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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/01/16 ~ HAPPY NEW YEAR
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Barbara SESLAR ('60)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Matt FILIP ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larson GRENINGER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb MILLER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna PARDEE ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken DEERY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark PERKINS ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FITZPATRICK ('80)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49) & Shannon CRAIG ('50)
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>>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Saturday, January 2, 2016
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: 3 Margaritas (downtown near Lee Blvd.)
Spouses and friends are also welcome! Please join us first
Saturday of each month. Turn right inside the restaurant and
you'll find us at the corner table. No reservations needed.
-Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
This poem seems appropriate to share as we celebrate
New Year's 2016.
"Pieces of time
New Year's come
And New Year's go,
Pieces of time
All in a row.
As we live our life,
Each second and minute,
We know we are privileged to have you in it.
Our appreciation never ends
For our greatest blessings, our family and friends."
Happy New Year
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ from a very cold Richland
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[Found this and discovered that it never appeared in the 2015
Sandstorm .. figured I'd start of 2016 this way. -Maren]
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>>From: Matt FILIP ('77)
Happy New Year to every Richland Bomber wherever you may
reside. I wish you the most perfect 2015 with good health,
fortune and happiness.
Go Bombers forever.
-Matt FILIP ('77) ~ Arroyo Grande, CA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/02/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62), Lea BOLES ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve PIIPPO ('70)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: New Year's Day
Sent as I hold my Grandbaby while he sleeps...
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-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ In Gardnerville, NV
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>>From:Lea BOLES ('63)
[Re: For yesterday -- I missed it. -Maren]
Happy new Year to all the friends in Bomberland! Best to
everyone for a healthy and prosperous 2016.
-Lea BOLES ('63) ~ in a sunny,but very chilly Lincoln City, OR
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
[Re: for yesterday's Sandstorm - Maren]]
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: battin' 1000 for 2016
Ohhhhhhh gawd save me frum myself... so I'm thinking I should
do my post before I take a nap so it will get there on time
this day... wuz a tad late yesterday so didn't make the
press... no prob... then I looked at the birthday note for
today knowing I had two Bomber-babes for today... today...
today... if last night was new year's eve... uhhhhh... today
is new year's day... uhhhhhh that's the first dumb-ass... you
know like one... day one... first day of January... as in it
will only happen one time... today is today... and I've
already missed two... and not just two but two Bomber-babes...
I mean I'm good buds with both their sweeties so it's not like
I'm not gonna get a date er sumthin'... but it's like word
gets around ya know... hey Rivers is "dissin'" Bomber-babes...
spread the word... next my number will be on the bathroom wall
at Hi-Spot "for a reel crappy time call... " next it will be
at Zip's "call this number for beevis and butt head's best
friend"... then Mike and Doug won't be talkin' to me at DQ
during CDNs... then nobody will be talkin' to me... then I
won't even be able to get a drink a water outa anybody's
garden hose... then certain '63 Bomber-babes will be throwin'
me in the river... oh crap... my life as I know it could be
roooooned... Saaaaaaaave me Mr Wizard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY late BIRTHDAY, Barb MILLER ('65) and Donna PARDEE ('65)
(maybe they'll think I'm early for next year... nah don't
chance it) on your special day, yesterday, January 1, 2016!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Best New TV Shows from 2015 - 1/1/16 Tri-City Herald
"Richland High School graduate Santino FONTANA ('00)
stars in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on the CW."
"FONTANA was born in Stockton, CA, on March 21, 1982.
He is of half Italian, one quarter Portuguese, and one
quarter Spanish, descent. FONTANA graduated from
Richland High School in Richland, Washington in 2000.
He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie
Theater BFA Actor Training Program, class of 2004.
In 2005, as a member of the Essentials, FONTANA co-
wrote the musical comedy Perfect Harmony and originated
the role of Philip Fellowes V. In 2006 he starred as
Matt in the Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks.
His Broadway debut was Sunday in the Park with George
in 2007. FONTANA originated the role of Tony in the
Broadway production of Billy Elliot from October 1,
2008 to July 4, 2009. He was awarded the 2010 Drama
Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his
work in Brighton Beach Memoirs. He starred as Prince
Topher in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on
Broadway, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award
for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
In 2013, he provided the voice of Prince Hans in the
Disney film Frozen.
In 2015, FONTANA became the first guest artist to
perform three times in the space of one year with the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir. FONTANA also joined the cast
of the CW musical dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that same
year, starring alongside Rachel Bloom."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where the weather
feels like 12° as I post this message at 4pm on January 1
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/03/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Bill SCOTT ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Pat DORISS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dick LOHDEFINCK ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tobe ROBERTS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: New Year's greetings
I hope everyone had a great a New Year's eve as Jackie and I
did.
She did 2 displays - one at 8pm for the City of Wasilla, AK
and another at 10pm for a private housing development. Both
went very well and her sponsors were happy.
I rang in the New Year at exactly midnight here in Dutch
Harbor, AK with a giant fireworks display said to be the best
of the 24 I have done here. The weather was clear and calm
with temp at 34°. Lots of compliments everywhere I went today.
The new City Manager, a recently retired USAF Officer, called
me and was particularly pleased.
The display is set up on a semi trailer inside a high bay
building. We hook a semi-tractor to the trailer and tow it the
mile or so out to the shot site a couple of hours before show
time. But we have to build a support floor over the open rails
of the equipment moving trailer. Then we set our racks of
tubes on that floor and screw them to the floor.
Only my crew knew we had 3 explosives incidents during the
show. It is after all, dangerous and not a perfect science. An
8 inch shell exploded in the mortar and shredded the nearly
new fiberglass mortar. In another incident 3, 6-inch shells
launched at once together broke the 4x4 support underneath.
The shells all performed perfectly, but the launch force
snapped that 4x4 like a toothpick.
The last shell was a 12 inch diameter that should have gone
over 1000 feet up, broke at about 750 to 800 ft. But it broke
perfectly to end the finale of the show. Cheering and ships
horns and whistles lasted over a minute producing big smiles
of pride in my crew. During clean up we discovered that 12 had
driven the mortar through 1 foot of sand contained in the 55
gal drum and forced the bottom of the drum down through the
pallet it was sitting on, and on down through 3-inch thick
planking deck to the ground.
Everything was set up correctly and I fired the display
remotely from about 75 feet away. Our established safety
procedures worked well. Occasionally a shell will malfunction
and sometimes destroy the mortar, but 3 incidents is unusual.
I supervised the whole operation and all was done correctly.
It is just not a perfect science.
But the joy of the spectators put it in the lessons learned
part of the brain and life goes on.
May you all have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
"Happiness is thinking of retirement after 58 explosive years"
-J. Larry MATTINGLY (from the "well above average" class of 1960!)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: 70
Today I turn 70. I know, I know, big whoop. So is virtually
everyone in the Class of '64 in late 2015 and early 2016. It's
also my great-grandmother Ellen O'Hara's birthday. Happy
Birthday, great-grandmother! May the descendants of your eight
children remember you today.
"How terribly strange to be 70", Paul Simon wrote many years
ago in his song, "Old Friends". I don't feel strange; I think
grateful is a more appropriate word. I thought perhaps today I
could start a new idea wherein when people hit this milestone
they could share what they have learned in their 70 years on
this earth. Here is what I have learned:
1. Whoever said "Youth is wasted on the young" was absolutely
right. Now that I finally have an idea of how life works, now
that I finally understand myself and what makes me tick and
why I did the things I did, now that I've shed the terrible
inferiority complex of my youth, now that I understand and
appreciate the talents I was born with, now that I can finally
look in the mirror and say, "you're okay" - now that I have
all these things, I find myself counting the years, wondering
how long the body and mind will hold out to do all the things
I want to do.
2. I find myself with a drive to accomplish in my remaining
years, a drive I never had as a youth when it would have
mattered so much more, when it might have altered the course
of my life. I want to live by Teddy Roosevelt's dictum: "I
would rather wear out than rust out". I want to push the
boundaries of my intellect, I want to be more than I thought I
could be, do more than I thought I could do, cram into
whatever years I have left every goal I can think of.
3. We are thrust into the future, for good or ill, by a tiny
percentage of humanity that brings about tomorrow. Ninety-nine
percent of the rest of us are just along for the ride.
4. It's a waste of time to debate or argue with others. Now,
no one likes a good verbal scrap more than I, especially if
it's over politics or religion. But I've come to realize that
even if by some miracle you manage to change another to your
way of thinking, there are millions more like him or her who
won't change. Debate is more a salve to the ego than anything
else.
5. The times in my life when I've been a jerk and treated
others badly (even one is too many) are times when I've
forgotten that the person on the other end is a human being
just like me: maybe they're having a bad day, or they're
tired, or there's trouble at home, or they're ill. They're
human, and more often than not, deserving of respect and
patience.
6. Harboring resentment over old wounds is a really bad idea,
and can damage your health. I've always felt better when I've
let them go. And for those who did the wounding, more often
than not karma's gonna get 'em anyway.
7. My favorite quote, Part I: "Most people are buried with
their best music still inside them". I don't want to leave any
music, whatever form it may take, unsung; that's why I started
taking piano lessons this year, and in general am so hungry to
learn.
8. My favorite quote, Part II: "The greatest of all human
failings is contempt without investigation." Too many
automatically reject a particular idea, discipline, or
discovery without the slightest inquiry into it because it
threatens their worldview. Which leads me to:
9. Thing I am most proud of, Part I: That I have become an
independent thinker, willing to pursue and consider new ideas.
Humanity is at its finest when it engages in scientific
inquiry into the world around us, without fear of the
challenge it may represent to established thinking. Favorite
quote, Part III: "The wonderful thing about science is that
it's true whether you believe it or not." - Neal deGrasse
Tyson, astrophysicist.
10. Thing I am most proud of, Part II: Our sons. Both began
life with a strike against them, but because we never gave up
on either one, they have become fine young men able to make
their way in the world. My advice to them as they go: Do not
be a mindless skeptic, but NEVER believe something is true
simply because someone says it's true.
Well, that's what comes to mind on this, my 70th birthday.
What have YOU learned in your seventy years? It'd be fun to
read.
Bill Scott (writing as B J Scott)
http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com
http://www.amazon.com/author/billjscott
Winner, 2011 WILLA Literary Awards
Winner, 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards
Winner, Bronze Medallion, 2015 Will Rogers Medallion Awards
Finalist, 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards
Angel of the Gold Rush
Angel's Daughter
Legacy of Angels
Light On A Distant Hill
The Rail Queen
See profiles and excerpts of all these books and read my blog at
http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com
"The great tragedy of life is that most people are buried with
their best music still inside them."
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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[I LOVED every one of Bill's books. Waitin for a new one. -Maren]
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Rules and Molds are made to be broken
At least in this guy's case they were... Member the first time
I saw him and "the walk"... went right home and practiced in
my early days at Spalding... he was larger than life as some
guys are... he only got better as he grew and honed his skills
in all areas... smokin' in the boys' room not allowed... so if
you go out on the river... when things are really quiet... I'm
sure you will catch him sittin' with Pook ('63-RIP) on Pook's
bench finishing a drag... we miss you Chuck GARDINER ('63-RIP)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
Re: '65 Ladies January Lunch
WHEN: Friday, January 8th, 2016
TIME: 12:00--2:00 PM
WHERE: Twigs Bistro, 1321 Columbia Center Blvd, Kennewick
We've survived 2015, and now a whole New Year awaits us--full
of adventures, challenges, mysteries and surprises!
The Ladies of '65 will be starting off the New Year by getting
together for lunch next Friday... we'll share our memories of
the past year and begin making new ones!
If you're a "Classy Lady of '65" and would like to join us to
celebrate long standing friendships, memories (especially of
our 50 year reunion), and the beginning of a new year, please
contact me so I can add your name to our reservation list!
Happy New Year!!
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) ~ West Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/04/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Ed WOOD ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry HOLLOWAY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paula Jill LYONS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gloria KENNEDY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda HANSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nina BERLAND ('69)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Bill SCOTT's ('64) lessons at age 70
A great read, Bill. Thank you. I particularly loved your quote
from Neal deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist,"The wonderful thing
about science is that it's true whether you believe it or
not."
I don't have a favorite list of ten things I've learned, but
some of what I've learned differs from yours. Different
schools of life will do that. But here are a few:
First, a corollary to your third observation, "We are thrust
into the future, for good or ill, by a tiny percentage of
humanity that brings about tomorrow. Ninety-nine percent of
the rest of us are just along for the ride." Mindless minions
surround and enable that tiny percentage that brings about
tomorrow. How else can one make sense of some of society's
self-destructive actions and decisions?
Debate may be a salve to the ego, but it can be so much more
if your megaphone is big enough. In today's world, one needs a
large megaphone to be effective. in steering the mindless
minions elsewhere.
Some arguments are worth having, and others are not. Knowing
which is which is important for both sanity and success.
Language evolves. It also deteriorates. Evolution of language
can make it richer. Language deterioration reduces clarity of
communication. The newly-minted word "micro-aggression" might
make our language richer, but misspelling the possessive of
"it" as "it's" instead of "its" reduces language clarity,
since "it's" means only "it is" or "it has". Recognizing the
difference between evolution and deterioration gets more
difficult as one ages. If in doubt, refer to number 3.
-Ed WOOD ('62)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
To: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Wow, I have a new and deep appreciation of what you and Jackie
do, and apparently do very well. I had no idea fireworks were
that powerful. Really something that needs professional
operation. Congratulations.
Thanks to those who wrote me who were impacted by yesterday's
post. A writer wants to know his words are appreciated. I
should have added one more thing of which I am most proud:
that my wife, Cherrie TEMPERO Scott ('64) and I have been
together for 30 years. It's been a struggle at times, but
that's what marriage is. It's easy to get married, hard to
stay that way. It's easy to bail, but determination to stick
it out brings rewards.
Bill Scott (writing as B J Scott)
http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com
http://www.amazon.com/author/billjscott
Winner, 2011 WILLA Literary Awards
Winner, 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards
Winner, Bronze Medallion, 2015 Will Rogers Medallion Awards
Finalist, 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards
Angel of the Gold Rush
Angel's Daughter
Legacy of Angels
Light On A Distant Hill
The Rail Queen
See profiles and excerpts of all these books and read my blog at
http://www.bjscotthistoricals.wordpress.com
"The great tragedy of life is that most people are buried with
their best music still inside them."
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
So glad that everything went off okay. I'm sure that you are
always relieved when the show is over with. Retirement? Are
you actually thinking about retiring? I just can't fathom you
not doing fireworks.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick Happy
New Year to all those Bombers wherever you are.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: flirtation and infatuation are good things
Before I begin my tale of unrequited love... lemme send a huge
thanks to Bill SCOTT ('64) for his 70th birthday post...
Number 1. hit very close to home for me... I was glad several
years ago when buncha '65ers were in a room BSing and the
subject of "feeling less than" came up... damn I finally
understood I wasn't alone... now intellectually I knew that,
but it was nice to be reassured... I can't say I'm totally
over it even now... I shared at Christmas with my Daughter
that I feel I have virtually no skills... all I do is
"talk"... I remember in my drinking days telling one of my co-
workers that I had been BullS'ing so long I wouldn't know what
to do if I got a real job... anyway, thanks for the entire
list, Bill, it was wonderful... so now for the rest of this
post you guys will have to put up with my normal "see Spot
run, funny, funny Spot" attempt at "literature"... I have to
say that the "unrequited" part above is more of a tease to the
B-day Bomber-babe than the whole truth... I know she can't
live without me and swoons ever time my name is mentioned just
as I do for her... we have been flirting so long I sometimes
feel like we musta gone together for years, but alas, it has
all been in wonderful fantasy fun... just two Bombers enjoying
each other and knowing our closeness won't wear out with
time... I also wanna include a Bomber-dude that I have come to
know in the past year or two on the internet and can only say
I would have totally enjoyed knowing him better inna day... So
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Paula Jill LIONS ('64) and Larry HOLLOWAY
('64) on your special day, January 4, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Justin FRICK ('11) making a name for himself ~ 1/3/16 Herald
"One year at Christmas, a camcorder was under the tree.
Justin FRICK ('11) was about 8 years old, and the gift
was from his grandparents.
It was for the whole family, but FRICK quickly figured
out how to work it and began making videos.
He wasn't exactly gentle.
'I eventually broke it,' he said. 'We got another one
and the same thing happened. I think by the third one,
(my parents) were like, 'You need to buy it yourself.'
I had to save up about $250. When you're 14, that's a
lot of money. But they've never bought another camera
since.'
They haven't needed to.
FRICK, now 23, is a rising music video director, with a
sizable client list and an enviable portfolio.
The Richland native has worked with artists from Tommy
Cassidy to The Spirit Animals. In the past couple weeks
alone, he's dropped videos for songs including Cold by
Night Argent and School Daze by Tino Cruze, with more
on the way."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where it is 23°
with a few inches of snow at 8pm on January 3, 2016.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/05/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Steve CARSON ('58), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCLELLAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Louise HARTCORN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam EHINGER ('67)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: A Dozen Lessons I've Learned in 80 Years
1. Prayer is not enough. It is only a start. Prayer must be
followed by listening, looking for answers, and acting upon
the evidence.
2. Make an honest effort to tolerate God's creations, even
when I fear them and don't love them. God did not intend for
humans to become murderers and terrorists, but He did give us
free will.
3. When I swat a fly, remember that I too can be killed in an
instant. Also remember that I have lived almost to the length
of my life expectancy.
4. If something is getting me into trouble, change course --
no matter how much I enjoy the activity.
5. Be as generous as I can with my time, talents and money.
6. Accept help, gifts and favors graciously. 'Pay ahead'
whenever possible.
