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Richland Bombers Calendar website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/01/11
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Patti JONES ('60)
David RIVERS ('65), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George "Pappy" SWAN ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard ANDERSON ('60)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
One of those weird questions that has popped into my mind;
"Would it be a sign of the apocalypse if David RIVERS ('65)
were to appear on 'Pawn Stars' trying to sell something?" Sleepy
minds want to know.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where it
will soon be the 4th of July and possibly warm weather in
the valley. So far all the weather has done is delay the
berry crops.
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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, July 9, 2011
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.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: We are the Bombers mighty mighty Bombers"""
Dear "Ricky" Son, you don't need to know what the Oracle ('63) is
referring to when he sends congrats to his buds... Alls that's
portant is that Leo ('63) knew! Hell man... if ya hadda have a
clue ain't no one would ever unnerstan much of anything Jimbeaux,
MADDY ('67) or that "never to wed/Nevertowed" dude were
blabbering on about! Now, One purpose of this post is to warn the
western United States that the "Month of terror" is about to
start for two (sweat shiver shake) Bomber-babe/Sorry 7 b-day
girls... It lasts a month and there is no telling the damage they
will accomplish during that month... one thing sure, Wm. Sherman
was a slacker compared to these two... but first... I gotta
mention something that came up this weekend... A theory was
posited by one a them NAB's (but he comes from a small town too)
that Bomberdom is a cult. I had no problem agreeing with his hypo
and confirmed that in my mind it is entirely factual... indeed...
when the name "Ray STEIN ('64) was mentioned... one of the
uninformed queried "who is Ray Stein?" Well, other than being the
name Jackson KEENEY ('65) believes Terry DAVIS ('65) shoulda
adopted when he changed his name... the others of us just had to
shake our heads in pity for this poor girl (her Mom IS a BOMBER,
by the way)... you see, Bombers come from parents who for the
most part, left their homes in some other part of the country and
moved out into the desert by the water, not knowing a single
soul. Yes there were some whole towns that made the trek and
those people were lucky to have friends from home... but for the
most part we were transplants... those of us who were raised in
Richland know full well that the other kids were not just
neighbors... they and their folks were family... I told this
fellow that I truly believe that when one of us gets cut... we
all bleed... Bombers are kids that will drive or fly across a
state or several just to spend a few hours together when one is
in need... Bombers are always there for one another... Bombers
love their fellow Bombers with a love so deep it passes all
understanding... Bombers are special... not because we are any
better than anyone else, but for the ties that bind us together.
So count your lucky stars you are bombers! Case in point... these
two birthday girls (only one formally mentioned of the duo today)
have been buds since time began... the younger b-day girl today
has been in my life as long as I can remember... .I just love
having Bomber babes around to drool over and remember... So
today, June 15, 2011, Cathy MOUTON ('65) and her pal MURPHY...
more on that on the 23rd) and Jo HEIDLEBAUGH ('74) are being
wished a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65),
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>>From:Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
Give it up, David (NEVER Been Towed). We are not going to spoil
our special 50th reunion by mixing it up with Cool Desert Nights.
Only the Sorry 7 want to hold it that weekend. We are having our
OWN event. You've got 4 years to clear your calendar on 2
weekends!
-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/02/11
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Patti JONES ('60)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jamie WORLEY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David SHERRARD ('71)
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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, July 9, 2011
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.
Bombers Have Fun,
-Patti Jones Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland, WA
-Marie Ruppert Hartman ('63) ~ Richland, WA
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THE FOLLOWING ENTRY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE 7/1/11 Sandstorm:
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Life's amazin' ain't it
Got three birthdays to celebrate today... kind of a reverse
Fleetwoods two guys and a Bomber-babe... outa get em together and
see if they can sing... Dum dum dum a doobie do dum dum... I'm
sure they could get that far... It's funny, after spending a
nice long weekend home it is very hard to return to the "real"
world... I mean I know if I lived in Richland every weekend would
not be like the '65ers bash but oh how I love the rivers and the
parks and the dike and everything that makes it home. I get a
little lost when I venture past Bombing Range road to the west
and everything past the by-pass is confusing to me... it's very
much like Las Vegas in the "new" parts of town. If I hafta go to
some way out office in another community like Summerlin, I get
totally lost. I've tried leaving an office and just following the
roads and have actually returned to the office where I began
without ever making a turn... the round abouts make me crazy
and the people keep making hand signals to me when I try and
negotiate them... they sure are not made to make friends and
influence people... But I eventually get back to where I want
to be after nearly running out of gas... I once tried to find my
secretary's house and when it got dark just gave up... called her
and just said I'd get whatever it was I needed at the office...
she is NOT good on directions so asking would have been no help.
[Get a GPS -- there is a portable GPS that you can take from car
to car. -Maren] But in the old parts of Richland I feel just
like I'm in the 4th grade again. The only thing missing is the
fat-tired bike my dad got me when I thought I was getting a
racer. I sure hope if I lived there I wouldn't become like some
kids who have never even showed up to a regular reunion let alone
a yearly gathering. I sure enjoyed seeing all the old and newer
friends last weekend and just can't wait for next year! I really
enjoyed hearing that Pete OVERDAHL ('60) used to shoot BB guns at
Brian JOHNSON ('65).. I can't believe how older kids treated Beej
back then... guess I was very lucky to escape some of that...
korse that was when Brian was 3 foot by 3 foot, before he shot
up to 6 foot 6 or whatever he ended up at... he did that over a
weekend between 6th and 7th grade... wow did he grow! But lemme
get back to my reason for writing in today... the first day of
July is a VERY special day so lemme wish George "Pappy" SWAN
('59), Richlard ANDERSON ('60) and Jill BUTLER ('63 swoon gasp...
oh... skuze me just slipped out) a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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THE FOLLOWING IS DAVID'S ENTRY FOR TODAY, 7/2/2011
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Tecknikal difucultees
Did you guys get a weird SS on Friday? I sure did. I sent in my
HB to Richard ANDERSON ('60), Pappy SWAN ('59) and Jill BUTLER
('63) (Jill's may have been a little too risque for publication
cuz instead of getting delivered a normal SS with all my HBs I
got some type written looking thing with my HB of June 15th!!!!!!
Somehow I just don't think that was what was meant... well
today is another Bomber Babe's B-day and if this one gets messed
up I'll be in the dog house for sure... ya know, those girls
have long memories when they want to (and very short ones when
they want to) but missing a Bomber-Babe birthday is an almost
unforgivable sin (though the WEIHERMILLER girls have always
been very understanding, thank goodness). So if this b-day girl
doesn't get her b-day wish on her special day, July 2, 2011...
I may have to file a lawsuit to clear my name... I mean Oh
baaaaaaaaaaby you know you are the only one for me... you just
KNOW it... as Elvis said "you know I'd never lie to you... yeah
yeah... we're caught in a trap... " so here's a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
Jamie WORLEY ('64)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/03/11
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Matt FILIP ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charlie GANT ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray HALL ('57)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Yeah, what was up with yesterday's (7/1) Sandstorm? Everything
read ok, but looked really BAD.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)~ Eureka, CA
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[Carol, By the time I put the 7/1 Sandstorm out, I was falling
asleep at my keyboard. I kept nodding out and thinking that I
was doing OK and getting everything right. It's OBVIOUS now
that I wasn't... and should have taken a NAP before sending that
out... sleep deprivation does WEIRD things to ya. -Maren]
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>>From: Matt FILIP ('77)
Hello Bombers everywhere,
This is very happy entry to recognize Larry MATTINGLY ('60) and
his favorite twin brothers, M&M ('77), with a successful, safe
and festive 4th of July. Please keep up your phenomenal efforts,
Larry.
I've always been fancy to find unsafe and insane fireworks of my
own kind... just ask Kellie WALSH ('77). Years ago up on Hunt
Point my brother Jeff ('76) and I learned great knowledge from a
future engineer neighbor named Paul CHARETTE ('71), and partners
Charlie WARREN ('71), David WAITE ('71-RIP) and Jeff O'MEALY
('71). Someone in this band of brothers found an official U.S.
Army flash trainer out in a favorite junk yard in West Richland
and decided that EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) might just
have some of our heritage calling. This posse of fine folk sat
well with my brother and me.
As Fire Marshall Bill always said... "Don't try this at home,
kids, you will only hurt us all!"
Paul is a genius in the making of basement successes as
witnessed by the Heath radio, Cox .049 aeroplane, Estes rocket
launches (half-successful moon shots), jnk yrd mini bike, go cart
fabrication, back yard river golf and boat building amongst other
unmentionables. A basement of knowledge that 1822 Hunt Point held
will never be forgotten.
One hot summer day around this time of year we were bored. Maybe
we should go for a swim and cool off before we get started being
serious. Okay great. Paul's mother, Mary (RIP), had a liking for
my brother and me. She knew what we had gone thru but did not
know exactly what we were capable of entirely. Mutt and Jeff we
were called by neighbors but I'd rather say Beavis and Butthead.
Enter Paul CHARETTE. Now we have a team of friends who just mean
well. Exactly what we wanted was performed and delivered without
broken river front windows. Lookouts kept the RPD away. Jeff and
I, and ESPECIALLY Paul contributed to the nearest Viet Nam
experience that we ever wanted.
Let me just end it this way: we have all of our eyes, digits,
smell, semi hearing loss and a truckload of memories that make me
happy for the 4th of July.
Our Bomber family is incredible. God bless all who are free but
most importantly those who keep and have kept us that way!
-Matt Filip ('Oh Thank Heaven for the class of 1977')
Arroyo Grande, CA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/04/11 ~ HAPPY 4th of JULY
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1 Bomber Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Penny MITCHELL ('71) '53
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gale WALDKOETTER ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim RICE ('75)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Ron STEPHENS ('56) and Jinnie ECKERT ('58)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Who was in the band, Esquires?
Len REDISKE ('66) let me know who was in The Esquires in 1966...
Hi there-
This is Len REDISKE ('66). And I was in the Esquires!
I was the keyboardist and singer.
Larry BUNCH ('66) was saxaphone and singer.
John GREER ('67) was on bass and also sang.
And Ron WILSON ('67) was the drummer and sang a little.
And lastly, Greg REITEN ('69) was on guitar and did a lot
of singing.
The band also played in the Battle of the Bands two years
in a row. We broke up after summer of '66 after Larry and
I went off to college. The band became the Parrots and
then Lenore.
Larry Bunch has lived in Richland and was a teacher at
Carmichael Junior High.
I live in Vancouver, WA and am in the telecom industry.
Any more questions? Hope this helped you. Len
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Born in Hanford Construction Camp
To All Bombers,
I have read with interest of those who were born in the
Construction Camp Hospital. I have a four photo's mounted on a
foam core board surrounded with a large white border containing
signatures of those who lived and worked in the camp. I would be
honored if those of you who were born at Hanford to sign it.
