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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/01/2010
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Bob MATTSON ('63 & '64)
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley PITTMAN ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chris WILLIAMSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy MARSHALL ('73)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Final Reminder
Portland/Vancouver Lunch Social & Christmas Party
PLEASE JOIN US!!!
WHEN: Saturday - December 4, 2010
TIME: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
WHERE: Beaches Restaurant – on the Columbia River
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.
ALL Bombers and their friends and family members are welcome.
Please bring photos & yearbooks to show, and some stories to
tell.
Bring a gift for the White Elephant exchange event.
Your lunch is your choice off of the regular menu.
PLEASE RSVP to: Tom Hemphill ('62)
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Bob MATTSON ('63 & '64)
Re: John BROWNE ('61)
Here's a news article about John. Read all about it.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/news/110945569.html
Help if you can... we can all afford a prayer.
Later,
-Bob MATTSON ('63 & '64)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Vic MARSHALL ('71)
Re: Brad UPTON ('74) and Johnny Mathis
I saw them both last year while they were in Sacramento. Went
more to see Brad, but was totally amazed upon hearing Johnny
Mathis sing. Sounds just like he did way back when.
Re: My Greeting Cards website
www.Carolscardngifts.com
I now have a web site for selling my greeting cards.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
It's been really cold with frost, but not nearly like up in
Washington from what I hear. No single digits for us here.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/02/2010
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4 Bombers and Gary Brehm sent stuff:
Dick PIERARD ('52), Patti JONES ('60)
Mike MURPHY ('61), Linda REINING ('64)
Gary Brehm (KHS '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SNIDER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy RICE ('73)
Cinnamon Bear - Listen on the internet
http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/cinnamonbear.htm
12/02 - The Ikaboos
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>>From: Dick PIERARD ('52)
December has been declared "Burt PIERARD ('59) is 70 Month".
The birthday boy is holding up fine but naturally will require
lots of tan liquid tonic to insure survival. Fortunately
there are a few elite pubs in Richland that do accept medicare
(as long as you pay for it!). Dr. Missy KEENEY ('59) will give
prescriptions free of charge if you hum a pretty tune on key.
-Dick PIERARD ('52)
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
Build old/new friendships. Reservations aren't necessary. Many
Bombers do like to let us know they are coming so please email
if you wish... OK if you don't.
WHEN: Saturday, December 12, 2010
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
Heading west from Richland on Van Giesen JD's is on the
right side just two buildings from the river.
Building with Maroon lettering says "JD Diner".
TIME: Lots come around 12:30pm
Luncheon time: 1pm. This helps the restaurant if they are
crowded.
PRICE: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served all day.
Prices range from $4.50 - $13.95 (add drink, tax, and tip)
Invite family and friends.
Bomber spouses and friends are welcome! Looking forward to also
seeing out-of-town Bomber visitors.
We are almost at 5-1/2 years of gathering. Started June 2005.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland
where the snow keeps lingering
-Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Mike MURPHY ('61)
Re: John Browne ('61)
John was critically injured in an accident Monday evening,
November 29, near his home on Vashon Island, WA. He is currently
in intensive care with serious internal injuries. Here is a link
to the local newspaper story:
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/news/110945569.html
There is a bank account set up for any donations you may wish
to give to help defray the costs for John and Vicki.
-Mike MURPHY ('61)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: John Browne ('61)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/news/110945569.html
Will keep John and family in prayers.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ cold in Bakersfield, CA and am loving it!
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>>From: Gary Brehm (KHS '64)
My wife, Marsha GOSLIN Brehm ('65), was recently diagnosed with
a fairly rare disease called Sarcoidosis. We are at the present
time waiting for second opinion biopsies from the U of W Medical
Center. Is there anyone that has this disease or knows someone
with it that can give us further information. We are doing the
waiting game of up to two weeks to get the results from the
U of W back and are quite concerned about what this could
mean for Marsha. Some people who have it, exhibit no effects
whatsoever, and this is what we are hopeful for if Marsha does,
in fact, have it.
Thank you for any help and /or information you can give us
concerning this multi-symptom disease. Your prayers would also
be gratefully appreciated.
-Gary Brehm (KHS '64) ~ Richland, where it's a white winter
wonderland and more snow is expected tonight.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/03/2010
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Pete OVERDAHL ('60), Nadine REYNOLDS ('61)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick VINCENT ('71)
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>>From: Pete OVERDAHL ('60)
Re: Club 40 DustStorm Fall/Winter Edition 2010
The New DustStorm will be to you soon and your Club 40 Editor,
Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60), deserves a real big "Atta Girl" for
her work putting it together. She did a beautiful job and the
lay out was so much easier for all of us to fold. It was a great
year for Club 40 and we owe so many thanks to Marsha. She and
Connie DEAN O'Neil ('60) work so hard for this club. So when you
get a chance, members, let them know. And a special thanks for
all those members who turned out to fold, tape and address them.
-Pete OVERDAHL ('60)
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>>From: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
Re: AKC/Eukanuba Dog Show
Our English Mastiff, Grand Champion Eximius Regal Shelby, has
been invited to participate in the AKC/Eukanuba Dog Show this
upcoming weekend. She earned the invitation by being the number
10 Mastiff in the US and by earning her Grand Championship. We
are very proud of her and excited about participating in this
prestigious dog show. Are there any other Bombers with dogs
participating in the show?
AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101203-Rey-Shelby.jpg
-Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: The Dog and the Thanksgiving Rolls
I don't believe I have ever shared a story that was sent to me
by a friend. But this happened to a non-Bomber distant relative
of mine last week ... and it's so funny, I just had to pass it
along. It sure started my day off with laughter -- maybe some
other Bombers could use the same!!!
"We have a fox terrier by the name of Jasper. He came to
us in the summer of 2001 from the fox terrier rescue
program. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this
type of adoption, imagine taking in a 10 year old child
about whom you know nothing and committing to doing your
best to be a good parent. Like a child, the dog came with
his own idiosyncrasies. He will only sleep on the bed, on
top of the covers, nuzzled as close to my face as he can
get without actually performing a French kiss on me.
Lest you think this is a bad case of 'no discipline,' I
should tell you that Perry and I tried every means to
break him of this habit including locking him in a
separate bedroom for several nights. The new door cost
over $200. But I digress.
Five weeks ago we began remodeling our house. Although
the cost of the project is downright obnoxious, it was 20
years overdue AND it got me out of cooking Thanksgiving
for family, extended family, and a lot of friends that I
like more than family most of the time. I was assigned
the task of preparing 124 of my famous yeast dinner rolls
for the two Thanksgiving feasts we did attend.
I am still cursing the electrician for getting the new
oven hooked up so quickly. It was the only appliance in
the whole darn house that worked, thus the assignment. I
made the decision to cook the rolls on Wed evening to
reheat Thurs am. Since the kitchen was freshly painted,
you can imagine the odor. Not wanting the rolls to smell
like Sherwin Williams #586, I put the rolls on baking
sheets and set them in the living room to rise for a few
hours. Perry and I decided to go out to eat, returning in
about an hour. The rolls were ready to go in the oven.
It was 8:30 PM. When I went to the living room to
retrieve the pans, much to my shock one whole pan of 12
rolls was empty. I called out to Jasper and my worst
nightmare became a reality. He literally wobbled over to
me. He looked like a combination of the Pillsbury dough
boy and the Michelin Tire man wrapped up in fur. He
groaned when he walked. I swear even his cheeks were
bloated. I ran to the phone and called our vet. After a
few seconds of uproarious laughter, he told me the dog
would probably be OK, however, I needed to give him
Pepto-Bismol every 2 hours for the rest of the night.
Goodness only knows why I thought a dog would like Pepto-
Bismol any more than my kids did when they were sick.
Suffice it to say that by the time we went to bed the dog
was black, white and pink. He was so bloated we had to
lift him onto the bed for the night.
We arose at 7:30 and as we always do first thing; put the
dog out to relieve himself. Well, the dog was as drunk as
a sailor on his first leave. He was running into walls,
falling flat on his butt and most of the time when he was
walking his front half was going one direction and the
other half was either dragging the grass or headed 90
degrees in another direction. He couldn't lift his leg to
pee, so he would just walk and pee at the same time. When
he ran down the small incline in our back yard he
couldn't stop himself and nearly ended up running into
the fence.
His pupils were dilated and he was as dizzy as a loon. I
endured another few seconds of laughter from the vet
(second call within 12 hours) before he explained that
the yeast had fermented in his belly and that he was
indeed drunk. He assured me that, not unlike most binges
we humans go through, it would wear off after about 4 or
5 hours and to keep giving him Pepto Bismol.
Afraid to leave him by himself in the house, Perry and I
loaded him up and took him with us to my sister's house
for the first Thanksgiving meal of the day. My sister
lives outside of Muskogee on a ranch, (10 to 15 minute
drive). Rolls firmly secured in the trunk (124 less 12)
and drunk dog leaning from the back seat onto the console
of the car between Perry and I, we took off. Now I know
you probably don't believe that dogs burp, but believe me
when I say that after eating a tray of risen unbaked
yeast rolls, DOGS WILL BURP. These burps were pure Old
Charter. They would have matched or beat any smell in a
drunk tank at the police station. But that's not the
worst of it. Now he was beginning to fart and they
smelled like baked rolls. God strike me dead if I am not
telling the truth! We endured this for the entire trip to
Karen's, thankful she didn't live any further away than
she did.
Once Jasper was firmly placed in my sister's garage with
the door locked, we finally sat down to enjoy our first
Thanksgiving meal of the day. The dog was the topic of
conversation all morning long and everyone made trips to
the garage to witness my drunken dog, each returning with
a tale of Jasper's latest endeavor to walk without
running into something. Of course, as the old adage goes,
'what goes in must come out' and Jasper was no exception.
Granted if it had been me that had eaten 12 risen,
unbaked yeast rolls, you might as well have put a
concrete block up my behind, but alas a dog's digestive
system is quite different from yours or mine. I
discovered this was a mixed blessing when we prepared to
leave Karen's house. Having discovered his 'packages' on
the garage floor, we loaded him up in the car so we could
hose down the floor.
This was another naive decision on our part. The blast of
water from the hose hit the poop on the floor and the
poop on the floor withstood the blast from the hose. It
was like Portland cement beginning to set up and cure. We
finally tried to remove it with a shovel. I (obviously no
one else was going to offer their services) had to get on
my hands and knees with a coarse brush to get the
remnants off of the floor. And as if this wasn't
degrading enough, the darn dog in his drunken state had
walked through the poop and left paw prints all over the
garage floor that had to be brushed too.
Well, by this time the dog was sobering up nicely so we
took him home and dropped him off before we left for our
second Thanksgiving dinner at Perry's sister's house.
I am happy to report that as of today (Monday after
Thanksgiving) the dog is back to normal both in size and
temperament. He has had a bath and is no longer tricolor.
None the worse for wear I presume. I am also happy to
report that just this evening I found 2 risen unbaked
yeast rolls hidden inside my closet door.
It appears he must have come to his senses after eating
10 of them but decided hiding 2 of them for later would
not be a bad idea. Now, I'm doing research on the
computer as to: 'How to clean unbaked dough from the
carpet.' "
All I can say is, I'm glad it wasn't MY dog!!!!!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, Idaho - snow and
ice and rain and ice; I am tired of winter!
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/04/2010
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Marilyn DeVINE ('52), Dwain MEFFORD ('56)
Suzie GUNDERSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michelle KAFENTZIS ('71)
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
To: Marsha LAWELL Hathcox ('60)
Please contact me at your convenience. I have some info for you.
B.C.s to my former babysitting charge!
-Mary TRIEM Mowery (a '47 Bomber)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: The Dog and the Thanksgiving Rolls (12/3 Sandstorm)
Great Dog Story... we are sharing it with a lot of dog folks.
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: The Dog and the Thanksgiving Rolls (12/3 Sandstorm)
Lynn-Marie
I couldn't help laughing out loud at this story. You're right:
laughter is a great way to start the day!! Of course, my 2 mutts
would NEVER do such a thing! (I would never have 124 rolls
raising... those days, for me, are gone forever and I'm glad!)
I have been appreciating so many of the entries these past
months, just haven't responded.
Happy Holidays to each and all,
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in finally-warming-up Richland
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>>From: Dwain MEFFORD ('56)
To The Class of 1956.
We have lost the best of us. Our friend and classmate Shirley
DAVIS Lawrence-Berrey died tonight (Dec 3) in Parkersburg, WV.
She lost a tough battle to cancer which was complicated by other
illnesses. Her son Robert Lawrence-Berrey from Yakima and her
daughter Ruth Beckwith from Tacoma and her daughter Julie Snow
from Morgantown, WV were with her. Her sister Gloria DAVIS
Tinder ('61) from Pullman arrived just minutes before the end.
Shirley's husband, Dr. Robert Lawrence-Berrey, passed away five
years ago.
It will surprise none of you who knew Shirley that she lived a
life of service to others. For many years she served as a full
time unpaid staffer at the office of the American Red Cross in
Parkersburg. The Red Cross recently named a new facility in her
honor. Shirley also served on the board of The University of
West Virginia Parkersburg. She also was very active in her
church and served in leadership positions almost to the very
end of her life.
Several years ago after her husband had a second stroke and was
confined to a nursing home, Shirley worked full time at his
Pathology Lab. She kept it open as long as she could mainly to
provide jobs for their employees. She often had to put some of
her own money into the company to meet payroll. When it became
obvious that it is not possible to operate a lab without a full
time doctor Shirley began the orderly dissolution of that
business and other ventures she and her husband. I asked her
once why she didn't just sell a couple of rental houses she
owned and avoid the head aches. She told be that the renters
were nice people and that she did not want to disrupt their
lives.
That's our Shirley. She helped me during a very difficult time
in my life and I will greatly miss her.
-Dwain MEFFORD ('56) ~ Portland, OR
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>>From: Suzie GUNDERSON Chiles ('60)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: The Dog and the Thanksgiving Rolls (12/3 Sandstorm)
Lynn-Marie, Your story about the "dough-boy" terrier was one of
the funniest stories I have read in an eon. The author is a very
talented storyteller. She should share her story with the world.
I am still giggling.
Thank you for sharing.
-Suzie GUNDERSON Chiles ('60) ~ Omak, WA... lots of snow with
intermittent sunshine.
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Funeral Notice
>>Jack LOCKWOOD ('49) ~ 3/1/31 - 11/26/2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ NOT ~ 12/05/2010
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Not enough entries for a REAL Alumni Sandstorm.
We do, however, have birthdays today:
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David DOUGLAS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janine RIGHTMIRE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Art SNYDER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff FULCHER ('76)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/06/2010
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Richard ROBERTS ('49), Floyd MELTON ('57)
David RIVERS ('65), Donna FREDETTE ('65)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Neil GOFF ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DeVINE ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha LAWELL ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lamont DeJONG ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda McKNIGHT ('65)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
Re: Dog Stories
This is a story we have told many times: Carol TYNER ('52) was
preparing some snacks for a party; one of which was a good-
sized, tasty cheese ball. She left it on the kitchen table and
went about doing other preparations and upon her return the
cheese ball was missing. Thinking it misplaced, she looked
around the house and still no cheese ball. She looked under the
table and much to her surprise there was Chelsea, our liver and
white Springer Spaniel, with the cheese ball stuck in her mouth.
