re: Pre-Obits
Maren, last night, as I was coping with the task of setting our
excessive number of clocks back an hour, I had to stand on a little
stepstool in order to reach one in our dining room (I am shrinking,
you will recall), when the top of my thinning hair covered head
inadvertently, violated the radial arc of close proximity of the
ceiling fan. No harm done, except for my hair now parts on the
other side of my head. And, I should have known better, as a long
time ago, I did work around helicopters (which are sort of like
giant ceiling fans). But, it did ring my bell for a brief instant,
bringing with said incident, the reaffirmation of the fact that
time waits for no man. And then it hit me!
Oh my gosh! I have not completed the writing of my pre-obit.
However, I have not heard much mention, lately, in Sandstorm of
this most sensible Bomber endeavor. I seem to recall that a few
Bombers took interest and submitted their personal pre-obits. So, I
am wondering, is the idea of pre-obits still alive and well in the
realm of Bomberdom and Alumni Sandstorm? If so, are these pre-obits
being stored or posted anywhere for one to read? Or, are we just
doing our own, for doing them up ahead of time? What was the
consensus ... or was there one?
Personally, I like this idea of writing one's own obituary prior to
one's discharge date and separation from service, here on earth. It
provides the vehicle for one to leave behind some notes of what was
important to him or her and even allows one to stretch the stories
a bit, if so desired. Just wondering?
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where today, this first
day of the eleventh month of 2009, dawned partly cloudy, but
no wind nor rain. By golly, its a short term milestone!
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[Pappy, not too much interest in PRE obits... needs another name...
too confusing as "pre obits"... any ideas? -Maren]
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
In answer to some of the questions regarding John Ball. There was
a book put out in 1988 for the John Ball reunion. In this book
prepared by Jane MATTOON Carlson ('62wb), there are about 5 pages
on the history of John Ball plus many interesting copies of
newspaper articles and lots of school pictures. I received a copy
because I did go to John Ball a couple of months at the end of
the 1950 school year. In the history pages it mentions that the
"original construction included 12 hutments." Then it says that
at the beginning of the next year "the facilities had increased
to 15 double hutments and a cafeteria which also served as an
auditorium." This is such a fun book to read because many of the
students shared some really fun memories. I see Laura KIRBY
Armstrong ('55) name in the back so maybe she knows where those
who are interested can get a copy???
I have enjoyed all the information about Carmichael which was my
junior high school. I'm afraid I missed you Mr. Dunton. I joined
chorus in 9th grade when Mr. Phelps came as the new teacher. All
of us girls were in love with him. Some of my fondest memories of
Carmichael were: Shelly McCOY ('63-RIP) singing "Great Balls of
Fire" at our 8th grade party/dance, Terry Webb ('63-RIP) walking
me to class every day with his arm around me, the day I held a
real snake at one of our assemblies, the sock hops in the gym and
winning first place in 7th grade for the Fox Trot (got to go to the
music store in Uptown Richland and pick out a record for a prize. I
chose "April Love." Going to the Walla Walla State Penitentiary for
our field trip in the 8th grade. Can you believe that they let us
do that?! I can remember walking right through all those prisoners
and thinking what if one grabbed me! Yikes, that is a memory I will
never forget. And then there were all the fun carnivals, and games.
I was a cheerleader in 9th grade and it was so much fun. I got to
wear the same cheerleader uniform that Katie SHEERAN ('61) wore
(they were passed down in those days) and the skirts almost touched
our ankles. Horrors! It was fun riding the bus to the Walla Walla
games with the boys and stopping at the junction to eat and making
the boys sandwiches and cocoa to eat after the game. Those are just
a few of some very special memories of days I will never forget. We
were the Cougars and I still have some of the "Cougar Tails" our
newspaper.
-Donni CLARK Dunphy (the golden class of '63) ~ From Southern Calif
where the nights are chilly and the days are still very
warm. Oh, and I have to share this. Some of you may
remember several years ago when I first connected with
Sandstorm, I told you that our turtles had laid some
eggs. Well, after about 3 years of trying to incubate
Ayla's eggs (outside, inside, at the reptile store) we
had our very first little baby turtle hatch on October
17th! It is so cute and we called it "Cookie" because
it is so tiny. Can't know until they are much older
whether it is a boy or girl.
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: Johnny Rivers Show
Per Jim "Pitts" Armstrong's ('63) suggestion, Marilyn and I and
another couple went down to the Lucky Eagle Casino (south of
Olympia) and saw Johnny Rivers. He put on a good show and I was
impressed that he still has the same voice and is an accomplished
guitar player. I ran into Pitts and one of the Wersen "girls" while
waiting in line for an autograph. Got the autograph, but didn't win
any money. I'm always amused when the band leaves, and you know
they'll be back with minimal appreciation since they haven't played
their signature song yet .... in this case "Secret Agent Man". A
good show though, Pitts knows his music.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Lady Shopping at Albertson's
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091101-462-Who.html
Sorry... don't know who she is... BUT it does remind me of what
ladies wore back in the '50s and early '60s. My Mom ALWAYS wore
a skirt & blouse or a dress to the store + vacuumed the house in
same. Whenever we went to Spokane or Seattle, it was a dress up
affair for guys & gals.
Halloween... (300+)... yes... three hundred plus trick or treaters
showed up at our home Saturday evening. Not a record but with the
very nice weather it was a good crowd...
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: TCHerald 11/01/09 Coca-Cola Expedition 206
RHS alum, Brendan Madden ('95), member of TEAM WOW entry for
contest
Brendan Madden ('95), who lives in China, is part of TEAM WOW,
a group of three hoping to be chosen to be Coke's "happiness
ambassadors" so they can travel to 206 countries where Coke is
sold. Their mission? To find out what makes people happy. "What I
need is for everyone in the world to vote for my team, TEAM WOW!,
so we will have a chance to do this incredible opportunity," Madden
said in an e-mail to the Herald. Voting for the video TEAM WOW made
continues until Friday. Cast your vote at
http://www.Expedition206.com or
on the Coca-Cola Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/cocacola
http://blazer74.tripod.com/95MaddenBrendan09.JPG
GET THOSE VOTES IN, PLEASE.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
Happy Birthday to Coach Rex Davis ('49). Rex started a lot of us in
tennis in the early '60s with his lessons at Riverside Park. Those
lessons and quarts of A&W Root Beer gave me my start. I still play
three times a week. The knees feel a little different but the game
is still fun.
Thanks Rex for all the good (and plenty of bad) tennis!
- Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-466-473.htm
To: All Bombers
200 or 300 Area Fab Shops, Iso Chem I Q Program late '60s 200
Areas, Weather Group?, ?, General Electric 700 Area?, ?, 700 Area,
G.E. Mail Room?
To: Rich BAKER ('58)
The date you mention for your father working at B must be August
or September 1944. Construction forces left the 1st or 2nd week
of September. It's possible he was part of a shake down crew prior
to actual start up. To work himself to 105 Process Manager was
quite an accomplishment. That kind of advancement will never happen
again at the Hanford I know.
To: Bill Dunton (former Carmichael Teacher)
Senator Hickenlopper was all over Hanford spending. He raised
concerns over U Plant conversion & 234-5 (PFP as the papers call
it now) construction. There was one time he came to Hanford to see
what (234-5) was taking so long and costing so much and hadn't
produced a single thing. Demanded to get in but was denied access.
No need to know. I've heard that story from at least 5 sources who
were involved in its construction. At one point to satisfy his
demands the Remote Mechanical A Line went "hot" to mark start up.
This was accomplished by placing a container of plutonium in a
"hood". The R M A Line went into operation a little later after
it's construction was finished.
As far as who knew what during the war is fairly accurate. What
is not well known is all the Plant Managers of Fuel Manufacture,
Separation & Pile areas knew. Pile operators, Shift support
engineers, support chemists in all areas also knew about plutonium
and its ultimate use before coming to Hanford. They just didn't
know all the particluars. I've met a few folks who deduced what was
going on but were afraid to reveal it. Those folks were college
graduates who had taken physics and had heard about fission prior
to the war.
Love to hear your stories keep 'em coming!!
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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11 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mary Evelyn KINGSLEY ('49), Dick PIERARD ('52)
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), Missy KEENEY ('59)
James JOHNSON (’60), Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60)
John ADKINS ('62), Donni CLARK ('63)
Jeanie WALSH ('63), Karen KLEINPETER ('63)
Vic MARSHALL ('71), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jesse MALLORY ('66)
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>>From: Mary Evelyn KINGSLEY Spradlin ('49)
Re: Don Sorensen's Picture 471
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-471-Who.html
The man in the bottom right hand corner putting the thermos into
the lunch pail is my Uncle Frank. Frank Gelvin, They lived on
McPherson Street close to Swift and Thayer. He was the step dad of
Peggy Personett ('51-RIP) and Kay Personett ('53-RIP).
He drove a fuel truck for many years. He retired in 1982 and moved
to Kennewick into a smaller house in the highlands area. Uncle
Frank was a bit of a prankster, one time he and his partner has
delivered coal to our house. Part of the delivery was to go into
the basement after to make sure none of the boards of the coal bin
had broken and scattered coal all over. It was lunch time when
they finished so Uncle Frank opened the refrigerator and took out a
couple of drinks and told the partner to get the lunch pails and
they would just sit at the table instead of eating in the truck,
never bothering to tell the man it was his sister's house. The
partner did get the lunch pails but didn't enjoy the comfort or
warmth of the house knowing they would be in serious trouble if
anyone ever knew they had dome anything but deliver coal to that
house.
Whether he ever told the partner the rest of the story I don't know
but he did get a kick out of the reaction of the partner, you had
to laugh just hearing him tell the story.
-Mary Evelyn KINGSLEY Spradlin ('49) ~ Parker, TX
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>>From: Dick PIERARD ('52)
Re: Don Sorenson on who knew
It is interesting that college grads who had physics courses
figured out what was going on at Hanford. I remember Burt's ('59)
and my dad, Jack Pierard, telling me right after Hiroshima that
he had figured it out as well. And he never even went to college.
Shows what a smart guy he was. We greatly honor his memory even
four decades after his departure from this world.
-Dick PIERARD ('52)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
To: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Re: Book put out in 1988 for the John Ball reunion
written by Jane MATTOON Carlson ('62wb)
If any of the people listed in Donni's 11/2 entry are reading this,
I am wondering whether anyone has an extra copy they would be
willing to part with or at least make copies of and send them to
me?
To: Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55)
Re: Tri-City Herald Genealogy Society Bulletin Vol. 39, #1
Laura, would it be too much to ask for a photocopy of this article?
Re: Another North Richland memory
I have a memory of my family going to the Tri-City Braves baseball
games. There was a man there who carried a cow bell and every time
the Braves did something wonderful, he would ring that cow bell.
Does anyone else remember this?
Re: My Birthday
Also, please post in the November 3rd Alumni Sandstorm that
November 3rd is my birthday.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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[Got your birthday on the Bomber calendar and listed today, too.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Marlene. -Maren]
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>>From: Missy KEENEY ('59)
Re: Pre-obits? -- another name
To: Maren
How about "After Words?"
-Missy KEENEY ('59)
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>>From: James JOHNSON (’60)
Re: Don Sorenson Picture #467
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-467-Who.html
Third from left is Tom Ellis (’60). On the far right is, I
believe, Merle Harmon, husband of my beloved 8th grade homeroom
and Russian teacher, Sonja Harmon.
Re: Don Sorenson Picture #468
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-468-Who.html
Th Vitro surveying crew—far left is Paul Pritchard, ?, Vern Dodd,
Spencer Compton, ? (Help me out, Larry Bowls ('64)).
-James JOHNSON (’60) ~ Marietta, GA
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>>From: Lola HEIDLEBAUGH Bowen ('60)
Re: Don Sorenson's picture #467
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-467-Who.html
I believe the man in the middle is Tom Ellis ('60).
-Lola HEIDLEBAUGH Bowen ('60)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Bombers In The Military
I have uploaded the most recent update of the list of Col-Hi/RHS
Graduates that have served in the Military. This file is current as
of 4:00 pm, November 2nd.
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/bombersinthemilitary.htm
Have a look at it... see if you can think of any one who should be
on this list that isn't and let me know.
Any corrections or just plain comments are welcome.
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Before someone corrects me, I want you to know I woke up in the
middle of the night and realized that I had spelled our newspaper
wrong. It was not "Cougar Tails". It was "Cougar Tales."
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Jeanie WALSH Williamson ('63)
To: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Donni, Perhaps you will share a picture of your new baby Cookie?
Bomber Cheers,
-Jeanie WALSH Williamson ('63) ~ Home of the Ronald Reagan Library
where it is expected to be 90 today…YUK
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>>From: Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB) picture #467
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-467-Who.html
I finally found someone I know! The man sitting down and wearing
a suit is Merle Harmon, dad of Sandy "Sasha" Harmon ('62), and
husband of Sonja Harmon. Merle and Sonja were close friends of my
parents (Jack and Nita) and we shared many holiday celebrations
with them over the years. He was a wonderful person.
-Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63)
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>>From: Vic MARSHALL ('71)
Re: WARNING: 2010 Census - Cautions from the Better Business Bureau
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/identity/census.asp
Maren, I don't normally forward things like this but this looked
like a solid piece of info that might keep someone from making a
bad mistake. If it is appropriate to publish in the Sandstorm, feel
free. If not, I also understand. Thanks.
-Vic MARSHALL ('71)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091103-474-481.htm
To: All Bombers
?, School Teacher, ?, 300 Area Fuel Manufacture meeting, 300 Area
delivery, Mobile Whole Body Counter, Large NaI detector used to
find gamma emitters.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Anna May WANN ('49), Kay MITCHELL ('52)
Lenora HUGHES ('55), "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Patti JONES ('60), Judy WILLOX ('61)
Donni CLARK ('63), Betti AVANT ('69)
Darlene NAPORA ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul WEICHEL ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karyn GROB ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Betti & Robert AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darren McINTYRE ('82)
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
I hope it is okay to print a correction for the DustStorm in the
Alumni Sandstorm as we don>From: Kay MITCHELL Coates ('52)
Re: Sorenson Photo #465
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091101-465-Who.html
The uniformed fellow standing at the rear of the boat is Harold
"Tommy" Thomas, Hanford Patrol. I am almost 100% sure of this,
and husband Dick COATES ('52) agrees with me. Tommy and his wife
Elizabeth were friends of my parents Mildred and Art Mitchell.
He was also very involved in CAP, as was my dad who served as
commander for a number of years.
-Kay MITCHELL Coates ('52)
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>>From: Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
Re: Las Vegas, NV Bomber luncheon
Hello all. It is time for another luncheon in Las Vegas. Hope many
of you can attend.
DATE: November 7, 2009
PLACE: Marie Callender's located at 8175 West Sahara Avenue
TIME: 12:00 Noon
If you would like some information you can e-mail me. (Maren, you
have permission to include my e-mail address): lbejarano4@cox.net
Please join us if you can. We have a great time and share some
great memories!!!
BOMBER CHEERS!!!!
-Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
To: Maren, "Our Sandstorm Leader(ess)"
Re: Pre-Obits (By any other name)
"[Pappy, not too much interest in PRE obits... needs another
name...too confusing as "pre obits"... any ideas? -Maren]"
Maren, well let's see, off the top of my ol' gray head, the
following meanderings came to mind: "Pre and Post Reports," "Pre-
passing Ponderings," "Early Withdrawal," "Early checkout report,"
"Betcha didn't know this about me," "A legend in my own mind,"
"Pre-planting planning," "I really did this stuff!," "I had my
chance, and this is what I did with it," "What I did with my
opportunity at life," "My best shot," "I got down and gotta
funky," "I coulda been a contender, but...," "How I got-r-done,"
"Things I did, didn't do, and wish that I had done" "The life and
times of _____," "What I did," "What have I done?," "So, there I
was...," "Preview to a passing," "The passing lane," "Passing on
the right side," "Pre-Passover," "Could this be me?," "I did
too!," "Once upon a time," "This is no baloney," "The fairy tales,
sea stories, and tall tales of ____, " "Well, I tried, but...," "It
was an adventure," "It's a long story," "Before I make that final
slide into home," "The elves made me do it," "How did I do?" "Life
leavings," "Before I go," "The part I played," "My role," "Curtain
call," "Anti-climax," "Just in case," and "Things I did." Whew, I
need a breath.
And moving on, "Oh ye of little faith in me," "High point
histories," "The highs and lows of weathering a life," "Imperfect
Storm," "Lord, I tried," "Not yet, but just in case," "Not gone
but not forgotten yet," "The forks in my road," "'Twas a long
and winding road," "Getting ready for takeoff," "Up till now,
it was just training," "In preparation for closing," "Closing
statements," "In near summation," "Winding down," "Before
rewinding," "Send Later," "Before the leaves are all gone,"
"Replay," "I can see clearly now" "I'm glad you asked," "Because
you asked," "The way it was," "The first part of the story," "My
Bucket list," "Everything you wondered, but didn't really want to
know about me," "My life short and simple," "I did it my way!," "My
life, short and simple," "What was I thinking?" "What?," "While I'm
thinking," "Any day now," "As the world turned," "While you were
doing something else," "I went that away," "Life's leaps and
lurches," "Until then," "Goodbye old Paint, I'm leaving Cheyenne,"
"I'll be leaving," "We were Bombers once, and young."
Ok, I got my second wind now for the big finish: "Grow and
glowing," "Looking back," "Looking back to see, if you're looking
back to see, if...," "Happenings, before it happens," "Happy days,
yea or nay," "It coulda happened this way," "My ticket to ride,"
"Before going forth," "What, where, and how before when," "To have
been, and to be or not to be," "Did and done before I do," "Review
prior to launch," "I'll get it right next time," "Recap before the
clock runs out," "But, still miles to go before I sleep," "Looking
fore and aft," "While I can still remember," "Where I've been ...
before I go," "The wonder of it all," "Looking back and thinking
ahead," "This is my story and I'm stickin' to it," Or, something
else. My wild imagination can probably think of a couple more.
I'm sure that other Bombers will come up with some other
possibilities. If not, I will just pick one for myself, and run
with it ... to the finish line. I figure that none of us will get
out of this life ... alive, so why not have some fun with it, while
we're still here. Good times are like money, and we can't take
either one with us, so let's spend them now!
Missy KEENEY ('59) suggested, "After Words?" Good one, Missy! That
triggered some more thoughts for me such as, "The last word," "Next
to the last word," "Prior to signing off," & "Before here after."
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where today, the autumn
of my life fits so nicely with the sunny blue sky and colors
of the current season. It's my time (and my pups time too) of
the year. We're having a good time!
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
Reservations aren't necessary. Many Bombers do like to let us
know they are coming so please email if you wish.
WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2009
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
Gray building with red trim just past the Yakima Bridge
on the right.
Heading west from Richland on the right side.
TIME: 1:00 P.M.
PRICE: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served all day.
Prices range from $4.50 - $13.95
(add drink, tax, and tip)
Bomber spouses and friends are welcome! Looking forward to also
seeing out-of-town Bomber visitors.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti JONES Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Judy WILLOX ('61)
Re: Don Sorenson's Picture #467
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-467-Who.html
There is definitely one young man I would recognize anywhere and at
any angle. He has been a part of my life for more of my life then
any other except Myrna BOLIN ('63), and will remain loved by me
until the day I die. His name is Thomas W. Ellis ('60) and that
is him – the third man from the left. He is the one with all that
beautiful hair and that gorgeous dimple. Tommy, my high school
sweetheart and beyond, you are still loved.
This summer my sister Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) and I took a
great road trip to our Father's home town of Fort Collins, CO. I,
having been born in Denver, relished a trip over to Denver to see
the old place where we used to stay on our trips back "home" as
we were growing up. What a delight that was; complete with one
of Colorado's famous lightning storms, to take this journey once
again. It was especially nice to be with one of those who had made
this journey with me so many times before. And so neat to have made
it with someone I love so much! Hey Sis, wanna do it again? We did
have one heck of a good time and learned so much. We also came home
more loaded then we ever left here. Not an inch of space in that
car was to be seen by the time we hit back into the Tri-Cities. Now
I have one new wonderful memory to add to the old ones from all the
trips there before.
-Judy WILLOX (Classis Class of '61) ~ Richland ~ where the weather
has been quite nice the last few days.
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
To: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Marlene I would gladly copy the history for you and some others
that contacted me regarding the John Ball book, but I wonder if
Laura Dean KIRBY Armstrong ('55) would know if any books are still
out there anywhere. Others would like one too. If Gay EDWARDS ('64)
reads Sandstorm she might know as her mother also helped on
that reunion.
To: Jeanie WALSH Williamson ('63)
As for "Cookie" who is just beginning to eat, I will try to send
pictures next week as this week I am getting ready for a big yard
sale! You know, we will be moving up to Washington in the spring
and I will be excited to be back much closer to Richland!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Twin brother Robert & me at 40th high school reunion
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091104-Ava-40th.jpg
Happy birthday, "big bro". It was great seeing you at our 40th high
school reunion in August.
"little sis",
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA
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>>From: Darlene NAPORA Shuley ('69)
To: Betti AVANT ('69)
"Happy Birthday" and have a wonderful day!
Bomber Cheers,
-Darlene NAPORA Shuley ('69) ~ Austin, TX where it is sunny & 78° today
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charles COX ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy CAMERON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Curtis GUNTER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gerald STEIN ('66)
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>>From: Dick McCOY (Tin Can Class of '45)
Re: fun
Pappy Swan ('59) I just read something that Abe Lincoln said
just for you...
I's not the years in your life,
But the life in your years.
-Dick McCOY from the Tin Can Class of 1945
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
To: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Re: The John Ball book that you have
I would love to have a photocopy of the book if Laura Dean KIRBY
Armstrong ('55) or Gay EDWARDS ('64) don't respond.
Of course, I would reimburse you for the postage. If you will make
copies and mail to me, I would really appreciate it. Just e-mail me
at mrogers@thevision.net and I will forward my mailing address to
you.
[Laura Dean made a copy -- it's more like a small
booklet -- for me and I'm working on putting it on the
John Ball website. The book Donni has sounds like it's
much different --- many more pages -- with pictures.
I'll keep everybody posted. -Maren]
Thanks in advance.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Life Stories
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Hey dive buddy, your "short list" of pre-obit alternatives was
amusing. I like to think that "my karma made me do it." I've been
working on a couple of books, one of my life and family history,
and one about my life in the underwater world. The dive story book
is entitled "The Water Made Me Do It." George, you mentioned "Sea
Stories," but you left out the rules. Yep, there are rules for Sea
Story Telling. Can you believe that?
Rule #1 - You must first let your audience know that you are
telling a Sea Story, and not just a Fairy Tale. A Fairy Tale, of
course, begins with "Once Upon A Time." A Sea Story starts out,
"Now This Is No S**t." You can use "no bull," or something else,
except you can't say "No Lie." You never want to give people any
hint that your story is anything close to being a work of fiction.
Rule #2 - Your story MUST be true. It is unfair and unethical to
just make up a story. It is also unacceptable and inappropriate to
tell a story that is not YOUR story. I recall telling one of my
favorite sea stories to a Scuba diving class one day and I noticed
all of my students smiling and looking as if they had heard that
story before. Well, sure enough, one of my staff instructors had
filled in for me the week before and he told HIS version of MY
story. I had a little talk with that instructor and emphasized the
importance of Rule #2. I told him to "get out in the ocean and
create your own sea stories."
Rule #3 - Now this is crucial, because sometimes a good story
simply needs a little help, so Rule #3 states that you MUST NOT
allow the truth to get in the way of a good story. GOT IT?
As I write my "Life Stories" I keep hoping that I can pass off the
responsibility to some other entity for many of my adventures. I
have to keep asking myself; Self, do I really need to tell the
grandkids about THAT? Well, if I did it, I guess I should fess up
to it. If I can blame karma for my behavior, perhaps the grandkids
will understand. Oh well, I guess that my plan is "Timing." If I
time it right, my book will be done and available just about the
same time that I strap on my fins and head to heaven. Certainly I
get to go to heaven, don't you think so, George?
All seriousness aside now, I really like to hear about other
Bombers adventures and achievements. So I want to encourage more
Bombers to share their stories with us. It's not a "pre-obit," it's
simply sharing your "been there - done that" stuff.
I think I will pull some stories from my "the water made me do it"
book about some of my "Close Encounters of the Ocean Kind." I've
got some great stories about up close and personal experiences with
giant pacific octopus and wolf eels and sharks, and I want to hear
them again. Now, that is no ****.
See ya later, Pappy.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62) ~ Vancouver, WA where we are getting prepared
for our December 5th bomber Christmas Social. Stay tuned for
more details.
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47), George SWAN ('59)
David RIVERS ('65), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron SHELBY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky RULON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SCHILDKNECHT ('66)
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
To: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49),
HI! Just a note - When reading my last DustStorm, I noticed
that the Club still shows Keith Clark ('47-RIP) listed as a
representative for that class. Keith passed away this year, so
the committee needs to look for a replacement for him (if it even
could be done!) Although from the same class as that fine man, I
respectfully request not to be considered for that position. I
realize that this is not under your job description!!!
Hope all is going well
-Mary TRIEM Mowery, a '47 Bomber and a life member of Club 40 and
an extremely proud BOMBer
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Fun With Life Stories
To: Dick McCOY (Tin Can Class of '45)
BTW Dick, remembering back a couple of years to that Club 40
gathering, you are also one of my heroes ... because of your
excellent taste in those cool flat caps, such as worn by the
golfers of old, sports car drivers, and just generally cool dudes.
I own some, myself. The only drawback is that when it rains, I
do need a longer roof out front, over my glasses. But, when it
gets cold, I have a couple of them made of warm wooly or fleece
material, with ear flaps that fold down from inside, resulting in
my near look alike of Elmer Fudd. But, that's the beauty of older
age ... who cares? I even buy all of my clothes in one or two sizes
larger, for comfort, which also allows me to say, "Yes, yes I have
been losing weight, thank you for asking."
Abe Lincoln was indeed a wise man. "It's not the years in your
life, but the life in your years." He obviously realized that,
"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering; what the
hell happened?" We just have to let them out. I finally gave up
worrying about, "At what age, do I finally become old enough to
know better?" So, I just try to run with the fun, since more fun
equals less stress.
To: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Life Stories
Yo Tom! I'm very glad to hear that you are making some headway
in your writing. My best wishes for the success of your writing
projects. I too, have some in various stages, but it seems as if
every time I just get on a roll, something comes up, requiring me
to lay them aside for a while. I will say this very quietly, "I
think that I am about to get a chance to resume that effort. But,
I'm still practicing the techniques of "breath hold diving," until
I do.
Your points about the rules of telling "Sea Stories are well taken.
Thanks for explaining the criteria for separating fairy tales from
sea stories. Since I was presenting my "Short List" of possible
alternative possibilities to "Pre Obits" or whatever we want to
call them, and short got long, I avoided the full meal deal.
Along with your, idea of "my karma made me do it," and "Life
Stories," Janet WILGUS Beaulieu ('59) suggested "Goin' my way
(someday)?" I'm thinking that the Bombers will probably never
settle on a mutually acceptable alternative for "Pre Obits," so
perhaps the best solution for those who choose to write, and post
one, would be to select their own preferred personal title and
submit them under a collective heading of something like, "How I
Would Like To Be Remembered" or "My Life Story."
There will be many who do not want to even go there, but for me,
since it will come for me sooner or later, I say why fight it? I
choose to look it in the face and say, "Catch me when you can!" So,
I am working up my obituary ahead of time, because at this stage of
life, I am fully aware that I could trip over a gum wrapper, any
day now. And, it probably goes without saying, I intend to have
some fun with it.
And, just a brief comment on the ethics of telling sea stories or
writing "Life stories," is that like "lies, damned lies, and
statistics," we must remember the advice advanced in the movie,
"Secondhand Lions," that "A story doesn't necessarily have to be
all true, just good!" This is a most personal thing for me, ever
since a few years ago, I discovered that I possess a wee bit of
an Irish ancestry, thus I am legally licensed to be "full ah tha
blarney." So, you are most correct, and I never allow the truth to
get in the way of a good story.
And, I too, know Karma. She can lead us in many directions, which
often do not become apparent until we are farther down the road.
I have always liked Yogi Berra's statement, "When you come to a
fork in the road, take it." I did, but now I often wonder, "What
if...?" Of course, we can "What if?" ourselves, ad nauseam. But,
I had my chances, so "I did it my way," and now that's what I have
left to tell (possibly with some ruffles and flourishes).
You asked, "...Self, do I really need to tell the grandkids about
THAT?" I say yes. I wish some in my families had taken the time to
record the stories of their lives and times, as now most are gone,
and all I have are a few bits and pieces of their lives. And yes
Tom, I certainly believe that you and I get to go to heaven. There
might be some who would dispute that, but like "walking in someone
else's shoes, we swam miles in our own fins and even those of some
others along the way, in the days when only a few were alongside us
or following.
So, for those we will someday leave behind, we need to leave them
with the notion of who we were and what we did. And someday, but
hopefully not soon, you and I will be "up there" swapping and
trying to top each other's sea stories with old dive buddies, and
perhaps the likes of Cousteau, Poseidon, Triton, Neptune...
later Tom,
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where a stiff breeze has
wiped away the early fog, and after a few yard chores, my
girls and I are going for another leisurely hunt along the
river, whether we can find any birds or not.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: IT AIN'T MY FAULT
OK... I depend on my little yellow stickies keep me in line on
portant stuff like birthdays and birthdays and birthdays... my
stickies come from my cheat sheet that I've maintained and updated
since about 2003... Well all that time I've carried a birthday
boy's date as November 6... I just went to the Bomber Calendar to
update for this month and then went back and looked at today's
Sandstorm to make sure the old eyes weren't playing tricks... they
weren't... Sandstorm shows his birthday as the 5th and my cheat
sheet still says the 6th... so for this guy and all the other great
younger brothers out there... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Gerald Stein ('66)
on the 5th or the 6th... whichever day it is I still think you're
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091106-482-489.htm
To: All Bombers
Battelle Mobile Whole Body Counter near a school, same, "F" House
kitchen?, Original Richland home? or possibly just possibly this is
the farm home that was across the river up stream from the 300
Area, Richland Clean up day, ?, Foyer of 703 Building, Another
picture of foyer.
To: Judy WILLOX ('61)
Nice to hear from you! And yes that is Tom Jr. great hair and all.
That guy must have gone through a gross of combs in his day.
Thanks to, Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49), Mary Evelyn
KINGSLEY Spradlin ('49), James JOHNSON ('60), Lola HEIDLEBAUGH
Bowen ('60), Karen KLEINPETER Kroger ('63), Gary BEHYMER ('64),
Peter TURPING ('70) for your replies. Glad you folks were able see
people you knew from your past.
Don Sorenson (NAB)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Anna May WANN ('49), Tom TRACY ('55)
Dean ANSON ('62), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Rick MADDY ('67)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan HAGGARD ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WEAVER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Julie SMYTH ('69wb)
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
To: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
Hi Mary, I just figured out what is wrong – I don't have a job
description – It all depends on what hat I am wearing at any given
time. But I will get the word out to the powers that be that
recruit the Class Reps. Maybe they left his name there so someone
would mention that Keith had passed on and they would volunteer for
his spot!! - Guess that hasn't happened either. We miss you at the
folding parties. Nina ANDRE Barlow ('48) and Pat PARKER Green ('47)
were there this last time.
Wow, we are having some storm here in Bothell – Thunder, rain so
hard it sounds like it is raining in the house – had wind earlier!
At least we don't have to shovel rain, and thankful I'm not out
driving in it.
-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
[Not sure why this is addressed to Don... the website is at:
http://richlandbombers.tripod.com/1940s/1949Sac-PatrolGirls.html
and I'm the webmaster... I've added the names. -Maren]
Here's are some additions to Sacajawea's Patrol Girl's picture
for you and others to enjoy. You'll need to check and see if our
editors get them inserted. Our class will recognize many more who
are not yet identified. These fabulous ladies scheduled to graduate
in '55 were major nuclear factors in the spirit and heritage of
Carmichael, Chief Joseph and RHS.
Thanks for all of your pics, references and info from our HEW AEC
Richland past. We appreciate our own archivists who keep our
Sandstorm, Dust Storm and others who keep things up to date for us.
POSSIBLE ADDITIONS TO
1949 Sacajawea Patrol Girls Picture
Picture (provided by Sally Kessell ('55 WB)
Back Row
#2-Jan Barker, #6-Sarah Powell
Middle Row
#6 Pauline Armstrong, #7 JeNeal Martin
Front Row
#4 Carol Hughes, #6 Marilyn Poole
The guys from '55 will help identify more of these beautiful
Patrol Girls. All the boys know It was a good way to be detained
on the street corner. A lucky guy could only hope to be held for
questioning by any one of them.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Dean ANSON ('62)
Re: How to tell a Sea Story
To: Tom HEMPHILL ('62) and George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
As a Navy guy I feel compelled to offer some clarification to how
I heard the old salts start telling Sea Stories. And by the way,
unlike you divers, the sailor's goal was to not get wet. Back in
the days long before divers, there wasn't much to do during those
many days at sea, so there was always a Sea Story to offer up some
humor. Now when I'm in a group and I open by saying "That reminds
me of a Navy story", everybody's eyes roll. Undaunted, I ask
rhetorically: "Do you know how every good Navy story starts? It's
not "Once upon a time"; it's "And, this ain't no sh*t".
-Dean ANSON ('62)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Back In the Day.. 'Ray (Stein ('64)), got anything on your mind?'
http://washingtonstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=371988
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Hope I'm not still a day off
Two more birthdays to cheer... the younger I've known since second
grade, the next younger I met thru my Pal Gus Keeney ('57) a few
years ago... they are both special Bombers any way you slice it...
the Younger I played baseball with and knew from his sis, with whom
I was madly in love from the day I met her in second grade... she
still has the most amazing flashing eyes that can melt from 100
yards away... I'm not kidding... hadn't seen her in several years
and the last time I saw her she gave me that look and I turned to
putty... but this is about their special days so I just wanna say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Marilyn "Em" DeVine ('52) and Jimmy Weaver ('64)!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Bombers Make Mental-Floss List
Bombers made the mental floss list. I'm not exactly sure what that
means other than a lot of people not aware of Richland, WA, or what
happened there probably viewed the page. Alumni hash out the
atomic cloud and the carpet bombing airplane often in the Alumni
Sandstorm. Truth will most likely never be known. One person
writing down what, when, and where they heard the mascot was named
does not work in any other hearsay non-documented study either. Why
would it work here? Did I miss the post talking about dated and
signed documents from the school board stating the cloud mascot's
objective birth, introduction, design, significance, the vote, etc.
etc.? Do we have the minutes of the discussions from the meetings?
Do we associate the cloud mascot with the Nagasaki bombing, the
cloud from the first bomb test or just any old atomic bomb cloud?
The first two had the juice made at Hanford. The Hanford test bomb
made a cloud too... and it didn't kill anyone with the exception of
maybe a few down-winders. The B17G Bomber... can you imagine the
children and chickens that machine took out? Keep this up and many
of us will be changing our phone numbers a lot and moving four
times a year. Uprisings... people wanting answers... wanting
Homeland Security to get involved with choosing high school mascots
and how do they let this incredibly insensitive aberration exist...
a bona-fide fear factor... right up there like my license plate
bulb burning out on a Friday night six blocks from home.
Just a heads up with the possibility of the no-nuke mascot freedom
lovers, in this case a lynch mob, coming for justice and cleaning
up the mushroom cloud for the sake of world peace and fixing the
slippery slope it causes their children to slide down. Reminds me
of the mental giants protecting the children from doing drugs and
Just Say No. How about Just Say Know... drinking too much water
becomes a "poison" and can kill you. Just say know the facts on
these "bad" drugs. I know I do when sitting back enjoying my
evening six pack of Bud and half pack of Camel non-filters while
contemplating the legality and positive affects marijuana, LSD and
mushroom clouds has had on our society. As a last resort the mascot
can always be changed to Atomic Crackers in honor of... well, you
figure it out.
http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30849.html?cnn=yes
The Huntington Beach Oilers made the list. Go figure?
-Rick MADDY ('67) ~ Huntington Beach, CA
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091107-490-497.htm
To All Bombers
Records Management Carl Frick, 700 Area Secretary (duplicate photo
[see #470]), Civil Defense, Civil Defense, Reading Club??, ?, Four
Fold Counter, ? School.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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6 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Floyd MELTON ('57), George SWAN ('59)
Dee WALLACE ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dona McCLEARY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Spencer HOUCK ('71)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Sorenson Picture #489
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091107-490-Who.html
The man with glasses in the picture is Ralph Button.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
To: Dean ANSON ('62)
Re: How to tell a Sea Story
To be honest, I learned the difference between fairy tales and
sea stories in 1959, soon after arriving at the Marine Corps Boot
Camp, along with the Physical Torture (But, they called it PT,
for Physical Training), mind melding, debut of discipline, spirit
shaping, and the all around general rebuilding of momma's little
boys (all inclusive under the collective term of "training"), from
the intense Drill Instructors (DIs) of those days. They thoroughly
indoctrinated and instilled within us a deep sense of Marine
Corps and Naval History and Tradition by ingraining in us, in no
uncertain terms, that as Marines, we were indeed a Department of
the Navy ... "The Men's Department!"