Thanks for your consideration.
Don Sorenson N A B
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/05/11 ~ NOT
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Not enough entries for a REAL Alumni Sandstorm.
We do, however, have birthdays today:
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon PANTHER ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike HUSKE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Danny WALKER ('71)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/06/11
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45)
Joe FORD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David BARGER ('72)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
Re: Lunch
To all the classes of the forties, the founders of Club 40:
We will have lunch the weekend of Club 40, at the Red Lion
restaurant, Saturday, September 10th at noon. Don't miss it.
Big deal. Just like last year, except I will be on time.
I will repeat this notice again in late August in case I forget.
-Dick McCoy From the Tin Can Class of 1945
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>>From: Joe FORD ('63)
Re: STP Riders?
Hello, Sandstorm readers;
Anyone else planning to ride the STP [Seattle To Portland] 204
miles in 2 days. Or so the plan goes. Saturday and Sunday, July 9
and 10? I'm planning to ride it in two days, staying Saturday in
Napavine, WA. Departing early from Hec Edmondson (6:00-ish) on
Saturday.
Will trade pulling with a rider or riders looking for a sustained
15-mph pace, either day.
I'm bib number 4291, yellow jersey, all-black Cannondale.
Will exchange cell phone numbers for ride-day meet-ups.
Let me know if anyone's interested.
Wish me luck. And do let any other Bombers who are riding it that
I'm game to take turns leading.
Cheers,
-Joe FORD ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/07/11
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Kathy RATHVON ('63)
NO BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
To: Joe FORD ('63)
Joe,
Way to go. I've never done the STP [Seattle To Portland] and
totally admire you for doing it.
-Kathy RATHVON ('63) ~ from sunny Bellevue where Joe might have
decent weather for the STP
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/08/11
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Nadine REYNOLDS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tammy JANES ('78)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna Sue LUKINS ('79)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Plastic Grocery Bags
The Oregon Legislature concluded its first annual session without
considering a state-wide ban on plastic grocery bags. This will
leave the city of Portland as possibly being the major player in
the plastic bag war.
In other news, rumors of RIVERS ('65) being on "Pawn Stars"
trying to unload Knox's Oscar are unfounded.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ in now cooler Mount Angel,
OR, where the thermometer topped out at 90 on the 7th.
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>>From: Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61)
Re: Bicycle Enthusiasts
For all you Bomber bicycle enthusiasts in the Northwest, our son
(NAB) and his partner are presenting a wonderful bicycle event
July 23. It is the Echelon Seattle Grand Fondo. This event is a
fund raising event for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The
Seattle Gran Fondo showcases the unique scenery of Washington’s
Olympic Peninsula. Start your day with breakfast aboard a
Washington State Ferry departing at 7:10 from Edmonds (or drive
to Kingston for the 8:30 am start.) The ride begins in Kingston
and proceeds through the hills of Kitsap County. Riders will
enjoy a beautiful rolling course that weaves along postcard
shorelines. The post ride festival at Kingston will include live
music, gourmet food and beverages from local Washington breweries
and wineries. 30, 70 and 100 mile rides are offered.
In addition to the Gran Fondo, the Seattle event also offers an
exclusive 100-mile Super Gran Fondo, limited to 500 riders. All
event participants will ride the first 32 miles together. Upon
reaching Port Angeles, Super Gran Fondo riders will break off
from the group and climb up above sea level through lush mountain
meadows. Finish the ride with a timed 17-mile climb up the
incredible Hurricane Ridge, which will be closed off just for
our event. The Super Gran Fondo is unique because it is a one-way
course – participants are treated to a first class bus ride back
to Kingston at the end of the ride. Don’t miss this rare
opportunity to ride Hurricane Ridge.
Here is a link to the webpage with all the information.
http://www.echelongranfondo.org/seattle/
They are also producing Grand Fondos later in the summer in
Ft. Collins, CO., Palo Alto, CA., and Hood River, OR. Last year
Dave COCHRAN ('61) and I volunteered to help with their Napa, CA.
and Hood River, OR. events. It was great fun and the cyclists
were very pleased with the quality of the events. The post ride
festival music, food and beverages were a great hit after riding
30, 60 or 100 miles.
-Nadine REYNOLDS Cochran ('61) - We finally got a little rain
here in Sahuarita, AZ which cooled things down from 112°
to 100°. Quite refreshing.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/09/11
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Gene CONLEY ('48)
Here’s a lot of great information on former Richland Bomber
Gene CONLEY.
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=2733&bid=1202
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/10/11
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1 Bomber sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dale McLEAN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill RULON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HODGSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susie DILL ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: What happened to the desert?
Dunno about you guys but down here we are now living in the
tropics. I expect to see vines and those yukky snakes we had in
Vietnam any day now... Spent the week before the 4th getting my
little Chesty Henry J Gasser ready to paint. The Acid rain had
killed the paint. Masked off all the graphics (about 12 hours
work alone) and got it all ready to paint on the 4th... since the
ol' Weatherman said it would be nice and hot... well it was hot
but there was so much humidity couldn't do a thing. I love the
desert... I love to say "yeah but it's a dry heat"... but this
stuff is the pits! I'm sitting here thinking of the birthday boy
and how he could run faster than any kid I knew... any kid most
of us knew... right now if he was in Vegas he'd be swilling water
and salt tablets just to get started... hope his special day is a
good one... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bill RULON ('64) on July 10, 2011!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/11/11
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
JoAnne BUCHOLZ ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rex HUNT ('53wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry CHRISTENSON ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janice JOHNS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John HEFFNER ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Time to dust off the ol' propeller beanie and tip it in
Larry CHRISTENSON's ('54) way on the auspicious occasion
of his birthday.
To: David RIVERS ('65)
What happened was that the deserts got water.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ from Mount Angel, OR
where the humidity is to be expected.
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>>From: JoAnne BUCHOLZ McLaughlin ('65)
I'm getting ready to put my condo on the market, but thought
it might be a good idea to put a post in the Sandstorm in case
any Bombers out there might be interested. It is in an over-55
retirement community in Kennewick. Please contact me for more
information if interested.
-JoAnne BUCHOLZ McLaughlin ('65) ~ From beautiful sunny Kennewick
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Dry heat...
We lived for a while in the Newport News, VA area at the mouth of
the Chesapeake Bay. Humidity and temperature rose in unison into
the 80s and sometimes 90s. It was everything you could do to just
lie there and sweat (they didn't yet know what an air conditioner
was).
I remember once traveling back from there for a funeral in Boise,
ID. This was in the days before jetways. My plane made a stop in
Salt Lake City. It was around 100. I wasn't changing planes but
I went to the landing of the stairs leading off the aircraft and
stood there enjoying the dry heat. My seatmates thought I was
crazy.
However...
In Thailand during the dry season, there was no help at 125 F
even if it was "dry heat." I certainly wasn't dry.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/12/11
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Carol BLACK ('48), Jim JENSEN ('50)
Dick WIGHT ('52), Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
David HANTHORN ('63), Leoma COLES ('63)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra BELLISTON ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy PAYTON ('65)
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>>From: Carol BLACK Foster ('48)
Re: Gene CONLEY ('48)
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the life story of Gene CONLEY.
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=2733&bid=1202
I was in the same class of '48 with Gene and have a picture in
my mind of Gene standing in the hall smiling. He was the nicest
person and it is hard to imagine the drive he had over the years.
I was shocked to read that he worked as an Ironworker. As a
former employer of Ironworkers, I saw up close and personal the
damage it does to them, and especially to their backs and that
is probably why he ended up with a back problem (along with many
other physical problems. But it seems he just dealt with whatever
hurt (sometimes with the help of booze).
The article however did not tell what he is doing now and I am
very curious since we are both 80 years old and that's gettin'
up there!!
Also, thanks to Gary BEHYMER ('64) for giving us this article
since there is not very much in the Sandstorm for "old" people.
-Carol BLACK Foster ('48) ~ Bellevue, WA
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>>From: Jim JENSEN ('50)
Re: Is She A Bomber?
For a period of years I've read about Richland's Hope Solo. This
year her notoriety has an extremely positive face. She is not
only an American idol in the sport of soccer, but is recognized
as a world class goal keeper. I've wondered why nothing about
her has appeared in the Sandstorm. Rather often newspapers have
mentioned her home town is Richland. Did she attend high school
there?
-Jim JENSEN ('50)
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[Jim, We have Hope listed on our "Famous Bombers" page:
http://www.richlandbombers.com/allbombers/famousT.html
She's class of '99. -Maren]
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Dry Desert Heat
I missed out on the beginning of the various dialogue about
deserts and dry heat, but I have a life-long experience of the
climates around Richland and the Tri-Cities. I was born in Pasco
in 1934. One of my early memories was of being caught in a
sand/dust storm in a vacant lot next to our Pasco house at
perhaps age 4. Those "dust storms" were common back in the '30s
and '40s. Even at high school age, we had some of those events
in the Tri-Cities. Major changes began when the so-called final
phases of the Columbia Basin reclamation project were completed
in about 1950 or so. Much of the arid land north and east of
Pasco was placed under effective irrigation. In the years since,
THOUSANDS of additional land has become irrigated in eastern
Washington. I reckon most of the folks of my age and even
somewhat younger remember most of the land between Kennewick and
Prosser was arid, particularly south of the Yakima River. Much of
the land west of the Tri-Cities, extending toward Moxee, is now
orchard or vineyard or other irrigated crop growing county, and
the so-called Pasco highlands is now all irrigated. I've never
viewed any statistics on humidity changes in the Tri-City area
over the years, but I'd guess it averages much higher than it
used to. I remember being home on leave one July - 1954, maybe...
lying in the back yard soaking up sun and listening to a portable
radio. News said the temperature in the Tri Cities was 105 -
hottest spot in the U.S., the broadcast said (hard to believe
even now!). But the air was bone dry... Not so these days, I
suspect!
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ near Branson, MO (caught in an unremitting
high-humidity heart wave)
Ahhh, for that dry Richland air of the 50s!!!!
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Portland/Vancouver Area BBQ
PLEASE JOIN US...
Saturday, August 20 at 1 PM for a good old fashion BBQ Potluck.
Again this year we will have our party at Todd ('62) and Cindy
O'MEALY's house on the beautiful Washougal River.
We had a great time last summer and you should plan to join us.
Please send me an email and I'll provide you with the directions
and contact information that will need.
-Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: David HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Dry heat in Thailand?
My wife is from Thailand and I have gone 10 different times with
her to visit family and friends and tour around the country.