Apparently she had jumped onto the table, clamped down on the
huge cheese ball which then stuck in her mouth, jumped down and
hid under the table not knowing what to do next. When Carol
found her this way, her eyes were as big as saucers, knowing
full well she was going to get the full brunt of mother's wrath!
Actually, Carol laughed, retrieved the cheese, cleaned it off
and served it to the guests when they arrived.
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Marriages
As I was sitting in my living room at 2am this morning, not
being able to sleep, I began to wonder how many Bombers married
another Bomber. I know I did and I know a lot of my friends did
but it would be neat to know what the % has been over the years.
[Can't tell you the percentage over the years, but I can
tell you that I have 477 Bomber couples on the list that
I keep. -Maren]
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Always playin' catchchup
Or is it ketsup? Or catsup... sometimes I just don't know
where my head is (not asking for any suggestions) I looked
at my list before I left work... didn't I? I KNOW I sent a
birthday card... even had lunch with John ('64) and her just
the other day... and then I go and forget to send an HB to
my sweetie, Janine RIGHTMIRE Corrado ('65) on the 5th...
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
Ya know, sometimes outa the blue I get little messages from the
Birthday boy from the class of '63 and his lovely lady... It is
always nice to hear from them and I love surprises... specially
those from Hoola Hoola land... He is one of my Big Kid heroes
and I'm so lucky to be able to call him friend (and her)...
We also got a Bomber-babe birthday on December 6, 2010... So
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lamont DeJONG ('63), Terry DeVINE ('52) and
Linda McKNIGHT ('65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Donna FREDETTE ('65)
Re: Cinnamon Bear
To Maren, Thank you so much for putting a link to the Cinnamon
Bear in the Sandstorm! You Rock! I had forgotten how to find it!
Re: Bomber Birthday
Happy Birthday to my wonderful friend Linda McKNIGHT Hoban ('65)!
Kisses and Hugs!!
Bomber Cheers!!
-Donna FREDETTE ('65)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: The Dog and the Thanksgiving Rolls
So glad so many Bombers enjoyed this story - both those who
posted to the Sandstorm and those who wrote to me privately.
Some folks seemed to misunderstand just a bit, and I wanted to
make sure it was clear to everyone ... I did NOT write that
story. It came from a distant relative by way of my sister-in-
law.
I would like to take credit for that fine piece of writing, but
don't feel right about doing so.
Still, glad that my having posted it means that not only Bombers
are smiling and/or laughing over it, but that the story and
its happy effects are moving outward, with so many of you now
forwarding it on to other people.
Smiling,
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID where it got
up to over 40° yesterday, then was clear last night, and
is frozen hard this morning.
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[Something some may have noticed (in addition to the quotation
marks Lynn-Marie had around the entire section that she did not
write) was the fact that I had indented that same portion of her
entry. -Maren]
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>>Shirley DAVIS Lawrence-Berrey ('56) ~ 2/16/37 - 12/3/2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/07/2010 ~ PEARL HARBOR DAY
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Patti JONES ('60)
Helen CROSS ('62), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Roy BALLARD ('63)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Pam EHINGER ('67), Sheila DAVIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HOFF ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ed BORASKY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HOUSE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry SPEARS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karma KING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike DAVIS ('74)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Prostate/PSA information.
While I have not had to worry about my personal PSA (2.2, 3
months ago) a friend of mine had an experience worth mentioning.
He called me this afternoon regarding the following:
About 3 weeks ago his PSA came up 11.5 from a previous 3.0.
His doctor recommended an immediate biopsy. So last week he
submitted to that process. Of course it was painless as he
was out cold for the surgery. But he had a lot of pain and
discomfort afterwards not to mention the 5 days of worry waiting
for the diagnosis.
It came in clean. No question, no cancer. So he went back to his
doctor and asked why the difference. The doctor then proceeded
to tell him the following: Within 48 hours before having a PSA
test do not do heavy lifting, nor ride a bicycle or motorcycle,
nor 1-3 hour stretches of hard work or exercise, and lastly no
sex.
Mike was furious for not having been warned about this.
Supposedly most medical personnel know that the above
activities can run up the PSA anywhere from 4 to 20 points.
The day before his test Mike had ridden a 4 wheeler for 7 hours,
shot a large moose and had dressed it, quartered it, drug it
to the road, loaded it into the truck, unloaded it and hung
it in his shed to cure it a bit before cutting it up, all by
himself. He was totally beat the next day when he had the blood
draw. But nobody had warned him.
So perhaps male alums should keep this in mind before going for
your blood draw if you are going to have the PSA level checked.
For the last 10 years if I have had blood drawn for any reason I
always asked them to have the PSA done even if it costs me a few
$. I had heard something about this a couple of years ago but
didn't pay any attention to it. I probably will next time.
Hope this helps.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ from home on a dark chilly night
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Re: Holiday Eating Tips
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Jon/101207-XmasTips.htm
Re: All Bomber Luncheon Richland
Build old/new friendships. Reservations aren't necessary. Many
Bombers do like to let us know they are coming so please email
if you wish... OK if you don't.
WHEN: Saturday, December 12, 2010
WHERE: JD Diner, 3790 Van Giesen, West Richland, WA 99353
Used to be Coney Island
Heading west from Richland on Van Giesen JD's is on the
right side just two buildings from the river.
Building with Maroon lettering says "JD Diner".
TIME: Lots come around 12:30pm
Luncheon time: 1pm. This helps the restaurant if they are
crowded.
PRICE: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served all day.
Prices range from $4.50 - $13.95 (add drink, tax, and tip)
Invite family and friends.
Bomber spouses and friends are welcome! Looking forward to also
seeing out-of-town Bomber visitors.
We are almost at 5-1/2 years of gathering. Started June 2005.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I just want to wish a dear friend from my part of Richland, who
has a big part in my memories of growing up in Richland, right
from Spalding School thru Carmichael to graduation from Col-Hi
and beyond... Cathy WOOD Stevens ('62), a very Happy Birthday
[on 12/10], and I hope that you are warm as I hear it is quite
cold in the Tri-Cities reaching up to Prosser, from me in very
cold Indiana, where it dropped from 40° on Saturday noon down
to 20 that night, and today it was 20° and is now 14° ... Stay
warm, sledding doesn't even sound good to me in this cold...
xox,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Mor-on the Cinnamon Bear
Does anyone else recall the series in 1950 or so when the
second-to-last episode was played on two consecutive days, and
the concluding episode was not played at all? The Cinnamon Bear
never got off the ice bridge to the North Pole. It was then I
realized that even the story teller was not real. Growing up is
so hard to do.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Lunch & "white elephant" gift exchange
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-PDX/00.htm
We had another grand visit and some story telling at our lunch
social on Saturday, Dec. 4th at Beaches Restaurant in Vancouver.
Four of us were from the south end gang and we always have good
stories about Lewis & Clark Elementary School and the Rose Bowl.
No matter where you grew up in town in the early years, there
are lots of memories of neighborhood events and the extended
family atmosphere. We all agree that we were blessed to have
grown up in Richland.
Our Saturday Lunch gang included Doug GUINN ('62), Linda Guinn
(spouse), Jan RUCKER Meyer (’55), Larry MATTINGLY (’60), Don
ANDREWS ('67), Lola HEIDLEBAUGH Bowen (60), Todd O’MEALY (’62),
Cindy O’Mealy (spouse), Linda Hemphill (spouse), and Tommy
HEMPHILL (‘62). My wife, Linda, always chuckles when my old
friends call me Tommy.
We enjoyed a simple "white elephant" gift exchange as well as
many good conversations. Thanks all for joining us and please
have a very Merry Christmas. We will see you all next year.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: A Different Christmas Poem via: John ADKINS ('62)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_P6yU_ymFM&feature=share
-Roy BALLARD ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: I'll take the Hall Passes now.
We're in the middle twenties for attendees at this year's Twenty
Sometingth Gold Medal Class of '63 Marching, Caroling and
Chowder Christmas Gala and Red Sweater Cotillion in Olympia this
Saturday, the 11th of December.
Here are the particulars. We'll muster as always at 10:00am for
the requisite hugging and mugging as perfected to an art form by
our own Freddie SCHAFER ('63-RIP). Fred was a veritable virtuoso
of the hug. He had more hugs than Kenny WRIGHT ('63) had fake
IDs and we should stand proud in knowing that his artistry is
appreciated and displayed at such a high level and will be
recorded this year for prosperity by Luigi HANTHORN ('63) and
his "skinny lens" Nikon.
Let me know if you haven't let me know that you know you are
coming. This just might be the year the Frank "The Alibi King"
WHITESIDE ('63) is dethroned. There are some beauts out there
not limited to Mediterranean Cruises, Second Summer trips to
New Zealand and Gout. It's a little late in the year for him
to pull out the Hurricane card, but I'm confident he's got a
"Stradivarius" to knock us all out at the last minute.
riversedgetumwater.com
-jimbeaux
p.s. You notice I didn't bring up Rob HILL's ('63) and his
ubequious Pendleton shirt, just because he forgot my Birthday
again this year. I'm a bigger man than that.
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: I'm awful at being a B-ball announcer
But I can wish birthdays with the best of 'em. Well I did miss
Patty SNIDER ('65) on the second but hey... I'm human (again...
not seeking any comment)... and I'll admit I did get a little
confused yesterday with Terry DeVINE's ('52) b-day and thought I
had just wished "Em" ('52) an HB just the other day... but then
I wuz borned confused so the only thing I can do is go up in
that department... But I do not ever forget these two Bombers'
b-days (tho I have to admit I never forgot Janine's ('65) before
either... but I didn't forget... just forgot to send a message)
so I guess there's always a chance... These two guys make me
look up when I talk to them so I can certainly say I look up
to both of them... they share a birthday with my ol pal Bo
Belinsky... Bo had a great story about meeting Gene CONLEY ('48)
and Wilt the Stilt at the same time... Bo wasn't a short guy
by any means... but he said he felt like a twig between two
redwoods when he met those two... that's kinda how I look when
I'm with the B-day boyz... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Number 32, Jim
HOUSE ('63) and Jerry SPEARS ('64) on December 7th 2010 a date
which is just too cool for school for these two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Re: Looking for Nurses
Dear Bomber Nurses RN & LPNs;
I am working for a company that is taking care of our Hanford
people that have contacted cancer or any other life threatening
disease caused from working at Hanford. The pay is excellent and
you get paid mileage.
If interested please contact me at the email above. Thank You
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Sheila DAVIS Galloway ('71)
Happy birthday to Mike DAVIS ('74). December 7... WOW
-Sheila DAVIS Galloway ('71)
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Rosalie LANSING ('63), Rick MADDY ('67)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68), Vic MARSHALL ('71)
Peggy ADAIR ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bernie QUALHEIM ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anita CLEAVER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol FORSYTHE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toni SHADE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bethany HAGAN ('00)
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>>From: Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
Hello my dear friends
Many of you know that I had my 6th brain surgery this August.
This was a duzzy, and to tell the truth there were several days
I wished I could go to sleep and not have to fight through the
long recovery. This last Friday I woke up like the old me, yes
my doctors changed around a couple drugs. Boy what a delight for
me and my long endering husband.
We are getting used to Florida... do enjoy the warmer winters...
However we are west coasters, so one day when work and money
come together and give us freedom we will come back home.
Have a lovely and heavenly blessed xmas and thank God for all my
praying and loving Bomber family. See you all this summer.
-Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Names They Called Me
To: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Tom,
Your post yesterday struck a moment with names. (re: Tommy
HEMPHILL ('62). My wife, Linda, always chuckles when my old
friends call me Tommy.)
I pulled into Rick WARFORD's ('65) place on Alki awhile back for
a visit. Walked into a 'school year is out' party with all of
WARFORD's co-workers... grade school teachers. Most were on the
patio including WARFORD. I poked my face out the slider and
said, "Rick, you got a beer?" He introduced me. "Yea, Maddy, in
the fridge." These teachers all looking at me, then Rick. One of
them said, "Hey, Richard, he called you Rick?"
WARFORD tells them that most of his friends who have known him
a long time call him Rick. One of the male teachers looks at
WARFORD and says, "I've known you for, what, twenty-five plus
years, Richard!?"
Anyway, I thought it was funny and I can relate to your wife's
chuckle.
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: Bomber shared housing?
As a result of Pam EHINGER Edinger's ('67) post in the 12/7
Sandstorm (looking for nurses to care for Hanford employees who
have contracted cancer, etc), I may be working in the Richland
area soon -- say by mid-January. However, I do not plan to
give up my farm place in western Idaho. Consequently I will
be looking for inexpensive housing in the Richland area - and
Wilson (my brilliant, loving and well-behaved) Royal Standard
Poodle will be coming with me.
I had the thought that there might be a Bomber (or Bomber
friend) who would be interested in shared housing. I don't smoke
or do drugs. I drink wine with dinner. I am neat, tidy, and
unobtrusive. And I would only be there three nights a week most
weeks.
I am looking for comfortable, peaceful environs. Doesn't have to
be fancy. Just clean, comfortable and quiet.
Do need a fenced yard (for Wilson - although he would travel
with me throughout the day, and not be left home alone.) Do
need internet access, but I would be willing to pay to have it
installed and pay the monthly fee, if my (potential) housemate
doesn't have or need internet.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: Vic MARSHALL ('71)
Re: This week Birthdays
I have been somewhat discombobulated this week... blame it on
the season, I guess. I missed recognizing the birthday of a very
special friend on Sunday [12/5]. Sorry, I neglected to recognize
you Art SNYDER ('71). I think Art was one of the first people
I met and became friendly with at Col-Hi. By the time we all
graduated, we were all great friends but when we first got to
high school, it was more an US (Carmichael) vs. THEM (Chief Jo)
sort of thing. I remember having Art in class and finding out
that the folks from Chief Jo did not all have 3 heads and spout
fire. Actually, I think I was pretty good friends with little
Ronny BRUNKE ('71) by then, so was probably ok with Chief Jo
people by then, But Art was lean and tall and had a pretty
cool Chevy Impala we took to Zip's on breaks. I hear from Art
a couple of times a year. I think he still lives in Walla Walla
but I don’t think he ever became a Blue Devil (unlike the lovely
Judy STEIN ('71)). I hope you had a great Birthday, Art and
remember to send me those Chief Jo annuals when you get a
chance.