7. Don't expect everyone else to think the same as I do on
every issue. Listen to opposite opinions. Don't waste time
trying to achieve 100% agreement. Not even my soulmate
Charlie ('53) and I agreed 100%.
8. Do not swallow the line of a Christian who swears his/her
sect is the only true path to salvation. Believe Jesus Christ
is God's only Son, and strive to follow His example. There are
hundreds of worthy paths to salvation.
9. Honor my parents, ancestors and relatives. The elders loved
my brother Ray ('57-RIP) and me, and they sacrificed and
worked to the utmost for us. They set good examples for us to
follow.
10, Be loyal to my marriage partner. Stand with him through 44
years of challenges like alcoholism and Alzheimer's. Accept
help when offered. A person is never alone.
11. Believe in second chances. If it is meant to be, someone
wonderful and amazing will waltz into your life. A Club 40
reunion was the place it happened for me.
12. Even without biological children, family can grow in
delightful ways. Although soulmate Charlie GANT passed away
before we could marry, his brother Phil and Phil's wife Patti
are now my Bro and Sis, and their offspring are mine as well.
In this same way I acquired a loving daughter, granddaughter,
grandson and great-grandchildren.
Bomber cheers and Happy 2016
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ from cold and snowy Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Yeah, it's a new year, and yeah, this is a birthday greeting
to a fellow classmate and Bomber. When last I saw him, we both
discussed life in the "Duke City" (it was named after a duke).
But I won't hold that against him.
Without further ado, a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a
shout of "Happy Birthday!" goes to Roger McCLELLAN ('54). Maybe
we'll meet again in the spring at the big "birthday party".
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where we
have survived a wintry blast and are enjoying warmer temps
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
At last bill Clinton's comment about the definition of "IT"
is. Thanks!
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64) and Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: On reaching 70 and beyond
First, thanks to Bill on his shared wisdom on turning 70
(posted January 1).
I do propose one footnote to his lesson #9 which concludes
with this quote from Neal deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist: "The
wonderful thing about science is that it's true whether you
believe it or not." The afterthought, here, is that much of
science tells us only what we "can" do, but not what we
"ought" to do. This also is true.
Second, in his response to Bill, Ed reminds us that language
can devolve as well as evolve, at the expense of clarity.
Here we might imagine an unlikely conjunction between Ed's
devolving language and Neal's truth of astrophysics... Looking
back from the lofty vantage point of age 71, in 1962 Ed and I
sat together at the back of rows five and six near the
windows, in Mrs. Arlene Macy's senior English class. From the
course text we were elevated to read that the brilliant
playwright "Christopher Marlowe streaked like a comet across
the Elizabethan sky(!)" What could be clearer than that? Even
now, the Hubble telescope still searches the mere stars in
vain for the likes of the Marlowe comet and maybe even the
rest of us. (btw, at the young age of 29 Marlowe was stabbed
to death in a tavern brawl, apparently over who would pay the
tab).
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/06/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Vicki OWENS ('72), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lora HOMME ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia REDISKE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Allyson SMITH ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig WALTON ('75)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: My display for Dutch Harbor, AK - New Year's Eve
I had several alumni inquiring about the results of the
display where an unusual number of things malfunctioned.
Attached is a note I received from the Assistant to the City
Manager [of Unalaska, AK].
Notes like this are always nice to receive. It takes the pain
out of the 70 hour in 5 days in setting things up and 12
hours of dismantling afterwards.
From: Marjorie Veeder, Admin. Coordinator
Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:31 AM
Subject: Unalaska Fireworks
To: "Larry Mattingly"
Larry - the show was FABULOUS!!
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed it and he commented
that it's the best one yet (since we've been here
anyway)! =) Our new city manager and his wife were
also pleasantly surprised at the quality of the show,
and thought it was GREAT! You should have heard the
whooping and hollering and applause at the end of the
show. You would have loved it!
Thanks again for a great show Larry and have a
wonderful New Year!
-Marjie, Admin. Coordinator, City of Unalaska
[Happy Birthday, Larry! -Maren]
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Words are cheap
To: Steve CARSON ('58)
Steve, you respond to Ed WOOD ('62) and his comment on
language deterioration, and particularly his distinction
between "it's" and "its", by writing: "At last Bill Clinton's
comment about the definition of "IT" is. Thanks!" Actually,
this thread exposes not only the devolution of language, but
more deeply the devolution of contemporary culture.
Clinton spoke not of "it", but of "is." In defense of his
notorious antics in office, Billy Boy Clinton opined that "It
all depends on what the meaning of IS is"--referring to the
charge and fact that he had cavorted too much with one Monica
Lewinski, on top of the nation's Presidential Desk in the
nation's Oval Office corner of the nation's White House. (You
just can't control what the tenants do in public housing!) And
the timing of this cavort was allegedly at the very same
moment when the nation's President was ignoring incoming
urgent and direct phone calls from Afghanistan that required a
command decision from the nation's Commander in Chief.
(The later and failed impeachment by Congress was not for how
the Chief Executive handled this desk job, so to speak, but
for the later perjury of lying about it under oath - "I did
not have sexual relations with that woman..." and "...it
depends upon what he meaning of the word is is...")
Our trajectory of language corruption, and worse, has not
slackened in recent years. But, of such sophisticated elitism
we peasants still have the wisdom of a long-ago Chinese
emperor or sage (possibly Confucius). When asked what he would
do first to salvage the devolution of his own once-respected
and once self-respecting nation, he replied, "I would restore
the meaning of words."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Vicki OWENS ('72)
I'd like to go on record as appreciating the wisdom shared by
our elders. Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)'s entry yesterday
drew from a deep well of experience and, although officially
still a whippersnapper at 61, I related to much of it. I hope
those so far who've offered their synopses of decades in a few
lines are enjoying the writing even a fraction as much as I'm
enjoying the reading. And I hope others will take the time to
share.
Many, many thanks,
-Vicki OWENS ('72) ~ in cold Khartoum, Sudan, Africa where it
got down to 57° last night. (Hey, that might not seem so
cold to you, but when there's no heating in the house and
no coat in the closet, it's enough to make you shiver!)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Obit for Helen Kelly Burns-Nash (RIP), former teacher
A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/07/16
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Dick McCOY ('45), Dick WIGHT ('52)
Steve CARSON ('58), Ed WOOD ('62)
Roy BALLARD ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol DuBOIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SCHAUER ('84)
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>>From: Dick McCOY ('45)
Re: Christmas Musings (continued)
I am just on time with this reply to those who commented on my
Musing of 12/26, eleven days, very good for me.
Anyway, to those who commented: many thanks for your kind and
interesting thoughts. Some old friends and some new.... Mr.
Wight, ('52) you beat me to Pasco by a 9 years, 1934 [Dick was
BORN in Pasco in 1934]. I spent 3 weeks in an old olive drab
Army trailer down by the old Bridge. Daytime in the swimming
area, and nighttime outside sleeping under the stars.
To: Mike BRADY ('61)
I have the following suggestion as to history;
Go to RichlandBombers.com and click on 1944. Then scroll down
to the Colombian and click on the gold '44 Columbian box. All
the pages in diminutive will appear. # two [03.jpg] is the old
"Alamo" [top] and the new Col-Hi [bottom]. # 5 [05.jpg] is a
letter explaining everything. Read it. Go to the last page
[36.jpg] and you will get a pic of the entire student body in
late 1943 which I estimate to be about 150. At the bottom,
third from the right is our estimable principal, T. A.
Trowbridge. Fifth from the right is me with my face in my
hands (close to T. A., who can keep watch on me).
As you probably know you can blow up any of the pics buy
clicking on them. [or click Ctrl + till you get the size you
want. -Maren]
Have a very prosperous 2016, and I will give you some more
history very soon, in a couple of months. Or more..
-Dick McCOY (from the Tin Can class of '45)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: Words
I have enjoyed the dialogue on the "deterioration" of the
English language the recent Sandstorm issues. I'm not
particularly well educated in the language "arts", but I do
opine that my language skills are well above average
compared to the last generation or two... or three. I'm
concerned that the "slide" in nuanced verbal communication is
escalating even further, adversely influenced by the truncated
language being used in texting and various internet forums.
A couple of my pet peeves from years past included the use of
"I go" instead of "I said" I recall asking one of my
granddaughters where she went, and drew a blank stare. Other
pet peeves are the use of "no problem" instead of "you are
welcome", and the phrase "put your hands together" instead of
"applause".
Years ago I took a speech class at Long Beach City College,
and we were discussing this issue. Our "prof" observed that in
the evolution of the English language, we have reached the
point where the "dummies" win out and he told us to expect
more of the same as the years go by..
Seems as though he was right!
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in icy Richland
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Pete, good catch. Guess my RAM needs updating. I enjoy your
comments.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Words
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
You should write more often, Pete. I'm still laughing about,
"You just can't control what the tenants do in public housing!"
-Ed WOOD ('62)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
Re: Cruise
Returned from Hawaii on the 31st. Had a great Christmas...
Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) and I and did a tour with
Trilogy sailing tours, from Lahina harbor to Lanai to snorkel,
eat and have a good time I saw a whale, Nancy said it was me
trying to snorkel. I did get it done for about an hour or
more, then came ashore and watched. then the feed, for about
100 and staff. Great food and service the crew went around the
area with trays, pots and everything, making sure everyone had
enough. Then we loaded back on the two cat boats and headed
back, had guava ice cream and seconds, then after that they
had different kinds of beer and 2 kinds of mixed drinks. I
forgot to say that it started after we left the dock in the
morning with Momma Coons warm fresh cinnamon rolls with Pog
and a couple of other choices to drink. After that there were
wraps and different drinks, then on to lanai. This tour was by
far our best and we had some very good ones. Pineapple tour,
tour to Hana (12 hours), Royal Lahina Luau and not to forget
the Eco zip lines, 7 I believe. All the staff on all of these
were the greatest, but the Trilogy cruise stood out the most,
super great staff and I was fortunate enough to a staff member
stay with me for most of the time I snorkeled, so I didn't
drown. If anyone gets a chance to go to Maui, do the Trilogy
tour. The only down side was the traffic on highway 30n from
about the aquarium to Lahina one day it took about almost 2
hours to go 21 miles.
-Roy ('63) and Nancy ('67) BALLARD ~ Richland
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Words
I'm really enjoying the discussion of language corruption by
Steve Carson, Ed Wood and Pete Beaulieu. I too have been
annoyed for years about the decline in proper language usage
in America, and particularly the increasingly frequent
improper usage of the apostrophe. It's often misused to form a
plural sense, such a tire store advertising that they sell
"shock's" (actual example seen on the side of a building), or
misused to form a possessive sense, such as "the cat is in
it's bed". As far as I know, the only proper meaning of
"it's" is as a contraction for "it is", so the above sentence
would read, as written, "The cat is in it is bed". This isn't
something to tut-tut over; it's just plain wrong, and the
saddest part is that when I see its misuse in published
articles, the editor, whose job it is to root out such errors,
isn't educated enough to recognize them.
My other pet peeve is the use of the phrase "try and" in place
of "try to", as in "I'm going to try and climb the mountain".
NO! The proper phrase is "I'm going to try to climb the
mountain". The first example literally would mean the speaker
is going to both TRY to climb the mountain, and IS going to
climb the mountain. It all makes me wonder what they're
teaching in college these days. I probably don't want to know.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Karen COLE ('55), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Susie DILL ('64), Gary TURNER ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kath CARLSON ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SINCLAIR ('77)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Language!
Seeing the discussion regarding language, has me stumped.
English, unlike Latin, is not a dead language. As a living
language it is always growing, twisting, turning as it absorbs
the various Local-isms and nuances not only created by the
"slang" of the streets, but the rapidly changing world and
science growth. Tweet, Tweeter and twerking come to mind.
I recall on moving from Louisiana in the 3rd grade to
California. I was frequently reprimanded for word usage that
had been common back home, but was foreign in my new school.
But today some of that usage has become the norm. The actual
purpose of language is to convey from one person to another
or others a concept or idea. so what ever works, works.
That being said: some years ago I was involved thru the
Masonic lodge in a READING program at a "Magnet" school for
children at risk,,, those who were lagging. It was explained
to me that a child had to have at least a 4000 word vocabulary
by the end of the 3rd grade or would "generally" be forever
behind. Way too many families lack language skills and it is
passed from generation to generation. Till they themselves
have evolved a language of their own. Sort of a cross of
Ebonics, Street Slang and Ghetto. As that is blended into
every day English it also changing language greatly. So
gentlemen you will just have to learn to live with it. as
"its" is "it".
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from soggy downtown Hanford, CA where at
last we are getting rain. Today is bright clear and
spring like sunshine
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
"Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words" to quote Eliza
Doolittle from Lerhner & Lowe's "My Fair Lady" (nee Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw).
Someone blamed the poor use of the English language on a
college education. I don't think so. Goes further back than
that. If you hadn't learnt to spell correctly by at least
third grade, your hopes for further advancement in the study
of the English language might be deemed hopeless. And if it
wasn't for spel-chek, I probably wouldn't be able to get
through this. Be that as it may, I will continue to stumble
onward.
What I do remember from 12 years of school was that at least
one hour of every school day was devoted to the study of our
"native" tongue. Remembering, of course, what Winston
Churchill said; the Americans and British peoples are
separated by a common language.
Another person put forth the idea that English, unlike Latin,
was a still living language subject to change daily. At least
some of the rules may remain constant. What we as children
learned was a "pound" (lbs.) sign or something indicating a
number is now know as a "hash-tag", what ever that may be.
Heaven knows what the exclamation point or the question mark
may be in the future.
Which means further abuse for the lowly apostrophe, to say
nothing of the semi-colon.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where we
expect rain by the weekend
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Language
Deterioration began long, long ago. Television seems to have
initiated the phrase "I've got," followed by music such as
"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts." I'm certain our parents
thought we were destroying the language with the use of "Hubba
hubba."
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Snowy and cold Nine Mile Falls, WA
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>>From: Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
Re: Language pet peeves
One of my biggest peeves is the current use of "could of" and
"should of" instead of "could have" and "should have." What
ARE they teaching in school these days? I also have some
pronunciation pet peeves that make me cringe. The one that
sounds like fingernails on a blackboard to me is the word
nuclear being pronounced as nuke-you-ler. Just my two-cents'
worth.
-Susie DILL Atlee ('64)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Language deterioration
Like Wow man, the generation X, or whatever, won't really
"get" your recent entry (January 7) complaining about the
detour-ization--or was it "deterioration" (?)--whatever, it
all sounds the same, of language. Like, man, where's your
tolerance? Yadahadahyadah. And, like, to close your biases, or
whatever, you go: "It all makes me wonder what they're
teaching in college these days. I probably don't want to
know."
So--here's a word on what's being taught, and even worse, on
what is being set aside and not being taught.
In addition to PC activism, also being marketed to a paying
and captive audience is the most newly-discovered human
right--the new right to not be offended by anything that might
have been offered as a real learning experience. I personally
recall during an intermission at a major University of
Washington evening lecture, one student in the lobby
counseling others: "Like, the real thing is that to question
any idea is the same as attacking the person who thinks it."
Qualified commencement speakers are increasingly hounded by
such barbarians and complicit administrators into staying away
from the podium.
And as for what is not being taught--now you see it, now you
don't--this content is what used to be standard fare in the
routinely deleted and replaced core curriculum. (After all,
modern education is like a video game with delete and restart
keys.) Overall, it's ("it's" not "its"!) better to fully
derail higher education into a STEM work force feeder school.
The "humanities", what's that, probably just another bigoted
"man" thing? The new book off the shelf is not literature, but
software code writing.
In 2015 a national survey found that eighty percent of
Americans do not even know when Abraham Lincoln lived. The
same percentage (including prime time activists and
anarchists) do not know the real civil rights meaning of the
Emancipation Proclamation. Barely half of those surveyed even
know when the Civil War took place. Like, wow, I go "what's
history to the forever-now generation"?!?!
For twenty years the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
that made the survey (ACTA, www.goacta.org) has been working
to jump start trustees into noticing who's (not whose!)
usurped their responsibilities, and to awaken brain-stem
alumni into being more heard and less herded when forking over
their annual tax-exempt donations.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Gary TURNER ('71)
Re: English Use and Abuse
Two great books on use and abuse of the English language...
"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" and "The Great Typo Hunt." The
former is about the importance of punctuation and how
incorrect usage can drastically change the intended message.
The latter involves two friends who gather a collection of
markers, paints, and other tools and embark on a cross country
journey to surreptitiously correct "apostrophe abuse" and
other grammatical and punctuation errors on public signs. All
goes well until they attempt to correct a National Park sign
at the Grand Canyon... needless to say, hilarity ensues!
Both are highly recommended, especially to anyone enjoying
this string.
Part of my life's work involves driving my wife crazy as I sit
and constantly correct the TV sports announcers making six
figure incomes who have never learned to properly use the
language... I say we start by having everyone agree that
unique is an absolute and can't be modified!
I love getting old and making crotchety a lifestyle!
-Gary TURNER ('71)
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), David RIVERS ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Pam EHINGER ('67)
Betti AVANT ('69), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan ECKERT ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John TAYLOR ('63wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda REINING ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pearl DROTTS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FUNDERBURG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lee BUSH ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edna SMYTH ('71wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Joe and Kristi MAGULA ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stefan SCHERPEREL ('97)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Language!
Try teaching English to foreign students! We have too many
words that sound the same and mean much different things.
Chutes-shoots, rose-rows, flour-flower, bare-bear, there-
their, etc. Then we have the same word with different
meanings. Rows of seats-rows your boat, bound to go some place
as in moon ward or homeward. Bound to the rail road tracks.
Not sure how all this complication came about, but we are
stuck with it. So a bit of miss use, if it still gets the
message across must be forgiven.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from Beautiful downtown Hanford, CA where
the sun was shinning all to day and maybe tomorrow. Now if
any you have a great grill cheese receipt ???