Thailand has three distinct seasons, and none of them can be
described (IMO) as the “dry season” as it is pretty humid in
Thailand year around. Here is how I describe the seasons in
Thailand:
The very hot season – March through June
The hot and rainy season – July through October
The not quite so hot season – November through February
Now don't get me wrong, Thailand is a delightful country and
well worth a visit, but the visitor from the United States
should be prepared for hot and humid weather no matter what time
of year they go. However, these days most businesses, hotels,
automobiles, and such are air conditioned (except in rural areas)
so it isn't too bad. Also, the southern parts of Thailand have
many wonderful, world class white sand beaches (with accompanying
resorts) where the hot weather fits in perfectly. And the
northern part of the country is generally less hot than the
southern, so it works out either way.
I suppose that visitors from the American southeast (where I
understand it can be pretty hot and humid) will probably not
find Thailand so different weather-wise.
I much prefer the "not quite so hot season" in Thailand, which
is why we are planning our next trip for December or January.
125° heat is unusually hot even for Thailand. Can't say as
I have ever seen it quite that hot there, and I hope I never do!
-David HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ from partly sunny
Mercer Island, WA where the mid to high 70° weather we
have had lately is just fine with me.
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
Not sure if anyone has seen or read this book that was listed
as an Oregon Read in my local Sunday paper...
Title: Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
Authors: John M.Findlay and Bruce Hevly
Publisher: University of Washington Press
more information at www.washington.edu/uwpress
I will check it out next chance I get, but was hoping someone
could tell me if it's worth purchasing?
Enjoying the sunny weather here in Salem, Oregon, and heading to
my place at the coast on Wednesday/Thursday this week... hope the
sun holds til then!
-Leoma COLES ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Ohhhhhhh those Bomber babes
So today, is another one a them Bomber-Babe's special days. I
have pictures of her in grade school... which I guess means she
has the same ones of me so I will just forget about the little
blackmail scheme I was gonna run since her picture is much nicer
than mine with my horrible haircuts my dad used to give me (high
and tight... looked like Woody Woodpecker)... and in at least one
of them I had just started to wear those wonderful half plastic-
half metal Malcom-X glasses... they were awful and my neck always
looked like it was true pencil style... gads I was one goofy
looking kid... hope I didn't look as bad in real life... .no
comments from the peanut gallery please! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cindy
PAYTON ('65) on July 12, 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/13/11
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56wb), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Kathy RATHVON ('63), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Rick VALENTINE ('68), Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lorin ST. JOHN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glen ROSE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry KLUTE ('63)
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>>From: Frank De VINCENTIS ('56wb)
Re: Gene CONLEY ('48)
When we lived on Abbot in Richland Gene's father used to come to
our house to get copies of the Boston papers that my father
subscribed to so he could read about Gene. He was very proud of
his son as well he should have been. Later on his brother Ray
('46-RIP) became friendly with my sister Grace ('50wb) and during
one of my visits to her, Ray gave me a whole series of articles
that he clipped from papers and magazines about Gene. Ray loved
his brother and was also proud of his sports endeavors. I had
hoped to play for the Red Sox one day and meet Gene, but alas I
was signed by the Kansas City As and never did get to meet him. I
still like to tell people that I went to the same great high
school as Gene CONLEY.
-Frank De VINCENTIS ('56wb)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
My other Bomber neighbor, Kent JONSON (‘60WB), brought this book
to my attention.
-jimbeaux
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2011/Xtra/Ham/110713-AFD.jpg
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
There's a little article about "Atomic Frontier Days" in today's
Seattle Times under local books. "An examination of the 586-
square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation, including its history as
a federal bomb-making facility, the current cleanup of the site
the area's regional cultuire, economics and politics". Both
authors, John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly, are history professors
at the UW.
-Kathy RATHVON ('63)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Gene CONLEY’s ('48) son does a Facebook page for his Dad with
some great photos!
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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NOTE: This is a re-run (sorta)... I missed a BUNCH of David's
entry in yesterday's Sandstorm, so here it is in it's entirety.
The birthday mentioned was yesterday. -Maren]
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Ohhhhhhh those Bomber babes
I knew it I just knew it... remember when you first saw people
walking around with those plastic water bottles instead of just
drinking out the the neighbor's hose... well according to a well
respected source, it is water that causes humidity in the desert
air. I knew when this town hit two million with all those stupid
people from California running from taxes and bringing their
stupid little water bottles it was gonna cause trouble... little
did I know it would cause this town to feel like the tropics
(that was only spozed ta happen in Phoenix)... Those people
have always been strange... they sold their 8x10 houses for a
gazillion dollars... then came here and bought 15 more (most of
which are now in foreclosure)... they were here to escape what
they complained of as high taxes but as soon as they got here
their first question was... "where's the free stuff... that was
always free in California... yadda yadda"
Thanks to the BEHYMER ('64) for the site on Gene CONLEY ('48)...
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=2733&bid=1202
used to exchange Cristmas cards every year... then one year lost
the address, they moved (that's the address I lost) and the rest
is history... Before we lost touch tho I did manage to have Gene
send me an autographed ball for R2K... Gary WEBB ('64) showed up
to the reunion with a thousand smackers to bid on the ball and
instead it went in a raffle... bummer, dude.
So today, is another one a them Bomber-Babe's special days. I
have pictures of her in grade school... which I guess means she
has the same ones of me so I will just forget about the little
blackmail scheme I was gonna run since her picture is much nicer
than mine with my horrible haircuts my dad used to give me (high
and tight... looked like Woody Woodpecker)... and in at least one
of them I had just started to wear those wonderful half plastic-
half metal Malcom-X glasses... they were awful and my neck always
looked like it was true pencil style... gads I was one goofy
looking kid... hope I didn't look as bad in real life... .no
comments from the peanut gallery please! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Cindy PAYTON ('65) on July 12, 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: David HANTHORN (Gold Medal Class of '63)
I was in Udon Thani (Udorn for you fellow military folks) for
several months. Udon is near the border with Laos.
Maybe I missed one of your seasons ;-)...
At the on-set of the rainy season they celebrated the water
festival for the return of the rains. The US Military had turned
the celebration into a water fight, but the Thai people had a
wonderful way of celebrating. I had one Thai woman approach me
and ask permission. I had no idea what their practice was, but
I gave her permission. I thought I was about to get soaked.
Instead, she had a small dish of water. She poured it down the
back of my neck as she spoke a blessing over me. It was
refreshing and beautiful.
The rains were magnificent! You could see them coming every day
across the area. Huge thunderheads with in-cloud lightning and a
wall of water underneath. It was often so intense that I couldn't
see the buildings across the street but as a blur.
The dry season... It was really dry and really hot. 115-125 was
normal (at least while I was there). I heard no comments about it
being particularly high temperatures. It got down to the 90s at
night (and I melt around 75°).
There was no rain at all during that period. The reservoir we
used for part of the water supply for the base literally dried
up. Before it was over, we were showering in brown water as it
sucked up the mud at the bottom. It was so muddy, you couldn't
see the bottom of the shower while the water was running. When
you dried off, you got the towel dirty.
I collected a jar of the stuff and let it settle for a week or
so. At the bottom of the jar was a fibrous mat of gunk about 1/3
of the jar's total volume. And even then, the water was still
cloudy.
And, believe me, it was dry. But what you felt, mostly, was the
extreme temperatures. I slept with a fan directly on me during
the hottest period and it felt like it was hotter than without
it.
When the rainy season returned and the temperatures dropped into
the 70s at night, it finally felt comfortable to go around in
short sleeves again (otherwise there wasn't anything that was
comfortable) and the Thai guards on the base were wearing gloves
and using fire barrels to keep warm.
I loved Thailand. I spent a fair amount of time in the Thai
culture away from the influence of the US military. There was a
beauty and modesty that was wonderful. It was such a contrast to
what you saw around the base.
That beauty was marred a little by the spirit worship that was
prevalent. It was a way of placating the spirits of the ground
and trees and animals. Those spirits were malevolent and would
cause you harm if you did not build a spirit house and make
regular small food sacrifices--in other words, it was a fear-
based practice.
Those spirit houses were everywhere, even on the grounds of the
Buddhist temples or buildings.
But all-in-all, it was a wonderful place and I still have friends
over there.
I'd better quit, this is getting too long.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Re: Next Spokane Bomber Lunch will be next Sunday, July, 17th.
Lunch will be held at the The Northern Quest Casino at the
Woodlands Restaurant in the family section of the Casino. Coffee
at 11:30 AM... lunch around 12:00 Noon.
The casino is located in Airway Heights, about one mile north of
Wall*Mart at 100 N. Hayford Road. Woodlands Restaurant serves
breakfast and lunch anytime, good food and great service. Come
and join us for lunch. All Bombers, their families and friends
are welcome... the more the merrier.
Lunch and slot machines... out of towners welcome... see you there...
Any questions or need directions contact me.
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Hope SOLO ('99)
Hope is most definitely a Richland Bomber, class of '99.
According to her plaque in the Bomber Hall of Fame outside the
gyms she lead her team with 2 goals in the state championship
game for 4A her senior year. She was a forward who scored 109
goals in four years of high school soccer. She was a 2 time
Parade All American for her feats. She then attended the UW
where the coach changed her into a goalie where she again was
a 2 time all American and the rest is history so to speak. The
Olympian had a long article on her last week, also.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacy, WA where it's trying to be more
summer-like
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/14/11
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Betty BELL ('51)
Margaret EHRIG ('61), Peg SHEERAN ('63)
NO BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
Miss Maren:
Can you tell me when the Club 40 attendance roster will be
available? Just looked to see if any of the old gang was going
to make it and the site was unavailable.
Thanks.
-Mary TRIEM Mowery, a '47 Bomber
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[I've contacted the Club40 webmaster... -Maren]
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>>From: Betty BELL Norton ('51)
The EASY SWING BAND will be playing their great music Friday,
July 15th from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Richland Community Center
for dancing or for just listening! Cost is only $5 at the door,
and pre-packaged finger foods are welcome but not required. Hope
to see you there!
-Betty BELL Norton ('51)
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Attention - Class of '61
We have only one month until reservations are due for our 50th
class reunion on September 9-11. We have heard from many of you
but we want to hear from the rest.
Two excursions are full but two buses still have spaces that need
to be filled. The jet boat trip up the Columbia is full and the
Saturday morning B-reactor tour is full. There still are about 20
spaces on the Friday wine tour and plenty of room on the Saturday
afternoon B-reactor tour. We need to fill these buses so we do
not lose any money. If we do not hear from class of '61 members
by August 1st we will open it up to friends of '61.
The plans for our special reunion dinner at Terra Blanca Winery,
Saturday night are coming along nicely. There is plenty of space
for any class member to make reservations by August 16th. Friday
night at the Red Lion with Club 40 also has plenty of room but it
too is by reservation only.
Remember we are using the Clarion Hotel as our center point for
the weekend. Be sure to mention the Class of '61 when you are
making your hotel reservations. If you have misplaced the
reservation information for the excursions all the forms are
available on the http://61bombers.com/ website.