Speaking of Chief Jo... today, Wednesday, December 8th just
happens to be the birthday of one of the most major babes to
ever grace the halls of Chief Jo... Happy Birthday to Toni SHADE
Little ('72)!!! Toni remains one of the nicest people I ever met
growing up and I consider her a lifelong friend. Toni recently
moved from Utah to beautiful Hershey, PA. I think she is
suffering just a bit of culture shock. I met Toni at the "Big
Pool" in Richland and was probably infatuated from the start. I
remember feeling I was the luckiest guy in the world when Toni
agreed to be my date for Homecoming my junior year. The fact
that none of her sophomore classmates could drive at the time
probably contributed to her willingness to be my date but I
really did not care... the fact that I was with the prettiest
girl in the entire universe was pretty special. Of course, she
came to her senses a little later on and Jim QUALHEIM ('70) out
Upper-classed... (make that simply OUTclassed) me but it was a
great week in October of 1970. I also went on to find that
more than one of the prettiest girls in the Universe lived
in Richland but that is another story. AND I went to a real
restaurant (Pasco Red Lion) and ate Lobster for the 1st time.
Being one of 8 kids, eating out was not something we did (except
for Chinese) and so the restaurant experience was pretty cool.
Thanks for the great memories, Toni and hope you are doing well
in your new home!!
All for now... need to try and get the rest of my outdoor
Christmas "stuff" done before Thursday... we have been seeing
flurries but they are predicting a pretty good snowfall for
Thursday night.
-Vic MARSHALL ('71) ~ Beverly Hills, MI going to dinner at the
Eagle Tavern at Greenfield Village this week... pretty
magical place during the holidays
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>>From: Peggy ADAIR ('72)
Re: Nancy HARVILLE ('71) Birthday on 12/7
Happy belated birthday to one of the kindest girls I know!
-Peggy ADAIR ('72)
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Funeral Notice
>>Tom ALLEN ('52) ~ 1934 - 11/24/2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/09/2010
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike BRADY ('61), Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
Bill SCOTT ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Alan LOBDELL ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth MILES ('59)
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>>From: Mike BRADY ('61)
Re: Doctor Zhivago
If there are any Doctor Zhivago fans out there you would be
interested to know that their is an 8 hour Russian version with
English subtitles. I finished watching it last night and it is
excellent. Some movie reviewers in Russia were disappointed with
the 1965 version starring Omar Shariff and Julie Christy because
they felt it zeroed in on the love story and not enough on the
history of Russia during the period of 1905 to 1930. In this
version, the love story is prominent but the viewer gets a
better sense of the history. The movie is filmed in Russia while
the earlier one was filmed in Finland and other countries. In
my opinion, this makes the movie more authentic. I ordered the
movie through amazon.com.
-Mike BRADY ('61)
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>>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
To: Jimbeauxalaya Hamilton ('63)
Hey, Bro, my excuses for missing your Christmas gala are all
legit!! Hmmmm... speaking of excuses, as I recall, I got NO
response to my humble invite to park your OscarMayermobile in my
driveway! You could haul the whole crew down here, but noooo,
you gotta hold your Christmas gig within 30 minutes of your
front door! I think the "gout" must have been in a previous
life. But I promise, I'll make it when my private jet is
repaired. And if that gets delayed, I'll bring the yacht through
the Panama Canal and make a stop on my way to North Korea.
Barring that, I'll hitch a ride with the Saints when they head
that way to play the Seagulls!
-Frank WHITESIDE ('63) ~ Down where the gators in the ponds
finally went into hibernation.
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: All Bombers everywhere:
There are a number of Bombers who are fans of my three
historical novels that form the Angel Trilogy. I am proud to
announce the appearance of my latest historical novel!
"Light on a Distant Hill" is now available for order. Here is
a brief synopsis:
In 1876, sixteen-year old mail-order bride Ellen O'Hara
sets off westward from Salina, KS to meet her husband-to-
be, a cavalry officer stationed at Fort Walla Walla in
Washington Territory. But en route, her party is attacked
by Indians near Elko, NV. Badly wounded, she wanders off
into the wilderness and disappears. She will emerge two
years later, older than her age and wiser than her years,
having been shaped and burnished in one of the great
tragedies in American history. And now she is torn
between two worlds—and two men. One clings desperately
to the hope that she is alive. The other would have
considered her a mortal enemy—until he met her.
As fond as I am of the previous three novels, I'm really excited
about this one, and regard it as a breakthrough. I'm sure that
those of you who have read the previous novels and loved them
will love this one too. For those who haven't, I encourage you
to try this one.
To order, send $18.50 for each book ($16.00 for the book and
$2.50 shipping) to Bill Scott, 368 Butterfly Lane, Nipomo, CA
93444. Make checks payable to Angel Books. I will collect orders
for the first shipment through December 20th, then place the
order with my publisher. Alas, pre-Christmas delivery will not
be possible (I just couldn't get the book done it time). If you
have any questions, please email me, and I will respond
immediately. Looking forward to hearing from you!
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: 'Twas sometime before Christmas
And I'm trying to get ready but it gets so rushed at this time
of year... Christmas time... yes Christmas... that's what I
said... I was so glad to hear from dear Rosalie ('63) the other
day and hear that she is doing better... I haven't called in a
while because I didn't want to bother her... and Jimbeaux ('63)
does a great job of keeping us up to date... Couldn't resist
writing today after seeing Rosalie's post (and learning that
my Christmas card list is more out of date than I realized...
caught Rodney BREWER's ('65) after I gave it to the receptionist
to mail thank goodness...)... MADDY's ('67) post made me laugh
out loud... I am always amazed to hear Ricky WARFORD ('65)
called "Richard"... I always called him "Buell"... his middle
name... he always called me "Dave"... the only close friend who
called me that... he now calls me David... not sure when he
started... been feeling a little down having to miss the Twenty
Something Gold Medal Class of '63 Marching, Caroling and Chowder
Christmas Gala and Red Sweater Cotillion... I finally said I'd
make it this year cold or no cold... freezing or no freezing...
electricity or no electricity in my brand new green jammies with
the gold lettering Mary Lou ('63) and Ellen ('63) gave me this
past summer... I could probably wear nothing else and stay nice
and warm... duty calls and I'll be playing nurse but I'll be
there in spirit... and I will not make any excuses from last
year on... (it's not an excuse this year... it is a labor of
love to my closest friend in the whole wide world)... so I
sure hope that all of you are enjoying this Christmas time and
remember just how loved we all are. We have the coolest famblie
in the world... the Bomber famblie (always remember the look
on the faces of HEIDLEBAUGH ('65) and DAVIS ('65) at my Dad's
funeral years ago when the Governor of Nevada walked up to the
three of us and said how good it was to see Bombers in the
room)... We are the Bombers... mighty mighty...
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Alan LOBDELL ('69)
Elizabeth Edwards, the former wife of a lowlife coward (former
senator John Edwards) died from cancer Tuesday Dec. 7th. I know
this does not really effect any of us who were Bombers however I
felt she was a very courageous woman to have withstood what she
did from his actions. I know many women have faced cancer alone
due to jerks who leave them but she was one who brought it to
the attention of the entire country. Her actions made many
aware.
On another subject, those of us who are vets from any time and
have been able to adjust to the normal world in some capacity
please take time to say something to or help some of out young
men and women coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. These vets
are having a hard time with it. We had another "suicide by cop"
a week ago by a young vet only 22 or 23 years old. Our Point Man
International organization is seeing this all over the country.
-Alan LOBDELL ('69)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/10/2010
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), David PUGH ('62)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy WOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry WERSEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff MICHAEL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Loretta JENSEN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary VALLELY ('69)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
You insult seagulls everywhere by referring to the semi-pro
football team that plays in Seattle. They are the seaslugs and
don ju forgit it. Besides, as we all know the Huskies were the
original pro team in the area.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in soggy Mount Angel, OR
wondering if the rain will let up enough to be able to
cook the pre-Christmas ham on the Traeger.
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>>From: David PUGH ('62)
If anyone out there knows the e-mail address for Linda LESTER ('62),
I'd really like to get in touch with her. Muchas thanksalotus.
-David PUGH ('62)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: More Birthdays
Well, I'm trying to do this on another computer so I hope it
works... think I'll keep it kinda short so I don't goof it up...
We got three '65ers and a big kid... A bomber-babe between three
thorns... guess that doesn't work as well as the rose thing... I
used to walk to school at Spalding with one of these kids, known
the babe for a way long time... miss one a these guys like crazy
and dated two of the big kid's sisters... yup... we Bombers do
live intertwined lives don't we... Also danced to the Big Kid's
music a whole lotta dances... so before I push the wrong button
on this thing that doesn't use a mouse... I'm gonna wish
Loretta JENSEN ('65), Jeff MICHAEL ('65), Mike BOTU ('65-RIP)
and Larry WERSEN ('63) a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on December 10, 2010!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/11/2010
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim YOUNT ('61), Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
Don ANDREWS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WILLIAMSON ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim QUALHEIM ('70)
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>>From: Jim YOUNT ('61)
Re: John BROWNE's ('61) condition
I know that there is a lot of interest in John's condition and
recovery progress after his accident. Mary Mike was able to talk
with him last night at Tacoma General. I've posted a page here:
http://61bombers.com/classmates/john-browne/
that summarizes what we know, and contains links to newspaper
articles (both local and PI quotes), plus some background on
John himself. The most often quoted line I found was: "John
Browne is a well-known and much-admired Delta blues singer and
guitar-player" from many different sources. His community
certainly supports and loves him.
If/when you get later information about John, please send it on,
and I'll post it on the site.
Several benefits are planned (mentioned in the article) to help
John and Vicki get through the huge stack of medical bills.
-Jim YOUNT ('61)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: Toxic Soil Shows Rigors of Nuclear Cleanup
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: Don ANDREWS ('67)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54),
I am glad you cleared up the pro football thing concerning
the Sea Chickens and the Huskies but you failed to mention the
current #1 Pro football team on the west coast. That would be
the best team Phil Knight can buy but you would think he would
want to rename them, the "DUCKS" really. They have a staff to
rival any Broadway show to keep track of their wardrobe. They
must have at least 10 different helmets not to mention their
uniform selection. The good thing coming out of their success
is the money they bring to the Pac 12. Go Cougs!!!!!
-Don ANDREWS ('67)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/12/2010
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Dave HANTHORN ('63)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet MARTIN ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Burt PIERARD ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick MORRELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky ALEXANDER ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lanette POWELL ('79)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Don ANDREWS ('67)
Anything to help you younger folks get a feel for history. As
for me, if it is south of Corvallis, who cares! But, seriously,
folks, no wonder Oregon's athletic budget is out of control.
And what's with the "wings" on the shoulders.
By the way, who is that team the Cougs beat in basketball last
night?
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in getting-soggier-by-the-
minute Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Dave HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: The '63 Marching, Caroling,and Chowder Christmas Gala
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
Here's the photos from this year's event. After too much talk
about "fat" lenses and "skinny" lenses, it finally dawned on me
that the real problem was the "format" of the photos themselves.
So here are the photos in the proper "format" to be viewed on a
"widescreen" monitor. I will follow with an email with the
photos in the proper "format to be viewed on a "fullscreen"
monitor.
-Dave HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ from soggy Mercer
Island where the "Pineapple Express" out of Hawaii has
left us soaking wet.
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: GMC63MCCS Christmas Party and Red Sweater Cotillion
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
Now that the ballots have all been counted, The
twentysomethingth GMC63MCCS Christmas Party and Red Sweater
Cotillion has been given 44 thumbs up. A huge muchas graciasses
to Mary Margaret and Brother Leo for finding our best venue to
date and one that we all hope will allow us to return. Cecelia
BENNETT ('65) received the Kid Sister Award for channeling ECB3.
Mary Lou again garnered the most miles award, I mean having
traveling the furthest. First timer Dave SIMPSON and his wife
Linda will probably come back, which in itself is a statement
to our maturity, decorum and deportment.
Frank WHITESIDE's predictable "fill in the blanks alibi", used
crocodile, sick old hound dog and bad muffaletta instead of
hurricane, pestilence and cleaning up after the cat. LaMont
was given a pardon for his flooded kitchen and we had several
RSVPs who didn't.
So until Saturday the 10th of December 2011 we'll only have
Luigi HANTHORN's photographs to remind us of our time together.
We'll be adding a couple of extra chairs for next year in the
hopes that Bill WILSON will be joining us.
Semper Bomberus, jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: KJR Seattle
Channel 95! Just walked in the house from listing to a CD of
Pat O'Day from '65 or '66... it was Boeing's 50th anniversary...
dunno where I got the CD... prolly Rhino... been talking to the
chowdering red sweater gang ('63) and getting weather updates
on what I'm missing... korse it was about 70° here today...
couldn't even wear a sweatshirt today... I was ohhhhh so
anticipating sloshing in the rain and the snow this weekend...
rats rats rats... poor me poor me (feeling sorry yet????) Today
(December 12, 2010) is a reel 'portant birthday... my Uncle...
korse he's only been my uncle for 10 years... but hey... that's
what being a Bomber is all about... so here ya go HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Burt PIERARD ('59)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: John BROWNE ('61) mailing address?
Since John is leaving the hospital soon (per the link posted in
the 12/11 Sandstorm: http://61bombers.com/classmates/john-browne/),
does anyone have an address to which I can mail a card ...
perhaps in c/o his kids? I understand that is where he is going
next for recuperation. I would really like to write to him,
although I have never met him. However, when Harlan FOOTE ('61-RIP)
was dying early in 2010, John posted some great stuff to
Harlan's Caring Bridge site, and also sent me some e-mail
treasures. So John came to be a treasured person in my heart,
and I would like to let him know that - as well as send him some
encouragement.
Re: Doggie arrangements in Tri-Cities
A few days ago I posted a note saying that it looks like I will
be working part of each month (maybe every other week, or a few
days each week) in the Richland area, beginning in mid-January
to early February. I stated that I was looking for shared
housing for myself and my dog, Wilson.
Well, as it turns out, the company for which I will be working
will be housing me at LaQuinta Inn in Kennewick, which allows
pets. However, I obviously can't leave Wilson locked in the room
all day, and until I become more familiar with the job, I really
don't want to take him with me in the car throughout the day,
either.
I am looking for someone who is a dog lover, who would welcome
my beautiful, intelligent, loving, fun "understands-his-place"
(i.e. knows that he is NOT alpha to human beings) neutered
Standard Male Poodle (non foo-foo type!!!). I need a doggie-
sitter situation for the days I am there. It needs to be a home
with a fenced yard, and he needs to be welcome in the house.
(Poodles don't have fur, they have hair. So they are not only
hypoallergenic, but also need more protection from cold than
furry dogs do.)
Wilson is sociable and happy and playful - but mellow, too.
Likes to go outside to explore, then come inside and flop down
for naps. (I'll bring his nap bed.) The perfect dog for training
as a therapy dog (which is where I am headed with him over next
2-3 years). At 6.5 months, he is 70 pounds, so he will be quite
big. But he doesn't jump on people - and if he DOES start to
make a move in that direction, he responds immediately to
"OFF!" Not a biter or a growler.
SO, if you or someone you know and trust would be interested
in dog-sitting somewhere between about 8 and 15 days a month,
please contact me ASAP. I would want to bring Wilson up in
advance to see if it's a fit between you and him - from both
sides. And we could figure out appropriate pay.
Also, if you know of a good pet sitting service, please contact
me with that info, too.