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I am reminded, thank you very much, that Winston Churchill may
have been correct. While in college I was good friends with a
man from Japan who learned his English in Japan. He was given
the choice of learning American or (British) English. He chose
English thinking that he would go to England for graduate
school, but instead ended up in an American university with a
British accent. He was studying music (voice) and had an
incredible tenor voice.
Which reminds me of a quote by a friend: I always wanted to be
an English teacher, and now I are one.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Rex HUNT ('53) and Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Living with a "living language"
First, I fully respect the wisdom of my elders, especially Rex
HUNT ('53), who reminds us that English, unlike Latin, is a
living language. Perhaps we're (not wier) reminded of ninth-
century Charlemagne. Charlie (?) could read by never learned
to write (he practiced lettering each night with a stencil
that he kept under his pillow, but could never letter on his
own). Even then, Charlie lamented the already-evolving
language of Latin (the dead language) into localized dialects,
and from on-high he tried to restore and standardize the
universal tongue. No luck. Other historians suggest that later
language differentiation was accelerated in part by returning
Crusaders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries who noticed
the unifying effect of Arabic among the Muslims. Language
differentiation and evolution/devolution is permanent, so to
speak, but on the excesses, gimmee a break, man.
Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) fears for the future of the
"semi-colon." Too late, man. And now to elaborate why I say
this, and with my apologies, I have to resort to a Navy story.
Never get a Navy guy started, but here goes
In early 1968, fresh out of Navy OCS, I arrived at an aircraft
carrier stationed in Long Beach. Not much later inherited one
of the three deck divisions where I learned much about
linguistics. In informal Navy parlance the derogatory code
word is "deck apes" or "knuckle-draggers." The full range
includes school drop-outs or other expelled, but also still
others, and in my case even an author. I was introduced
quickly to Rex HUNT's appreciation for ghetto talk, ebonics
and whitey talk from down south, and even Navy jargon, but how
does one talk to the full spectrum?
As for the "semi-colon", for example, my (enlisted) leading
petty officer (Wallace, always use only the last name)
informed me that this is what you have after a major operation
for hemerrhoids. Now Wallace was a very no-nonsense, wiry six-
foot-two sailor who had recently won the West-Pac (Navy jargon
for Western Pacific) heavyweight boxing championship, and who
sheepishly informed me that the only reason he passed his last
grade in school-the seventh grade-was that the principal of
his Mississippi school was also the basketball coach. On my
first day as division officer I finally found Wallace and two
others of my 60-man division in sick bay (a familiar military
term). One was recovering from a knifing, and Wallace was
stretched out in considerable pain on his rack (another
colloquialism!). Explaining his situation, said he to me,
"Sir, they done carved me a new a**hole!" My point is that I
understand living languages, and soon learned more... A sailor
does not simply get into serious trouble in the Navy, rather,
he finds himself "in a world of s***
Now, Wallace was the kind of naturally endowed do-it-all who
actually makes the Navy run smoothly. I was very fortunate to
have him. And in the back of my mind and as a suburban kid and
non-career, I sometimes wondered whether I was really "cutting
it" with the men. From Paul Newman in the flick, "Cool Hand
Luke", and the prison warden, I wondered sometimes if "what we
have here is a failure to communicate!" After all, what am I
doing here, a medium town transplant from Lewis & Clark
Elementary School and Columbia High School from somewhere in
Eastern Washington?
With Wallace I was in the shadow of a rare one who was
respected and depended upon by many, from the deck apes up to
the three-and four-stripers in Officers' Country (another
term). He also had my respect, but Wallace could not spell the
same word the same way in even a single paragraph (whatever
that is), so he verbally gave his personnel reviews and
together we worked out the sixty written evaluations every six
months. In everything except the language arts he had "command
presence."
As for myself, again I long had my doubts, but then was
reassured. After our two years together, as the crew was
disbanding to new assignments ("billets"), Wallace - always
gifted in down home vernacular - approached me ramrod straight
and says ("goes"): "Sir, there's somethin' I's been want'n to
tell you fer a long time... [long pause]. You ain't gunna
f******' court marshal me, are yuh?" Said I, "No, speak your
mind, off the record." Then to my face, he "goes" (!) "You are
one tough sunnuvab*****!" And, although I was now multilingual
but restricting myself to the king's English, and knowing by
now his actual intent, I "go": "Wallace, coming from you that
is the highest commendation I have received, from anyone, in
this man's Navy. And it was.
Which is to say, the dialect thing is here to stay, but
because of stable definitions and punctuation it's (not "its")
still possible to communicate across dialect boundaries. But,
as for the choice of words, some verbiage is better, and some
ain't.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: words mean something
I have been relishing the discussion of language. As a teacher
and a lawyer, my life has been ruled in some part by language.
Without the precise use of words I could not have accomplished
the tasks placed before me. Now, how can a guy who butchers
words and language be so concerned... well I hope you know
that I am having fun with these posts... I enjoy playing with
words and non-words in these pages... it is no secret that
from the middle of the third grade until I was 21, I refused
to read... books that is... my mother had a theory as to why,
but I'm not sure that it matters at this point... I learned a
huge vocabulary and grammar from my parents... they were very
strict about language use and infractions were brought to my
attention immediately... the one thing that haunts me to this
day is I never learned to spell. In fact, in one college
course we actually had to take a spelling test... if one
failed that test the highest grade one could attain was a "B".
I knew that would ruin my A average, but I could hardly learn
to spell in one semester so I resigned myself to the B. When
grades were posted I walked into the professor's office and he
broke out laughing... I was sworn to secrecy, but he explained
he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if he gave me the B.
Not bragging just relating a fact. I began noticing that
Television announcers, to whom my mother always insisted I
take note (as she believed them to be the last bastion of the
English language), began to butcher the language about as
badly as I do in the SS during the '60s. I mean "mom said" so
I became disturbed and did as many do... corrected them as
they spoke. I do the same when it comes to the law, but that's
another matter. In fact forget I mentioned it because I could
go into an absolute tirade over it... I clearly remember one
night my mother came home from a dinner with my dad, just
fuming... I mean really upset. It seems the waitress addressed
my mom and dad as "you guys" and it ruined her entire evening.
So before I grovel for missing a Bomber-babe b-day and wish
another an HB, let me just say that I share many of your pet
peeves... such as the use of "of" for "have"... besides any
fool knows of is spelled "uv".
On the 7th Carol DuBOIS ('66) celebrated her special day and I
had it on my sheet as the 8th. I called right away and was
forgiven... But today I say HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Linda REINING
('64) on your special day, January 9, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Meadow Springs Pro Region's Top Teacher - 1/8/16 Herald
"Meadow Springs Country Club pro Jason AICHELE ('00) on
Thursday was named the Pacific Northwest PGA Teacher of
the Year for 2015.
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/misc/00AicheleJason.jpg
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Pam EHINGER (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
Ok all this Language talk, but no one has said anything about
when a person answers the phone with "This Sue. How can I help
you" My reply is "I give up how can you help me!!" I actually
said that to a gal & she was dumbfounded... didn't know how to
answer me! When at work or where you answer the phone...
"Wal*Mart... this Sue. How MAY I help you!!" OK that is my two
cents!!
Bombers Rule
-Pam EHINGER Kindl (Blue Ribbon Class of '67)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Patti's A ll Bomber lunch
WHEN: TODAY - Saturday, 9 Jan 2016
WHERE: JD Diner in West Richland
TIME: around noontime.
The holidays are through and it's my hope you all survived.
Come and meet some old friends or make some new ones and
enjoy a meal and good conversation.
-Judy WILLOX ('61)
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Pat DORRIS Trimble ('65)
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday Duo
Happy Birthday to Joe MAGULA ('71), and the same to his twin
sister Kristi MAGULA ('71). Hope the two of you have a great
birthday.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ Plano, TX where it's forecasted to be 25°
today after being 65° on Friday. Hey it's Texas
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/10/16
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Rex HUNT ('53)
Steve CARSON ('58), Ed WOOD ('62)
Helen CROSS ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl FRANKLIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl DeMERS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary BUSH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy STEIN ('71)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
To borrow from McDonald's, "I'm lovin' it!": conversations
about our evolving/devolving English language. I hope to
see more posts along this line. I have enjoyed RIVERS'
misspellings for a long time now, and appreciate that he
actually does know how to not only spell, but WRITE. Of
course, he does - one can't be a successful attorney without
that ability. I join the rest of you who are distressed by
the various uses and misuses of English as we learned it.
Best regards and a belated Happy New Year to all.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in overcast, but pleasant
Richland. I always put a comma before "but", but I'm
not sure this is correct. Opinions?
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Language!
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Well said!
-Rex HUNT ('53) ~ from Downtown Hanford, CA where the fog
came in so fast and so thick I had to lay a string to
the wood pile to get a starter log for the fire place.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Love the thread on language, and the humor therein. My pet
peeve is when people say "no problem". I coached my employees
never to use that slang and instead say "It's my pleasure."
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Foreign influence
To: Rex HUNT ('53)
Rex, I'm sure you know how "all this complication came about"
in our language. It's not all about foreign influence, but
that has a great deal to do with it. At its root, words from
Latin, Greece, French and many others supplemented the paucity
of Anglo-Saxon words, and some of those words were duplicates,
at least initially. "Cow," for example has an old English
root, but "beef" which used to mean the same thing, came from
the French. We've continued to use Germanic-based words to
define animals, yet French words to define their edibles, such
as the French-based "pork," and Germanic-based "pig."
As English has become a dominant language in the world, this
acquisitiveness of words from other languages has expanded.
Moreover, native English speakers would much rather
communicate with say, a native Polish speaker in poor English,
rather than taking the effort to learn Polish. Especially in
America during its peak immigration period a century ago, we
had a choice between accepting great variations in language,
or becoming a Tower of Babel. Fortunately, we chose the
former.
In spite all the changes to English, today we can still
understand Shakespeare's language of over 500 years ago (at
least some can understand him). But Shakespeare would not have
been able to understand the Ango-Saxon language spoken in his
country 500 years before his birth.
One wonders if our descendants centuries from now will be able
to understand what we write about today?
-Ed WOOD ('62)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU (also '62)
Your command of the English language is superb.
Also your ability with words is fascinating. I enjoyed and
could follow your Navy story because you explained it so well.
Please continue to write in.
To: you, Bill SCOTT ('64), Rex HUNT('53), and David RIVERS
('65) (I have to admit I did read all of your entry today), my
hat is off to you for your abilities to communicate in our
complicated English language.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Language
I continue to enjoy the discussion of language in this forum.
It seems we've really touched a nerve. Enjoyable and
informative input from all. However, I must respectfully
disagree with Rex Hunt ('53wb), who, if I understand
correctly, wants to dismiss any concern for the continued
intrusion of "localisms" and street slang into English. He
states, "The actual purpose of language is to convey from one
person to another or others a concept or idea, so what ever
works, works". His stated purpose is the very reason we as a
culture need to maintain established standards of English
usage, because that conveyance should serve as a common
understanding across an entire culture, not just in the local
neighborhood. What works on the street doesn't work in the
world of business. Slang expressions or local dialect will
work their way into contemporary language whether we like it
or not. It is one thing to accept such words (such as
twerking) and quite another to abandon widely-recognized rules
of composition and sentence structure. There was a movement
some years ago to have Ebonics accepted as a legitimate
dialect. Fortunately it died out (I hope). If you're speaking
on the level of "Where be Tony? He be workin'", you're not
going to be employed on Wall Street or in any of a host of
lesser positions requiring a minimum standard of commonly
understood communications skills. As Hunt points out, it's
difficult to teach English to foreign language speakers. The
more we abandon established rules of composition in favor of
slang sentence structure or punctuation use, the more
impossible English becomes to teach. A common understanding of
language unites people, not only across a culture, but across
national boundaries as well. Language differences serve to
divide. Our standards of composition, were, like it or not,
established by those nefarious "old European white guys", and
we would do well to emulate them. Our founding fathers, for
instance, wrote with a mastery of the English language few can
emulate today. We are the worse for it.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: "failure to communicate"
I read not too long ago that if we were to get into our
DeLorean time machine and travel back 1000 years to jolly ole
England we would not be able to understand the language spoken
there, but if someone from Iceland were to travel back 1000
years, their language has not changed and they would be able
to understand their ancestors perfectly.
English is actually a German language brought over by the
Saxons after the declining Roman Empire abandoned Britain. The
Saxons pushed the Celts out to Ireland and Scotland.
The reason English has more words than other languages is
because of William the Conqueror and the Norman Invasion in
1066. The Normans were actually Vikings who, because the
French king did not want them to make war on him allowed them
to make a settlement in Normandy (northman). Within a few
generations the Vikings had married into the local French
population, adopted the French language and lost their Norse
culture. The only case I know of where appeasement actually
worked. This is alluded to at the very end of the last episode
of last seasons TV show "Vikings" on the History Channel.
(season 4 is supposed to start Feb 18) The structure of
English did not change at all, but French words were brought
into the English Language. The reason we have two words for
much of our food (ham and pork) is because the Norman rulers
continued to speak French. King Richard and Prince John spoke
French not English like in the Robin Hood movies. Saxons
became their servants, so while the servants were preparing
the food they referred to it in English, but when they served
it to the Normans they used the French word.
This old "shellback" (sailor who has crossed the equator)
understood every word of Pete BEAULIEU's ('62) post perfectly,
even if he had not provided the English-Navy translation.
However he must have his "grammar check" turned on. Yeah, me
too. Most people quote that line form "Cool Hand Luke" as
"What we have here is failure to communicate," which is
grammatically correct, but about 10 years ago I saw that movie
again and was surprised to hear that what actor Strother
Martin actually said was, "What we've got here is failure to
communicate."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2f-MZ2HRHQ
As to the number of Americans who don't know when Abraham
Lincoln lived, or when the Civil War was fought or what the
Emancipation Proclamation did, or didn't do. I never watched
Jay Leno that much, but I did like to watch his "Jaywalking"
segments where he went out into the streets and asked people
simple questions. I know they edit these things, so I wondered
how many did they have to go through to find these dumb
people. I got a horrible feeling it isn't many. I remember him
asking one young lady who we were fighting in the
Revolutionary War and she said, "The Germans." Yeah, I'm sure
she was thinking of the Hessians. The old saying is, "Those
who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Trouble
is, "The main thing we learn from history is that we learn
nothing from history."
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Happy Birthday, Judy
Happy, happy birthday to our globe trotting Judy STEIN (Jason
Lee '65, Chief Jo '68, Col-Hi '71, WSU '75). Here's hoping you
have a great birthday wherever you are.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ where it was 28° today when I was hunting
Prussian Boar on the Trinity River
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/11/16
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11 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Marlene LARSEN ('56wb), Steve CARSON ('58)
Connie MADRON ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Jo MILES ('64)
Robert SHIPP ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim RUSSELL ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kurt JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ken FORTUNE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Len PARIS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SMYTH ('73wb)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob LYSHER ('81)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark GERKEN ('02)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: What I learned about writing and grammar in college
Taking a slight right turn, here's a smidgen of what I learned
about writing and grammar in college.
For punch and power, use Germanic single-syllable words rather
than, for instance, the genteel French. "Shit" or "poop" or
"scat" are raw and down to earth, whereas "feces" or "animal
droppings" are euphemistic.
A college writing instructor told us to write conversation
clearly enough so the reader knows who is speaking without
being told. Give each speaker a character marker. "Me and her
seen a ghost!" contains two markers. The speaker puts "self"
first, and also has a problem with tense. "SHE and I SAW (or
HAVE SEEN) a ghost!" is correct.
Most people I know equate perfect punctuation, grammar and
spelling with high intelligence. One engaging Alumni Sandstorm
writer was so stung by criticism that he produced a lengthy
entry with perfect spelling. I used to think that excellent
spelling correlated with superior intelligence, but was jerked
off my pedestal by a college professor who said that is simply
not true.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ from cold but slightly warmer
Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
As I recall; my statement about the semi-colon, was that I
asked you to say nothing about it. And what did I get in
return, a sea-story about the intelligence of "deck apes".
That level, I believe is slightly above that of a fresh caught
Ensign.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the
warmth may be returning as the snow level creeps upward
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>>From: Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
Re: Old words and phrases remind us of the way we word
-Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
Thanks for your entry. I had to ask SIRI for the definition of
PAUCITY. Now challenged to use it.
Re: Language complications
Recently attended a birthday celebration for my 14 year old
nephew. We were all shocked when he could not read his
birthday cards that were written in cursive.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Connie MADRON Hall ('60)
Re: Language
I cannot NOT include my pet peeve to the murder of our
language today. First of all, we are so lucky to have had the
English teachers we did. We were very well trained.
Even though chalk probably isn't used on a blackboard anymore,
I cringe like I just heard it screech when a young person
today begins a sentence with the word "me," as in "Me and
Susie went to the store." Two or three years ago when I first
heard my granddaughter say that, I let out a strange noise,
wiggled and twisted and said, "Me did?" Then I said, "Never
start a sentence with the word 'me'." Hoping that it would
break the habit, I offered her $10.00 and every time she
started with Me, she would have to pay me 25 cents back. Well,
I think I cured her, but last month she told me she told her
fifth grade teacher that her grandmother said that we
shouldn't begin a sentence with the word Me. Her teacher said,
"That depends upon the way you use it." I want an example of
that sentence.
-Connie MADRON Hall ('60) ~ in rainy Central California's
Coast where we need it badly
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Fascinating quotes in the vernacular
Helen CROSS ('62) finds my Navy story of January 9
"fascinating" and urges me to "continue to write in." This
after readers were cautioned to not get a Navy guy started on
sea stories. Just this one time, I will oblige, since this
next story is of broad historical interest and - given our web
page thread on language evolution and devolution - since it
includes three or four colloquial quotations well worth
immortalizing. IF NOT INTERESTED, SKIP THIS TYPICALLY LONG SEA
STORY.