We look forward to seeing all of you for a great weekend. It has
been a long 50 years since that final day in the Bomber Bowl and
the old Boys Gym when it decided to rain on our graduation.
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
Re: Rains!
To: Tedd CADD ('66) and Dave HANTHORN ('63)
Lived in the Philippines - off base (Clark) - for over 2 years.
in the '60s. Remember the monsoon season well. Sitting in our
tin-roofed house, the rain came so hard and fast it sounded like
a jet was landing on the house. And the streets (dirt roads) were
dry one minute, and then the kids would be swimming in them not
too long after.
-Peg SHEERAN Finch ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/15/11
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8 Bombers (including the Cole kids) sent stuff:
Gary BEHYMER ('64), Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Lynn-Marie HATCHER (’68)
4 Cole Kids
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Judie and Jackie COLE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenn EKLUND ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Gary Davis ('77) & Karen Whitney ('76)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Hanford Reach museum signs lease for Columbia Park
Re: Searching for JoAnne POWERS ('64)
http://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/joannepowers.html
Ok... so I continue my search for JoAnne POWERS who has remained
on the 'forever lost list from 1964' for a very long time.
Knowing that 'everyone doesn't want to come out and play' doesn't
help my situation very much. I have resigned to limit myself to
the following question. Has any reader of the Alumni Sandstorm
been in contact with JoAnne Powers? I need NOT know where she is
but rather, "Is she OK & doing well?"
Re: History of Richland Cemeteries
http://www.einansfuneralhome.com/_mgxroot/page_10798.php
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
Re: Love the cool weather
I am in Spokane to visit family for a week and am glad to be out
of Nashville (heat index of 108 yesterday, Wednesday) and up here
in the other God's country. I plan on attending the Spokane area
luncheon on Sunday. Would love to see any other class of '64
friends.
-Paul TAMPIEN ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Dubel trubel
That's what we got on July 15, 2011. I have fond memories of
these girls even tho I was at the card table watchin' them with
the rest a the little kids back in school. Just crashed their
younger brother's ('66) reunion a few weeks ago and thought it
was just grand. Course I'm easily entertained with anything that
has a bunch of Bombers attending. It was great to see old friends
(it's ok to say old about kids my age and younger... just very
dangerous to say it in terms of girls who were ahead of me in
school) in the same room and try and guess who some people were
with their first names written on their name tags in big letters
and their last names in letters the size of foot notes. One old
flame approached me and shoved her name tag under my nose...
I hadda laugh... "Sweetie, there is no way I can read that" I
responded... then was totally embarrassed when I realized who
it was... I have two VERY vivid memories of being at this girl's
house back in my Jr. Year. One was when I had just broken up with
another girl to go with this one and my car was parked outside
new girl's house. I left and an envelope was sitting on the front
seat of my car. It turned out to be a sympathy card from the ex
(the ex would become the current again over time tho)... I guess
she was not at all pleased with me. My other memory is kind of
strange (not that I don't have other memories... these two just
stand out)... We musta had some kinda fight because I went out
and jumped in my old '40 Chevy I'd got from Bob MIDDLETON ('63)
and burned rubber as I was leaving (pretty amazing considering
the little 6 that car had)... but the thing that gets me is I
remember "Outer Limits" later to be changed to "Out of Limits"
was playing on the radio as I left. As I read back over this I
find it is no wonder I don't have a life... I never hadda life...
this stuff is pathetic! So to get to the point, may I wish and
may you join me in wishing Jackie COLE ('63) and Judie COLE ('63)
a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on their special day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: See Brad UPTON ('74) AND fight Muscular Dystrophy
We have a great-nephew, Finn, who is 14 and has Duchenne Muscular
Dystrophy. I just received the following e-mail from Finn’s
mother, our niece, Brandy Senecal (NAB), who is the daughter of
my husband’s half-sister, Cheryl “Joey” ARNOLD Fertig ('62). (So
Finn is the grandson of a Bomber cheerleader!)
For those of you looking for a chance to catch a show by Brad
UPTON ('74), this would be a great opportunity that would also
benefit kids with Duchenne's.
So thought I'd pass the info along.
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID where it's
summer time and the livin' is hard work. Farms are busy
places, especially from March to November! Contrary to
the old song, summertime does NOT mean the livin' is easy!
"Comic Relief 2 is officially ON!!! Featuring Comedian
Brad UPTON - who brought down the house last year and is
ready to do it again!!! It's a super fun night of comedy
along with a silent auction of affordable & useful items
to bid on.
Because of your support, last year we raised over $25,000
in one night on our first try, so we GOTTA go for round 2!
Tickets: $25.00 each – (You can e-mail Brandy Senecal to
arrange for tickets)
Date: 9/11/11 Doors open at 5:30 Venue: Laughs Comedy Spot
in Kirkland (off I-405 and 116th)
Headliner: Brad Upton http://www.bradupton.com
Website: http://www.parentprojectmd.org/comicrelief
We are also in need of auction items, donations &
sponsors. So if you or anyone you know might have
something to donate please let me know - thank you,
thank you, thank you! :-)
***All funds raised go to P.P.M.D.
http://www.parentprojectmd.org - an organization that
funds research & advocacy and supports all things related
to kicking Duchenne MD to the curb - where it belongs!
Thank you all so much for your support, it truly means
the world to our family. Watching Finn live with the
challenges that this disease brings, just makes me more
motivated to make sure he is one of the last generations
affected...we really are that close to finding
treatment."
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: The Cole Kids
Happy birthday to Judie and Jackie ('63). We'll celebrate at the
cabin, dancing to "Mama Mia," eating "No No's," and playing cards
and dominoes. We love you!
-Barbara ('50), Patti ('52), Karen ('55), & John ('66)
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2 Bombers and Gene DeBattista sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial Today:
Jeff DeMEYER ('62),
Gary BEHYMER ('64),
Gene DeBattista (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara ISACKSON ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Margo COMPTON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Scott HARTCORN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet BENNETT ('71)
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>>From: Jeff DeMEYER ('62)
Re: Missing classmates 1962
David BELL, Herbert E. BELVINS, Linda BROMELY, Doug BURNS,
Keith CROWNOVER, Don CURTIS, Barry DAHL, Lesie Lang Dalton,
Ron DYKES, Ken ELLIOT, Roger FARBER, Margert GIBSON Tucker,
Patrica HAHN, Clark HALL, Linda HANSON Toth, Tom HARMON,
Richard HEHDERSON, Mike HOLCOMB, Gearld HOOPER, Cecil HOWARD,
Freddie LENHART, Margert LEWIS Helberg, Jerry LIDDEL,
Richard LLOYD, Doug LUKENS, Ben MILES, Drudeane NICHOLSON Martin,
Carole PETTERSON Graham, Steven SCHELL, Norman SEYMOUR,
Rod SHANKS, Margert SMITH, Rick SMOLEN, Bill STAINKIN,
Suzann TABBERT, Lloyd TAYLOR, Sue TOMLINSON Yount,
Pat TRUILLO Hunter, Fred VanPATTEN, Laurel VLACIL Murry,
Mary WAMSLEY, Walter WEBB, Linda WHITTAKER, Mike WIATER,
Dave WILSON, Cathy WILSON Ward, Valeree WORKMAN Offerman,
Yvonne WRIGHT, Carolyn WRIGHT Kellmans, Tony ZIMA.
Please contact.
Thank You.
-Jeff DeMEYER ('62)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: "Trinity" ~ July 16th, 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
On July 16th, 1945, Ivan & Frances Behymer lived on the corner of
Mahan & Williams in a "B" house built in 1943. I'm sure work that
day for them was just like the several years preceding, however,
history indicates that quite a bit changed after "Trinity". ~
Salute!
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Gene DeBattista (NAB)
Of all those hundreds of photos you have in your data base I was
lucky to see several on the US Army open house at Camp Hanford
Nike Site. I was going to save those photos for my bio but when
I went back to find them I could not locate them. Would you be
willing to assist me?
I was stationed at that missile site, “A” Battery, 52 Artillery
and as it happened I was on guard duty that day (1958, about
June/July time frame) but the cameraman was focused on the other
guards.
-Gene DeBattista (NAB) hubby of Patricia JONES DeBattista ('59)
375-1358
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>>Jon HUDSPETH - Class of 1952 ~ 1934 - 2011
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/17/11
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Tom TRACY ('55)
Helen CROSS ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dean ANSON ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Denny LYTLE ('66)
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>>From: Tom TRACY ('55)
To: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=2733&bid=1202
Thanks for the Gene CONLEY ('48) web page bio.
In November, 1948, in the Prosser Gym, Gene CONLEY ('48), a
Junior, slammed the first dunk shot my brother, Bill TRACY ('52)
and I ever witnessed. It was impressive, especially for a little
kid who couldn't reach the net with a step ladder. Conley's team,
coached by Joe Barker, Jan Barker's ('55) Dad, gleamed in the
bright, shining green and gold warm ups. Prosser had no warm ups
and we were still heroes after the game. I thought it would be
fabulous to be able to play on a team like that. We had never
been to a high school basketball game. The warm up drills were
smooth and classy. It was a close game... well, at least
until right after the national anthem. Prosser Mustang star,
Dale Spradling, and crew fought valiantly, but CONLEY ('48),
MARCUM ('48-RIP), and RHS were too much for them. Dale became a
professor of geology at Eastern Washington and retired there. He
may have played with Orville MARCUM ('48-RIP) who helped recruit
some of our Bomber team in '55. Remembered stories of how Gene's
WSU baseball coach, "Buck" Bailey would pull Gene out of games
whenever scouts came around. Not sure if it was true or
apocryphal. He was a legend in his own time.
We saw Dale Spradling, still a hero, during the summer at the
Prosser Pool; where we all had to wear the 1920s black, "full-
body" swimming suits from 1920. Someone had purchased from a city
slicker, who warned about the sins and pains of "overexposure"...
yes, friends, right there in "River City"... with a capital P and
it rhymes with "pool". Once the suits got wet, they contained 10-
20 pounds of water. The closest thing to a "frog man" suit from
WWII. Inefficient, but saved you from pain during belly-flops.
And the lifeguards were nothing compared to Richland's Ann
PEARSON ('51).
Prior to the Prosser-RHS game, the most exciting thing in Prosser
basketball in previous weeks was when the first five on the
Mustang varsity gave themselves Mohawk haircuts and were promptly
kicked off the team... (until they lost the next game)... and
back they came, with the bad hair day sin forgiven. But alas and
alack, they were again clipped clean by the Bomber Machine. Their
colors could have been blue and black after the Bomber attack.
CONLEY always had that relaxed, comfortable smile that won him
many friends. ("sorta like a "Christian-with-four-aces"). He was
the easy choice for a new hero. Next time I saw him was at the
top of Lee Blvd., when he was the starter for the Soap Box Derby
contestants. The elevated ramp release handle was seven feet off
the ground and Conley was one of the few around who could reach
it.