Need to get this ball rolling ASAP!
Thanks!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/13/2010
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim YOUNT ('61), Jeanie WALSH ('63)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie DAME ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary HYLBAK ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HEDGES ('68)
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>>From: Jim YOUNT ('61)
Re: John BROWNE ('61) update
John is now staying with son Nigel on Vashon to complete his
recovery. He has a lap top to use; you can send cards and such
to his home address: 20929 111th Ave SW, Vashon, WA 98070.
John's friends and neighbors have set up a "John Browne forum"
on Yahoo! groups that anyone can join. Through that, I've
learned that John has a support group that staggers the mind.
I guess it's a well-lived life that prompts so much love. I've
opened John's page on the reunion site:
http://61bombers.com/classmates/john-browne/
for comments – a big thanks to John EHLERS ('61) for a great
comment yesterday. Please add your comments to his page.
Re: An additional note on John BROWNE ('61)
Having a great day today, doing more background on John.
From March 6, 2009 "Vashon Island Events":
"When I first heard John Browne play, I thought now
there's a guy who really knows how to play the blues.
He's the real thing; he and Ricker both are very
expressive masters of the blues," says Castle of his
fellow players. "They are historians of this type of
music and play a lot; they're both true storytellers.
Seattle native and Vashon resident for 25 years, John
Browne has played guitar since his teens and picked
up the harmonica in the mid-1960s. He lived in San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in 1966-67, and
played with a jug band called pH Factor. The group's
first paid gig was held at the Matrix where they opened
for famous country blues guitarist, Lightnin' Hopkins.
Experiencing the psychedelic moment, they toured with
Big Brother and the Holding Company and opened for The
Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger, the Byrds, Mothers
of Invention, Lenny Bruce and Jefferson Airplane. Their
band, pH Factor, according to Browne, played 20s and
30s street music, a combination of jazz, blues and
social protest songs. "It was culturally relevant and a
lot of fun," he says. Browne says they recorded an album,
but before it was released, the record company was sold
along with all its media property. A decade later, the
album was released in England and coined as ‘an example
of the San Francisco sound in the 1960's.' Browne has one
of the few copies.
After dropping out of the high energy San Francisco music
scene, Browne moved to the Oregon coast where he lived
without electricity, started a garden and raised a
family. A man of many talents, Browne has driven metro
buses, worked as logger, commercial fisherman and for
many years helped run Wax Orchard farm. He and his wife
Vicki now own Judd Creek Nursery, specializing in native
plants.
For the upcoming show, he plans to play some of the
Memphis Jug Band tunes, some Gus Cannon and some original
music. "I've written enough music to fill an evening
myself," he says. His guitar, harmonica and seasoned
blues voice brings authority and generosity of spirit to
every tune. Browne is a Vashon classic and rarely plays
publicly these days. But he has been working on a CD and
may have one available for this performance."
-Jim YOUNT ('61)
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Re: Gold Medal Class
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
Wow! What a great looking gaggle of geese!... Need I say more?
-Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal class of '63)
Simi Valley, CA Home of the Ronald Reagan Library
where we will be celebrating President Reagan's birthday
all year long in 2011
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: great hair
Came home and fell asleep... and jumped up in the middle of the
night... I was a tossin' and turnin'...cuz I almost missed my
favorite majorette's b-day...'HAPPY BIRTHDAY Connie DAME ('65)
on December 13, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/14/2010
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Bill BERLIN ('56)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick McCOY ('45, '46, '02)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole NOVOTNY ('58)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Dick COATES & Kay MITCHELL ('52)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Mike RICE ('60) & Donna BOWERS ('63)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, the ol' propeller beanie gets a work out today.
First we have a tip to the proto-Bomber, somewhat confused
Bronc/Beaver and reputed to be older than dirt. There are those
who claim he was in the First graduating class, but no one is
certain as to which school. On the plus side he has made it this
far, which has beaten the odds given in Vegas. Way to go Dick
McCOY (of which ever class you choose).
And here's another tip to the happy couple of '52 Dick COATES
and Kay MITCHELL Coates on surviving together for yet another
year.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in Mount Angel, OR
waiting for the next monsoon wave to arrive.
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>>From: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Blue Christmas - with A New Classic Addition
When Elvis was really "The King" - Martina McBride was digitally
dropped into this track in 2008... She appears approximately one
minute into to video ... Excellent!!
This should be shared.
-Bill BERLIN ('56)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Maren
Re: charter.net thinking the Sandstorm is Spam and having a
"content block"
Guess that is why I am not receiving it... hope you are able to
resolve it, soon. miss having the Sandstorm in my "inbox" every
morning. creature of habit, I don't like going to the web site
to read it... just doesn't seem the same as having it "delivered
to my home". *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA... cooler temps, but no
rain, which we so badly need... latest scope was clear,
so things are all good... much to be thankful for...
am very blessed.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Jingle bells traa laa laa Chowder Gala
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
Well, Jimbeaux ('63) has called in the results and the pictures
are in to prove the point... Woulda loved to have seen Dave
SIMPSON ('63) in a set of the custom made jammies, but Kippy Lou
('62) and the goils all looked really great in theirs... I gotta
say that Picture number 8 in Brother HANTHORN's ('63) set in the
Sandstorm (12/12) was just perfect... I KNEW Jimbeaux was the
perfect selection to play "How I turned into my father" kinda
like the old Saturday Night Live skit... if that shot isn't some
old codger father of somebody's, I don't know what is... in
picture number 19 you'll see the best grench, by Dave SIMPSON
that I've seen in quite a while... I do hafta thank Pitts ('63)
for wearing that great shirt... first it's a great shirt...
second it made it impossible for Dave H. to stick in last years
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2009-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
pix for the current ones just to make it look like he took
more... I did notice too that Dave has a way of capturing the
entire subject... I think I mentioned to ML ('63) on the phone
that Freddie's ('63-RIP) shots always cut the subject off at the
neck so you had a 50/50 chance of figuring out who was in the
picture depending on which part he got in the shot... Congrats
to the Chowder Crew for another great event... Hope LaMont and
Carolyn ('63) managed to get the mess cleaned up... and Cecilia
('65) next year "I forgot my good camera" is not an excuse!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Jim BAALMAN ('62) ~ 1944 - 2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/15/2010
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim JENSEN ('50), Rosalie LANSING ('63)
Charlotte NUGENT ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Donna FREDETTE ('65), Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dorothy STAMPER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SMITH ('58wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marsha GOSLIN ('65)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
David RODRIGUEZ ('69) & Linda BAROTT ('71)
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>>From: Jim JENSEN ('50)
Re: Aged 39-1/2 and Counting?
To: Dick McCOY ('45, '46, & '02)
Many happy returns to the Senior Statesman of all things
Richlandish and Mighty Contributor to the essence of Bomberism.
Your footprints and evidence of your sincere labors are
everywhere - including in our hearts.
-Jim JENSEN ('50)
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>>From: Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
Re: Weather
We came down here [Florida] thinking we would be warm mostly all
the time. The last two weeks have been darn cold, especially
this morning 29° and the wind blowing off the bay. Would have
thought I was in the Green Bay area. Good thing I threw in my
long down coat because I am a good mommy and I take my two
furry little boys for 2 long walks every day. We have West
Highland White Terriers. What happy little friends they are.
Burr, come back normal 70s.
I so enjoyed the pictures of the '63 party.
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
What a handsome group. Good to see David and Kippy too. I can
hardly wait until the next get together. You see I am really hug
starved, I need a big hug from Jimbeaux, and David and about
a hundred others. Plus I really need to squeeze my big brother
Craig ('62) who has his 67th on the 23rd. Geez were did those
years go? All 200+ of my Christmas cards are out. My goodness
what a huge job... and with postage it's a little spendy. Oh
well what's money for?
-Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
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>>From: Charlotte NUGENT ('64)
Life seems to be a little bit crazier when the Alumni Sandstorm
is considered spam!!!
We are having a VERY white December in western New York. I hope
all of you are able to enjoy the holiday season and thanks to
all of you for sharing your Richland memories.
This has been a special year for me since I have been able to
get to know so many of you better through Facebook. It just
continues to reinforce what a wonderful group graduated from our
school.
-Charlotte NUGENT ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Joooooooooohn... Marsha... Oh John... Marsha...
Did I give myself away with that lead-in? Prolly... one of my
faaaaaaaavorite '65er Bomber-babes is havin' a nuther b-day...
they sure do come around more often these dayz... I was
thinkin' (amazing ain't it) the other day about my being 64
years old... Then I think back to Jefferson where I first knew
the b-day girl... then I think of her in Jr Hi and hi School...
I think of Ricky (Richard) ('65) and me sitting on the curb in
front of Mac Hall with our heads in our hands and just mumbling
how we blew it by grageating... Of going to take the ACT test
and Tony ('65) not telling me I hadda sign up for it and having
to wait for everyone else to finish... And the day Fred MILTON
('66) looked me in the eye back in '65 and said he couldn't go
job hunting with me any more cuz I'd never get a job as long as
we went together and being so shocked... I think of that big ol
nasty rocket hitting next to me and sending me flying thru the
air... and then me getting up and seemingly hardly being hurt at
all (of course most of these things have one thing in common...
I couldn't have been a very bright boy...)... of all the things
in between and how in '63 the big kids were so much older and
mature than we were and how we never caught up but only realized
they were just like us but we couldn't see it... and how even if
I spill my milk they let me sit with them... at least the ones
that aren't in the way of the spilt milk do anyway... I think of
all these things and then I look at my friends like the b-day
girl and I think they haven't changed at all in my eyes (well,
OK that big fat liar HEIDLEBAUGH ('65) did get a little bald)...
she is every bit as lovely as she was back then... I get goose
bumps just having all my Bomber friends... I know the b-day girl
knows we are all praying for her and a swift recovery and how
much we all love and cherish her... and I just gotta say HAPPY
BIRTHDAY Marsha GOSLIN ('65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Donna FREDETTE ('65)
Re: Elvis
To: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Thank you so much for sharing that video of Elvis and Martina.
That is so good. I was dying (as usual) when I saw Elvis
singing!!!!! They really did a good job with that one!
Bomber Cheers!
-Donna FREDETTE ('65)
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
To: Bill BERLIN ('56)
The excellent video of Elvis & Martina, the cut is from the 2008
album 'Elvis Presley Christmas Duets'. For all you Elvis fans
this is a great Christmas album, my favorite cut is 'Santa Claus
Is Back In Town' with Wynonna Judd...
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: names
http://rhs63.tripod.com/pics/2010-GMC63CMCS/00.htm
Is there any way someone can put names to faces for the
gathering last Saturday in Tumwater? Only one picture with
everyone in it would work as some of the names mentioned are
familiar to me but as time goes by their faces change some.
Thanks a bunch.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where the rains have been
pretty heavy at times
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/16/2010
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Richard ROBERTS ('49), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Tom Tracy ('55), Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
David RIVERS ('65)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan CAMPBELL ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack KEYS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim SMYTH ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie HANSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billy DIDWAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth RUSSELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary RAEKES ('79)
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>>From: Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
To: Dick McCOY (?)
Happy Birthday [12/14]! Have a bunch more on account of because
you deserve them.
-Richard "Dick" ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Missed Birthday
In all the excitement of yesterday, what with the Alumni
Sandstorm being declared spam, and a near-by tornado, I forgot
to tip the ol' propeller beanie to fellow classmate Dorothy
STAMPER ('54) [12/15] on her special day (which is the day after
all the excitement). Hope you had a nice quiet, uneventful day.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
hoping to stay out of colliding air masses
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>>From: Tom Tracy ('55)
Re: censorship makes for such a joyous season
I'll consider myself 'off limits' to posting and remain a
sometimes reader.
-Tom Tracy ('55)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Happy Birthday to Terry DAVIS Knox ('65) ..... one of the
original "Seventh Sons".
(PS Maren, am I on the naughty list ... again...! no Sandstorm
since 12-11-10)
[See note about Missing Sandstorms at the top of this
issue. -Maren]
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: My ilugitamate Son
Yes, it's that time again... my little boy is having another
birthday... he will now be 64 just like me... I know you prolly
wonder how I could have a son so old... lagit or not... it's a
long story... in fact almost as long as we are old... I think
that Big fat Liar HEIDLEBAUGH ('64-'65) gave him that moniker...
but it is rather fitting truth be told... it was a love-hate
relationship from the day I moved from Spalding to Jason Lee...
I was totally unaware of the "hate" part till it was all
confessed to me in drives on various L.A. freeways... I just
knew he was my pal and that's all that mattered tho Mommy
dearest did explain it to me back in Jr Hi sometime... I thought
she was just misinformed... speaking of mommy dearest, since she
passed the B-day boy still has her on speed dial and lets me
know fairly often how much he misses calling her... both my
folks were a real life line to him and I know it was hard for
him to lose them... prolly harder than it was for me... I don't
mean that to be cold... it's just true... his mom always wanted
him to do things more like me and my mom always wanted me to do
things more like him so there we stood... adored by the other's
respective mom... I'll call him of course and wish him HB...
hope his card gets there on time... I think I sent it early
enough... so it's another year and tho we've both made a ton of
huge mistakes in our lives and taken some really hard roads, we
never fail to tell each other how proud we are and how much we
love each other... yeah I said it and it's true... so
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Terence Paul Angel DAVIS Knox ('65) on December
16, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS
For those who don't recall... here's the boy... then and now.
Not much has changed since his mom wouldn't let him have a bb gun
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Riv/101216-00.htm
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Fun Pictures
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101216-00.htm
To: All Bombers
Here are 15 pictures for your enjoyment.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/17/2010
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9 Bombers sent stuff and 2 Bomber funeral notices today:
Jim JENSEN ('50), Phil BELCHER ('51)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Gus KEENEY ('57)
Tom VERELLEN ('60), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Peg SHEERAN ('63)
Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda RISLOV ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna YOUNG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Corey BOEHNING ('87)
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>>From: Jim JENSEN ('50)
Re: Seeking West Richland Information
I've just learned that an older cousin, Kjar Willey (NAB),
graduate of Bremerton High School and U of W, passed away on
12/4/10. I hadn't seen him for many years. I also learned that
one of his daughters lives in West Richland. Her married name
is Cherylyn Willey Wright. Do any of you Bombers living in West
Richland know anything about her? Address? Please advise.
Thank you,
-Jim JENSEN ('50)
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>>From: Phil BELCHER ('51)
Re: Blocking
This morning I found the Sandstorm back in my email. Tuesday I
contacted Charter and was told to send a message concerning the
blockage to 'unblock@charter.net' and they would take care of
it within 72 hours. It only took 48 hours, thank goodness.
Most of the snow piles in parking lots are gone now but we do
have warnings of more snow this week end. I remember how every
year the merchants in the uptown district would have a contest
as to how long it would take for the huge pile of snow in the
uptown parking lot to melt. Don't remember what the prizes were
but I used to wonder who stayed awake to decide when the pile
was gone. Strange what weird things will come to mind concerning
the past.
Merry Christmas to Bombers all over the world. May the New Year
bring Joy and Happiness to all.