Under the DIs "no personal choices" direction, I immediately, if
not sooner, learned to tell the difference of what was "once upon
a time" and what was unquestionably, "NO Sh*t!" Ever since then I
have been most proficient at the telling of "sea stories," whether
they had anything to do with the sea or not.
All Kidding and inter-service rivalry aside, the Navy and Marines
are major entities of a sea-going team most vital to preserving
our American way of life, as we know and love it. The Navy provides
the best rapid transportation in the world for the Marines (the
soldiers of the sea) to commute to their job site, and at times,
even knocks on the enemy's door for us, with naval gun fire,
missiles, and other aerial calling cards, before we go to work.
What a team! And, when combined with our sister services of the
Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard, we make up a supreme team of past
and present All American All Stars!
Let us remember that on Tuesday, 10 November, 2009, we Marines will
be celebrating the 234th Birthday Anniversary of the birth of the
United States Marine Corps (we were indeed born in a tavern, Tun
Tavern). Semper Fi Marines! And, we must remember all who gave
their time and effort (some gave all) by our observance of
Veteran's Day on Wednesday, 11 November.
To kick this week of remembrance off, today, Saturday, 7 November,
I am joining Tom Mattis ('68), and Brad Wear ('71), my fellow
Marines, Bombers, and hunting buddies in attendance at a luncheon
in Walla Walla, WA for an early observance of this year's Marine
Corps Birthday. I especially enjoy the annual gathering there, due
to an exceptional number of Marines living in that area, and attend
this luncheon, who are veterans of major battles of WW II, such as
Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and the Korean
War. Some are of the "Chosin Few." As a Marine who served a number
of years, but saw no action, I have a deep respect for these men
and what they gave to us and our country. Once again, Semper Fi!
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA on a clear sunny
day (so far) with a cool breeze running. Oh, by the
way Dean, I just remembered a diving "sea story." When
diving in Puget Sound (where it has been known to rain
on occasion), I was always puzzled by the weird thought
that I would have upon surfacing after a dive, only to
realize that it was raining and think, "Oh ... no sh*t,
now I'm gonna get wet!"
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>>From: Chester "Dee" WALLACE ('60)
Re: Just a thought
Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes
that way when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and
you have their shoes.
-Dee WALLACE ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Like classmate Dean ANSON ('62) and as another "Navy guy," I feel
compelled to offer further remark on how Sea Stories usually end.
Anson reports that they don't start "Once upon a time"; but instead
"And, this ain't no sh*t". Despite the monosyllabic vocabulary,
Sea Stories are usually told for the edification and instruction
of the listener. So, instead of ending "They all lived happily
ever after," they often end "... and he's in a world o' sh*t!"
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59), Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Dean ANSON ('62)
and to all Sailors, Marines, Mermaids, Whales, Sea Serpents,
Dolphins, Seals, Squids, Crabs, Lobsters, Eels, Skates,
Suckers, and all other living things of the sea.
Re: Sea Stories
I heard how to tell the difference between a Sea Story and a Fairy
Tale I think the first or second day in Boot Camp.
Here is a Sea Story I was told by Bomber Dad Bob Noland (RIP).
Bob was a Chief Signalman during WWII. He was up foreword on deck
painting the inside of a hatch pea green when the periscope of a
U-boat popped up out of the water beside him. Without hesitating
he slapped the paintbrush with pea green paint on the lens of the
periscope. Of course with that green paint on the periscope that
U- boat captain thought that he was still under water, so he just
kept coming up and up and up. When the U-boat got up to about 900
feet in the air, they shot him down with the anti-aircraft guns.
Here is another Sea Story I submitted to someone in the USS Saint
Paul Association who was looking for Sea Stories to include in a
book. I got a call from him a couple of months ago saying they were
going to put it in the next issue of the Association's newsletter.
When I got my copy it was not included, maybe they ran out of room
and will use it later. He said he called Captain Fisher who said it
wasn't true, but that he laughed and laughed, saying that was the
best one he ever heard. Here is what I submitted:
I can't vouch for it, so you might check with Captain Fisher to see
if it is true, but then again, where is it written that a sea story
has to be true.
A new man reported on board just fresh out of boot camp and was
assigned to one of the deck divisions. A First Class Boatsman's
Mate put him on a rat-guard watch. He had him on the quarterdeck
standing at parade rest with a 2 x 4. When Captain Fisher came
aboard the man on rat-guard watch came to attention or port arms
with the 2 x 4. Captain Fisher walked over to him and asked, "What
are you doing, boy?"
"I'm standing a rat-guard watch, sir." Came the reply.
"Just what are your duties on this rat-guard watch?" Captain
Fisher asked.
"If any rats attempt to come up this foreword brow (that's gang-
plank for you lubbers) I am to pursue them and try to kill them,
sir."
"Who put you on this watch?"
"A first class in my division," said the new man.
Then Captain Fisher said, "Well you go down and tell him I want to
see them."
"I cannot leave my post until properly relieved, sir." The new man
replied.
Captain Fisher then took the 2 x 4 from the man and said, "You are
properly relieved, now go down and get him."
A short time later the first class arrives on the Quarterdeck and
finds the Captain with that 2 x 4 standing at parade rest. The
Captain then comes to port arms, hands the 2 x 4 to the first class
and says, "You have the next watch!"
Re: Fishing Stories; closely related to Sea Stories
Story #1 -- "The fishing around here has been so bad this year that
even the liars haven't caught anything."
Story #2 -- "I once met an honest fisherman." When one of my wife's
uncles died a newspaper clipping was found with this story. It was
the winning story told at the Liar's Club by a relative of his.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ U. S. Navy 1968-1972
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Ever fall out of bed as a kid??? I don't remember doing that, but
falling out of bed as an "old lady of 63" is not a good thing!!!
Hit my head, passed out, called the doctor... doctor said, "no more
oldies falling out of bed... too many things to hurt"! Duh!!!! Took
blood pressure... 110/63... he said not to worry unless top number
is over 150 or under 50! Second round of chemo, so probably had
something to do with that! Has hit harder this time... sicker right
from the start and the mouth sores are back!!! Eating lots of
creamy, mashed potatoes and oatmeal.
Re: "pre-obits"
What about "life" or "stuff happens"? Really don't care what it's
called, would just like to read what other Bombers have done with
their lives since leaving Col-Hi and venturing out into the world.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ we are still using
the a/c in Bakersfield, CA
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>>Jerry RODGERS ('67) ~ 7/7/49 - 10/30/09
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Bill BERLIN ('56), Steve CARSON ('58)
Sonny DAVIS ('62), Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
David RIVERS ('65), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou DeMEYER ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick BOEHNING ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kandy SMITH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick PIERCE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom SCHILDKNECHT ('70)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill SCOTT & Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
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>>From: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Veterans Day (11/11/09)
To all of my fellow vets, a happy and dedicated day on 11/11/09.
It is a day of remembrance for me of the guys that I knew that are
not with us, either by KIA or possibly the Greatest Generation
passing on, like my Dad. I have noticed recently that Friendly Fire
deaths don't seem to have as much importance as if being gunned
down by the Cong or the Taliban, but man and boy, Friendly Fire
casualties, as are casualties from non-combat incidents, are just
as important and just as grievous as battle line KIA. We also need
to thank those who have served, have been wounded and now must make
a life with fewer limbs, blindness, burns, and more for they too
have served valiantly, purposefully and courageously but are
fortunate to have returned. They too sacrificed, maybe not the
ultimate sacrifice, but just the same their lives have been altered
forever, and I include those with mental disabilities that always
comes from war. Many thanks to the men and women of the Army, Navy,
Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard, vets that have and still do
serve our country.
Just a thought, but in past years I always was amazed at how many
vets were working on Veterans Day and how many who had not been in
the military had the day off.
Re: Value of the Sandstorm
The Sandstorm is the best value in the world for $24. I learn so
much with every issue and it amazes me that so many Col-Hi/RHS
grads know so much of our history. For instance, I didn't know that
Carmichael JHS was supposed to be named something else. No clue
whatsoever. I guess I was just trying my hardest not to spend a
couple of years in Grade 6 and Lewis & Clark so I could go to CJHS
to know it was to be named something else. I remember my parents
talking over dinner about senator Hickenlooper (sp?) and his
investigation, but I thought it was over having more stalls in the
Men's Room than in the Ladies, which was grossly unfair in my mind.
And the pictures of the plant and employees were really of another
day, suits and ties, hats, etc. Amazing in this day and age. I got
in my suit whilst in China this past trip, the first time in a
couple of years and that includes two weddings. Did I know there
was a Steinway piano at Carmichael? Hell no, but this from a kid
with so little talent he can just barely play the radio.
That kind of information about our town just can't be found
anywhere else and thus the Sandstorm is an archive of past events
and a herald (not Larry Harrold ('56)) of things happening now
and in the near future. My point is this. If you know any fellow
Bombers who are not subscribers to the Sandstorm, get them to do
that, subscribe, and the more we have on the list, the smarter Bill
BERLIN ('56) will become. I mean getting the scoop from the likes
of Pappy SWAN ('59) and David RIVERS ('65) along with my old
neighbor on GWWay, Jimbeaux HAMILTON ('63), is worth a lot more
than $24, just for the reading pleasure of wandering minds.
Re: Sea Stories
Sea Stories take all kinds of form and resemble Irish "for fact"
stories. In the Coast Guard, they started or ended, or both, with
"And this, Mister, is the honest to God truth and don't forget it"
kind of thing. Some of the best sea stories that I know don't come
from the military sector, although there are some gems there too,
but from commercial ship captains, mostly cruise ship captains.
One of my friends is a retired cruise ship captain and he spent no
time in the military, but his sea stories are the best and just
remember, you, dear reader, could be the subject if you ever did
something stupid on a cruise you took. Did you ever hear the sea
story about the two young and good looking teachers who took a
party cruise to the Caribbean? Maybe later..... but it is a good
one. In the military, a lot of the good sea stories, and I am sure
they are all true, came from the Rank. Old Chief Petty or Warrant
Officers had great sea stories, most of which did not come from
being on the sea but being on land, or the "hard" as land is called
by seafarers. Some even involved devil whiskey, if you can believe
that, and with events with the other sex. Blows my mind. In any
event, sea stories come from all directions, some from the sea and
some not.
Re: David RIVERS ('65)
I love reading both Pappy SWAN ('59) and David RIVERS ('65) but
what impresses me with David's entries is "...when do you have time
to write all of that and still do law business...? What would be
interesting would be to see some of David's briefs (legal, not the
other kind) and see if they are as poignant and if they are, the
Courthouse will rock when David is on the docket. Me thinks that
whilst we are in Palm Springs a time or two, I may drive up to Las
Vegas and buy him lunch... just to meet him and get the scoop of
what goes on between his brain and his fingers.
-Bill BERLIN ('56)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Re: Brad Upton ('74)
Thanks to the alert on the Sandstorm that Brad would be opening for
Joan Rivers in Crystal Lake, IL last night.
My wife and a couple of friends attended and Brad did about 30
minutes just before Joan came on. We knew that Joan did a very
BLUE show and she met our expectations. Raw and managing to take on
everything from the Spanish Mission theme of the theater to "Where
the hell are we, I thought this was Chicago." (Crystal Lake is a
Northwest suburb of the Chicago metro area and a 1.5 hour train
ride out of the city.)
Brad's act was the complete opposite of Joan. His humor kept the,
nearly sold-out audience, in stiches and if you have not had a
chance to see Brad, I suggest you get his CD and find out where you
can catch his show.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58) ~ Chicago where Mother
Nature gave us a 70° day before we get the snow
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>>From: Sonny DAVIS ('62)
Re: Sorenson's Picture # 468
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091102-468-Who.html
The gentleman on the right is Earl Butler. He was one of the last
Civil Engineers at Hanford. He and his wife Irene were my parents'
best friends. Their son Bob ('56) & I became friends. They lived
across the Yakima River... could see their house from the bypass.
They met in '44 or '45 when our families both lived on Iry.
He was my godfather and I can remember almost every Christmas and
Thanksgiving our families were together. Also, many summers went
on vacation, camping, together. As a result of this picture, Bob
and I talked earlier tonight... first time in 12 or 15 years.
Go Sandstorm.
-Sonny DAVIS ('62)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
George, you reminded me of another story. And this is no s**t. I
taught a lot of beginning scuba classes for 15 years in Portland,
OR & Vancouver, WA. After the classroom and pool training, we would
conduct the open water training in Puget Sound, usually Hood Canal,
over a weekend. Six weeks prior to the open water weekend diving
venture, I would begin making arrangements for the students and
getting them excited about the diving. Occasionally a student would
ask, "What if it rains that weekend?" At first I would explain that
it really did not matter because they would be getting wet anyway.
Then I learned that all I needed to do was say nothing and just
stare at the person who asked the question. Someone, hopefully the
student who asked, would figure it out without my help and they
would say something like, "It does not matter, does it". All I had
to do was slowly shake my head and smile.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62) ~ In beautiful down pouring Vancouver, WA
where I am very tempted to just wear my wet suit today.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Letters... we get letters
OOOOOOoooops... musta heard an old Parry Como song on the radio or
somthin'... I ain't got no stinking letters... I got birthdays! So
what have we here... we got two... that's right... two big kids (ok
some of you bigger kids think of these as little kids... and some
of you think of them as kids maybe you even baby-sat... but they
were my big kids my first year at Col-Hi so even if they aren't as
big any more... they are still my class' big kids... I had a very
strange high school dream last night... just about every kid I
ever knew in school was in it along with the bunch that still gets
together every year... I have these dreams fairly often so I guess
I have Bombers on the brain... I like it and think it's a good
thing)... plus we have a kid I've known since the Reed kids (lotsa
years) were my baby-sitters... We have today (November 9, 2009) at
Tackle, Big Number 11 in your program, a Bomber-babe ha cha cha and
a kid who lived kind of across the street during my K thru half of
2... well actually before K... I had to wait till I was almost 6
to start school but at the time I didn't realize that school had a
start date... I guess I figured... well to be honest I don't know
what I figured... I just know the morning I turned 5, I jumped out
of bed and started singing "today I go to school... bla bla bla"...
my Mom had to break the news to me that I wasn't going anywhere...
bummer... ah but that's what friends are for, right? Good Ol'
Johnny Reed ('63WBkindawuz) was right there to walk me to school
that very morning... unfortunately, kinda like when I went to take
the SAT or whatever without signing up... I didn't have a seat...
so I just hung around the school till some nice people came along
and took me home... but for now let's wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
Dick Boehning ('63), Kandy Smith ('63) and Dick Pierce ('67)!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091109-498-505.htm
To: All Bombers
[498] Grade School Puppet Theater notice the Gov labels both decal
and metal variety
[499] Someone's birthday??
[500] Cookbook for Girls & Boys
[501] Pre School reading time?? Marilyn Perkins that sure looks
like you on the right.
[502] Head of A E C Security former WW II M P
[503] Someone's prize Pomeranian
[504] Bus Driver with new G M Cs
[505] Award Ceremony?
Over the next few days I'll be thinking about the "Areas" workers
who started their careers so many years ago right after their
military discharge. There were so many I worked with over the years
who were pilots, paratroopers, seamen, soldiers. Fantastic stories
of fighter ACEs, secret rescue missions, prisoner of war, witness
of Kamikaze attacks, watched the flag raising on Mt Suribachi from
his ship (the beaches were littered with boats and bodies). Every
time I recall what I've heard, words & feelings escape me to
adequately understand what I've been privileged to hear. The
closest understanding comes from listening to the lyrics of the
Star Spangled Banner or the soul-full sound of Taps. My humble
gratitude to those who served and the heroes who never came back.
To: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Thanks for the name.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/10/09 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES!
Dateline: Richland
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7 Bombers sent stuff today:
Rex DAVIS ('49), Betty BELL ('51)
"Em" DeVINE ('52), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill JOHNSON ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl DVORAK ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dee SHIPMAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Fred MEEKS ('73)
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>>From: Rex DAVIS ('49)
Re: Don Sorenson's picture #495
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091107-495-Who.html
Found someone I remember from the old days. The father of Don
"Igor" HAYNES ('49-RIP) and Carol HAYNES Finch ('51) in the front
row 2nd from left in the dark shirt. I can't think of his first
name but he and Mrs. Haynes went to CUP Church.
-Rex DAVIS ('49)
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>>From: Betty BELL Norton ('51)
The Richland Seniors Association will be holding its Annual
Holiday Bazaar on Friday, November 13th at the Richland
Community Center from 10:00am to 3:00pm. There will be many
vendors and lots to see! I hope you will join us!
-Betty BELL Norton ('51)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Yesterday I got tickets to the Brad Upton show, HOME FOR THE
HOLIDAYS, coming to the Three Rivers Convention Center
Thanksgiving weekend! I've heard so much about him but haven't
had the opportunity to see him until now. We are going on
Saturday the 28th and I hope to see many other Bombers there.
Thank you, Brad, for letting us know you will be here. Is this
where I say, "Break a leg"? Perhaps we'll have a chance to meet
after your performance.
My 4th Great-grand child was born just 26 or so minutes before
my birthday. We all expected a girl because this is the 1st time
in 3 pregnancies that the baby has gone full term. What a shock
to have it be a boy! Almost as shocking, to me, is that they
named him Smith. Odd, it seems to me -- but what do I know!
Someone's maiden name, no doubt. But still???
Sandra continues with her chemo treatments and seems to be
holding her own. She is so beautiful. We talked with some of the
nurses at the last treatment and Sandra said, "We just want our
normal lives back!" One of the nurses responded, "This may be
your new 'normal'." It was heart breaking! She loves teaching
and wants so much to go back to work. She wanted to go out on
the motorcycle with her husband this past summer but was afraid
she couldn't hold on tight enough. She worked so hard to get her
Master's Degree and hasn't been able to use it. But -- on the
plus side -- their 1st granddaughter was born Aug 30th; Sandra
and Bobby were there for the delivery and Jill Jesse and baby
Kaylynn were down here a few weeks ago for a very precious
visit.
Guess that's it for this time.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Pyro tales
For me in this Sandstorm, there is little better than reading
the tales of happenings in various alums lives. With rare
exception I have no reason to disbelieve them. Many things
happen when we are outside the normal everyday lives of most
people.
I have done a little diving. Not much, but enough to believe
that almost anything can happen in normal sightseeing dives, not
to mention shipwrecks, sunken structures, construction, and a
myriad of other hazards. So I am always glad to see the writings
of Pappy SWAN ('59) and Tom HEMPILL ('62). My dives were limited
to relatively shallow waters off NE Jamaica, and Maui.