We attended every Bomber game played in the Yakima Valley that
year and almost all of them afterwards. Many of our families were
addicted to Bomber Basketball and lots to baseball.
I remember one big baseball game. Gene looked relaxed when he
pitched against the Pasco Bulldogs. He threw frightening curve
balls toward their heads. Most batters stepped out of the
batter's box (commonly called:‘stepping into the "bucket"), only
to watch Gene's pitch curve over the plate. He and Bill GRIFFIN
('54) leaped off the mound when they pitched. It's deadly to bat
against a 6'8" guy who leaps 15 feet closer before he releases
the ball.
He also looked relaxed when he came to baseball pitching booth at
the traveling carnival set up in Bomber Bowl and put down his 25
cents to pitching at steel milk bottles in one of the booths.
It was an easy mark for CONLEY. It cost him a few dollars to win
almost all of their prizes before the show boss shut down the
game. Gene always "changed-the-odds" in whatever he did. During
baseball season, CONLEY would slip into Bomber Bowl between RHS
baseball innings to win the high jump at track meets. He had no
spare time in Springtime.
Things I remember about "Jumpin' Geno", the name given him to
grateful Bostonians later... after he "fronted" Wilt Chamberlain
and kept him from getting the ball. Coach Red Auerbach often
said, CONLEY was probably the best all-around athlete in America.
"I had him guard Wilt". Wilt hated to play against CONLEY. Wilt
broke almost every record in basketball. The only thing he
couldn't do was beat the Celtics-thanks to CONLEY"!
For two years, '68-'70 while teaching, coaching and attending
graduate school, I drove into Boston to supervise teachers for
a small college in Quincy, MA. One school was in Roxbury-the
Inner City Schools, as well as Hingham, Newton, Quincy, Hanover,
Norwell, Cohasset, Scituate, Braintree, Bourne, and a few other
townships. Roxbury's Hurley School, in a tough neighborhood; and
the only one where I ever had to ring a bell, be inspected by a
police officer before entering the school; almost like today's
TSA. My fellow-coach at Eastern Nazarene, Carroll Bradley, was
a good friend of Auerbach. We got to play two preliminary games
at the Garden each year and attend Red's training camp in
Marshfield, MA. Meeting Red was a great honor... along with
Havlicek, Russell, Heinsohn and others...
Red told stories on and on about Gene. A tough one was when Gene
told Red his whole family was coming to the Boston Garden to
watch him play. Auerbach didn't let him play. CONLEY was really
angry. Auerbach played him almost the entire next game. CONLEY
held Wilt Chamberlain to one of Wilt's lowest scores in his
career. After the game Red said, "That's why I didn't let you
play in the last game. I knew you'd take your anger out on 'The
Dunker'; and you did it! The fans roared, 'Jumpin' Geno'" over
and over again, according to Bill Russell.
Another story was when he first met Auerbach. Red was a wild
driver; and none of the players would ride with him to nearby
preliminary games. But he talked Gene into it. Tommy Heinsohn, a
future Celtic coach, laughed and retold Gene's side of the story.
"CONLEY had never ridden with Red. It was so foggy you couldn't
even see the hood ornament. Red didn't slow down. Instead he
rolled down the window, stuck his head out and followed the white
line on the highway. Gene said, "Red steered beside the line at
60 miles an hour and swerved when the line curved; once we went
through a Howard Johnson's Drive Inn... without even stopping to
give an order, ask for directions... or get change"! When they
arrived at the gym, Heinsohn said, "CONLEY's eyes were as big as
saucers".
One cold 1969 afternoon, on my way to grad school at Boston
University, I passed a billboard on Massachusetts Avenue,
installed by International Paper Company, a competitor of Gene
CONLEY's Foxboro paper company. The sign's big motivational
letters read: "Send Me a Man Who Reads. – International Paper."
Next morning I noticed it had been modified/re-punctuated with a
spray can to: "Send Me a Man* Who Reads? -- LISA".
I smiled and thought Gene would have smiled too. CONLEY had a
great Will Rogers sense of humor. Once when a reporter asked him,
"What's your favorite shot?", Gene calmly smiled and said, "The
one that goes through the net." When he was asked by an owner,
"Why do you need so much money as a player?", he smiled said:
"I have three kids and a wife who like to eat."
He had lots of skills, but one of his greatest was in choosing an
extraordinary wife. Her book about their life and Gene's careers
remains a winner. ["One Of A Kind" by Katheryn R. Conley]
Our family felt a common bond with Gene... being from Oklahoma,
a bit Irish, and a little bit of Cherokee. I Still carry my
"Cherokee Nation" card. When we started grade school in
California, Mom told us not to tell anyone we were from
Oklahoma... folks from Oklahoma's dust bowl area were not always
well-received. They couldn't find work, dashed to California and
often worked time-and a-half, for half pay. But not in Richland.
They were well paid and well treated. Arkies and Okies were
mentioned in S.L. Sanger's "Working on The Bomb" F.J. McHale,
security officer reminded us, "They came here because they had
nothing at home".
Gen. Groves used to say, "They were d_ _n good workers. It was
the Okies and Arkies who built this job. The idea may have come
from the scientists, but these people built it." The CONLEY
family and many others ("non-Okies/Arkies too) made commitments
to the project, to Richland, our schools, and our futures. We
cherish them all; from wherever.
Glad Gary BEHYMER ('64) reminded us about Gene, the good
thoughts of home, and the truly "good ol' days" of the '40s,
'50s, and '60s.
Bomber bests to all,
-Tom TRACY ('55)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I can't resist adding to the dry heat-wet heat talk. When my
husband and I were transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio, in l974
(which is definitely a hot, humid place on many summer days,
I remember getting up at 4:30am to play tennis with another
friend, also from the west coast. If we tried to play later in
the day, we felt like we were drowning in sweat...
Now after having lived back here off and on for 30 years, I can
do pretty well in the humidity if it is below 80°. Sadly, I've
given up tennis, so I don't know what time in the day I'd feel
comfortable playing that sport. I've found I like getting in
the swim pool on any hot, humid or not so humid day. But I do
love the breezes if and when we get them in this humid climate.
The dry heat or lack of humidity is what I miss most about not
living on the west coast, except as I think of it, I do miss the
mountains too, and the more I think of it, I miss a lot of things
that I had when living in the west... someday, I hope to return..
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in Grandview, IN on the Ohio River
during hot humid days and some landmark downpours of rain...
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Normally I'm not one to complain, but I couldn't get back to
sleep early this morning after Roy BALLARD ('63) tried to stab me
with a hypodermic needle. Not sure what brought about his ire,
maybe it was that I ate the last of the rhubarb pie about 2:30am.
Anyone out there in Bomber World analyzing dreams?
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/18/11
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Marilyn DeVINE ('52)
Kathy RATHVON ('63), Roy BALLARD ('63)
NO BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today!
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
Re: Gene
A lot of good entries in these pages re CONLEY ('48). I knew him
fairly well as I went to school with him for a short while, and
his brother, Ray CONLEY ('46-RIP) was my very close friend. Tom
TRACY ('55) wrote a interesting article about Boston, at the time
of Gene. He did lump Gene and Orv MARCUM together with ('48RIP),
they did have the same class, but Gene is not RIP unless I have
missed something.
[You didn't miss anything, Dick. That was me adding the class
years to Tom's entry... there was no class year behind either
name and I left the class year off Gene because I'd already put
that before... I'll go into the online version and add it
though... don't want anybody thinking Gene is an "RIP". -Maren]
When they were frosh, Coach Hoff inconceivably cut them from the
Jr Varsity. Gene was only about 5'10" at the time but he and Orv
were great athletes even then. They would have cut a swath thru
the JV schedule. The next year, when they were sophs, Foxey Joe
Barker took over the team and they were the very best, leading
the Bombers to its first state tournament.
When I was a young pup, Ray, Gene. I went on an adventure. Ask
Rick REED ('49) about that. He was the driver.
A dozen or so years ago, we were in New Hampshire where Gene
lived then. I called him and we had a nice chat. I invited him
down into town to have a cup of coffee, but he had a doctor's
appointment. Or so he said. I expect he tired of the many calls
from old acquaintances. That is OK.
-Dick McCOY from the Tin Can Class of 1945
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
I'll try this again...
Yesterday I was into the 4th paragraph of a letter to my friends
and co-Bombers via the Sandstorm, when it disappeared. Gone.
Kaput. Checked "drafts' to find NOTHING. Aaargh!
[HINT: Next time try CTRL-Z -- what can you loose? -Maren]
So... I don't know what I thought was so important to rate 4
paragraphs, but it must have been something... meanwhile, I'm out
here in another "God's Country", staying in the house my beloved
late husband left to me, in which I lived for 8 years before
calling it quits because of Alaska's dreadful winters. (Besides,
my son and his wife needed a live-in babysitter for their new
baby, an excuse that worked perfectly to get me outta' here! That
wonderful baby boy is now 11 years old and starts Middle School
in West Richland this year. He has a (now) 16 year old sister
going to Hanford High and they are 2 of the delights of my life.)
Missing family and friends in the Tri-Cities is just a small
sacrifice compared with the joy of family and friends up here,
AND getting to "miss" the terribly hot months down there.
(Although I've heard it hasn't been all that bad, YET.)
To: Bill TRACY ('55)
Really enjoy your delightful contributions to the Sandstorm!!
Especially today's, mostly regarding Gene CONLEY ('48). You have
a good memory and a great way of writing in a very entertaining
way. I remember Gene, but not in the way so many of you "older
guys" do! Thank you for sharing.
Well, heck... seems I've run out of things to say. I wonder what
was in the "lost one"... ????? Oh well, perhaps I'll think of
something else later.
Best Bomber regards to each and all,
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in Butte, AK. (A second class
"suburb" of Palmer.) I counted 8, so there were probably
more, Dragonflies flitting around eating up those pesky
mosquitos. I love Dragonflies! I love life, too, but that's
a whole different thing.
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>>From: Kathy RATHVON ('63)
To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Jimbeaux,
Try "Googleing" dream and then click on Dream Dictionary. It's a
hoot. It interprets a bajillion subjects. Maybe your dream means
you need to inject more fun into your life. Nah! I don't think
so. But try it and go to "injection". It tells what it means if
someone if forcibly injecyiong you.
-Kathy RATHVON ('63) ~ from cloudy Bellevue where we are going
from spring directly into fall.
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
To: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
It was a horse hypodermic needle and it should have been
raspberry/rhubarb pie and you would have slept. I had it last
week when my wife Nancy ('67) and I were over in Oak Harbor
visiting our son, Greg ('90), daughter-in-law Katie and our three
granddaughters, Ally, Natalie and the tiger of the three Jill, 14
months old. We had a great stay at the Navy lodge in Oak Harbor.