-Phil BELCHER ('51) ~ Pasco where it is currently 34° and
overcast at 6am wondering why on earth I am awake at this
hour.
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
To: Joan CAMPBELL ('57)
There is a name I have not seen for years, Happy Birthday a day
late, hope you had a wonderful day and that everything is good
in your life.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Gus KEENEY ('57)
Re: Sorenson's Photo FUN 02
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101216-00.htm
Sure looks like Sharon PANTHER Taff ('57) to ME!!!!!!!
-Gus KEENEY ('57) ~ From Cloudy and cooler Yuma, AZ where it
will only be in the 70s today!!!!!
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>>From: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Re: Sorenson's Photo FUN 10
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101216-00.htm
A ha! Photo Don has one that I think I recognize, maybe. The
FUN10 shot is (I think) the wood shop at Carmichael Jr. High.
I am trying to put a name to the young stud in the foreground
and Eugene comes to mind. It appears that the cat right behind
him may soon be called three finger Joe if he doesn't pay more
attention to the task in front of him. I am wondering if the
schools still offer shop classes which in my opinion were first
rate. According to the law of Break and Repair I have made use
of the skills learned there on a regular basis. I cannot put a
name to the wood shop instructor, guess I will have to dig out
some of the old stuff and look around.
-Tom VERELLEN ('60)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Maren: Comcast resumed letting the Sandstorm through today. I
complained about poor management of their "service," and implied
that they, along with the other ISPs in your email, must have
implemented some new spam filter s/w without properly ensuring
that it doesn't have undesired results.
Regards, ecb3
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Commencing today, If you happen to be within 50 miles of
Portland and are outside, be sure to wear protective head gear
and a chicken plate or other suitable body armor as Bob MATHIS ('63)
will be now teeing them up six or seven days a week. It seems
that Brother Sebastian has decided to hang up his lunch box and
accept the gold watch as he and his two rebuilt shoulders ride
off toward the tee box.
Your old car pool wishes you the very best, and hope you'll
someday shoot your age.
Reed, Rob, LaMont and Jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
Re: ISP & No Sandstorm
So after having spoken for about 3 hours to various robotic
"q.com" people, I finally got a gentleman from India, who let me
know that "q.com" was NOT the problem, and he did not know why
I'd not been receiving the "Aloomnee Sandstorm" in my email. I
gave up, wrote to Maren, who showed me the trail to the culprit
... "q.com", and her suggestion to get a gmail account was not
done. Then, Lo and Behold!... the Sandstorm's in my email this
AM. Go figure.
Must be an early Christmas present from Santa.
-Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63) ~ Omak, WA
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
YEA! Got the Sandstorm in my inbox this morning! First time in
over a week! Woohoo! Had to let Outlook Express that it wasn't
Spam! What a bunch of dummies... how could anyone think the
Alumni Sandstorm was Spam???????? *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ cold, wet, and foggy Bakersfield, CA
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Funeral Notice
>>Junior WILLIAMS ('47) ~ 1929 - 2010
>>Eddie ECKERT ('55) ~ 1936 - 2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/18/2010
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6 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Donna NELSON ('63) + 2
John CAMPBELL ('63), Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole CLARK ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan NELSON ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Time for another tip of the ol' propeller beanie. This one
goes to fellow classmate, and sufferer (for two years) of Mr.
Wheeler's homeroom, Carole CLARK ('54). She was one of the many
Clarks in the class, and scholastic leader of all. Many happy
returns.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in currently foggy Mount
Angel, OR, where the weather guessers are predicting snow
in the Gorge.
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
To: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Re: Wood Shop Teachers
Shop Teachers were "Woody" Killand at Carmichael, and Mr.
Anderson ("Clipboard") at Col-Hi. I had both, got As in the
classes, and still to this day enjoy woodworking. Mr Anderson
recommended me to a fellow who was building a 45 ft. motor
yacht out of oak and teak. I worked with the guy for over a year
part time finishing that vessel. If I ever have the time to get
my shop finished, I will unpack the several thousands of $ of
wood working machinery I have in storage and go to work. I have
it all wired I just need to run the power out to the load center
have it inspected, and put in the insulation and wallboard. But
I have to get a backhoe to dig the trench and change out the
meter on the house. Maybe this spring I can get to it. It is the
one thing that might entice me to retire at some point.
My biggest problem is that I love entertaining people with fire.
I keep thinking I will get tired of it and look to the shop,
but then a new challenge comes along and I am off on another
tangent. My latest project is building a couple of big colored
flame projectors for Special Effects work. That is stalled until
I get back from Christmas in Anchorage and New Years at Dutch
Harbor.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ From my office south of Olympia on a
cold foggy morning.
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Missing Sandstorm Posts
Now, I am not a conspiracy theorist, however, we do have a site
that uses terms like "bomber" and "sandstorm." Du ya think
maybe?
I'm just glad to be getting my daily dose again. Comcast must be
getting the message.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)PLUS TWO
Re: Happy Birthday Suzie
We're wishing our sister Suzie ('67) a very Happy Birthday today
on December 18th. We Luv U!!!
-Jan ('60), Donnie ('63), and Deb ('76)
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>>From: John CAMPBELL ('63)
Re: The Fabulous Wailers
Traveled down to the Swiss restaurant and bar in Tacoma to
hear the Fabulous Wailers last night with the little lady. Jim
"Pitts" Armstrong ('63) came up from Centralia (a true fan),
and we enjoyed discussing NW Rock history. Kent Morrill has
been battling prostate cancer for 4 years and recently underwent
chemo. I have to give him great credit for performing, because
as all too many Bombers know, the cure ain't easy on the body.
They had additional horns along with Gail Harris (vocals) and
her husband on piano. Great sound. Although struggling at times,
somehow Kent still belted out many of their trademark tunes
including "Tall Cool One". His loyal fans in attendance all
enjoyed themselves. I believe they may be doing a show after the
first of the year, perhaps at the Snoqualmie Casino. Catch them
if you can.
We wish everyone a great holiday.
-John CAMPBELL ('63)
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>>From: Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
Re: Home Sweet Home
Had an opportunity to come home for a quick trip after
Thanksgiving due to some business. Just an overnighter so little
chance to get re-arrested or re invigorate my relationship
with Officer Frank Loehdefink, Detective Ken Taylor, Sergeant
Dueschman or the rest Richland's finest. They must have been
asleep at the desk. Made it in and back out of town without the
offer of a free room. Tried the new Hampton Inn instead of the
traditional Hanford House (I still think Desert Inn) and the
river view was beautiful in the early morning. That whole
development from the old Riverside Park out to the old Marina
is just a nice addition. Throws me a bit as I still remember
busting quail around where the Marriott Courtyard hotel stands
and the old Middle Earth Drop in Center is now a strip mall.
Staying out of the old Hanford House Lounge may be why I was
able to leave town unescorted. Last time there with Johnner
HUGHES ('73) and Jody HUFF ('73) we celebrated the birthday of
Steve KING's ('73) mom, Norma CULVERHOUSE King ('49). John and
Jody supplied our own music and we made our own fun with the
help of a few gallons of rum. Two of the King brothers were
picked up that night for making obscene remarks and getting too
familiar with a female mannequin. They are a family of hounds
for sure, but I didn't really blame them, she was a looker. I
probably would have joined them if I could have walked that far.
I did have time for an early morning stop on my way out to The
Area to stop in the Spudnut Shop and see the ever lovely Val
GHIRARDO ('72). It is good to know that God is still in heaven
and Val is still making the best dang little bites of heaven in
the universe. Barlow's picture still hangs on the back wall
over my favorite two seater. Two guys in front were arguing the
merits of Mike NEILL ('75), Ray STEIN ('64), or Brian KELLERMAN
('79) as Richland's best back court man. The correct answer of
course is Stubbie Neill - just ask him.
Val spent most of my time there telling me what to do just
like when I worked with her in 1969. I am pretty sure she also
told me I was still the best spuddie flipper of all time; out
performing a whole string of all stars from the Davis and
Jacobs families that have stood in front of that hallowed window
between the cutting table and fryer. It is an honor I cherish
over any of the degrees or wives I have accumulated.
I was really looking forward to having one of my personal
favorite chocolate cake spuddies but I was told I have to get
there well before 6 am when Mike DAVIS ('74) comes through on
his way to school and eats every damn one in the shop. I thought
he would have graduated by now.
-Steve HUNTINGTON ('73)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Fun Photos
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101218-00.htm
To: All Bombers
A few more fun photos.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/19/2010
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02), Hal SMITH ('56)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Jack GARDINER ('61), Kathy RATHVON ('63)
Gary Behymer ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Rick MADDY ('67), Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony HARRAH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa McCURDY ('86)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
Re: Woody
To: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Wasn't Woody Killand, shop teach, actually a Bomber, Wayne
"Woody" Killand ('48)?
-Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
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>>From: Hal SMITH ('56)
I would like to say Happy Birthday this December 19th to my
dearly departed, one of a kind, little brother David "Pook"
Smith ('63-RIP).
You are greatly missed, bro. I am sure wherever you are there
are people laughing hysterically. I'll see you before too long.
-Hal SMITH ('56)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Re: Fun Pictures
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101218-00.htm
I think Fun 22 and 23 are pictures of two of Larry MATTINGLEY's
('60) awesome SKY BLOOMS exaggerated.
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Fun Photos
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101218-00.htm
In photo FUN18, the man in the plaid shirt looks a lot like
Francis Shuey, the father of Carol SHUEY Hattemer ('60). I
remember that he worked for the Hanford railroad in some
capacity, maybe as an engineer?
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
Re: Kayaking - You are not going to believe this!!!
Maren...Bombers may want to see this since it took place in
Eastern Washington.
http://www.wimp.com/highestwaterfall/
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
Re: Bob MATHIS ('63)
To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Jimbeaux, I think you were a little harsh about Bob MATHIS' golf
game. I definitely have faith that he can shoot his age – if he
lives long enough. Do you think he'll have to live to 125, or
would 150 be necessary?
-Kathy RATHVON ('63) ~ in cloudy Bellevue
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Help... I need names, photos and any information you can provide
on The Jailers. http://pnwbands.com/jailers.html
[I know that Dee Wallace is a '60 Bomber. -Maren]
-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Stars and Heroes
Gotta couple of stars and heroes having birthdays today,
December 19, 2010... One is a big kid... gone but not
forgotten... the other is my High School mentor... how I looked
up to him then... and now... the '65er was the smartest kid in
our class... one of those kids who could spend just enough time
on the books to get As but to still have enough time to be there
when everything was happening... Me, as I didn't read... I had
to hold on to whatever was said in class enough to manage to
find myself on the curb in front of Mac hall with WARFORD ('65)
lamenting the fact that we wuz grageatin'... the big kid was one
of those I so looked up to as did so many kids... he just seemed
to have it all... We shared one thing in common... and boy did
we share that... booze... it was the way out... out of where...
I guess I'll never really know... it is said that some of us
must die so that others may live... I find that to be so awfully
true... it was true in the big kid's case... funny... I've been
living "a day at a time" for twenty something years now and
never really understood those words until October 18, 2010,
when the doctor told my dear, dear friend she had cancer... I
understand today... I am so grateful to have been privileged to
know both of the birthday kids... I am thankful that the big
kid brought me a new and dear friend in his older brother, Hal
('56)... each of the birthday boyz carries on a legacy and I am
so Happy to be here to wish them HAPPY BIRTHDAY and to just say
Thank you, Dave "Pook" SMITH ('63-RIP) and Tony HARRAH ('65)!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Retirement
To: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Larry, My advice, and I know you are probably not that excited
to hear it, but I insist... after having forty-two years of
retirement behind me and hopefully a few in front, the best
advice I could give anyone is to pick up a hobby like...
fireworks, for example... and enjoy the rest of your life
playing with it vs. working with it. Myself, I don't do
anything unless it is fun, i.e., using the words nuclear bomb
in a Sandstorm post just too see if it comes through or if I
have to change my name again.
-Rick MADDY ('67)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Smile, Laugh, Be Uplifted!
Want to share this YouTube with each of you -- just because you
can't watch it without feeling the sheer joy of being alive that
it communicates!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_EdJ-XkUA
Smile, laugh, be uplifted!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID where, after
several days of warmer temps and some hours of sunshine
each day, it is grey and snowing again.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/20/2010
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6 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Dave RHODES ('52wb), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Betti AVANT ('69)
Brad WEAR ('71), Lori KILLAND ('72)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
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TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON:
This will be the first time in hundreds of years that a lunar
eclipse will fall on the winter solstice. This year's event
will take 3 hours and 38 minutes. The eclipse begins on Tuesday
(12/21/2010) at 1:33am ET. It will take about an hour for the
shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 2:41am and
lasts for 72 minutes. It will be visible from four continents,
with the best views from North America and Central America if
weather permits.
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Yesterday: Bonnie BUSHNELL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anne COLLINS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lyle HAWK ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David RODRIGUEZ ('69)
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>>From: Dave RHODES ('52wb)
I wish all of you out there wherever you are Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year. I will put all of you and all of our men and
women in the military in my prayers. God Bless you all.
-Dave RHODES ('52wb)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: Another Kayaking Adventure of Interest
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101220-Ave-DDS.jpg
Maren, I sent in another picture of interest to the picture
website of the Sandstorm in response to Jack GARDINER's ('61)
video of a kayak going over Palouse Falls.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: Speaking of Christmas Spirits
Saturday afternoon, I was at the local "State Store" looking
for some lead to put in our egg nog. Low and behold as I was
perusing their offerings of various and sundry libations I
happened upon a bottle of some clear liquid labeled Desert
Lightning. The label was more than a little Harry Potterish
with the lightning bolt and all, but went on further to
state it was 100% Corn Whiskey from Washington State. Further
scrutiny reflected it was produced by Blue Heron Spirits, LLC
www.blackheronspirits.com of West Richland.
Being of an inquisitive nature I brought it home. The forever
young and always lovely Miss Nancy ('65) gave it a quick
Pasadena, so I poured myself a double hooker and knocked some
back. The resulting experience was somewhere betwixt a Roger
Miller song and Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider. It tasted much as
it smelled, but with a strong note of "more". I would recommend
it to nearly everyone except those Scotch Snobs Bob MATHIS ('63)
and Rob HILLS ('63). Rob being the one who always forgets my
birthday, even though I've given him Carol Doda memorabilia in
the past, but I'm pretty much over that.
Wasn't it Cecil Klyce "Cappy" Haines III ('63-RIP), who ran
a still under his bed? As I recall he made something that he
called "schnapps", but tasted like Jade East might have. I
tried it once and got away with only needing glasses to read.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Birthday Greetings
Happy birthday to a fellow Jason Lee, Chief Jo, Col-Hi class of
'69er David RODRIGUEZ. Take care my friend and have a great day.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where we may have a wet
Christmas that will most likely be rain instead of white
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Belated birthday!!!