On July 24, 1969, the astronauts of Apollo XI, the first lunar
landing, splashed down at 0549 local time (9:49 p.m. West
Coast time), about 950 miles south of Pearl Harbor. Minutes
before, the returning 10,000 pound conical capsule and its
three history-making astronauts entered the earth's atmosphere
at 25,000 miles per hour generating a friction fire ball some
200 miles long. Again, on board the recovery ship (the carrier
USS Hornet, to which I was assigned) history was treated to
some off-the-cuff and overlooked notable quotables.
Notables included the commanding officer, captain and later
Rear Admiral Carl Seiberlich (of which more below), President
Nixon who at the front end of a good will tour to the Far East
flew in by helicopter from Johnson Island, the head of NASA
plus his two top Apollo Project staff, the Huntley-Brinkley
news team plus other media, Admiral John McCain (CINCPACFLT:
commander-in-chief for the entire Pacific Fleet, and father of
the imprisoned and later Senator John (jr.) McCain), the
Secretary of State whose name escapes me, and Rear Admiral Don
("Red Dog") Davis (commander of Manned Space Flight Recovery
forces; also of which more below). The Secret Service had
mapped everything out months in advance, and I recall that one
member of the advance team was from our own Columbia High
School (a member of a late '50s class; we did not quite meet,
but I do recall seeing him from behind in a chair in the
Weapons Office, and noticed that this specimen and very
prominent muscles even in the back of his neck.) From the
point of view of day-to-day shipboard "evolutions", this whole
thing makes for a fascinating story (if interested, see Scott
W. Carmichael, Moon Men Return, Naval Institute Press, 2010).
But now the quotes. After it was all over, and at the pier
celebration in Pearl Harbor, McCain took the stand and
addressed the crew by announcing that during World War II he
had fibbed about his age (he was only 16) in order to get into
the Navy; he encouraged the men to also look forward, not
back, and that whoever they were they too could serve well and
make something of themselves.
At the night following the recovery, Rear Adm. Davis, without
even the formality of rising from his seat, addressed the
officers' team, several dozen in a low "overhead" (ceiling)
and crowded pilot "ready room", with this unparalleled
eloquence for the moment, if not for the ages, "Well, we got
three men to the moon and back, and you can't knock that." The
night before, in the same cramped space, Captain Seiberlich
had summarized his expectations, noticing forcefully that if
anything went sideways the Commander in Chief and President
would be onboard to be publicly embarrassed in front of 500
million television viewers. Then came the unscripted pause,
and in a markedly relaxed tone he just "goes", "well, if this
thing [this thing!] starts to go to worms, just play it
cool." Winston Churchill he was not. On the lunar surface
astronaut Armstrong had fully risen to the occasion: "That's
one small step for man, and a giant leap for mankind."
During the recovery the astronauts landed on board by helo and
seconds were sealed up for the next twenty-one days in the
Mobile Quarantine Facility (on the first lunar landing mission
there was this hypothetical of weird "moon germs"; just as
with the first atomic bombs at Oak Ridges' Hiroshima and
Richland's Nagasaki a risk of 3-in-a-million was calculated
that the earth's atmosphere would be ignited by the fireball).
After some pleasantries at the MQF President Nixon unsettled
everybody responsible for his security. On the flight deck he
broke from the Secret Service designated route back to the
helicopter and chatted with the behind-the-scenes enlisted
flight deck crew. Eloquence is where you find it. For decades
ever since, Seiberlich (RIP 2006, Arlington National Cemetery)
relished telling how Nixon complimented a large and anonymous
black man in the mix whose (not who's) only distinction was
that he knew his job and did it, every day, year in and year
out; "this was a great team job," "goes" the President, and
without missing a beat the sailor in a purple refueling vest
just comes right backatcha and, of the team, he goes, "yazzuh,
we duh Hoe-nutt!" (trans: "Yes sir, we're the Hornet").
Now, back to Seiberlich and his equally eloquent "if-this-
thing-goes-to-worms" thing. Why did Seiberlich make a point of
deflating the nerve-twitching hype? May I propose that at
least one possible influence was an event the afternoon before
the actual recovery. The ship had just gone through the last
of six weeks and two dozen very long practice recoveries:
helos, armed shark patrols, mock-up space capsule in the
water, Lt. Clancy Hatleberg (now of Chippawa Falls, Minnesota)
and his Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) frogmen in full dress
rehearsal jumping from a large Sikorsky helicopter onto the
mockup capsule, rather cumbersome crane operations, etc. etc.
But some practices were shorter than others... So, there I
was, a dry land Richland boy, with a team of probably 40 men,
thirty feet above seal level and the same distance below the
Flight Deck, at the stern end of the ship working the
starboard side crane. Out of sight, out of mind: we were
forgotten by the big time coordinators at the other end of the
ship and I had a routine question... "is this a full dress
practice, or now can I break and turn the men loose before the
chow line closes?" If not, then four more hours without a
bite.
Not rocket science, but still a real question. Part of my
Recovery duty was as the single walkie-talkie communication
link between the bridge, the UDT team and the nearby shark
patrol boat in the water, and the final crane operations. I
pushed the handset button and floated my question to what I
learned was a very crowded and stuffy Bridge, nearly 300 yards
in front and ten levels above the crane level. Ooops! "My
bad" (to use a current language devolution). Back comes a
hushed response to me, "Hangar Bay #3, this is the Bridge, the
captain is upset, and he's on his way down... " Now, piercing
the gloom, as they say, I could barely detect new motion at
the far end of the ship in Hangar Bay #1. The three hangar
bays are the ship-length aircraft storage level, one level
below the Flight Deck (which covers the area of three football
fields). Yup, a sailor's worst nightmare; here they come -
literally in marching step and shoulder to shoulder here comes
the captain, plus admiral "Red Dog" Davis at his right, and
the six-foot four Dr. Stullken, imposing NASA Project Manager
for this Apollo mission. Tromp, tromp, tromp.
Then, it happened. In my imagination there appeared a line on
the deck running left to right and just a few inches in front
of my toes. Remember the Alamo! The inner voice said, this is
your line, don't back up even an inch... I waited. What would
be said, and then what indiscretion would blurt past my own
short-timer lips? Now, eyeball to eyeball, my captain
instructs me that things are a bit tense, and not to tip
things over with random questions from left field. "Captain",
says I (I goes!), "We have not been kept informed, and if I
may I intend to feed my men before the chow hall closes [then
this bit]... If things are THIS wired, then WE do have a
problem, and we had better fix it before morning... but I'm
not IT." Now that's (not "thats") what the meaning if IT is!
So, I fully expected all hell to break loose. But no, as if
they had drilled their next move a dozen times, Davis and
Seiberlich and Stullken, all three, suddenly and without a
single word pivoted in unison to their right, and together
actually marched to the nearest hatch and disappeared up a
ladder and probably back to the bridge. Silence. It was then
that I turned and noticed still behind me my 40 sweaty men in
hard hats, some standing and some sitting on the deck, and all
of them with eyes as big as dinner plates.
With less than ten minutes before the chow hall closed, I
cleared the deck with a hearty command decision: "Dismissed...
go get something to eat." The next day things went without a
hitch.
Sorry about the length, above; it's (not "its") not my fault.
Complain to Helen CROSS and our honorable gate keeper Maren.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Language
A tardy but hearty tip of this writer's hat to Pete BEAULIEU
('62) for his entertaining post about his Navy experiences. It
was very well written and just plain funny. Good job. And a
nod of amazement to Dennis HAMMER's ('64) post on the history
of English. It was very informative. King Richard and Prince
John speaking French?! Who'd a thunk it. I was wondering if
Dennis has a little more tucked away that could explain why,
if English was a German language as he says, the language the
Germans speak today is so radically different from modern
English?
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Jo MILES ('64)
Re: Creative spelling
Pete BEAULIEU's ('62) hilarious Navy experience shared on
01/09 was written clearly enough for this Army Reservist to
understand, and it contained a priceless quote, "could not
spell the same word the same way in even a single paragraph."
It reminded me of Lewis and Clark when they camped on the
Columbia River at the present site of Sacajawea Park in 1805.
William Clark, known as a "courageous speller" explored a few
miles upstream and wrote in his journal four times the name of
the river we now know as Yakima - Tapetett, Tape tett, Tape-
tett, and one time he forgot to cross the "t's" and the word
came out Tap teel. A later corruption by an editor changed the
distorted spelling even more to Tapteal which caught the eye
of modern Kennewickites who named a city street after it.
It turns out, the chief who pointed out the river in 1805 was
telling Clark the name of a popular fishery located upstream
at the falls near present day Prosser. For centuries Natives
called the fishing place Tap-tat, and Yakima journalists who
later came to know the Natives spelled it Toptut. So, it
appears Clark came closest to the indigenous name 3 out of 4
times, but pioneers preferred to remember the accidental
version instead.
-Jo MILES ('64)
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>>From: Robert SHIPP ('64)
Re: Language
All this talk about language reminds me of the time during Ken
Jennings' record run on "Jeopardy!" when the following answer
(not verbatim, but the essence is there) was revealed: "The
Oakland, California, school district attempted to have this
form of street talk accepted as a legitimate language."
Jennings rang in and immediately replied, "What be Ebonics?"
-Robert SHIPP ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: How 'bout them Sea Gulls
I have a question which I am a bit timid about raising as it
boarders on "political". For me, however, and for the guy who
originated the idea, it is pure Bomber lore... In any event,
after watching a particular debate, Jack KEENEY ('65) called
me with an idea... naturally being a huge fan of a particular
Bomber; having been graced with his presence at my Quilt of
Valor Ceremony (as was Jackson), I jumped in with both feet.
Jack had several shirts made, which he gave as gifts, along
with similar bumper stickers... I am sending pictures of the
shirts with this post. If you love them and want one, lemme
know right away... if you don't care for the idea, ignore it
and never think of it again. At this time I have 5 Bombers who
wish to have shirts... The cost would be $20.00 plus shipping
from Jackson to you which runs nearly four smackers in today's
world. I'll wait till Friday, January 15, 2016 to let Jack
know and then we'll make arrangements to get the moola to Jack
and the rest will be history...
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-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
I want to chime in on our language discussion.
1. I find this delightful and informative!
2. My late husband, Thomas PEASHKA ('68-RIP), and I proclaimed
one another as "grammar Nazis". (Please don't take offense!
It was a term of mutual praise.) I have been missing those
language-use critique conversations that he and I often shared.
3. Em DeVINE (52), I believe your apology ("I join the rest of
you who are distressed by the various uses and misuses of
English as we learned it. (I know, I know: "don't end a
sentence with a preposition." In my opinion, this is an old
and useless rule."), was unnecessary, as "it" is an
appropriate object in your sentence. Right?
4. Also Em, I use a comma before "but" & "however", especially
in longer and/or more complex sentences.
I offer my thanks to all participants in this discussion!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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11 Bombers and 1 former teacher sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Helen CROSS ('62), Ann ENGEL ('63)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Roy BALLARD ('63)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Rick MADDY ('67), Bill Dunton (former teacher),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Annie PARKER ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom HUNT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Earl BENNETT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carolyn RIESE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charles KNOEBER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug STRASSER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tim CORREY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger McCOLLEY ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! The kind of language the
editor to this rag allows is almost beyond my ken. And to see
it written by a Bomber Babe (if I may use that term) of my
acquaintance. I mean, after all, what with the twists and
turns of the language as perpetrated by the Junior Gyrene is
bad enough.
That being said, I don't think washing her mouth out with soap
would do any good at this late date. She'll play the "age
card" and get away with it.
And, again we are regaled with another sea story. But, I don't
think this one is true because it did not start with the
phrase "This is no S*%#, man!"
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the monsoons have returned and the snow level in the
mountains varies from day to day.
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: the dynamics of the ever-changing of language,
I am reminded of the time between my junior and senior year
that I spent living in Hawaii and worked at Sears in the Ala
Moana shopping center. When the kids got out of school and
wandered into the store, you had to be privy to the Pidgin
dialect they spoke so that you didn't have that stupid look on
your face trying to figure out what they were saying. Later I
talked with language professors and they said that over time
pidgin had developed its own grammatical rules, intonation and
delivery and of course was an offshoot of English and Hawaiian
words. Interestingly kids were required to speak proper
English in school and to keep the pidgin out. However many of
the parents also used pidgin in the home as well and sometimes
I encountered it in the store from adults. The point is that
language is not static but dynamic and is constantly changing
and developing new words, rules of use and meanings all the
time. I have a lot of sympathy for those from other countries
who are trying to learn English with all its idioms,
connotations and subtle variations and struggle to be
understood. I'm sure Hawaiians when they first encountered the
English, they felt the same way trying to understand the
strange language (and strange people!)
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Thanks for another interesting story, Pete.
Thanks Pete and Bill SCOTT ('64) and everyone for more
interesting stories and colorful use of our English language.
My dad was in the Navy on a ship bound for Okinawa when WW11
ended. But he never told us any stories about his Navy
experiences, except one... that he met one of his brothers (he
had 6) on Okinawa while waiting for a ship back to the States.
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Thanks, I'll pass on a shirt. For one thing, I don't think any
shirt is worth that kind of money; for another, I don't think
it would be the right logo for a Methodist minister's wife to
wear.
I'm looking for a shirt that says I'm from Richland, but I
wasn't born there, so I'm not ordering one of the current ones
I've seen on the web.
Re: Winter finally comes to Hope, IN
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/161112-Hope_Winter.jpg
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we survived our
first day of real winter yesterday; (we had to close
church due to icy roads and cold temperatures); it got
down to single digit temperatures last night, and the
same is expected tonight.
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>>From: Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
Re: Old Time Candies
There are places you can buy the old time candies. There's
Stormin Norman's and Marsh's in Long Beach, WA. There's also a
big candy store in Seaside, OR.
-Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Re: Language
Here is a recent email exchange with an on-line friend who
regularly sends fascinating pictures (pix), videos and
stories, like this clip attached to the first entry below,
which was addressed to the source.
www.youtube.com/embed/qOw44VFNk8Y?feature=player_embedded
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Carl: Blarme, Ray. That was a bit overboard. Thanksl
Of course, I don't know how to spell blarme.
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Earl: Blarme - Probably cognitive dissonance creating a cross
between "blimey" (standard British expletive, roughly "oh,
my goodness!" or "whaaaat?" or other, less genteel
expressions) and "blarney," a cockney colloquial for
"nonsense!"
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Carl: You got it. Thanks. Have a nice weekend
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Earl: Chalk it up to senior moments - I regularly lose a
familiar word for a few minutes, up to a full day or more.
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Note the use of double-spacing after colons.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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[There are no double spaces (after colons) in the Alumni
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
To: Kurt JOHNSON ('63)
With all the English talk and writing, I don't know if I
should write again on the Sandstorm, but I'll try to a very
good and long friend I'd like to wish a Very Happy Birthday.
Kurt JOHNSON on your 71st. HAPPY, HAPPY.
Re: Gunda MULLER Rider ('54-RIP)
I remember the butcher shop on Stevens... Ralph and Gunda
would fix 4 or 5 whole racks of ribs for us and we would have
some friends over and have some good times... What a wonderful
lady... not to forget Ralph also a great guy...
-Roy BALLARD ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: English-German
I don't think I can explain why today's English is so
different from today's German - not without doing a lot of
research and a then probably writing the world's longest
Sandstorm post.
However (notice I did not start a sentence with "but") I did
once ask someone who had taken German if it was easier to
learn than other languages because English was a Germanic
language and was told that it is.
There was Old English from the time of the Saxons conquest,
which was then influenced by contact with the Vikings who set
up colonies in England mainly in the north. "Beowulf." Then
Middle English starting with the Norman Conquest in 1066 when
many French words were brought into the language which caused
English to have, I think, three times as many words as other
languages like Spanish and French. "The Canterbury Tales."
Then about 1500 there was Modern English largely characterized
by something called "the great vowel shift" 1350 to 1600 in
which the pronunciation of all English long vowels was
changed. "Shakespeare." Even then it is not easy to read for
the modern English speaking person. I almost bought a King
James version Bible 1611. It had all the weird spelling that
was used in the original 1611 version, and was not easy to
read. When I went back to buy a copy they were out and I have
not seen one since.
Some of what I learned of the history of English came from the
PBS 9-part documentary "The Story of English" by Robert Mac
Neil. I saw three or four episodes, and knew the Kennewick
library had the series of VHS, but I waited too long and they
got rid of all their VHS. (I got the VHS about library cats) I
have just found out that the entire series in available on
YouTube. I do remember seeing episode 2 "The Mother Tongue"
which started with the Saxon invasion. So if interested just
go to YouTube and type in "The Story of English." I'm going to
have watch the whole series now that I know it is there.
Even today in England I guess not everyone speaks "the Queen's
English." Last few years there has been an unofficial "talk
like a pirate day;" I noted it is not really a talk like a
pirate, but rather talk like Robert Newton day. He excelled at
playing pirates in the '50s, especially in the Disney version
of "Treasure Island" and "Blackbeard the Pirate" with Linda
Darnell. Just recently read that I was right, he used a
dialect of South West England where he grew up when he played
those parts.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ "Arrr!"
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Steve CARSON ('58)
Re: Cursive
Three of my grandchildren, two in their 20s and one in his
teens, can neither read NOR writ cursive! It isn't mandatory
in schools anymore! So sad. My youngest daughter is a teacher
in Bakersfield, CA and they are told by their school district,
"IF by the time a student is in third grade and cannot grasp
the ability to read or write in cursive, they no longer have
to worry about it... printing is acceptable". How on earth
do they expect these kids to be able to sign their names on
legal documents, or even be able to read Historical documents?