Most pyros have a few tales of incidents garnered along the ways
of our careers. The best place to hear pyro stories is at an
event after a night's shooting of several displays at a
convention. They call these events "the afterglo". There are
usually some snacks and several cold kegs of Bud, and as many as
350 or more pyros. I have a favorite tale.
Mine begins with "I would not tell this if there were not half a
dozen witnesses". It all began with a wealthy businessman
wanting to have a 4th of July party at his estate on an island
in South Puget Sound. It started right out as a large budget
display. But kept growing, until he asked what is there that you
can shoot really BIG? Without thinking I said "we can do a 24".
A 24-inch shell is about the size of a 30 gallon garbage can.
Weighs about 130 lbs, goes up over 2000 feet, breaks to over
1500 feet in diameter, and has a 8-10 second hang time. He
drooled and said how much? Shooting from the hip I said $9000
extra all inclusive. He said "I'll let you know." Twenty minutes
later my phone rang and he said "Do it." and hung up.
I had the mortar, made for a previous display several years
earlier. It was 5/8th thick US T-1 cold-rolled steel. Weighed
2200 lbs and was 10 feet long. Seattle Steel rolled and TIG
welded it for me and even x-rayed the welds. I knew the company
that I worked for at the time had a 24 sitting in the magazine
in Rialto, CA. (We later bought their NW assets when we started
EFI).
We got the shell shipped up and stored in the magazine. Someone
had written "BIG MOMMA" on the crate. We had to hire a crane to
swing the mortar out on to the barge, where I chained it down
with 6 heavy chains. Then we piled several cubic yards of sand
around the base.
We sailed from the dock in Tacoma with the shell in the crate.
Fire officials said no loading that thing in our harbor. So we
arrived in Quartertmaster Harbor on lower Vashon and tied up to
the pre-positioned buoys. To get there you go up a narrow
channel to a perfectly idyllic harbor about 2000 feet in
diameter. I unpacked and fused the shell and the 15 lb black
powder lift charge, attached the electric igniters to the fuses
and laid out the 60 feet of wire to the launch point behind a 2-
inch thick steel bulkhead on the front of the barge. I set 2
ladders up against the mouth of the mortar so two of us could
hoist the shell up and into the mortar.
I have to digress here a bit. For 3 days our barge had been tied
to the same dock as a competitor who was setting up for a
different display. This was a worry to everybody including my
company managers in Rialto. Sabotage is not unknown in the pyro
industry. But it is mostly on the east coast and in the South.
So we had an armed security agent watching the barge at night. I
did find him asleep the last night.
So just as we were about to climb the ladders and hoist it up I
said let me check the mortar to be sure nobody poured water or
something in the mortar. So I looked in and no water .....
except there was a large adult seagull walking around the bottom
of the mortar squawking like mad. At night they roost on the
dock pillars and we surmised he tried to land on it and was too
far down to flap his 36-inch wings and fly out.
For an hour we tried numerous things to get that bird out of
there. One of the crew said squish the damn bird and let's get
on with it. Then a woman on the tug still tied to the barge
shouted "I will call the PI Newspaper the minute you hurt that
bird." I instantly had visions of the headline "seagull
sacrificed in a flurry of feathers for fireworks for the rich."
Then one of the quiet guys on my crew picked up a rope, made a
noose, climbed up the ladder, watched for a minute and dropped
the noose over its head and pulled the slack out. I said "great,
bring him up". He looked at me like I was nuts "No way, you
bring him up, they have sharp claws and beaks."
So I put on some gloves climbed the ladder and hauled him up.
But before I could get hold of him he spread those huge wings
and tried to fly away. I barely grabbed the end of the rope and
...... there I was flying that damn bird around on a 40 foot
rope like a model airplane. Of course all 8 of my crew thought
it was hilarious. I finally got off the ladder and started
hauling in that still-circling bird. He was big and powerful and
pecked and scratched me to the point of lots of blood on my
arms. But I finally got his wings folded so I could hold him and
had one of the guys remove the rope. When I pitched that bird
into the sky he flew straight as an arrow, not up or down, left
or right, until he was out of sight.
It took a few minutes for everybody to quit laughing and shaking
their heads and we settled down, loaded the shell, and proceeded
to test circuits and electrically fire the display. With
everybody looking East and a cloudy sky we fired earlier then
normal. It went well and the huge finale was all they had hoped
for.
At the cry of last shell all of the crew scrambled over the
bulkhead and I hooked up the last wire and pushed the button. We
heard the thump of the lift charge and immediately a terribly
loud bang. It was well above the 130 db threshold of pain as it
really hurt everybody's ears. I looked over the bulkhead to see
what happened, and wonder of wonders, the entire visible sky was
full of fine gold fire, just hanging there. The shell had
exploded at the mouth of the mortar. Video taken by the family
of one of my crew showed it went 900 feet up and about the same
out to the sides. I was standing there looking at it and kept
hearing someone shouting my name. It was the radio on my belt.
The sponsor wanted to be sure we were OK. He was ecstatic and
more then pleased with the effect and immediately ordered
another 24 for the next year.
In the aftermath I can say the next 8 we fired for him worked
perfectly.
Also in the aftermath we found out later that the shell was 3
years old and had been shipped to Hawaii and back twice and New
York and back. But fire authorities were not comfortable with a
monster shell in their locale. We surmise that somewhere in
transit it got banged around. The moment of inertia (when lift
force overcomes the weight) places terrible stresses on big
heavy shells and if there is any fault in the shell sometimes
they break before designed time.
So ends the tale The Shooting of BIG Mamma. :)
(There is a rumor that there is a picture somebody took of me
flying that bird, but it hasn't surfaced yet).
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ From home south of Tacoma where it
rained much of the day.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Sandstorm USMC B'day
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Ham/091110-USMC-Bday.jpg>
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ U. S. Navy 1968-1972
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES!
SEMPER FI,
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Happy Birthday, Marines!
It's Tun Tavern time again Boyz n Girls...a time we remember
that before there was a USA, there were Marines...I'd love to be
able to list every single Bomber Marine that has ever been but we
all know I just don't have all the info I need to make that
list...I would like to invite each and every Marine out there to
meet up and have our picture taken as a group at the R2K+10! At
R2K, Number 32 ('63) and I planned well in advance to have a
picture taken of all Bomber Marines attending after the huge
group picture...but after Uncle Burt ('59) got us all lined up
and the shutter clicked we all started to wander back up the
hill...we did manage to take a shot with Jim, Mac BRAND ('64),
Jimmy HEIDLEBAUGH ('65), Steve SIMPSON ('65) and me
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Riv/091110-24-00018.jpg
....now I KNOW there are more Marines out there than that...I
mean even if you just take that one guy ('64) with the fake buff
facebook pictures of him on a bike, him at Muscle Beach, him with
Ollie North...how he got his face on those pictures is beyond
me...pretty good with a computer I (not mentioning any names cuz
I don't wanna miss anybody)...so for all you Marine Bombers out
there...many of you know I know who you are...please accept a hardy
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/11/09 - VETERANS' DAY
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14 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), "Rainy" POWELL ('52wb)
"Em" DeVINE ('52), Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Patti JONES ('60), Roger GRESS ('61)
John ADKINS ('62), John CAMPBELL ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Dennis HASKINS ('66)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Pam EHINGER ('67)
Rick MADDY ('67), Brad UPTON ('74)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bev COATES ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack SINDERSON ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted NETH ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don BRACKENBUSH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don ECKERT ('64)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jerry BOYD ('52) & Patsy McGREGOR ('54wb)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Veterans' Day
Each year when this commemoration comes around I think of those
badly wounded WWII vets I helped take care of at Madigan Hospital.
They were great guys, and I looked up to each and all of them
as heroes. One had been in that ward for four years, since the
invasion of Africa in 1942. Two were survivors of the death march.
Neither weighed 80 pounds. That period, as a medic, was a defining
time in my life. One learns just how remarkable some people are. I
have often thought about those men, what happened to them, did they
recover, go home, get married and live to an old age. A few may
still be with us. I wish all a prayer of thanks.
My youngest granddaughter is in the fifth grade on Camano Island, WA
and today I will attend their celebration for Veterans. They write
each of us a thank you note and their beautiful singing will bring
tears to my yes. In years past, I would represent the American
Legion, and would speak of my hope that none of those little angels
would suffer war. A fervent prayer that I repeat for all the young
people of the world.
-Dick McCOY ('45)
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>>From: Lorraine "Rainy" POWELL Earp-Tanner ('52wb)
Re: 100-B area safety photo
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091111-Pow-Barea.jpg
Maybe you recognize the names of the others in the photo. [My last
name in the photo], Earp was from my first marriage and high school
sweetheart, Ken Earp who passed away at age 46.
-Lorraine "Rainy" POWELL Earp-Tanner ('52wb)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Ooops, yesterday, I meant to give a big 'thank you' to the many of
you who sent birthday greetings, both here and on my email address.
Although as we get older and older and older, the day doesn't seem
to make much difference... greetings are appreciated and uplifting!
Remember back in our younger years when a birthday was such a big
deal? Almost as exciting as looking forward to Christmas! (But I
do have to rub it in a little bit that I am the same age as 'big
brother', Terry ('52). I imagine he hated that when we were growing
up... I would really lord it over him. But all in good fun, and, as
he mentioned at my birthday party, he only had to take it for 29
days!)
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in sunny and warming Richland, where
the city has strategically placed humungous bins for us to
dump our bags of raked leaves.
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Military Personnel, Past & Present
The Military wouldn't take me when I was a young buck, but I
have always had the greatest admiration for the men and women
who served; especially those who served under fire. A very warm
"Thank You" to all of you, and may God bless you for your
contribution to the safety and freedoms all of us enjoy!!
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Federal Way, WA
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
Reservations aren't necessary. Many Bombers do like to let us
know they are coming so please email if you wish.
WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2009
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
Gray building with red trim just past the Yakima Bridge
on the right.
heading west from Richland on the right side)
TIME: 1:00 P.M.
PRICE: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served all day.
Prices range from $4.50 - $13.95
(add drink, tax, and tip)
Bomber spouses and friends are welcome! Looking forward to also
seeing out-of-town Bomber visitors.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti JONES Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Roger GRESS (Classic Class of '61)
I was wondering if anyone knew why the Class of 1961 web site was
shut down?
-Roger GRESS (Classic Class of '61)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Thank you Vets
Today, as a nation, we honor our veterans. I am placing the list of
Bomber Veterans on a web page for all to see and perhaps put the
name of a friend with that "thank you vet" that we each say on this
day This list is up to date as of 10:00 pm Nov 10th - I sure would
like more names and more information.
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/bombersinthemilitary.htm
-John ADKINS ('62)
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: Happy Birthday
To take a page out of David RIVERS' ('65) book, although I don't
know of any lovely lady Bomber birthdays tomorrow, I do know that
my friend and fellow alum of '63, Don BRACKENBUSH is having a
birthday on the 11th. He already has his present, his first
granddaughter, Ashley. I'm sure Lila and their two daughters will
all chip in to light all those candles. I hope they have some of
those long matches.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Thank you
Look at us... when we were at Col-Hi didja think we'd make it this
far... when you were in the sh-t didja think you'd make it home...
we did... we all did... yes some came home with less that we
started with (look Earl ('63) a preposition... and ellipses...
OMG!)... but we came home... I love my Bomber friends and I have
just a little closer kind of a feeling in my heart for my Bomber-
vet friends... just a touch of course because you are all so very
dear... (look at him... big bad Marine getting all mushy)... on the
10th I sent out a bunch emails to my Marine friends... prolly too
many vet friends to do the same but my heart is with each of you...
tried to get ahold of George KELLY ('64) on the 10th... we joined
the Marine Corps together... then soon as we got to boot camp were
put in to different platoons... corse my platoon was Regimental
Honor Platoon... not bragging or anything... Platoon 262... It is
amazing that some of us even lived thru High School... when you
think of all the "Watch this!" stuff we did... very frightening
words "watch this"... right Ann ('66)? Usually ends with disaster
of some sort... lotsa those moments growing up... When DAVIS ('65)
and I were at the reunion for the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, in
New York, I told him that if he started and ended with "Welcome
Home... Thank You For Your Service" he would be a hit... he did and
he was... he called yesterday and said they sent him two DVDs so I
can watch him again (ah the joys of boyhood friendships)... I'll be
driving my little '53 Henry J Chesty-gasser (The Few, The Proud,
Marines) with the Bomber car plaque in the back in the parade with
the "Oathkeepers" tomorrow... I was supposed to be with the Moapa
Southern Piute Honor Guard but the Honcho didn't tell me where to
meet up... so I'll be with the Oathkeepers instead... if you are
unfamiliar with them go to www.oathkeepers.org The founder is a
good buddy of mine... in fact, he'll be with me tomorrow in the
parade... well, for all of you who served: Welcome Home and thank
You For Your Service!
David RIVERS ('65; S/Sgt USMC; RVN '67-'68)
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>>From: Dennis HASKINS ('66) and Shirley COLLINGS HASKINS ('66)
On this Veterans' Day we honor our 1966 classmates who served so
bravely in the military. And to those classmates who gave their
lives, we ask a blessing of peace...
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/66military.html
May God bless all of you ~
-Dennis HASKINS ('66) and Shirley COLLINGS HASKINS ('66)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Maren,
I hope there is some way you can get this in the Sandstorm. It
says so much about our men and women who have protected the Land
of Ours.
[Couldn't do it, Pam, but I did find this YouTube of bag
pipes that is similar. -Maren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALlGnH-zH9g ]
I would like to Thank every Veteran out in Bomber Ville for their
brave work.
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (The Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: The Birth of Smith
To: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
Marilyn, Congratulations on the birth of your fourth great
grandchild, Smith. Smith is a very unusual and rare first name. My
ggggg-uncle, Smith Burks b. 1798 GA and my gg-grandfather, Smith S.
Burks b. 1846 TN are buried about ten miles from each other near
Fordland, MO. My Uncle Smith was a very important name for me in
genealogy researching this family – my mother’s father’s family. So
unusual was the Smith name as a first name... when I found him, I
also found my gggg-grandfather and the rest of Smith's brothers.
Five brothers that moved from GA as children with their parents
and other siblings to Coffee county, TN in 1815, then to Webster
county, MO in 1850. They were neighbors their entire lives. Smith
is a great first name and a name that changed my world about five
years ago when I found him. I have so far been unable to find the
source of the name. I will probably never know because handed down
(English) family first names given in a specific order of birth
ended on the most part after coming to America... and finding the
names of the grandmothers’ is near nil in documents prior to 1850.
Nevertheless, I keep looking. 163 years later and another Smith
name is born. Again, my sincere congratulations to you and the
family on the birth of Smith.
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)
I'll be on nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Show today (the 11th) if
you're in a Bob & Tom market (it's radio in case you're wondering).
They rerun it as a TV that night on WGN [I've got it set to record
here at my mouse. -Maren]. I'll be plugging my upcoming dates at
The 3 Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick on November 27-28th.
It was great meeting Steve CARSON ('58) the other night in Crystal
Lake, IL! Yes, Joan Rivers likes me because I'm the complete
contrast of what she does... that's why she likes me. She doesn't
want me to take the shock out of the audience (and she does a good
job of that). I've got more dates with her in February.
-Brad UPTON ('74)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091111-506-513.htm
To All Bombers,
#506 - Model Railroad in Basement
#507 - Camp Hanford Soldiers
#508 - Bowling Champions Alley on GWWay
#509 - North Richland Trailer Camp
#510 - North Richland again
#511 - North Richland
#512 - Federal Building Secretaries
#513 - _______
To: Sonny DAVIS ('62)
Glad you and Bob connected. Warms my heart.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/12/09
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2 Bomber entries and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
NOTICE: There's a problem with RichlandBombers.com
Any entry sent after about noon (central time) on the
11th did not come thru. Richard will fix the problem
yesterday. -Maren
Mike CLOWES ('54)
David PRIEBE ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane CROSS ('79)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Bomber web page
Is there a problem with the Bomber web page? Tried to open
it a couple of times today and got, "Sorry, Site Temporarily
Unavailable".
Hope Homeland Security isn't cracking down on us
BC's
AKA
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
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[See note above. -Maren]
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>>From: David PRIEBE ('57)
Re: Sorenson's photo #513
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091111-513-Who.html
Don, I recognize the man on the left as my dad, Will Priebe,
mechanical engineer. I'm not sure of the year - probably the late
'50s.
I don't think I have ever seen a picture of him at work. Thanks
for the pictures and I look foreward to seeing more.
-David PRIEBE ('57)
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Funeral Notice
>>Terry Tate ('62) ~ 7/8/44 - 6/20/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/13/09
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Bombers sent stuff, but NUTTIN' came thru today.
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
Any entry sent after about noon (central time) on the
11th did not come thru. Richard will fix the problem
day before yesterday. There was one entry from Richard,
but his language was too terrible to publish. He's VERY
angry right now. -Maren
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol CARSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marc FRANCO ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue DIX ('72)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/14/09
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Bombers sent stuff, but NUTTIN' came thru and
2 Bomber funeral notices today:
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
Any entry sent after about noon (central time) on the
11th did not come thru. Richard will fix the problem
2 days ago. There was (again) one entry from Richard,
but his language was REALLY too terrible to publish.
He's VERY angry right now. -Maren
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken NEAL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lorraine WARD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michael West RIVERS ('68wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Jo GARRISON ('69)
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Funeral Notices
>>Brittany Hollenbach ('06) ~ 12/20/87 - 11/11/09
>>Dion Maruca ('58) ~ 4/9/1940 - 11/5/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/15/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
HOWEVER, we have started receiving a FEW emails so
there are entries for the Sandstorm. Richard will fix
the problem 3 days ago. -Maren
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Linda STAFFORD ('59), Linda LARSEN ('60wb)
John ADKINS ('62), Lynn JOHNSON ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Rick VALENTINE ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet TYLER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John CAMPBELL ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chris STADE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara MAFFEI ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg ALLEY ('73)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Stories of the '40s and '50s
A Kennewick High School graduate of 1954 is in my writing group,
Sagebrush Writers. He wants to put together a book of historical
data on "places like By's Burgers, the A & W Rootbeer stand
or the Gaslight Tavern. Almost any place in the Tri-Cities or
vicinity would be great. How it started, who started it, what
happened to it, and things like that." He wants to include
pictures and stories about the places.