Happy Birthday on the 19th to one of my favorite Bomberettes,
Bonnie BUSHNELL ('71). Vic you are falling down on the job
missing Bonnie's B-Day, and the two of you being Eastern grads
at that. Surely you remember Bonnie racing around in her gold
Mustng coupe. Happy Birthday Bonnie!!!
Happy three days before [the 23rd] your birthdays to Pat a and
Jeff O'MEALY both '71 grads.
-Brad WEAR ('71)
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>>From: Lori KILLAND Whelan ('72)
To: Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
Re: Woody
Actually, Elwood "Woody" Killand, my late uncle, graduated from
Lake Mills High School in '44 (Iowa). It's his younger brother
Wayne, my father, who is a '48 Bomber.
-Lori KILLAND Whelan ('72)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: More Fun
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101220-00.htm
To: All Bombers
A few more fun photos.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/21/2010 ~ WINTER SOLSTICE - Shortest Day
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Phil BELCHER ('51), Karen COLE ('55)
Helen CROSS ('62), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Ken CARLSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kent Hamrick ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leroy SOUTHAM ('56-RIP)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joanne ROLPH ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Duane LEE ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff OSBORN ('82)
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>>From: Phil BELCHER ('51)
Re: Sorenson Pictures
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101220-00.htm
I am still looking for some with my photo in them since Rob
Johnson took several with me doing work at Hanford, many at PRTR
where I worked for slightly over nine years. At one time the
model of PRTR was in the conference room at the reactor. It had
a model of the refueling machine that we called 'Big Bertha' and
its top speed was about one foot every three minutes. The model
had a figure with its hand reaching for a hand hold and one foot
raised to step up to the main deck. Someone moved the figure
back an inch or so and it looked as if the machine was speeding
away. Guess you had to work there to appreciate the humor of it.
One thing that we mention often was the way that the area was
operated in the old days. Then you could go to work, have great
'bennies' and work until retirement age. It was one great big
family, picnics at Howard Amon park during the summer, Christmas
parties (I remember one party put on by GE where they rented
Columbia Center) and if you were sick they might send the nurse
out to check on you. Quite a change from now when the companies
seem to have hearts of ice. It was a good time to be alive.
-Phil BELCHER ('51) ~ Pasco where winter has struck again and
its snowing with prospects of more all week.
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Beautiful Christmas story... causes a tear or two
https://www.veteransadvantage.com/cms/content/liberty-limited
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: Another Kayaking Adventure of Interest
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101220-Ave-DDS.jpg
What is the history of the kayeker and the whale? Do you know
who or where or when this was taken? I'm a whale-watcher at
heart.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ I'm going to try to stay awake to see
the total eclipse of the moon, but it's overcast here now,
so I wonder if it is worth it
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: Fun 28
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101220-00.htm
I'm not certain, as the Desert Lightning might have "winged"
a few memory cells, but I think Fun 28 was my sophomore year
science fair project. Grasshopper gave me a C+.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Ken CARLSON ('63)
Re: Cappy HAINES ('63-RIP)
Thanks to Jim HAMILTON ('63) and his memory of Cappy's
"schnapps". I can now reveal that I was one of Cappy's junior
high collaborators and helped him operate his distilling
apparatus, which he had purchased by mail order from some
chemistry supply business. It was a very impressive long glass
tube with a glass water jacket that acted as a condenser. It
was very difficult to distill enough alcohol from his jugs
of fermenting fruit juice and yeast to affect our brains or
cause blindness. Cappy was more successful in making explosive
devices, where his after-school gig as lab assistant to
Carmichael chemistry teacher Aubrey Clayton came in handy. Cappy
was an expert in making gunpowder from scratch but also made a
high explosive version using Mr. Clayton's potassium chlorate
instead of potassium chloride (which could be purchased at any
pharmacy). At night we would roam around the town and set off
his very noisy bombs. Of course than we would run like crazy as
if Richland's finest where on our trail.
Cappy was a real original, and I was sorry to hear of his
passing several years ago.
-Ken CARLSON ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/22/2010
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Barbara SESLAR ('60), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Jane WALKER ('62), John ADKINS ('62)
Sue NUSSBAUM ('63), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Pam EHINGER ('67), Dwight CAREY ('68)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Bob CHILES ('58) & Suzie GUNDERSON ('60)
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>>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Monday, January 3
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Jackson’s in Richland (formerly The Gas Light).
Spouses and friends are welcome. Please join us.
-Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Yearbooks available
I have some yearbooks available for sale through Club 40, to
benefit the Club 40 Scholarship Program. These were given to my
father each year that he served on the Richland School Board,
so they are unmarked, unless one or two might have his name on
them. The yearbooks are for Col-Hi, Carmichael, and Chief Jo. I
understand that Club 40 sells the Col-Hi yearbooks for $20 plus
$5 for mailing. I'm guessing that the junior high yearbooks
might sell for $10 each plus mailing? I plan to donate these
yearbooks to Club 40 as soon as Pete OVERDAHL ('60) tells me
where to deliver them!
I have the following years available for purchase from Club 40:
Col-Hi Columbian: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961,
1962, 1966, 1967
Carmichael Cougar: 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961,
1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Chief Jo Warrior: 1958, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1965.
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Jane WALKER Hill ('62)
Re: Kayaker vs whale from Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101220-Ave-DDS.jpg
The photo of the kayaker, and the photo of the whale, were both
taken in Alaska and combined in Photoshop. Sorry, it's a fake.
-Jane WALKER Hill ('62)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: HAMILTON's ('63) Sophomore Science Project
I remember Jimbeaux's Sophomore science project - it was two
christmas cookies on a plastic plate covered by in inverted
pyrex bowl. Now he thinks he created the "PRTR" dome.
How's that workin out for ya Jimbeaux?
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland this global warming is killing me
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>>From: Sue NUSSBAUM Reeb ('63)
Re: Jan NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55-RIP)
Sadly, we lost another member of our Bomber family on Saturday
evening. My brother Skip NUSSBAUM ('65) and I lost our special
sister, Jan NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55), wife of Jack SINDERSON
('53), to cancer on Saturday evening, December 18. Jan had
struggled with this illness for nearly four years and had been
confined to a hospital bed at home for about a month. Husband
Jack and daughters Tami, Karis, and Paula lovingly cared for Jan
during the last weeks of her life. All of us are deeply saddened
that Jan is no longer with us, but at the same time we're very
thankful that she did not have to go through the intense pain
that often accompanies the last stages of ovarian cancer. This
certainly brings us comfort as we adjust to our loss.
Our family experienced an evening of mixed emotions on Saturday.
Within a two-hour time period, Jan peacefully passed away in
Roseville, CA; brother Skip's daughter Katie had a baby boy in
the Tri-Cities; and Jan & Jack's grandson Ian was married in
Wasilla, AK. Life brings loss and change, joys and sorrow... and
life continues on for those of us left behind.
During this Christmas season, remember to tell those closest to
you how much you care about them. Sometimes we forget to express
ourselves to the special people in our lives. I'm so glad that I
was able to talk to my sister on Saturday morning via speaker
phone to tell her once again how much I loved her...
A memorial service for Jan will be held on Saturday morning,
January 8, in Roseville, CA.
-Sue NUSSBAUM Reeb ('63) ~ Boise, ID where it's cold and
certainly looks a lot like Christmas outside
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Auto Bowling on Spokane's South Hill Last Saturday [12/18]!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRaX4Q0K6LA&feature=related
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Yesterday's Sandstorm brought way to many funny memories! First,
belated Happy Birthday to Duane LEE ('67). You use to pick on me
constantly! You were BAAAAAAAAAAAAD!! LOL!! Ya must have done
something right as I still remember you!
Second, Jim HAMILTON ('63), "Grasshopper gave me a C+" Yes
Grasshopper gave me a C+ on my Horse Leg bones that were found
in a friend's back yard. I put them on a board and did the
drawings of the evolution of the horse. But Grasshopper wanted
more... of course! Good Ole Grasshopper!!
Bombers Rule
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to one an All in BomberVille
and around the World.
-Pam EHINGER Edinger (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
Ken CARLSON ('63) talking about his escapades of him and Cappy
HAINES ('63-RIP) entry about setting off "very noisy bombs"
around town joggled a memory about the Oxygen-Acetylene garbage
bag bombs being set off around Richland in 1970. These two
probably taught their younger brothers the "Tricks of the
Trade"... because I remember a house in North Richland being
lifted off the foundation and placed two feet into the yard.
Nobody died in that incident, but some hurt "Chemists" came out
of that. I was definitely not there because on the exact day
in question, I was calling in a nice B-52 strike on a bunker
complex so close to us I was bouncing on the ground from the
bomb concussions. The next day, I heard about the house, and
wondered to myself what in the world was going on in our little
home town. I guess these were 50 gallon garbage bag size, and
some were being set off across from Zip's... I'm sure some in
that Bomber era will remember those.
Nowadays, we have a hard time buying gunpowder, and this email
will likely end up in the Junk folder because the word bomb
stands alone.
-Dwight CAREY ('68) ~ Foggy day in Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/23/2010
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5 Bombers and 1 Lion sent stuff:
Terri ROYCE ('56), Rosalie LANSING ('63)
Gary Brehm ('64 Lion), David RIVERS ('65)
Mike SHEERAN ('66), Vic MARSHALL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck HOLTZ ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig LANSING ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill BLANKINGSHIP ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila STAMBAUGH ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy RIGGINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denny KUYKENDALL ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat HARTY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff O'MEALY ('71)
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>>From: Terri ROYCE Weiner ('56)
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Yearbooks available
Hi Stephanie --
I would just love to have Col Hi '55 & '56. Mine disappeared in
a 1970 divorce.
Thanks so much!
-Terri ROYCE Weiner ('56)
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>>From: Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
Re: 3 Big Birthdays
This is that time of year that my mother made this big deal out
of, because my big brother, happened to be born on the 23rd. He
always had the best party because the house was all dressed up
and mom was in a fiestive mood. But then across town there was
another big, brother friend, having a party too. and that was
Craig's best and forever friend Bill BLANKINGSHIP ('62)... two
boys that just have always clicked and are still rebuilding old
car after their retirement. Big boys and their bigger funner
toys. What a pair.
Then there comes my adoped sister Missy Sandy RIGGINS Stroben
('63), She is just the best. She is the mother who never
stops,and she makes sure she gets in on the grandkids and
greatgrandkids. Yes she is my love, I cherish everything about
her. Happy birthday my big sister, you know you're so much older
than me!!!!!! My best wishes for a very merry one you, my
forever loves and brothers and sister.
-Rosalie LANSING Haag ('63)
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>>From: Gary Brehm ('64 Lion)
Re: Marsha GOSLIN Brehm ('65)
I am very pleased to pass along some great news to my wife's
fellow Bombers. After final tests from the U of W and locally,
it has been determined she does not have Sarcoidosis after all.
What a beautiful Christmas gift!! Thank you Bombers for all your
nice thoughts, prayers and emails!
Happy holidays to everyone,
-Gary Brehm (KHS '64) ~ Richland where it's freezing rain and snow
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Da big boyz
First off it pained me greatly to learn that my ol' roomy and
good buddy Skipper ('65) and Sis Susan ('63) NUSSBAUM lost their
sister Jan ('55) to cancer. My heart was pierced and my eyes
welled... I am so sick of cancer I could just spit... I know
many of you know I am dealing with it with my friend Michelle
and it is the most heart breaking thing I've encountered and my
life ain't been no bed a roses so I think I can say that (no
mistaking any of this... most of my heartbreaks have been self
inflicted and I'm not talking boy girl stuff... uhhh and not
talking don't ask don't tell stuff either... ) with some
authority...
I was pleased as punch to see that someone has as many
Columbians as BEHYMER ('64)... and If Jimbeaux says those
pictures were of his class project then it must be so...
besides... that questionnaire about how much hunting was being
done looked just like some of the notes the boyz used to pass
at Col-Hi when they were storing their shotguns in their lockers
(it never seemed out of the ordinary back then)... So to the
Oracle I say... be glad ya gotta C+... I mean ya still got the
ever lovely Miss Nancy ('65), Son!
Now to the business at hand. Two '62 guys having b-days today.
One I see every year, tho only eating ice cream at the DQ in
June and the other I only hear about from Sister Rosalie ('63)
of the ruby slippers (gonna take a whole lot to top those shoes
from your 45th baby-cakes)... But I still remember these two
from the good ol dayz and they remain just as they were in my
memory... and that's a VERY good thing... so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
Craig LANSING ('62) and Bill BLANKINGSHIP ('62) on December 23,
2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David Rivers ('65)
PS: A quick Terry ('65) story. He wouldn't answer the phone on
his b-day (the 16th) so ok... whatever... but the next day he
called to tell me about the new modeling job he got... now
he has done ads before so nothing new... but these are for
a magazine... he was told he would be advertising medical
equipment... ah "I've played a doctor before... sounds good"...
Upon entering his dressing room he looked for his scrubs etc.
Instead, he found one of those gowns with no back... he checked
with wardrobe... yes... that was his "wardrobe"... he then
realized... as he cried to me on the phone it hit him: "I'm
playing a gummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!" True story!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Mike SHEERAN ('66)
Re: Merry Christmas
Sending out a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of the
'66 class and pray for peace.
-Mike SHEERAN ('66)
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>>From: Vic MARSHALL ('71)
Re: Birthdays
I have NOT been receiving the Sandstorm to my in box and have
been "reduced" to going on-line to check on happenings around
Bomberville. Not a great excuse but it is one of the reasons I
have also been delinquent on keeping up with Birthdays. You are
right Brad WEAR ('71)... how could I possibly have missed Miss
Bonnie BUSHNELL Robbins ('71) birthday on the 19th? She is the
only Rose amongst a whole bunch of "thorny" guys celebrating
birthdays this week. Bonnie always looked sharp in that '65
Mustang and it was usually chock full of her fellow Pep Club
friends... I never quite understood how she could get 6 girls
into a car designed for 4. In addition to Bonnie's eminence as
an Eastern Alum... yesterday (Tuesday the 21st) was the birthday
of Jon ANDERSON ('71) who was one of my roommates at Eastern
along with George DANA ('70-RIP) and John MOSLEY ('71). We had
some great times during college but Jon and I were also lab
partners in Jim Harbour's AP Biology class our senior year at
Col-Hi. I could write a book on the adventures I have had with
Jon through the years but, rest assured, we had a lot of good
times during that class and took Mr. Harbour to lunch about once
a month. Anyway, Jon has been a life-long friend and some of
you may remember his Dad... Leonard Anderson... my mechanical
drawing teacher at Carmichael or Jon's lovely mother...
Anne Anderson... who worked in the Library at Col-Hi. Happy
Birthday, Roo!!
On Thursday, December 23rd we honor 3 Bomber guys:
· Denny "Kink" KUYKENDALL ('69)
· Pat HARTY ('71)
· Jeff O’MEALY ('71)
Denny is one of those '69ers turning 60 this year and a pretty
darn nice guy, Sorry I missed your Birthday Bar Tour in Seattle
last weekend but I heard that a good time was had by all. Time
for another cruise, I think!!!