Boggles my mind! The school's answers to that question is:
"everyone uses computers now so the written language isn't
necessary"! WHAT??? That has to be the dumbest explanation I
have ever heard! We just keep "dumbing down" our kids more and
more! Penmanship and cursive writing should have NEVER been
stopped! And spelling is no longer a concern either... the
reason? "Computers have spell check so it's okay if they don't
know how to spell a word". They no longer teach them how to
use dictionaries, either! I remember having to learn how to
use the "guide words" on the pages of the dictionary and also
how to look up the spelling of a word, even if I didn't know
how to spell it.
I have been enjoying all the entries about Language and how we
have "murdered it" with our "slanguage". Computer-speak and
texting have really ruined the English language that we grew
up with... I use texting, but it takes me forever, as I still
use proper English instead of the shortcuts that seem so
prevalent now.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ By the time this appears in print, I
will be recovering from my second hip surgery... left
hip was replaced last July; Tuesday, my right hip is
being replaced... my birthday present for this year.
*grin*
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Ah, here it is, the day for which I wait all year (notice how
nicely I phrased that). The day when I can drive one person
absolutely bonkers with ellipses and other aggravating bits
and pieces... no use of paragraphs usually works quite well...
he is convinced I have corrupted one of his younger sisters to
the gates of grammatical hell... which is a far sight better
than what some parents seemed to feel about my relationships
with their daughters...
That said my I wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Earl (ECB3) BENNETT
('63) on your special day, January 12, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Spelling and intellect
Hey Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)!
You said: "I used to think that excellent spelling correlated
with superior intelligence, but was jerked off my pedestal by
a college professor who said that is simply not true."
I think your professor is right. Here is James Whitcomb
Riley's poem, "Little Orphant Annie"
Brilliant (and actually I think the spelling is brilliant,
as well)!
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Rick MADDY ('67)
Re: Y'all
I have been traveling America for ten years now. Two yearly
trips; first is always to Washington and Idaho visiting family
and friends (the last fourteen years from SoCal). Then I head
East. I am on the road four to eight weeks (eight weeks once
and never again), sleeping in my vehicle at the local 24 hour
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Hotels (no, there is not) parking lot
and in dive hotels at least every fourth day (just when even
the bugs have stopped bothering me). I have never been in
Alaska. The life of genealogy.
I have been out in 'the middle of nowhere' in Oglethorpe
county, Georgia, Coffee county, Tennessee, Douglas county,
Missouri more than once on several trips looking for, standing
on, or standing by and photographing ancestor's properties
and graves. I have ordered fish & chips in a fast food in
Plymouth, Mass. The spoken English language is quite useless
when one cannot grasp what the speaker is saying while using
their local articulation. Syntax or not.
My uncle, my mother's brother and oldest of ten children, born
in 1914 Missouri Ozarks, did not know how to read or write
until he went to night school in his early twenties after the
family came to WA state in '37. He kept on with the education
and became a Yakima county sheriff. Those on horses. My
father had a sixth grade education. Dad wanted to know math
(paycheck) and how to read, period. He was an avid reader and
self educated. Mostly flora and fauna. You can take the boy
from the farm, but... blah blah. And he worked at Hanford. I
learned from my special (there are some) special education
students they were possibly smarter than me here and there
(subbed/taught severe and profound for five years and then
moved to Maui).
I have written several chronologically dated histories on my
family. My father's father and mother and my mother's father
and mother, staying as close to the tree as possible. I do not
leave America. I do know where in Europe they came from and
that is good enough. These genealogy compilations will be put
into several libraries and historical buildings in several
states. My writing skills will, of course, probably be amusing
to some, but the context will not be funny.
Anyway, I enjoy immensely the SS misrepresentations of my
language. I thoroughly enjoy the conversations from those who
actually do speak and write correctly my only language. And I
have not missed a meal because of the abuse of my language...
and as long as I can get to where and for what I am looking...
it's all good.
The if and then construct: If I was a lawyer, then all of this
would not have changed. Trust me. You know who taught me this.
-Rick MADDY ('67) ~ from now off and on sunny Huntington
Beach, CA where Carl BEYER ('65) and Rick WARFORD ('65)
showed up for lunch on Sunday.
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>>From: Bill Dunton (former teacher)
Re: Grammar errors
Haven't seen anyone list my favorite hate as a teacher:
"Sitting in the car the mountains looked beautiful."
Really? Must have been a very large vehicle.
-Bill Dunton (former teacher)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Rick VALENTINE ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill WENDLAND ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Luda STAMBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David WILLIAMS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat RUANE ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Sharon and Karen POLK ('76)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
"I can read writin' when it's wrote; but I can't read writin'
when it's writ."
Now on to better things. It's Birthday Time! No, I'm not
going Willard Scott on you. Today's birthday boy is a fellow
classmate. I have reason to believe that we may even had
converse "back in the day." None the less, he's a good guy
and honor should be paid to him on this day.
Now, for the ceremonial tip of the ol' propeller beanie and
the "Happy Birthday!" shout for Bill WENDLAND ('54) is in
order. As Jean-Luc would say: "Make it so." Good going, Bill,
maybe we'll talk at the up coming "Birthday Bash."
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where,
yeah, it's wet.
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>>From: Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
Re: Entering into the language discussion:
In 1980 I was visiting my daughter at the military base in
Baumholder, Germany. I had always wanted to visit Paris,
France, and because of its proximity to where I was at the
time, I imagined myself travelling there. I had to reconsider
when I was informed that my daughter would not be able to go
along. Since I was alone, and spoke no French, I changed my
plan and decided on a four day holiday in London, England.
Certainly there, I would face no language barrier.
How wrong I was! The first adventure into Hyde Park and I was
lost. I found the "tube" (London subway) and thought I would
ask the person at the gate how to get back to my hotel. Let me
just say that all his English was as confusing to me as if it
had been French. His dialect was so strong that I could hardly
decipher two words. I showed him my key with the name of the
hotel on it, and he pointed me in the right direction. It was
just a straight shot a couple of blocks ahead. I wasn't really
lost I guess, but as far as communication in English, I was
totally at a loss. So English is not easy to understand even
when visiting another country and hearing their version. I too
am horrified and disappointed at what my great grandchildren
are not taught in school. However, I am excited and amazed at
what they are learning in the language of computer skills.
Things change and they will continue to do so. At this age, I
am satisfied to just watch from the sidelines, and try not to
make any "old fashioned" comments or corrections.
Every time I pick up the local newspaper, it astonishes me to
see the many grammatical and spelling errors in print. The
editors clearly did not go to school with teachers like Ms.
Nadine Brown, or Mrs. Norma Boswell at Columbia High in
Richland, WA. The lack of proper punctuation and use of
colloquialisms proves that.
Sign me up for the list of those offended when I hear "No
problem" if I ask for the check, or a coffee refill. It should
not be a problem. It is your job. I think the person training
staff should teach a new retort. The destruction of the
English language I learned in school is a disappointment to
me, however I am living in a different world and time now, so
I accept the change and move on. I remember that my mother, a
school teacher, nearly had apoplexy when in 1953 I used the
word "crud" as an expletive. Thankfully she cannot hear the
words used today to express anger.
-Laura Dean KIRBY ('55)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Mr. Dunton: Or Mrs. Davis' (?Angela?) cringing when pointing
out the grammar issue in the song lyrics: "Throw Mama from
the train a kiss, a kiss." Which brings up the whole problem
of "understood but not expressed" prepositions, objects,
subjects, etc., and how to diagram them. I loved sentence
diagraming, but language is too fluid to stay neatly within
those boundaries.
Regards, ecb3
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Rick VALENTINE ('68)
Re: The first Spokane Bomber Lunch of 2016
WHEN: Saturday January, 16th.
Happy New Year to all!
The November Lunch got lost in the Wind Storm the Tuesday
before the lunch.
We will be meeting at:
WHERE: The Hillside Inn Restaurant
3001 N. Nevada St., North Spokane.
TIME: Coffee at 11:30 AM Lunch around 12:00 Noon
Come and join us for lunch, All Bombers, their families, and
friends are welcome... the more the merrier. (this is an all
class gathering, all class years are welcome)
Out of Towners welcome... See You There...
Any Questions or need directions, contact me...
-Rick VALENTINE ('68)
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan BAKER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane ARMSTRONG ('66)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Re: English is weird
A timely article i received this morning.
http://theweek.com/articles/594909/english-weird
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Language
This is New Orleans... An attorney sanctioned this ad?
Man: "I was on my way to my daughter's first softball game and
stopped for a red light the next thing I know I got plowed in
the back of." He continues: "I called [deleted attorney's
name] and actually axed the lady you know 'Where are y'all
located?' and that's when she told me 'You don't come to us...
we come to you'"
When it starts, I try to get the remote so I can mute oor fast
forward past the entire ad... and try to get to it BEFORE that
sentence ending in a preposition!!
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 48° at 1am
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5 Bombers sent stuff today:
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Donna BOWERS ('63)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron RICHARDS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Les TADLOCK ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ronna Jo LYNCH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Clif HOOVER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FREEMAN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy SCHILDNECHT ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED Today: Wendy CARLBERG ('64-RIP)
http://krookmcsmile.tripod.com/WendyCarlbergRemembered.html
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Roger FISHBACK ('62) & Sandy JONES ('65)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: English language and other manifestations
Some time ago a friend shared with me the following which
has more than some corrections to the English language:
http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/independence.htm
I love #2 -- #14
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I just learned that Jackie SHEARD Cross ('61) died in Richland
last night [1/13/16]... No more details now.
She was my cousin-in-law for many years, and has remained in
touch for all these years. Her sister, Susan SHEARD writes to
the Sandstorm some, so can probably supply more details.
My sympathies and prayers for the family.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we are coming out
of our deep freeze today; it's suppose to get up into
the 40s, but then rain and it is to be "0" here on
Sunday night
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Language
Hey, on rare occasions let's flex on some dangling
prepositions. With his famous oratory angling toward one
such dangling, Winston Churchill made a point (he "goes"!):
"This is something up with which I will not put!"
And as for refraining from verbal insults, especially against
fellow Members of Parliament, rather than charging a
colleague with a blatant lie Churchill credits him with a
"terminological inexactitude." Where is such memorable
artfulness to be found today? Nothing but routine character
assassinations as practiced by political wannabes, and
political has beens, and by their media talking heads
competing for prime time market share.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: http://theweek.com/articles/594909/english-weird
Thanks to Jim HAMILTON ('63) from yesterday, I went in on his
sight to read about English. While there, caught an article
about who is the largest employer in each state. What an eye-
opener... its Wal*Mart in 20 states (almost all Southern
States are beholden to them for the most jobs). The next most
prevalent are University systems, after that it's Healthcare
systems. But, I must congratulate Washington State, you are
one of the rare few with the majority of jobs in something we
actually sell to others... Boeing is #1 and Microsoft is #2 in
providing jobs. Thanks be to the creativity of the people who
live in Washington State. Just sayin' we need a lot more of
this kind of thinking. If you have never lived for long
periods of time in other states, you never realize how open to
new ideas your state is. Good job!
-Donna BOWERS Rice (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ brrrrr its cold
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: The light went on
As I was thinking of today's Bomber B-day babe, my mind went
back to when we first met... that brought up some memories
that I was never really able to piece together until today
when the light went on so brightly I think it blew out... I
would say 7 out of 10 of us had VERY strict parents; 1 out of
10 had moderately strict parents and the rest could get away
with a whole lot... now having a fairly large group of buds,
it was a given that some of them were the sneak out at night
ones who seemed to have a ball... sleep overs at their houses
were the preferred get aways... Because my folks didn't trust
me as far as they could throw me (that's wrong... my Dad
proved in my 7th grade he could throw me a fer piece)... but
anyway, they dolled out the sleep overs like War rationed
sugar... that to their credit kept me outa jail until my Jr.
year... some of my buds... not so lucky... Now the move from
1301 Acacia to 1002 Van Geisen came as kind of a surprise...
several memories put it into perspective... the first was
probably going into 5th grade when I burned down the Densow's
orchard... I ended up telling my mom, as the Fire-Chief
instructed me to do, very late at night after a drive in movie
I hurriedly suggested when the fire came on the news... the
next morning the fire chief pulled up to the house and he
and my Dad hadda talk... (never trust anybody over 30... he
promised he wouldn't)... the ol' man said nothing to me, but
gave me on of those "one a these days" looks... Now at the
time I was the leader of two "gangs"... the Red Devils
(neighborhood guys) and the JDs (West Richland guys)... how a
kid from Richland could even come up with the idea of gangs is
now beyond me... "Blackboard Jungle"? "The Wild Bunch"... who
knows... so anyway, I orchestrated a fight between them to
occur while I was on school patrol... it came off as planned
but with some semi-serious injuries (only a dolt such as I
could expect no injuries)... As soon as I was off patrol
I was called into the principal's office and there was no
nonsense... it was my fault... next case. Next thing I knew my
pop was trading the Ranch House for the "F" house across from
the park at Stevens and Van Geisen (also across from Judy
('60), Beth ('63) and Laura ('65) PARKER)... That summer, my
dad also announced we were changing from Lutheran to Catholic
(he didn't think it through very carefully as he was no longer
eligible to go back to the Catholic Church) and I was going to
Christ the King... it was also that summer that I got the
"lecture", which I have believed came outa the blue: 1. He
would never be my friend; 2. He would never have a beer with
me; and 3. He would never get me out of jail. At not yet a 6th
grader, I thought the pronouncement a tad premature, but took
every word to heart and did not open my mouth (to live another
hour is often the better part of valor for a kid)... I did not
fully understand that all those things were connected till
today... I had a "feeling" about the move but not the rest of
it... So that summer was when I met Laura and her good friend
the B-day babe... the park across the street was our sanctuary
and the only place I was allowed to stay out late till I got
my driver's license. Terry DAVIS ('65) still drives by my
house and the park and remembers how our lives revolved around
those nights... Though others lived in the neighborhood, I
have never understood how these two girls were the only CTK
kids I knew till what, 8th or 9th grade? All of my friends
knew everybody over there but I didn't?... I am so very glad
that this babe and I have stayed close over the years... we
fight like cats and dogs on face book but not when together.
She is truly very dear to me! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ronna Jo LYNCH
('65) on your special day, January 15, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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3 Bombers sent stuff today:
Marilynn WORKING ('54)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barry BYRON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary TELFER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean SCHWINBERG ( ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich SNIDER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lucinda BARR ('69)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: '54 Gals Lunch
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Lunches/Current-54/00.htm
Our lunch with '54 ladies got the year off to a good start.
Here are classmates who attended. Jeanette DUNCAN, Pat
BELLARTS, Sue HALE, Norma MYRICK, Joan KNIGHT, Sandra STURGIS,
Dona McCLEARY, Betty RUSSELL, Judy NIELD, Gloria ADAMS and of
course, Me!!
Was so happy Gloria was able to join us before she moves back
up to the mountains where she lived with Clarence. He is still
being taken care of in Ferndale.
Missed a few regulars, but they are off traveling and having
fun!!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco Enjoying the
warmer 40s weather in Tri Cities!!
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
Re: A very sick friend
This is news for former RHS students about the best teacher
you ever had. Miss Linda Pfenning is very seriously ill. I
took her to the hospital yesterday and stayed with her through
many procedures all day long. She certainly would not want
me to publicize any details. But, if some of you want to
share some memories of being in her class or her letters of
recommendation, etc. here in the Sandstorm, I will take them
to her. Believe me, she remembers every one of you.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: '66 in '16
The 50-year Class Reunion for the class of 1966 will be held
August 12-13 at the Richland Red Lion/Hanford House. The link
to our reunion page is at
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/66in16.html
As of 8 pm on January 15, our responses are: Yes: 195
Classmates and 120 Guests, Possible: 76 Classmates and 37
Guests, Special Guests: 3, Total: 271 Classmates and 159
Guests = 430
If you are a classmate and have not responded, please do so.
Per the Red Lion staff, this will be the largest reunion they
have handled.
Re: Update on two sports articles from the Tri-City Herald
1) Hanford is a 4A High School
"Hanford is set to become the Mid-Columbia Conference's
fifth Class 4A high school for the 2016-20
classification cycle, according to enrollment figures
released Thursday by the Washington Interscholastic
Activities Association.
The Falcons will join Chiawana, Pasco, Richland and
Walla Walla in 4A, while fellow MCC schools Kamiakin,
Kennewick and Southridge will remain 3A."
2) senior wrestler, Nic WORKMAN ('16)
"Richland senior wrestler, Nic WORKMAN ('16), is among
the top-ranked 185-pounders in Class 4A, with a 21-1
record and some impressive wins."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where we our
weather is warming up
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/17/16
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1 Bomber sent stuff today:
Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty ELY ('47)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teresa HOLMES ('93)
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Re: All Good Things Must End
Yesterday I met with my partners and the employees of the
company I founded 20 years ago. Not without some considerable
emotion I announced my retirement from active management and
onsite shooting of display fireworks. The effective date is
Friday, 29 April 2016.
I can still clearly recall July 4, 1954, when - at 12 years
old - I was allowed to dig the holes for the mortars at the
park overlooking the Columbia River. Everybody knows how tough
it is to dig a hole in the ground in much of the Richland
area. I also clearly recall my mother crying when she saw
the bleeding blisters on my hands. But I could not have been
happier, as after several years of watching I was at last,
"on the crew".
It would take a thick book to describe all I have been through
in some 5500 or more pyro events since that summer. I did not
keep a diary so as best I can recall I have been to 35 states,
all provinces of Canada, and 40 foreign countries in travels
associated with pyrotechnics.
I have gained the respect of many in the industry with my
writings and teaching and presentation of technical papers
at International Symposia. My monograph on pyrotechnics
used on aircraft is the international standard used by the
Pyrotechnics Advisory Committee to the International Airshow
Commission and I am an emeritus member of that committee.