Don't forget, Jim, RASPBERRY/RHUBARB pie, no after effects.
Roy ('63), Nancy ('67), and Greg ('90)
-Roy BALLARD ('63)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/19/2011
Dateline: Richland
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Jim YOUNT ('61)
Bruce STRAND ('69)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rod PETERSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karla SNYDER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Fred GRAZINNI ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mollie RUTT ('71
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mandy WALTMAN ('71)
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>>From: Jim YOUNT ('61)
Re: Bios for '61 Reunion
Just wanted to echo Margaret EHRIG Dunn's "last call" note from
last week:
If you haven't done so recently, take a look at the bio pages on
our class web site here:
<61bombers.com/classmates/>
We've added quite a stack of write-ups from our classmates.
There are still many more to come, but time is running out.
Please send your words and a few photos and I'll get them posted.
Judy has also listed some questions you could answer, for those
stumped for something to say.
Your humble webmaster,
-Jim YOUNT ('61)
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: Sandstorm - AZ style
We are having our own version of the Sandstorm here in greater
Phoenix. We are getting hit with another haboob, Arabic for
large sand storm, this evening. Fun and games.
-Bruce A. STRAND ('69)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Happy Birthday to Mollie RUTT and Fred GRAZINNI, on the 19th,
both '71 grads. 'Nough said 'bout that, and both of you better
show up at the 40th Aug 12-14th. Mollie, no excuse since you
live here!!! Best to both of you.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ and I'll be there. Flip-flops, and a light
coat of oil......................................
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/20/2011
Dateline: Richland
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry WERNER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Geoffrey ROTHWELL ('71)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Re: Stein & House
See if this link works for you? It's Ray STEIN ('64) & Jim HOUSE
('63) with their over-65 group. [Worked just fine for me (note:
it is the longest URL I have ever seen); too bad that the
photographer didn't know how to set the white balance. -Richard]
Jim House & Ray Stein Over-65 Hoops
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Health Status Update
Had the defibrillator and pacemaker implanted on Thursday...
came home on Friday... hurt like the dickens! They don't "put
you out", just give "a local". When the OR nurse told me that
I would be awake, I almost got off that blasted table!!!!
Although, since I am such a BIG baby with pain, they did end up
putting something in the IV that made me go to "la la land" for
some of the surgery! But, I did hear them talking and felt the
tugging and prodding and wasn't happy about that at all! Then,
to add insult to injury, they put a paper blanket from the top
of my head to my feet... immediately started getting nervous and
told them they had to remove that... that didn't happen, but
they did put a "tripod-type" thing between my face and the
"blanket", also had to keep my face turned to the side. since I
can't take morphine, they gave me Tylenol with codeine for the
pain... didn't help much... ice packs worked much better. Can't
raise my right arm above my shoulder for 10 days (they had to put
the device on the right side, cause I still have the chemo port
on the left side). It's a bit scary to know that my life depends
on these two devices to keep my heart "ticking" and my heart in
a good rhythm, but it's worth it. ONE good thing about having
these two devices... I can NEVER have an MRI!!!!!!! *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ warming up to triple digits next week in
Bakersfield, CA
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Sorry so short
I gotta very dear, close Pal havin' his big day on July 20,
2011! I just got outa trial and am running to a meeting across
town so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Terry WERNER ('65) Hope to call you and
say HB "in person"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/21/2011
Dateline: Richland
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2 Bombers sent stuff and 2 Bomber Memorials today:
Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Robert AVANT ('69)
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Re: I Deleted A Sandstorm Issue and I Need It Back
Hi, Maren. I have a friend who is interested in the article
about Gene CONLEY (48) that recently appeared in the Sandstorm.
Unfortunately I went into my trash and deleted everything
forever a couple of days ago. Is it possible to send that issue
along to me? Appreciate all you do and can do.
Cheers,
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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Deputy Editor Richard ANDERSON ('60) weighs in:
Richard (and all Bombers on the subscription list), when this
happens remember that every single issue of the Sandstorm --
from the first (August 1, 1998) through today's -- is available
at the Alumni Sandstorm Archive.
If it is a recent issue you need, just click on the day you want
(if you have forgotten the exact day you'll have to go through
the list until you find the issue you need). If it is an older
issue, you will get an entire month's worth of issues to look
through. The only difference between the archive and email
editions is that the contact information of each item is removed
from the archive edition.
I hope that this will solve your problem.
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>>From: Robert AVANT ('69)
Re: Everett Display 07/04/2011
The call had gone out from Larry MATTINGLY ('60) for volunteers
to help with the 4th of July fireworks display for the City of
Everett. So, before he has anything to say, I am going to get my
2 cents in.
1. A barge in an estuary with no shade is a great place to get a
tan if you are there for 9-hour days.
2. Wiring hundreds of, admittedly low velocity, explosives is
not a normal human function.
3. Wiring in "series" reminds me of the 1950's Christmas tree
lights and having 1 of them burn out ... and all the fun that
was.
4. It was a privilege to receive an assignment from someone who
has done this for 1/2 century and just have it assumed it was
done properly.
5. What a way to spend a holiday weekend. It was great!
6. Larry can call on me any time to repeat ... especially if he
will let me help with the Dutch Harbor, AK display ... hint,
hint.
-Robert AVANT ('69)
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>>Janice STREGE Reynolds - Class of 1969 ~ 1951 - 2008
>>Bob NIELSEN - Class of 1958 ~ 1940 - 2011
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/22/2011
Dateline: Richland
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Brad UPTON ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: John & Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck CRAWLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula VINTHER ('69)
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>>From: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Re: Club-40
With Club-40 just a few weeks away, I am surprised that there is
not a list of attendees available on the website by now. When
might we expect to see the list? BTW, I am moving back to the
Tri-Cities during the month of August. I'm looking forward to
living in Charbonneau in Kennewick. It won't turn me into a Lion
because Bomber blood never changes.
-Curt DONAHUE ('53) ~ Federal Way (for a few more weeks).
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>>From: Brad UPTON ('74)
37+ years ago I ordered a class ring 'cause, well, uh ...
everyone else did! I got a nice one too! $35, white gold! At 17,
I'd never worn a ring, so when it showed up it was big and fat
and I couldn't get used to it. I wore it about 6 weeks and then
stuck it in my drawer. Fast forward to 2011 ... the ads on the
radio tell you that they are buying all kinds of gold. Well,
today ... I wandered into a place in Bellevue and plopped my RHS
Class of '74 ring on the counter. Just curious what it was
worth. The guy stuck it on a scale and said, "I'll give you
$256.31 for it." SOLD! I know, I know ... it's my class ring and
it had a mushroom cloud on it ... but I'd barely ever worn it. I
took the cash!
-Brad UPTON ('74)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Tom HUGHES ('56)
Patti JONES ('60), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Greg ALLEY ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry EVANS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy ADAIR ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Aric BUCK ('95)
BBA BIRTHDAY Today: Agnes Hughes ('02BBA - Bomber By Adoption)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45/'46/'02)
Re: Club 40
To all you C40 attendees: In the first years of this annual
event, Friday was a casual day, and all the good folks were
encouraged to wear the colors, Green and/or Gold. So let's do
it. If you have anything in the colors, wear them. Doesn't
matter which, a football helmet, a mortar board, letter sweaters
whatever, if you can still get in them. I recall early on some
neat gal wore her cheerleader outfit, (she still fit in it very
well), and led us in a couple of cheers. See if you qualify.
Let's have fun, OK?
-Dick McCOY, from the Tin Can Class of 1945...!
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>>From: Tom HUGHES ('56)
To: Brad UPTON ('74)
I find it odd that people are trading in gold, which is worth
more and more every day, for dollars, which are worth less and
less each day.
-Tom HUGHES ('56)
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>>From: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Re: See Scores of MGM Stars old and all together!?? - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLJpjdIhVk
50 years ago. so many memories. This lets us know who amongst
the older stars is still here. Happy memories. Take the time and
enjoy. Sent to me by another Bomber.
-Patti JONES Ahrens ('60) ~ West Richland Summer is great not
too hot, and not too cool, except when my air conditioner
heater was out for 5 days. 90° in the house. Now fixed
with a whole new unit so no problems in the winter with
heat. Now that my health is better I am on the computer
more and doing more. Thankfully I think during the past
year of my health problems I think I only missed one
luncheon.
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
Just where is Charbonneau in Kennewick? We are wanting to move
back to the west side of Kennewick when our house sells.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Brad UPTON ('74)
Re: Class Ring
When I graduated in '64, the class rings were also $35, and I
wanted one so badly, but my dad said girls didn't need class
rings, would just take up space in a drawer to be replaced by
an engagement/wedding ring, so I never got one. When the Bombers
got together and offered the Alumni Ring, I bought one as fast
as I could... *grin*... only thing I wish is that the design
would have been like the rings that were offered when I
graduated, but majority chose the design. My daughters both have
class rings (paid about ten times more than what mine would have
cost in '64)... my alumni ring resembles their designs... they
no longer wear them... taking up space in their jewelry boxes,
so guess my dad might have been right, but I still wish I had
gotten the "original" class ring. *grin*
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Bakersfield, CA I'm so ready to go back
to the Oregon Coast (Florence) and get out of this blasted
heat... don't much care for triple digits!
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: How do I do it??????????
Good thing he's a guy and won't get his feathers ruffled... I
put Pete BEAULIEU's ('62) b-day down as the 29th along with Tom
HUGHES ('56) and got a surprise on the 22nd when he was posted
in the SS. Sorry... I goofed up again... won't ever happen again
(riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight). I was shocked and awed when I read
that UPTON ('74) sold his class ring for a couple hundred
bucks... One of our hot rod club members (Road Masters) sold
his club jacket at a swap meet and they almost found him buried
in the desert like was done here in the old days... Now we all
know that Brad is a professional comedian so I'm sure it was
just part of his act for the times when he plays Richland...
Personally I hadda weigh between smokes/beer/gas/date money and
the $25.00 price was just more than I could fit in. WERNER ('65)
wore his to Richland this June and I still dig that ring as much
as I did the first time I saw it. If Brad's ring hadda been a
'65 I'da beat the pawn broker's price... but then again... it
was only a joke... it was only a joke... have you ever seen what
a bottle of gas does to a classic Caddy? Not a purdy sight...
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Greg ALLEY ('73)
Re: Westcosta
The new West Richland Golf Course clubhouse, dining room, bar,
and deck look real nice. It is brand new but has the feel like a
real nice place and a fancy golf course. Next up would be to get
a golf course that never floods again but that won`t happen. The
mudbogged course is getting better with the summer but took a
bad hit with the flood.
Re: Hope SOLO ('99)
Hope made the cover of Sports Illustrated. After the tough loss
she still made the front cover. Any other Bombers ever had that
honor? Fellow classmate Dick CARTMELL ('73) did get in a cover
shot with a collage of players, coaches, and refs.