Jeff and Pat went all the way through Jefferson together (I
think) and are a couple of real class guys. I am not sure if we
are supposed to address Pat as "Reverend". Pat nurtured and
developed his vocation a little later in life but his life
experience has helped him (in my opinion) to better help and
serve the people he works with. And Jeff was always kind of a
gentle giant that always has a smile and something nice to say.
Hope you all have/had great Birthdays.
Finally, may the grace and peace of this special season be with
all my friends and classmates out there. I’m sure glad that
technology has given us the opportunity to sustain and grow that
special sense of community we all share. NOW, if I could just
crack the Spudnut and Zip’s tartar sauce mysteries... life would
be complete...
-Vic MARSHALL ('71) ~ From the icebox called Michigan where it
looks like not only a White Christmas but also every other
major holiday could be white clear through to Memorial Day
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/24/2010 ~ CHRISTMAS EVE
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Laura Dean KIRBY ('55), Tom TRACY ('55)
Bonnie STEEBER ('57), Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Diane DAVENPORT ('62), Ann ENGEL ('63)
John ZIMMER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn GROFF ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave MILLER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry LYNCH ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Art SCHAFER ('70)
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>>From: Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
Re: Sorenson pics
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101216-00.htm
I believe it was in the Dec. 16th edition when Don Sorenson sent
Fun pictures. In number 12 Ginger ROSE Reed ('55) is at the desk
and Nancy WINGFIELD ('55-RIP) is standing on the right side. I
seldom see anyone I recognize, but these two are classmates.
-Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
Re: Janice NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55-RIP)
The pain of hearing about losing another wonderful classmate,
Jan NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55), like our other friends, takes an
irreplaceable piece of our heart. The universe seemed to signal
us with a total eclipse last weekend that it was readjusting a
new timetable and advancement for another of our finest and
most active students. It's a loss for all of us who were her
classmates. Best thoughts and prayers to Jan's husband, Jack
SINDERSON ('53), sister Susan NUSSBAUM Reeb ('63) and Jan's
family.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101224-Tra-Dunk.jpg
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
Re: WSJ article
I wonder how many Bombers saw that Richland made the front page
of today's (Dec. 23) Wall Street Journal. Go to WSJ.com and
put "Hanford" in the search box and you can read the article:
"Bunnies Are in Deep Doo-Doo When They 'Go Nuclear' at Hanford"
-Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57) ~ Merry Christmas to all! And a
happy, healthy coming year to everyone! From a sunny but
cool Tucson (in the 60s today).
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>>From: Tom VERELLEN ('60)
Re: Sharing from the ghost of Christmas past.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Ver/101224-00.htm
-Tom VERELLEN ('60) ~ from near Lacey, WA where it appears we
will have the traditional wet Christmas.
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>>From: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
I'd like to buy the 1958 and 1959 Carmichael Junior Hi
yearbooks.
At this time of the year I always think of working with you at
Dawson Richards and wrapping Christmas packages. Happy holidays
to you and all of the Dawsons!
-Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
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>>From: Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
Re: Another Birthday
I want to wish my brother-in-law Arty SCHAFER ('70) a very Happy
Birthday on Christmas Eve and, Bro, you're going to be 60 before
you know it. The years just keep going faster and faster as we
age. Enjoy every moment of every day because we never know what
tomorrow may bring. Love Ya, Ann
-Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
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>>From: John ZIMMER ('66)
Wishing all our Bomber friends and family a very Merry Christmas
and a safe and prosperous New Year.
-John ZIMMER ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/25/2010 ~ CHRISTMAS
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10 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Helen CROSS ('62)
Donni CLARK ('63), Dave HANTHORN ('63)
Jeanie WALSH ('63), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68), Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry BOWLS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jay COATES ('72wb)
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
Hope Christmas Day brings joy to all Bombers wherever they may
be and 2011 treats you all well.
-Mary TRIEM Mowery ~ a '47 Bomber in Richland, WA
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just taking a few moments to wish all Bombers the greetings of
the season (which ever your choice) and trust that all will
become prosperous in the coming New Year.
-Bob (Mike CLOWES) Carlson '54 ~ in Mount Angel, OR, where the
Nativity Scene at St. Mary's Church awaits the arrival
of the three wise men and possibly the rain.
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Merry Christmas to all Bombers and their families and may your
New Year be the best yet!
-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I would like to send Christmas greetings to all Bombers I know
and those I have yet to meet. I hope that all of us will take
time to remember the real reason for the season; that is, the
birth of Christ and His Promise of Peace on Earth.
And Happy Birthday to Bill BLANKENSHIP ('62) I still remember
fishing in Wellsian Lake in PE, I think in Jr. High, when there
still was a Wellsian Lake below (was it Carmichael or more near
the high school? [Carmichael -Richard]).
Thanks Jane WALKER, another member of the great class of '62, for
clearing up that photo of the whale and the kayaker. I wondered
about it when I saw it.
Christmas cheers and Blessings,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from Grandview, IN where we got our
wish for a white Christmas in less than an hour during
our Christmas Eve Services last night. Now we all
think we have enough snow, and are glad the flakes
that are still falling are much smaller and coming
down more slowly.
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
A very "Merry Christmas" to my dear friends and fellow Bombers!
My first sight of Richland was at night when we drove into
Uptown, and there, hanging on the light posts, were the big
lighted red and white candy canes. Uptown was covered in snow.
What a delight for a 4 and 1/2 year old little girl from
California. The year was 1949. We got snowed in that winter out
at the end of Harrington Road and Daddy had to ride horseback
into West Richland to get us some food. Growing up through the
years in West Richland I have lots of snow memories. Building
snow forts and having snow ball fights with the boys in the
neighborhood, playing Fox and Geese, taking winter wonderland
walks and sledding down what is now Bombing Range Road, I think.
At school, good old Jason Lee, we girls had to wear pants under
our dresses every day, take them off when we got to school, put
them on for recess, take them off, put them on. Whew! Our
classes competed in which class could roll the biggest
snowballs. What fun having snow fights and making snowmen with
our friends. Inside the school every classroom had a tree that
we made ornaments for and paper chains. We always had Christmas
parties and Christmas plays.
My good friend Sue NUSSBAUM ('63) had the lead role in Babes in
Toyland that we did in the 4th grade. We were good friends in
grade school and I loved going to her house to spend the night
or after school on Campfire meeting nights. In town I could
watch the "Mickey Mouse Club" and "American Bandstand" and "I
married Joan". Shows we didn't get in West Richland. I can still
see Jan [Janice NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55-RIP)] in the kitchen
making us cocoa or toasted cheese sandwiches. Later Jan's
boyfriend and, later, husband, was my favorite Sunday School
teacher. What a cute couple they were. Condolences to my dear
friend, Sue. I have so many wonderful memories of those days and
that season of our life.
God bless everyone this Christmas Day and always. I hope you
have a wonder Christmas with your family and have lots of
wonderful memories too!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) ~ where it is pouring rain here in the
[Columbia River] gorge (we've had a little snow) and I
love it!!! The house is all decorated, I have a ham in
the oven and soon it will be time to eat and go to
church.
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>>From: Dave HANTHORN (GMC '63)
Merry Christmas to all Bombers everywhere.
-Dave HANTHORN (GMC '63) ~ from Mercer Island, where we have
gone from a white Thanksgiving to a very wet Christmas
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>>From: Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Wishing all Bombers everywhere a Very Merry Christmas,
especially to my little sis Kellie WALSH Patterson ('77) and her
family: Steve, Megan, and Claire.
In the words of Tiny Tim: "God bless us one and all."
-Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Simi Valley
California, Home of the Ronald Reagan Library, where
in 2011 we will be celebrating the President's 100th
Birthday, all year long. Come to Simi Valley and I
will take you for a personal tour!
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To All Bombers everywhere. I want to wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and a very joyous New Years!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA where
the rain gave us a break for a couple days, but is
supposed to start raining again later on today. Hope
that the weather man is wrong. Southern CA really
needs a few days of no rain so that they can finish
cleaning up once again. Happy Holidays to all of you
once again!!
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101225-LMH-Xmas.jpg
In addition to the message in the Christmas card (that I hope
the editor was able to successfully attach to this posting - I
haven't sent in a photo before, so I'm hoping I did it right!
[you did PK (peachy keen) -Richard]), there are a few thoughts
I'd like to add.
There is a saying that comes in many different iterations, but
the essence is this: "Be Kinder in Your Words and Deeds Than You
Think is Necessary, Because Everyone Whose Path You Cross in
Whatever Way is Struggling with Something."
Many people reading this posting will have spent much of the
past month, from Thanksgiving through Christmas (and maybe even
into the New Year) in the frequent, joyous company of loved ones
-- spouses, significant others, kids, grandkids, extended
family, dear friends. If that has been the case for you, I
celebrate the blessing granted to you -- family and friends with
whom to share important, joyful times!
But it seems important to me that we remember there are many
among us for whom this Season -- and life in general -- is
infused with pain, loss, suffering, loneliness, disappointment,
deprivation, fear. I am not talking about just the faceless
"poor and needy and less fortunate" about whom we were all told
as kids. I am talking about ordinary people with whom we
interact all the time -- the clerk at the grocery store, the UPS
delivery person, the garbage pickup guy, our doctor(s), our
dentist(s). Obviously the list goes on and on.
I am also talking about many people who are a part of the Alumni
Sandstorm family.
We can each do ourselves a great favor if we remember that the
faces people may be wearing -- whether it is when they are
checking out our groceries, or when they're posting to the
Sandstorm -- may be their 'game faces'. Thinking of other people
in terms of the fact that we are ALL struggling with something
can serve as motivation toward opening ourselves to being used
as conduits of more kindness than we think is necessary.
And so I do wish you each a Blessed Christmas. But more than
that, I wish for each of us -- at Christmas and Beyond -- hearts
open to knowing that we are INVITED and ALLOWED to be
instruments of love in this world. And if we don't avail
ourselves of those opportunities, WE OURSELVES lose as much as
the people toward whom we could have directed that love -- and
more kindness than we thought was necessary.
Blessings - at Christmas and Beyond,
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Happy holidays to all past, present, and future Columbia
(Richland) Bombers everywhere. May your 2011 be the best.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where it will be wet (rain) for
Christmas rather than a white one
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/26/2010
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Patty de la BRETONNE ('65)
Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vera SMITH ('58)
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>>From: Patty de la BRETONNE ('65)
Re: Janice NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55-RIP)
My condolences to Skip ('65) and Sue ('63) on the passing of
their sister Jan.
Love,
-Patty de la BRETONNE ('65)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
Interesting that some guy named "Art" SCHAFER ('70) has a
birthday December 24th. See, we have a fellow classmate (also
class of 1970) with that same December 24. Only his name is ARTY
SCHAFER ('70).
So I have no clue who Art is, but I want to wish a happy
birthday to one of the true legends of the class of 1970, the
great ARTY SCHAFER ('70). Arty gained fame for punching out a
Richland Community Center window at a dance. One of many of my
fellow Bombers who contributed significantly to my father's
practice.
And so what if the Class of 1970 had more Benton-Franklin County
parole officers assigned to it than any other class in its time?
Just another era-leading attribute of that great class of 1970!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/27/2010
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB) sent stuff:
Curt DONAHUE ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
John BIXLER ('64), Dwight CAREY ('68)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn SCHULTZ ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeannine HUGHES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon CHAPMAN ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti ECKERT ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray NELSON ('70)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Bev SMITH Jochen ('52-RIP)
So sad to hear of Bev's passing away on Christmas night. My
condolences to all those who loved her, especially to Van
VANDUSEN ('52).
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Federal Way, WA
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, it's time, again, to tip the ol' propeller beanie. This
one is for fellow classmate (and like me, whose picture I can't
find in the Columbians) Jeannine HUGHES ('54). One of these days
I'll be able to put your face to your name in my memory banks.
Hope you had a nice Christmas, are having a Happy Birthday, and
that the New Year brings prosperity.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in Mount Angel, OR
where another front has past, and two of my boys, two
granddaughters and a grandson went snow boarding on
Mt. Hood. Has anyone seen or have a copy of "Snow boarding
for Dummies"?
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>>From: John BIXLER ('64)
Re: chief Jo Julius Caesar
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101227-Bix-00.htm
I found this recently – should be fun figuring out who everyone
is – one of 'em is me.
-John BIXLER ('64)
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
I am truly sorry for the false attributes that Mike FRANCO_SHES
('70) has given to that respected class of 1970 ----
specifically ---- as in his Christmas quote "And so what if the
Class of 1970 had more Benton-Franklin County parole officers
assigned to it than any other class in its time?"
As everyone knows, the only reason law-enforcement even HAD a
budget, was because of previous expenditures, as in 1968-1969.
They had a budget ONLY .... and ONLY ..... because of our
intense efforts and lobbying strategy!!!!
-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: More Fun Photos
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101227-00.htm
To: All Bombers
Another installment of fun photos.
-Don Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/28/2010
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12 Bombers sent stuff:
Bill BERLIN ('56), Hal SMITH ('56)
Steve CARSON ('58), Mike BRADY ('61)
Mac QUINLAN ('62), Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
Anne JOCHEN ('63), Donna BOWERS ('63)
Kathy RATHVON ('63), Ray KELLY ('63)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron STEPHENS ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy STEACH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robyn RICHARDSON ('78)
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>>From: Bill BERLIN ('56)
Re: Bev SMITH Jochen ('52-RIP)
I was surprised and saddened to read in the Sandstorm that my
cousin Bev SMITH Jochen ('52-RIP) passed away on Christmas day
evening. I know that she had not been well the past months, or
possibly a year, but it is never an easy thing to say goodbye to
a loved one. My prayers go out to her sons and Van VANDUSEN ('52)
in this difficult time. They were so good to Bev and I am sure
that made her life that much better.
Growing up in the Southend, Bev was in a circle of Bomber
"Hotties" and I was the little kid just hanging around. They
were real good to me just the same and I even got to be "the
date" at a movie or two with them. Does not get much better than
that. My favorite Aunt Constance, Bev's Mom, home on Benham was
my second home, a great snack stop between Carmichael and GWWay
and on Saturdays I would love to hang out there and get all of
the scoop from the Friday night before.
Bev married Buzz JOCHEN ('51) and when he joined the US Coast
Guard I knew that is what I wanted to do. They were stationed
at USCG Base Port Angeles which was actually a fixed wing and
helicopter base and when Buzz arraigned a tour of the based I
was blown away.. My Dad, who retired as a General in the US
Army, received full military respect and we had lunch in the
Officers Mess. Bev was so proud of her "Aunt" Bill and Buzz but
that solidified my wanting to be a Coastie right then and there.
I think that Bev is in a better place now but we have lost one
strong, proud and contributing Bomber. Semper Paradus, Semper
Bomberous Cuz Bev.
-Cuz Bill BERLIN ('56) ~ in sunny Rancho Mirage, CA but leaving
for ten cold days in China tonight.
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>>From: Hal SMITH ('56)
Hi, Bombers.
Hope everyone ha a very merry X-mas. Here in Orlando, FL we had
a record for the last 33 years at 31°... icky.