My original intent was just make folks happy shooting
fireworks. I could never have imagined where it would
lead me to. But I cannot just walk away from it.
So I am forming Pyro Consultants, LLC. I will continue to
travel and teach and participate in research on safety and
methodology to safely produce solid "Entertainment Value" in
Fireworks and SPFX. (special effects). I already have several
prospective clients lined up.
And of course there are several "loose ends of pyro and
personal stuff" that I need to tidy up.
At present Jackie and I have houses in Tacoma and Anchorage.
We are developing a plan to phase out of one of them. We have
an eye toward some travels. I don't know if we will try the 48
state run or not, but we have a long list of places to visit.
The City of Unalaska is willing to sign a 3 year contract with
us. It is my most memorable and favorite place to shoot. The
folks up there are genuine, and nice people. Jackie and I are
the only Licensed Operators permitted to do Pyro at Dutch
Harbor. My last display NYE was said to be my best ever. The
new City Manager is a retired full bird Col, USAF. He was
amazed at the quality of the goods and pronounced the display
the best he had ever seen and the fact it was in the middle
of "nowhere". He used the word "fabulous" several times.
Then the Fire Dept presented me with a medallion and lots
of compliments on 12 years and 24 flawless and entertaining
displays with no incidents, no accidents, and no injuries
under very difficult conditions.
All in all, life has been good to me and I look forward to
sharing my remaining years with Jackie in some new adventures
and to reading in the Alumni Sandstorm about the lives of
folks I have known all these years. And of course watching
the progress of my Children, Grand Children, and Great Grand
Children.
May God Bless you all, and God Bless the United States of
America.
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/18/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Marilynn WORKING ('54)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Missy KEENEY ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeannie SHANKS ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy O'NEIL ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob DeGRAW ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheila DAVIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Connie MARSHALL ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eric HOLMES ('90)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
To: Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Congratulations on setting a date for retirement!! After 60
some years... you deserve it! It's good that you will keep
busy with something to do with the fireworks, but save some
energy to entertain those grandchildren and great
grandchildren!! Bless you and your wife, Jackie!!!
Re: Words
My pet peeve is when people don't know the difference between
"there" and "their", "your" and "you're", "to", "too, and
two" , and so many more same sounding words. Sometimes on
Facebook, I can't help myself, but to type the correct one in
"comments" without ridiculing them!! These are grown adults
that should know better... well, I would think!!!
Re: Our 80th birthday year!!
To: Class of 1954 graduates
Let's hear what month and weekend would suit you to get
together with us in the Tri-Cities to have a "Birthday
Party"!!! Sometime in the Spring or early Summer, before
our planning for Club 40! We'll have lunch or a picnic,
whatever you want!! I'll get us a cake!!!! E-mail me, or
send to Sandstorm.
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco where it is
warming up!! A little snow here and there!
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: words and phrases
This morning I was responding to an email from Dean HOFF
('62) and found myself using a phrase I do not recall using
in quite some time... I answered "It sounds like straight
skinny to me." Now I recall using that phrase a great deal
earlier in life but have no idea how it left more frequent
use... I am fairly sure that I adopted it from Tony HARRAH
('65), as I did several others... One was the word "tad" as
in a small amount... Terry DAVIS ('65) recalls everyone in
school wanting to look smarter than they were in school...
he excepts me from that category, however. I recall Terry
actually sitting and "reading" the dictionary... with Tony it
seemed to come natural... I copied his terms not so much to
look smarter as much as I just thought they sounded "cool".
I often wonder where these words and phrases originate and
am fairly certain that if I dug out some of my books from my
Office library I would find out... they're in storage...
'nuff said... one that was way cool was "tuff"... for me it
remains the ultimate superlative, though I never use it any
more... it still finds its way on license plates in hot rod
circles... some I never understood and pretty much never
used... "magine" (I imagine) was one... Brian JOHNSON ('65)
managed to work that in to almost every sentence he spoke
in Jr. High... One which I hope I never stop using is "Damn
Straight", which several of us were taught by John SHIPPY
('64wb) at Chief Jo. That night I tried it out at the dinner
table and it was not well received... for some reason, Ricky
WARFORD ('65) modified it into "darn straights" and still
uses it today... at some point in time "fer sher" was very
popular... I'll say it in an email now and then but that's
about it... Marion PERKINS ('65) used it a great deal back
then... and so the mystery lives on as our language evolves
or deteriorates in the eye of the beholder... there is one
term I recall well... "Bass"... that harmony is attributed
to our B-day Bomber-babe as in "Missy sings bass"... HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, Missy KEENEY ('59) on your special day, January 18,
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>Jerry SWAIN ~ Class of 1954 ~ 1935 - 2015
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6 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Carol CARSON ('60)
Stephanie DAWSON ('60), David RIVERS ('65)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Lori SIMPSON ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom TRACY ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon BROOKS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna BOWERS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan LAWSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ARMSTRONG ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dwayne WILSON ('81)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
In his latest epistle to this post the "Tooter" ('65)
mentioned a favorite phrase of his; to wit: "the straight
skinny." He should have remember this a bit of Navy/Marine
Corps jargon. It was used to differentiate between the
"truth" and scuttlebutt (a known fabrication). Similar to
letters sent to a certain "men's magazine" that start with
the phrase: "I've never written anything about this before,
but..."
On a more solemn note, the passing of Jerry SWAIN ('54 RIP)
saddens me. We were sort of buds back in the day. We even
"thesped" together and once in the same play. The clarinet
section of the band won't sound as good with his loss.
Marilyn WORKING Highstreet's ('54) mention of the "big"
birthday bash for The Class of '54 is an absolutely marvelous
idea. Either a picnic or a sit-down meal works. I would
think sometime late in May or early June (before Cool Desert
Nights). We wouldn't want the Junior Gyrene ('65) trying to
crash the "big kids table."
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the tide in the basement ebbs and flows depending on
the amount of rain falling.
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Re: Lost Phrases - Heavens to Murgatroyd!
With all the discussion about misuse of words, there is
a posting going around about lost phrases. I found it
interesting and thought other "old" Bombers might enjoy
it as well.
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
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[Re: Old words and phrases remind us of the way we word
This link was in the 1/11/16 Sandstorm submitted by
Marlene LARSEN Hegseth ('56wb). - Maren]
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
To: Bill Dunton (former teacher)
My favorite hate, which I frequently used in a grammar and
writing class for Hanford Site engineers and report writers,
is "the pilots flew in toilets to the construction site".
The image of pilots sitting in toilets high above the ground
truly boggles the mind!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Justa buncha kids
There's a great little cartoon making its rounds on
facebook... it says something like "when others see us they
see old people, but when we see each other we see a bunch of
school kids just having fun!" That cartoon reminds me of all
the time I spent at the b-day Bomber-babe's house with her
younger brother, Dale ('65)... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Donna BOWERS
Rice ('63) on your special day, January 19, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Lisa Bratton, swimmer - 1/18/16 Tri-City Herald
"Former Richland High School swimmer, Lisa Bratton, was
second in the "C" final and placed 18th overall in the
100-meter backstroke at the Arena Pro Swim Series event
in Austin, Texas.
Bratton's time of 1 minute, 2.77 seconds was a
qualifying mark for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. She
finished two-hundredths of a second behind "C" final
winner Marie-Pier Couillard of Canada."
Keep an eye on Lisa. We just might see her at the next
Olympics!!!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where the
temperatures are back in the 40s-50s during the day
with lots of rain!
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>>From: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
To: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: your question about your date "Terry" from 11-24-15.
Scroll to the bottom of the Sandstorm page and click on the
Richland Bomber site. Go to the class of '67 and look through
all of the names. Some of the sites even have Carmichael info
available.
Good Luck,
-Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
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[SEARCHING HINT: When you get to ANY page: CTRL + F...
little box appears in the lower/left corner of your
browser.. you can search for "Terry" or ANY word you
want to find. NOT just for Bomber sites. -Maren
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>>Cheri BOWLIN Tabaka ~ Class of 1963 ~ 1945 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/20/16
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7 Bombers sent stuff::
Mike CLOWES ('54), Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
John ALLEN ('66), Betti AVANT ('69)
Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don RAY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marlene MANESS ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack EVANS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Audrey CHAMBERS ('74)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
This is a happier occasion; it's another Bomber birthday.
Hopefully, there will be no slip-ups in spelling and/or the
use of the English language. But, I make no guarantees.
To say I knew this Bomber back in the day, might be
stretching it a bit. Yeah, we graduated at the same time,
from the same high school and the same class. Doesn't make
us "BFFs", however, as it has been said; close counts in
horseshoes, hand grenades and a-tom bombs.
It is now time to tip the ol' propeller beanie and say "Happy
Birthday!" to Don RAY ('54). Hope to see you at the big
birthday party.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the soggy weather continues for the rest of the week.
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: Jerry SWAIN ('54-RIP)
Thank you Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) for saying
something about Jerry SWAIN passing away.
I also played clarinet in the band but Jerry was by far the
best clarinetist there. I also worked for his dad, Mel Swain
at C.C. Anderson's and bought Jerry's old '48 Chev which I
loved as my first car. I think that car brought both of us a
lot of fun and adventure.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Language
Some years ago I read something (probably in that little
"Tidbits" newspaper you see at fast food places) that there
is a tribe that has two languages; one for the men and one
for the women. Thing is they are not bi-lingual so that the
men and women only very roughly understand each other. I
don't know the name of that tribe, but, I'm pretty sure I am
a member of it.
Re: Self driving cars
I always liked reading old articles of what the future
was going to be like then comparing them to what the
"future" actually became. Back when I was "knee high to a
grasshopper" I saw a short subject film before the movie
about the car of tomorrow. I figured out it was actually
Harley Earl's 1951 Buick Le Sabre concept car and from time
to time I search to see if someone has posted it on YouTube.
Haven't found it yet, but did find this GM Motorama film
from 1956 showing a family stuck in traffic and wondering
what it might be like in 1976. We are just now starting to
get the self driving cars so they were forty years too soon
with their prediction, and their concept is way off from the
way self driving cars actually work. The soda fountain in
the glove box was kinda cool too, wonder when we will get
that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Hip Surgery
I will be the first to admit that I am a BIG baby where pain
is concerned and have a very, low tolerance to it. I had my
right hip replaced, January 12th and IF I had done that hip
first (left hip was done in July of '15), I can almost
guarantee that I would NOT have had the left one replaced!
I have been in so much pain, that I am "living" on pain
pills, every three hours, which is not what I had to do
with there first replacement! This hip had lots of bone
spurs, so the surgeon says that it the reason for the pain
and the immobility, but, I can tell you, this is "the pits"
and I spend a lot of time, crying, in between the times I
can take the pain pills! I am allergic to a lot of the pain
pills, so I am only allowed to take Valium, Dilaudid and
Tylenol... they help, but the Valium "wears off" in three
hours and the Dilaudid can only be taken, one pill every six
hours! the physical therapist came out to the house and said
that my nerves were cut and will take a long time for them
to "knit back together"... age also has a lot to do with my
progress. so far, that's the only down side to turning 70. it
has "only" been a week, so am hoping by this time next week,
I will be able to get around 100% better and this pain will
be a thing of the past! I hate being an invalid and really
had thought my recovery would go as smoothly as the first
surgery, but my body just isn't responding as well as I would
have liked. I have had MANY well-wishes on Facebook and I
thank each and every one of you for them... they do help...
have been enjoying all the discussions on the usage of the
English language and the slang words that we all used, as
teenagers. I remember, in high school, living with my
grandmother, talking on the phone with a girlfriend and
discussing how "tuff" I thought a certain boyfriend was...
my grandmother got very concerned and told my mother that
she needed to have a serious discussion with me, cause I was
seeing a "tough" boy... we had lots of fun trying to explain
the difference between "tuff and tough" to her.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID
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>>From: John ALLEN ('66)
Re: More Grammar
The following is both an English and a psychology exercise.
The solution(s) will appear in tomorrow's Sandstorm. This
appeared years ago in an issue of Readers' Digest.
Punctuate the following: Woman without her man is a savage
-John ALLEN ('66)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: Relay for Life
I got signed up once again for the local Relay for Life. It
will be back at the track at Fran Rish Stadium the middle of
May. Is anyone interested in donating to my big cause as I
can totally relate as I'm now a 3-year survivor and doing
well. On another note my carpal tunnel surgery went well, 5
weeks ago, and will see the surgeon next week for a follow up
appointment. You can barley see the scar, he did a wonderful
job and glad he's in the Tri-Cities.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ from rainy Richland
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
To: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
Why would anyone care about Carmichael info???
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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7 Bombers sent stuff today:
Pat UPSON ('49), Steve CARSON ('58)
Mary ROSE ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65), Tedd CADD ('66)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Claris VAN DUSEN ('48)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony DURAN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judi WILSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leona Mari ECKERT ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janey ZWICKER ('71)
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>>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
To: John ALLEN ('66)
Woman: Without her~~man is a savage!
It took me five seconds to figure out the obvious!!
-Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Re: Savage
Woman; without her, man is a savage.
Re: Jerry IRWIN ('58)
Does anyone have an update on Jerry IRWIN ('58)?
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: 1/20/16 Sandstorm Entry
I have a friend who has had two knee replacements in the last
few years and just had her first hip replacement. She said
the knee replacements were a breeze compared to the hip
replacement. They did, however, send her to a really nice
place for therapy. They exercised and worked on her five
hours a day and I think she said seven days a week. When I
first saw her it had been about a month since her surgery
and she was practically running - showing off for me!! I was
amazed. She can stand a lot of pain from what I have seen
though.
Re: The pain medication
I can also understand your frustration. I live with a curved
and twisted spine due to Scoliosis which has caused several
other problems. They will not operate on me. I get Radio
Frequency treatments when the pain gets severe but in the
meantime cannot take anything for pain except Extra Strength
Tylenol. The pain medications they tried on me caused my
kidneys to have problems. I cannot hold down others that
would be okay with the kidneys.
Re: The "tuff" boy story
It reminded me of a similar incident I had in fifth grade. My
mother and older sister were in the kitchen one day when I
got home from school. I was so excited and told them that I
had a boyfriend (he was my first) and he was so "sexy" and
the cutest boy in the whole school (Jason Lee). My mother
gasped and my sister quickly told her that I had no idea what
the word meant and not to worry. I didn't know what the word
meant either, I had just picked it up at school. I don't
think I ever used that word again to describe a boy. When I
told her his name, which was Johnny JETTON ('60-RIP), we
found out that my mother worked with his mother and were
friends. What a small world - you couldn't get away with
anything those days. Johnny married a good friend of mine
many years later and they had a long and happy marriage.
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60) ~ Centerfield, UT
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: John ALLEN ('66)
Re: More Grammar
Here's a guess on how to punctuate your sentence, plus
another entry in need of punctuation:
Woman, without her man, is a savage.
Re: Word Blast
But now these sentences - In the 1968 movie Cliff Robertson
is lab tested with a brain enhancer and soon surpasses his
mentor. He challenges her (Claire Bloom) with a word blast on
the blackboard, and asks her to punctuate.
THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS
For those who don't remember, I'm sending the answer
separately to Maren who might remember to post it tomorrow.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
Re: Ms. Pfenning
Thank you to all the former students who sent her messages of
condolence and encouragement. They gave her a great lift. She
tells lots of stories of classroom experiences with you. I
hope I can soon tell you of her recovery - but I am afraid
that will not be very soon. Keep sending positive thoughts
her way.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: John ALLEN ('66)
John, the sentence you posed for parsing is a time bomb not
just a grammatical or psychological exercise. But I'm sure
you know that.
Punctuate the following: Woman without her man is a savage
There are two commas and two meanings. The first comma stays
put following the word "Womam." The second comma decides
which of the polar opposite meanings will be taken. On one
side of the word "man," we have a slam on men and on the
other side of that word, we have a slam on women. (I've taken
the liberty of adding a period at the end.)
Woman, without her, man is a savage.
Woman, without her man, is a savage.
Another sentence to punctuate (I've added my take on the
apostrophe and period placement):
Let's eat grandpa.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday to Janey ZWICKER Thomas ('71) on her special
day! Hope you have a good one. One of my Jason Lee, Chief Jo,
and Col-Hi classmates.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in cold, windy Plano, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/22/16
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9 Bombers sent stuff today:
Pat UPSON ('49), Dick WIGHT ('52)
Steve CARSON ('58), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Keith HUNTER ('63)
Deedee WILLOX ('64), Phyllis CUNINGHAM ('64)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marie RUPPERT ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deedee WILLOX ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Helga BLANKINGSHIP ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tony RHEINSCHMIDT ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SCHODT ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul BOEHNING ('85)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sarah AVANT ('94)
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>>From: Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Did not see the picture. Just a guess. "That that is is. That
that is not is not. Is that it? It is."
-Pat UPSON Tervooren ('49)
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: "The King's English" and other variations...
I have truly enjoyed the dialogue on language, its development
et al. I still feel the language is being "dumbed down" in
terms of the preservation and use of descriptive and nuanced
words, some of which seem truly beautiful to me.
Here are some samples of prose using words plagiarized from
Reader's Digest mag. "Word Power" quiz. I take the little quiz
whenever I see it, usually scoring in the top category (though
I often examine the word and make a reasoned "guess"). Some of
these words are just pulchritudinous.....
While perusing the panoply of guests in the opulent bistro,
she inadvertently dangled her lavaliere in her flan, then
leaned back and drizzled a few drops onto her diaphanous gown.
Frowning, a penumbra of pique overtook her - but she shrugged
it off, sipped daintily from her chalice, and leaned back to
enjoy the mellifluous sounds of the nearby piano. She turned
her attention to a nearby young couple, obviously engaged in a
dalliance of sorts. "May their lives stay simple and free of
imbroglio,' she thought. 'Small likelihood,' she observed.