-Greg ALLEY ('73) ~ In warm Richland where the highlight of the
summer is that we have not reached 100°, but August is
still coming.
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Phil BELCHER ('51), Ann BISHOP ('56)
Jeanie WALSH ('63), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Elva McGHAN ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb CRAWFORD ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pete HOLLICK ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gay EDWARDS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick ALLEN ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy HARTNETT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill AYOTTE ('71)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Gene KELLER ('50) & Pat BADGER ('53)
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>>From: Phil BELCHER ('51)
Re: Hollywood - Entry by Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLJpjdIhVk
I spent well over an hour watching the suggestions on the
page Patti sent in and they brought back many memories of the
Richland theatre as well as the Village theatre and the various
drive-inns of that time. The four part series of 'Hollywood
dreams is one of the ones I enjoyed. We lived in a great time
and I often think of how fortunate we were. Never had to lock
our doors, could stay out past dark without worrying anyone
and I could hitch hike to West Richland without problems.
The Alumni Sandstorm does such a great job of keeping us
connected. Many thanks to the editors.
-Phil BELCHER ('51)
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>>From: Sara Ousley, aka Ann BISHOP ('56)
Anyone know where I can get a Bomber "T" shirt?
-Sara Ousley, aka Ann BISHOP ('56) ~ Texarkana, AR where we
have had 25 days of 100+ temps, so far
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Re: Adoption
OK, I want to see the adoption papers on Agnes Hughes ('02BBA)..
-Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH ('63) ~ Simi Valley, CA
Home of the Ronald Reagan Library where we are still
celebrating the President’s 100th birthday.
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Patti JONES Ahrens ('60)
Re: The Cowardly Lion's Costume
Your post of the MGM stars inspired me to submit this YouTube
link. What happened to the Cowardly Lion's Costume?
It is hard to believe that an artifact like that was actually
thrown in the garbage . . . twice. I have seen an Antiques
Roadshow episode that had a green munchkin's costume appraised.
It sounds like that person, for only a few bucks, bought it at
the same MGM sale mentioned in the YouTube video. I ran across
the video quite by accident a week or so ago, I certainly was
not looking for anything to do with the Wizard of OZ.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Now living in Lion Country, right near
Kennewick High School.
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47)
Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Betti AVANT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deanna CASE ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wayne CAMPBELL ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam BUCKNER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty NOBLE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn DAVENPORT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PORTER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark McALLISTER ('74)
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
To: The Club 40 webmaster [Burt PIERARD ('59)]
How can I see who is coming to this year's reunion? I cannot
access the page listing the attendance. Help me, please and
thank you.
-Mary TRIEM Mowery, '47 Bomber
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>>From: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Re: T shirt
We bought t shirts at the RHS; they have a store there with
Bomber stuff. I would call before you go as they have weird
hours of operation. You might also try RHS on line.
Bomber cheers,
-Richard ROBERTS ('49)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Where to buy a Bomber shirt
Check the Richland Bomber Alumni Link and they have all kinds
of things under it including items to buy. A few years back I
bought a license plate holder for my car, should have gotten 2
(one for front and the other for the back). I know they shipped
it to me for a nominal fee.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Lacey, WA where we're having a summer-like
weekend but cooler temps with rain are forecast for the week
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Pat UPSON ('49), Ann BISHOP ('56)
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Ray LOESCHER ('57)
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Judy PORTER ('61)
Ken BRINKERHOFF ('61), Bruce STRAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria FALLS ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SHARP ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy MOYERS ('67)
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>>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
Re: Mary TRIEM Mowery's ('47) request for 2011 reunion attendees
Mary,
Go to All Bomber Alumni Links - RichlandBombers.com
Look towards the top of the page... each class is in it's own
rectangular box.. Club 40 is the first link there.
OR
Go to the Alumni Sandstorm site - AlumniSandstorm.com
Go towards the bottom of the page... right above the WEB
counter... Click the Richland Club 40 graphic.
Either method will get you to the Richland Club 40 Home Page.
Scroll down to CLUB 40 SITE NAVIGATION box.
Click on REUNION HOME PAGE.
Keep scrolling down (almost to the bottom of the page.
Click on LIST OF 2011 ATTENDEES.
As of 7/25/11 I read (for class of '47) Doris BEADLES
Kirkpatrick (F), Robert KRAUS (F), Homer RAEKES (F), Mary TRIEM
Mowery (F&S).
Hope this helps.
Bomber Cheers,
-Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
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>>From: Sara Ousley, aka Ann BISHOP ('56)
Re: Bomber T Shirts
Thanks to all who responded to my query about the Bomber T
shirts. There were too many responses to answer separately!!!!
-Sara Ousley, aka Ann BISHOP ('56)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: Columbia High School concert band recordings
In 1956 I was a senior in the Columbia High School Concert band
and played the clarinet. On April 4, 1956 we presented a concert
that featured Raphael Mendez, an incredible trumpeter as well as
some other music that was recorded on a 2-record set (a 33 1/3
RPM recording). I have recently moved into a small apartment in
Beaverton, OR and was trying to get things out of boxes and put
away, or trashed or donated to Salvation Army or given away to
anyone who wanted it. If any one would like this 2 record set,
please let me know and I will send it to you.
I also have a "Blazermania" record of the 1976-77 NBA world
Champion Portland Trail Blazers highlights and interviews,
narrated by Bill Schonely (the Shone) if anyone wants a piece
of Northwest basketball history. I was lucky enough to have
attended some of the championship games requiring about a 24
hour wait in line for tickets to each (obviously in my younger
days).
Email me.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Ray LOESCHER ('57)
Re: Internet drugs
An expensive lesson learned! As us older folks know, drugs can
get expensive. I had a prescription for my prostate cancer that
was not in the formulary of my insurance carrier. So, I looked
to the Internet for an inexpensive source and decided to use –
Canadian Health & Care Mall.
It took 21 days to receive the pills from Mumbai, India. That
initially didn't bother me (too much) as there are modern, up-
to-date pharmaceutical companies in India. Just today I decided
to do a little research on the company that manufactured
these meds. To my chagrin, I found they were a company that
specialized in sex drugs and they only employed up to ten (10)
people.
Here's what Consumer Reports in May of this year had to say.
BE CAREFUL BUYING ON THE INTERNET. Though there are
credible online pharmacies, such as those affiliated
with physical stores (CVS.com, for example), most are
shady. Of the more than 7,000 online drugstores whose
practices the NABP has reviewed, only about 3.5% appear
to be legitimate.
...many rogue sites have expanded their offerings
from drugs for sexual performance or weight loss to
pain killers and other narcotics. Site operators often
hide behind legitimate-looking storefronts, some of which
appear to be based in Canada, whose regulatory system is
similar to that of the U.S. In reality, they might be in
China, Russia, the Middle East or elsewhere.
Fortunately, I hadn't started taking these "pills." You can bet
your bottom dollar I won't either!
I'm on an established older medication that works, but the newer
drug is supposed to be better. I may just keep taking what I'm
currently on as I'm doing OK. One more thing, I canceled the
credit card I used for this purchase.
-Ray LOESCHER ('57)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: Our Nation's Birthday from a pyro view
For over 50 years the 4th of July for me has meant long days,
short nights and a lot of work. Some J4s were screaming hot,
some were wet to the bone, and lots of them were frought with
worry that we might not be ready to fire on time. With rare
exception it was not possible to actually participate in the
day's celebration, except of course as the last and closing
event, FIREWORKS!
After 7 years of J4s way out 900 miles west of Anchorage at
Dutch Harbor, AK for the City of Unalaska, I had a change. With
somewhat of a short notice we took on the City of Everett's
4th of July display. They had had several years of less than
desirable fireworks. Someone in the industry back east told the
City to call EFI and we would get it handled. Sheesh... with no
apparent barges available, no pyro operator with that kind
barge-fired very large format show experience, no apparent crew
people left not assigned to a display, with little time for
proper planning and choreography, we said OK we will try to put
it together. I was basically the only option. So I got Jackie,
who has an Alaska pyro License, to agree to do the display at
Dutch. She has been there with me for several J4s and everybody
up there liked her. I then called some marine industry contacts
and found a barge and tug that would do it for the budgeted
amount. Then I scrapped together some limited experience but
willing people from the last training class. And, as all of you
know, I called for any volunteers from the ranks of Bomber
Alumni.
Normal set-up and load time for a 1500 shell display on a barge
would be 6-7 days at least, even with a very experienced crew.
By the time we really got the set-up underway we had 4 days.
But the crew really pitched in for long hours and Carol Peterson
from Bomber class of ? (Sorry Carol with all that was going down
that day I didn't write down your maiden name or class year) and
her husband showed up on the 3rd and worked hard for several
hours. Robert AVANT ('69 Bomber) was there all day the 3rd and
the 4th. A bit after noon on the 3rd. the several thousand
pounds of pyro materials arrived. Everybody worked late and by
dark we were pretty ready to load. Since explosives cannot be
left unattended I stayed there and loaded mortars all night.
Ok... I will admit to 3, 20 minute catnaps in my car on the
ramp with my I-phone alarm dragging me back to the barge. On
the 4th everybody was at work early and one of the real heroes
of the day was Robert AVANT. He didn't say much but followed
directions and wired an incredible number of cues. He kept
saying he had to leave early but I am quite sure he overstayed
his time. THANK YOU Robert, I would be proud to have you on my
crew anywhere, anytime. And, thanks to Carol Peterson and her
husband for their valuable aid in setting up the finale mortars.
The wind was blowing about 40 MPH when the barge moved out to
the shoot site at 7:30 PM. We needed to be in place early so
official patrol boats could get control of, and hold the safety
zone open. I have a wind speed app in my I-phone and the wind
died to less then 5 MPH by shoot time of 10:20. at 10:15 I
called for the crew to get behind me and when the time on my
I-Phone clicked over 10:20, I said "Fire One!" I kept the pace
of the display moving and it lasted for 20 minutes with the
finale. I looked around for my crew and found them all laying
on their backs looking up!
Everybody I spoke with said "best show Everett has ever
seen". In our business if you start on time and provide good
entertainment value... it is a success! But next 4th I will be
back at Dutch Harbor. I love it up there summer and winter. (I
also do their new Year's Eve display.)
Chuck LOLLIS ('64) is another Bomber Alum who responded to
my suggestion and worked for Phill at the Legends Casino J4
display. This display is another that came in nearly at the
last minute. Phill is a well-experience Pyro. Chuck is a great
guy and a fine worker and may have been bitten by the pyro bug
and will I suspect, work on displays whenever he gets a chance.
He will be welcome on any of them, anytime.
We normally have enough trained assistants for J4 but this year
three displays coming in close to the 4th stretched us a bit
thin in places. My profound THANK YOU to all Bomber volunteers
for this year's J4 displays.