His name is Pete Reiland, 2406 Camden, Richland, WA 99352 or
(509) 946-4056 or email j2o2hngalt@verizon.net
Pete will give you a by-line for whatever you contribute. There
is no money involved. He needs you to sign a disclaimer before
he can use your writing. There is no cost to you. If there is
any cost for getting the book printed, Pete will absorb it. He
does not plan to market it, but he does plan on giving it to the
local libraries and museums.
If you are interested, please contact Pete any time from about
10:00 a.m. to midnight. He will tell you what he is looking for.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
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[Norma, I hope you already submitted your "Termination Winds"
piece. Pete can find pictures of some places here:
BichlandBombers.com/allbombers/HOs-ThruTheYears.html - of
course that won't work till the richlandbombers.com is fixed. -Maren]
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Don Sorenson's (NAB) photos
I have been looking at them all (only a few a day) and have been
looking for a picture of my dad, Carl C. Larsen, Jr. who worked
for Atkinson & Jones while he was at Hanford.
So far, I haven't found any and am wondering if there were many
pictures taken of the construction workers at Hanford.
I don't have a clue what my dad did when he worked at Hanford
because he never said a word about his job.
Can any of you clue me in on what Atkinson & Jones did at
Hanford? I am just curious and wish I would have asked my dad
more questions before he passed away. I have read on line that
they built some of the original houses but I would like to know
what they did after all the houses were built.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Linda STAFFORD Norwood ('59)
Re: Death Notice
Sandy STAFFORD Lepinski ('62-RIP)
Born: 2/10/44
Died: 11/10/09
Memorial services on 11/21/09 at Einan's.
-Linda STAFFORD Norwood ('59)
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>>From: Linda LARSEN Wheaton ('60wb)
Re: Childhood Memories of John Ball School in North Richland
I remember walking home from John Ball School during the
ferocious sand storms. I can still recall the stinging feeling
the wind blown sand made on my bare legs. We girls with dresses,
we had to wear dresses in those days, would squat when the worst
of the wind would blow. Then when the wind let up a little we
would stand up and run as far as we could before we had to sit
down again. Then there were the tumble weeds. When they blew
down the street you wanted to get out of the way. They seemed
huge.
Also I remember that we got our dresses and shoes from the Sears
and Roebucks catalog. After picking them out of the catalog it
seemed like forever till they arrived. On the way home from
school I would count the steps. I would guess how many steps
to a certain location. If I was correct my new things would be
waiting for me at home. If I was not correct I would do it again
and think to myself that that was just a practice try. Remember
Mom or Dad drawing our foot prints on a sheet of paper and
sending them with the order.
-Linda LARSEN Wheaton ('60wb),
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
The next R2k-X meeting will be Wednesday, November 18th at 6:30
in the RHS Cafeteria. Please enter through the west side of the
Cafeteria.
-John ADKINS ('62)
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>>From: Lynn JOHNSON Andrews ('63)
To: David PRIEBE ('57)
David, it was good to see your name in the Sandstorm. Do you
remember the summer that your family and mine (Doug and Phyllis
JOHNSON) chartered an 82 foot sailboat for a week and cruised
around the San Juan Islands for a week? I think my love of
sailboats began with that adventure. Do you remember that the
mainsail tore on our first day out and we had to limp into
Victoria, BC to buy a new sail? Seems to me that was about 1957
or 1958.
-Lynn JOHNSON Andrews ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Calfling the Sandstorm
Come in Sandstorm... my messages have been lost in space for
the last two days... I'll keep this short and sweet to keep
the airwaves open... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mickey Hemphill ('66) on
November 15, 2009... Repeat HB Mick... you are a great pal and
a wonderful friend!
Over and out till the next time.
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
The final Spokane Bomber Lunch of 2009 will be next Sunday
November, 15th.
WHERE: The Northern Quest Casino at the Woodlands Restaurant in
the family section of the Casino.
TIME: Coffee at 11:30 AM Lunch around 12:00 Noon.
The casino is located in Airway Heights, about one mile north of
Wall*Mart at 100 N. Hayford Road. Woodlands Restaurant serves
Breakfast and Lunch any time.,.. good food and great service.
Come and join us for lunch, All Bombers Their families and
friends are welcome... the more the merrier.
Lunch and Slot Machines... Out Of Towners welcome...
Questions: contact Gloria FALLS Evans ('58) Floralptng@aol.com
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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>>Mack McDONNELL ('44) ~ 1/1/27 - 11/4/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/16/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
HOWEVER, we have started receiving a FEW emails so
there are entries for the Sandstorm. Richard will fix
the problem 4 days ago. -Maren
Dick McCOY ('45), Gene OSBORNE ('55)
Helen CROSS ('62), Donni CLARK ('63)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Robert AVANT ('69), Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wally ERICKSON ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda LARSEN ('60wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Duane LEE ('67) and Valerie NIELSEN ('69)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Maren, The funeral notice you gave for "Mack" McDonnell ('44) must
be Richard, "Dick" McDonnell, an old friend and school mate, and
the only McDonnell listed in ('44) I am assuming it is. Dick was a
great friend and a member of the Legion gang from the late forties.
I haven't seen him in some time, and have wondered...
Later, good buddy
-Dick McCOY ('45)
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[Dick, Einan's has him listed as Richard "Mack". -Maren]
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>>From: Gene OSBORNE ('55)
Re: Sorenson's Picture #430
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-430-Who.html
In the last row, second to the right, is my father Leonard "Len"
L. Osborne. It looks like he is in his mid forties in the picture.
Please pass this information on to Betty Lou CONNER Sansom ('52)
who is seeking information on those in the picture.
-Gene OSBORNE ('55)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Norma, I'd suggest Pete start out rereading all the Alumni Sandstorm
entries on line... there is such a wealth of history in them, or
maybe you can do that as a class project, as there is a lot there...
I have to go to a local library to read the book when it is
finished...
Re: Birthday Wishes
Hope this one goes through and I can resend my 11/11 entry wishing
my cousin Duane CROSS ('79) Happy Birthday [on 11/12].
Re: Condolences
Oh, and my belated condolences to the family and loved ones of my
friend, Terry Tate '(62-RIP) I first remember him as part of an
early double or quadruple dating group in Carmichael. I was very
sorry to learn of his passing, but he knew what was waiting for him,
I trust he's there now...
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ where we are gearing up for
Advent to start next Sunday and we've still not had a
frost, and it's warm enough to go without a coat, in
fact it's warm enough to wear short sleeves if you are
working like raking leaves, which we have plenty of,..
very pleasant... and the flowers are still blooming...
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Dear Bomber friends,
I'm sending this entry in regards to Marilyn SWAN Beddo, a dear
friend from the class of '63. This morning they found a brain tumor
the size of a golf ball in her skull. The family will find out more
details tomorrow when they take her to the neurosurgeon. The good
news is that it is operable. I 'm writing in to ask all of you
praying Bombers to please keep Marilyn and her family in prayer.
I will let you know more when I find out. Thanks!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Linda LARSEN Wheaton ('60WB)
Re: sandstorms and ordering clothes/shoes
I remember those blasted sand storms and walking home with the sand
"biting" into our bare legs... girls had to wear dresses/skirts
back then, so we had no protection from the "biting" sand at all.
I remember we always tried to remember to carry a hankie in our
purses, so that we could cover our nose and mouth when the sand
blew.
My mom ordered my clothes from Sears, too. and, I remember the
drawings of my feet on paper and sending it off to order my shoes.
I also remember my shoes being bought at the Hanford store... they
were ugly, though! brown and high-top, but I had weak ankles, so
always had to have support when I was younger... think I was in 6th
or 7th grade before I could quit wearing those type shoes... was so
happy when I was able to buy my first pair of Keds and being able
to wear them all the time and not just for PE... also remember being
able to buy the "cooler" saddle shoes... think they were called,
"wedgies", but not sure... they had the same colors as the "regular"
saddle shoes, but the soles were thinner and they weren't
as "clunky" looking.
-Linda REINING (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ cooler temps have
finally arrived in Bakersfield, CA.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: try try again
Ok... yesterday's message got thru... the two days before no go...
Hope my Bro Mike ('68WB) knows I wished him HB in the Sandstorm on
the 14th even tho it didn't show...
I'm waiting for a "new" show to come on... very exciting... one of
my favorite shows of all time... showed in England in '67... only 20
some episodes made... In '68 after I got home from my SE Asia summer
trip it finally made it here and I watched it every time it was
on... unfortunately they preempted it for anything and everything so
it wasn't on every week... Patrick McGoohan was the star, producer,
etc... The Prisoner... hope the remake is good... I really like
the guy playing Number 6... we'll see... but now I gotta get to
business... gotta birthday girl I've known since maybe before
kinnygarden... sure hope she has a great day... a Bomber-babe from
the word go... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Robert AVANT ('69)
Re: Richard's anger
Maren, Did you suggest Richard loosen the straps holding on his
aluminum foil hat?
-Robert AVANT ('69)
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>>From: Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
Re: Class of '70 Reunion Planning Meeting...
The next class of '70 reunion meeting will be Thursday, November
19th @ 7pm, in the North Room of the Richland Community Center.
-Dan LAYBOURN ('70) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/17/09
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6 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
HOWEVER, we have started receiving a FEW emails so
there are entries for the Sandstorm. Richard will fix
the problem 5 days ago. -Maren
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), George SWAN ('59)
Pat JONES ('59), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Barb BELCHER ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kim MOORE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb HOGAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian HOGAN ('74)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Ron HOGLEN and Pam BUCKNER ('62)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Sorenson's Picture #430
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-430-Who.html
I would like to know where these salmon were caught. Also, how
many pounds did the largest fish weigh?
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Sad Tidings
Those of you who know me, know that I much prefer to write with
"glad tidings." These items are not the sort of news that I
relish putting forth, so I decided that I would try to cover all
of this in one posting.
First, thank you Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) for posting the sad
news of my sister's, Marilyn SWAN Beddo ('63), condition. I was
planning to post the notice, but was waiting for more details. I
spoke with Tracy, her oldest daughter again today, when she had
returned from taking Marilyn to see a neurosurgeon. The prognosis
is hopeful, but worse than anticipated. She indeed has a brain-
associated tumor, about 4 centimeters in diameter (about the
size of a golf ball), located in the left front region. However,
according to the doctor, it appears to be growing into her brain.
One bit of good news is that she seems to be experiencing no
pain, associated with this tumor, so far. The doctor is studying
all tests, MRI, etc., that have been run to decide the best
course of action, chemotherapy or surgery. Marilyn is staying at
Tracy's house, as she is understandably, quite fatigued now, and
mostly sleeping. Tracy will be keeping me posted. Prayers and
good thoughts are always welcome.
And, several have asked about our mother, Millie Swan. Following
her stroke (s?) early in September, she recovered a slight bit
and then leveled off to where she requires complete care in a
nursing home. She shows a slight recognition of Jeanne and I
when we visit her, otherwise she is virtually dependent on the
assistance and care of the staff.
And finally, I am also sad to report that my old friend, Duane
Azure ('59 WB), who moved to Pasco midway through high school and
graduated as a Bulldog, is suffering from lung cancer, and having
a tough time of it. He is in a hospice situation, in home, but
still fighting the good fight, with that same ol' sense of humor.
His wife Dawn, has asked me to pass this note along to any of you
who were a part of Duane's life:
"Hi George,
Just wanted to let you and any others who are
interested know about a website I have set up
for keeping you informed about Duane. It is
www.CaringBridge.org go to "visit a website" and enter
duaneazure This will keep you up to date. Today was a
good, but, very busy day, lots of company. Duane seems
surprized that so many people love him........I'm not.
Love and peace,
Dawn"
You can read Duane's story, journal, and guest book on the site,
and sign and/or leave a note to him in his guest book, which Dawn
reads to him.
And, I think that is all I have to say for now.
-George "Pappy" Swan ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where I just remembered
that I submitted a story and pictures related to Veteran's
Day, which was submitted and bounced back twice during the
Sandstorm down time. I will try to remember to post it
eventually.
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>>From: Pat JONES DeBattista ('59)
Re: Looking for
We were wondering if anyone knows the whereabouts of Joanne DIXON
from the Class of '60. We used to call her "Red".
Last we knew of her was when she married Jack Wright ('57). Jack
was a smoke jumper.
Thanks,
-Gene DeBattista (NAB) & Pat JONES DeBattista ('59)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
'Tis that time of year again. The Gold Medal Class of '63
Marching, Chowder and Caroling Society Christmas Party, Red
Sweater Cotillion and Four Dotter Hadj will be Saturday the 12th
of December. Brother Leo and Ellen have rented the Hall, which
this year will be at new place. It's not exactly like we weren't
invited back to last year's locale. It's just that this place,
The Bally Hoo Pub is across the street from Mecca, in that I
mean the old Olympia Brewery. 10am at 316 Schmidt Place SW in
Tumwater. Be there or miss the opening of the missing ballot box
and vote tallying from our Senior Most back in '63. It seems
that when they built the new High School, they found the missing
ballot box for "Most Middle Names". After soaking it in water as
a precaution, they have made it available to be counted at our
breakfast. I personally always thought that it was a shoe in for
Robert William Alexander Lafayette David Buzz Colinas Hills, but
one will need to be there to be sure.
10am Kick off, again as per our by-laws, No Grandkid Power Point
slide shows of greater than 90 minutes or Amway presentations.
There will be the standard 100 square board to guess what
Pendleton patterned shirt the afore mentioned R.W.A.L.D.B.C.
Hills will be resplendently modeling.
If you are planning on attending, please let me know so that an
appropriate number of clean forks will be available.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Brendan Madden ('95) Coka Cola's Happiness Mission
The voting is in, and sorry to say, but our Bomber, Brendan
Madden's '95 team, TEAM WOW did not win. Team, The Mix was the
winner of the 206 Expedition. Boo ... hiss!
Thanks to all of you who voted
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Barb BELCHER Valinske ('72)
The class of '72 has lost another classmate. Barb GOOD Shaw
passed away on November 12, 2009. Her memorial service is Sunday,
November 22, at 2:00 at Einan's Funeral Home, Sunset Event Center
in Richland. She and I have both lived in West Richland for many
years, but the only time we crossed paths was at the Hogs and
Dogs Festival held in June as part of the Cool Desert Nights. She
will be missed.
-Barb BELCHER Valinske ('72) ~ West Richland - cool, cloudy and
slightly breezy with a hint of rain
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>>Barbara GOOD Shaw ('72) ~ 5/10/54 - 11/12/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/18/09
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
NOTICE: There's STILL a problem with RichlandBombers.com
HOWEVER, we are now receiving email which means that
there are entries for the Sandstorm. Richard continues
to work on the problem. -Maren
Anna May WANN ('49), Betty Bell ('51)
Nadine REYNOLDS ('61), Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy RIGGS ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy HARTNETT ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn SCHILDKNECHT ('74)
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
Re: Robert MUSSELMAN ('50-RIP)
Just had a call from Chuck PRINGLE ('49) that his brother-in-law,
Bob MUSSELMAN ('50) passed away a couple of weeks ago. He didn't
know exact date.
If anybody has more information on this, please let us know so we
can do a Bomber memorial page.
-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)
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>>From: Betty Bell Norton ('51)
The Easy Swing Band will play for the Richland Seniors
Association's Third Friday dance on this Friday, November 20
from 1pm 4pm at the Richland Community Center. $5 at the door,
and pre-packaged finger foods are welcome.
Hope to see you there!
The November 29th, 5th Sunday Dance with the Easy Swing Band
will NOT be held as that is Thanksgiving weekend, but hope to
see you on the 20th [for the Third Friday Dance!
-Betty Bell Norton ('51)
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>>From: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
Re: Dog Show
This past weekend was the Tucson Kennel Club dog show. Our
English Mastiff was entered. This was her first show since she
became a Champion about a year ago. She had a great weekend.
She won 3 Best of Breed, 1 Best of Opposite Sex and a 4th place
finish in the Working Group competition. Someone, I have no idea
who, made a video of the Saturday competition and posted it on
YouTube. Here is the link. Shelby is the second dog in the
lineup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgRuUVljKDU
-Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61) ~ From sunny but windy and cold
Sahuarita, AZ
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
Re: Marilyn SWAN Beddo ('63)
I am so sorry to hear of your sister's cancer. This damn stuff
seems to be "hitting" a lot of us Bombers, damnit!!!! She will
be in my prayers and I can verify that Bomber prayers are the
best... they do work!!!!
-Linda Reining (Boomber Bomber class of '64) ~ Bakersfield, CA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/19/09
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 2 Bomber funeral notices today:
NOTICE: RichlandBombers.com is ba-ack!!! Thank you, Richard
Joann FOR Mack RICHARDSON ('52),
Karen COLE ('55), Steve CARSON ('58)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don EHINGER ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary ROSE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard TRUJILLO ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill WILSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike LAHRMAN ('63)
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>>From: Joann FOR Mack RICHARDSON ('52)
Re: Mack
To all Mack's family and friends,
Just want you all to know that Mack's health has taken a turn
for the worse. I know many of you have corresponded with him via
email and for those who have written lately he has not been able
to respond back to you. I know he would want to but just want you
to please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as the days ahead
are uncertain. This past weekend we had to put him in hospice.
They are trying to keep him comfortable. Some of his children
are currently here and others will be out soon. Again, thank you
for your friendship as he always spoke about you all so dearly.
Joanna
-Joann FOR Mack RICHARDSON ('52)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Sorenson's (NAB) picture #503
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091109-503-Who.html
Don, I think the fellow second from the right in picture #503 is
Hal Riches. They lived next door to us in 1948 when we lived on
Goethols. It was a great neighborhood with Carol Sitler ('55)
George McDonald ('55) Loretta Ostbo ('55) and many more. I hated
to leave that group when we moved to a ranch house on Cottonwood,
but eight of us were crowded into a small precut. Loretta and
I traded comic books, she always had the best! Remember when
collecting a stack of comics was the thing to do (If you could
find or earn the dime to buy one.) I lost all the comics in the
move and never collected them again.
I appreciated the 1966 Veteran listing yesterday. It doesn't
tell of the pain and suffering so many experienced, and are still
experiencing. I am so proud of my brother and all the young men
that sacrificed and fought for our freedoms. Thankyou for posting
this list, I copied it and included it in our family genealogy.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Foggy Nine Mile Falls, WA
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
OK, you got me, what is Best of Opposite Sex?
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Christmas Party
WHEN: Saturday, December 5
TIME: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WHERE: Beaches Restaurant on the Columbia River
in the Sun Room, 1919 S.E. Columbia River Drive
Vancouver, WA 98661
Located just one mile east of I-5 on Highway 14.
Take Exit #1 – Drive straight to the river and
into the parking lot.
It's very easy to find.