"The simple, uncomplicated life seems so recherché' in these
modern times.'
Well, that's my input for today. I, of course, ALWAYS talk or
think like that in my daily living.
Now... if you believe that, can I interest you in my
oceanfront real estate on the Arizona-Utah border?????
Re: Another "take" on our developing language. Geez!!! I still
use lots of these words/phrases!
Click for another take
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in rainy Richland where the drought has ended
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Pete, THAT hurts my brain. :) :)
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS
The answer to my grammar riddle, sent a few minutes ago, is
as follows. Please post tomorrow since I will not remember.
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it?
It is!
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
THAT THAT IS, IS; THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS THAT IT? IT IS.
Similar exercise from decades ago: That that is, is; that
that is not, is not. Is not that it? Punctuation marks can be
critical. How many of you remember Victor Borge's "Phonetic
Punctuation" sketch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No
The Bennett household, all eight or more of us (depending on
whether maternal grandfather or paternal grandmother was with
us at the time) nearly rolled on the floor with laughter as we
played the EP 45 rpm recording many times, and later watched
him on TV. My memory holds minor differences from the Youtube
version above; for instance, I recall him saying "page 2"
rather than the 9 and 6 in this one, with a slightly faster
pace and better comedic timing, especially during the reading.
Paraphrasing from Genesis: "Woman: Without her, man is
incomplete."
Regards, ecb3 - from hunkering-down central Virginia
where we have a forecast snow event/winter storm watch
for 12-16 inches of heavy/wet snow, more at higher
elevations, starting with 2-3 inches per hour at noon
tomorrow and running through Sunday morning (further
south and east it's a blizzard watch with wind gusting
to 40): There's been no lamp oil left in town since
yesterday afternoon, ditto kerosene heaters - we're
prepared with a proven-excellent propane stove and full
tank, lots of candles, a partial bottle of paraffin
oil, and a "sparking lamp" from the glass-blowing shop
at Colonial Williamsburg, which was used to time the
visit of courting men to proper young women in that era
- when the oil was gone he had to leave.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Keith HUNTER ('63)
Thank you for putting that [service INFO] in [the Sandstorm]
about Jackie SHEARD Cross ('61-RIP). She was a good friend!
-Keith HUNTER ('63)
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[There will be a Bomber Memorial with more general
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Punctuation
All these punctuation "doubles" reminds me of an old, old one:
Gladly my cross I'd bear. We always used to say Gladly, my
cross-eyed bear. Did I mention that we were ornery kids?!
BTW, this is one of the reasons why there are so many
different interpretations of the Bible. The original languages
(Hebrew - Old Testament, Greek - New Testament) had no
punctuation; sometimes it was obvious, other times not
so much.
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA where the weather
can't make up its mind. Got friends coming for my
birthday weekend and Red Hat group on Friday. Fun!
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>>From: Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
Re: Class of '64 - 70th birthday party
It's a birthday party! One giant party to celebrate the new
decade for the kids who are turning "gasp" 70, There will be
balloons, cake, ice cream, presents, cards and ponies. Well,
ponies might be a stretch, but we will have everything else..
Mark your calendars now for August 27, 2016.
The committee got their contact lists today so you should be
hearing from us soon. It would really help us if you sent on
this information to classmates who do not subscribe to the
Alumni Sandstorm.
See you August 27th!
-Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: What's inna name
Here we are again... almost alla way through January in the
year 2016! Now if yer grageating in 2017, that may not seem
all that remarkable... but for many of us, we are still
shocked that 1984 came and went so quickly we almost missed
it... I mean we waited and waited and zooooooooooom... the
reason I bring this up is that there are some kids that I love
getting together with where I just seem to never have a good
chance... a Bomber-b-day babe for today is one of those... now
it seems like just yesterday we got to have a nice long chat
and play catch up for lost years... I recall it well and she
was wearing a red dress if I am not mistaken... as I think
about it though it was five years ago at her 45 year reunion!
Now her class is getting ready for its 50 year reunion... one
I won't be able to attend. Rats! I've told the story a few
times about one of my closest Lawyer buddies getting all
excited over his 50th here in Vegas... I was preparing for
my 2 year and all I could think was something like "50 years!
George, you gotta be older than dirt!"... now here I am
thinking fondly of my 50 year in the past tense and she is
looking forward to her 50 year. Yipes! OK before I wish her
the HB I want each of you to close your eyes and without
looking say and then spell her last name. I am betting half
of you will spell it "en" instead of "ing"... HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Helga BLANKINGSHIP ('66) on your special day, January 22,
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/23/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Ken HEMINGER ('56), Jack GROUELL ('61)
Cherrie TEMPERO ('64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Billie LAWELL ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann McCUE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cherrie TEMPERO ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank STRATTON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ted SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra HARDING ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Matt HASKINS ('81)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Re: words
Talking about words, etc.
Here's a line I heard back in the days of Columbia High that
was intended as a clean interpretation of a phrase commonly
used back then, and maybe even today..? It turned out to be
one of the few things I remember from inside the doors of that
great school and times. Probably not all that profound today,
but it was back then... It should be easy to figure the
original saying.
Here Tiz... "Up the proverbial creek without a visible means
of locomotion and the vessel was vastly sinking below the
surface tension of the supporting substance"
The original author of that line was none other than Grover
SHEGRUD ('56). We used to buddy somewhat walking the halls,
etc.
One other thing he may or may not remember is that his mom
made some great potato salad sandwiches or at least I thought
so, and at times I would talk him into trading his potato
salad sandwich for whatever I had at the time..
Ahhhh... the good old days...
-Ken HEMINGER ('56) ~ 44° in Great Falls, MT
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>>From: Jack GROUELL ('61)
Re: Word a day from Wordsmith
One of the more enjoyable word sites:
http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
You can subscribe (FREE) to get a daily email giving the
meaning, origin and usage of various words. Lots of reader
feedback and interesting comments.
-Jack GROUELL ('61)
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>>From: Cherrie TEMPERO Scott ('64)
Hello everyone. BIll is the writer in the family; I'm not, but
today is my 70th birthday, and, following his lead, decided to
send in some birthday reflections.
We passed our 30th wedding anniversary last November 9th.
There have been some ups and some downs, but we are more in
love than ever now, though a bit more wrinkled and not as
streamlined as we used to be. But it doesn't matter; we know
at age 70 what is important in life, love of God and family,
and keeping in touch with our friends and wishing them well.
My favorite time was being with all of our classmates at our
50 year reunion and hugging and visiting with them all, and
dancing like crazy youth. We didn't care; we just loved being
together and now look forward eagerly to the big 70th birthday
bash.
We are wishing you well and happy to be alive.
-Cherrie TEMPERO Scott ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: THAT THAT IS IS THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT IS THAT IT IT IS
I am afraid I did not even try that one. I just looked it up.
Saw the movie way back when they showed double features in the
Tri-Cities and it was the second feature. So if I had sent in
an answer it would be cheating; and that might have Algernon
spinning in his grave.
I have used Algernon and Kuryakin (as in U.N.C.L.E.) as
passwords in the past, but are they good enough now days?
To: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Punctuation
Thanks for reminding me that Greek had no punctuation. Had
forgotten all about that. When I first heard that I wondered
how they were able to understand it. Maybe that is the origin
of the phrase "It's all Greek to me."
To: Phyllis CUNNINGHAM Coates ('64)
Re: Class of '64 - 70th birthday party It's a birthday party!
Pony rides! "might be a stretch" Certainly would be a stretch
for the pony if I were to ride it. That might be considered
animal cruelty. Better get a Shire horse for me, and a ladder
to use to mount it.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ in the beautiful sunny Tri-Cities; of
course it probably will not be that way when you read this
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/24/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Deedee WILLOX ('64)
John ALLEN ('66), Ken STALEY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edith McLENEGAN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy LEY ('67)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Dangling Prepositions
Here's an unlikely and timely discovery. It seems that the
writer C.S. Lewis (Narnia, etc.) continued his correspondence
with several pen pals even after his late marriage to Joy. One
series of his letters is published in a small book entitled
"Letters to An American Lady" (1967). The two never actually
met, and her identity remained concealed by the editor.
Lewis comments on her most recent letter, and in his response
of Jan. 9, 1961 (incidentally, one year after Joy's passing
and two years before his own death at the age of 65):
"There, by the way, is a sentence ending with a preposition.
The silly 'rule' against it was invented by Dryden [1631-
1700]. I think he disliked it only because you can't do it in
either French or Latin which he thought more 'polite'
languages than English."
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
Re: Punctuation
To: Earl BENNETT ('63)
I had forgotten about Victor Borge's oral punctuation. We have
a video of him, which is hilarious. Thanks for the reminder!
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA where the weather
has been like a yo-yo. Warm today, but rainy.
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>>From: John ALLEN ('66)
Re: Grammar & Psychology
Only Tedd CADD ('66) observed both ways to punctuate the
sentence: "Woman without her man is a savage."
The psychology of that exercise is that the vast majority of
men given the task, punctuated it one way and the vast
majority of women did it the other way. I'm sure all y'all
can figure out which was which.
-John ALLEN ('66)
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>>From: Ken STALEY ('68)
As a former English teacher, I've enjoyed the word play for
the last few issues. My recent favorite is this:
Punctuation:
Let's eat Grandma... or... Let's eat, Grandma.
The difference a comma makes is crucial at times!
Shortly after graduation I thought myself above and beyond
such terrible language gaffs. My mentor and college adviser
took me aside one afternoon and said... "They're only going
to pay you to teach it, not to make an ass of yourself."
I confess I made it an early study to make sure I always knew
the proper use of
it and it's; you, your, and you're; were and we're.
While working on a Masters in Talented and Gifted students, I
was more than pleased to learn that spelling is NOT a function
of intelligence, but rather a function of memory. Even as an
English teacher, I remained one of the world's worst spellers!
-Ken STALEY ('68)
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>>Jerry BROWNING ~ Class of 1956 ~ 1938 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/25/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donni CLARK ('63)
Ed WOOD ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue FARLEY ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jack ARMSTRONG ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Scott FULCHER ('81)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Before this day goes any further, let me add my
congratulations to a Bomber Babe that I graduated with. I
think I have already stated that I don't remember her from
days of yore (your?). I'm sure that I'll run across a
reference to her that will trigger something in my mind.
All that being said, let me now tip the ol' propeller beanie
and give a "Happy Birthday!" shout out to Sue Farley ('54).
Perhaps we'll meet at the big birthday party and can compare
notes or something.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather remains as before
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Never end a sentence with a preposition.
Pete BEAULIEU ('62) attributed this 'rule' to John Dryden over
300 years ago. I've often wondered where the 'rule' came from,
and why it has lasted as long as it has, considering that it's
frequently ignored by even the most fastidious amongst us. So
thanks for the lesson in origin, Pete.
One such phrase that has long annoyed me is, "Where are you
at?" Not because the sentence ends in a preposition, but
because of the preposition's redundancy. Far preferable to
ask, "Where are you?" The popular usage can even serve to
confuse, as noted by New Orleans street urchins offering to
wager that they know "where you got your shoes at." Those
tempted to accept the wager learn that their shoes are on the
ground, and on their feet, "that's where they're at!"
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Morrison, CO awaiting the Manning-Brady
playoff game
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Hi Bomber friends! I hope the New Year is off well for all of
you. For me it is always a time for putting all my Christmas
things away and planning the coming year. I also try to do a
little organizing, eliminating and putting some more pictures
where they need to go.
That said, I happened to contact the secretary at Richland
Lutheran Church (RLC) to see if they had any pictures that
were taken years ago of our confirmation classes, youth
groups, etc. and found out that RLC is having their 100
Anniversary Celebration on May 22nd of this year. Now,
wouldn't that be fun to get a group of old classmates together
for that. All you have to do is go on RLC web site and keep
up with the unfolding details. As of now they plan a dinner
at 4:00 that day but don't know whether their service will be
before of after. Please spread the word to those who might not
get this information here and let's see if we can get a group
together. We had such a great Youth Group back then with many
great retreats, parties, hay rides, bonfires down at the
river, roller skating parties, etc.
Hope I will see you there!
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63) ~ down in the gorge, where the sun
is shining off and on through the raindrops. The river
is still today and the train is going by on the other
side of the river. It's a beautiful day!
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8 Bombers sent stuff:
Steve CARSON ('58), Dale ENNOR ('59)
Ruth MILES ('59), David DOUGLAS ('62)
Frank WHITESIDE ('63), David RIVERS ('65)
John ALLEN ('66), Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doris VAN REENEN ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron HOGLEN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kerry FORSYTHE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Greg and Sharon MARKEL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ben JACOBS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert MILLER ('96)
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>>From:Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
Maren, the memorial for Jerry BROWNING ('56-RIP) was
excellent. His story was very personal and revealing.
Thanks for the efforts you expend to honor our classmates.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: English punctuation
Whew... all this discussion of English grammar is giving me
an A-1 headache. I'm amazed so many can recall the names of
their English teacher; I can't recall having even had an
English class at Col-Hi! There was a class taught by Mr.
Barton, "Comp and Lit" as I recall. In fact, I again have the
booklet of weekly 500-word essays we had to prepare for that
class. My parents kept the damn thing and gave it to me some
years back. I still haven't mounted the courage to read my
entries, fearing the spelling and punctuation would send me
over the edge.
I first became aware there is a correct way of using
punctuation when I noticed it was being applied differently
by numerous writers. The most obvious to me is the placement
of commas or periods "outside" of quotation marks rather than
"inside," which is almost always the correct placement.
At some point I read that the "comma" is the most overused
(if not misused) instance of punctuation in our language. I
suspect this true, having read impossibly long paragraphs
which have to be reread a number of times to get the author's
drift. Only after learning the English language had one word
which could be used eleven times in succession and still
create a coherent thought did I give up trying to master
punctuation.
On a related matter of "overuse," does anyone else find the
word "that" thrown in far to often when it is of no added use
to the thought being presented? Don't think about it or your
reading speed will slow to about 50 words per minute. Looking
for that extra "that," you know.
For all the Bombers who have or are teaching English as a
foreign language, how successful do you think your students
would be pronouncing the following sentence without any
practice:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode
through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a
slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
Nine different pronunciations of four letters! The Germans
have to think we're crazy.
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Ruth MILES Bruns ('59)
Re: Prepositions
We were taught that you should never end a sentence with a
preposition. Some 40 years after I left Richland, I bumped
into a sentence that ends with five prepositions, in the
following story:
Boy is upstairs... father finds a book downstairs to read
to the boy as he is tucking his little boy in bed, and
as usual, he reads a story to the boy. When the story is
finished, the boy says to him, "Daddy, what did you read
that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"
That is all ...
-Ruth MILES Bruns ('59) ~ Goldendale, WA
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Like others, I've enjoyed following the language posts. I
majored in English, am an occasional author (three magazine
articles and one joke), and I belong to the Mesa (AZ) Writers
Guild. I've gotten used to some of the changes in English
grammar. I can now split infinitives and drop prepositions at
the end of sentences with the best of them, but I refuse to
budge on some things.
I still use "he" as common gender, although I occasionally
use "she" instead, so I'm not accused of blatant gender bias.
However, I refuse to accept "s/he" or "he/she" as pandering
to the ridiculous.
I also miss "whom" as the objective pronoun. I was especially
miffed when I read the sentence, "Who shall I contact for the
meeting?" It was in a chapter of a story I'm writing. I will
never give in on one modern spelling, however. Alright is all
wrong unless unless it's all right.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where our swimming pool
temperature is stuck at 64°, and I am not a polar bear,
although I did go swimming in the Columbia once.
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>>From: Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
Ed, I have to admit that I was, at best, a mediocre student
in English class in junior high and high school and feared it
as much as I feared math. I prefer writing in a colloquial
manner because I like to feel as if I am actually speaking to
whomever might be reading what I am writing. As a resident of
the New Orleans metro area, I am very familiar with the "shoe"
joke or con, or whatever it might be called. I understand that
some of the street folks actually bet money if they (the con-
artists) can answer correctly. I would suggest that anyone
that is foolish enough to fall for the "con" not accept the
bet since the consequences might not be in his/her best
interest.
As I matured during college, probably at age 21, I actually
started to like grammar, composition, and literature, and
English was my minor. My biggest fear was to be assigned to a
particular English professor (who was also a Dean). I had
heard horror stories regarding the high number of students
who failed his class. He was so highly feared that students
totally avoided being assigned to his classes. Somehow I
managed to be assigned to his class. Failing his class would
halt my graduation. I quickly found why, on the first day,
that he was so feared. He was very stern and actually acted
as if he was angry. We had pop-quizzes every day, so we had a
lot of grades. When he assigned term papers, I started getting
physically sick every day right before his class. I don't
recall the exact topic I was assigned, but it was about two
sentences long regarding something about which I had no clue.
The library became my home frequently.
Right away, he let us know his distaste for certain things
that annoyed him. He hated it when someone said, "I was
raised..." He let us know that, "animals are raised and humans
are reared." He also hated the term, "each and every" stating
that, "each IS every." To make a long story short, after many
stressful days in his class, I actually received a "B" in his
class. On the last day of class, he actually smiled. To this
day, I probably respect him more than any other professor.
I suppose I actually modeled my own teaching style, during
my entire career, after him. I decided I would rather be
respected and actually teach something than be "popular." When
I met students many years later, they actually DID like and
respect me... just like my professor!