I was looking at Don's latest and in pic. 101 my beloved Dad's
older brother David Vann Smith who left Richland and became a
Professor at Univ. of Oklahoma for many years before passing away
just be for his 90th birthday. He was a great guy. Thanks Don.
Happy New Year to all Bombers.
-Hal SMITH ('56)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Happy Birthday Vera SMITH ('58) [on 12/26]. Where are you now?
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58) ~ "vacationing" on the
Florida beaches where it was 28* this morning. Looks like
surfing is out.
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>>From: Mike BRADY ('61)
Re: Don Sorenson's photos
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101227-FUN47.html
I always enjoy Don Sorenson's photos. Since it is often
difficult to know what people are doing or thinking in many of
the pics, I come up with my own scenario. For example in Fun #47
in yesterday's Sandstorm, I might write, "oh, oh caught
again!!" It would be fun to read what other's would write.
-Mike BRADY ('61)
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>>From: Mac QUINLAN ('62)
Re: Chief Jo Pic - Julius Caesar
Wow, did that picture bring back memories! This must have been
1959..'58? David WAGGONER ('62) and I were in charge of the
lighting for the play. The lighting platform was mounted high on
the wall and it had on-off switches for each color of lights and
rheostats for each of those colors. Each of the lighting banks
could be connected to each of the switches or rheostats with
jumper cables to produce different lighting effects. This was
pretty exciting stuff for a junior high kid.
Some of the lighting changes between scenes kept us really busy.
I remember sometimes we would just finish with our lighting
changes as the curtain was being opened for the next scene.
One of the scenes had a large throne. When it came time to push
it into place I had to rush down the ladder and put big chunks
of dry ice into cups of water at the front of each arm on the
throne. It was the only way we had to create a smokey effect
because we weren't allowed to have any fire, not even candles.
Thanks John, I really enjoyed seeing that picture. I saw a lot
of familiar faces, but after more than 50 years I only remember
two or three names.
-Mac QUINLAN ('62)
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[Mac, Look again... there are LOTS of names now. -Maren]
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>>From: Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
Re: Don Sorenson (NAB) Fun Photos...#42
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101227-00.htm
The fella on the left looks like my Dad, Paul Beardsley, taking
money from one of the guys. I am only guessing that it has
something to do with the March of Dimes (MOD) effort that Dad
chaired for 25 years in Benton County and he was collecting from
workers for MOD.
On another note I would like to wish my younger sis, Janice
BEARDSLEY Detrick ('64) a very happy 65th birthday on Wednesday,
12/29. I am so grateful she is still around and I hope that
this coming year brings resolution to her health issues and she
receives the liver which she desperately needs. Love ya Cissy!
-Paula BEARDSLEY Glenn ('62)
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>>From: Anne JOCHEN Dowdy ('63)
Re: Bev SMITH Jochen ('52-RIP)
I wanted to let people who didn't know that my long time friend
and former sister-in-law, Beverlee "Bev" SMITH Jochen ('52),
died Christmas night from liver cancer. She was the most
courageous person I knew as she dealt with many obstacles in her
life including MS. She was wheel chair bound, but by no means
did she miss a beat when it came to doing anything! A very
intelligent woman, creative and artistic with a vast knowledge
of medicine and knew everything she had to know to take care of
herself each and every time that she faced a new medical crisis.
This time, she was ready to go and told me so the day before she
died. She was tired and said that she led a good life and had no
regrets. She passed easily and quickly with no pain. Her son
even told me that she wanted to make sure that everyone got
their Christmas presents! What a gal! There will be a huge hole
in my heart for her, as she always told me I was the sister that
she never had. To Van (her love), we will miss her forever till
we meet her again, but we will be okay till then. Heaven now has
a very feisty, special angel...
-Anne JOCHEN Dowdy ('63)
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice ('63)
To: John BIXLER ('64)
Re: Chief Jo Pic - Julius Caesar
#4 is Susan NUSSBAUM, #5 is me, #6 is Gery SCHIRADO, #8 is Dean
HOFF, #14 is Dianne KORNBERG, #16 is Jeanne HUTCHINS, #17 is
Mary Dean?. #18 is Robert RECTOR, #19 is Maxine DOWD, #21 is Jim
NEWELL, #22 is Paul Sterling?, #23 is John COONS, #27 is Mike
PEASE, #28 is the guy who gave you this picture, #29 is Rob
HILLS. That is the best I can do for now, but if I think about
it for awhile, I might be able to come up with a couple more.
It was my very 1st speaking part in any play... I think 8th grade!
-Donna BOWERS Rice (GMC '63) ~ where we have a White Christmas
and I could not keep my southern grandson in the house!!
He found sledding and snow-ball fights just too much
fun!!! Jack pronounced snow ice cream better than the real
stuff!!
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
Re: Chief Jo Pic - Julius Caesar
On the left is Jane SIMMONS, Sue NUSSBAUM and Donna Bowers and
on the lower right with bangs is Dianne KORNBERG.
-Kathy RATHVON ('63)
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>>From: Ray KELLY ('63)
Re: Chief Jo Pic - Julius Caesar
Hi Maren,
You'll probably get a million of these and anyway I am usually
no good at these, but here goes anyway (also, I wasn't in the
play). My guesses:
Back row, left to right: ?, ?, Jane SIMMONS, Sue NUSSBAUM, Donna
BOWERS, Jim NEWELL (?), Paul ANDERSON, ?, ?, Phil ARMSTRONG,
etc.
Don't recognize many others, but the girl in the 2nd row on the
right between two other girls with headbands is Dianne KORNBERG.
My $0.02.
-Ray KELLY ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: Chief Jo Pic - Julius Caesar
To: John Bixler ('64)
I picked you out right away. So many faces look very familiar,
but the names elude me. I know if I took the time to really
look, I could get some of them.
Hope everybody had a nice Christmas and looking forward to the
new year!
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Eureka, CA
Haven't had much rain these past few days, but suppose to
start raining sometime today and for the rest of the week.
Sure hope not!
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
I am both perplexed and impressed by the response to my claim of
..."And so what if the Class of 1970 had more Benton-Franklin
County parole officers assigned to it than any other class in
its time?" As I am occasionally impressed but frequently
perplexed I would like to hear more.
I have had direct e-mail claiming that the Class of '70 was NOT
the leader in this "field" I make us out to be and... now a note
from neighbor and older brother of classmate Linda, Dwight CAREY
('68) claiming I am not sure what. I would like to get
clarification from Dwight on his response.
I am very comfortable with this confusion. At 58 years of age I
still am trying to figure things out. I do not expect that to
change!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/29/2010
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8 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Hal SMITH ('56), Carol BISHOP ('57)
Mike BRADY ('61), Denis SULLIVAN ('62)
Betsy FOX ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
Bill WINGFIELD ('67), Dwight CAREY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janice BEARDSLEY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck LANGE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dot EGELAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Hannah LEE ('94)
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>>From: Hal SMITH ('56)
OOPS!!!! In my message on the 28th I referred a Sorenson
picture. It was actually picture fun47 (not #101) and it is a
picture of my beloved Dad's older brother David Vann Smith who
left Richland and became a Professor at Univ. of Oklahoma for
many years before passing away just before his 90th birthday. He
was a great guy. Thanks Don.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101227-FUN47.html
Sorry bout that. I guess I got caught again Huh?
-Hal SMITH ('56)
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>>From: Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
Re: EEOICPA
Has anyone had trouble collecting on the ENERGY EMPLOYEES
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION ACT and had to hire an
attorney?
-Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
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>>From: Mike BRADY ('61)
Re: Mary Dean MIDDELL ('62)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101227-Bix-00.htm
Ahhh, the beautiful Mary Dean MIDDELL ('62) in the Julius Caesar
picture. I haven't seen that face in 50 years. Larry CORYELL
('61)
and I had a huge crush on her when she was in our 9th grade
journalism class.
Re: Sorenson Picture #43
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101227-00.htm
The caption should read, "I was a communist for the FBI."
-Mike BRADY ('61)
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>>From: Denis SULLIVAN ('62)
Re: Julius_Caesar_Picture
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101227-Bix-00.htm
I'm #9. I think my only line was, "Hail Caesar."
Bob RECTOR ('62)was J. C.; Gery SCHIRADO ('62) was Marc Anthony.
Gery reminds me that Mary Dean MIDDELL ('62) was originally to
be the Student Director, but the original girl cast as Cleopatra
got sick and Mary Dean took over the role. Don't know who the
original Cleo was.
When we moved from Craighill to Marshall, which was in the Chief
Jo boundary, I was given the choice to finish Jr. High at
Carmichael or move to Chief Jo and since I had been a bit of a
clown at Carmichael I decided I needed a fresh start and did
ninth grade at Chief Jo. Walking distance was about the same and
I got to walk Janet Greiner home from school.
-Denis SULLIVAN ('62)
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>>From: Betsy FOX Vance ('63)
Re: Another Bomber parent is gone
To those who may have known any of the Zangars -- 8 sibs --
oldest to youngest: Rita ZANGAR Mazur ('53... on Richland city
council for years), Grace ZANGAR ('55), Sheila ZANGAR ('63),
Brenda ZANGAR ('65), Cathy ZANGAR ('70), Terri ZANGAR, Doug
ZANGAR ('74) and Rick ZANGAR.
Their mom, Ruth Zangar, died a peaceful death on Christmas day.
If anyone wants to say a few words to any of the 8 children, I
will forward them on. I don't believe that any are hooked up
with Sandstorm. I am in close touch with Sheila... and a bit so
with Rick, and will make sure any messages get sent to to right
Zangar.
-Betsy FOX Vance ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Bomber-babes... the best!
I got two hot Bomber-babes with birthdays on December 29, 2010.
One I've known Since my Spalding dayz so that would be since
second grade (mine) and the other since Chief Jo. The Spalding
chick lived at one of our hang outs. The Chief Jo babe didn't
know I existed even tho I went with her little sis ('67). The
Chief Jo babe and I hooked up years later and spent some
wonderful times in Southern California together. The Spalding
Babe is high on my list of super-babes to remember. The Chief
Jo babe is gone but never forgotten. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Janice
BEARDSLEY ('63) and Kathy WERSEN ('64-RIP)!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Bill WINGFIELD (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
To: Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
Re: NANCY WINGFIELD ('55) PICTURE
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Sor/101216-00.htm
Laura, in your 12/24 entry to the Sandstorm, you stated that in
the December 16th edition when Don Sorenson sent Fun pictures.
In pic #12 Ginger ROSE Reed ('55) is at the desk and Nancy
WINGFIELD ('55-RIP) is standing on the right side.
I have gotten a little behind on my Sandstorm, but was very
pleased to see that you found a pic of my lovely belated Aunt
Nancy WINGFIELD Grey ('55-RIP). She was so beautiful. My
favorite Aunt who I still miss very much. She was such a
classy lady.
Thank you so much, Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
-Bill WINGFIELD (BRC '67) ~ Santa Fe, NM
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
Re: Mike FRANCO ('70) --
After reading my previous dribble as a response to Mike FRANCO
('70), I am obliged to clarify. He stated... "And so what if the
Class of 1970 had more Benton-Franklin County parole officers
assigned to it than any other class in its time?"...
I was just trying to say, that the previous Bomber classes
provided the opportunity and the foresight for law enforcement
to properly budget and provide the resources... I'm sure all the
parents had a corresponding jump in taxes to help that budget.
SO... by the time the Class of '70 was around, I'm sure your
statement is true, and you, indeed, had more parole officers
assigned to you. From the Drag Races of the 1950s... through the
Bonfires and Dances of the 1960s... we all had a part in making
sure you all had the proper supervision whilst you were out of
sight of your parents. But, alas... no matter how hard we try
sometimes... I am sure some juvenile delinquents got through and
actually graduated from your class.
Hopefully, this has helped clear up the confusion... take your
time.
-Dwight CAREY ('68)
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Funeral Notice
>>Bill BEEM ('56) ~ 1938 - 2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/30/2010
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber funeral notice today:
Gloria ADAMS ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete OVERDAHL ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Phil GANT ('54)
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>>From: Gloria ADAMS Fulcher ('54)
To: Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)
The attorney to call is Anne Block. 206-326-9933
She used to work for DOL, processing these claims and got fed up
with the way things were going so went out on her own to now
represent those filing claims. She knows the system and the
people and how to get things done. She gets 2% of the first
claim and 10% of any additional claims.
-Gloria ADAMS Fulcher ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
And now, for the last tip of the ol' propeller beanie of 2010
(and the last of the oughts, by the way) which will go to fellow
classmember and all round nice guy (even though he looked like a
used car salesman at our 45th) Phil GANT ('54). Ya coulda been a
contender, Phil, if ya wasn't held back by yer brudder.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in very soggy Mount Angel,
OR, where the weather guessers are saying maybe snow, but
not quite to the valley floor.
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>>From: Pete OVERDAHL ('60)
I would like to thank all the alumni who purchased the
Columbians (Year Books) The Cougars and the Warriors that were
so graciously donated by Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60). The
money it raised goes to the RHS Club 40 Scholarship Fund. We
have the '63, '64, and '65 Warriors left and '56, '57, '58, '61,
'62, '63, '64 & '65 Cougars. Your donations are so greatly
appreciated.
Thanks So Much,
-Pete OVERDAHL ('60) ~ Richland, Home of the Bombers
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Julius Caesar
http://alumnisandstorm.com/htm2010/Xtra/Any/101227-Bix-00.htm
I think #20 is Rick SMOLEN ('62).
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>Jan NUSSBAUM Sinderson ('55) ~ 1937 - 2010
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/31/2010
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Don LYALL ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Ellen FOLEY ('59), Barbara SESLAR ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Grace DeVINCENTIS ('50wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wayne WALLACE ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug HILDEBRANT ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John ALLEN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary GRIGG ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mikel BOATMAN ('99)
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>>From: Don LYALL ('52)
Re: Sugar Bowl [1/4/2011]
Off to the Sugar Bowl........... go HOGS.
-Don LYALL ('52)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
How about them Dawgs?
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in slightly freezing
Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Ellen FOLEY Pope ('59)
Re: William Thomas Foley Passing 12/20/10
Dear Bomber Friends...
Just a simple notice to let everyone know that my father,
William T. Foley, of Kennewick passed away in his own bed on
December 20th at the age of 98.
He was a resident of the Tri-Cities for over 60 years and had a
good life. His greatest focus was his family and the Masons and
the Columbia Basin Shrine Club. He is resting now with my mother
at Mueller's Desert Lawn in Kennewick - ceremony was Christian
and with full Masonic Rites.
He loved the Tri-Cities and my mom.., who he is now with. Any
remembrances should be made in his name to the Shrine
Children's Hospital in Spokane, WA
My family and myself will be returning to Southern California
just in time for some more RAIN!
Regards,
-Ellen FOLEY Pope ('59)
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>>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon (DAY CHANGE)
WHEN: MONDAY January 3 2011
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Jackson's in Richland (formerly The Gas Light).
Spouses and friends are welcome. Please join us.
-Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
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November, 2010 ~ January, 2010