RSVP: Tom Hemphill
CHRISTMAS FUN: Bring a gift for the White Elephant exchange event
ALL Bombers and their friends and family members are Welcome.
We will be in the Sun Room, which is set up well for socializing.
Please bring photos & yearbooks to show, and some stories to tell.
Your lunch is your choice off of the regular menu.
Linda and I had lunch there again last week, and as always, it
was great.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
Re: Class of '70 reunion planning meeting
The next class of '70 reunion planning meeting will be Thursday,
November 19th at 7pm, in the North Room of the Richland Community
Center.
-Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
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>>David CATES ('66) ~ 10/16/46 - 4/30/09
>>Dean LEGGETT ('70) ~ 2/21/52 - 11/11/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/20/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Tom TRACY ('55), Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)
Carl DVORAK ('58), Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Nadine REYNOLDS ('61), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Terry DELSING ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike McKEOWN ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vernona CHAPPELLE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laurie FRASER ('79)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Ron SHELBY ('59) & Lorraine WARD ('63)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
Thanks to Lorraine "Rainy" POWELL Earp-Tanner ('52wb) and
Don Sorenson (NAB) for the refreshing picture below.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091111-Pow-Barea.jpg
Jess D. Branum (not Branom) pictured in officer's uniform, was
the Father of Lee (Lequita) BRANUM Clark ('55) and Myrna BRANUM
Willard ('57) (honorary); two of RHS' finest ladies ever. Jess was
a veteran of one of WWII's toughest, bloodiest battles - Okinawa,
Japan. He was well prepared, physically, for the task on
Okinawa... after working for some time in the Midwest Oil Fields,
one of America's toughest jobs, and a lot of boxing matches. Jess
and his wife Nina Faye, hosted the Jr. High and RHS teenagers from
our church and their classmates' friends almost every Tuesday
evening, during the '50s. We sang songs, listened to records
of the latest top 10, visited and always had some kinds of
refreshments, played games, went roller skating, picnicked or
went somewhere together.
They were devoted to the Richland community and are remembered by
everyone who knew them. Jess had a great sense of humor and was
(like all of our parents) a hard worker. Nina Faye was our church
pianist and had a tremendous repertoire of popular music as well.
All of the teenagers have fond memories of Jess and Nina Faye.
Jess often worked at two jobs and even started building a new home
in West Richland. Since Jess liked boxing, we enjoyed practicing
on his punching bag mounted in his basement. He was proficient
at that as well as many other talents. Jess took up 8mm movie
photography and filmed many Carmichael Jr. High as well as RHS
basketball and football games.
He also had a couple of horses... His big horse, Blondie, was the
size of Matt Dillon's buckskin on Gunsmoke. Blondie had a unique
gait. After each step she would make a motion that looked like she
was shaking mud off each hoof. But she was a fantastic specimen.
If you rode beside her... you kept plenty of space between your
horse and her. It may have been her early computer version of "MY
Space, and You're Not Welcome In It". Blondie could have pulled
with the Budweiser Clydesdale Clan. Unless you were as tall as
Jess, you needed a ladder to get into the saddle.
Jess was always ready to laugh at himself too. One Sunday morning
in Church, after working a late shift in the 100-B Area and a 2nd
job as well, Jess finally got a couple of winks of sleep... in the
pew. It was an important day for Jess. He wanted to honor Mother's
Day... and he did. When the pastor asked for all of the Mother's
to stand, Jess noticed people standing up, reached back and
tugged at his daughter's hand to stand up with him. It took her
a few moments to convince him that he was unqualified to be so
honored... he sat down and turned to us in the pew behind, winked
and remarked... "Wow, I almost became a Mother"!! Everyone who
knew Jess loved him.
This picture brought back a flood of good memories. We all thank
our RHS friends and family for their military service, their
friendship, and their lives.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)
I know nothing of the class in picture 501
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091109-501-Who.html
Had a good laugh though. When I saw it, my first impression was
they would rather be someplace else.. By the look on her face,
even the teacher was thinking along those lines.
-Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)
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>>From: Carl DVORAK ('58)
Re: Sorenson's Picture 428
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091013-428-Who.html
If I am not mistaken (has happened a lot more lately my wife
Shirley says ('61)), the man on the left is John Werner, father of
Terry ('65) and Janice ('61).
They lived across the street from us on Sanford before they moved
to a ranch house.
-Carl DVORAK ('58)
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>>From: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Yesir, it looks like rain.
-Tom VERELLEN ('60) ~ near Lacey, WA not underwater, not above
water, not dry.
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>>From: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
To: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
In the world of dog shows, there can only be one Best of Breed
winner and it can be either a male or a female. The title of Best
of Opposite Sex is to acknowledge the merit of the best dog that
is not of the same sex as the winner of Best of Breed. It is a
fancy way of saying that Shelby came in second place on that day
but was judged to be the best of the females competing. On the
days Shelby was chosen Best of Breed, it was a male dog that came
in second and earned the title of Best of Opposite Sex.
Sorry, Steve, that the definition is not nearly as interesting
as the title sounds.
-Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61) ~ Sahuarita, AZ where the weather
is perfect. Cool nights for good sleeping and warm, sunny
days to enjoy. These kind of days are why we live here.
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Wonderful news! My sister, Joanne ('66), has been removed from
hospice care. Her doctor said she has improved so much from the
episode that landed her in the hospital over Labor Day that she
doesn't need that level of care. She still won't go back to chemo,
but there are other things the doctor wants to try to control the
cancer's spread and add to her quality of life. She will have home
health care, but she is able to do so much herself that it won't
be daily.
Her daughter will go back to Alaska for the holidays, and plans on
coming back when hospice is needed again.
Thank you to all who have prayed for Joanne. Our family will have
the best Thanksgiving ever this year!
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in rainy Richland
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Neighborhood heroes
I've mentioned this more than once and will probably mention
it again and again... as a Bear of little brain (or is it weak
brain... can't recall)... I tend to repeat myself now and then...
well more than now and then... anyway, I've mentioned local heroes
before... guys that you admired in grade school for whom the
admiration continued right up into adult life... Jack Gardiner
('61) was one of those Spalding heroes as was the Birthday Boy...
I remember him and other guys playing football at the playground
and wanting to be "just like him" when I grew up... not sure I've
come close to my dreams but he still makes me feel good when I
think of those younger years... let's have a mighty HAPPY BIRTHDAY
for Mike McKeown ('60) on November 20, 2009!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Terry DELSING ('71)
Re: Dean Leggett ('70-RIP)
I recall with great fondness the thrill of playing "Whiter Shade
Of Pale" for the first time with Dean Leggett at his Hammond. He
was good, very good and we were lucky to have him.
-Terry DELSING ('71)
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>>Bob MUSSELMAN ('50) ~ 8/11/30 - 9/30/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/21/09
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Steve CARSON ('58), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rosemary QUALHIEM ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John CRIGLER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna FULCHER ('72)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
Nadine, thanks for the update. My mind occasionally wanders down a
wrong path. Beautiful Dog, Shelby, we are into smaller dogs and
have a Maltese now but don't groom her for show.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
There was a short note in the Tacoma News Tribune
today.
Paraphrased: Sara [Palin] and family will be in
Richland for Christmas. They will be with her
Aunt Katie [Sheeran] Johnson ('61). It is a large
family get together of some 40 family members.
I will be in Anchorage the 23rd and Christmas Eve enroute to Dutch
Harbor Christmas Day for the big New Years fireworks display. If
perchance it turns out there is an autograph session for Sarah's
book, somebody please get me one and I will pay you for your
trouble. Thanks.
There may be a recession but the planes are all sold out and that
is the only seat the city could get for me. There are large blocks
of fishery people headed to Dutch a bit earlier then usual. Penn
Air flies Saab 340 twin turbo, 32 passenger, to Dutch. If every
seat is occupied they can only take about 1/3 of the luggage.
Flying against head winds and still have enough reserve to go back
to Cold Bay if Dutch is socked in, they are loaded to the max. The
weather in the Aleutians changes quick and I have made the trip out
three times in one day before getting on the ground. They tried
using 737s for a while but the 3700 ft runway is a bit hairy in
winter. And there is nothing but very cold water at either end.
The rest of the island is pretty much vertical.
And... our annual very large format display at Coeur d'Alene ID
is on again this year. Always on "Black Friday" the day after
Thanksgiving. There is more on the boardwalk then usual this
year. As I always say, if you want to see it, you will not be
disappointed, but get there early. I will miss the actual display
for the first time in about 13-14 years. After I have the boardwalk
ready to fire Friday afternoon, I will hop a plane to Alaska to
load and fire a large display in Palmer, Sat. the 28th. Sunday we
clean up the mess, and at 6 AM Monday I fly back to Spokane, pick
up my car, and drive home to Tacoma.
I enjoy life, and being busy, and meeting the challenge of
entertaining people with fire. It gets a bit tense at times but
since I do love it so, it is not as bad as it may seem. I only
hope my body doesn't wear out before my brain gets tired. :)
I do want to say a nice "Thank You" to Wally Erickson ('53) for
his kind invitation to Thanksgiving dinner with his family. And...
I will take this time to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving, a
wonderful holiday season, and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ From home on a very wet evening in
South Tacoma.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Take the good with the bad
I hate it when good stuff and bad news come at the same time...
I wanna wish a '64 guy an HB but also learned that a good friend
'65er passed on the 18th... Gary Durfey ('65-RIP) was one of those
guys you just couldn't help but like. I will never forget, one
Tolo, Gary and I were being taken out for cokes or burgers or
whatever by two great Bomber-babes... As we were leaving the house
for the last pickup, the girl driving managed to scrape one of
those crappy poles some of our Dads thought were a good idea next
to the driveways (I know my dad had one too)... well, we couldn't
let her go home and face her dad, so Durf and I spent the evening
pulling out the dent as best we could so it would not be noticed
and perhaps her dad would later think he did it... (hey... we were
kids... what did we know about Truth, Justice and the American
way)... We knew self preservation... we got blamed for enough stuff
we didn't do... no sense getting blamed for stuff we did, too!
(My mother always said when I would get in trouble for something
I didn't do that I had done enough other stuff that it all evened
out... what kinda logic is that?!) So we never did get out coke or
burger... but with that said, there is another guy who is still out
there having birthdays that I have always enjoyed... hope his day
is a good one... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Johnny (John I suppose now) Crigler
('64) on the 21st!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Gary DURFEY ('65) ~ 12/12/46 - 11/18/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/22/09 - WE REMEMBER JFK
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6 Bombers & Joanna Richardson (NAB) sent stuff
and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Richard ROBERTS ('49) and Carol TYNER ('52)
Elva McGHAN ('50), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
John CAMPBELL ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Joanna Richardson, spouse of Mack RICHARDSON ('52-RIP)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen SPITALERI ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandi CHERRINGTON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dawn BELL ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jo CLARK ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brent CHRISTI ('71)
11/22/63 JFK Assassination - 12/6/63 Sandstorm
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2003/Xtra/1963-12-09SSpg1.htm
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49) & Carol TYNER Roberts ('52)
Re: http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091122-rob-00.htm
Hi, Maren.
Carol and I thought about you when we made this visit. Enjoy.
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49) & Carol TYNER Roberts ('52)
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>>From: Elva McGHAN Wallace ('50)
Re: Sorenson's pic #505
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091109-505-Who.html
Tall man looks like Roy E. Jaynes (Security)
2nd man looks like Dave Lauder (Mgr. GE)
Man on the right is Ted Pugh.
Since RichlandBombers.com wasn't working properly, I don't know if
this pic has been identified. Sorry if it's a "dupe."
Hope we didn't miss any of Sorenson's pics when the Richland system
was down. 'Really enjoy his pictures.
Thanks.
-Elva McGHAN Wallace ('50)
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[Elva, Even though RichlandBombers.com was down, AlumniSandstorm.com
never missed a beat. Don Sorenson's (NAB) page of links to all his
pictures: http://alumnisandstorm.com/SorensonLinks.htm -Maren]
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>>From: Joanna Richardson, spouse of Mack RICHARDSON ('52-RIP)
Re: Mack RICHARDSON ('52-RIP)
Dear Friends,
I just want to update you on my husband's health. He passed away
this morning [11/21/09] at 11:10am. He went very peacefully and
with his family around him. Please keep us in your prayers and
thank you for all your kind thoughts and expressions. Mack always
spoke of the good times with all his family and friends and
reminisced often about them. I personally want to thank you all
for your friendship and will remember you all with love. Thank you.
Sincerely,
-Joanna Richardson, spouse of Mack RICHARDSON ('52-RIP)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
More on Sarah Palin's visit to the Tri Cities for Thanksgiving
dinner at her Aunt Katie's in Richland. This article was in the
Tri-City Herald.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/799391.html
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: John Crigler's ('64) BD
I saw David Rivers' ('65) BD congrats in the Sandstorm [on 11/21],
and would like to echo my BD wishes to John Crigler ('64). I
haven't seen or talked to John for many years, but I will never
forget the time I was driving down Thayer (probably in my '57) with
a friend or two (probably John Dale ('63) and maybe Perry Moore
('63) or Jake Clark ('64)) and Crigler was beside me driving his
car ('56 Chev?) in reverse and we weren't going slow!
Anyway, I hope you had a great birthday, John. Since I sold the
'57, I am thinking seriously about roddin' Grandma's '50 Chevy
coupe. Hmmm.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Love them Bombers
What's better than a Bomber-babe and a Bomber guy having birthdays
on the same day... heck I can't think of anything... today we have
an old... well not old... I mean... well you know what I mean...
someone I've known for a long time and somebody else I've known
for a long time... one lived down the street and the other across
town... they are both celebrating on November 22, 2009 and I hope
they both have great days... course hard for November birthdays not
to be great... some of the most wonderful, marvelous, cool, sweet,
interesting, smart, fantastic and just flat "far out and solid"
(Lincoln Hayes... Mod Squad) people I know were born in November
and these are two of them... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sandi Cherrington ('66)
and Brad Wear ('71; Capt. USMC)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Sandra STAFFORD Lepinski ('62) ~ 2/10/44 - 11/10/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/23/09
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Tom TRACY ('55), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Donna BOWERS ('63), Pam EHINGER ('67)
Mike FRANCO ('70), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gayle DAWSON ('65)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
Most Col-Hi students from '51-'54 remember Robert "Bob" Johnson ('54)
leading the pep band, as student director of the orchestra and
music and a talented musician. My greatest appreciation of his
talents was for his excellent performances at assemblies, RHS
musical performances and primarily at our basketball games. His
skills extended to performances with the trampoline team. Besides
being a National Honor Student at Col-Hi, he finished his degree
at Julliard Musical School in New York, played with the National
Symphony in Washington D.C. and many other groups. He also
performed in the longest running (18 year) performance of
"CATS". He recently mentioned how much he appreciated everyone's
compliments of Mr. Pappas.
You can read more about him and the organization he founded at
http://www.nyphilomusica.org/about/founder.html
Congratulations Bob... and thanks again for the inspiration you
and the Bomber Bands, Orchestras and provided us during those
great years in Richland.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Tri-City Herald Link - yesterday
The URL didn't work yesterday... try these:
www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/800453.html
www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/800453.html
www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/801683.html
www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/801683.html
See also, Tri-City Herald "Gallery" pictures:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1312/gallery/801611.html
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice ('63)
Re: Marilyn SWAN Beddo ('63)
Please tell Sandstorm readers that Marilyn is staying with her
daughter, Tracy Murray, through all [her medical problems] so she
may not get mail [sent to her home address]. You could send it to
[address deleted for Tracy's privacy - send email to Donna and
ask for Tracy's home address. -Maren]. if you want to be sure
she gets it prior to her surgery [date - December 11th] and after
also, since Tracy is going to be her Mom's care giver.
Tracy said her mom would love receiving cards and/or letters.
I am so proud to be a Bomber at these times!!
Love and prayers,
-Donna BOWERS Rice ('63)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
To Dawn Bell '67
A day late... but HAPPY BIRTHDAY [on 11/22]!! Hope you had a
great one! I heard through the grape vine that you're now living
in Portland or some where around there! Drop me a line and fill
me in on what's going on! Do you ever hear from Peg K.?
Take care, my friend!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
I know that every year on November 22nd many of us reflect
On the Kennedy assassination and where we were (6th grade,
Jefferson). But I would like to share a little more positive
note this year.
Our Mom & Dad (Dr. Robert & Ilene Franco) are celebrating
anniversary number 62 November 22nd. Not bad for Dad who
was 33 when they were married. I guess if they surviving raising
six kids makes this a little easier.
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091122-514-521.htm
To All Bombers,
514 G E Mail Room
515 Central Files
516 G E Mail Room
517 G E Mail Room
518 " " "
519 " " "
520 Somewhere in the 300 Area
521 Woman w/shovel
To: David PRIEBE ('57)
This picture was taken in the 300 Area. They were installing a
VERY large press just on the other side of that wall. Thanks for
your input.
To: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Gene OSBORNE ('55)
Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Ken HEMINGER ('56wb)
Carl DVORAK ('58)
Elva McGHAN Wallace ('50),
Thanks to each of you for the information. One question for Karen
COLE Correll are you sure it was pic 503?? Lost comics? Yea that
happened to me when our family moved from Bend, OR to Whitefish,
MT. Green Lantern, Aqua Man, Wonder Woman, Fantastic 4, Flash and
others... sigh.
To: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Atkinson-Jones was responsible for small construction projects
for the A E C. Any process equipment upgrades or additions your
father's employer built it. A part of the reason you don't see
many pictures of these guys is the pictures were taken of what
they were working on and its progress. The workers are in many
of those pictures but they didn't want any part of the camera.
In some cases project completion photos were taken. I've not seen
many of those. I can tell you your dad worked all over the site.
(I'll try to find some pics of Jones Construction, maybe we'll
get lucky) With that said, a lot of intimate details were known.
That would be reason enough to not talk.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/24/09
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Phil Belcher ('51), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
John ADKINS ('62), Ray STEIN ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Cathy GEIER ('66)
Brad UPTON ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nola DAVEY ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary CHRISTIAN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy MIDDLETON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Terry & Linda HUTSON ('74)
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>>From: Phil Belcher ('51)
Re: Christmas cards for Servicemen
I ran across this item today and checked it out on Snopes. It's
true and thought some of us might like to send a card to our
servicemen. It only takes a minute.
[Snopes.com confirmed this one is "true". -Maren]
XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL
If you go to this web site, http://www.LetsSayThanks.com you can
pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be
sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't
pick Out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed
services. How AMAZING it would be If we could get everyone we
know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of
these? Whether you are for or Against the war, our soldiers over
there need to know we are behind them. This takes just 10 Seconds
and it's a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time
to pass it on for others To do. We can never say enough thank
you's. Thanks for taking to time to support our military!