"Happiness is the sky in bloom"
-J Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ From my office after a warm and busy
weekend.
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>>From: Judy PORTER Cox ('61)
Re: Phil BELCHER's ('51) comments (7/24)
My hairdresser asked me why I always called Washington home
(even my children still call Washington home) after living in
Texas 27 years, and so I told her about growing up in a town
that had sidewalks, play grounds, open doors, at home, all
night in the summer to let the cool air in, overnight parties
in back yards, playing games in the neighborhoods after dark,
not locking the car, etc., etc. She was quiet for a long time &
finally said that she had grown up in a very small rural town
in Texas and everything was locked tight as a keg when the sun
went down and that meant children, homes, cars, etc. To be back
growing up in Richland those years with freedom to move around.
Our children and grandchildren have missed much more than they
realize!
-Judy PORTER Cox ('61) ~ Georgetown, TX and 105° again today
with no rain in sight, we are definitely in a BIG drought.
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>>From: Ken BRINKERHOFF ('61)
Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47) asked "How can I see who is coming to
this year's reunion?"
The attendance link worked when I clicked on it, taking me to
http://richlandclub40.org/2011Attendees.html
Perhaps some funny HTML gremlin was exhibiting itself when Mary
tried it.
-Ken BRINKERHOFF ('61)
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: Happy Birthday (the big 6-Oh)
Happy Birthday! Steven Vernon Porter ('69) on 07/25.
-Bruce STRAND ('69)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/27/11
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
David RIVERS ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
Lance MERKLEY ('89)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Max SUTTON ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula BEARDSLEY ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen BOHRINGER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: TWINS: Richard & William RATHVON ('71)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Oh them Bomber babes
She's one of them big sisters that make up my memories of my
Spalding years. What a famblie. Went to classes with her sis
Nancy ('65) and have remained thankful that she (B-day girl) was
one of those big sisters that tolerated us little kids even if
we did spill our milk and act kinda silly compared to her more
cosmo crowd. I guess I hafta say that most of the "older" kids
treated us little ones pretty well in the day. Oh yeah, I've
heard some stories from Brian ('65) that at least one kid from
the b-day girl's class tormented him and another from the class
of '60 did the same but hey... ya gotta take the good with the
bad. I'll bet it was the water tower that attracted those kids
to him... Funny, I've become close friends with all of BJ's
former nemeses... wonder what that says about me????? Well I
just wanna be sure that the Birthday Girl has a wonderful
special day and wish Paula BEARDSLEY ('62) a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY
on July 27, 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: LPs of Bomber band
If you send them to me, I'll digitize the albums and make them
available to other Bombers.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Lance MERKLEY ('89)
Re: Help Richland Alumni WIN $1,000,000
I am a Finalist the "Gain - Smell like a million bucks contest".
My video was selected out of 1,200 entries to be in the top 25
for the final vote. We need your help with votes July 26th thru
August 1st.
To view the video you must have a Facebook account and you may
vote one time per day, per Facebook user.
Click to view the video on Facebook
View the clip, click "VOTE" and enter the security code (This is
just to ensure that a computer isn't cheating with multiple
entries.) Gain is also giving prizes to people who vote. To see
all the behind the scenes photos or to register for a SECURE
daily reminder e-mail visit
http://gaincontest.blogspot.com/
See our Gain Family photo at:
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/htm2011/Xtra/Any/110727-Mer-Gain.jpg
Let's all help a Bomber WIN. Thank you for your support.
-Lance MERKLEY ('89)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/28/11
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Lenora HUGHES ('55)
Gary BEHYMER ('64), Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon McDERMOTT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark GERKEN ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melanie LEE ('93)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Although she is not a member of The Class of '54; I'm gonna tip
the ol' propeller beanie in her honor. And, I think that this
one is her 21st so she can go to the Uptown Tavern (legally)
with Lefty. So, let's hear a big birthday cheer for Laura Dean
KIRBY ('55).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
weather guessers are now complaining about not having 90°
days. It was bad enough when they were bemoaning the lack
of 80° days.
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>>From: Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
It is time for another luncheon in Las Vegas, NV. Hope we have a
good turn-out. We do have a great time when we all get together.
DATE: August 6, 2011
TIME: 12 NOON
PLACE: Macayo Vegas Mexican Restaurant, 8245 West Sahara Av.
Please come and join us. Guests are more than welcome.
-Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)
Tri-City Herald Photo from the 1950s or so the caption
indicates. I believe it is a 1943-1944 picture. Take a peek
to see if you can identify the lady!
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2008/03/12/115765_a1579344/week-in-photos.html
-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
To: Lance MERKLEY ('89)
Re: GAIN million dollar contest
Hey, Lance -
Your video bid for the GAIN $1,000,000 contest was great!
There was a little glitch in your instructions for getting to
the video. When I clicked on
http://apps.facebook.com/gainmillionbucks/pages/Enter.php?video_id=796
a bunch of videos came up. Had to search for yours by name --
"Lance M."
I have signed up for your daily reminders, and will vote every
day. Wish you would have posted this to the Sandstorm earlier,
since I see the voting started on July 18th!!
Good luck -- and remember, it's always nice to share with
others!!! ;-)
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68) ~ Haven Farm, ID
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/29/11
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary TRIEM ('47), Lenora HUGHES ('55)
David RIVERS ('65), John ZIMMER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vern McGHAN ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HUGHES ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Calvin SHIRLEY ('71)
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>>From: Mary TRIEM Mowery ('47)
To: Everyone who responded for my plea for help in finding the
attendees for this year's Club 40 bash:
THANKS! I'll swear I hit the buttons at the bottom of the
Sandstorm page correctly, but think one of the responders
"gremlins" were giving the old lady a bad time! I now know,
thanks to everyone and Bomber Cheers to all!
-Mary TRIEM Mowery, a '47 Bomber
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>>From: Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
I want to wish my brother, Tom HUGHES ('56), a wonderful
birthday. Hope you are enjoying your trip to Europe. I expect
to hear from you when you get back!
Love you tons!
Your sister, Lenora
-Lenora HUGHES Bejarano ('55)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Bomber guys got it too
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2008/03/12/115765_a1579344/week-in-photos.html
Well, I don't know who the lovely lady is in the picture BEHYMER
('64) sent yesterday, but I would like to know what happened to
the '40 Merc she was showing off! Now I normally am a Merc
lover, but Ford really messed up with the '40. Look at that boxy
top and tell me that it in any way compares to the beautiful
line of the '40 Ford Coupe or even the '40 Ford Sedan... to me
that wonderful back line (of the Ford coupe) is one of the
prettiest lines of any car ever made... If ya don't believe me,
pop over the Doc 40's ('65-'67) and check his out... that is if
you can find it under all the stuff he has piled on it since he
went back to riding Honda 50s again (yeah Jimmie... you bad...
you bad... you Nationwide)... you may want to call first since
the theft of the trailer that occurred out at the ranch...
Steven's ('08) Dog may be in attack mode these dayz. But rat
now I gotta say an HB to a Bomber that has known me longer than
almost anybody else in Bomberdom (along with his sis ('55)).
I'm sure he has some stories I don't want told so I gotta be
sure and remember him each and every year! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
Tom HUGHES ('56) on July 29, 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: John ZIMMER ('66)
Club 40's annual meeting/reunion/party for 2011 is fast
approaching, September 9th & 10th. This year's party will be
held once again at the Red Lion Hotel and is "Pre-Register
Only" so be sure to get your registration sent in before August
25th (absolute final date) Postmarks do not count so be sure to
allow plenty of time for the "snail mail".
Registration forms can be found on the Club 40 website,
richlandclub40.org/ along with an updated list of
attendees and activity calendar. The hotel has set aside a
block of 50 rooms for our group at $89.95 and they are going
fast. When you call in for your reservations please be sure
to tell the hotel you are with Club 40 to get this special
rate. If there are any questions please feel free to contact
me any time.
I, along with your officers and class reps are looking forward
to seeing you and enjoying another fantastic reunion/party.
-John ZIMMER ('66), "YOUR" Club 40 President
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/30/2011
Dateline: Richland
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1 Bomber sent stuff today:
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allan CROSS ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dee WALLACE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Wayne MYERS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gregor HANSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marti Jo DREWERY ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol BOYD ('72wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane HARTLEY ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kim RICHEY ('74)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Nobody does it like Bombers
I know your experience has been much the same. People marvel at
the way we Bombers stick together. I don't know any other town
where kids are there for each other the way Bombers are. The
other day, I simply mentioned how cool I thought the black hat
for the '66 reunion was and bingo... Dennis HASKINS ('66) (hey
you gotta b-day commin' up too, man) fires one off in the mail.
I put it on as soon as it arrived and no kidding, it made me
look way younger... hey I don't make this stuff up... The other
day my heart throb Katie SHEERAN ('61) gave me a heads up on the
way cool shirt the class of '61 has for their reunion... a for
sure runner-up to the one the class of '63 had for their 20th
and again... as soon as they were available, my Neighborhood
hero from my Spalding days, Jack GARDINER ('61) nabs one for
me... now tell me that happens in Walla Walla... Pasco...
Seattle or anywhere else other than possibly Oakridge or Los
Alamos... it just don't happen kids... no way no how! So today,
July 30, 2011 is the special day of an unsung hero that I give a
whole lotta grief to over reunion dates, but who puts in a great
deal of time and effort into our 5 year reunions... so HAPPY
BIRTHDAY to Gregor HANSON ('65)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 07/31/2011
Dateline: Richland
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Dick McCOY ('45)
David RIVERS ('65)
Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry BOYD ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stan McDONALD ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn STEWART ('62)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: b'day & photo
To: Kim RICHEY ('74)
Happy birthday. Just 3 more years, then ... Club-40.
To Gary BEHYMER ('64):
The photo appears to be of Ina Deane FUNK ('44-RIP).
-Dick McCOY, From the Tin Can Class of 1945
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: I'm late
I'm late for a very important date... no time to say hello,
good-bye I'm late I'm late I'm late... dunno how I can get so
behind on weekends... up early... off to the Donut Boyz... then
crawl under a car... run from one project to the next and next
thing I know I'm watching some movie about elves and dragons and
remember it's birthday time... .arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... hope
our special Bomber guy has a great day on this special day, July
31, 2011 (how does it get to be the end of July so fast????????)
is it just me or is the world spinning way faster than it did
when we were eight??? Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Tom HEMPHILL
('62)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great day!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
Want to wish my big brudder, Tom HEMPHILL ('62), a Happy
Birthday today. He is again four years older than I am ... at
least for a few months. I am sorry we missed the BBQ and party
planned in Vancouver to celebrate the occasion, but I will bring
your present in a couple weeks when we meet at Drano Lake to
catch a few Steelhead.
Hope you had a great day.
-Mick HEMPHILL ('66)
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