-Frank WHITESIDE ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: neatness counts
I've been trying to remember when my Pop turned the coal bin
into a work shop for me... I was thinking it was while I lived
on Haines next to the LIBKEs ('57)/REEDs ('55), ('57 RIP),
('60) (remainder WBs RIP) but realized that had it been at
that house that the work area would have been empty... Johnny
REED ('63wb) was what you might describe as a "finder"... at
least that is what my mother and the other neighbors called
him... there was no nicer kid than Johnny... but he did have
his ways... He was always finding gifts for my mother and
others, such as fully wrapped boxes of chocolates and such...
I mean nice stuff that he would "find" at the Uptown... Johnny
had a habit of finding my toys and when I would visit him I
would tell my Mom that Johnny had this or that just like the
one I had... somehow they would reappear in my toy box... I am
trying to remember the last time I saw Johnny... I know for a
while my mom said he lived with Jerry, but don't recall when
that was... when he was in 9th grade, he showed me around
Chief Jo "after hours"... that would be normal fare for
Johnny... I mean why show me when it was crowded... It was
with Johnny that I went to school my very first day... he
walked me to Jefferson... unfortunately, just because I had
turned 5 that day, was not an entry pass to class... I stayed
outside till I got beat up and some nice people took me
home... Johnny became "famous" for burning down the Mess Hall
at the Boy Scout Camp at Wallowa... I did speak to some
friends in High School who had known him at Chehalis (shiver
shake)... they will remain unidentified here... I have never
asked Vonnie about Johnny... I am afraid of the answer... so
it must have been going in to 6th grade that I got the work
area... I was so proud and drew an outline of all my tools and
put up a sign: "A place for everything and everything in its
place"... figured that would buy me points with the ol' man...
now this week has proved to me that I did not take my little
sign to heart... I have been looking in my garage all week for
three items where they are "supposed to be"... long before
that, however, I loaned Jimmie ADAIR ('65-'67) my dad's come-
along... Jimmie used it and returned it in nicer shape than
when it was loaned... I was doing something and just dropped
it on the lawn at the Stevens and Van Giesen house... about
25-30 years later, When Jimmie, with a full white beard
(having not seen my dad in all that time), walked into my
Dad's house in Vegas, my dad looked at him and demanded:
"where's my damned come-along!"... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... If
anyone happens by my old house across from the park and finds
the come-along... gimme a shout! Today tho I get to celebrate
two of my favorite Bomber-babes' b-days... it was wonderful
to see one of them at our 50 year reunion after emailing for
umpteen years... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sharon MARKEL ('65) and Treva
BOLIN ('65-RIP) on your special day, January 26, 2016!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: John ALLEN ('66)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
When one is asked where someone or something is AT,
the correct response is: "between the 'A' and the 'T'."
-John ALLEN ('66)
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>>From: Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
Re: Richland Lutheran Church (RLC)
The RLC is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. If you
have any old pictures you want to share, scan them and send to
jenny.page@richlandlutheranchurch.org
Jenny would also be a good contact person at the church.
-Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) ~ Richland
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12 Bombers sent stuff today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Tony DURAN ('55)
Mary ROSE ('60), Tim SMYTH ('62)
Ann ENGEL ('63), Donni CLARK ('63)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Deedee WILLOX ('64), David RIVERS ('65)
Lori SIMPSON ('70), Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HIGHTOWER ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty CONNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Lou WATKINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Laura PARKER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob TURPING ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Greg POYNOR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay SCHAFER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norm ENGLUND ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darcy FORSYTHE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darwin PERKINS ('69)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I certainly hope this will soften the blow for what is sure to
follow from the keyboard of "Tooter" ('65). Yep, you guessed
it, a birthday for one of his biggest "crushes" ever. I'm
certain that what will follow as you scroll down the page
will be a mystery to most, including the person for whom it
is intended.
I don't personally know the young lady in question, although
we have, on occasion, exchanged e-mails. I would then like
to tip the ol' propeller beanie and give a "Happy Birthday!"
shout out to Mary Lou WATKINS ('63) on the nineteenth
recurrence of that event. As for the Junior Gyrene ('65):
"He means well."
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather never makes up my mind.
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>>From: Tony DURAN ('55)
Re: dancing
Something to lighten things up in our Sandstorm. I'm a simple
guy with simple ways. But I love to dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE&feature=youtu.be
-Tony DURAN ('55)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
To: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation
mark. This is the preferred American style. (Some writers in
the United States follow the British style: Place the period
outside when it punctuates the whole sentence, inside when it
punctuates only the quoted matter. Place the comma outside,
since it always punctuates the sentence, not the quoted
matter.)
From my "bible" I used for 40 years, The Gregg Reference
Manual. Thanks to Mr. Cole my typing teacher at Col-Hi. I
worked as his secretary during study hall and he gave me this
manual when I graduated. And, I do remember his name because
he made an impression on me... he cared about his students.
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
Re: Grammar
I seem to remember an English teacher at Carmichael who
drilled the grammar and punctuation. I remember her because
she was from Vermont and I had never encountered any
Vermonters at that time in my life. I can't recall her name.
Help please.
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
Re: Birthday
Happy, Happy birthday to my sister-in-law, Kay SCHAFER Reed
('66). Hope your day is filled with fun and laughter.
love ya,
-Ann ENGEL Schafer ('63)
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>>From: Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
Re: Richland Lutheran Church (RLC)
Sorry Bombers, I made a mistake about the RLC celebration.
It was for the 70th Anniversary (I said 100th in my 1/25 post).
-Donni CLARK Dunphy ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
It was some two score and seventeen or so years ago that I
met the Birthday Girl on a Greyhound bus somewhere betwixt
BBM and Milton Freewater. As she had became wont to do, she
was holding court in the back of the ski bus with her cohort,
the future Sonq Queen, speaking some strange language they
were in the process of making up. I've said before that she
truly put the "Fizz" in fuzzy sweaters, especially that pink
cat hair model she used to wear on Tuesdays. She had a light
blue edition for Thursdays.
She long ago cast aside her Candy Striper apron for the
overpriced purses, couture and other trappings of a
"Housewife of Orange County". Today she is still the same
humble, charitable, lovable and unpretentious person she's
always been. If you don't believe me, just ask her.
Happy Birthday to one of the absolute, absolute best,
Mary Lou Watkins Rhebeck ('63). You won't need to send me
anymore of your thrice weekly birthday reminders, I've got
my calendar "on the cloud", not relying on post-a-notes like
old you know who.
Jimbeaux and the forever young and always lovely Miss Nancy
who approved of this message
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-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Language, Part et many cetera
Two more language pet peeves: 1. the use of the incorrect
"preventative" instead of the correct "preventive". 2. the
increasing use of "He graduated college" instead of "He
graduated from college". I don't know if the first example
is grammatically incorrect, but I find it annoying, and I'm
seeing it more and more often. Anyone care to weigh in on
whether the first example is grammatically incorrect or not?
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64)
To: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Where something is "at"
My dad was a stickler for correct English. We would say
"where's it at?" He would respond, "right behind the at."
He was also a jokester. When he told us someone called while
we were out, we'd ask him who it was. He would say he didn't
know. Once I said, "Well, was it a girl or a boy or what?" He
said, "Oh, it was a what."
-Deedee WILLOX Loiseau ('64) ~ Burbank, WA
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Home run
I know I know I dunno sports and most would say this is only a
triple but for me it's a homer... Three of my goodest friends,
one I've lusted over since I wuz in 7th grade; the only girl
I ever almost hit with a rock and one who never went to Col-Hi
but is one of the best Bombers I know... now ya can't often
have all three days fall on the same day but that's what
happens in Bomberville once a year... oh gee oh gee where to
start... guess I'll go from beginning to end... The first was
just a stroke of luck for me... I have opined how and why my
famblie moved from Spalding to Jason Lee in the past... Now
we lived on one of the coolest corners one could hope for...
Stevens and Van Giesen... On one side was "The" Park... it
would become our favorite hang out for about two years...
maybe longer... on the other was Richland Lutheran Church,
where many fun things occurred for my buds and me and, of
course, where Terry DAVIS ('65) began his acting career, by
almost gunning down the Confirmation teacher with his new
Have Gun Will Travel guns in his blue pajamas... and the
third... gassssssssp was the home of Judy ('60), Bethie ('63).
and the birthday girl ('65)... it was a teenager's dream come
true... Eddie Cochran could not have come up with a better
scenario for his song... "Yeah, Man, That's Heaven To Me... "
Now the fact that I met the b-day girl while I was throwing
a rock at her dog, Whitey, did not ruin our friendship for
long... maybe a day (gee, I think anyway)... now the second
b-day kid, I met in about the middle of 6th grade... we hadda
teacher who might have been attractive but for the fact that
she ate Oreos for lunch and then brushed her teeth in the sink
in the back of the room... dunno how I came to witness the
disgusting practice but I did and she was off my list from
then on... The b-day guy and his sis had just moved to
Richland and I was assigned to show him the ropes (having
been at Jason lee myself for only a few months)... He fit
right in and the fiasco at lunch time, involving spaghetti
only made him more one of the guys... tho he only stayed in
Richland until 9th grade, he is still and always will be one
of the gang and participates in just about everything my ol'
gang does to this day and more... He moved to Alaska and
became a Nationally recognized b-ball star and has continued
to play with numbers 10 ('64) and 32 ('63) in their "Senior"
years... Now I must be VERY careful with b-day babe number
three... I am forbidden many topics when speaking of her so
my stories and words must be carefully chosen... She probably
caught my eye around my 7th grade... either at Brian JOHNSON's
('65) house or at noon dancing... I was smitten and would
remain so... well, to this day... I would be willing to bet
that I even dedicated Buddy Holly's "True Love's Ways" to her
thru Linner the Spinner ('57) a time or two... but alas I was
"Born To Late For [her] to notice me... "... ahhhhh but as
time passes, two year's age difference can melt away in an
instant... not that it has... but it can... I know it can...
she goes for Grizzlies, however, so I still swoon from afar
pretending to be just best buds at various sleep overs and
such (in the company of several other Bombers and even a
Grizzly now and then)... but I sure wouldn't give up my time
with her any more than I would the other two subjects of this
post... HAPPY BIRTHDAY in the order introduced here, Laura
PARKER ('65), Denny NALDER ('65... don't anyone try and put a
WB in here!) and Mary Lou WATKINS ('63) on your special day,
January 27, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
Re: Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
Re: Richland Lutheran Church (RIC)'s 70th anniversary
celebration this Spring.
Thanks, Nancy, for putting this on the Sandstorm. It is a
great way to get the word out...
-Lori SIMPSON Hogan ('70)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
An old baseball story regarding ending a sentence with a
preposition goes:
Lou Piniella, exploding at an umpire's balls & strikes calls
demanded "Where the *&^%$# was that pitch at?". The umpire
responded, "Lou I am disappointed to hear a man as educated as
you are end a sentence with a preposition." Lou replied, "Ok,
where was that pitch at, you %$#*&^!!!."
Not sure this really happened but it makes a great story.
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/28/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63)
David RIVERS ('65)
Dwight CAREY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ferna GAROUTTE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill CRADDOCK ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty NEAL ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry DURBIN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe FORD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary Beth MEYER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathy GOBLE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jennifer HASKINS ('91)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Josh JANICEK ('93)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: https://youtu.be/Ne-0zc-pGr8
To: Tony DURAN ('55)
Enjoy everybody!
Go Man GO! Would if I could!
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: And the hits keep on coming
The image is one that I see as his trade mark... the spandex
pants and top with a racing stripe or two... the swept back
helmet that is replaced at times with a very cool beret... and
in the winter a great looking scarf... perhaps I should amend
that just a little... the first three items are only worn if
there is a bicycle near by... he doesn't wear them alla time,
but it does come to mind when I picture him... As a car guy
he would be proud of me today as I have skinned knuckles on
my skinned knuckles from a two hour job that took all day
(amazing what else you find once you crawl under these
beasts)... making sure the f-1 pickup is ready for Manti and
the Rat Fink Reunion... the rumors are flying that this may be
the last one as Ilene Roth's (NAB) back may give rise to her
retirement which would be sad for us but well earned for
her... I am hoping one of the kids will take it over, but I
will admit that a 4 day event at one's house with hundreds of
guests and friends must be a huge chore even if it is a labor
of love... it's not like Big Daddy's memory will not live
on... funny, my daughter, Sarah, wears a rat fink hoody all
during the cooler weather and it never fails that someone will
stop her and tell her how Big Daddy made their lives better...
she always invites them to the Roth homestead the first week
in June and tells them how to order the same shirts they wore
back inna day from Ilene on line if they can't make the trip
to Utah... man I do get side tracked easily... so HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, Joe FORD, on your special day, January 28, 2016!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Dwight CAREY ('68)
David RIVERS' ('65) P\post yesterday [1/27/16] - was Great!!
Good tribute to your buds. You broke me up about the teacher
eating Oreos and then brushing her teeth in class. Only in
Richland.
Re: Very nice article about our loss of umpire C.J. Mitchell:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/sports/other-sports/article56557443.html
-Dwight CAREY ('68) ~ Richland, Looking For Spring!!
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1 Bomber sent stuff today:
David RIVERS ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda STEWART ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Virginia ECKERT ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carl BEYER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robin FRISTER ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheryl ROMSOS ('76)
WEEKLY BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay (Fridays)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver
With that intro, every kid inna class of '65 knows zachary who
the b-day guy is... I've tried to remember meeting him to no
avail... he is one of those many I met thru Richland Lutheran
so I know it was before we started school... he lived across
from Francis Coelho (RIP), probably the only teacher from whom
I learned and learned and learned and continue to carry his
influence to this day... In fact... the art work suspended
from the ceiling of his home led me to place the art posters
from almost every concert I ever attended on the ceiling of
my first apartment after I got out of the Marine corps... too
bad I didn't save them... some of those artists became very
famous... As I think of Stanley Mouse, I am reminded of a
friend of mine and his wife who were of the same "low brow"
school of art... Robert Williams... in fact yesterday, my
Daughter, Sarah, asked if she could go with me to storage and
pick out some of the art work I had in my office over the
years... I was extremely pleased at the request... I was
greatly surprised at how much she loved them and how many
she took... She was overwhelmed by Astrid Kirchherr's early
Beatles' photos printed by Astrid for me from the original
negatives... she took a huge Robert Williams painting and
placed it over the couch in her living room... One of my two
photos of Kenny Howard (AKA Von Dutch)... enough rock and
roll autographed pix for an army and the signed Woodstock
poster... and on and on... I was elated... but hey... I am
forgetting the b-day guy... he's a guy with more broken bones
than Ricky WARFORD ('65) and has been one of my bestest
pals for as long as I can remember... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Carl
"Beaver" BEYER ('65) on your special day, January 29, 2016!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/30/16
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NO Bomber sent anything, 1 NAB and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Garrin Hertel (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave RHODES ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vikki LYTLE ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: April MILLER ('92)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: George BRINKMAN ('60) and Betty NEAL ('62)
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>>From: Garrin Hertel, Editor
editor@nostalgiamagazine.net
Hi there -
Nostalgia Magazine is launching the Snake River Edition,
which will cover the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, Lewiston, and
surrounding areas.
One of the Richland High School alumni has submitted an
article for publication in Nostalgia, and he reflects on the
lasting foundation his education in Richland gave him as he
went on to become a university professor.
His name is Richard McCLELLAND - I believe he graduated in
1968 [He's actually class of '66/ -Maren].
Curious if you could provide me with some high resolution
scans of images of Richland High School to accompany his
article. Also, he mentions a teacher, Julia Davis, as his
favorite. By chance, do you have a photo of her as well? I'm
seeking photos scanned at 600dpi, although 300dpi will work in
some cases.
Thanks in advance - take care,
-Garrin Hertel, Editor, Publisher | Nostalgia Magazine
www.nostalgiamagazine.net
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Bomber Memorial
>>Gary SANSOM ~ Class of 1956 ~ 1938 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 01/31/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gene BARFUSS ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tina FRASER ('89)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Just to keep from getting an almost "Not" edition (like
yesterday's); I will fill some space with another birthday
greeting. This Bomber I knew, we "thesped" together in two
separate plays. Don't think we did anything more than that.
His other "claim to fame" is that he married a classmate of
mine. Those two accomplishments will get him a birthday nod
from me.
Without further ado, the tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a
"Happy Birthday!" for Gene BARFUSS ('53) is the order of the
day. Perhaps he, and his lovely bride, will come north for the
birthday party later in the year.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the snow level is dropping, but not so much snow to go
with it.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: 1/30/16 stuff
Happy Birthday to Vicki LYTLE ('69), neighbor to my cousins:
Allan ('59-RIP), Bobby ('62), Carol ('64-RIP), MaryJane ('68-
RIP), and Duane ('79). I remember lots of good times visiting
them on Birch.
Also sincere congratulations to George BRIINKMAN ('60) and
Betty NEAL Brinkman ('62) on their wedding anniversary.
Re: Different Stuff
We are just getting organized after our return this week from
10 days in the warmer climate of Hilton Head and Florida. it's
been up to 50° since we've been home and it's expected today
again, that and the sunshine are helping us to get back in the
groove.
To: Donna BOWERS Rice ('63)
Have you seen the History 2 channel's presentation on the
question of Merriweather Clark's suicide death. I think he was
murdered, based on the fact that there were 2 shots fired.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: zooming right along
How on earth can it be the end of January already! Yesterday
was amazing... in the 60s... but ML ('63) warned me that the
rains are coming and it looks as tho we will get it today...
of course the cats were out all day basking in the sun
yesterday so I decided I would round up the weeds on Sunday...
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh nothing is easy... I know I know...
things could always be worse so I'll not complain and just
find indoor stuff to do... hmmmmmmm I did most of that
already... Well I'm hoping the weather will hold for this
b-day... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Dennis HAMMER ('64) on your special
day, January 31, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Bomber Memorial
>>Tanya FISHER ~ Class of 1990 ~ 1969 - 2015
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December, 2016 ~ February, 2016