-Phil Belcher ('51)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
To: Don Sorenson: (NAB)
Thanks for the information in the 11/23 Sandstorm about Atkinson
& Jones Construction Company and what they did at Hanford.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Col-Hi / RHS Grads in the Military
I have uploaded the most recent and current list of Col-Hi / RHS
grads who have and are serving in the military. Please take a
look and think if you know any one who has served or is serving
and deserves to added to this list. It's getting to be a pretty
impressive list of grads.
view the list at:
http://richlandbombers.1962.tripod.com/bombersinthemilitary.htm
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Re: Palin Book Tour
Sarah Palin will be in Coeur 'd Alene, Idaho on Dec. 10th for a
book signing. I found her tour schedule at this website:
http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarah-palins-going-rogue-book-tour.html
I'm not sure if Dewey Whetsell will be there or not.
-Ray STEIN ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: But baby it's cold outside
Birthday for an old... (I've GOT to stop saying that... I've even
received at least one threatening email about it) flame and all
the news that's fit to print (which leaves very little to print)
about our resident "star" and his film trip to Luxembourg...
so which to do first... guess I'll wish the Birthday girl her
special wishes... don't think I've seen her since R2K, but in
my senior year we were quite a pair... we even headed for Couer
d'Alene one time ta get hitched but it was a Holiday so no
nuptials that day... everything happens for a reason I suppose...
but we've remained pals all this time which is a good thing...
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Nancy MIDDLETON ('67) on November 24, 2009.
Terry DAVIS ('65) Knox headed off to make a movie where he
plays the bad guy as only he can. He called yesterday to bid
farewell... I hope he took some warm clothes... weather there is
supposed to be lows of 30s and highs of just barely 50s during
his little trip. I have a feeling those castles can get a might
cold... plus it's raining... just doesn't sound like my cup of
tea... I hear the class of '63 already has some nice storms
forecast for their little candle light affair too... I say candle
light as it seems to me that every year they have at least some
of the time without electric lights... I'm sorry... I'm a fun in
the sun kinda guy... in fact... it's not even warm enough here in
Vegas for me right now... got a nice card from Peter Joe CARROLL
('65) today... seems Pete has joined homeland security and the
envelope contained some very accurate surveillance photos... I'm
gonna hafta keep my windows closed...
Finally, hope all your Thanksgivings are good... I've decided to
hit Katie SHEERAN Johnson's ('61) place for some free eats. After
that, Linda BELLISTON Boehning ('63) and I are gonna go make some
money off of some bootleg autographed books. Now who says ya
can't make a buck in this here economy!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Cathy GEIER ('66)
Re: Newspaper Sandstorms For Sale
I have about 35 issues of the Sandstorm newspaper from 1965.
I would like to sell or donate them to an interested Bomber.
I still am not working much.. less than before.. a very humbling
prospect. So please do NOT ask me again. I am in Seattle now and
will be in Richland for a few days at holiday time.
-Cathy GEIER ('66)
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)
I occasionally plug my dates around the country... I guess
I should do it when I'm playing in the Tri-Cities! I'll be
performing at the Three Rivers Convention Center this Friday
and Saturday at 8:00 PM. If you want to entertain (or avoid)
family this weekend, come on out to the show!
-Brad UPTON ('74)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/25/09
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Tom TRACY ('55), Peg SHEERAN ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charles SOLOMON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Fran TEEPLE ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim CANTRELL ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie NELSON ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leon RICE ('82)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shelly STREGE ('98)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Mr. Gordon Pappas
One of your students has paid you a great compliment through his
performances. He also promised me a copy of a work you wrote as
well. I look forward to receiving it... in the meantime I hope
you and our classmates have a chance to read more about Bob
JOHNSON ('54).
Bob JOHNSON '54, our creative RHS 1954 Student / Conductor "in-
Residence"... has put together one of the nation’s most creative
musical groups, performing a spectacular Haydn’s Opera, 'La
i'sola disabitata'. –The Uninhabited Island... one of Haydn's
most difficult works to perform.
Hope you and our classmates have a chance to view the promotional
Bob did with the theme "Finding Haydn?" It is amazingly Bob
Johnson, in his over-the-top creativity – taking Haydn's classic
to new heights. It sure looks like Bob on the "sidewalk transit
system" (skateboard). Those of you who participated as RHS pep
band members, under his baton, were unsurpassed at games and in
musical competitions.
You motivated Bomber athletes in gymnasiums and on football
fields during the '50s. Bob has done it consistently for
musicians and actors in New York during the past 37 years
through his New York Philomusica. nyphilomusica.org
A NY Times Critics writes: "Artistic Director A. Robert Johnson
has a flair for picking young musicians with great talent. In
its first series in 1971 at New York City's Town Hall, the
organization introduced then-unknown musicians Yo Yo Ma, Ida
Kavafian, David Golub and David Jolley - "The Young Masters" -
providing lucky listeners a first hearing of the next generation
of important musicians. The ensemble is no less selective now,
and the young artists you hear in an intimate setting today may
well soon be the superstars of tomorrow."
His honorary tributes to the world's great musicians are a
capstone characteristic that endears audiences to him. He
matches, scouts, coaches and promotes superior talent with
classics and artistic drama that spellbinds audiences. Hope
you have a chance to check out all the good stuff about our
classmate... A. Robert "Bob" Johnson. He's a great Bomber read.
Bob is the kind of coach, scout, manager, creator that would be
the envy of Andre' Rieu, Arthur Fiedler, and the rest of the
best.
I give special thanks for the great music "RHS classics" played
during basketball warm-ups... they are my most treasured "works
of music". Thanks to all of you who participated at RHS in
orchestra, band, choirs, special groups and thespians. You and
our superior music teachers inspired us all.
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
Re: Book-signing
Sister, Kate SHEERAN Johnson ('61), called from Sarah's bus
yesterday - nearly arrived at Ft. Bragg - and said the book-
signing in the Tri-Cities will be at Hastings on Sunday, the
29th, from 12 to 2 PM. Don't know if each of the 3 cities has a
Hastings, but I'm pretty sure there will be more in the paper
later. At least you who are interested will have a heads-up. She
and sister, Sal SHEERAN Heath ('58) were darn-tired, but having
an amazing time.
-Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Palin book signing changed to noon Sunday
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/805607.html
-Dennis Hammer ('64) ~ The likelihood of one individual being
right increases in direct proportion to the intensity
with which others are trying to prove him wrong.
--James Mason, "Heaven can Wait."
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Don LYALL ('52), Steve CARSON ('58)
Janice KLUSMAN ('66), Betti AVANT ('69)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roberta ADKINS ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill BERLIN ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eleanor ATTWOOD ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: CB LIH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jill WALSER ('81)
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>>From: Don LYALL ('52)
Re: Great Football
I know Maren does not like me to put "GO HOGS" on my note to her
with my annual check, but living here in Fayetteville for 16
years, one becomes a HOG fan. Saturday night (6 PM Central and
4PM Pacific) LSU/Arkansas go at it again on CBS. LSU is the
favorite now by 3 points (3 pts is normally home field advantage)
and LSU has been generally one the the best in the SEC. Arkansas
has been down for a few years but is on the road back. Great
new coach, strong QB (a potential Heisman next year), great
young/fast receivers and fine running backs. Our problem has been
only an average defense. I might add that ARK has upset them the
last 2 years and we hope to make it three in a row. Anyway, tune
in CBS to enjoy a good game. Maren, though we have not met, I
feel a nice Bomber connection. Looking forward to meeting with
you someday.
[You checkin' to see if I'm pay8ng attention? (I am)...
I'll be watching from my sister's living room (north of
Baron Rouge) Richard will -- no doubt -- be doing the
Sandstorm. GEAUX TIBERS!!! -Maren]
=Don LYALL ('52)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Just finished "Going Rouge", great read and inspirational.
Go Sarah Go!
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58) ~ Chicago where we
will have a white Thanksgiving.
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>>From: Janice KLUSMAN McCurdy ('66)
To all my fellow Bombers and all my friends on Sandstorm.. Thank
you all for keeping us all informed. I also want to wish you
a great Thanksgiving.. I pray every day for all our current
seving Military... AND the past Military too... All have made a
difference in our lives and we can still be proud and thankful we
live in the USA.... God bless you all... Thank you Maren for all
your work in keeping us
-Janice KLUSMAN McCurdy ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Turkey Day
Turkey Day wishes to everyone. November is about gone as is the
year 2009. Don't overstuff yourselves and enjoy your day.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where it's supposed to be wet for
the day and beyond (hey it's western Washington
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8 (plus 1)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-599.htm
To All Bombers,
522 Event in the old Desert Inn
523 100-H Safety Event
524 Girl Scouts / Brownies / Blue Birds?
525 " "
526 Middle School Dance in the old Community Center
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Special (999) - I could not wait for this one
This one Happy Thanksgiving!!
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/27/09
Dateline: Richland
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10 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Patti JONES ('60)
John CAMPBELL ('63), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Jeanie WALSH ('63), Jo MILES ('64)
Julia ALEXANDER ('65), Pam EHINGER ('67)
Bruce STRAND ('69), Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Andrew ECKERT, Jr. ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: Sorenson;s Picture #522
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html
This is the 3rd time trying to send something, and hopefully it
will go thru. Don Sorenson's picture #522 is me attending a
banquet where the speaker was the older guy in the center. He
was a famous football player and we were attending this banquet
put on by either the Knights of Columbus or GE. My dad WT
McKeown was the emcee, and not in the picture, but I'm the guy
on the right. The young lad on the left is Clem Sheeran's son, Mike ('66) and he was getting an autograph from this celebrity.
For the life of me, I can't remember his name, but it was at the
Desert Inn and it was in 1957 or '58. I was 22 or 23 and already
had 3 kids (I know, I know) ..... Great memories.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53) ~ from very sunny and warm Sacramento
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Re: Bomber Birthday
Bomber Birthday! There are Bombers all the time with birthdays!
This Bomber has a ream of Stick Notes so he doesn't forget the
Bombers Birthdays. He runs all week on his job, driving and
fixing his old cars, family and doings with Bombers who live in
his area. I had the honor of being his big sister living on
Birch and him on Acacia behind Spalding. Always friendly as he
and the bike gang rode down the street. How his mom kept up with
him who knows? Let alone his dad! Always a smile and a yoohoo as
he was up to something with his friends. As I have said before,
"if he gets to know you he will remember your birthday in the
Sandstorm." Here's wishing DAVID RIVERS (Moose) ('65) a huge
Happy Birthday. May you have a day filled with family, friends,
and all your wishes be fulfilled in the year to come. A year of
reunions will bring you to Bomberville to make your year ahead
joyful being with so many Bomber Friends, old and new. Look
forward to the hug I get every year.
-Patti JONES Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA, No snow
yet Kaylene.
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
I had to chuckle at Steve Carson's ('58) typo on "Going Rouge".
Maybe Sarah's next book could cover the fine art of make-up. I
wish her well in shaking up the establishment a bit. It
certainly needs it.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Apparently there has been another couple of "Senior Most" ballot
boxes uncovered during subsequent excavations near the new High
School. There is some considerable question as to the validity
of the votes as there are Bondo and Gunsmoke Gray Primer stains
on the boxes. Interestingly enough there was but one name dinked
on "Most Elementary Schools Attended" and "Most Abodes Abided",
that being Birthday Boy David Rivers. He also had a majority of
the votes for most trees slaughtered in the name of yellow post
a notes, But something is fishy since that category was never
ever a category. Happy Birthday David, I hope your back will
still bend after all those years of eating at the card table and
entertaining the rest of the little kids with your tattoos and
tooth pick tricks. When you figure out that just because there
are three forks, one isn't for scratching, we'll reconsider your
application for eatin' with the Big Kids.
Jimbeaux
p.s. Where do I send my check for your campaign?
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Well it seems only fitting that every Bomber out there should be
sending our very own David Rivers a birthday wish ..... Because
it's his day ... all day ... so Happy Birthday David.
-Jeanie WALSH ~ Gold Medal Class of 63 ~ Simi Valley CA, Home of
the Ronald Reagan Library where it was too dog gone
hot to eat turkey today ... but we did anyway!
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)
Re: Don Sorenson's latest installment
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-599.htm>
It looks like photos #526 and #527 are from square dance classes
taught at the Recreation (Community) Center by my parents Fred
and Blanche Miles about the years 1957 through 1959. It looks
like my dad with his back to us in photo 526, and you can see my
parents talking to each other at the head of the class in photo
527. Every Friday night there were three classes, I believe 5th
graders attended 6pm to 7pm, 6th graders 7pm to 8pm and 7th
grade 8pm to 9pm. Around 300 Richland kids were enrolled in the
program at the time, and many of us still reminisce fondly about
the good times and friendships made during those years. My
parents taught about three years and then I believe Ernie
Wegner's parents took over the classes after that.
Allemande left with your old left hand, then do si do,
and promenade around the ring.
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Julia ALEXANDER ('65)
Re: Another Installment of 8 (plus 1)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-999-Who.html>
Special (999) is a picture of Jason Lee Elementary School
looking due west toward West Richland. Notice the cherry
orchard. Wish I knew what the picture was all about.
Bomber Cheers
-Julia ALEXANDER ('65)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger ('67)
Re Don Sorenson's Pics!
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
In the pic 522 I think the 5th guy from the left or the 3rd guy
from the right -- dark hair with glasses looking over the shoulder
of the guy in plaid jacket -- is Alex Clark, big brother of Kathy
Clark ('67). I think Alex graduated in '65, not sure. But this is
the first time I think I know someone! Yahooooooo!!
Hope everyone in Bomber Ville had a GREAT Thanksgiving!!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Edinger ~ The Blue Ribbon Class of '67
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>>From: Bruce A STRAND ('69)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-999-Who.html>
I don't recognize the school, but it looks like the kids are
lined up for an attack drill. When I was in first grade (or
kindergarten) at Spalding the entire school loaded up on buses
and went out into the desert somewhere as an evacuation
practice. This may have been the time we were taken to the top
of Rattlesnake Mt. and got to see the Nike missles that were
there. For a kid, that was totally cool. That may have been a
separate field trip; I don't recall the details.
-Bruce A STRAND ('69) ~ Tempe AZ where it is to be a nice 80° for
T-Day -- Gooble 'til you Wooble!
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>>From: Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
Glad I'm not the only redhead lover in the world ... rouge makes
for good makeup as well, I hear. Franco ('70) would probably
echo those sentiments ... if he'd ever answer his email .....
From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Just finished "Going Rouge", great read and
inspirational.
Go Sarah Go!
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58) ~ Chicago
where we will have a white Thanksgiving.
-Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8 (plus 1)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091127-530-537.htm>
To All Bombers,
999 Special (detail) [evacuation drill at Jason Lee]
530 Security Poster 300 Area
531 Burning classified scrap. Power House
532 Scooters for mail delivery 300 Area
533 Tour of 327 Building for High School students.
534 More of 327.
535 Mock Drill 300 Area
536 Friday the 13th parody. 100-D.
537 Retirement photo?
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/28/09
Dateline: Richland
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9 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), David MANSFIELD ('59)
Dave SOWDEN ('63wb), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Marsha GOSLIN ('65), Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Jim SCHODT ('67)
Betti AVANT ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
re: Sorensen Photo #522
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
Egads! It is a young Tom McKeown. Didn't recognize him with long
hair. And he is right about the other adult, someone almost
famous. But, like Tom, I haven't the foggiest as to who he is.
re: David Rivers's birthday
I don't know he was authorized to have birthdays, since he is
the self-appointed keeper of those important dates for all his
former girl friends.
A late happy one to David. Keep firm in the knowledge that you
might make it to the big kids' table yet.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in Mount Angel, OR, where
the weather guessers are promising dry weather soon.
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>>From: David MANSFIELD ('59)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-999-Who-detail.html>
Sorenson's 999 Special detail picture is of Jason Lee Elementary
School on Van Giesen. It could well be the evacuation drill as
someone suggested as the buses shown in the previous day's
posting were not school buses but Hanford Buses.
The male teacher in the right hand forefront with the glasses
and top coat on is Mr. Harvey, the sixth grade teacher. Mr.
Harvey was the first male teacher I had, being my sixth grade
teacher at Jason Lee, the 1952-1953 school year. He previously
taught at Spalding before moving over to Jason Lee after it was
completed.
Loretta Reich Rippee ('59) stated in an e-mail we exchanged last
summer that Mr. Harvey was one of the best teachers she had
going through the Richland system and I would certainly agree
with Loretta on that.
Mr. Harvey was also very involved with the Boy Scouts. My mother
send me a newspaper article sometime after college saying that
Mr. Harvey died in a fire at a Boy Scout Camp in the Blue
Mountains, at least I remember it as being in the Blue
Mountains. The article said that Mr. Harvey had already entered
the burning building once and rescued one person, then went back
into the fire to rescue another scout. He did not make it out
the second time.
-David MANSFIELD ('59)
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>>From: Dave SOWDEN ('63wb)
Greetings to all Sandstorm readers, I hope and trust a Happy
Thanksgiving was had by all.
I have a question concerning the "Workers Compensation Program"
I am hopeful someone can advise me on. My father David Sowden
RIP, worked as a chemist at Hanford from about 1948 to sometime
in the mid to late sixties. In the mid 1970's he experienced a
non terminal bout with cancer of the mouth, suffered two
strokes, survived one serious auto accident and passed away in
1982 of heart failure. His death certificate states under "Other
significant conditions contributing to death" as "Oral
carcinoma". I understand that translates to "cancer of the
mouth".
The Department of Labor is requiring his pathology reports to
confirm this diagnosis. The problem is, according to all I can
find out, all of his medical records were destroyed in
accordance with Washington State law, seven years after his
death. How am I supposed to produce medical records that were
destroyed in 1989?
Is there anyone out there who has experienced this or a similar
situation who can advise me how they got over, around, or
through this? Or should I, my sister Jane Sowden Tailleur ('59)
and I just kiss our share of $150,000 good bye? I appreciate any
advice I can get.
-Dave SOWDEN ('63wb) ~ Forest City, NC where the weather is a
bit cool but bright and clear.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer ('64)
Re: David Rivers ('65)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY on this day of your birth! I know this will be a
day late, but at least I've wished you a very happy birthday in
Facebook! :):)
I didn't receive my Sandstorm yesterday, the 27th, and so far
not today as well.
Hope everyone had a great and thankful Thanksgiving yesterday!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
The rain has finally gotten down to us :)
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>>From: Marsha GOSLIN Brehm ('65)
Re: Don Sorenson's pics:
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091127-532-Who.html>
I was so excited to see my dad Bill Goslin in picture 532
kneeling by the mail delivery scooter! I've been looking for him
for a long time! Thanks Don for posting all the old pictures.
-Marsha GOSLIN Brehm ('65)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Can't believe I've done this two years in a row ....... you
would think I might know my brother's birthday. I would have put
a reminder on a yellow sticky pad, but all the stores in town
tell me that some dood in a suit bought all that they carried
........ Anyway, Happy Birthday to my brother David Rivers ('65)
........
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: Jim SCHODT ('67)
For some reason I haven't received the Sandstorm the last two
days .........
-Jim SCHODT ('67)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Don Sorenson's #522, Event in the old Desert Inn
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
All of the boys are from Christ the King School, so as Jim
McKeown ('52) said, this must be a Knights of Columbus Event. It
is definitely at the Desert Inn (my husband, Dennis ('66) and
also a CK'er, recognizes the drapes in the background).
From left to right: Mike Sheeran ('66), Unknown (sure looks
familiar, though.), Terry Durbin ('65 or '64WB), Peter Gaskell
('66RIP), Alex Clark ('65), John Allen ('66), and Unknown (he,
too, is very familiar).
Maybe Mike Sheeran will respond and tell us know the name of the
famous football player, front left, and perhaps the names of the
"Unknowns". Jim McKeown ('52) is the other person on the front
right.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Ours was extra
special with our two-week old grandson! He is sooooo special.
Here he is at just one week:
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-999-Who.html>
The picture of the people lined up in front of Jason Lee is
definitely one of the evacuations we did on occasion. I recall
one year, probably some time in 1954, my mother packed my 2
brothers, a neighbor who didn't drive, and me into our car and
we drove to a grade school in Prosser for a staging area. I'm
pretty sure that's about when it was as Robert and I weren't in
school yet and the neighbor moved to Yakima some time later that
year. I don't recall taking buses out to Rattlesnake Mountain,
however. We had monthly drills in school, too. Certain grades
laid on their tummies with their hands over their heads and the
older grades went to the gym and stood facing the wall with
hands on heads. I don't think we did any after grade school,
but may be mistaken. I hope everyone survived Turkey Day.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Another Installment of 8
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091128-538-545.htm>
538 Scrap from 100 F Machine Shops
539 Scrap from 100 F Machine Shops
540 703 Building Secretary
541 Grade School Halloween presentation???
542
543 Civil Defense Building. Some kind of emergency supply packing???
544 Unk
545 300 Area Shop???
To: Jim McKEOWN ('53),
What did your father do at Hanford. That name sounds sooo
familiar. Thanks for your input.
To: Jo MILES ('64),
What are the chances that could happen today??? Thanks for the
input.
To: Julia ALEXANDER ('65),
My first thought was the High School. However from your input
and Sir Richards I can't believe I did not see that for my self.
Thanks for your input.
To: Pam EHINGER Edinger ('67),
Maybe they remember the football players name. Thanks for your
input.
To: Bruce A STRAND ('69),
That's entirely possible. In my collection I have the map of
each route out of Richland and each staging area. Back then you
might be able to pull that off with only a few problems. Not
today! Thanks for your input.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/29/09
Dateline: Richland
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9 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Luana IVERS ('52), Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54), Marlene LARSEN ('56wb)
Pat JONES ('59), Sonny DAVIS ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Robert SHIPP ('64)
Pat DORISS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janis Ervin ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denny Duncan ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe Campbell ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike Howell ('68wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick Polk ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger Meader ('73)
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>>From: Luana IVERS Portch ('52)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091123-514-Who.html>
The young ladies in the picture are from left to right: Luana
IVERS Portch, Col-Hi '52; Barbara LOVE Benson, Pasco '51; and
Delores HACK Benson, Kennewick '51. This was taken in the fall
of l952. I started working in the mail room in August of l952
right after graduation. I don't believe I was ever that young!!
-Luana IVERS Portch ('52)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
To Bob Carlson aka Mike Clowes,
"Et tu Brute" ..... oh sure, I've been dealing with this my
whole life. Tom also got credit for half of my TDs until Dad
sent the TCH a letter setting it straight. A crewcut!! Are you
kidding me? Tom would rather eat raw liver than cut a single
piece of that curly, Italian-looking, mop of his. Remember, he
WAS Farley Granger, he WAS the Fonz. I was Richey .... me with
the, yes, crewcut and straight lace appearance ..... and Tom
with the DA haircut, leather jacket, ****-eating grin .....
yeah, right Bob, we sure did look alike .... LIKE MUTT AND JEFF
.... he looked like an escapee from a bad Italian Western. Give
me break!
To Don Sorenson,
You asked where Dad worked, and it was GE of course, and in
Personnel .... not sure what his job was but it was in Mgmt. Mom
worked as a sec'ty in the area.
Jim McKeown, Class of '53 in sunny and windy Sacramento.
I already sent a response to the Sandstorm [supra], and as soon
as I did my wife, looking thru her scrapbook, found a similar
photo that evening that was in the TCH. They identified the
event as a GESA Father/Son Banquet that was held every year, and
the football player no one can remember, was Bobby Grayson, a
former All-American from Stanford University.
-Jim McKEOWN ('53)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
From: "Boy is My Face Red" Dept.
How could I mistake Jim McKEOWN ('53). He doesn't look a think
like "Farley".
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
There are two new classroom pictures that have been posted on
the Alumni Sandstorm website during the past month. They are my
sister's 1st and 2nd grade classroom pictures from John Ball
School in North Richland. Her name is Linda Diane Larsen Wheaton
('60wb).
The first picture is of Mrs. Pugh's 1st grade class.
<http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB1st-Pugh.html>
The second picture is a 2nd grade class with an unknown teacher.
<http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB2nd-xx.html>
Anyone who was in the class of '60 and went to John Ball School,
please check these two classroom pictures and add names of
students that you know.
Thanks.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Pat JONES DeBattista ('59)
Gene reminisces:
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091129-DeB-00.htm>
Thanks to Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/27/09 and Bruce A Strand ('69)
for his submittal for reminding me of my part at Camp Hanford.
How interesting that you had a chance to see the Nike missiles.
Back in 1958 I was stationed here at Camp Hanford, in the US
Army, as a "Rocket Jockey" or "Ground crew missile technician".
Our job was to protect the 600 plus acres [sic] of the Hanford
project. Over my tour of duty there was an evolution in defense
systems at Camp Hanford, from the large M-1 120 MM cannons, to
Nike Ajax, and then to the Nike Hercules. See attached photos.
When I arrived the majority of the soldiers lived in Quonset
huts with an oil-fed furnace for heat and eventually we moved
into modern facilities buildings made of cinder block with
baseboard heating. I can also recall seeing wild horses running
about near Saddle Mt. ... that was quite a sight indeed.
~ Gene DeBattista.
-Pat JONES DeBattista ('59)
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>>From: Sonny DAVIS ('62)
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
In picture #522 the person second from the left is Eric
Michelson ('62), my next door neighbor on Davison.
-Sonny DAVIS ('62)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
No problem in getting my Sandstorm today. Sure glad that we can
get it in the archives to read on those rare occasions that we
can't get it through our e-mail.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA ~ Sun
is shining today!!
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
To Jim McKEOWN ('53):
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
Is it possible that the "famous football player" in the picture
is Les Richter? I vaguely remember my dad taking me to a GE
Father-Son banquet when I was about 11 or 12, and Richter was
the featured speaker. I really didn't know much about him,
except that I had his football card in my collection. I think he
played guard for the LA Rams, but after 50+ years who can be
sure?
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
To David Mansfield ('66):
Regarding the picture
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-999-Who-detail.html>
taken in front of Jason Lee Elementary in the early/mid-50's.
The woman standing near the center of the picture (to the left
of Mr. Harvey), wearing a scarf, light-colored coat, and holding
a purse is Mrs Marjorie Brown, also a sixth grade teacher. I was
in her 1958-59 class.
To Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66):
Regarding the picture
<http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html>
of the young men standing behind the table at the Rivershore
Motor Inn. I think the picture was taken in one of the banquet
rooms at the Desert Inn -- the predecessor to the Rivershore
Motor Inn. Also, I may be wrong but the young man on the far
left (noted as Mike Sheeran ('66)) looks like my classmate Jack
Amos ('65-RIP), and the young man standing between the two men
(noted as John Allen ('66)) looks like another classmate, Steve
Simpson ('65).
To David Rivers ('65): Belated Birthday wishes!!
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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Funeral Notice
>>Mack RICHARDSON ('52) ~ 8/10/34 - 11/21/09
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/30/09
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Phil BELCHER ('51), Marlene RICHTER ('55)
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), George SWAN ('59)
Peg SHEERAN ('63), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Mike FRANCO ('70), Kelvin SOLDAT ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanne TURNER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan KLUSMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy CLARK ('71)
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>>From: Phil BELCHER ('51)
I ran across this item a few weeks ago and it struck home. We
just lost a brother-in-law to cancer and this service would have
helped a great deal. Even if you don't know anyone that could
use it a donation of any amount would help them. They have a
group in Richland as well as Walla Walla.
It's What We Do!
Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it
is even tougher - and that's where the Cleaning for A
Reason Foundation steps in. This newly formed nonprofit
offers free professional house cleaning, and maid
services to improve the lives of women undergoing
treatment for cancer - any type of cancer. If you are a
cancer patient submit an application by clicking the
Cancer Patients tab above.
http://www.cleaningforareason.org/
-Phil BELCHER ('51)
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[ Snopes says TRUE:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/cleaning.asp -Maren]
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>>From: Marlene RICHTER Frank ('55)
To Friends and former classmates of Joanne RICHTER Flinn ('57wb-RIP)
I'm sorry to say that I lost my beautiful sister to cancer on the
evening of November 24th. She had been fighting cancer of the
throat and tongue for over a year.
Joanne went to Chief Joseph Jr. High when we moved to Richland
in 1954 and to Columbia High School for her Sophomore year. She
graduated from Kennewick High School in 1957.
Services will be in Idaho Falls on Wednesday, December 2nd with
burial at Desert Lawn & Gardens in Kennewick on Saturday, December
5th at 1pm.
-Marlene RICHTER Frank ('55)
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Regarding the posting I did yesterday about the two classroom
pictures of my sister's 1st and 2nd grade classes at John Ball
School. She is Linda Diane LARSEN Wheaton ('60 wb).
I left two websites to access the pictures but wasn't able to
retrieve them. Sorry about that. I don't know what the problem
was.
You can see the two pictures by going to the grade school
pictures site and then find the 1960 year and there they are!
The two pictures I mentioned.
If anyone was a graduate of 1960 and went to John Ball School in
North Richland during their 1st and 2nd grades, they may have
been in these pictures and can add some names to faces.
Thanks and sorry for the problem of accessing the two pictures.
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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[ http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB1st-Pugh.html
http://richlandbombers.com/class1960/gs/60JB2nd-xx.html
Both Richard and I checked these two URLs and had no trouble
accessing either of them. -Maren]
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>>From: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59), (Aging Cub "Wannabe" Reporter)
Re: Sarah Palin's Bomberville Book Signing
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Swa/091130-00.htm
Yesterday (Saturday), I decided that I was going to go to Sarah
Palin's book signing event on Sunday (which will actually be
"yesterday" ... when you read this ... on Monday). Are you still
with me? Okay. So, I went to the Hastings Book Store in Richland
and purchased my copy of "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin.
While there, I gathered intel to help me lay my plan to ensure
that I could indeed, get my copy of her book signed in person.
Yep, "the best laid plans of Mice, Men, and Old Aging-type Men!"
I found out when the store would open, when the book signing would
begin, how long it would run, and when it would end (noon to 2pm).
And, I found out that by about noon on Saturday, over two thousand
books had already been sold, just at the Hastings Store in
Richland. "Hmmmm, gonna be a lot of people," so I would have
to come early!
So, being an old Marine, armed with this reconnoitered
information, on Saturday night, I laid out the required gear for
the next day's mission. This included my clothing, camera, a
survival bottle of water, one can of smokeless tobacco (Yeah, I
know ... its strictly to keep me from taking unexpected, impromptu
naps), polarized sunglasses, folding hunting stool with flip-up
back and zippered pouch, containing my copy of "Going Rogue,"
after ensuring that my Hastings receipt was tucked securely inside
of said book.
Later, I double-checked and studied the weather forecast in more
detail and revised my uniform of the next day by switching to my
fleece-lined jeans, extra woollies socks, fleece shirt, covered by
my red sweatshirt, emblazoned with gold lettering which proclaimed
"USMC," topped off with my green and gold Bomber R (complete with
Cloud) ball-type cap. I intended to stand out in the crowd, so
just maybe ... Sarah might notice an old guy?
My pups woke me early, for this special day, well, okay ... they
always wake me early ... anyway, I was up and around by oh, 0700
hours or so. Well, that's early for an old retired guy, unless his
pups are taking him hunting. I launched out of Burbank at 10am,
the same time that the store would open. Things were going great.
Arriving at the Hastings Store on GWWay in Richland, I soon
realized that this might be a busy affair. No parking was
left, but there was the line of happy book signing seekers ...
disappearing around the corner and westerly up Torbett Street,
as far as I could see, to a point under that rainbow. Hmmm, no ...
those are the golden arches of Ronald McDonald's place, where the
line disappeared around the corner and stretched south down Jadwin
Avenue. "Hmmmm, this is one popular Lady!" So, I eased Ranger
Ricky off of Torbett and wound in behind a building or two and
managed to find parking somewhere west of The Clarion Hotel, in
a renegade patch of weeds. So far, so good! Since some of the
reunions have been held there, I was still in charted territory.
I grabbed my folding stool and jacket and hoofed it, left knee
clicking its Glucosamine-soothed cadence, toward the south, down
Jadwin. Just when I was beginning to think that I was going to end
up in Umatilla, Oregon, I found the end of the line. This was my
first inkling that ... I might actually be on an unsuccessful
mission. There were a whole bunch of people in that line!
Well, I hit it off with the people around me and we joked and
conversed as the line gradually approached Hastings and grew in
length behind us. Soon, we were rounding the corner by the golden
arches and were "kinda" pointed in the right direction. But, the
clock was ticking! And, just when I figured that I was within 250-
300 people of being the one standing in front of Sarah, a guy with
an official "Hastings Badge" appeared in front of me and said,
"I'm sorry, the Sarah Palin book signing is over."
In somewhat of a fogged mental state, I checked my watch and sure
enough, it was a bit after 2pm. Bummer, my copy of "Going Rogue"
was going to look rather naked without the big autograph in it
that others returning from the store, were proudly showing off.
So, I smiled and said, "Thanks anyway," gathered up my stool and
headed off to try to remember where I had parked.
"Soooo," you might be wondering, with that ending, what was I
smiling about? Well, the good news is that was also a happy ending
because of the beginning ... or close to it! Earlier, I had been
standing in line for about an hour when an excited buzz began
running through the crowd in line, behind us. And then the word
reached us that Sarah Palin was walking up Jadwin along side of
the line, greeting folks, prior to her book signing.
The next thing, I knew, Kate SHEERAN Johnson ('61) was standing
in front of me, saying "Hi" and letting us know that Sarah was
coming. I said, "Hi Katie!" She looked slightly puzzled until I
said, "George Swan ... Pappy ... this time of year I impersonate
Santa Clause." A couple of pleasant exchanges (she says that she
reads Alumni Sandstorm), and then Katie was gone, paving the way
for Sarah, who suddenly stood right in front of me with little
Trig, in her arms and her dad, Chuck Heath ('56-Sandpoint, ID),
standing behind her. I managed to snap a picture, and suddenly
she stepped toward me, held out her hand to me, and said, "Hi,
thank you for your service!"
Those of you who know me, also know that I am usually ... seldom
at a loss for words. Well, this time, as I shook Sarah Palin's
hand, I managed to say, "No, thank you!" And then I blurted out
something very profound ... like, "I'm a friend of Katie's!" She
and Chuck laughed and moved on. A bit later, Sally SHEERAN Heath
('58), Sarah's mother, surprised me by stepping up to me and also
saying, "Thank you for your service!" Before I could react, she
too, was gone on along the line. Wow! So for a guy who went to all
of that trouble to get a book signed, but failed, I think that I
was pretty darned successful, "Ehh?" No, actually, I'll give that
an "Ooorah!" Semper Fi
-George "Pappy" SWAN ('59) ~ Burbank, WA where its evening now,
and it's about time to settle in and begin reading "Going Rogue."
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>>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
Re: The Sheeran Kids
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Any/091130-she-213.jpg
Hi Maren, I've already apologized about not getting his message
til we were home in Omak yesterday... AFTER the biggest reunion
we've ever had as a family. I'm so sorry I just couldn't do most
of what people asked of me and my siblings - get autographs of
Sarah in her book, INCLUDING you and your siblings. You'd have to
have been there to see how impossible it all was.. But here is a
picture of 5 of us 6 remaining "Sheeran Children" at the
reunion...: Mike ('66), Peg ('63), Kate ('61), Sal ('58), and
Colleen ('55) (Brother, Pat ('48) died in '92). It was an amazing
reunion with 45 or so of us.
If Bombers want to see where Sarah's going to be, they MIGHT check
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/sarah-palin-book-tour-ful_n_351333.html
and - though some cities are TBA (like Albuquerque, where my son,
- her cousin - lives) - they may be able to see if they're near
her.
I know, too, that many either love or hate her, but she's family,
and I LOVE her! And I've been a Democrat most of my life... NOW,
I'm not so sure of ANYthing political. Do with this what you want,
including "Delete".
-Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Don Sorenson's (NAB) Picture #522 Event
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2009/Xtra/Sor/091126-522-Who.html
All of the questions about the #522 picture have now been
answered.
The event is a GESA father/son banquet at the old Desert Inn
that was held every year.
In the back row from left to right:
Mike Sheeran ('66), Eric Mickelson ('62), Terry Durbin ('62wb),
Peter Gaskell ('66-RIP), Alex Clark ('65), John Allen ('66) and
Rob Turping ('65).
Mike Sheeran is obtaining an autograph from the man on the front
left, Bobby Grayson, a former All-American football player from
Stanford University. Jim McKeown ('53) is the person on the front
right.
Mike Sheeran returned home Sunday after his "Family Thanksgiving"
in Richland with his niece, Sarah Palin.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
To: Dan LAYBOURN ('70)
Dan,
Yeah, the make up is nice... but the best looking one in that
family is Mike!!!!
To: Rick Polk ('70)
Happy B-Day Rick Polk!!! Are you still hitting those high rainbow
shots from the corner???
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Kelvin SOLDAT ('71)
Re: Brad Upton ('74)
Brad you were just fantastic last night!!! My cheeks are still
sore!!!
-Kelvin SOLDAT ('71)
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